Bertster7 wrote:
lowing wrote:
Also, this thread is not about everyone else and what the did or did not do. This thread is about the persecution of the Jews and I felt that I have raised a point that by fighting with the Nazis, the Muslims were all about exterminating the Jews before they used the excuse of the creation of Israel.
You have raised a valid point, but you must realise that the tensions between Jews and Arabs (not neccessarily Muslims - there is a large Arab Christian population in the region too and has been for a very long time) surrounding immigration into Palestine and the establishement of Israel goes back further than WWII - your point about Muslims using the creation of Israel as an excuse to exterminate them doesn't really stand up. Everything I've ever read about early Jewish immigration to Palestine is quite clear that the Arabs did not really mind. It was only after the scale of immigration and the effects of the policies of the various Zionist agencies had been felt that there was a dramatic shift in opinion of the Jewish immigrants - leading to events such as the Hebron massacre in 1929.
The fact that state sponsored Zionist terror agencies such as Lehi also collaborated with the Nazis and proposed an alliance against the British also does your argument little good.
Your link to the Nazis is a little mis-leading
"Contact with Nazi authorities
German covering letter from January 11 1941 attached to a description of an alleged offer made by Lehi for an alliance with Nazi Germany.In 1940, Lehi proposed intervening in World War II on the side of Nazi Germany. It offered assistance in "evacuating" the Jews of Europe, in return for Germany's help in expelling Britain from Mandate Palestine. Late in 1940, Lehi representative Naftali Lubenchik was sent to Beirut where he met the German official Werner Otto von Hentig. Lubenchik told Von Hentig that Lehi had not yet revealed its full power and that they were capable of organizing a whole range of anti-British operations.
On the assumption that the destruction of Britain was the Germans' top objective, the organization offered cooperation in the following terms: From the NMO side: full cooperation in sabotage, espionage and intelligence and up to wide military operations in the Middle East and in eastern Europe anywhere where the Irgun had Jewish cells, active and trained and in some places with weapons. From the German side, the following declarations and actions were demanded: (1) Full recognition in an independent Jewish state in Palestine/Eretz Israel (2) On the same level of importance and in practice, to allow all the Jews wishing so, or about to leave anyway from their place in Europe, by their own will or because of government injunctions, with no restrictions on their numbers, the ability to migrate to Palestine. For this purpose there was expressed a need to cancel any transfer plans of Jews to distant countries like Madagascar.[10]
On January 11, 1941 a letter was sent from Der Marvitz, the German Naval attaché in Ankara, depicting an offer to "actively take part in the war on Germany's side" in return for German support for "the establishment of the historic Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the German Reich".[11][12] There are three possibilities as to how the offer reached the German Naval attaché in Ankara. One is that en route to Germany, von Hentig was delayed in Ankara and delivered his version of the offer orally to Der Marvitz and Marvitz wrote the letter using his words. The second is that Colombani (a French general in the French intelligence) invented the offer because of personal rivaly between himself and other figures in Vichy: this rivalry is known from a paragraph in Der Marvitz's letter, "Colombani is of the opinion that his return to France is a consequence of co-operation of Conti with Minister Pierroton", or, third, that Colombani wanted the offer to fail: he had co-operated with the Jerusalem Mufti in Lebanon in 1938-1939 and was also the one who delivered him in his car in 1939 through Syria to the Iraqi border.
In any case, Der Marvitz delivered the offer, classified as secret, to the German Ambassador in Turkey and on January 21, 1941 it was sent to Berlin. There was never any response to the offer. Von Hentig would later say that he believed it was important to help the Jews establish a country. [13] [14] German plans such as the Madagascar Plan eventually failed and ultimately led the Nazis to initiate the Holocaust, the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" in 1942, but at the time of the Lehi proposal, this was still in the future."