and the JDL - definitely NOT police informers, $50,000 max budget to the ADL's 50 MILLION, and NO politcal capital is just silly.
The good cop - bad cop stuff is pure fantasy.
If you were a Jew in trouble and you went to Irv and Abe... Irv would receive you at his home. Abe, (if you had enough money or could do something for him) would receive you at his UN plaza address. Irv wouldn't care what others thought about him when he helped you. Abe would base everything on what others - particularly the Jewish community - thought - IF he even helped you.
Trust me, POLAR opposites.
I know that some people used to sympathize with "crazy" Irv because he was pro-2A.
I don't make the mistake of looking at superficialities, like differences in tactics. To me, what unites them is crazy paranoia and victimhood. Or yeah, they are militantly intolerant to anything that they perceive as hurting their ethnic cause.