It looks like Katan still did not convince us of the alternative history of EY under his wise leadership. Nobody believes that Brits would have governed EY for the last 80 years. It would be Assad or Arafat or Saddam. Where would be all sephardim going? drafted into Iraqi and Iranian armies to fight each other (million people died in that war in 1980s)? bombed by russian aircraft in Aleppo? slaughtered by ISIS like Yazidis? what would happen with Russian and Ukrainian Jews? They would be also killing each other right now drafted in the slavic armies.
Imagine that this would be a real history. You would now approach chacham katan and ask him – do you regret your policies that lead to so many Yidden dying? He would say – gezeras Shamayim, like the advice my teachers gave to dtay in Europe before WW2. Don’t blame me.