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In 1941 the Stern Gang Twice Proposed a Military Alliance to the Nazis – One of its Leaders, Yitzhak Shamir, Became Israel's Prime Minister
In Stern: The Man, the Gang & the State We Learn About the Mentality Behind the Nazi-style Genocide in Gaza Today
Last summer I was contacted by Hossam Sarhan who asked if I would agree to be interviewed for a program on Yair Stern, the founder of the Stern Gang or Lehi, Loḥamei Ḥerut Yisrael (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel).
The Zionists have done their best since the Hitler era to suggest, on the basis of the undoubted collaboration of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj al-Amin Husseini with the Nazis, that whereas they supported the Allies the Palestinians supported Hitler.
In fact there is no truth in this. It was the ardent Zionist British High Commissioner Herbert Samuel who appointed Husseini as Mufti despite the fact that he came fourth in the elections to the post in 1921.
Stern did his best to form a pact with the above
The British and the Zionists always preferred reactionary, feudal leaders of the Palestinians to secular nationalists like the Istiqlal Party which was severely repressed.
Husseini was a minor war criminal compared to Walter Rauff, the inventor of the gas truck which was used at the first extermination camp Chelmno. Rauff became an Israeli agent after the war.
This did not stop the Mufti playing a ‘starring role’ in Yad Vashem of the Holocaust. The article on the Mufti is longer than the articles on Himmler and Heydrich combined and longer than the article on Eichmann. It is only slightly exceeded in length by the entry for Hitler. [Peter Novick, The Holocaust in American Life p. 158].
The Stern Gang was founded in 1940 from a split in another terrorist group, Irgun, which was commanded by former Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin. Lehi was a Blood and Fire Zionist group and its rehabilitation in Israel today says everything about the Zionist attitude to genuine terrorism.
Ilan Pappe
I had just written a book, Zionism During the Holocaust, which contains a section on The Zionist Group that was openly pro-Nazi. This was probably why I was interviewed. Also interviewed by the program makers were Ilan Pappe, the foremost historian of Zionism and its misdeeds and Tom Suarez who has written a couple of very interesting books on Zionism and its antecedents, including its terroristic proclivities. Another person who was interviewed was Yair Stern, the son of Abraham Stern, the founder of the Stern Gang. Ctd....
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