History Forum / General / General Topics / September 2004

   Ah yes, those warrior Jews from Palestine.  But it seems they
really didn't get into the fight. Here's a little excerpt from a
famous Israel-promoting site:

   "The Jewish Brigade Group of the British army, which fought under
the Zionist flag, was formally established in September 1944. It
included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Palestine organized
into three infantry battalions and several supporting units. Under the
command of Brigadier Ernest Benjamin, the Jewish Brigade fought
against the Germans in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war
in May 1945."

   The Israeli Jews didn't get start operations in Italy until March
1945, long after the Germans had abandoned Italy and were in full
retreat.  So the Jews really did no fighting but instead did what they
intended all along:

 "Brigade members also became involved in organizing the flight of
Jewish refugees from eastern Europe and their clandestine entry into
Palestine. Individual soldiers acquired arms for the Hagana, the major
Jewish underground defense organization in Palestine."

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005275

   Getting more guns for the Israeli thugs, that's what the Israeli
brigade did in World War II.  Fighting the Germans was never high on
the list of Israeli priorities.  Fighting the British was the central
aim. As early as January, 1941, the head of "Fighters for the Freedom
of Israel" actually made an offer to the German Foreign Office to
fight on the German side in the war. The Germans scoffed at the offer,
but the Israeli Jews attacked the British in Palestine anyway.

  That great Jewish hero, Menachem Begin, never did fight the
Germans. Instead he formed the Irgun and in February 1944, while the
war in Europe raged, Begin publicly proclaimed a revolt against the
British. On February 12, 1944, Jewish Irgun fighters attacked British
immigration offices in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Haifa.  While the Jews
were killing British soldiers in Palestine, the British 4th Parachute
Division sustained 1,400 casualties at Anzio fighting the Germans.

   On May 17, 1944, over 40 armed Jewish terrorists attacked the
British government broadcasting station at Ramallah. Then in July,
Jews blew up the office of the district British Intelligence in
Jerusalem killing a British officer and wounding another. By that
time, British Empire casualties from the war in Europe came to 282,162
killed, 80,580 missing, 386,374 wounded and 294,438 captured. Those
brave Israeli warriors couldn't have cared less.