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R. Daneel Olivaw

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5. "Meanwhile, the Lehi wanted to make a deal with Hitler..."
Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:58 PM
Oct 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(group)


[div class="excerpt"]Lehi split from the Irgun militant group in 1940 in order to continue fighting the British during World War II. Lehi initially sought an alliance with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, offering to fight alongside them against the British in return for the transfer of all Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe to Palestine.[2] Believing that Nazi Germany was a lesser enemy of the Jews than Britain, Lehi twice attempted to form an alliance with the Nazis.[2] During World War II it declared that it would establish a Jewish state based upon "nationalist and totalitarian principles".[2][17] After Stern's death in 1942, the new leadership of Lehi began to move it towards support for Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union.[1] In 1944 Lehi officially declared its support for National Bolshevism.[6] It said that its National Bolshevism involved an amalgamation of left-wing and right-wing political elements – Stern said Lehi incorporated elements of both the left and the right[2] – however this change was unpopular and Lehi began to lose support as a result.[18]

Lehi and the Irgun were jointly responsible for the massacre in Deir Yassin. Lehi assassinated Lord Moyne, British Minister Resident in the Middle East, and made many other attacks on the British in Palestine.[19] On 29 May 1948, the government of Israel, having inducted its activist members into the Israel Defense Forces, formally disbanded Lehi, though some of its members carried out one more terrorist act, the assassination of Folke Bernadotte some months later,[20] an act condemned by Bernadotte's replacement as mediator, Ralph Bunche.[21] Israel granted a general amnesty to Lehi members on 14 February 1949. In 1980, Israel instituted a military decoration in "award for activity in the struggle for the establishment of Israel," the Lehi ribbon.[22] Former Lehi leader Yitzhak Shamir became Prime Minister of Israel in 1983.

And some want to argue for these terrorists.

I guess that they have more in common with the grand mufti than some would like to admit for obvious reasons.

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And you know they can't defend the hipocrisy when they remain silent. R. Daneel Olivaw Oct 2015 #1
Nah, it's just another stupid Mondoweiss article penned by some knob.... shira Oct 2015 #3
"Meanwhile, the Lehi wanted to make a deal with Hitler..." R. Daneel Olivaw Oct 2015 #4
Trying desperately to save Jews from the ovens by bringing them to Palestine.... shira Oct 2015 #6
Both were trying to undermine the British azurnoir Oct 2015 #7
Again with excuse #17? R. Daneel Olivaw Oct 2015 #8
Explain what is wrong with Lehi trying to save thousands of Jewish lives.... shira Oct 2015 #9
It's like this, shira. Hypocrites arguing for greater hypocrisy, don't score points, R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2015 #10
You lose the debate when you argue against strawmen I never made... shira Nov 2015 #11
Do you ever read your own posts? LOL! R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2015 #12
"You have nothing but personal attacks." R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2015 #13
Right. You did it in the title of #10, calling me a hypocrite. shira Nov 2015 #14
Please, shira, keep on arguing for Jewish terrorists R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2015 #15
And you wonder why most folks here ignore you. n/t shira Nov 2015 #16
I'm not the one defending the Stern Gang, shira, that were known Jewish terrorists trying to side R. Daneel Olivaw Nov 2015 #17
"Meanwhile, the Lehi wanted to make a deal with Hitler..." R. Daneel Olivaw Oct 2015 #5
. libodem Oct 2015 #2
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