There are two kinds of evil-doers:  those who kill, rape, beat, and brutalize others, and those who let this happen. The story of American and British indifference to the fate of Jews during the Second World War still makes for disturbing reading.   It’s worth revisiting the subject for three reasons: 1)  The abandonment of the Jews -- the title of David Wyman’s comprehensive study -- is the ultimate rationale for the creation of the state of Israel.  There will be no second Hitler in Europe -- though he has many apprentices in the Middle East.  But when the West turned its back on Hitler’s victims (with exceptions discussed below), many Jews who were not committed Zionists were persuaded that the survival of their people depended on its having a state of its own, and an army to defend it.  “There are two sorts of countries in the world,” Chaim Weizmann had concluded in the late ‘30s, “those that want...(Read Full Article)