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There are two kinds of evil-doers: those who kill, rape, beat, and brutalize others, and those who let this happen.
The story of American and British indifference to the fate of Jews during the Second World War still makes for disturbing reading.
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The abandonment of the Jews -- the title of David Wyman’s comprehensive study -- is the ultimate rationale for the creation of the state of Israel.
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“There are two sorts of countries in the world,” Chaim Weizmann had concluded in the late ‘30s, “those that want to expel the Jews and those that don’t want to admit them.”
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America’s response to the Holocaust helps explain the seemingly perverse attachment of American Jews to open borders -- a policy that permits an influx of immigrants who are considerably more antisemitic than European-Americans, apart from other consequences that negatively impact all Americans.
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Fully 83% of Republicans sympathize more with Israel than the Palestinians; only 48% of Democrats do so.
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A lot of things were taken off the table at Geneva: a renunciation of terrorism (responsible for 1,100 American combat deaths in Iraq), an effective means of verifying Tehran’s compliance, even the return of four American hostages -- a token gesture on the mullahs’ part. Never on the table was regime’s determination to annihilate Israel, its chief objective in acquiring a nuclear arsenal. The fact that the administration’s new Middle Eastern ally is bent on genocide was irrelevant. The Obama administration’s abandonment of the Jewish state in 2015 was prefigured by the abandonment of European Jews in the ‘40s.
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in January 1933, the Nazis had fired nearly all Jewish government employees and judges, and disbarred many lawyers from practicing. Jewish doctors, dentists, and professors would soon join the ranks of the unemployed. The purging of the professions was accompanied by random arrests, beatings, and murders of Jews and political opponents. There were about 2,000 assassinations during the year.
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The violence culminated in Kristallnacht on the night of November 9, 1938. Jews had already been stripped of citizenship by the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935. Now every synagogue in the Reich, which included Austria, was vandalized, burned, or destroyed. Ninety-one Jews were killed, 30,000 arrested and sent to concentration camps, and Jewish shops and homes were invaded and looted.
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It’s not easy for those born after World War II to realize the extent of Judeophobia between 1920 and 1945. It wasn’t confined to country clubs, resorts, and upscale restaurants. Antisemitism was much more widespread and damaging, particularly as it affected employment opportunities.
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The country’s many Mt. Sinai Hospitals were built not out of clannishness, but because Jewish doctors were unable to hospitalize their patients in most cities. With very few exceptions, no Jews were permitted to teach in colleges and universities. The liberal arts were virtually off limits. Until the 1920s, admissions were based mostly on academic achievement. Jews comprised 20% Harvard undergrads in 1919, 20% of Brown’s, nearly 25% of Penn’s, and 40% of Columbia’s.
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Counterintuitively, as the situation grew direr for nearly all of Europe’s Jews, antisemitism in the U.S. increased. Jews placed third, behind Japanese and Germans, in a poll in February 1942 that asked “what nationality, religious or racial groups in this country are a menace to Americans?” By June 1944, they were in first place, with 24% of those surveyed believing they posed a threat to the country.
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As desperate German Jews swarmed the American consulates, the State Department placed insuperable obstacles before would-be immigrants. Consuls rigorously enforced a requirement that applicants provide a certificate of good character from the police, not easy to come by for German Jews. The provision that repeatedly barred the path was the stipulation that the émigré not become a “public charge.” This was interpreted with incredible strictness.
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The real problem was simply that Jews were not wanted.
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When his first telegram about the Holocaust arrived at the State Department in August 1942, officials refused to believe it and declined to pass it along to Rabbi Stephen Wise, the leader of American Jewry, as Riegner had requested. But Wise received the report from the Foreign Office, because the WJC official had telegraphed the news to London as well.
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News of the extermination of Jews never made the front pages. The official confirmation of the killing centers in November 1942 (four months after Riegner had informed the State Department) was relegated to page 10 of the N.Y. Times and page 6 of the Washington Post. No wonder Eisenhower was shocked when saw the camps in Germany: “it was almost unbelievable,” he said.
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Obama has repeatedly attacked Netanyahu for criticizing the deal.
More déjà vu. The correspondence of both British and American officials in the ‘40s is filled with references to the Jewish penchant for exaggerating their problems and to their excessive self-pity. “A disproportionate amount of the time of the Office is wasted on these wailing Jews,” a Foreign Office official concluded
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Anti semitism has morphed once again. Having shifted from religious to racial grounds, it is now incited against nationality. The Jewish state and its supporters are subject to a pathological hatred. On the grounds that it’s a white, colonialist power oppressing native people of color (never mind that half of Israelis are Middle Easterners driven from places they’d called home for 2,500 years, and that tens of thousands of “Palestinians” arrived in 1920s and ‘30s), the Left has joined Islam in calling for Israel’s annihilation.
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The indifference to the threat Iran poses is eerily familiar. “The Jews Were Expendable” is the title of one study of government policy in ‘40s. They still are. But the Roosevelt administration at least recognized the threat that Hitler posed to the U.S., though the Führer was not nearly as interested in attacking us as are the ayatollahs. We will all be paying for the pathway to nuclear citizenship guaranteed Teheran by the current administration.
[Sources for this essay are listed below the text.]
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/america_and_the_holocaust_the_past_as_prologue.html
August 16, 2015
America and the Holocaust: The Past as Prologue
By Jeff Lipkes
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