Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Osama bin Lauden's al Qaeda and the Jews

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                     
Back when Russia had invaded Afghanistan in 1988, when I had been back in the USA for 3 years already after living in Israel for over 5 years, a very tall 6'5" Saudi Arabian, 1957 born,  by the name of Osama bin Laden and a few of his
friends founded their group called al Qaeda, or THE BASE/ THE FOUNDATION/THE DATABASE.  It was a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization.

They became a network of extremists such as Salafist jihadists.  Salafists are:
"A school of Sunni Islam that condemns theological innova-
tion and advocates strict adherence to shari'a and to the soc-
ial   structures existing in the earliest days of Islam."

They are listed as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the EU, the USA, the UK, Russia, India and many other countries as well.  What they do best is attack people.

Al-Qaeda has attacked targets in many countries which include the USA embassy bombing, September 11th attacks in New York City, and  2002 Bali bombings.  
                                                             
Twin Towers hit

They had planned and executed this killing in New York by learning to fly a plane and ramming 2 of them into 2 high rise buildings, causing their destruction and that of the occupants.  Another plane was high-jacked with the American occupants taking over and causing the plane to crash with far less damage other than their own lives which they realized were not going to last in this plot.  Lives were saved in that one.  
                                                                             
The USA responded to their 3,000 some deaths with "THE WAR ON TERROR.'  Osama was finally shot by USA Navy Seals in Pakistan.in 2011.  He was 3 years younger than my daughter.   
                                                    

Among the many hateful and confusing beliefs al-Qaeda members hold is the conviction that a Christian-Jewish alliance is conspiring to destroy Islam.  They have something like a persecution complex.  It couldn't be because they are so cruel to everyone, could it be?  Maybe they have a pang of guilt?  Do they feel they cannot compete in this religious race to claim the best title?  

As Salfist jihadists, members of al-Qaeda believe that the killing of non-combatists is religiously sanctioned.  In their world, it's okay to kill the unarmed.  Not even a shoot-out, cowboy style.  
                                                         
Al Qaeda Terrorists

They are ignoring the aspects of religious scripture which forbids the murder of non-combatants and internecine fighting (someone marked by slaughter) that you find in other religions.  Now I can think of occasions, where even the best of countries have used this way, such as going after Hitler's henchmen or punishing the people who slaughtered our Israeli athletes in the Olympics.  
                                                         
Covering their faces, knowing what they do is unacceptable by others

Al-Qaeda is a different group from others in that they also oppose what they regard as man-made laws.  This would be any law not created in their book of Islam according to Salafists.  A country's law is ignored.  They intend to replace all of "man-made" laws with a strict form of sharia law.  
                                                     
While USA fights ISIS, Al-Qaeda has been growing again

With a philosophy like this, they haven't gotten along with other Muslims, either.  They are responsible for instigating sectarian violence among their own Muslim people.  They regard the liberal Muslims such as Shias, Sufis and other sects as heretics.  At the same time, there is a big difference of opinions between the Sunni and the Shias that had led to the war between Iraq and Iran with Iran being the Shias who are led by the Ayatollas, a group even stricter than Sunnis.  Al-Qaeda have attacked their fellow Muslims in their mosques and gathering without batting an eye.  Examples of this were the sectarian attacks on the Yazidi community bombings, the Sadr City bombings, the Ashoura massacre and the April 2007 Baghdad bombings.  
                                                       
An offshoot of al-Qaeda is growing in Pakistan again

Unlike Judaism, the difference in Islamists seems to be the level of militarism is involved in their group.  The more religious they are, the more they punish anyone for not complying 100%.  It's their way of life.  
                                                     
Bin Laden was finally shot by the Navy Seals who landed in Pakistan in 2011, and since then al Qaeda has been led by Egyptian Ayman al Zawahiri.  This belief was not confined to Saudi Arabia, then.  It's a world-wide thought with this 2nd largest religious group in the world.  The radical side of their religion was brought out during the ISLAMIC REVIVAL and the rise of THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT after the Iranian revolution.  I think I can pin this all on the Ayatollas then.  
                                                        
Sayyid Qutb Ibrahim Husayn Shadhili was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and 1960s.  He died in 1966 in Cairo, Egypt.   en.wikipedia.org

An author, Sayyid Qutb, may have also inspired the organization of al-Qaeda.  In 1950 and 1960 he preached that because of the lack of Sharia law, the Muslim world was no longer Muslim.  Righteous Muslims were needed to establish true Islamic states with Sharia Law and rid the Muslim world of any non-Muslim influences, like the enemies of Israel which would be WORLD JEWRY.  Remember, they believe were are plotting conspiracies to oppose Islam. 

Sharia is enforced in Muslim-majority nations in a number of ways, including mutaween (police enforcement) and hisbahmutaween (Arabicالمطوعين، مطوعية‎ muṭawwiʿīn, muṭawwiʿiyyah) are the government-authorized or government-recognized religious police (or clerical police) of Saudi Arabia. Elsewhere, enforcement of Islamic values in accordance with sharia is the responsibility of the Polisi Perda Syariah Islam in Aceh province of Indonesia, the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Gaza Strip) in parts of Palestine, and the Basiji Force in Iran."

He did not approve of Western culture, but could not leave that alone.  He was judge and jury against Westerners..  "Regarding the excesses of American culture—vulgarity, materialism and promiscuity—Qutb expressed shock, but it rang a bit hollow. “The American girl is well acquainted with her body’s seductive capacity,” he wrote. “She knows seductiveness lies in the round breasts, the full buttocks, and in the shapely thighs, sleek legs and she shows all this and does not hide it.” These curvy jezebels pursued boys with “wide, strapping chest[s]” and “ox muscles,” Qutb added with disgust. Yet no matter how lascivious his adjectives, the fastidious, unmarried Egyptian could not convincingly portray the church dances and Look magazines he encountered in sleepy Greeley as constituting a genuine sexual “jungle.”
                                                      
Taliban terrorists.  Ready to kill fellow Muslims

 Qutb said that many Muslims were not true Muslims but were apostates.  They were the leaders of Muslim countries of which there are 48 Muslim majority countries in the world with the hopeful Palestine being the 49th if they ever stop disagreeing with each other.  They have not done the job of enforcing Sharia Law according to al-Qaeda standards.  Oh yes, he has died by execution.  
                                                             
Taliban in Pakistan

By the end of 2008, the Taliban was said to have left al-Qaeda, but it can be questioned as there were fewer than 100 members of al-Qaeda remaining in Afghanistan in 2009.  After all, Al-Qaeda had been originally a Pakistan home group.  

Today, according to the Washington Times, "BEIRUT (AP) It only took a few days for al-Qaeda-linked militants to seize more than two dozen towns and villages in northern Syria from rival insurgents earlier this month, cementing their control over an area the size of neighboring Lebanon."  They are in Syria alive and active once again.  This comes at the time when Trump is trying to withdraw its 2,000 American forces from Syria because it's thought that ISIS has been beaten.  Frankly, there is hardly any difference between ISIS and al-Qaeda that I can see.  They are both Salafists, the extreme end of Islam.  This group,  Levant Liberation Committee, is just led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, out to make a name for himself.  This attack should give  "Assad and his allies the justification to assault the province.”  

Bruce Hoffman of " Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies" says, 
ISIS terrorists at some 25,000 to 30,000, and 
Al Qaeda’s at about 30,000. 
Some 40,000 foreign terrorists from 120 countries joined ISIS for the wars in Syria and Iraq, with 
some 15,000  having fled to other countries or returned home. (40,000-15,000=25,000 remaining.) 

Remember, al Qaeda has grown again since bin Laden.  


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/30/al-qaidas-advance-in-northern-syria-threatens-frag/
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/terror-experts-expect-the-worst/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-lesson-in-hate-109822568/




Safety of Israel Is Thermometer of World's Bent For War

Nadene Goldfoot
                                                                           
This was Israel 2007-population density
The south is a desert-the Negev.
The north is Lebanon and Syria
The east is Judea/Samaria and Jordan
The west is the tiny liveable strip -Israel
and the Mediterranean Sea
It's the last day of January 2019 and we live in a futuristic world making so much so easy.  How is that affecting the mental state of the people who live in this world?  Is it all love and kindness? 

Spoken about as the center of the world for centuries, the hub of trade routes, is the renewed state of Israel.  She is still having problems being accepted by others as "not one of them."  You'd think she came from outer space!  Her neighbors are not friendly.  They state they are enemies, and indeed, they are!
                                                                         
Syrian rockets 
To Israel's east, Iran is a huge state, long ago the empire of Persia who has not let go it's empire-building dreams.  They have shoveled  billions of dollars to the terrorist group of HAMAS and HEZBOLLAH who are in Lebanon and Syria .  In early January, Iranian forces fired 20 or more rockets at Israel from Syria which was an attack on Israel.  Syria has had rockets aimed at Israel for years, not firing them until now.  
                                                                       
Iran has already spent much time threatening Israel, calling her every dirty name they could think of.  Ahmadinejad, now retired from his up front position as president,  made the threats. He was sort of their leader, the loud mouth one.  In reality, it's the Ayatollas who pull the strings in this country.  
                                                         
David's Sling
  
Israel's Defense System

 To the north, Israel had to "deploy its U.S. made Patriot anti-missile system this year to intercept 2 Syrian drones and a Syrian fighter jet that crossed into Israel airspace."  Then Israel used its  DAVID'S SLING missile defense system 
to confront 2 ballistic missiles from Syria.  This was the first time Israel had to use DAVID'S SLING in combat.  It can shoot down medium range missiles.  
                                                     
Rockets from Gaza aiming for Israel
        
Rockets from Gaza

In Israel's south, Gaza is full of terrorists that are mostly Hamas followers since they voted in their own political party.  They have not only flown kites with fire, causing forests and fields of wheat to burn up, but never did stop firing rockets and mortars into Israel towns where civilians live.  Israel was hit with 2 different attacks this past summer of 2018 lasting 48 hours each with 200 rockets each time.  Israel's IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM shot down over 50 rockets before they struck  populated neighborhoods.   
                                                      

At the UNITED NATIONS (UN) the UN Human Rights Council is promoting the BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL and 22 law-abiding American companies because they do business with Israel.  This is their form of missiles and rockets, ammunition to destroy Israel.  It is the UN, who on May 14, 1948 voted to accept Israel as a state among world nations.  They now side with the ANTI-SEMITES.    This pretty much divides the world into 2 camps; the USA and Israel, and the rest.  It is who IRAN calls the big Satan and the little Satan, the USA and Israel.  And not too long ago it was Iran who was the USA's friend, until the Ayatollahs came along.  The UN has turned out to be a travesty for Israel, turning against her without any defense because new accepted states view her as something to get rid of.  Politics rule with mankind over and over instead of justice.  Mankind continues to be weak, as weak as they were in Sodom and Gomorrah's day.  

At any moment, attacks can strike by land, sea, air or even below ground against Israel.  How, you ask, do the people manage life? They must.  There is no other choice.  They do.  They enjoy every day and plan for their future.  With such a small state, women also are part of the IDF, unlike other countries.  People should realize that after the WWII Holocaust, Jews are not about to be slaughtered again.  They are about LIFE and LIFE for everyone.  

 In Oregon, some people are walking around fearful of the big earthquake science has predicted to happen within anytime.  They live with this knowledge and pass it onto their parents.  New York knows that terrorists can hit in many ways and have already in their fateful 9/11.  Now our Congress in the USA is being invaded by Israel-haters as well as the UN has been.   
                                                     
The original David and his sling when he took down Goliath, the Giant.

I'm waiting for Israel to invent the sling that will catch and return in kind.  Throw it back to them.  But then, we do live under the command of DON'T DO TO OTHERS WHAT YOU DON'T WANT OTHERS TO DO UNTO YOU. What Israel brings to the world, besides the Torah and the world's whole OLD Testament, is ways of continuing to live in the fields of medicine and other scientific findings.  For this, the neighbors have been taught to hate them?  To rub them out?   Strange people in this world.  Strangest in the UN today.  

Resource:  American Israel Public Affairs Committee update
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad



Wednesday, January 23, 2019

World War II's Jews of the Balkan States: Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia-Croatia and United Nations

Nadene Goldfoot                          
Haj Amin al Husseini
Muslim Sherif of Jerusalem-appointed by a British Jew
When Britain Held the 30 year Mandate Rule over Palestine, ending in 1948.
He wanted all Jews out of Palestine.  

Usually most Jews of the USA's Ashkenazi ancestors came from the Pale of Settlement, that area that Catherine II of Russia controlled.  She kept Jews in the Pale, transferring Jews from Russia to live there as her country was supposed to be free of Jews.  

The UN had refugee centers for non Jews in the Balkans during WWII, which contrasts the refugee centers for today's Muslims escaping wars from Muslim terrorists such as ISIS and al Qaeda against other Muslims of different Islamic  persuasions.  All this has been causing countries to step in such as Russia and Iran, the USA and a world coalition.  So far, Iraq has fallen and Syria is holding on by a thread with everyone's intervention against his horrific hold on his people.  

Now nice the UN was and acted to help refugees.  How Jews were rounded up to meet their deaths was beyond belief, instead.  
                                                       
              
Bulgaria also had a history of Jews living there since the days of the Romans when they destroyed Jerusalem and their Temple in 70 CE.  By the Middle Ages, they were Christianized, probably the advent of the SPANISH INQUISITION when Jews were forced to  submit to Christianity or leave or be killed.  They continued to show a marked influence of Judaism in their new Christian practices.  

Many Jews fleeing from central Europe with their anti-Semitic acts of slaughter found refuge in Bulgaria in that Middle Age period.  This was the center of Byzantium and their Empire.
                                                           

The queen of Ivan Alexander, Czar of Bulgaria from 1331 to 1355 was the former Jewish lady, THEODORA.  She was the Queen of Constantinople.  
It's a repeat of Queen Esther's experience, being a Jewish queen.  

After Spain's 1492 expulsion of Jews from their country unless they converted to Christianity, Jews moved to Bulgaria and established new Sephardic communities.  Most had moved from Salonica.  Communities from  Sofia, Nicopolis and Pievna became the most important centers.For centuries, the Jews were typical Turkish communities.   
                                                        
Tradition Bulgarian costume

In 1878, the CONGRESS OF BERLIN created a stand of religious equality as a condition.  This was generally observed, not withstanding the persistence of some prejudices, in Bulgaria.  Even during WWII when they were allied with Nazi Germany, the Bulgarian government refused to carry out the German anti-Semitic policies except in what they considered to be minor matters, and the Bulgarian community was the only one in occupied Europe besides Finland, which escaped mass-deportations of Jews to gas chambers and death.                                                

Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Nazi 

                                                      
Also, it should be noted, that the Zionist movement was strong in this country.  
During WWII, some Bulgarian Jews reached safety in 1940. The Nazi "Final Solution" slaughtered Jews.  Jews were deported from Macedonia and Thrace in 1943.  The King of Bulgaria intervened to protect Jews  in 1943.  Negotiations  had begun with the governments of Bulgaria, Hungary and Denmark at the time when the Jews of Poland were boxed in, with the object of starting the evacuation of Jews of these countries by the Nazi, Ribbentrop.  It was in Poland and western Russia that Jews were trapped and had no way to escape.  So were the Jews of Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia by Nazi rule.  The Jews of Denmark, Italy, Bulgaria and Hungary were untouched up to that date.  
  
After 1948, almost the entire community of Jews transferred itself, with the approval of Bulgaria's government, to Israel.  The Jewish population in 1990 was 5,000 remaining Jews out of a former 48,000.
                                                      
The plot to get rid of Jews in WWII with Nazis.

Then why, if things were so good for Jews, were "Bulgarians" part of the WWII refugee program rescued by Middle Eastern countries of Syria, , Egypt, Palestine, numbered in the 10s of thousands reported by the Middle East Relief and Refugees Administration (MERRA)?  Were Jews among these refugees?  Were any taken into Palestine?
                                                        
1941 The Grand Mufti and Hitler in Germany

At the time, it was a Palestinian by the name of Haj Amin al Husseini, the so called Sherif of Jerusalem AKA the Grand Mufti, who made a special trip to Germany to converse with HITLER about us accursed Jews.  He wanted us out of Palestine, and we had always been there.  After 70 CE, things had changed and many were taken by the Romans into Rome, etc, while others had sought refuge in Spain, fleeing such horrible lives of slavery, or being used in coliseums in animal shows where people were eaten, etc. However, Jews had been able to remain.  Jews had always lived there; Mizrachi Jews.   We had Jews returning from the Russian areas by 1880 and moving into Palestine to join those whose ancestors had stayed.  Islam has been an aggressive culture since Mohammad had died in 632, and so many admired Hitler, also an aggressive conqueror.  This is seen in their interest in Nazi literature since then, and their refusal to make peace with Jews of Israel.  
                                                      
Blue lands are the Axis. Look at Europe.  

Hitler was plotting his 3rd Reich!.   "It was April 1941. Hitler and Stalin had already divvied up Poland (containing a large Jewish population), and the Germans had swallowed most of Western Europe. On April 6, 1941, Hitler ordered his Wehrmacht to invade Yugoslavia and Greece, an effort to secure Germany’s flank for the Fuhrer’s upcoming attack on the Soviet Union.  (Note, both countries took by force, Poland, and then Germany turned on Russia.)  
                                                                   

Europeans—largely women and children from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia—fled the onslaught. Where would they go?"  Did the group include Jews? 
The new United Nations (UN) since 1942 had established MERRA (MIDDLE EAST RELIEF & REFUGEES ADMINISTRATION, camps in Syria, Egypt and Palestine.   You can bet your bottom dollar that no Jews were allowed into them.  They were being taken away by the Nazis for extermination.  Middle Easterners were being brain-washed already to rid themselves of Jews.  
                                                                 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt declaring War against Germany
"The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers.." The Axis were those siding with Germany: Italy, Ottoman Empire (Turkey and their Middle East Holdings) and Japan.  
Croatia used to be Yugoslavia.  Jews also lived here since the Roman Times.  Jewish refugees had settled here from the 1492 Spanish Inquisition.  Belgrade and Sarajevo were important Jewish centers where the Sephardi traditions were preserved.  Serbia re-established her independence in the 19th century and treated Jews badly.  They turned around and followed the 1878 dictum towards Jews and their Jewish Problem disappeared.  Then there was a Balkan War before WWI in 1912-13 and former Austrian territories taken after WWI added an Ashkenazi group of Jews to their lands. In WWII the Germans supported by Bosnian Moslems and led by Haj Amin al Husseini, carried out deportations and massacres big-time.  After the war, only 10,500 Jews out of 72,000 Jews were left alive in Yugoslavia.  8,000 of them had immigrated to Israel after 1948.  The remaining Jewish population in 1990 was 4,800.  I see most countries with remaining Jews would have been an older population, feeling unable to handle newer conditions of language and work and homes.  The Italian General in Croatia refused to hand over Jews in his zone to the German army.  4 days later, some Mussolini's subordinates had been influenced by by opposition in the Vatican to the German-style anti-Semitism.  No Jews were deported from Italy to the death camps until after the fall of Mussolini and the German occupation of Northern Italy in 1943.  Deportations to Birkenau continued.  There they gassed in the last week of September 1942 several hundred from Slovakia.  
Greece had been in contact with Jews since Biblical times and some Jews had lived there since by 2nd century BCE.  Synagogues were built there were found by Paul, the apostle of the New Testament.  Jews in the Byzantine Empire suffered terribly with attempts at enforcing wholesale conversion on them from the 7th century onward.  The Spanish Inquisition of 1492 and refugees from Spain overwhelmed the local communities and became entirely Sephardi in culture.  Only in CORFU was an original Greek rite of prayer preserved.  Salonica attracted more Jewish settlers, and other seaports was also selected for new Jewish communities.  Athens was a city with anti-Semitic attacks happening.  Salonica in 1912 was captured and under Greek rule and held one of the largest Jewish communities.  Populations between Greece and Turkey was exchanged.  Wholesale deportations of Jews occurred in 1941.  Many towns lost 90% of their Jewish population.  Taken away were 60,332 out of 76,420 Jews.  Salonica was left with 1,100 Jews.  Over 2,000 Greek Jews immigrated to Israel after 1948.  The Jewish population of Greece in 1990 was 4,875.  My neighbor in Haifa was a Greek Jewess who looked just like Sofia Loren only smaller.  Beautiful lady that she was, she and her young husband who was in the IDF had offered to board my German shepherd for me while I studied Hebrew in the Ulpan In 1944 on September 25th, the Chief Rabbi of Athens escaped from the capital disguised as a peasant and reached Thessaly and relative security.  There, Rabbi Barzilai encourage Greek Jews to join the partisans ar go into hiding.  He worked with the Greek partisans to arrange for more than 600 Greek Jews to be smuggled by boat across the Aegean Sea to safety of neutral Turkey.  In return, the Jews smuggled boots and money by sea to the Greek resistance.  
                                                                   
Jew of Ottoman Empire
Turkey, home of the Ottoman Empire, is part of Asia Minor.  A synagogue was built there in 1326 in the MIddle Ages.  Later, from their conquest, many other Jewish communities were part of this Empire as Salonica was captured in 1430 and Constantinople in 1453.  The Spanish Inquitision of 1942 caused the Ottoman Empire to open their doors to the Jews of Spain and later for the Jewish Portugal and other land.  Jews became favored people!  They had become the valuable trading and artisan element and were a counterpoint to the potentially disloyal Christian minorities.  Istanbul (now Constantinople), Adrianople, Smyrna (Izmir) and Salonica became the intellectual centers of Sephardi Jewry.  
Palestine was part of the Turkish Empire from 1517 till the end of WWI in 1917.  So was Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, etc.  Sultans applied their normal Moslem code against the Jews but were not really strict about it in every country.  That was that Jews were 2nd class citizens and had to pay a tax to really stay alive.  When WWI ended the Ottoman Empire in 1917was over,  and before that when Jews were entering Palestine from 1880 onward, the attitude  of the empire had started to change for the worse.  The book, THE SETTLERS, by Meyer Levin, describes the Jews return to Palestine in 1880 and onward in an exciting novel of 832 pages detailing it so well you'll feel you were there.  
It's good that the UN helped out the Christian European refugees, but what did they do for the Jews who lost their 6 million lives?  Not a thing.  The USA turned away thousands of Jewish refugees.  The excuse used was that we could threaten National Security.  They said we might be Nazi spies.  If anyone ever knew what was happening in German from the middle 30s onward, they would NOT say such dumb things. 
                                                           
My uncle escaped Germany in May 1939, one of the last Jews to get out alive.  The attacks on Jews had become horrific.  He had spent time in a center later to be one of the gas chambers as a 21 year old walking his cow to his father's slaughter house to become sausage.  As a Jews, we aren't cruel to animals, just the opposite.  Our kosher laws include how to kill the animals without any pain involved, or even without the cow's knowledge of what will happen to them.   It was an idiodic excuse used to put a Jew in a horrible prison and torture him, which is what happened.  "“I think the fear was genuine, but misplaced,” Friedman said. “That is, none of the Jewish refugees who arrived in the United States has ever been found to have done anything in the interest of the Nazis. They fled them. They didn’t want to help them.”
                                                         
Most notoriously, in June 1939, the German ocean liner St. Louis and its 937 passengers, almost all Jewish, were turned away from the port of Miami, forcing the ship to return to Europe; more than a quarter died in the Holocaust. My uncle missed boarding this fatal ship by one month, fleeingin the SS Washington, instead in May 1939. 
Jews were turned back on the ship, St. Louis and not allowed to land.  They were forced to return to Europe and them most died in the gas chambers.  
Patria with Jewish refugees that made it to Haifa,
was blown up  on November 25, 1940
As I read, the UN never helped the Jews.  It was the Jews who had to help themselves, as no one else did.  400,000 Jews of Warsaw and 2 million and more under German rule in November 1940 had no means of escaping death.  Jewish refugees from central Europe had reached Slovakia earlier and went by ship down the Danube River to the Black Sea and got to Palestine. Warsaw's Jews in late November faced the perils of the ghetto, and 1,771 of them, arrivals from  Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, had reached Haifa (Palestine) on 2 tramp steamers, the MILOS and the PACIFIC.  About 3 days later, the Atlantic appeard.  There refugess did not have valid certificates for Palestine.  The Brits were the law there. The Brits ordered them to transfer to another 4th boat, the PATRIA for deportation to go to the Indian Island of Mauritius.  On November 25th, during the transferring from ship to ship, a few Jews who were determined to stay, tried to keep the ship there by disabling the Patria to prevent it from sailing.   They misjudged their work, and the ship sunk with 250 refugees drowned in their efforts.  In the meantime, German propaganda was growing by leaps and bounds.    Remember, the Brits were told by the League of Nations to assist the Jews in creating the Jewish Homeland.  They held the 30 year mandate for Palestine.  Instead, they were known to be assisting Arabs to enter and kept Jews out at a time of their greatest peril.  

We've always had to depend on ourselves.  The same has happened with Israel.  It's a little country that has done the fighting themselves.  How great it's been when there have been people who have helped with arms, etc.  
This is why Israel is the Jewish Homeland.  "The Land of Israel was always regarded by Jews as the Jewish homeland. After its establishment in 1948, the State of Israel adopted the 1950 Law of Return restoring Israel as the Jewish homeland and making it the place of refuge for Jewish refugees at the time and into the future. This law was intended to encourage Jews to return to their homeland in Israel."  It took from the time of WWI of 1914- 1917 till 1948 to get this to happen.  

Resource:  The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia
THE HOLOCAUST-A HISTORY OF THE JEWS OF EUROPE DURING THE 2ND WORLD WAR, BY MARTIN GILBERT
https://anonhq.com/rare-photos-european-refugee-camps-syria-height-world-war-ii/?fbclid=IwAR1mTdKFXIA7BB8ahvyWRLZwjMj-74jbvGg_5F2EWyDJ4XDzvMrZyRJQXtk
https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/how-middle-easterners-treated-european-refugees-during-wwii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine_(legal_instrument)
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Axis-Powers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-government-turned-away-thousands-jewish-refugees-fearing-they-were-nazi-spies-180957324/
 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-government-turned-away-thousands-jewish-refugees-fearing-they-were-nazi-spies-180957324/#Fj95TtITKqKAzOWu.99
https://thinkprogress.org/america-turned-away-jewish-refugees-because-some-were-feared-to-be-nazi-agents-b3f3524b182d/
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/about/final-solution-beginning/baltic-states.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Mandate_for_Palestine_(legal_instrument)
and Romania: http://www.ruthfullyyours.com/2019/02/16/this-day-in-history-feburary-16-2019/