147, you need to read up on the subject. You wrote:
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Well, if the Chareidim were first, how were they not able to convince the British Mandate to have open door policy to every Jew? Especially during the Holocaust. Or maybe they simply didn’t care about or embrace every Jew?”
The obvious answer to your rhetorical question is, aderaba, even though the yishuvim indisputably predate Zionist conquest, the Zionists had the power and world attention.
The Zionists insisted that they alone were the legitimate leaders of the Jewish people and they murdered Yaacov DeHaan, allegedly for that reason. The Zionists also had quite a history during the Holocaust as they were the address for Jewish concerns from the 1920s and on; for example, Chaim Weizmann testified in London on behalf of the Jews for the Peel Commission. The Zionist Jewish Agency for Palestine sent a memo to the Evian conference.
All this was well before the disaster was inestimably worsened with the establishment of the State of Israel.
The yishuv, consisting of Jews who simply wanted to live in peace with their neighbors and to NOT rule over them, was powerless.
Josh, if you are a(n honest) Zionist, you really don’t want to talk about Zionists and the Nazi death machine in the same breath.
There’s much more, but consider this, from AICE, just for starters:
In case you’re wondering, the AICE has, right on their home page, quotes from both Israeli PM Netanyahu and also from President Obama. This is not just some anti-Israel site that states this, but one that supports Israel.
Here is their mission statement: