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Michael.
Are you implying that the NK are anti-Semitic or self-hating? They represent
the traditional Orthodox position on Zionism. I don't share it. But it would
be bizarre if an anti-Zionist coalition like al awda excluded them because of
some thing they did in their own name. Coalitions are made up of people who
agree on 1 program and who disagree on anything else.
As you are so concerned for Jews who give interviews to anti-Semites, chew on
this, as published in my new book
51 Documents
Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis
Edited by Lenni Brenner
Lenni
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Note: This proposal to Hitler was written in late 1940, when Avraham Stern
(Yair), (1907-1942), still called his movement the ‘real’ Irgun, from which
they had split earlier that year. Later they took the name Lohamei Herut
Yisrael (Lehi for short), Fighters for the Freedom of Israel. They were,
however, universally known by the name the British in Palestine gave them:
the Stern Gang.
The document was presented to two German diplomats in 1941, in Lebanon, then
run by Germany’s Vichy French ally. They deposited the proposal in the German
embassy in Turkey, where it was found after the war. - LB
“Grundzüge des Vorschlages der Nationalen Militärischen Organisation in
Palästina (Irgun Zwei Leumi) betreffend der Lösung der jüdischen Frage
Europas und der aktiven Teilnahme der NMO am Kriege an der Seite
Deutschlands,” [Fundamental Features of the Proposal of the National Military
Organization in Palestine (Irgun Zvai Leumi) Concerning the Solution of the
Jewish Question in Europe and the Participation of the NMO in the War on the
Side of Germany], (in) David Yisraeli, The Palestine Problem in German
Politics 1889-1945, Bar Ilan University (Ramat Gan, Israel) (1974),
pp.315-17.
It is often stated in the speeches and utterances of the leading statesmen of
National Socialist Germany that a prerequisite of the New Order in Europe
requires the radical solution of the Jewish question through evacuation
(“Jew-free Europe”).
The evacuation of the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for solving
the Jewish question; but this can only be made possible and complete through
the settlement of these masses in the home of the Jewish people, Palestine,
and through the establishment of a Jewish state in its historic boundaries.
The solving in this manner of the Jewish problem, thus bringing with it once
and for all the liberation of the Jewish people, is the objective of the
political activity and the years-long struggle of the Israeli freedom
movement, the National Military Organization (Irgun Zvai Leumi) in Palestine.
The NMO, which is well-acquainted with the goodwill of the German Reich
government and its authorities towards Zionist activity inside Germany and
towards Zionist emigration plans, is of the opinion that:
1. Common interests could exist between the establishment of a new order in
Europe in conformity with the German concept, and the true national
aspirations of the Jewish people as they are embodied by the NMO.
2. Cooperation between the new Germany and a renewed folkish-national
Hebraium would be possible and,
3. The establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and
totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich, would be in the
interest of a maintained and strengthened future German position of power in
the Near East.
Proceeding from these considerations, the NMO in Palestine, under the
condition the above-mentioned national aspirations of the Israeli freedom
movement are recognized on the side of the German Reich, offers to actively
lake part in the war on Germany’s side.
This offer by the NMO, covering activity in the military, political and
information fields, in Palestine and, according to our determined
preparations, outside Palestine, would be connected to the military training
and organizing of Jewish manpower in Europe, under the leadership and command
of the NMO. These military units would take part in the fight to conquer
Palestine, should such a front be decided upon.
The indirect participation of the Israeli freedom movement in the New Order
in Europe, already in the preparatory stage, would be linked with a
positive-radical solution of the European Jewish problem in conformity with
the above-mentioned national aspirations of the Jewish people. This would
extraordinarily strengthen the moral basis of the New Order in the eyes of
all humanity.
The cooperation of the Israeli freedom movement would also be along the lines
of one of the last speeches of the German Reich Chancellor, in which Herr
Hitler emphasized that he would utilize every combination and coalition in
order to isolate and defeat England.
A brief general view of the formation, essence, and activity of the NMO in
Palestine:
The NMO developed partly out of the Jewish self-defense in Palestine and the
Revisionist movement (New Zionist Organization), with which the NMO was
loosely connected through the person of Mr. V. Jabotinsky until his death.
The pro-English attitude of the Revisionist Organization in Palestine, which
prevented the renewal of the personal union, led in the autumn of this year
to a complete break between it and the NMO as well as to a thereupon
following split in the Revisionist movement.
The goal of the NMO is the establishment of the Jewish state within its
historic borders.
The NMO, in contrast to all Zionist trends, rejects colonizatory infiltration
as the only means of making accessible and gradually taking possession of the
fatherland and practices its slogan, the struggle and the sacrifice, as the
only true means for the conquest and liberation of Palestine.
On account of its militant character and its anti-English disposition the NMO
is forced, under constant persecutions by the English administration, to
exercise its political activity and the military training of its members in
Palestine in secret.
The NMO, whose terrorist activities began as early as the autumn of the year
1936, became, after the publication of the British White Papers, especially
prominent in the summer of 1939 through successful intensification of its
terroristic activity and sabotage of English properly. At that lime these
activities, as well as daily secret radio broadcasts, were noticed and
discussed by virtually the entire world press.
The NMO maintained independent political offices in Warsaw, Paris. London and
New York until the beginning of the war.
The office in Warsaw was mainly concerned with the military organization and
training of the national Zionist youth and was closely connected with the
Jewish masses who, especially in Poland, sustained and enthusiastically
supported, in every manner, the fight of the NMO in Palestine. Two newspapers
were published in Warsaw (The Deed and Liberated Jerusalem): these were
organs of the NMO.
The office in Warsaw maintained close relations with the former Polish
government and those military circles, who brought greatest sympathy and un
derstanding towards the aims of the NMO. Thus, in the year 1939 selected
groups of NMO members were sent from Palestine to Poland, where their
military training was completed in barracks by Polish officers.
The negotiations, for the purpose of activating and concretizing their aid,
took place between the NMO and the Polish government in Warsaw – the evidence
of which can easily be found in the archives of the former Polish government
– were terminated because of the beginning of the war.
The NMO is closely related to the totalitarian movements of Europe in its
ideology and structure.
The fighting capacity of the NMO could never be paralyzed or seriously
weakened, neither through strong defensive measures by the English
administration and the Arabs, nor by those of the Jewish socialists.
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