(Mirrors.)

Soon, one particular faction would split because the Haganah’s colonising approach wasn’t fascist enough. That new paramilitary group was called Irgun. To understand their worldview, one can look at articles published in a prominent Revisionist Zionist newspaper during the thirties. One piece stated [on March 28, 1933] that the [German Fascist] movement has both a shell and a kernel; the antisemitic shell is to be discarded, but not the anti-Marxist kernel. When Hitler came to power in 1933, the same newspaper praised him, alongside ‘shining names’ like Kemal Atatürk and Benito Mussolini. Another editorial in the same publication declared [on March 31, 1933], ‘Hitler has still not caused us as much evil as Stalin has.’

The map in the Irgun’s emblem includes not only the whole of Palestine but also Transjordan. Originally part of the British Palestine mandate, Transjordan was later separated: a move [that] Revisionists rejected as they considered part of the future ‘Jewish state’. This desire to ‘revise’ these territorial boundaries is the origin of the designation.

Later, one splinter group thought [that] they could be even more fascist than the Irgun: Lehi, or better known as the Stern Gang, dreaming of building a ‘Jewish state’ rooted in, quote,

‘nationalist and totalitarian principles, and linked to the German Reich by an alliance.’

But these ambitions weren’t limited to the right wing. The undisputed leader of the Zionist movement, for instance, the so-called ‘socialist’ David Ben-Gurion, also viewed Jordan as part of the Jewish homeland. In fact, he envisioned a ‘Jewish state’ stretching into Lebanon, Syria, and even the Sinai peninsula. Even the Kibbutz movement, which considered itself more to the left of Ben-Gurion, upheld the idea that Jews had the right to settle throughout these broader regions. Today, the Kibbutz movement aligns with the general goals of the right-wing settler militias, but more on this later.