The organization that he and Peter Bergson (Hillel Kook) founded in 1941 was called the Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews, not the Committee to Persuade Jews to Join the Existing Allied Armies.
Certainly such a Jewish army would have been part of the overall Allied military structure, since they were all fighting against a common foe, Nazi Germany. But the whole point was that the Jewish people needed its own army.
Mr. Schulte was correct to note that more than one thousand Jewish veterans of World War Two later served in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence. But that, too, proves Netanyahu’s point. It was only when those veterans had concluded their service in Allied armies and joined Israel’s that they became part of the process of ending nearly two thousand years of Jewish national powerlessness.
