Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created [occupation of Palestine] of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the […] Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.
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Within the Jewish community they have preached an admixture of ultranationalism, religious mysticism, and racial superiority. Like other Fascist parties they have been used to break strikes, and have themselves pressed for the destruction of free trade unions. In their stead they have proposed corporate unions on the Italian Fascist model.
During the last years of sporadic anti-British violence, the IZL and Stern groups inaugurated a reign of terror in the Palestine Jewish community. Teachers were beaten up for speaking against them, adults were shot for not letting their children join them. By gangster methods, beatings, window-smashing, and wide-spread robberies, the terrorists intimidated the population and exacted a heavy tribute.
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[The neocolony] has a terrorism problem which has been part and parcel of Zionism even before the state was founded. It’s there every time Benjamin Netanyahu waxes moral, declaring that the Palestinians erect monuments to their terrorists, while we build tributes to peace.
Consider, as but one example of thousands, Netanyahu’s meticulously produced video statement with which he opened this school year, excoriating Palestinians for building monuments to honor terrorists who killed Jews.
“Children should be taught to love and respect, not hate and kill,” Netanyahu intones, his palms clasped in sincerity.
“There are so many champions of peace to dedicate statues to. Why do the Palestinians consistently choose to honor mass murderers?”
What Netanyahu did not say, was that entire Birthright trips could be built around the plaques and monuments which [the neocolony] has erected in recent years to honor the bombings and other terrorist killings committed by the members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and Lehi pre-state underground groups — not to mention the highways, boulevards, schools, and town squares named for the armed bands’ respective commanders in chief — the late […] prime ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.
(Emphasis added. I know that it doesn’t bother anticommunists to act like hypocritical dipshits, but my eyes still widened seeing Benjamin Netanyahu—of all bipeds—condemning somebody else for honouring alleged mass murderers. I can’t think of any other time when an anticommunist behaved so audaciously.)
Click here for events that happened today (February 1).
1890: Nikolai Reek, Axis collaborator, was sadly born.
1908: Mamoru Shinozaki, Axis official, existed.
1923: The PNF established the paramilitary Blackshirt legions.
1932: Imperial carrier Hosho and the Japanese Navy Destroyer Division 3 arrived off Shanghai to support the battles in the city.
1933: Berlin made Walther von Brauchitsch the commanding officer of the East Prussian Military District (Wehrkreis I) and Chief of the 1st Division based in Königsberg.
1934: Berlin promoted Werner Mölders to the rank of Oberfähnrich as Ernst Röhm suggested to the Reich Defence Council that his SA should take over all defence duties and that the German Army be relegated to the task of training his men.
1937: The construction work for slip III at Deutsche Werke Kiel AG in Germany commenced.
1938: Berlin promoted Robert von Greim to the rank of Generalmajor while Tōkyō named Koichi Shiozawa the Japanese 5th Fleet’s commanding officer.
1939: The Fascists commissioned Granatiere into service while Berlin promoted Georg von Bismarck to the rank of Oberst and Lieutenant Commander Wilhelm Fröhlich took command of U‐36.
1940: SS‐Reichsführer Himmler ordered inspections of potential sites for a planned concentration camp. Among those inspected was the camp at Oswiecim, Poland (known in both English and German as Auschwitz). Rome made Arturo Riccardi Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the Crown of Italy as Berlin awarded Hans‐Joachim Marseille the Pilot’s Badge and Fascist submarine U‐59 sank British coaler Ellen M. east of Southwold, Suffolk, England, slaughtering the entire crew of nine.
1941: The Axis lost Agordat, Eritrea and Metemma, Ethiopia while the Kriegsmarine issued the order for scout cruiser SP1 (later renamed Z40) and Berlin named Oberstleutnant Benno Kosch the commanding officer of the German Kampfgeschwader 55 wing. Likewise, Axis submarine U‐48 sank Greek ship Nicolas Angelos.
1942: Vidkun Quisling formed his collaborationist régime in Norway as Axis troops reached Singapore and Tanikaze began escorting carriers in the Central Pacific Ocean. Cruiser Köln likewise began four months of repairs and refits in Wilhelmshaven.
1943: At Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland, SS personnel selected twenty Jewish prisoners who were already working at the crematorium in Auschwitz I and readied them for work in the nearly complete crematoria in Birkenau. As of this month, 1,622,000 prisoners of war and 4,121,000 foreigners were now serving as neoslaves in the Third Reich. Cruiser Köln departed a German port for the Baltic Sea as Imperial destroyers started evacuating Axis troops from Guadalcanal and the Axis renamed the Chancellor’s special train Amerika to Brandenburg.
1944: The Axis openen a new satellite camp of Auschwitz III (Monowitz), located at the Guenthergrube in Ledziny, Poland. This new satellite camp would house three hundred prisoners for coal mining for the Axis industrial firm I. G. Farben. On the other hand, the Axis lost SS commander Franz Kutschera at the intersection of Aleje Ujazdowskie and Piusa XI Street in Warsaw to Polish insurgents, and the Wehrmacht’s 44th Infantry Division fell back near the Rapido River toward Monte Cassino, Italy as Axis positions on Ebeye Island suffered Allied shelling.
1945: The Axis lost Remscheid to the Western Allies while it transferred U‐1234 to the 4th Flotilla and its railway viaduct at Mannheim experienced Allies bombardment. The Ki‐100 aircraft took its maiden flight while the Imperial Japanese Tenth Area Army formed within itself the Taiwan District Army with the former commanding officer General Rikichi Ando (of the former Taiwan Army) at its head.
1946: To their surprise, Friedrich Paulus and Erich Buschenhagen became obligated to serve as witnesses for the Nürnberg trials.
1957: Friedrich Paulus passed away in Dresden.
1969: Prince Morihiro succumbed to lung cancer while in Tōkyō.