Former Israeli PM Yitzhak Shamir was a fascist:
<<< ... After the bloody downfall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, instead of celebrating the emergence of democracy in Eastern Europe, Yitzhak Shamir chose to argue in a public speech that the lesson to be learned from the anti-Ceausescu revolution is that "we have to prevent similar political chaos and anarchy" in Israel.
It was therefore not surprising that the first cheer that was heard outside the Soviet Union in support of the anti-Gorbachev coup attempt within the Kremlin was that of Israel's prime minister.
While US media focused on alleged Iraqi and Palestinian elation over Gorbachev's apparent downfall, the Israeli press reported that Shamir told close aides he hoped the coup leaders would impose "order" in the Soviet Union, facilitate Soviet Jewish immigration to Israel, help Israel against the emerging Arab-American alliance, and work with it against Islamic fundamentalism.
This fantasy of an alliance between neoStalinism and militant Zionism sounds familiar to those who have followed Shamir's political career. During the 1940s, he was a leader of Lehi, a Jewish underground organization. It was known as the "Stern Gang" to British authorities, against whom it conducted terrorist acts in the Middle East throughout World War II while it attempted to develop alliances with fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
Indeed, there was a major difference between Shamir's Lehi and the Irgun Zvei Leumi, another underground extremist group. With the outbreak of World War II, the Irgun declared a cease-fire in its activities against British targets and some of its leaders joined British military and intelligence units to fight the Nazis. It resumed its anti-British attacks only after the tide had turned against the German-Italian axis.
Lehi, led by Avraham Stern until he was killed by the British, never abandoned its strong anti-British and anti-Western position, even as Nazi armies swept into nearby Greece and threatened Cairo. The group's initial goal was to form an alliance between Zionism and the Axis Powers.
According to well-documented evidence collected by Hebrew University professor Yehuda Bauer, the Lehi leaders first approached representatives of fascist Italy and proposed a "Mediterranean Treaty," according to which an independent Hebrew state in Palestine would help Italy achieve total strategic and commercial domination in the Mediterranean region.
When the overtures to the Italians elicited no serious response from Rome, Stern and his colleagues dispatched a representative to meet in Lebanon in early 1941 with a German agent. They later sent the German Embassy in Ankara a detailed proposal for Zionist-Nazi cooperation. The Lehi proposal offered to help the Germans force the British out of Palestine in return for permission to establish a Jewish state there to which European Jewry would be transferred by the Nazis. This fantastic plan emphasized the "common nationalist and totalitarian bonds" between Nazi ideology and Lehi's revisionist Zionism ... >>>
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This is similar to Israel's ties to South Africa, which were openly admitted to be rooted in ideological agreement.
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