Truman is very much honored because he was trying to force the British to send Jews to Palestine. Nobody asks why Truman did not say, “Okay, let’s take a hundred thousand Jews here.” This is the place where it would have been easiest to absorb them. It can absorb anybody. It’s a country that is not densely settled, the richest country in history. . . . They did not because the Holocaust was considered a way to damn the enemy,
