Good post Dr Kay.... Especially about the British not allowing Jews to leave Europe and go to Palestine during WW2. My guess is 200,000 Jews died due to this policy. But Jewish life was cheap back then and the Brits wanted to placate the crazy Muslims who had been rioting in Palestine during the late 1930’s
Stern and Irgun gangs were nothing and did nothing compared to the death sentence the British gave a few hundred thousand Jews
But Jewish life was cheap back then’
Yeah, it was certainly just as cheap to America. Who took less Jewish refugees than Britain and refused to take in large numbers, despite being having a much larger country and five times the population.
‘Refugees from Nazi Germany
In the years before and during World War II the United States Congress, the Roosevelt Administration, and public opinion expressed concern about the fate of Jews in Europe but consistently refused to permit large-scale immigration of Jewish refugees.
In a report issued by the State Department, Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat noted that the United States accepted only 21,000 refugees from Europe and did not significantly raise or even fill its restrictive quotas, accepting far fewer Jews per capita than many of the neutral European countries and fewer in absolute terms than Switzerland.
According to David Wyman, “The United States and its Allies were willing to attempt almost nothing to save the Jews.”[42]
U.S. opposition to immigration in general in the late 1930s was motivated by the grave economic pressures, the high unemployment rate, and social frustration and disillusionment. The U.S. refusal to support specifically Jewish immigration, however, stemmed from something else, namely antisemitism, which had increased in the late 1930s and continued to rise in the 1940s. It was an important ingredient in America’s negative response to Jewish refugees.[43]’
Britain took in over 100,000 Jewish refugees.
America took in less than Switzerland.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_United_States#Refugees_from_Nazi_Germany
‘Stern and Irgun gangs were nothing and did nothing’
Uh-huh. Murder and torture is nothing. I will remember your compassion towards the British, Jewish and Arab victims of 1944-48, next time America gets hit.
‘compared to the death sentence the British gave a few hundred thousand Jews’
America could saved hundreds of thousands of Jews. It refused.
America could have fought the Nazis for two years. It refused, and only did so grudgingly after the Nazis declared war on them.
If we horrible Limeys are morally bankrupt on this issue and caused Jewish deaths, I shudder to think what moral gutter America inhabits with what it failed to do.