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RABBI BARUCH KORFF, THE SECOND CHILD OF Grand Rabbi Jacob Israel Korff and his first wife, Gittel Goldman Korff, was born on July 4, 1914 in Novograd-Volynsk, Ukraine. Baruch is perhaps best known as “Nixon’s Rabbi” for his role in supporting and advising President Richard M. Nixon during the Watergate era. (old mate just appeared out of nowhere to scam $350k donations from the public for 'Nixon's legal defense.' he admits he didn't even vote for nixon. his typical serpentine jewish reasoning was:

These is a classic Jewish concept, derived from the Psalms of David, known as Hakoras Hatov (pronounced Ha-KOH-ras Ha-TOVE), or sense of gratitude. The greater the need for help, the greater the obligation to show gratitude for that help… Which made more troubling to me the fact that so many Jews were in the anti-Nixon camp… But rescuing Jews is a black-and-white issue to me. So I particularly resented the ingratitude of anti-Nixon Jews…

“I was also concerned that the powerful forces of antisemitism latent in the United States, most of whose practitioners sided with Nixon politically, could be aroused by the presence of so many Jews in the liberal coalition against him. A rabbi visible in his defense might help defuse those forces and prevent as well a backlash against our alliance with Israel.

“Did I think Nixon was innocent of the charges against him? Initially yes…”

“Scrupulousness about means is not only justified it is required when there is a safety margin. That is what being civilized means. But I saw no safety margins during Watergate for the issues that mattered to me. Whether Nixon was guilty or not, therefore was of limited importance to me.)



IN 1947, THE EXODUS 1947 CAME TO SYMBOLIZE the struggle for Jewish immigration to the land of Israel. About 4,500 Holocaust survivors boarded the Haganah[15] ship, which set sail from a French port for Palestine. The plan was to run the blockade set up by the British along the Palestine coast to prevent Jews from entering the country. The British discovered the plan and dispatched destroyers to force theExodus to return to France. When the British boarded the ship, the Jews resisted the takeover with homemade weapons. Three Jews were killed in the fighting. The British transferred the passengers and crew to three British ships—floating prisons—and returned them to French waters. Only 130 passengers—those who were ill or pregnant—left the prison ships in France. The rest stayed and staged a hunger strike, demanding to go to Eretz Israel.[16]

After three weeks, the British prepared to sail the ships to Hamburg, Germany, where the Jews were compelled to disembark. The reality of Jewish concentration camp survivors being forced into displaced persons camp in Germany generated sympathy throughout much of the world and galvanized Baruch Korff into action.[17]

Baruch had already affiliated himself with Lehi (Fighters for Israel’s Freedom), a radical underground Jewish militia, formed in 1940 by Avraham Stern and dubbed the “Stern Gang” by the British. Stern believed that the British were just as much the enemy as the Germans because they prevented Jews from immigrating to Eretz Israel to escape the Nazi death machine. The group launched attacks mainly against British targets.

Other members of the Stern Gang included Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir (who much later became prime ministers of the State of Israel).

According to Baruch:

“As the three British prison ships prepared to leave for the last leg of the bitter journey to Hamburg, anger and vengeance homogenized the furtive and the stealthy. Everyone of us [his affiliates in the Stern Gang] clamored for a… reprisal that would sound our rancor.

“It was then I suggested, as part of the ‘war on nerves,’ that warning leaflets be dropped on London and half a dozen bombs be unloaded on its beachheads, with care taken to prevent human casualties. The idea was seized upon in Paris and Tel Aviv. I was charged with its execution. Eleven men and one woman were assigned to assist me.

“Although I was not a member of the Resistance, I was considered their confidant by virtue of my political advocacy and the financial resources I made available for their intricate operations. Thus it happened that I became involved in a purely military function…

“Six bombs were fashioned from casing of French fire extinguishers with short fins on which fuses were welded. They were loaded with gelignite and a ‘secret formula of explosives’…

“I wrote the text of the leaflet:

‘TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND!
‘To the people whose government proclaimed Peace in our time.
‘This is a warning!
‘Your government had dipped His Majesty’s Crown in Jewish blood and polished it with Arab oil—Out damned spot—out, I say…
‘Your government has violated every article of the Eretz-Israel Mandate, flouted International Law and invaded our country.
‘Oswiecim, Dachau, and Treblinka made way for the Exodus.
‘To the Hitler-Bevin alliance—
‘To the murder of the survivors whom Hitler’s wrath could not reach.
‘We are resolute that it shall not come to pass again!
‘We will carry the war to the very heart of the Empire!
‘We will strike with all the bitterness and fury of our servitude and bondage.
‘We are prepared to fight a war of liberation now to avoid a war of enslavement tomorrow.
‘People of England!
‘Press your government to quit Eretz Israel now!
‘Demand that your sons and your daughters return home or you may not see them again.’

An airplane was rented from a French air cargo company but the bombing raid never got off the ground. French police disguised as airplane mechanics arrested Baruch and seven co-conspirators at the airfield.