IN 1940-41 a dissident Zionist group tried to ally itself with Adolf Hitler. What gives this grotesque propostion significance is that leaders was Yitzhak Shamir, and a scandal is brewing as the public is becoming aware has its first Nazi Prime Minister.
Shamir was already a member of Vladimir Jabotinsky's 'ZionistRevisionist' Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organisation). The Irgun had come to realise that Britain had no intention of handing over all of Palestine - and Jordan - to the Zionists, and he looked elsewhere for new patrons.
He found two new backers. The anti-Semitic regime in Poland, eager to get rid of its Jews, and therefore always Inendly to Lionism, armed the Irgun and began to train its cadres in the insurrectionary arts. And, beginning in 1934, Mussolini set up a squadron at Although Jabotinsky insisted that he was not a Fascist, Mussolini recognised him as such, calling him 'your Fascist, Jabotinsky' It was the Spanish Civil War which convinced Mussolini that he had to stand with Hitler against the European working class, and expel all Jews from his party. Disillusioned, Jabotinsky slowly returned to his previous pro-British orientation and pith the outbreak of World War 11 he called off the Irgun's terrorist campaign against the Arabs and the British authorities in Palestine.
But a wing of the Revisionists had become so fanatically Fascist that they could not accept reality and blamed Mussolini's turn toward Hitler on the Jews! They insisted that the Jewish left had 'insulted' the despot by proclaiming the fight against Hitler to be part of the 'anti-Fascist struggle'; and the mainline Zionists had stubbornly remained loval to British imperialism.
The followers of Avraham Stern spit from Jabotinsky and set up their own NMO, and tried to convince the Atis powers that, yes indeed, they were proper Fascists who could be counted contemporary one of its that Israel now 'Revisionist' Civitavecchia. to do so he had to Zionists and the power has STOCKHOLM IS YOURS ¡JERUSALEM IS OURS EACHERS FOR THE REDOM OF ISRAEL Stern gang members demonstrate in Jerusalem YOUR WORK ISN VAN WE ARE Aftermath of the Stern gang boming of the King David Hotel British 'wanted' poster indicts Stern gang terrorists WANTED!