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Interestingly, at the time of that 1939 White Paper, two men who
would later strongly support the creation of the modern state of
Israel saw things differently. Winston Churchill spoke to the House
of Commons on May 22, 1939 “as one intimately and responsibly
concerned in the earlier states of our Palestine policy,” and
insisted that he would not “stand by and see the solemn engagements
into which Britain has entered before the world set aside.”
And here at home, Senator Harry S. Truman from Missouri—-who had no
clue at the time that he’d be a major player on the world stage in a
few years–-also issued a forthright condemnation that was inserted
into the Congressional Record:
But instead of embracing the ideas put forth by Taft and Wagner in
1944, the White House, State Department, and other powerful entities
in the government pulled out all the stops to make sure that the idea
of proposing a homeland in Palestine for Jews went away. They did
this even though they knew very well about the ongoing mass
extermination of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
The most lasting legacy of the toxins that created an epochal global
conflict is the fact that elements of Nazism in many ways survive to
this day in Islamism. The short-sightedness of FDR’s cronies was
corrected in part by his successor, a man of courage who chose to
recognize the new State of Israel eleven minutes after its birth in
May of 1948. But the question remains: Why did FDR and company not
get on the bandwagon, even while millions of Jews were being
slaughtered?
Sadly, the real reason has a lot to do with U.S. surrender to Nazi
propaganda—its power and content.
And he had been preparing the hearts and minds of the Muslim world
for many years.
The mind-set that gave way to the Third Reich is very much alive and
well in the Muslim world of the Middle East.
The rhetoric broadcast to the Middle East 70 years ago is still being
noised about—and even more pervasively and effectively. Back then,
the attitudes it reinforced, complete with distortion, hate, and
prejudice, caused U.S. officials, from FDR on down, to “go wobbly”—as
Margaret Thatcher would say.
It is sadly clear that the most lasting impact of the Nazi propaganda
machine is that murderous ideas espoused back then are alive and well
in our day and age and still being used to threaten and kill Jews.