Jews, the Nazis and immigration

By 1939 Zionism had established enough of a presence in Palestine and sufficient lobbying power in America for its propaganda machine to turn what was to become to be regarded as the Nazi "holocaust" to full advantage.

At the core of Zionist mythology about what happened when Hitler came into power is the assertion sometimes stated, always implied, that Zionism did what it did in Palestine because it had no choice because the world refused to give sanctuary to European Jews who were fleeing from the Nazi terror. That is far from the truth.

The truth is that there was a serious intention to rescue Jews and give them sanctuary in countries other than Palestine but that this was frustrated - sabotaged is not too strong a word - by Zionism and there is no mystery why. Zionism saw the "Holocaust" as the event that would give them the number of Jewish immigrants they needed to establish and sustain their state.

Of even greater significance is the statement by Ben Gurion in 1938, warning his leadership colleagues about something that could not be allowed to happen:

"If we allow a separation from the refugee problem and the Palestine problem, we are risking the existence of Zionism."

In other words the last thing they wanted was for the Jews to go anywhere else but Palestine.

The principal architect of the first plan to rescue Europe's uprooted Jews was America's President Roosevelt. He was in office from 1933 until he died of a massive cerebral haemmorage during his fourth term in 1945.

The scheme he favoured was generous worldwide political asylum. He sent his friend and confidante Morris Ernst , a New York attorney. to London to sound out whether Britain would be prepared to take in 100,000 or even 200,000 of Europe's uprooted Jews.

Ernst approached his Jewish friends to try and get support for a worldwide programme of rescue, as he described it himself in his book, this was the response he got: "I was thrown out of the parlours of friends of mine who very frankly said" 'Morris this is treason. You are undermining the Zionist movement.' " He also said he found everywhere a deep, genuine almost fanatical emotional vested interest in putting over the Zionist movement in men "who were little concerned about human life, if it is not their own."

The main deal the Zionists struck with the Nazis was enshrined in the famous Transfer Agreement. In return for being allowed to send money and people to Palestine and having some Jewish property in Germany protected, Germany's Zionists agreed to take no part in and actually to oppose an international boycott of Nazi Germany's exports. As part of the deal the Zionists also agreed not to resist the Nazis.

In January 1939, Avraham Stern (later known as Yitzhak Shamir ) the leader of the Jewish Terrorist group, the Stern Gang, met two important Nazis, one of whom, Otto von Hentig, was regarded as a "philo Zionist" on account of his preference for sending Jews off to Palestine in return for money.

The outcome of their discussions was nothing less than a proposal of an alliance between the Stern Gang and Hitler's Third Reich. The document setting out Shamir's proposals was found in the files of the German Embassy in Ankara dated 11th January 1941. It said in part the following:

"...proceeding from these considerations the NMO in Palestine under the conditions of the national aspirations of the Israeli Freedom Movement are recognised on the side of the German Reich offers to take part in the war on Germany's side... The indirect participation of the Israeli Freedom Movement in the New Order in Europe already in the preparatory stage will be linked with the positive solution of the European Jewish problem in conformity with the above-mentioned national aspirations of the Jewish people. This would extraordinarily strengthen the moral basis of the New Order in the eyes of all humanity."

Subsequently at a Zionist Conference Enzo Sereni said:

"We have nothing to be ashamed of in the fact that we use the persecution of the Jews in Germany for the up-building of Palestine."

By 1945 President Truman was not yet submissive enough to support the idea of a Jewish state but under pressure he was prepared to push Britain on the matter of Jewish refugees - those European Jews who had survived the "holocaust".

At that time the first official figures of the total number of displaced persons, i.e. those made refugees by Hitler, showed that the refugees were from many lands, mainly from Austria, Germany, Hungary , Roumania and the Baltic countries . In numbers the three main groups assembled in refugee camps were Jews: 226,000, Protestants: 100,000, Catholics: 500,000.

On 29th October Attlee's reply to Truman's request for 100,000 immigration certificates was in the form of a memorandum written by Britain's Ambassador in Washington, Lord Halifax, to Secretary of State, Byrne, the memorandum called for an urgent Anglo American Committee of Enquiry to examine the question of Jewish immigration. It was also suggested that the Committee should examine the possibility of Jewish immigration to countries other than Palestine.

Halifax also conveyed the British impression that, if the Jewish refugees themselves were consulted, they would express the preference of not going to Palestine but returning to the homelands from whence they came or starting a new life in America.

Such a solution to the Jewish refugee problem would have destroyed Zionism's most powerful weapon, the Nazi Holocaust's political and emotional blackmail card. At the very least the Jews would have been put into the position in which they would not have the influence needed to determine America's foreign policy agenda for the Middle East.

Halifax also told Byrnes that the Jews were using every possible means to stop their fellow Jews from leaving Palestine to go back to Europe.

On the 22nd December 1945 President Truman took a major initiative, he directed all appropriate federal authorities to speed up in every way to facilitate full immigration to the United States under existing quota laws. As, during the war, these quotas were not taken up, it was possible that up to 400,000 refugees could be given visas for a new life in the USA as American citizens. That was nearly twice the number of Jewish refugees in the camps of liberated Europe.

Such a solution to the refugee problem, if it had been implemented, would have definitely destroyed Zionism's most powerful weapon.

The six British and six American members of the Anglo American Committee of Enquiry on Palestine began their work in early January 1946.

One of the Committee's ten recommendations said yes to the immediate issuance of entrance certificates into Palestine for 100,000 another said "no" to the creation of a Jewish state.

It also fell short of what the Arabs wanted and not only because of the 100,000 extra immigrants. There was also a "no" to a Arab state.

But on any reading of the Report it was also a "no" to the Zionist enterprise. As a consequence President Truman was too frightened to say that a Jewish state was out of the question. In panic British and American diplomacy went through the motions of cobbling together another scheme which was to surface as the Morrison/Grady plan. Herbert Morrison was the leader of the British Labour Party. Henry F. Grady had been appointed by President Truman to serve on his special Committee on Palestine.

It recommended a Federal State of Palestine with separate Arab and Jewish cantons and, if the Arabs could not be made to accept that, an Arab state.

It too rejected the idea of a Jewish state.

Rabbi Silver acknowledged that, if legislation was successfully introduced into Congress to allow a great number of European Jewish refugees to enter the USA, Zionism might well be finished as probably the majority of Americans who up to this point had been supporting Zionism for emotional reasons on account of the reports of slaughter and suffering would have regarded the refugee problem as having been settled. In effect he was saying that if legislation to solve the refugee problem was introduced to Congress they had to use all their influence to see that it was not enacted.

The Zionists said not a word in support of the Jews of Europe for whom the visas were required . The truth was that the Zionists looked upon the Jewish refugees of liberated Europe as grist for their mill to create a Jewish state in Palestine.

In Palestine the British were failing to stop the violent confrontation between Arabs and Jews escalating . In Europe Zionism had established a well organised railway to Palestine. And Jews from all over Europe were moved to ports on the Mediterranean and from these ports vessels of all kinds many of them unseaworthy in which Jews were being shipped in appalling squalor to Palestine..

At this point the policy was to dare the British to stop the illegal Jewish immigrants at sea and if they made it to Palestine to prevent the Jews on board from entering the Holy Land.

The Zionist strategy presented Britain with a stark choice on the matter of illegal immigration. The immensely powerful images in words and pictures of confrontation of armed British forces sending back the immigrant ships resulted, as the Zionists knew it would, with most Americans seeing the struggle for Palestine as nothing more than a noble heroic epic effort by the Jewish survivors of Hitler's "gas" chambers to obtain back their ancient homeland. The fact that most, if not all, the Jewish refugees were the descendants of those who had converted to Judaism long after the fall of the kingdom of Israel and who had no claim on Palestine was not known to Americans.

At this point Britain decided that the burden of being responsible for the future of Palestine was too great for it to carry and it dumped the problem of what to do about the Holy Land into the lap of the UN.

When it was still the number one power in the world, Britain had given Zionism what it wanted: recognition, and thus a degree of spurious legitimacy.

Forty years on with the British Empire in decline Zionism was about to demonstrate that it had no use of any power on earth and that it was capable in defiance of international law and against the wishes of the organised international community of getting what it wanted.

If the Government in London had ordered the British forces to take whatever action was necessary to smash the terror networks that were then in operation there would have been a tidal wave of protests in America that would have caused President Truman to have ordered Britain to stop and he would have had the leverage to make it obey.

As a consequence of World War II Britain was just about bankrupt and already in debt to America and to have the certain prospect of reconstruction recovery Britain's was in desparate need of further financial American assistance which was to come in the form of Britain's share of the 17 billion dollars of the American sponsored European recovery programme which became known as the Marshall Plan.

By breaking Britain's will to hang on in Palestine the second thing on the agenda of Zionism's terrorists was driving the Arabs out.