Israel in WW2?

Question

was Israel for the Natzi's or against them?

Answer 1

First things first - Israel did NOT exist until 1948, three years AFTER WWII ended.

Secondly, it is "nazi", not "natzi".

Thirdly, the nazi's tried to kill all the Jews, Gypsies, anti-fascists (i.e., anti-hitler), communists, homosexuals and disabled people.
So its a given that the Jews, if they had an "Israel" before WWII, would have been against the nazi's.

Answer 2

While Israel as a sovereign country was not officially recognized prior to 1948 (after the Nazis lost the war), there was a well built Israeli-Jewish settlement those days in nowadays Israel.
This settlement knew very little about the holocaust and the mass murders that the Nazis committed, and yet it was strongly against the Nazis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Brigade

Answer 3

Israel did not exist during World War II. During WWII it was Palestine which was occupied by the British. It was in 1947 that the British mandate expired and the UN permitted Zionists to establish the Jewish state of Israel as a safe haven for the Jewish people to seek refuge in any future persecution.

Answer 4

Israel didn't exist until 1947. The area that is now known as Israel was called Palestine and run by the British.

Answer 5

The Jewish Settlements in the British Mandate were still struggling. Some people didn't know. Some were worried about making gardens out of desert and swamp. Some were getting ready to fight the British, for a war of independence. And some, were joining the Partisans in Europe and fighting the Nazis.

Answer 6

During the World War II 30,000 Palestinian Jews enlisted in the British army. In the last stages of the war, the Jewish Brigade Group was established and saw action against the Nazis in northern Italy.

During the same period Arab leaders supported Nazi Germany and the extermination of the Jews.

Answer 7

Israel did not exist in WWII. Israel became a country after WWII In 1947, I believe. It makes no sense that the Jews would align themselves with the Nazis since the Nazis murdered six million ot them.

Answer 8

The Zionists who founded Israel were Jews and it's safe to say they were almost all against the Nazis who were known to be promoting anti-semitism of the worst kind, terrorizing and killing Jews in Europe.

However, that's not to say Zionists didn't exploit anti-semitism almost from the beginning. For example, Theodor Herzl, regarded as the founder of modern (Jewish) Zionism, wrote in his diary, "The antisemites WILL BECOME our most loyal friends, the antisemites nations will become our allies." Ben Gurion, the founder of Israel, apparently regarded the establishment of the Jewish state as more important than saving the lives of Jews when he said "If I knew it was possible to save all [Jewish] children of Germany by their transfer to England and only half of them by transferring them to Eretz-Yisrael, I would choose the latter----because we are faced not only with the accounting of these [Jewish] children but also with the historical accounting of the Jewish People."

Other Zionists are reported to have made deals with Nazis in order to get immigrants to Palestine. Some Zionists, most notibly members of the terrorist group known as the Stern gang made alliances with the Italian fascists and attempted to make alliances with the Nazis against the British. Yitzhak Shamir, a leader of the Stern gang, later became prime minister of Israel.

Israel didn't exist in WW2, the Zionists did. Its safe to say far more Zionists fought with the British against the Nazis than collaborated with them.

Answer 9

Israel did not exist until 1948, three years after WW II ended.

Answer 10

Israel did not exist until1948.