Haavara FAQs: David Ben-Gurion on Catastrophic Zionism: The Jews will be safe ONLY in Eretz Yisrael

Here is another proof proving that what you read already was only the canary in the coal mine: Two years way before the 1938 pogrom, Ben-Gurion spoke forcefully in defense of the Haavara Agreement on December 11th, 1935. Note how he spoke of the destruction of German Jewry six years before the fact. Despite Ben-Gurion's assertion, he and other Jewish Agency Executives (JAE) allocated under 16% of the immigration certificates to German Jewry, many of those certificates were granted by the British Mandate in the first place:

Only Eretz-Israel can serve as a cure for German Jewry, even if not for all of them; any other "cure" is a false hope [Ben-Gurion was known to use another more expressive term: "Witch Doctor's Medicine"]. We cannot topple Hitler; perhaps he will be toppled some other way. We must be concerned with the fate of the children and women, who are choking in this destructive hell. There is one way to rescue them-- to bring them to Eretz-Israel, with their capital. Their capital -- that is, merchandise, and by this I do not mean French or English merchandise. The only question is whether the money will return to Germany. This is not German merchandise; this is Jewish capital, belonging to Jews who are going to their destruction ... we have no other honor except by rescuing Jews and bringing them to Eretz-Israel.'" (The Yishuv In The Shadow Of The Holocaust, p. 104)

[In a nutshell, those Jews who didn't immigrate to Palestine and chose to be saved somewhere else were as good as dead. Actually, in the Zionist literature, there is a name for this apocalyptic phenomenon: Catastrophic Zionism! Thus, what Ben-Gurion wrote in late 1935 was the canary in the coal mine and the prelude for what the Zionists did during WWII. In practice, the Zionists spent almost nothing on rescuing European Jewry! We examined the Jewish Agency's budget!]