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This was before he massively supported the State of Israel, of course.

From The New York Times:

“The so-called Stern gang” of Zionist terrorists tried to assassinate President Truman by letter bomb in 1947, according to a new biography written by Mr. Truman’s daughter.

Mrs. Margaret Truman Daniel writes that “a number of cream colored envelopes, about eight by six inches, arrived in the White House, addressed to the President and various members of the staff.” They were found to contain “powdered gelignite, a pencil battery and a detonator rigged to explode the gelignite when the envelope was opened.”

But the White House mail room, alert to the danger of postal bombs, discovered the letters and had them defused by Secret Service bomb experts, Mrs. Daniel writes in her book, “Harry S. Truman,” which is being published by William Morrow & Co.

As far as could be immediately determined, Mrs. Daniel is the first member of the Truman White House circle to confirm that the letter-bombs arrived, although the report also appeared in a 1949 book, “‘Dear Mr. President . . .’ The Story of Fifty Years in the White House Mail Room,” by Ira R. T. Smith, with the collaboration of Joe Alex Morris.

In another note, written in March, 1948, Mr. Truman complained that “The State Dept. pulled the rug from under me” with a statement contrary to his own policy on the Palestine question. In the previous summer, Mrs. Daniel writes, the Stern gang, an ultramilitant zionist group, “tried to assassinate Dad by mail” by sending the cream-colored envelopes. She says that each contained a second, smaller envelope marked “Private and Confidential”—which in turn contained the explosive components.

She writes that the White House staff was alert to the danger because similar letters had been mailed to high officials in Britain and intercepted.

Mrs. Daniel does not say why the bombs were attributed to the Stern gang, but Mr. Smith, in his book, reported that the gang had claimed responsibility for having sent the letters to England from its “branch in Europe” and notes that, they were postmarked from Italy.

The gang was named for its original leader, Abraham Stern, who had been killed by the British in 1942.

According to press reports in 1947, the Stern gang’s claim was made in Jerusalem, and similar explosive envelopes had been found previously in Palestine.

The gang’s spokesman was quoted as having said shortly before that some of its major figures “might have left the country,” but he did not say why, although the implication seemed to be that they might have been involved in mailing the letters.

In Italy, the police said in June of 1947 that they had no clues as to who had sent the bombs, however.

I don’t intend to infer anything.

Mishlei 25:9-10:

ריבך ריב את רעך וסוד אחר אל תגל. פן יחסדך שמע ודבתך לא תשוב.

Bei’ur Hagra idem 10:

פן יחסדך שומע כי כאשר תאמר על אותו צדיק איזה דבר רע יאחזו אותך לתועבה וחסד השומעים ודבתך לא תשוב. כלומר ודברך שאמרת לא תוכל להחזיר אותם ולהתיישב עצמך בפניהם וכן הענין בתורה אפי’ במה שאתה רואה שהדין עמך וחבירך מראה אותך אותו דבר באיזה ספר קדמון אל תגל סוד אחר כלומר לא תאמר עליו שגם הוא טעה אף שאתה יודע שהדין עמך א’ פן יחסדך שומע כי מחמת זה ואחזו אותך לתועבה וחסד שחסד הוא מלשון תועבה כמ”ש כי חסד הוא מפני שאתה עומד נגד קדמונים והב’ שדבתך לא תשוב מה שאתה תאמר שום דבר גנאי עליהם לא תוכל להחזיר אותם ולהשיב אליך ולכן ראה מתחילה שלא יצא מפיך שום דבר גנאי נגדם.

But one must go slower than usual, per the preceding אל תצא לרב מהר פן מה תעשה באחריתה בהכלים אתך רעך…

“The enemies of the Jewish people, in justification of their own conduct, have pointed out many times that, from the very beginning of its history, this people had found no sympathy among the nations. Instead, they say, Israel has met with nothing but hostility and hatred throughout the world. Israel’s enemies think this is sufficient reason for all future generations to cultivate and to transmit to their descendants the old hatred which the nations have long harbored against the Jews…it was not at the people of Israel, but at the ideals of Zion that this hatred had been aimed from the very beginning…the haters of the ideals represented by Zion became the enemies of the Jews.”

Rabbi Hirsch on Psalms, §ii, 392 (as copied from “Secular By Design”)

Bertrand Russel:

Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.