"" When Menachem Begin first visited the United States in December 1948, a
host of Jewish notables including Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, Irma Lindheim
(former president of Hadassah), Seymour Melman (former president of the Student
Zionist Federation) and the biblical scholar Harry Orlinsky wrote to the New
York Times to issue a warning about the Herut (Freedom) Party that Begin
led. Herut, they wrote, was “closely akin in its organization, methods,
political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was
formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a
terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine.” [1]
This opinion was not on the fringe. When the Irgun set off a bomb in a Haifa market killing dozens of Arabs in 1938, the future prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, could not believe that Jews would commit such a heinous act. He believed Nazi agents were responsible. [2]" Oh, spare me the fake moral outrage of Ben-Gurion. His groups later committed worse atrocities, by far.
This opinion was not on the fringe. When the Irgun set off a bomb in a Haifa market killing dozens of Arabs in 1938, the future prime minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, could not believe that Jews would commit such a heinous act. He believed Nazi agents were responsible. [2]" Oh, spare me the fake moral outrage of Ben-Gurion. His groups later committed worse atrocities, by far.
