From the depths...or to them

I rarely read Geoffrey Alderman in the Jewish Chronicle. but, thankfully, others do.

Deborah Maccoby writes

Geoffrey Alderman writes that "it is entirely possible that the almighty chose not to save the six million because He had an ulterior ambition, not revealed till later".

This possible divine ambition, Professor [!] Alderman explains, was the creation of the state of Israel, which could not have happened without the world's "remorse for the destruction of one-third of world Jewry".

Is a God who unconcernedly watches the Holocaust - and even, by implication, possibly brings it about - secure in the knowledge that it will lead to a Jewish state, a God who is worth believing in? This is Zionism - and Geoffrey Alderman - gone mad.

While H.W. Lipson writes:

If he considers that the agony and terror the six million suffered before they diedn and as they choked to death, is part of some divine purpose, I despair for him and his like.