Acording to contemporary accounts, the Hevron massacre was planned with the knowledge and approval of the government (then part of British Empire). They were trying to get a war going between the Jews and Arabs, which is why they targeted the non-zionist community in Hevron (much easier to start a war if the Jews were led by zionists). Unless the Jews had sufficient military force to defeat the British Empire, more Jews armed men wouldn’t have helped.What might have helped was if there was a Hareidi-Arab alliance, but that fell apart after the zionists (which British help) assasinated Jacob Israel De Haan in 1924.
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