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HaKatan and Yankel Berel,

In fact, the Haavara Plan was a great success, There was a mass aliya from Germany which established the banking and insurance industries and gave a great impetus to the building industry (the joke was that an assistant bricklayer handed a brick to a bricklayer and said “Bitte schön, Herr Doktor” and was answered “Danke schön, Herr Doktor”). They also established the Israel Philharmonic.

Unfortunately, the British violated the terms of the Mandate again (the first time was when they gave the area east of the Jordan River to Abdullah I in 1922 for services rendered during World War I) , greatly restricted Jewish immigration in 1936 in a vain attempt to appease the Mufti ym”s and completely stopped it in 1939. They could have, and should have, responded to the Arab Revolt by adding Poland and Romania, both of whose governments wanted to expel their Jews to the Plan. They also folded at Munich despite the fact that anti-Nazi German generals sent back-channel messages saying that he German army was not ready for a war and would lose. They would then use the loss as an excuse to stage a coup. Thus, along with an agreement by various countries to take in Jews, who could have helped them get out of the Depression, would have averted the Holocaust. So don’t blame the Zionists or HaShem. He gave people enough chances and the Zionists were willing. Blame the appeasers and anti-Semites.