Israeli hardliners plan to build a series of new settlements across the West Bank in retaliation for the terrorist attack that killed eight students at a Jewish religious college. Their warning came yesterday as Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, approved the expansion of a settlement near Jerusalem, which will see the construction of 750 new homes.
Above: Mussolini, during a visit he paid to a center consisting mostly of radical Zionists established in Bari in 1934. On the poster in front of him is written, "A pure and strong Jewish generation is being born in Palestine to be worthy of the Zionist Renaissance."
Avraham Stern (right), who established a new organization with radicals like himself after leaving Irgun, offered the Nazis a military alliance in 1941. Nathan Yalin-Mor (left) assigned to meet with the Nazis on behalf of Stern, would later explain the logic of this alliance by stating that the project of convincing the Jews to immigrate en masse was in full accord with Germany's aim of cleansing Europe of the Jews.
