Lenni replies to Max

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Fri Feb 21 23:08:45 PST 2003


From: BrennerL21 at aol.com Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:12:56 EST Subject: Reply from Lenni Brenner To: debsian at pacbell.net

2 21 03

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

 

==

 

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.

 

===END - Stern Gang

 



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