When Eichmann Met The Haganah

From episode five of the TV series Hitler’s Bodyguards:

TV: “The Haganah made contact with Himmler’s SS to facilitate further Jewish immigration to Palestine… They eventually met in Cairo on November 10, 1937. The Haganah agent attempted to enlist Adolf Eichmann’s help by hinting of one other Jewish conspiracy to kill Hitler. He offered to look further into this plot and to spy further for the Nazis in exchange for getting Jews out of Germany. These inducements had considerable success.”

Haganah agent Yitzhak Ben Ami: “He helped us. He gave us foreign exchange. He gave us permits to take people out of Monrovia, Slovakia, Vienna. As long as we could move people out, we had his support.”

Narrator: “Haganah’s twisted view was that the Zionists should cooperate with the Nazis because they built up the number of Jews in Palestine.”

In 1939, the British banned further Jewish immigration into Palestine.

The show says that Hitler admired and hated Stalin’s ruthlessness, he was anti-capitalist and ran Germany on socialist lines, but drew the line at German communists ready to submit to their masters in the Soviet Union. “The German nation was sacred to Hitler and he would never allow it to be undermined by foreign influences.”

Times of Israel:

Secret file reveals Haganah feared Eichmann infiltration post-WWII

A recently discovered document shows that a secret network of pre-state Jewish intelligence leaders were on alert for a possible Adolf Eichmann escape to British Mandate Palestine following World War II.

It would not have been Eichmann’s first time in the Holy Land. In 1937 he had toured Palestine before he was quickly expelled by the British, with the aim of discussing a large-scale Jewish immigration with Arab leaders.

On the taped-together yellowed document, dated October 20, 1947, it is written that because of Eichmann’s “vast experience” while working in the Nazis’ Jewish department, the Shay pre-state military intelligence division of the Haganah feared he would attempt to infiltrate Israel and pass himself off as a Jew.

Eichmann, who had headed the Nazi’s SD Scientific Museum of Jewish Affairs, was the Gestapo’s self-proclaimed “Jewish expert.” The document cites his knowledge of Hebrew and Yiddish, and his organizational skills as a high-level Nazi officer.

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The YU Experience

Rabbi Dr. Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff says in this May 29, 2017 lecture: “The Rav said we have to have a real college… They had to get real professors to get accreditation… It has to be a real university experience. We have to prepare the youngsters to live in America… We had classes in English literature. There was one professor, every second sentence had a curse word. Academic freedom. There were classes in Darwin’s biology and Greek mythology. The kids would go crying to the Rav. ‘How can we study Greek mythology?’ The Rav would say, ‘You don’t want to understand the foundations of Western civilization?'”

“Biblical criticism did not enter the YU curriculum. Bible classes were very elementary. Biblical criticism is not part of Western culture. It is apikoros (heresy)… They could teach Talmudic criticism in Bernard Revel Graduate School.”

“What is J-E-P-D?”

“The greatest gift I got was studying Greek mythology.”

“Look at where we are today — the President of United States locker talk. Trump. It’s his third marriage.”

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When ‘obsessed’ is used as a put-down, I know the accuser doesn’t have honor and doesn’t have an argument

I notice that in online wars, one of the first put-downs used is “obsessed.” If somebody writes frequently about one topic, the person is “obsessed” if you don’t like what he writes, be it on Jews, blacks, WASPs, Chinese, Republicans, etc. You could just as easily note that the person is focused or diligent or consistent.

There are only two honorable forms of argument — to challenge facts or logic. Everything else is dirty.

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Why Are There So Many Jews In The Media/Banking/Whatever?

As media, banking and other businesses are businesses and need to make a profit to stay in business, then it seems obvious to me that the primary reason that Jews dominate certain fields, just like WASPs dominate other fields and blacks dominate other fields and Chinese dominate other fields, is that each of these groups has special skills. Jews, for example, have high verbal IQs, so one would naturally expect them to have success beyond their numbers in the general population in businesses such as media, law, politics, and lobbying. Also, because Jews tend to have a greater capacity for cohesion than other groups, you’d expect Jews to do well in all jobs that require networking and extended cooperation.

If Jews sucked as making movies, they’d go broke. If they sucked at banking and law, they’d be out-competed by other groups. In some fields Jews have traditionally dominated, I expect, other groups are now out-competing them.

If Jews and Chinese etc hold jobs primarily due to merit, I’d expect that would redound to the benefit of the country as a whole. Why would one want to go to an inferior surgeon simply because they were of your race or religion? Why would one go to an inferior lawyer simply because they were of your race and religion? Would you prefer your plane be guided by an inferior air traffic controller simply because they were of your race and religion? In most jobs, I think we want the very best workers, whatever their race and religion. As God/nature have seen fit to distribute skills unevenly, I would expect uneven numbers of Jews and other races in different jobs.

I see some cogent critiques of my “May the best man win” attitude. For example, having more flexible ethics in some businesses allows the slippery to out-compete the honest. Also, if a group can seize monopoly power, it can extract great returns without necessarily delivering a great product or service.

PS. As different peoples have different gifts, this might be the best argument for diversity. The counter argument is that the benefits of such diversity must outweigh the costs, which is not usually evident. A sane white man might well say, “I’m sure latinos, blacks and Muslims have special gifts, but I don’t want your honey and I don’t want your sting.” So I guess the onus goes back on minority groups to prove that they contribute more to the greater good than they subtract, because if the benefits aren’t clear, the majority is insane to tolerate groups who are a net drag.

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‘Criminality Among Jews: An Overview’

Here are the sentences that jumped out to me in this 1971 article by Menachem Amir in the journal Issues in Criminology:

The conclusion of most studies is that Jews have a low crime rate… However, the Jewish crime rate tends to be higher than that of non-Jews…for white collar offenses, that is commercial or commercial-related crimes, such as fraud, fraudulent bankruptcy, and embezzlement. Also, where special laws have been enacted for religious groups, the general crime rate for Jews has tended to be high…

Most of the literature which reaches the conclusion that Jews have a higher crime rate than non-Jews is of the unscientific journalism genre…

Like the non-Jewish prisoners, the Jewish ones were single or divorced…

…in the West coast where Jewish criminality resembles non-Jews.

CAUSATION: WHY DO JEWS HAVE A LOW CRIME RATE?

1. Moderation in the use of alcohol;
2. The strength, support and guidance of the Jewish family;
3. The solidarity and cohesiveness of the Jewish community;
4. The strong emphasis on education and mobility;
5. The socio-economic status and upward mobility of most Jews…

…Jews still see themselves as a minority group who need self-protection from hostile reaction due to its individual members’ transgressions.

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