Haavara FAQs: What if the Evian Conference was a resounding success? What would have been the impact of saving European Jewry on Zionism?

Catastrophic Zionism at its worst: Zionists often spoke of the Holocaust decades before its time. What did Zionists do to confront it? Zionists were the FIRST to normalize trade with the Nazis!

Let's contemplate this what-if scenario: what if Jewish leaders, along with the rest of the world, communicated to Hitler in action that they cared soon after the Evian Conference? What if they didn't waste over a year dithering after Evian? What if they did exploit Schacht & Rublee plans? What if they quickly responded in kind to Hitler's "generous" concessions (after the Kristallnacht pogrom of 1938 which we outlined earlier)? What if American Jewry didn't interpret Hitler's concessions as weakness? We have ZERO doubts that the Holocaust would have been avoided, and if it had to happen, it would have been mild compared to what occurred. Hjalmar Schacht (the head of Reichsbank who engineered the rescue plan ten months before WWII was started) was known to have concluded a similar conclusion at his trial in Nuremberg (Post-Ugandan Zionism by Beit-Zvi, p. 202).

Were the British so STUPID as to promise COMPLETE INDEPENDENCE to Palestinians in 1939 (who, of course, "didn't exist") while the Indians had been DREAMING of such a thing for 400 years?

As we outlined earlier; the last thing Hitler wanted to do was a genocide; as evil as he was that is the truth that most Holocaust historians agree with. This fact alone explains why the final solution evolved late in the game by mid-1942. On the other hand, let us not kid ourselves too, we all know in that different world, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy, Czechoslovakia, and Romania would’ve immediately demanded similar deals to rid themselves of another four to five million Jews too. Actually, Zionist leaders (who mostly subscribed to the Catastrophic Zionism idea) expected the calamity in Poland first, which had a much larger Jewish population than Germany.

NY Times Magazine, April 18, 1982: Zionist leaders admitted there wasn't enough bandwidth to fight both the White Paper of 1939 and Hitler. Thus, fighting the Nazis for the Gentiles so they can focus on defeating the White Paper

Herzl Died Thinking Israel Would Have Been in Uganda, not in "empty" Palestine

Assuming the reasons for the Holocaust were taken off the table by early 1942, and other solutions were available to the "Jewish problem," that implies Jews would have found a haven. On the other hand, saving European Jewry implied that the catastrophe (a.k.a. Nakba in Arabic) would have been transferred from Europe's Jews to Zionism, correct? Hell YES. Just in case you think our interpretations are simple rants by anti-Zionist Palestinians, please think twice. Actually, that is precisely how David Ben-Gurion articulated it just before the Evian Conference was convened:

The Jews could have only one destination - Eretz Yisrael. So in June 1938, shortly before Allied representatives met in Evian, France, to seek ways of rescuing Jews, Ben-Gurion frankly voiced his concern to colleagues in the Jewish Agency Executive. He did "not know if the [Evian] conference will open the gates of other countries [Oh, God forbid]. . . . But I am afraid [ it ] might cause tremendous harm to Eretz Yisrael and Zionism . . . . Our main task is to reduce the harm, the danger and the disaster [Ben-Gurion was referring to harming the yishuv; he was not referring to harming diaspora Jews; the was the LEVER] . . . and the more we emphasize the terrible distress of the Jewish masses in Germany, Poland and Rumania, the more damage we shall cause ." So be silent, Ben-Gurion cautioned his comrades. . . . And in the silence . . . Evian [Conference] failed. (see NY Times -- June 12th, 1987)

[David Ben-Gurion repeated the same argument ten years later when he was so worried that Americans would soften their hearts and let in Jewish refugees in the DP camps. We guess some habits die hard. ]

David Ben-Gurion envisioned that Nazis' Nuremberg Race Laws would become the LEVER that would end up creating the "Jewish state," but how? Click the image for the details

Let us be honest, Herr Ben-Gurion was accurate: saving European Jewry as FDR designed it before WWII would have been a disaster to his Zionist program; the math proves it. Therefore, Zionism would be much better of Evian failed. This pressure cooker of a scenario was precisely the moment Zionists were patiently waiting to exploit for four decades! This pressure cooker was the energy source which David Ben-Gurion often referred to as the LEVER that would create his state (Hannah Arendt compared this process to the steam power that moves a locomotive)! Wasn't that exactly the manufactured Jewish refugee crisis Zionists plotted and hoped for at Evian? Wasn't that exactly how Theodor Herzl envisioned the "Jewish state" would have been created four decades earlier?

Just in case you think these evil thoughts were isolated to a few Zionist leaders, we ask you to contemplate again how Chaim Weizmann framed the catastrophe for Zionism around the same period too just before the conference was held. Actually, Chaim's top concern was how to starve and hoard rescue funds since those were harmful to their project. If you read Chaim's letter (which was leaked via a carbon copy), well, you might lose your mind. Levi Eshkol and Moshe Sharitt were known to have said something similar around the same time window as well. For you are curious and you have the time, here are the meeting minutes of the Jewish Agency Executive (a.k.a. JAE) soon after the Kristallnacht pogrom of Nov. 1938, and here is how Ben-Gurion responded when he heard that British people rescued 10,000 German Jewish children a month after the infamous pogrom.

JTA Sept. 3rd, 1933 Quoting Nahum Sokolow: "Hitlerism enables us to convert all Jews to Zionism."

Here is the unvarnished truth: Hitler’s obsession with antisemitism was no aberration; much of European "civilization" was based on such ideologies and beliefs: Jim Crow, apartheid, genocides, colonization, land theft, ethnic cleansing, concentration camps, reservations, national socialism, Zionism, national socialism, fascism,..etc. didn't evolve out of the blue. In other words, what Hitler did in Europe was only a small dose of what Europeans did in the global south for centuries. Let us be honest: only a few European nations wanted their Jewish citizens to remain, and none of those were in Central and Eastern Europe (examine Winston Churchill's antisemitism on full display as late as July 1937). Now, do you understand why all Europeans eagerly voted for partitioning Palestine in 1947? Why wouldn't they when many of them handed their Jewish citizens to the SS just a few years earlier? What is better than dumping their "Jewish problem" onto Palestine, thus, out of sight out of mind. What is the big deal if Palestinians paid for Europeans' antisemitism with their hopes and dreams? Many indigenous peoples were genocided, and Palestinians fared much better; right? Well, that is what Nakba was to Palestinians.

Fake Valor: Daddy, what did you do during the Holocaust while you were in Palestine?

For those reasons, Zionists of all shades lobbied like against any haven for Jews except for Palestine. Saving Jews outside of Palestine rendered their evil project mute; that is why the catastrophe had to happen to enable Zionism! Think about it: why a "Jewish state" is needed when Jews could have been saved somewhere else? When antisemitism wasn't good for Zionism? Never!

Some may think that was an afterthought, that wasn't done with bad intentions, and stuff just happened as such. Well, hang on to your seat. Soon after WWII was under way, Zionist leaders of all shades knew well that they cannot fight Hitler and the British White Paper of 1939 at the same time, and one of them had to give. That is why fighting Nazis was avoided to the bitter end; that was left for the Gentiles. Note how Zionist knew well that fighting Hitler was also correlated with rescuing Jews to places other than Palestine. Thus, such rescue schemes must be hindered as much as possible and their funds diverted to the Zionist projects in Palestine. In a nutshell, that precisely Jewish plight was monetized politically and financially. For the love of God, the word "rescue" to Zionist leaders during the pre-Nakba period had negative connotations; poor Ben-Gurion's stomach used to turn when he used such a word! Much to our surprise, much of American Jewry voted in favor of such an agenda at the height of the calamity and only a vocal minority of them dissented! We are aware that the facts are too much to fathom; but trust us on this one: once you read the details from Israeli and Zionist sources, you may lose trust in humanity.

Which hate speech was worse: Hitler's hate speech at the Reichstag on Jan 30th, 1939, or Ben-Gurion's speech (just two months before Hitler's speech) when he incited the murder of German Jews a month after Kristallnacht?

Ironically, Jews and those who ganged upon them are on "good" terms, and bygones became bygones soon after the Holocaust, although the graves were still fresh! You would think Jews, among all people, have six million reasons not be in the same bed with fascists so quickly! If you believe that Germany was quickly denazified after WWII ended, then you need to get your head examined! Much of Nazism was only rebranded in the name of defeating communism! Fascism didn't appear lately all of a sudden; it has been always simmering under the surface since WWII ended, and its ambers (e.g., copycat version of Father Charles Coughlin) have been flaring up all over the "liberal" West. What happened by the Germans could easily have been done by any European nation plus America (see Rachel Meadow's Ultra series if you care). Just imagine several versions of mini-Hitler but with a hundred nuclear warheads! Well, that is a reality; say hello to Bibi! Fasten your seat belts; the future is not going to be pretty, and the system we have is way more fragile than most people think!