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Avraham Stern
founder of what became know
as the Stern gang
an Irgun splinter group
favoured joining forces with the Axis Powers
first he courted Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
hoping that if Italy overran the middle east
Mussolini would be happy to see a Jewish state
set up in Palestine
but when Mussolini lost out to the British in North Africa
Stern now turned his attention to Hitler
he thought if he collaborated with Germany
and Germany won the war
Hitler would expel the British from Palestine
and enable Stern to establish
a Nazi style totalitarian Jewish state