- History can be deceptive. It's fair to say that some
of the sensational never-published-before documents, in this book, will
shock those who have accepted Zionism and its supposed history, at face
value, as a political movement that was the hope of the Jews. Lenni Brenner,
the intrepid author of "Zionism in the Age of Dictators," reveals
disturbing new evidence in his latest effort, that suggest just the opposite.
In fact, he makes a compelling case that the Zionist record was "dishonorable."
You can consider this excellent tome as a worthy sequel to his first expose'
on the myopic Zionist zealots of that bygone era.
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- For openers, Brenner showed how the Zionists had a long
history of shameless cooperation with the Nazis, especially after the dictator
Adolph Hitler had came to power in 1933. The Zionists were also in bed,
to some extent, with the other members of what later became known as WWII's
"Axis of Evil," that included Benito Mussolini's Italy, and Tojo
Hideki's Japan. For example, on March 29,1936, Zionists praised Il Duce,
and his regime, at the opening of a maritime school, funded by the Fascist
government, at Civitavecchia. This is where a Zionist youth group, the
"Betar," trained its sailors for the future Revisionist state.
The speakers ignored the fact that on Oct. 3, 1935, Italian troops had
invaded Abyssinia.
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- On another front, the "Third Congress of the Jewish
Community of the Far East," was held in Jan., 1940, in Harbin, Manchuria,
then reeling under a brutal military occupation by the Japanese imperial
forces. At that time, too, Tokyo was already aligned with Hitler and Italy's
Mussolini, in the notorious Anti-Comintern Pact. Also, keep in mind, that
the Japanese's murderous "Rape of Nanking," had occurred in Dec.,
1937, and the "Crystal Night" incident on Nov. 9, 1938. Nevertheless,
the Zionist confab went out of its way to legitimize the Japanese occupation
by certifying it as a guarantor of the "equality of all citizens,"
in that beleaguered land.
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- The Zionist also had a trade plan with the Berlin government
by which German Jews could redeem their property in Nazi goods exported
to then British-occupied Palestine. And to top it all off, the infamous
SS-Hptscharf. Adolf Eichmann, had visited Palestine, in October, 1937,
as the guest of the Zionists. He also met, in Egypt, with Feivel Polkes,
a Zionist operative, whom Eichmann described as a "leading Haganah
functionary." The chain-smoking Polkes was also on the Nazis' payroll
"as an informer."
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- Brenner isn't the first writer to address the mostly
taboo subject of how the Zionist leadership cooperated with the Nazis.
Rolf Hilberg's seminal "The Destruction of European Jews"; Hannah
Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"; Ben Hecht's "Perfidy";
Edwin Black's "The Transfer Agreement"; Francis R. Nicosia's
"The Third Reich and the Palestine Question"; Rudolf Vrba and
Alan Bestic's "I Cannot Forgive"; and Rafael Medoff's "The
Deadening Silence: American Jews and the Holocaust," also dared, with
varying public success.
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- After the Holocaust began in 1942, Eichmann dealt regularly
with Dr. Rudolf Kastner, a Hungarian Jew, whom he considered a "fanatical
Zionist." Kastner was later assassinated in Israel as a Nazi collaborator.
At issue then, however, was the bargaining over the eventual fate of Hungary's
Jews, who were slated for liquidation in the Nazi-run death camps. Eichmann
said this about Kastner, the Zionist representative, "I believe that
[he] would have sacrificed a thousand or a hundred thousand of his blood
to achieve his political goal. He was not interested in old Jews or those
who had become assimilated into Hungarian society. 'You can have the others,'
he would say, 'but let me have this group here.' And because Kastner rendered
us a great service by helping keep the deportation camps peaceful. I would
let his groups escape."
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- Readers, too, will be surprised to learn, that after
the Nuremberg Anti-Jewish Race Laws were enacted in Sept., 1935, that there
were only two flags that were permitted to be displayed in all of Nazi
Germany. One was Hitler's favorite, the Swastika. The other was the blue
and white banner of Zionism. The Zionists were also allowed to publish
their own newspaper. The reasons for this Reich-sponsored favoritism was,
according to the author: The Zionists and the Nazis had a common interest,
making German Jews emigrate to Palestine.
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- As early as June 21, 1933, the German Zionist Federation
was sending a secret memorandum to the Nazis, which said, in part:
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- "It is our opinion that an answer to the Jewish
question truly satisfying to the national state [German Reich] can be brought
about only with the collaboration of the Jewish movement that aims as a
social, cultural and moral renewal of Jewry- -indeed, that such a national
renewal must first create the decisive social and spiritual premises for
all solutions..."
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- Incredibly, Avraham Stern, the leader of the notorious
"Stern Gang," late in 1940, made a written proposal to Hitler,
by which the Jewish militias in Palestine, would fight on "Germany's
side," in the war against England, in exchange for the Nazis help
in resolving the "Jewish Question" in Europe, and their assistance
in creating an "historic Jewish state." By this date, German
troops had already marched into Prague, invaded Poland, and had built the
first concentration camp at Auschwitz. The deranged Stern had further bragged
about how the Zionist organizations were "closely related to the totalitarian
movements of Europe in [their] ideology and structure." Stern's obscene
proposal was found in the German embassy, in Turkey, after WWII.
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- Finally, I think Brenner was right, when he wrote, "This
book presents 51 historic documents to indict Zionism for repeated attempts
to collaborate with Adolf Hitler. The evidence, not I, will convince you
of the truth of this issue...Exposing the Zionist role in the [Nazi] era
is part of the scrutiny of the past, required of historians."
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- All of the above becomes even more important today in
light of the critical fact that it helps to subject Zionist Israel to the
examination called for by its crimes, past and present.
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- © William Hughes 2003
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- William Hughes is the author of "Saying 'No' to
the War Party" (Iuniverse, Inc.).
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