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Showing Original Post only (View all)Palling Around with Nazis: Netanyahu’s political ancestors are also guilty by association [View all]
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/netanyahus-ancestors-association
As for a strategic alliance, al-Husayni and Hitler never hashed out a deal, though they did maintain an acquaintanceship. When it comes to Nazism, guilt by association goes a long way, and theres no reason for history to be kind to al-Husayni. (Accurate would be nice, though.)
But guess who else reached out to the Nazis looking for a partnership? A group known as Lehi (or the Stern Gang), a Zionist militia which had split from the Irgun itself a splinter of the main Jewish army, the Haganah in 1940. (Each breakaway militia felt the tactics of its parent group werent aggressive enough.)
The Zionist militias were looking for help seizing Palestine from the British, so it made sense to align themselves with Hitler. They offered to help fight on Germanys side, in exchange for the transfer of Europes Jews to Palestine and Hitlers support of a totalitarian Jewish state. As Tel Aviv University history professor Yaacov Shavit writes, when a Lehi representative met with a Nazi diplomat in Beirut in January 1941, he proposed a political as well as military cooperation leading to the establishment of a Jewish state on a nationalist and totalitarian footing, that would be linked by a treaty to the German Reich.
Hitler didnt respond to the overtures as Shavit explains, All that Lehi could in effect have offered Germany as its contribution to the Nazi war effort, was to act as a fifth column and try to place obstacles in the way of the British in Palestine and the deal stalled.
As for a strategic alliance, al-Husayni and Hitler never hashed out a deal, though they did maintain an acquaintanceship. When it comes to Nazism, guilt by association goes a long way, and theres no reason for history to be kind to al-Husayni. (Accurate would be nice, though.)
But guess who else reached out to the Nazis looking for a partnership? A group known as Lehi (or the Stern Gang), a Zionist militia which had split from the Irgun itself a splinter of the main Jewish army, the Haganah in 1940. (Each breakaway militia felt the tactics of its parent group werent aggressive enough.)
The Zionist militias were looking for help seizing Palestine from the British, so it made sense to align themselves with Hitler. They offered to help fight on Germanys side, in exchange for the transfer of Europes Jews to Palestine and Hitlers support of a totalitarian Jewish state. As Tel Aviv University history professor Yaacov Shavit writes, when a Lehi representative met with a Nazi diplomat in Beirut in January 1941, he proposed a political as well as military cooperation leading to the establishment of a Jewish state on a nationalist and totalitarian footing, that would be linked by a treaty to the German Reich.
Hitler didnt respond to the overtures as Shavit explains, All that Lehi could in effect have offered Germany as its contribution to the Nazi war effort, was to act as a fifth column and try to place obstacles in the way of the British in Palestine and the deal stalled.
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Palling Around with Nazis: Netanyahu’s political ancestors are also guilty by association [View all]
R. Daneel Olivaw
Oct 2015
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It's like this, shira. Hypocrites arguing for greater hypocrisy, don't score points,
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2015
#10
I'm not the one defending the Stern Gang, shira, that were known Jewish terrorists trying to side
R. Daneel Olivaw
Nov 2015
#17