The weird world of Hillel Kook

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I think the key thing with the Feb. 1943 Reader's Digest article written by Bergsonite Ben Hecht, (search the archive to find it) is that the Bergsonites were able to predict the 6 million number. This was based on information they had, but that information turned out to be all false, as can be seen by their enumeration of atrocities which no one believes today. Also notice that in all his atrocity examples, none of them involved a concentration camp!

So if the information was bogus, how did Hecht get the 6 million figure? One could say because that was the total Jews of Europe, but I don't think anyone said that. Not all, according to the standard holocaust story, were killed. Some immigrated, some fled. I've heard the figure of total pre-war Jews given at 9 million.

The only way this Reader's Digest article makes sense is if it was all propaganda. The atrocity stories couldn't stand scrutiny so they were dropped (and replaced with the gassing/cremation story.) The 6 million figure stayed.

Look how hard it was for them to get the tsunami death toll right, and that's with access to those countries. Yet, written probably in late '42, Hecht predicts the death of 6 million Jews, two and a half years before the war ends. Uh o.k.

The article was written probably in late '42, and published in the Feb. '43 issue. The end of the war was mid '45.

Going farther than being a "holocaust denier," if I had to guess how the holocaust story came about, I'd put forth the following conjecture with help from David S. Wyman's introduction to his book "A Race Against Death": Members of a Jewish Palestinian underground militia came to America with Hillel Kook as their leader (about 10 people) and tried to get support for a Jewish army, to fight alongside the allies. This plan had an ulterior motive: after the war, the vets from this army would proceed to kick the Arabs out of Palestine. When they noticed that Britain wasn't naive to their plan, and blocked it, Kook's strategy changed: he pushed harder than the rest of Jewry for the holocaust story, to stir interest in donations and interest in immigration to Palestine. The rest of organized jewry ignored Kook's group somewhat, but also weren't going to say "the Nazis aren't that bad." When Kook's group got the mainstream of America believing it though, the Jewish agencies had to adopt it as well. Then the story became the official story and was promoted. Concentration camp inmates liked the story because it gave a legal reason to take revenge on the camp officials. In subsequent years, the holocaust story played a minor historical aspect to WWII. As Peter Novick writes in his book "The Holocaust in American Life" after the war "hardly anyone inside (the US) government - and hardly anyone outside it, Jew or Gentile - would have understood the phrase 'abandonment of the Jews.'" (pg. 59) But with the '67 war and then especially with the 1973 Yom Kippur war the holocaust rapidly morphed into a "way of interpreting the world" by way of the ultimate example of evil, and all those complicitous in this evil.

David S. Wyman gives extensive information about all this in several books, like "Race Against Death." Of course his interpretation is that Kook is a big saviour. That Kook took out newspaper ads to alert America about what was happening, and that established Jewry wasn't willing to wake up until Kook came along. Of course Wyman isn't quick to tell you that the newspaper ads Kook ran showed an illustration of a baby with a bullet through it's head, and a murdered rabbi.

How ever you look at it, you have to notice that the life of Hillel Kook isn't normal. I mean could you just go to, say, France at 25 years old, change your name to something "French sounding" like, say, Guillaume Maupin, and start taking full-page ads out in the largest Paris newspaper, meeting with top elected officials; and then start working with the biggest writer in Paris? No, you'd have to get the kind of jobs 25 year olds get who are new to a country to make a living.

Hillel Kook came to America at around 25 years old, changed his name to "Peter H. Bergson", and right away placed full-page ads in major newspapers, had access to American senators, and began collaborating with the biggest screenwriter in Hollywood (Ben Hecht.) That's odd don't you think?

And prior to Kook's coming to America, he'd been in Poland where he organized a ship of 850 Jewish immigrants to move to Palestine. This is not normal stuff for a person in their early 20's. 850 is a lot of people and this is before the invasion of Poland.

To add an extra weird angle, behind Hillel Kook was Vladimir Jabotinsky who died in 1940. Jabotinsky was the leader of far right Zionism. Their group wanted Israel to be way bigger than the rest of Zionist organizations wanted it to be, so that it included what is today Jordan. His group also was known as the strike-breakers of the Jewish Palestine trade Union, the Histadrut. They were the Jewish Palestine equivalent to Mussolini Fascism perhaps, and you can imagine how well that would go over in the American Jewish community.

Anyway, figuring out how the holocaust myth came about is difficult, but understanding a little about the Jabotinsky-Kook-Hecht story isn't a bad place to begin looking.

Just the way that the "Bergsonites" as they were called, could network between Poland, Palestine, Washington DC, and Hollywood gives an insight about what infrastructures existed. I don't know how the NKVD holocaust storyline could end up being congruent with this right wing zionist group, but there's probably an answer somewhere.

Another weird thing is that Hilberg doesn't even mention Bergson in his 1961 version, and makes one reference to him in the 1985 version, never mentioning his real name being "Kook" and his background. The idea that I've seen on Wyman's website is that this hero, Kook, wasn't even given the credit for his greatness, and for the lives he saved. Wyman may have been the first person to interview him even, in 1973, but this may not be because of negligence. Rather the lack of focus on Kook might be that he is a key to the holocaust hoax. Enter a naive scholar, both of whose grandfathers were protestant ministers, David Wyman, to unwittingly help us figure out this hoax.