Declassified documents show Zionist leaders of the Lehi militia sought collaboration with the Nazis
"In war there're no sentiments. Whoever gives money & weapons, you should work with him" - Lehi's top leader Yair Stern
Lehi was merged into #Israel's IDF & honored with statues
2\ Coincidentally, the Lehi terror group's publications described Jews as "master race" & Palestinians as a "slave race."
They "advocated mass expulsion of all Arabs... or even physical annihilation".
They conducted numerous terror attacks against the Palestinians & British.
3\ #Israel built monuments for the very Lehi terror group that sought collaboration with the Nazis.
Lehi leader, Yitzhak Shamir, became Israel's Prime Minister.
Shamir once said "Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat"
4\ The declassified documents also show that a current within the Zionist militias favoured collaboration with fascist Italy as well b/c "the victory of fascism is guaranteed".
Zionist leaders of the Irgun terror militia like Ya’akov Meridor also favoured allying with the Nazis
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Right: the 830-year-old Moroccan neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Left: Same area today cleansed of its Arab inhabitants, where even Palestinian Jerusalemites aren't allowed to walk without a special permit!
On June 10 1967, #Israel bulldozed the entire area, inc. mosques & school🧵
2\ David Ben-Gurion visited occupied East Jerusalem as soon as it fell & went to the Western wall.
He got "upset" to see a sign Arabic, asked for a hammer & ordered it destroyed, then he said:
"This is the greatest moment of my life since I came to #Israel".
3\ The next day, the #Israeli army brought sledgehammers & bulldozers to the Moroccan quarter in occupied Jerusalem to destroy 135 homes, 2 ancient mosques, an old school & local shops.
They gave the 650 residents about 15 minutes to leave without discussion & become refugees!
Meet the #Israeli right's new hero:
Orian Ben Khalifa was convicted of unjustifiably beating up a young Palestinian woman, knocking her to the ground, dragging her to a police station, grabbing her by the neck & shaking her..
Israel's Security Minister reinstated her immediately
2\ #Israel's Security Minister reinstated Orian Ben Khalifa back at Israel's border police right after an Israeli court convicted her of unjustifiably assaulting a Palestinian.
Israel's Minister for Advancing Women's Status is calling her a Heroin for being up an unarmed Arab!
3\ Right wing #Israelis are in love with the Magav officer Orian ben Khalifa precisely b/c she mercilessly assaulted a Palestinian who did nothing to her.
Orian is known for violently assaulting Palestinians on a regular basis in East Jerusalem.
2 weeks ago, I was asked to explain to the UN the Nakba's impact on Palestinians today, so I told my family's experience of the Nakba's dispossession & displacement 3 times.
The last being the siege that's forcing young Palestinians to choose between displacement or slow death!
2\ The 1st Nakba my grandfather lived through was when he had just bought a farm with all his savings in Hamama.
He refused to leave when #Israel was founded, so 167 days later, the IDF depopulated & looted his village, then razed it to the ground. He became a refugee in Gaza!
3\ 19 years after the IDF forced my grandfather out of his ancestral village, he experienced a 2nd Nakba in 1967, when Israel occupied Gaza & he was kicked out again, to Egypt. A penniless refugee for the 2nd time.
He returned to Gaza in 1994 with the Oslo accords.
EVERYTHING #Israel accuses Palestinians of doing (often falsely), it had openly done way worse to establish & maintain the Israeli state:
e.g. blowing up cafes & buses; human shields; celebrating civilians' death; glorifying terrorists; hiding weapons in civilian areas...Quick🧵
2\ Terrorism was a tactic Zionist militias openly used to establish #Israel
Blowing up cafes, buses & crowded markets was 1 of their favorite strategies. This list only shows Irgun terrorist bombings in 1937-39👇
Irgun became part of the IDF & their leader Shamir became PM!
3\ Even 3 decades after #Israel was founded, the Israeli Defense Ministry continued to use terrorism for combat
Defense Minister Ariel Sharon (later Prime Minister) used to blow up cars, bikes & booby-trapped donkeys in crowded civilian areas in Lebanon ONLY to sow chaos & fear!