Rabbiofberlin, the argument about Palestine is as follows. Some fellows claim it was a gross blunder on the part of the Gedolim not to tell people to go to E. Yisroel. Chocandpatience answered to that that Rommel almost got there, and the Jews of E.Yisroel were saved at the last second.
Again,the danger of Hitler did not become totaly apparent till 1938.