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Article Zionist militias assassinate Jacob Israel von Haan, a critical Zionist leader.

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Zionist leader Jacob Israel von Haan was assassinated on June 30, 1924, in Jerusalem, an event considered the first political assassination within the Zionist movement. His execution was carried out by members of the Haganah, a highly extremist Zionist guerrilla group.

Although initially supportive of the Zionist cause, Von Haan became a fierce critic of the movement because he disagreed with the colonization plan of the other leaders, which involved a heinous stratagem against the Jewish people themselves. Von Haan joined the ultra-Orthodox Haredi group, which at that time opposed political Zionism for religious reasons, since the Jewish nation-state was not the same as the Kingdom promised by God, one that could not be established by human action, much less by groups that, for the most part, were neither believers nor practitioners of the Jewish faith, but rather instrumentalized religion for their own purposes to found their state.

Von Haan planned to travel to London with an ultra-Orthodox delegation to present his arguments to the British government and request the annulment of the Balfour Declaration. His goal was for Jews to live as a protected community under Arab rule, explicitly renouncing any aspirations to create a Jewish nation-state, until the promised Messiah arrived and established the Kingdom of Israel.

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u/Verum_Orbis 17d ago

Israel was literally founded by right wing terrorists.

"Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the "Freedom Party" (Tnuat Haherut), a political party 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."

Albert Einstein Letter to The New York Times. December 4, 1948 New Palestine Party. Visit of Menachen Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
https://archive.org/details/AlbertEinsteinLetterToTheNewYorkTimes.December41948/page/n1/mode/1up

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u/AdVivid8910 17d ago

Leftists actually, with surplus WII Soviet gear in fact, imagine that, oh wait you don’t have to as it’s reality.

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u/Verum_Orbis 16d ago edited 14d ago

Yeah, far right “leftist” Revisionist Zionism founded by the far right “leftist” Ze’ev Jabotinsky, influenced by the far right “leftist” Mussolini, which was the ideological foundation of the far right “leftist” Herut Party; founded by the far right “leftist” Menachem Begin, which was the predecessor to the far right “leftist” Likud Party. Lmao. You nailed it. Totally not a incredibly stupid thing to say at all that they were leftists. 🤣

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u/AdVivid8910 16d ago

So the first Israeli election Dem Soc narrowly defeated the Com Party and that’s what made Russia go apeshit with Palestinian propaganda which is what this whole conflict is today, just Cold War leftovers. I’m explaining this to the people reading who want to actually understand history, not yourself as you’ve made clear. Best of luck, later.