Did you know that Zionists collaborated with Fascists in order to establish Israel in Palestine?
A month after the Nazi pogrom against Germany's Jews, famously known as Kristallnacht, Ben Gurion ( born David Grün), Israel's first head of State, declared outright to the "Labor" Zionists on December 7th 1938 an interesting mathematical formula for saving German Jewish kids, after the British government proposed that thousands of Jewish children be brought to Great Britain from the continent:
"If I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by taking them to England, and only half of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we must take into account not only the lives of these children but also the history of the people of Israel."
(...) Must we help all those who need it without taking into account the characteristics of each one? Must we not give this action a national Zionist character and attempt to give priority to the saving of those who can be useful to the Land of Israel and to Judaism? I understand that posing the question in this manner may appear cruel, but we must establish unequivocally that if we are able to save 10,000 people out of the 50,000 who can contribute to the construction of the land and national rebirth, or a million Jews who will become a burden or, at best, a dead weight, we must limit ourselves to saving 10,000 people who can be saved-despite the accusations and the appeals of the million left behind.
Reinhardt Heydrich, who was later to become "Protector" of Czechoslovakia, wrote in Das Schwarze Korps, the official organ of the S.S. in 1935, when he was head of the S.S. security. In an article entitled "The invisible enemy", he made a distinction between two kinds of Jews:
"We must separate the Jews into two categories, the Zionists and the partisans of assimilation. The Zionists profess a strictly racial concept and, through emigration to Palestine, they help to build their own Jewish State...our good wishes and our official good will go with them."
In exchange for their official recognition as sole representatives of the Jewish community, the Zionist leaders offered to break the boycott which the world anti-Fascists were trying to organize.
Economic collaboration began in 1933. Two companies were created : The "Haavara Company" at Tel Aviv and the "Paltreu", in Berlin.
Several future Israeli prime ministers took part in the "Haavara" undertaking, including Ben Gurion (born David Grün), Moshe Sharret (born Moshe Chertok), Golda Meir ( born Golda Mabovitch, who supported it from New York), and Levi Eshkol ( born Levi Shkolnik), who was its representative in Berlin.
The operation was advantageous for both parties. The Nazis thus succeeded in breaking the blockade (the Zionists managed to sell German merchandise even in Britain); whereas the Zionists were able to operate the "selective" immigration they desired.
Only millionaires were able to emigrate, their capital providing the funds needed to develop Zionist colonization in Palestine. In accordance with the goals of Zionism, it was more important to save Jewish capital from Nazi Germany that would permit the development of their undertaking, than to save the lives of poor Jews, unable to work or fight, who would have been a burden.
This policy of collaboration lasted until 1941, in other words eight years after Hitler's rise to power.
German Jews were permitted to bring in assets worth $100 million under the terms of a Transfer Agreement reached between the Nazi government and the Zionist movement in exchange for the end of the Jewish boycott of Germany.
The Jewish economy in Palestine overtook the Arab sector for the first time in the 1930s, and by 1939, the Jewish population had increased to more than 30% of the total population.
The Zionists, counting on Mussolini's hostility to England, established contact with him as early as 1922. He had received them after his march on Rome in October, on December 20th 1922.
Mussolini received Weizmann on January 3rd 1923, and another time on September 17th 1926. Nahum Goldman, president of the World Zionist Organization, had a meeting with Mussolini on October 26th, 1927, where the Italian leader told him:
"I will help you to create this Jewish state."
In 1941, Yitzhak Shamir (born Yitzhak Yezernitsky, later on the 7th prime minister of Israel) committed "an unforgivable crime from the moral point of view: He preached an alliance with Hitler, with Nazi Germany, against Great Britain."
While still considering themselves part of the Irgun, the Sternists sent a proposal of alliance to the Nazis. The Stern document reads:
"The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich, .......offers to actively take part in the war on Germany’s side.....the NMO [Irgun] is closely related to the totalitarian movements of Europe in its ideology and structure".
Stern is still revered today in Israel, and has a settlement named in his honor, as well as a postage stamp.
When Yitzhak Shamir, Israel’s future Prime Minister in the 1980s, was asked to explain their collaboration with the Fascists, he replied:
''The enemy of my enemy is my friend.''
Jabotinsky collaborated with the Italian fascist Benito Mussolini and both supported each others ideologies. As a matter of fact, there was an entire Naval Academy in fascist Italy to train Zionist militias. This was the Betar Naval Academy, and it was built and operated with fascist blessings.
The Zionist ideology is still in keeping with the founding doctrine of Theodor Herzl, who constantly harped on the theme in his "Diaries". As early as 1895, he declared to a German interlocutor (Speidel):
"I understand anti-Semitism. We Jews have remained, even if it is not our fault, foreign bodies in different nations. "
A few pages further, he is even more explicit:
"Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies."
A month after the Nazi pogrom against Germany's Jews, famously known as Kristallnacht, Ben Gurion ( born David Grün), Israel's first head of State, declared outright to the "Labor" Zionists on December 7th 1938 an interesting mathematical formula for saving German Jewish kids, after the British government proposed that thousands of Jewish children be brought to Great Britain from the continent:
"If I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by taking them to England, and only half of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we must take into account not only the lives of these children but also the history of the people of Israel."
(...) Must we help all those who need it without taking into account the characteristics of each one? Must we not give this action a national Zionist character and attempt to give priority to the saving of those who can be useful to the Land of Israel and to Judaism? I understand that posing the question in this manner may appear cruel, but we must establish unequivocally that if we are able to save 10,000 people out of the 50,000 who can contribute to the construction of the land and national rebirth, or a million Jews who will become a burden or, at best, a dead weight, we must limit ourselves to saving 10,000 people who can be saved-despite the accusations and the appeals of the million left behind.
Reinhardt Heydrich, who was later to become "Protector" of Czechoslovakia, wrote in Das Schwarze Korps, the official organ of the S.S. in 1935, when he was head of the S.S. security. In an article entitled "The invisible enemy", he made a distinction between two kinds of Jews:
"We must separate the Jews into two categories, the Zionists and the partisans of assimilation. The Zionists profess a strictly racial concept and, through emigration to Palestine, they help to build their own Jewish State...our good wishes and our official good will go with them."
In exchange for their official recognition as sole representatives of the Jewish community, the Zionist leaders offered to break the boycott which the world anti-Fascists were trying to organize.
Economic collaboration began in 1933. Two companies were created : The "Haavara Company" at Tel Aviv and the "Paltreu", in Berlin.
Several future Israeli prime ministers took part in the "Haavara" undertaking, including Ben Gurion (born David Grün), Moshe Sharret (born Moshe Chertok), Golda Meir ( born Golda Mabovitch, who supported it from New York), and Levi Eshkol ( born Levi Shkolnik), who was its representative in Berlin.
The operation was advantageous for both parties. The Nazis thus succeeded in breaking the blockade (the Zionists managed to sell German merchandise even in Britain); whereas the Zionists were able to operate the "selective" immigration they desired.
Only millionaires were able to emigrate, their capital providing the funds needed to develop Zionist colonization in Palestine. In accordance with the goals of Zionism, it was more important to save Jewish capital from Nazi Germany that would permit the development of their undertaking, than to save the lives of poor Jews, unable to work or fight, who would have been a burden.
This policy of collaboration lasted until 1941, in other words eight years after Hitler's rise to power.
German Jews were permitted to bring in assets worth $100 million under the terms of a Transfer Agreement reached between the Nazi government and the Zionist movement in exchange for the end of the Jewish boycott of Germany.
The Jewish economy in Palestine overtook the Arab sector for the first time in the 1930s, and by 1939, the Jewish population had increased to more than 30% of the total population.
The Zionists, counting on Mussolini's hostility to England, established contact with him as early as 1922. He had received them after his march on Rome in October, on December 20th 1922.
Mussolini received Weizmann on January 3rd 1923, and another time on September 17th 1926. Nahum Goldman, president of the World Zionist Organization, had a meeting with Mussolini on October 26th, 1927, where the Italian leader told him:
"I will help you to create this Jewish state."
In 1941, Yitzhak Shamir (born Yitzhak Yezernitsky, later on the 7th prime minister of Israel) committed "an unforgivable crime from the moral point of view: He preached an alliance with Hitler, with Nazi Germany, against Great Britain."
While still considering themselves part of the Irgun, the Sternists sent a proposal of alliance to the Nazis. The Stern document reads:
"The establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, and bound by a treaty with the German Reich, .......offers to actively take part in the war on Germany’s side.....the NMO [Irgun] is closely related to the totalitarian movements of Europe in its ideology and structure".
Stern is still revered today in Israel, and has a settlement named in his honor, as well as a postage stamp.
When Yitzhak Shamir, Israel’s future Prime Minister in the 1980s, was asked to explain their collaboration with the Fascists, he replied:
''The enemy of my enemy is my friend.''
Jabotinsky collaborated with the Italian fascist Benito Mussolini and both supported each others ideologies. As a matter of fact, there was an entire Naval Academy in fascist Italy to train Zionist militias. This was the Betar Naval Academy, and it was built and operated with fascist blessings.
The Zionist ideology is still in keeping with the founding doctrine of Theodor Herzl, who constantly harped on the theme in his "Diaries". As early as 1895, he declared to a German interlocutor (Speidel):
"I understand anti-Semitism. We Jews have remained, even if it is not our fault, foreign bodies in different nations. "
A few pages further, he is even more explicit:
"Anti-Semites will become our surest friends, anti-Semitic countries our allies."
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