This article contrasts the Zionists' prophetic foresight during World War II with the Palestinians' utter helplessness today. In 1942—three years before the war's end—Zionists gathered at the Biltmore Conference in New York City, where they boldly outlined their postwar vision. They declared the war would end in Allied victory, with the Nazis defeated by America, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. And the moment that happened, they demanded the mass transfer of all surviving European Jewry to Palestine, a land where Arabs formed the overwhelming majority and Jews numbered fewer than a million—mostly arrivals after World War I.

The Biltmore Conference: Zionists' Bold Bet on Allied Victory in 1942

Before World War I, only about 50,000 Jews lived in Palestine. By the war's close, that figure had surged to over 500,000, with more than half a million migrating there in less than three decades. Armed with precise intelligence, the Zionists didn't just predict the war's outcome; they anticipated the postwar political landscape, positioning themselves at its center. They leveraged the United Nations, America, Britain, and France not only for massive aid and reparations—on top of claiming Palestine—but to dominate global politics, culture, finance, and history itself.How did they know? The Zionists controlled the press and dominated Allied spy networks: the OSS (precursor to the CIA), the BSC (British Security Coordination, later MI6), and even the Soviet Red Orchestra. This gave them intimate knowledge: Hitler had no real chance of winning; his days were numbered. They tracked his weapons, fighter jets, and staying power, predicting the war would end precisely in 1945. Armed with this certainty, they issued the Biltmore Program's five-point demands to the nascent United Nations, chief among them the outright rejection of Britain's 1939 White Paper.

Rejecting the White Paper: Zionist Demands for Unrestricted Immigration to Palestine

That infamous policy proposed a limited binational state for Arabs and Jews, with capped Jewish immigration—a "breach and repudiation of the Balfour Declaration," as Winston Churchill himself called it in Parliament. The Zionists condemned it as "cruel and indefensible," especially for denying sanctuary to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. At a time when Palestine was a key Allied war front, where Jewish manpower fueled farms, factories, and camps, the White Paper sabotaged the war effort itself. What they sought was unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, effectively displacing the indigenous Arab and Muslim population.As Sir Harold MacMichael, the British High Commissioner for Palestine, observed of the Biltmore resolutions adopted on May 11, 1942: "Official Zionist policy has now been shown publicly to be maximalist. This should enable the long-discussed rapprochement with the Revisionists to take place... There would then be a strong Zionist bloc pledged to an extremist [program]."

Intelligence and Agency: How Jews Shaped Their Post-WWII Destiny

Most revealingly, the Zionists calculated exactly how many Jews they could bring to Palestine. They knew Hitler was exterminating Jews but were convinced—thanks to their intelligence—that he would be crushed before finishing the job. Not every Jew would perish; survivors would endure, and those survivors would flock to Palestine en masse, despite knowing little of the land or its climate. Why the hysteria? Because the Jews of World War II were no helpless bystanders, no chickens in a slaughterhouse without agency, as Hollywood movies and postwar narratives portray them. That victimhood myth, peddled by the Jewish state itself, ignores the global conferences—led by Jewish Agency head David Ben-Gurion—where Jews plotted their survival and triumph. Ben-Gurion himself raced to displaced persons camps right after the war to funnel survivors to Palestine. Jews weren't powerless peasants, mere grass trampled by warring elephants. They fought on every front: battlefields, economies, diplomacy. They knew the war would end victoriously, regardless of the irreplaceable lives lost. They would help crush Hitler and shape the postwar world. Even Hitler and Churchill couldn't predict their own fates with such clarity. The Jews didn't huddle in terror, screaming "ceasefire now" like today's Palestinian supporters. They acted—and prevailed.

Gaza's 2025 Nightmare: Palestinians' Total Marginalization in their Post-Holocaust

Now contrast this with the Palestinians, marginalized from any real say in their future, much like the Zionists were not during WWII's final throes. The mighty British Empire, for all its might, could only hope for Nazi defeat; it fretted over its own survival, let alone its colonies. Palestine, contrary to mythologized histories, was the linchpin of Britain's 20th-century imperial project. Between 1942 and 1945, Britain had no clue about the postwar order. The Zionists, however, knew exactly when and how it would unfold. Deeply embedded in Allied decision-making, they worked with Soviets and Americans—often backstabbing their British patrons, even as leading Zionists doubled as British spies and colonial administrators—all to carve out a Jewish state in Palestine before WWII's blood dried.The Palestinians today? They've endured the worst holocaust in living memory over the past two years, yet they're in far worse shape than the Jews ever were amid Nazi atrocities. Jews, through the Zionist machine, controlled their survivors' destiny; Palestinians have no such leverage. No Palestinian-led summits chart their path once Gaza's bombs finally fall silent. They hold no sway in global affairs, can't even dictate tomorrow's fate. Whether they live, die, endure eternal occupation, or face enslavement hinges on Israel's whims—and its American enablers, who wield even less real power. That's why the slaughter of babies, women, and entire buildings continues in savagery and hatred, even after Trump's Truth Social announcement of a "ceasefire" deal designed to render Gaza a hellish wasteland.

Why Gaza Genocide Comparisons to WWII Miss the Mark on Palestinian Helplessness

When that "peace" arrives—if it does—Palestinians won't reclaim a safe haven. They'll inherit rubble and ruins to clear, no sanctuary to heal from two years of relentless genocide, displacement, and trauma. Comparing their plight to Jews in WWII isn't just inaccurate; it's propaganda. The unsavory truth: Palestinians are worse off because Jews had agency. They battled collectively—on fields, in boardrooms, at negotiating tables—certain of victory and their starring role in the world to come. Palestinians have none of that. They don't know when this holocaust ends, even post-Trump's vague accord. Will occupation fall to Trump, Tony Blair, or Netanyahu? Will new kapos be Egyptians or Turks? They're blindfolded sheep in the abattoir, sensing death's approach but ignorant of whose blade will fall.