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.
He’s wrong. The leaders of the Allies ‘heard’ 2nd and 3rd hand that atrocities were said to be occurring in special Nazi detainment camps. FDR was not going to launch a military strike against a major power based on hearsay.
Even the villagers around the concentration camps were not fully aware of the genocide that was taking place. Many commented in interviews that they noticed acrid smells in the air coming from the camps but they had no firsthand information of what was taking place.
We can bet that the Nazis did not disclose what they were doing, we know from the historical record that when the Nazis were questioned through diplomatic channels that they denied the allegations. So how is it that anyone ‘knew’ except for third party reports and rumors?
There was an undercurrent in the USA at the time of anti-semitism but there was never tolerance of any kind among America’s greatest generation for the diabolical extermination of fellow human beings. Bibi should be ashamed of his implicating good people in something so horrific.
Bibi should not have said the Allied Leaders ‘knew’, he should have said they ‘heard about’ or were ‘warned’ or ‘told’, and could not under the circumstances do much. His message is that Israel cannot count on the US Cavalry to ride to the rescue or any such fantasy rescue. In much the same way that American citizens do not allow themselves to think the local police will save them from local attack and therefore take up arms to defend themselves, the Israeli population must not be lulled into thinking that some NATO nuclear force or US anti-missile shield will save them from a nuclear missile attack from Iran. Bibi was correct on this, wrong on implicating good Americans in the Holocaust.