Would a Jewish leader like Zelensky ever collaborate with Nazis?
Pro tip: Learn yer history
As World War II broke out, the main right-wing Jewish organization fighting the British mandate in then-Palestine was a group called Irgun Zvai Leumi, inspired by the ideas of “moderate” Zionist Zev Jabotinsky (a moderate in that he only sought territory on “both sides of the River Jordan”).
However, at the outset of the war, when Jabotinsky agreed to suspend military operations against Britain and even hinted at cooperating with them against the Nazis, Avraham Stern broke with Jabotinsky and formed the Stern Gang, “calling for a state that extended from the Nile to the Euphrates and proposing an alliance with Hitler to bring this about,” according to journalist Christopher Hitchens. Stern’s loyal deputy and eventual successor was none other than Yitzhak Yezernitsky, later known as Yitzhak Shamir.
In the fall of 1940, Stern met with one of Mussolini’s agents in Jerusalem. By January 1941, he put out feelers to the Nazis and dispatched an agent to meet with two of Hitler’s emissaries in Beirut.
“Stern’s proposal,” explained Hitchens, “which was rashly put in writing, began by establishing his ideological common ground with Nazism (emphasis added), expressing sympathy with the Hitlerite goal of a Jew-free Europe and speaking of ‘the goodwill of the German Reich government toward Zionist activity inside Germany and towards the Zionist emigration plans.’”
Stern proposed the “establishment of the historical Jewish state on a national and totalitarian basis” and offered that he, Shamir, and the rest of the Stern Gang would “actively take part in the war on Germany’s side.”
As a result of this proposed alliance, Hitchens notes, members of Stern’s group would react favorably — in public — to any news of Nazi victories. Even well into 1941, after Stern was killed in a shoot-out and as more and more became known of Nazi racial policies, Shamir took control of the Stern Gang — never renouncing its support for Hitler. Despite all this, in 1986, Yitzhak Shamir became Prime Minister of Israel.
Et tu, Zelensky?
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One of the problems we face is that most folks knowledge of history is confined to propagandistic myth history. Hence, when confronted with the ugly reality of actual history these folks are likely to reject myth-shattering empirical reality for the comfort of conventional myth history which, in turn, facilitates their ability to go along to get along. In many ways, B.S. is the glue which binds society together.
There is a serious problem in regards to the Ukraine which is not being discussed. It is the extent to which Zionist ideology influences imperial foreign policy. A deeply held conviction of many Zionists is that had the early Zionists been more rational and moderated their demands, Israel would never have come into being as a Jewish state. They believe that the actions of radical Zionist zealots from groups such as the Stern Gang were instrumental in the creation of the Jewish state. The lesson for them was that moderation leads to failure whereas uncompromising aggressiveness will eventually prevail over the rational foe. As such, they tend to always escalate if they have the means to do so. I fear that imperial policy in the Ukraine is being driven by irrational fatalism.