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Introduction: Controversy in both Israel and the United States has surrounded the impending appearance by Benjamin Netanyahu before the U.S. Congress. The appearance stems from an invitation by House Speaker John Boehner, who was obviously moving to undercut and embarass Barack Obama.
Like the GOP, which has incorprated fascists and Nazis into its ranks, the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu is no stranger to fascism.
This broadcast reviews and updates past and present links between the Israeli right-wing and fascist elements of various stripes.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s political views have evolved from those of his father, who was personal secretary to Vladimir Jabotinsky, head of the Betar, a fascist element within the Zionist movement.
Excerpting Miscellaneous Archive Show M30, the program sets forth the fascist ideology of “Ze’ev” (nee “Vladimir” Jabotinsky). (The program was recorded in the fall of 1983.) The text is excerpted from Alexander Cockburn’s article “History as the Propaganda of the Victors” in The Village Voice of 10/12/1982.
The program notes that Jabotinsky’s Betar: took military training under the auspices of Mussolini; had its cadre reviewed by Il Duce; saw their alliance with Mussolini as one of ideology not mere convenience; supported Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia; felt that Zionism should manifest itself as a form of fascism (underscoring the superiority of European peoples over the darker-skinned races).
Links between the Likud and Italian fascism have continued to this day. Next, we review the discussion of a 1998 congress of the AN, the Italian Fascist Party that is the direct lineal descendant of and heir to Mussolini’s blackshirts. Present at that meeting were GOP Representative Bob Young, representing the Republican Party, and Udi Cohen, representing the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu. (This excerpt is taken from FTR #94, recorded on 5/5/1998.)
The recent meeting of an Israeli cabinet minister with a prominent Swedish fascist is the latest example of a long-standing feature of the behavior of that country’s political right wing. Israelis and Zionists from the right side of the political spectrum have maintained contact and interaction with elements of the fascist international. In particular, members of the Likud and other Israeli far-right parties have conducted political interface with European Nazis and fascists.
Another right-wing Israeli political contingent has reached out to European fascists. Communing with Russian fascists, the “National Unity” bloc has impressed the leader of the National Democratic Alliance, who feels the two groups have much in common.
Following on the heels of an Iraeli deputy minister’s schmoozing with a prominent Swedish neo-fascist financier, Aryeh Eldad’s hobnobbing with Ilya Lazarenko perpetuates the disturbing pattern of Zionist/fascist interface dating back to the pre-World War II period.
Recapping more material from Miscellaneous Archive Show M30, the program details the abortive relationship between the Haganah and the SS. Prior to the Wannsee Conference and the commencement of the “Final Solution,” the SS and the Haganah actually formed an alliance to cooperate in promoting Jewish emigration to Palestine. This aborted cooperation was adopted to make Germany “Judenrein” (“Jew-Free”) and to drive a wedge into the British holdings in the Middle East.
We conclude by looking at the influence of the remarkable and deadly Bormann capital network in Israel. Contributing both directly from Latin America and through donations made through Jewish businessmen incorporated into the Bormann machine, the network is among the clandestine players in Israeli politics.
Program Highlights Include: Pre-war networking between Adolph Eichmann and elements of the Haganah; review of the GOP’s Nazi element; review of the role of Otto von Bolschwing in forming the GOP’s Nazi element; a synoptic overview on the absurdity of calling Israel and/or the Zionist movement as a whole “fascist.”
1a. Benjamin Netanyahu’s political views have evolved from those of his father, who was personal secretary to Vladimi Jabotinsky, head of the Betar, a fascist element within the Zionist movement.
Historian Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the father of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the man said to have had the most profound influence on the conservative Israeli leader, died early Monday in his Jerusalem home. He was 102.
The elder Netanyahu served as the personal secretary of Zionism’s prominent Revisionist leader, Zeev Jabotinsky, in the United States during World War II, lobbying for the creation of a Jewish state. He also pursued his academic work, specializing in medieval Spanish Jewry and the roots of the Spanish Inquisition.
Many attribute the prime minister’s deep convictions and interest in history to his father’s unwavering hawkish beliefs; the Revisionist movement differed sharply from the socialist Zionists of the early 20th century and did not believe in partitioning what was Palestine during the British mandate into separate Jewish and Arab states. . . .
1b. More about the influence of the elder Netanyahu on his son:
. . . .But in recent decades Israeli politics came to be dominated by the Likud, the party founded on the philosophy of Ze’ev Jabotinksy, the man Benzion Netanyahu went to America to serve as secretary, and whose vision he carried on after Jabotinsky’s death. The ideology called for a “Greater Israel” that stretched across not only the West Bank but even across what is today Jordan, land regarded as promised to the Jews in the view of Revisionist Zionism, as the movement was known. It was a robust, even militaristic movement that called for an “iron wall” between the newly founded state and the Arabs surrounding it. . . .
1c. Excerpting Miscellaneous Archive Show M30, the program sets forth the fascist ideology of “Ze’ev” (nee “Vladimir” Jabotinsky). (The program was recorded in the fall of 1983.) The text is excerpted from Alexander Cockburn’s article “History as the Propaganda of the Victors” in The Village Voice of 10/12/1982.
The program notes that Jabotinsky’s Betar: took military training under the auspices of Mussolini; had its cadre reviewed by Il Duce; saw their alliance with Mussolini as one of ideology not mere convenience; supported Mussolini’s invasion of Ethiopia; felt that Zionism should manifest itself as a form of fascism (underscoring the superiority of European peoples over the darker-skinned races).
2. Next, we review the discussion of a 1998 congress of the AN, the Italian Fascist Party that is the direct lineal descendant of and heir to Mussolini’s blackshirts. Present at that meeting were GOP Representative Bob Young, representing the Republican Party, and Udi Cohen, representing the Likud Party of Benjamin Netanyahu. (This excerpt is taken from FTR #94, recorded on 5/5/1998.)
3. The recent meeting of an Israeli cabinet minister with a prominent Swedish fascist is the latest example of a long-standing feature of the behavior of that country’s political right wing. Israelis and Zionists from the right side of the political spectrum continue to maintain contact and interaction with elements of the fascist international. In particular, members of the Likud and other Israeli far-right parties have conducted political interface with European Nazis and fascists. Note that Ayoob Kara also met with the head of the Austrian Freedom Party, the neo-fascist party formerly headed up by Jurg Haider.
“Deputy Minister Meets neo-Nazi Millionaire” by Eldad Beck; ynetnews.com; 7/4/2011.
Deputy Minister Ayoob Kara met with Swedish-German millionaire Patrik Brinkmann who has ties with German neo-Nazi groups in Berlin over the weekend, Yedioth Ahronoth reported.
Brinkmann, who is trying to establish a far-right anti-Islamic party in Germany claims he is not an anti-Semite, however his previous close contacts with the German neo-Nazi party (NPD) and his past membership in another neo-Nazi party raise questions regarding his ideology.
Brinkmann, 44, made his fortune in the Swedish real estate business in the 1980s before becoming mixed in tax problems in his home country. As legal battles were going on he used the majority of his finances for the establishment of two research foundations which became closely affiliated with far-right and neo-Nazi elements in Germany. . . .
. . . Several months ago, Kara met with Austrian Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache who was once active in neo-Nazi groups. . . .
4. Another right-wing Israeli political contingent has reached out to European fascists. Communing with Russian fascists, the “National Unity” bloc has impressed the leader of the National Democratic Alliance, who feels the two groups have much in common.
Following on the heels of an Iraeli deputy minister’s schmoozing with a prominent Swedish neo-fascist financier, Aryeh Eldad’s hobnobbing with Ilya Lazarenko perpetuates the disturbing pattern of Zionist/fascist interface dating back to the pre-World War II period.
Russian nationalists met in Israel with right-wing Zionists.
One of the leaders of Russia’s National Democratic Alliance, who visited Israel together with his colleagues at the invitation of religious-right-wing Zionists, came to the conclusion that the two political forces have a lot in common ...
Since last week, in Israel there is a group of moderate [ethnic] Russian nationalists from Russia, arrived here at the invitation of the religious-right bloc “Ihud ha-Leumi” (“National Unity”). The leaders of an interregional public association of the National Democratic Alliance (established in March 2010) made several trips to the Holy Land, visited the Knesset, and the memorial complex “Yad Vashem”. Following the visit, co-chairman of the movement Ilya Lazarenko came to the conclusion that the Russian nationalists and right-wing Zionists have much in common. “We are very much in common, and first of all — rejection of violent Islamism, which is a threat to civilization — he said to the portal IzRus. — We also have some ideological overlap associated with the objectives of nation-building and its operation.” . . . .
5. Recapping more material from Miscellaneous Archive Show M30, the program details the abortive relationship between the Haganah and the SS. Prior to the Wannsee Conference and the commencement of the “Final Solution,” the SS and the Haganah actually formed an alliance to cooperate in promoting Jewish emigration to Palestine. This aborted cooperation was adopted to make Germany “Judenrein” (“Jew-Free”) and to drive a wedge into the British holdings in the Middle East.
Two of the key SS officers involved in coordinating this alliance were Adolph Eichmann and Otto von Bolschwing.
6a. Bormann’s business operations have included Jewish participants as a matter of strategic intent. In turn, this has given the Bormann organization considerable influence in Israel. The excerpts are read from FTR #305.
. . . .Since the founding of Israel, the Federal Republic of Germany had paid out 85.3 billion marks, by the end of 1977, to survivors of the Holocaust. East Germany ignores any such liability. From South America, where payment must be made with subtlety, the Bormann organization has made a substantial contribution. It has drawn many of the brightest Jewish businessmen into a participatory role in the development of many of its corporations, and many of these Jews share their prosperity most generously with Israel. If their proposals are sound, they are even provided with a specially dispensed venture capital fund. I spoke with one Jewish businessman in Hartford, Connecticut. He had arrived there quite unknown several years before our conversation, but with Bormann money as his leverage. Today he is more than a millionaire, a quiet leader in the community with a certain share of his profits earmarked, as always, for his venture capital benefactors. This has taken place in many other instances across America and demonstrates how Bormann’s people operate in the contemporary commercial world, in contrast to the fanciful nonsense with which Nazis are described in so much ‘literature.’ So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an Argentine safe haven, protected by the most efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being. Personal invitation is the only way to reach him. . . .
6b. The program relates an incident in which organized crime kingpin Meyer Lansky tried to blackmail the Bormann group, which resulted in his removal from Israel.
. . . . .A revealing insight into this international financial and industrial network was given me by a member of the Bormann organization residing in West Germany. Meyer Lansky, he said, the financial advisor to the Las Vegas—Miami underworld sent a message to Bormann through my West German SS contact. Lansky promised that if he received a piece of Bormann’s action he would keep the Israeli agents off Bormann’s back. ‘I have a very good relation with the Israeli secret police’ was his claim, although he was to be kicked out of Israel when his presence became too noted—and also at the urging of Bormann’s security chief in South America. At the time Lansky was in the penthouse suite of Jerusalem’s King David Hotel, in which he owned stock. He had fled to Israel to evade a U.S. federal warrant for his arrest. He sent his message to Bormann through his bag man in Switzerland, John Pullman, also wanted in the United States on a federal warrant. Lansky told Pullman to make this offer ‘which he can’t refuse.’ The offer was forwarded to Buenos Aires, where it was greeted with laughter. When the laughter died down, it was replaced with action. Meyer was evicted from Israel and was told by Swiss authorities to stay out of their country, so he flew to South America. There he offered any president who would give him asylum a cool $1 million in cash. He was turned down everywhere and had to continue his flight to Miami, where U.S. marshals, alerted, were waiting to take him into custody. . . .
Fascism and the Dangers of Economic Concentration
Great collage of older broadcasts weaving them together though time.
As Dave’s said, quoting William Faulkner: ‘the past is not dead it is not even past.’
The Zionist Movement originated as one of two ways to deal with the antisemitism that flourished in Europe as a response to the framing of Dreyfus. The Zionists, in effect, sided with the antisemites in agreeing with them that Jews don’t belong in European countries, but instead should have their own separate country. The Jewish socialists, on the other hand, went on to form the Jewish Bund or joined multi-ethnic socialist organizations. Of course, there were also non-Zionist, non-socialist Haskalah (renaissance) Jews, and devoutly religious Jews who were neither. The main avowed enemy of Hitler’s Nazis wasn’t the Jews, as much as the Nazis embraced and augmented the already rampant antisemitism among Catholics and Lutherans, but Marxism. This can be seen from the huge banner draping Hitler’s first public speech as Chancellor of Germany, which reads, “Make Germany Marxism-free!”, NOT “Make Germany Jew-free!”, here (at the 5:00 minute mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnpTWKKWQ1o&t=05m00s
@ Atlanta Bill–
A more complete examination of this topic is contained in FTR #838 http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-838-interview-1-with-peter-levenda-about-the-hitler-legacy/
and FTR # 839 http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-839-interview-2-with-peter-levenda-about-the-hitler-legacy/
Best,
Dave
@ Dave Emory -
Thanks. I’ve heard both interviews, in fact all 10 of them. I have the links in a text file handy for copying and pasting into comments. They’re terrific, and I think you should be commended for deferring so much to Peter since you’ve been researching the topic for so much longer than he has, and for holding back and letting him do the talking. The interesting thing about Peter is that it was serendipitous personal encounters that got him interested in the Underground Reich; gives him credibility, even more than the tone of sincerity that he projects. It was watching videos of Peter’s earlier interviews and presentations that had me searching for more on the topic in the way he laid it out, which in a very short time led me to you and Spitfire List.
[You needn’t post this]
Here’s a pair of stories that highlights one of the more unexpected forces that has helped fuel the growth of government-backed Holocaust revisionism and denial across Eastern Europe: the de facto endorsement of this trend by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
First, here’s an article about the criticisms Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is receiving for his warm welcome to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis of Lithuania, one of the European countries that’s most aggressively embraced Holocaust revisionism in recent years. Part of the reason for this criticism is that it comes a week after Netanyahu gave a similar warm welcome to Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine where Holocaust revisionism has been rampant and backed by the state. And then there’s Netanyahu’s backing of Viktor Orban in Hungary and the leaders of Poland. So, basically, there’s nothing these European countries can do in terms of official Holocaust revisionism that would cause Netanhayu to refuse rolling out the red carpet for the leaders who are presiding over these policies. But as the article notes, there are some groups Netanyahu will criticize for anti-Semitism: Muslims and left-wingers:
““It’s unforgivable. Netanyahu is giving them a green light,” said Efraim Zuroff, the chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. “It’s like praising the Ku Klux Klan for improving racial relations in the South.””
It’s like praising the Ku Klux Klan for improving racial relations in the South. That’s a pretty good way to describe Netanyahu’s warm embrace of one EU leader after another who is currently leading the way on the official Holocaust revisionism sweeping Europe. But it’s particularly egregious in the case of Lithuania, where laws now exist to ban any mention of the role local populations played in the murder of nearly all of the country’s Jews:
When Netanyahu visited Lithuania last year, he praised Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis for taking “great steps to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust” and for fighting modern-day anti-Semitism. And Skvernelis returned the perverse favor when visiting Israel list week and declaring that “Lithuania has been learning the lessons of the past” and was “improving the life of the Jewish community and restoring historical sites”:
And then there’s the warm welcome given to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko last week at the same time Ukraine was erecting a memorial to Symon Petliura in Kiev. As the article notes, for countries’s engaged in the kind of crass overt Holocaust denial like Lithuania and Ukraine, a warm embrace by Netanyahu is exactly what they needed to defend against accusation of anti-Semitism:
And we can’t forget Netanyahu’s close ties to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the leaders of Poland. It’s like a giant act of malicious trolling and Netanyahu is leading it:
But Netanyahu does at least condemn some instances of anti-Semitism...as long as it comes from Muslims or left-wingers:
So as we can see, Benjamin Netanyahu has more or less given his blessing to the increasingly aggressive Holocaust denial and revisionism sweeping Eastern Europe.
And in related news, Benjamin Netanyanhu claims to be very concerned about polls showing both rising anti-Semitism in Europe and that a third of respondents barely knew anything about the Holocaust at all
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has joined lawmakers and leading figures involved in the fight against anti-Semitism by saying he is “concerned” about the results of CNN’s investigation into European attitudes toward Jews.”
It’s quite a mystery. Despite giving aid and comfort to the EU leaders leading the way on distorting the history of the Holocaust, Netanyahu claims to be very concerned and points to the importance of education.
But putting Netanyahu’s hypocrisy aside, this was a pretty shocking poll, with a third claiming to know little or nothing at all about the Holocaust and 31% believing that commemorating the Holocaust distracts from other atrocities and injustices today:
So we’ll see how this current wave of government-backed Holocaust revisionism plays out, but we can be confident that the European politicians leading this effort will have at least one friend in Israel no matter how bad this gets.
@Pterrafractyl–
This is Netanyahu being Netanyahu.
Loyal to his roots: http://spitfirelist.com/news/team-netanyahu-and-thyssenkrupp-bormann-jews-in-action/
Bibi’s father, Benzion Netanyahu was the personal secretary to Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of the Betar–the primary fascist element in the Zionist movement.
Jabotinsky was an ally of the pogromist butcher Semion Petlyura, whose statue is being erected in Kiev.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/jabotinsky-s-embarrassing-offer‑1.280234
Not surprising to see Netanyahu acting like this.
Best,
Dave