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HaKatan: Ben Hecht didn’t read the history when he wrote Perfidy. Researchers have shown that numerous things he claimed as facts were flat out untrue. As chiefshmerel wrote, Hecht had an agenda, to attack Ben Gurion, and he did so by going through Kastner.
You also completely ignored my other post, and just kept on attacking Zionists as a whole, without differentiating between the secular and the religious. They are not the same. Get that through your thick skull.
As for the Six Day War, the fact that R’ Yaakov said Hallel Hagadol means that he recognized it as a good thing. All the other excuses (whether it’s Satmar claiming it was from the Satan, or claiming that the CIA knew it would happen) don’t matter. Besides, even if the CIA claimed it would happen – do you deny that everything is Ratzon Hashem?
People say that R’ Kook zt”l was blinded by his love for Eretz Yisrael, and made incorrect choices because of it. I say that the Satmar Rav was blinded by his hatred, and made bad choices because of it.