Re: [Marxism] Norman Cantor

[Jim Farmelant <farmelantj@xxxxxxxx>]

Norman Cantor, as I recall was rather sympathetic with the Zionist
right in Israel but he nevertheless didn't mince words in
describing the political outlooks that the Revisionist Zionists
had in the 1930s and 1940s.

Thus in his book *The American Century,* he noted that:

 "The right-wing Zionists of the interwar era went so
 far from ghetto and shtetl culture as to develop an
 affinity for fascism.  This group was led by the Polish
 intellectual Ze'ev Jabotinsky and became well known
 as the Revisionists.  Menachem Begin came out of the
 Revisionist movement in Poland.  He was a leader of
 the paramilitary Revisionist auxiliary, Betar, modeled
 consciously on the German storm troopers abd Mussolini's
 Blackshirts.  (Revisionists are now called the Herut
 Party, the main component of the Likud coalition)."

 "Jabotinsky and Begin welcomed the Nazis, who, they
 thought, would drive the Jews out of Europe to Palestine.
 They also admired the Nazi's militant and terrorist
 tactics.  The future belonged, they concluded, to fascist
 parties and terrorist groups, and they formed their
 own.  This was useful during the worst days of British
 rile, in 1943-47.  The Irgun Zvi Leumi (Begin) and Stern
 Gang (Yitzhak Shamir), underground terrorist organizations,
 grew out of the Revisionist movement and its Betar
 military organization."

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