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ROB,
Rudy Kasztner was far from a tzaddik. He DID ensure complete cooperation of the Hungarian Jews in the ghettos with the SS, while he knew beyond any doubt that they were being deported to Auschwitz for only one purpose. His own defense admitted that much. In return for his silence and collaboration, he received a bone – few hundred Jews belonging to his party, which later was increased to over a thousand.
Just as you do not like, and reasonably so, when the side opposed to your arguments blames Zionists for every calamity, whitewashing its own faults, and covering up the lack of united front in its own ranks, it serves no good purpose, and to the contrary, when you present Dr. Kasztner as a selfless individual whose goal was to save Jewish lives. It simply wasn’t.