as to its ability to provide for the security of the Jewish settlements, but the bloody riots of April 1921, during which the Arabs attacked the Jews, proved that it was incapable of doing so . Achdut Haavoda therefore devoted a great deal of thought and planning to problems of security and the formation of the "Hagana" and assigned its best people to these tasks . These discovered very soon that the vairous proposals of the mandatory government concerning "an excellent police force" and all kinds of "defense battalions" were neither suitable nor adequate for the defense of the Jewish community and that it herefore had to form its own defense force, independent of the British administration . Despite the growing unemployment in 1921 Achdut Haavoda, together with other parties and institutions of the Jewish Community, continued to struggle for the continuation of Jewish immigration which had been suspended by the High Commissioner after the riots of April 1921 . In the face of the suf...
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