Few countries have actually repaid the US for what was expended in WWII
Well GB did. Every last f*cking sou. And even though it bankrupted us, as was the intention of the US Govt., it was worth it.
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Originally posted by: Steeplerot
And how long would a united europe make it under the very badly run nazis? Please, all empires fall. Hitler did not start killing jews until he was scared to death of the soviets knocking on the doors of germany itself. Actually hitler even TOLD the US to get these jews out of the new reich and if someone doesen't take em he washes his hands of what happens to them.
Guess what the response was from all the countries in the world? NO, (except cuba who said they wanted in effect "More whites" ) Where are the saviors of the repressed jewish population? Yeah, I remember the republicans were the isolationists while quite a few of them were making good money from trade with germany and wanted no immigrants, especially inferior jews. Same old conservative hypocracy diffrent age and lots of misinformation in other words the same old sh1t. Diffrent bush making $$$$ off of less wealthy and connected people far away.
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And what is even worse, is that the leaders of the Zionist movement in Palestine were, in many ways, worse than the Nazis.
"Ben Gourion, Israel's first head of State, declared outright to the "Labor" Zionists on December 7th 1938 :
"If I knew it was possible to save all the children in Germany by taking them to England, and only half of the children by taking them to Eretz Israel, I would choose the second solution. For we must take into account not only the lives of these children but also the history of the people of Israel."
"Must we help all those who need it without taking into account the characteristics of each one? Must we not give this action a national Zionist character and attempt to give priority to the saving of those who can be useful to the Land of Israel and to Judaism? I know it may seem cruel to pose the question in this way, but unfortunately we must establish clearly that if we are able to save 10,000 people out of the 50,000 people who can contribute to the construction of the land and to the national rebirth, or else a million Jews who will become a burden for us or at best a dead weight, we must restrict ourselves to the saving of the 10,000 who can be saved - despite the accusations and the appeals of the million left behind."
Source : Memorandum of the "Salvation Committee" of the Jewish Agency. 1943.
"We must separate the Jews into two categories, the Zionists and the partisans of assimilation. The Zionists profess a strictly racial concept and, through emigration to Palestine, they help to build their own Jewish State...our good wishes and our official goodwill go with them."
Reinhardt Heydrich 1935
The policy of collaboration reached its apogee in 1941, when the most extremist Zionist group, the "LEHI" ("Fighters for the Liberation of Israel"), led by Abraham Stern and, after his death, by a triumvirate of which Itzak Shamir was a member, committed " an unforgivable crime from the moral point of view : advocating an alliance with Hitler, with Nazi Germany, against Great Britain."
"Haaretz" quotes a letter marked "secret", sent in January 1941 by Hitler's ambassador to Ankara, Franz Von Papen, to his superiors. In it, he described his contacts with the members of the Stern Gang, joining a memorandum by the Nazi secret service agent in Damas, Werner Otto Von Hentig, regarding the negotiations with the envoys of Stern and Shamir. The memo said, notably : "cooperation between the Israel liberation movement and the new order in Europe conform with one of the speeches of the Chancellor of the Third Reich, in which Hitler stressed the need to use every combination of coalition to isolate and defeat England." It also said that the Stern Gang had "close links with the totalitarian movements in Europe, their ideology and structures." These documents are to be found at the Holocaust Memorial (Yad Vachem) in Jerusalem, classified under the number E234151-8.
The negotiations stopped abruptly when the Allied troops arrested the emissary of Stern and Shamir in June 1941. The emissary, Naftali Loubentchik, was actually arrested in the Nazi secret service office at Damascus. Other members of the group continued to have contacts with the Nazis until the arrest by the British authorities of Izhak Shamir in December 1941 for "terrorism and collaboration with the Nazi enemy."
Such a past did not prevent Izhak Shamir from becoming Prime Minister.
"In 1940, to arouse indignation against the English, who had decided to save the Jews threatened by Hitler by taking them to Mauritius, the Zionist leaders of the "Hagannah" (led by Ben Gurion) did not hesitate to blow up the ship when it called at Haifa on December 25th 1940, causing the death of 252 Jews and English crew-members."
And, it seems, not a lot has changed in Israel.