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by _Codemonkeyism 3824 days ago
A lot of military commanders of Israel had been educated in Poland in the 1930s, also Poland was the largest supplier of weapons to Israeli groups fighting for an Jewish state. The Polish idea was if Jews had their own state they would leave Poland.

e.g see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betar

http://www.etzel.org.il/english/ac16.htm