Dorothy Thompson

The Star-Ledger/September 13, 1947

The events of the last days as they involved Palestine read like a particularly incredible detective story. Some weeks ago Rabbi Baruch Korff, co-chairman of “The Political Action Committee for Palestine,” announced that a fund of $10,000,000 was available for mass invasion of refugees into Palestine by parachute.

Recently, the British foreign office made public that complaints had been received from Hungarian Jewish parents that their children, under pretext of being taken to resorts, had been kidnapped to swell Jewish immigration into Palestine.

Plot to Bomb London Remains Unexplained

Repeated small items report that American army depots in German have been rifled of ammunition, obviously with some American connivance, to divert explosives and arms to the Jewish underground.

Finally, on Monday and Tuesday the story broke of a plot headed by Rabbi Korff to bomb London, first with leaflets and then with actual bombs to be directed at Westminster or Downing St. or dropped indiscriminately.

The foiler was the American ace flier Reginald Gordon Marshall Gilbert, who, having accepted the assignment, reported it to Scotland Yard and the French police and aided in gathering up the agents.

Gilbert’s story leaves many questions about the plot unanswered, but the gaps indicate possible wider political involvements.

Direct instigators were the Stern gang, of which Rabbi Korff’s “political action committee” proves to be an American instrument. It is quite clear that Zionist terrorism invades all countries. But Korff’s agents–mentioned particularly was a female of Greek nationality—were also involved in other unexplained affairs. And Gilbert ends his incomplete account with the remark, “I wish I could d devote myself to solving the problem of what caused this insane attempt in the first place.”

The “Political Action Committee” is proved to be an agency of the Stern gang. But of whom is the gang an agent?

Zionism repudiates it.

Zionist Movement Split by Jewish Terrorists

The United Nations Palestine Committee will report to the Assembly, recommending in majority and minority reports “solutions,” long since proposed by Britain and not acceptable to Jews and Arabs or either of them to all Zionist Jews. The committee admits any solution would have to be imposed and maintained by force.

But there is no United Nations “force.” Force, it is recommended, should be produced either by the British or—a counter-proposal—by the United States. Arabian leaders say unitedly it will be opposed with the risk of precipitating world war. The Stern and Irgun gangs announce they will accept nothing short of full Jewish sovereignty for Palestine, so the terror will continue.

Now one must ask: Whose interests are served by this appalling situation?

The interests of the Jews? The outrages committed by Jewish terrorists have split the Zionist movement, brought it into international disrepute, and are creating anti-Semitism where it has never existed. They have given the Arabs a rallying cry and lent formidable support to their political arguments. They have made the Palestine question a morass into which either Great Britian or the United States advances at its peril. Most important, they have caused a serious rift between Britian and the U.S.

For these outrages within and without Palestine, including the planned bombing of England, are being financially supported almost wholly by American citizens. Rabbi Korff is an American citizen. That he is an American citizen of Jewish religion is beside the point. He bears responsibilities not different by a shade from those of any other American citizen. Yet he, and other members, affiliates, or supporters of terrorist groups have taken over a function exclusively lodged in the U. S. Congress: the right to declare war. They have declared war on Great Britain, and, unless foiled, were prepared to extend it by an act of war to the British Isles.

They’re Little Different From Greek Guerrillas

This occurs at a time when the whole of Europe is collapsing and Britain and American cooperating in the Marshall proposals. It occurs when left-wing groups in Britain are seeking popular support for orientation away from the U. S. And what could win them more popular support than that American citizens, unhampered by the American government, declared war on Great Britain?

What is the difference between Greek guerrillas supported by foreign powers waging undeclared war on the Greek government and American guerrillas tolerated by their own government waging war on Great Britain? Rabbi Korff and all the American supporters of Zionist terrorists are exactly guerrillas.

And, I repeat: whose interests do they serve? Whose agents are they?

Ask who profits, and you likely will find the answer.