To the editors:

The Orthodoxy in Europe divided the Jews long before the Holocaust by cooperating with the Nazis by preventing the Hundreds of Thousands of young Jews in Europe, willing and able even to walk to Israel, to escape from the slaughter, well known to every young and old what the Nazis had in store.

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Instead of facilitating the escape, the Orthodoxy in full control of the Jewish communal life in Europe, imposed their will upon the young Jews, to wait for the Messiah.

If a State of Israel would have existed, there would not have been an Inquisition in Spain, pogroms in Europe and elsewhere and certainly not a Holocaust. The attempt by Joseph Stalin to start his own holocaust against the Jews in Soviet Russia, initiated with false accusations against the Jewish doctors, demonstrated the moral strength of the sovereign state of Israel.

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