Jews of Germany In the late 1940's there were many forces looking to maintain Israeli sovereignty. As a response to the events of the Holocaust, Avraham Stern formed his freedom fighters in a right wing response to what he and his revisionist members considered a solution to the British occupation on Palestine. Regarding Great Britain as the greater enemy in the fight for a Jewish state, Stern's group, which was sometimes considered to be terrorist, spun off from the popular anti-socialist Likud party, and the revisionist Israeli force called the Irgun, creating their own brand of Zionism.
The Stern Gang was originally founded in 1940 when Avraham Stern, an active member of the Etzel party (later headed by Menachim Begin) and founded Lohamei Heirut Yisrael, Hebrew for Freedom Fighters for Israel or LEHI for short. The group was nicknamed The Stern Gang by British forces who regarded them as terrorists.
Avraham (Yair) Stern
Official UN mediator to Palestine, Count Folke Ber...
English: Wanted Poster of the Palestine Police For...Avraham Stern was an eloquent and brilliant Jewish scholar versed in both secular and non-secular arts and culture. His desire to break away from Likud and the entire Irgun was based on a single ideology: the Irgun believed the fight against the British should be suspended until the Axis powers of World War II, the Irgun therefore limited their actions against the British to those organizations and units actively trying to prevent Jewish immigration into the Land of Israel.
Stern, by contrast, believed that the British constituted the enemy of the Jewish People equally if not to a greater degree than the Germans, as they were actively preventing Jewish lives from being saved. The fate of the Jewish People, he argued, would be determined by an independent Jewish State, and the obstacle to that independence was Britain rather than Germany, who were simply persecutors.
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