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Newly declassified Israeli files reveal pre-state Zionist militias contacted Nazi Germany officials for help in establishing a Jewish state in Palestine as World War II raged.
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“According to the information, there is a man who contacted the Germans. This man is known; his name is S,” he added. “S” was Avraham “Yair” Stern, leader of Lehi, the pre-state underground Zionist militia also known as the Stern Gang.
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“With the outbreak of World War II … there is no better time for a war of independence than during wartime. Britain’s forces are tied down … and it would be possible to overcome them,” Stern argued.
“The Jews are a party in the war and therefore cannot be neutral. Britain betrayed the Jewish people and will never allow the establishment of a Jewish state. On the other hand, Germany has no special interest in Palestine, and since the Nazis want to cleanse Europe of Jews, nothing is simpler than transferring them to their own state,” he added.
Zionists partnering with Nazis/Antisemites have been well known. I don’t know that the Stern Gang in particular directly reaching out was as well known. But Jabotinsky working with antisemitic Polish fascists was known at the time. And even at the Eichmann trial there was a really awkward point where Eichmann explained that he got a job in the SS because he was so enamored with Zionism that he learned to read Yiddish to read Zionist newspapers, so his proposition to the SS was that he was an antisemitic Christian Aryan that knew the “language of the Jews”. Also similarly, more documents were released last year revealing about how much Eichmann traveled to the British Mandate of Palestine to meet with the Haganah to discuss the logistics on how the Third Reich could smuggle weapons to them.
For some reason I thought the Stern Gang seeking alliance with Nazi Germany was a known fact for years. Maybe it was an open secret of sorts?
Yep, I’d first heard about them maybe 20+ years ago. I believe the actual news here is that certain documents pertaining to that group have now been ‘declassified.’
Same.
I was expecting this to be about some fresh new type of zionist fuckery.
None of this is new. Google “a nazi goes to Palestine”. I remember reading this on the old sub /cth
Shamelessly linking my post from last year about Theodor Herzl: https://hexbear.net/post/6892956
Never underestimate the antisemitism of the zionist project.
The zionists themselves would have personally killed every last non-European Jew themselves if they could have figured out how.
That’s not an exaggeration.
The hope was to work them to death in concentration camps after tricking them into coming to Israel as the first settlers.
If they weren’t allowed a Zionist state, those undesirable Jews would have to be exterminated more directly so good white Jews like Herzl could integrate better.
They were they were white supremacists who hated “lesser” Jews and Israel still operates on that logic today.
This isn’t news. This is genuinely olds. We’ve known this for a while. We also know that they tried to ally with the italians
