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From the Nile to the Euphrates – Lechi's Zionist Vision


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Lechi was an underground movement committed to expelling the British from the Promised Land in the 1940s.  But it was also much more than that.  It wanted a Jewish state from the Nile to the Euphrates and a Beis HaMikdash at its center.  And it was unyielding.  When Ben-Gurion shot at the Altalena, for example, Menachem Begin backed down; Lechi wanted to fight back.  In this interview, Zev Golan,  translator of the memoirs of one of Lechi's leaders, discusses this fascinating group.

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