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Reuters and its sources describe the alliance between Nazis and Zionists as "unlikely" and "a new phenomenon." These adjectives betray the lack of historical perspective of contemporary journalists.
Zionism emerged in Europe at the turn of the twentieth century together with right-wing Fascism. Zeev Sternhell, an expert on French Fascism, analysed early "left-wing" Zionist politics and came to the conclusion that it was in fact a variant of what he defined as "nationalist-socialist" parties, a group that also included the Italian Fascist party and Hitler "National-Socialist" party in Germany. (Zeev Sternhell, Israel's Founding Myths, Princeton 1998)
Lenni Brenner put together 51 documents that exemplify the crossover, and sometimes the cooperation, between Zionism and Fascism. ( Lenni Brenner (ed), 51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis, Fort Lee 2002)
In Brenner's book one finds, for example, a 1937 report testifying that Hitler's early anti-Jewish policies pleased the Zionist settlers in Palestine, who hoped that the hardship of German Jews would contribute to "the strength of the Jewish population in Palestine."
However, at least one aspect in the French alliance between Zionists and Nazis does seem unprecedented.
According to Reuters, the alliance temporarily collapsed "because of disagreement between the groups over the U.S.-led war in Iraq, with Jewish extremists supporting the action but some French far-rightwingers against it."
In other words, it appears that some French Zionists broke with their Neo-Nazi allies because the latter were not militaristic enough.
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Typical Islamofascist propaganda lies
19.07.2003 08:15
Clearly no-one told the nazis they were co-operating with Zionists:
Zionism resulted from thinking about the position of the Jews within their host peoples and from knowledge of their financial and political power. It was an attempt to balance these facts and combat the spiritually divergent tendencies in Jewry. Its founder Herzl spoke more or less openly in various places in his diaries: "Where it exists, one can no longer abolish the legal equality of the Jews. This is not only because it goes against the modern mind, but also because all Jews, rich and poor, would immediately be forced into revolutionary parties. There is really nothing they can do to us. In the past one took their jewelry from the Jews; can one today take their movable wealth? The impossibility of getting at the Jews has only strengthened and embittered hatred. Anti-Semitism grows daily, even hourly, in the population. It will continue to grow since its causes continue to exist and cannot be eliminated." (Th. Herzl, The Jewish State ). "I do not wish to write about the history of the Jews. It is familiar. I must mention only one thing: In our two thousand years in the Diaspora, there has been no unified leadership. That is what I think is our primary misfortune." To overcome this "misfortune," Herzl founded political Zionism.
Non-Jewish observers and writers on Zionism who see political Zionism only as an attempt at "national renewal" rather than an effort to establish a unified Jewish leadership as well as Jewish rule over the world, are therefore incorrect. The confusion of political Zionism with Palestine can be understood only through the Jewish prophecies in which Jewry is assured of control over all the goods of this world. Knowing that the time was near, and would culminate in taking possession of Palestine, Zionism developed the nonsensical notion of an "historic claim" to the "promised land," to which Jews "without any outside pressure" would gradually immigrate.
In the ideology of political Zionism, Palestine fulfilled the role of an indispensable part of prophecy, just as certain rules are the guarantee for success of the magical ceremonies of primitive peoples. Political Zionism never intended Palestine to be the destination of all Jews, rather it merely wants to make Palestine the center of Jewish world policy. That must naturally be protected by a strong Jewish population. The Zionist publication Jüdische Rundschau wrote: "No one at any time has proposed that all Jews today should emigrate to Palestine." Nabum Sokolow, Weizmann's colleague and current chairman of the Zionist Committee, said it clearly in 1921: "The Jewish people wants to return to Palestine, the Jewish people will have its center in Palestine. Large parts of Jewry will live as a Jewish periphery in the world. They must be cared for, their dignity and their national rights must be assured."
This is also clear from the text of the state treaty Jewry concluded with England, the so-called Balfour Declaration: "His Majesty's Government favors the establishment of a national home in Palestine for the Jews, and we will make the greatest efforts to reach this goal, although it is clearly understood that nothing will be done that will affect the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political standing of Jews in any other country."
That provides a correction to the idealization of Zionism, which springs from a different race. From a political standpoint, it would be in the interests of the whole world, of all the host peoples, if the Jews now scattered throughout the whole world were to voluntarily emigrate to some habitable territory. If political Zionism were not interested in such a solution to the Jewish Question, it would be in the interests of the host peoples to point it in that positive direction. The only question would be whether Palestine is the proper gathering place, which no one would likely maintain. Palestine is not able to absorb all the Jews in the world, entirely aside from the fact of increasing Arab opposition to Jewish infiltration. The Arabs are after all the undisputed owners of the land. But what other territory would be appropriate? And at the instant Palestine ceased to be the the goal of Jewish emigration, political Zionism would collapse, since Palestine is seen as a means for the fulfillment of prophecy. Without that, the whole enterprise would lose its point. Jewry itself would make the most passionate and bitter attacks, and before long any undertaking that ignored Palestine would be crippled by Jewry itself. Palestine incorporates for Jewry its special position. Ignoring this would be ethnic suicide for Jewry, since political Zionism also has as a goal maintaining and strengthening Jewry's special situation.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/zionism.htm
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