I want to preface this by saying I hold no hate for anyone. We're all just a bunch of poor people trying not to get fucked by the rich people.
Another thing we all have in common is that most of us don't know enough actual history...
You can read 99.9% of this on the relative wikis and their subsequent sources. Easy enough to find.
So, here goes...
Quite a few people know about Irgun... Or, I think they do. If you don't, they were a zionist paramilitary group that operated in/around Palestine starting in 1931, fighting against Britain. They were an off-shoot of an older paramilitary group called Haganah which started in 1920... Who also fought the Brits.
Lehi was an off-shoot of Irgun, starting in 1940... Their main goal was to continue fighting, you guessed it, the British - just think of the implications of this.One of the very first things they attempted to do was ally with Nazi Germany and Italy against the British. But, they were rejected. So, they tried again... And were once again rejected.
Then, in 1942, their original leader was captured and executed by... The British.
Again, this was a zionist paramilitary organization, in other words, they were "Jews"... They were actively fighting against the people who were fighting to save them from the Germans not too far away... While, at the same time, trying to ally with the Germans...?
The fuck?
Lehi's whole thing was creating a state based on "nationalist and totalitarian principles, and linked to the German Reich by an alliance".... Which, when you think about it, is definitely something.
After their first leader was captured and executed, they decided to bring up 3 others. Most notably, Yitzhak Shamir. He sought to emulate the IRA and even took the name "Michael" in direct reference to Michael Collins, an IRA leader from 20 years prior.
Anyway... After numerous attacks in Palestine and abroad (such as the Dier Yassin massacre and the King David hotel bombing), they decided to off the UN Mediator in the 1948 war. The Mediator's name was Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish "nobleman" and diplomat. He personally secured the release of some 31000 prisoners from German concentration camps, primarily Jews. I guess that's one way of saying thanks..?
Irgun carried out their own fair share of atrocities as well, but they were quickly integrated into the IDF.
In response, the newly-formed Israel eventually declared Lehi a terrorist organization, rounded up 200 of its members, charged them, pardoned them, and then released them... And then integrated them directly into the IDF.
Enter Yitzhak again. Once everything was said and done, he decided intel was more his thing and joined the big M in 1955. After some time there, he decided politics was better and by 1975 he was PM of Israel for the Likud party.
Just as an aside here, Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi leaders, along with the "Movement for Greater Israel" party, in 1973. One can only assume that their aim was, still, to create a totalitarian nationalist country based on the concept of a "Greater Israel"... which they've seemingly done in a way. Big wall, undesirables mostly on the other side except for daily work permits, Trump Heights in the Golan, etc...
Fast-forward to today and Likud has been in power, off and on, for quite some time now. In fact, they're in power right now.
Do the math and let's hope this whole shituation doesn't devolve into WW3.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Again, I call out the US govt, and any others, in the same way I am here. It's about the govt, not the people.
I want to preface this by saying I hold no hate for anyone. We're all just a bunch of poor people trying not to get fucked by the rich people.
Another thing we all have in common is that most of us don't know enough actual history...
You can read 99.9% of this on the relative wikis and their subsequent sources. Easy enough to find.
So, here goes...
Quite a few people know about Irgun... Or, I think they do. If you don't, they were a zionist paramilitary group that operated in/around Palestine starting in 1931, fighting against Britain. They were an off-shoot of an older paramilitary group called Haganah which started in 1920... Who also fought the Brits.
Lehi was an off-shoot of Irgun, starting in 1940... Their main goal was to continue fighting, you guessed it, the British - just think of the implications of this.One of the very first things they attempted to do was ally with Nazi Germany and Italy against the British. But, they were rejected. So, they tried again... And were once again rejected.
Then, in 1942, their original leader was captured and executed by... The British.
Again, this was a zionist paramilitary organization, in other words, they were "Jews"... They were actively fighting against the people who were fighting to save them from the Germans not too far away... While, at the same time, trying to ally with the Germans...?
The fuck?
Lehi's whole thing was creating a state based on "nationalist and totalitarian principles, and linked to the German Reich by an alliance".... Which, when you think about it, is definitely something.
After their first leader was captured and executed, they decided to bring up 3 others. Most notably, Yitzhak Shamir. He sought to emulate the IRA and even took the name "Michael" in direct reference to Michael Collins, an IRA leader from 20 years prior.
Anyway... After numerous attacks in Palestine and abroad (such as the Dier Yassin massacre and the King David hotel bombing), they decided to off the UN Mediator in the 1948 war. The Mediator's name was Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish "nobleman" and diplomat. He personally secured the release of some 31000 prisoners from German concentration camps, primarily Jews. I guess that's one way of saying thanks..?
Irgun carried out their own fair share of atrocities as well, but they were mostly integrated into the IDF pretty early on.
In response, the newly-formed Israel eventually declared Lehi a terrorist organization, rounded up 200 of its members, charged them, pardoned them, and then released them... And then integrated them directly into the IDF.
Enter Yitzhak again. Once everything was said and done, he decided intel was more his thing and joined the big M in 1955. After some time there, he decided politics was better and by 1975 he was PM of Israel for the Likud party.
Just as an aside here, Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi leaders, along with the "Movement for Greater Israel" party, in 1973. One can only assume that their aim was, still, to create a totalitarian nationalist country based on the concept of a "Greater Israel"... which they've seemingly done in a way. Big wall, undesirables mostly on the other side except for daily work permits, Trump Heights in the Golan, etc...
Fast-forward to today and Likud has been in power, off and on, for quite some time now. In fact, they're in power right now.
Do the math and let's hope this whole shituation doesn't devolve into WW3.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Again, I call out the US govt, and any others, in the same way I am here. It's about the govt, not the people.
I want to preface this by saying I hold no hate for anyone. We're all just a bunch of poor people trying not to get fucked by the rich people.
Another thing we all have in common is that most of us don't know enough actual history...
You can read 99.9% of this on the relative wikis and their subsequent sources. Easy enough to find.
So, here goes...
Quite a few people know about Irgun... Or, I think they do. If you don't, they were a zionist paramilitary group that operated in/around Palestine starting in 1931, fighting against Britain. They were an off-shoot of an older paramilitary group called Haganah which started in 1920... Who also fought the Brits.
Lehi was an off-shoot of Irgun, starting in 1940... Their main goal was to continue fighting, you guessed it, the British - just think of the implications of this.One of the very first things they attempted to do was ally with Nazi Germany and Italy against the British. But, they were rejected. So, they tried again... And were once again rejected.
Then, in 1942, their original leader was captured and executed by... The British.
Again, this was a zionist paramilitary organization, in other words, they were "Jews"... They were actively fighting against the people who were fighting to save them from the Germans not too far away... While, at the same time, trying to ally with the Germans...?
The fuck?
Lehi's whole thing was creating a state based on "nationalist and totalitarian principles, and linked to the German Reich by an alliance".... Which, when you think about it, is definitely something.
After their first leader was captured and executed, they decided to bring up 3 others. Most notably, Yitzhak Shamir. He sought to emulate the IRA and even took the name "Michael" in direct reference to Michael Collins, an IRA leader from 20 years prior.
Anyway... After numerous attacks in Palestine and abroad (such as the Dier Yassin massacre and the King David hotel bombing), they decided to off the UN Mediator in the 1948 war. The Mediator's name was Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish "nobleman" and diplomat. He personally secured the release of some 31000 prisoners from German concentration camps, primarily Jews. I guess that's one way of saying thanks..?
In response, the newly-formed Israel eventually declared Lehi a terrorist organization, rounded up 200 of its members, charged them, pardoned them, and then released them... And then integrated them directly into the IDF.
Enter Yitzhak again. Once everything was said and done, he decided intel was more his thing and joined the big M in 1955. After some time there, he decided politics was better and by 1975 he was PM of Israel for the Likud party.
Just as an aside here, Likud was founded by Irgun and Lehi leaders, along with the "Movement for Greater Israel" party, in 1973. One can only assume that their aim was, still, to create a totalitarian nationalist country based on the concept of a "Greater Israel"... which they've seemingly done in a way. Big wall, undesirables mostly on the other side except for daily work permits, Trump Heights in the Golan, etc...
Fast-forward to today and Likud has been in power, off and on, for quite some time now. In fact, they're in power right now.
Do the math and let's hope this whole shituation doesn't devolve into WW3.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Again, I call out the US govt, and any others, in the same way I am here. It's about the govt, not the people.