Maybe Roosevelt couldn't have saved the Jews from the Nazis after all

I don't think Bauer has moved in his opinions. He articulated the reasons for the inability of Jews or Allies to save European Jewry very eloquently by pains taking research and analysis. Simply put - there was very little that could be done to save the vast majority of Europe's Jews short of an Allied victory. The work of Kook and others was emotionally important but it only underlies the powerlessness that the Jewish people faced. It is a hard lesson to absorb. Today that lesson is used in some circles to argue for extreme political actions. Often people are motivated to support one or another political policy. But those arguments are not about the situation and reality that existed during World War II. I had the privilege of studying with Dr. Yehudah Bauer in 1980-81. I have read and followed all his important work especially "Jews for Sale" and the three volumes on the Joint Distribution Committee. All of this work is relevant to the judgement on these issues but that is more reading than most people want to do; but it is through that reading that one understands how difficult rescue and efforts to aid Jews were. Thank you Dr. Bauer.

What has this B.S. of not being able to bring them our of Europe got to do with the facts. If they would have bombed the concentration camps they would have slowed the killing and, in the process, also distracted a lot of german soldiers from active duties which would have brought a quicker end to WWII.. But....the idea was to get the german elite embroiled into the killings as much as possible, and the more people killed, the better.

This is a revisionistic try to make FDR look better then he was. He was nothing more and nothing less then a typical Anti-Semitic American of his time, and so were most of his ministers. The issue is not how many Jews he could have saved of not but that he did not want to save any. The various ships were in the USA and were turned away! This is a very black chapter of the USA history which will never be white-washed, even if today many (Jews too) wish to rewrite history.

It would be nice if some people in Israel would recognize just what the Allies went through to liberate Europe and rid the world of the scourge of Nazism. Thus far, there is a lot of negative comment and even accusations of neglect that do no good for Israel in particular and Jews in general.