Editing Sabotage (section)

=== After World War II ===
[[File:PalestineRailways-1946-sabotage-JaffaJerusalem-1.jpg|thumb|[[Palestine Railway]]'s K class 2-8-4T steam locomotive and freight train on the Jaffa and Jerusalem line after being sabotaged by [[Jewish]] paramilitary forces in 1946.]]

From 1948 to 1960, the Malayan Communists committed numerous effective acts of sabotage against the British Colonial authorities, first targeting railway bridges, then hitting larger targets such as military camps. Most of their efforts were intended to weaken [[Malaysia]]'s colonial economy and involved sabotage against trains, rubber trees, water pipes, and electric lines. The Communists' sabotage efforts were so successful that they caused backlash among the Malaysian population, who gradually withdrew support for the Communist movement as their livelihoods became threatened.<ref>{{cite book|last=Report prepared by the Historical Evaluation and Research Organization under contract for the Army Research Office|title=Isolating the Guerrilla: Classic and Basic Case Studies (Volume II)|year=1966|publisher=Historical Evaluation and Research Organization|location=Washington}}</ref>

In [[Mandatory Palestine]] from 1945 to 1948, Jewish groups opposed British control. Though that control was to end according to the [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] in 1948, the groups used sabotage as an opposition tactic. The [[Haganah]] focused their efforts on camps used by the British to hold refugees, and radar installations that could be used to detect illegal immigrant ships. The [[Stern Gang]] and the [[Irgun]] used terrorism and sabotage against the British government and against lines of communications. In November 1946, the Irgun and Stern Gang attacked a railroad twenty-one times in a three-week period, eventually causing shell-shocked Arab railway workers to strike. The [[6th Airborne Division]] was called in to provide security as a means of ending the strike.<ref name=":0" />