ADL defends Nazi salute - eviltoast
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    1 day ago

    Israel has a complex relationship with Nazis.

    During WW2, the Lehi terrorist organization actually tried to join in the war on the side of the Nazis.

    One of the men behind this initiative went onto become prime minister of Israel in the early 1980s.

    The Lehi terrorist organization folded into the IDF in 1949.

    Now, there was a philosopher who was a member of Lehi, he took Nazi ideology and sort of swapped master race and the undesirable race. God’s chosen people had to be the master race, and the Arabs who lived in on the land were declared to be undesirable.

    As a note, the Lehi prime minister was Netanyahu’s political mentor.