• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    27·
    9 months ago

    Lehi were a bunch of fucking assholes but they weren’t Nazi sympathizers as such. It was an “enemy of my enemy” deal - They’d fight the British in Palestine if the Nazis provided support. I think they knocked it off after word got out about the Holocaust.

    • D3FNC [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      9 months ago

      There is a fairly grim side to the holocaust and these sorts of Zionists, that has become tainted by revisionist history and people with various intentions trying to expose or bury a sordid history, but many prominent Zionists saw the tragedy as a small price to pay to get what they wanted.

      You might pick up that this sort of ruthless sacrifice really sets the tone as far as explaining the atrocities of the next 80+ years.

    • nonailsleftEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      And let’s not forget the arab Palestinians were quite open about their collaboration with the nazis during WW2

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amin_al-Husseini

      Which isn’t an unimportant contributor to the British generally tilting a bit more in favour of the jews in the runup to the end of the mandate…

      But don’t let that stop OP from trying to paint the zionists as a bunch of frickin’ nazis