Sorry, jews might have been able to help more with the war effort if they weren't stuck in concentration camps at the time. Dearest apologies.
Have you read much history? I certainly have read less than many people on FR, but even I know that in Germany Jews had been repressed for years, tormented for years, denied basic rights for years. And most important, been denied the right to arm themselves for years.
If someone is torn apart by a vicious dog, do you criticize the victim or the dog?
Maybe many Jews just couldn't imagine how bad things would get, that the Nazis would be such inhuman beasts. And maybe other countries didn't step in to help sooner. When people want to do evil, they are often possessed of very great power, determination, and strength. If someone cannot fight hard enough against the evil to survive, are they to be condemned?
I don't think so. We are here on earth to help one another, not condemn those who suffered and died.
You're missing the most obvious tool Hitler had: starvation.
The Nazis controlled all sources of food. People only revolt when they feel they have nothing to lose, but years before that point, the Germans starved the Jews so that they had no energy, no hope, only the effort to make it to the next rationed meal.
The Germans played off the Jews' hopes well. Everything was couched in lies that led people to believe they were essential workers, they would be protected, if only they cooperated. This is human nature. The starving will go where there is food if they're told their labor is valuable. The Holocaust was fundamentally irrational. How do you live without hope?
The Jews had no weapons to fight back, no strength, no money. If they escaped a ghetto, they had nowhere to go. The peasants were as much under the thumb of the Germans as they were, and few were looking to hide people on their farm, giving them food and shelter and getting nothing in return but the possibility of a firing squad.
Look, it's a good rule of thumb for history that if you look back at a people and say all of their decisions were STUPID or COWARDLY, that maybe you don't understand the circumstances under which their decisions were made. The sad truth of the Holocaust is that the victims were all humans, all ordinary people, just like you and me. All we have over them is hindsight. In extremis, you have no way of knowing how you'd have behaved.
Why don't you envisualize yourself standing in line to get de-loused, naked, your family members standing naked at your side, without a weapon, and completely terror-stricken, knowing that you are minutes away from a gas chamber.
"Well, I think I'll find me a gun and get the hell outta here."
Its easy for you to say what should have been done after 60 years of hindsight.
My advice to you would be to shut up. You are really making an anti-semitic ass-fool of yourself to others on this board.
I don't know if I can really blame them any more. Look at history. Whenever Israel wins a war, world sentiment turns against her. Remember in 1973, when Israel was attacked, and they beat back the Egyptians and Syrians, capturing a huge number of Egyptian troops, and pressing into Egypt, across the Suez canal, and Israeli tanks were less than 50 miles from Damascus, Syria. It was only then that the UN stepped in to "stop the war." Israel didn't want to stop, but was pressured by the US, since the USSR threatened to get directly involved if Israel didn't stop.
Israel is afraid to use the sort of force needed to put an end to the nonsense that's going on there because of the way the rest of the world would react.
Mark