I don’t disagree, but I would state that FDR and his Nazi-sympathetic opinion did most of the enabling. Much of the anti-Nazi people that tried to spread the word in the US were shut down.
Alas unfortunately he’s right.
Most Jews vote Democratic, against their material interest, partly because they’re worried about evangelicals establishing a “Christian nation,” but also because of a history lesson passed on from parents to children: Franklin Roosevelt purportedly stood up for Jews against reactionary interests. Barack Obama’s anti-Israel position has shaken some of that support, and if the story told in Rafael Medoff’s FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith (David S. Wyman Institute, 2013) gets out, Democrats will receive fewer legacy votes.
Medoff details Roosevelt’s disparaging remarks about Jews and includes previously unpublished interviews with Jewish leaders who say Roosevelt “hoodwinked” them and “didn’t lift a finger” to help Jewish refugees from Hitler. Had the United States allowed in escapees instead of sending them back to Europe, or had FDR pressured Great Britain to allow refugees to settle in what is now Israel, many lives could have been saved. Even as late as 1944, U.S. action could have helped the 400,000 Jews of Hungary, most of whom then died at Auschwitz.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3031756/posts
I would not disagree.
Take it up with Roosevelt and the rest of the socialists/commies he surrounded himself with.
A little unfair. France was flattened as soon as the war broke out. What could they have done? Britain struggled to hold on to what it had throughout. And the US population at that time was strongly against military action, so a war before Pearl Harbor would have been one against our will. No wonder, since the New York Times covered up the Holocaust so nobody knew what was going on in Nazi Germany. All we knew about Hitler was that he was a TIME icon.
France participated, but they were under the hammer at the time. The U.K. did not act, but they were desperately fighting against the threat of a German invasion.
I would agree that FDR was the chief culprit. He knew damned well what was going on, but he refused to admit Jewish refugees and did nothing to defend them or call Hitler to account. He was the one who was in a position to do something. But he was anti-Semitic.
The lefties and the Jews hate to admit it, of course. FDR is their hero. So they refuse to talk about it.
I’m surprised that Netanyahu raised this issue. I suspect that it is intended as a jab in the direction of Obama and his pals, who likewise cannot be counted on to defend Israel.
FDR and the unions turned back refuge ships from Germany wanting to embark in the US. The refugees of course died when the got back. FDR in our family is anathema.
Until the allies had a foothold on the continent after D-Day, what could they have done?
We sure as hell didn’t do much to stop it.
The Germans loved their leader (Hitler) and so did Time Magazine.
Obama has taken his big stroke of arming militant Muslim terrorests in Seria; that places the US at odds with YEHOVA, and we will pay dearly for that.
Obama is indwelt by Satan!
To we Jews the lesson is clear. We must not be complacent in the face of threats of annihilation. We must not bury our heads in the sand or allow others to do the work for us.
From here, the place that attests to the desire to destroy us, I, the Prime Minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish People, say to all the nations of the world: The State of Israel will do whatever is necessary to prevent another holocaust.”
Hear oh Mullahs, hear Imams, the voice of the Jewish
people. Ams Israel Chai!
Netanyahu , the Ronald Reagan of Israel
Just think, IF Netanyahu was born in Kenya, he could be our president now.
He was at the Holocaust memorial but his comments should also be taken in light of the current situation: the US is arming al Qaeda to overthrow Syria, Israel will soon be surrounded by Muslim Brotherhood countries put in place by...the West. He is telegraphing that if another 6 day war onslaught is tried Israel will stop at NOTHING to prevent their being pushed into the sea. Damascus is said to be destroyed in a single day, Isaiah 17. Israel knows with ObamaMuslim they are alone and the world has been warned.
Jews supported FDR with 90% of their votes in 1940 and 1945, which improved over the 82% in 1932, and the 85% in 1936, he was their guy.
I don’t know how my father was voting, he was pretty tied up with the war during that time, as the American Navy was fighting for survival.
If the democrats did something wrong during the 1930s and 1940s, in regards to Jews, it has never hurt them with the Jewish vote.
Bibi speaks the truth. A shameful chapter in America’s history. When the real King comes back he’s going to kick some serious butt. So don’t worry about Roosevelt (or Obama for that matter). Just make sure you and yours are on the Lord’s side and are faithful unto death - if necessary. What’s coming will melt every heart. “If the righteous scarcely be saved where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”
He’s probably right. The lesson is, his country also shouldn’t count on our current worthless President, for ANYTHING.