I'm afraid it will be a long time before the next historians' conference on the effect of Jewish finance on the Balfour Declaration.

There is a Jewish studies event coming up at GWU that might also be of interest:

http://events.georgetown.edu/events/index.cfm?Action=View&CalendarID=349&EventID=53836

http://www.wrmea.com/archives/November_2005/0511044.html

During WWII the Japanese remembered this aid, and allowed some 5,000 Jewish refugees to enter Japan under the fiction that they were "in transit" to the Dutch island of Curacao (no visa was needed there, but a landing permit instead, so it was a scam, since they would never be allowed to land in Curacao.) The Japanese sent the Jews to Shanghai, where they survived the war.

http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/13468/edition_id/260/format/html/displaystory.html

Attending the ceremony were Jews who escaped to Japan thanks to visas issued by wartime Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara. Stationed in Kovno, Lithuania, Sugihara issued thousands of visas during the summer of 1940.

"There's a story" that Sugihara's wife "rubbed his hands at night because they hurt from signing all of the visas," said Meryl Fischoff, daughter of Ben Fischoff, who received a Sugihara visa.

Fischoff's father was a student of the Mir Yeshiva in Poland and sailed to Japan on the "Boat of 72," named for the 72 passengers who were denied permission to disembark in Japan. They were sent back to Russia but eventually sailed back to Japan and successfully disembarked. Fischoff was the only one of six children in his family to survive the war.

Sugihara "is a real Righteous Gentile," Meryl Fischoff said. "He could have been killed as a traitor."

Other diplomats honored are less known than Sugihara, though their contributions are no less significant.

"People ask, 'Why would a man from China save Jews in Austria?' If you knew my father, you wouldn't have to ask," said Manli Ho, daughter of Feng Shan Ho, Chinese consul general in Vienna from 1938 to 1939.

Ho issued innumerable visas to Jews escaping Austria after the 1938 Nazi takeover there. With his help, Jews were able to escape to Manchuria, Shanghai, China — and from there to Palestine and America.

After his diplomatic career ended, he moved to San Francisco. He died there in 1997 at the age of 96.

Harry Fiedler was born in China after his father and almost 20 members of his extended family received visas from Ho.

"You didn't need a document to get into China, but you needed one to get out of Austria," Fiedler said. His father and cousin were arrested during the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom after obtaining the necessary documents, but were released on the strength of Ho's visas and sailed to China.

"My father was a man who believed it was natural to feel compassion and want to help," said Manli Ho, who added that her father hardly ever spoke of his actions.

"You know how many words there are mentioning the rescue activities" in his memoirs, his daughter asked. "Seventy. That's three lines out of 700 pages."

Phil is gushing on about, "the Jewish genius for international finance" just when the economy may very well tank due to "credit crunch" financial engineering. This, in the midst of a failed war that many mainstream observers credit to the influence of AIPAC.

All together it reads like some computer modeling of antisemitism.

Where do you suggest we go with this

"During WWII the Japanese remembered this aid, and allowed some 5,000 Jewish refugees to enter Japan…"

"And Japan saved many more Jews by bombing Pearl Harbor, thus pulling American into WWII."

Of funds, Japan, the fruits of Pearl Harbour and the reward for those who borrow money from jews to win wars:

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"…A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory…"

"…In view of this situation you may think it desirable to have some permanent contact maintained between the administration and the group of physicists working on chain reactions in America. One possible way of achieving this might be for you to entrust with this task a person who has your confidence and who could perhaps serve in an inofficial capacity. His task might comprise the following:

"a) to approach Government Departments, keep them informed of the further development, and put forward recommendations for Government action, giving particular attention to the problem of scouring a supply of uranium ore for the United States;

"b) to speed up the experimental work, which is at present being carried on within the limits of University laboratories, by providing funds, if such funds be required, through his contacts with private persons who are are willing to make contributions for this cause, and perhaps also by obtaining the co-operation of industrial laboratories which have the necessary equipment.

(From Einstein's letter to Roosvelt)
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"the group of physicists working on chain reactions in America." Codename for the Szilard jews.

"…his contacts with private persons who are are willing to make contributions for this cause…" The cause being destroying the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory or more precisely destroying the whole surrounding territory together with some german port.

The real deal: Japan borrowed jewish money, then some japanese saved lots of jews and then some jews pressed the development of the atomic weapons which were used to burn into ashes lots of japanese people. Thats the reward of making deals with a people whose intelectual vanity always end up producing some form of genocide.

PS on Paul W. Tibbets Jr. http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/11/11/last-year-at-th.html#comment-68067 <p>We have read much about how some Japanese diplomats helped save Jews from Nazi genocide. These people indeed were heroic.</p> <p>But how many have heard about Nazi diplomat Rabbe who helped save tens of thousands of Chinese form being massacred by rampaging Japanese troops at Naking in 1937. To this day he is honored in China. </p> <p>So heroes can turn up in the most unexpected places. </p> We have read much about how some Japanese diplomats helped save Jews from Nazi genocide. These people indeed were heroic.