While a pro-Israel statement from a neo-Nazi organization may at first seem contradictory, I'm not so sure it is. After all, they're supporting Jews in Israel. This would be quite similar in word and spirit to the KKK announcing it's support for black folks in, say, Liberia. "Not in my back yard, for racists."
Very interesting. Wonder what would've happened if Hitler hadn't gone all anti-Jew and instead, co-opted their support with the promise of returning them to their homeland? Of course, that might've limited his rise to power as well. Dunno...
Well, that and if he would've let his military actually plan the war rather than directing things himself.
Posted by: Ron on June 11, 2008 08:35 AMYou pretty much describe how the Bolshevik Revolution recruited Jews in Russia. They didn't need that much convincing, seeing as how the Tzars had just published "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," but they ended up being the first against the wall anyhow when Lenin failed to deliver on his promises in the aftermath.
It's hard to say how Hitler could have done the same, as the Nazi party was founded to stand against the "false promise" of Lenin's communism, and everyone knew the Bolsheviks would have never succeeded without economic support from Russian Jews (while relatively few knew that the same Jews were now being hanged by the hundreds). In the early stages of forming a cult, you have to stay on message; only after everyone is too deeply invested to quit can you pull stunts like Hitler's declaring the Japanese to be "yellow Arayans."
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on June 11, 2008 11:42 AM