Israel

[ludwig]

When they created Israel, why didn't they put it in America? Taken a corner of Texas or something - Sure would have saved alot of trouble wouldn't it?

[heathfield]

If the Greek Cypriots had agreed to move to Greece, and the Turkish Cypriots to Turkey, then Cyprus might have been a better option - there would have been no subsequent border problems.

[Famous5]

What do you think the displaced Native Americans living in the area of Texas would have thought of that idea? I can't see them being too happy

Remember the Alamo! as they say

[Lil O'lady]

Plus, you see, the Hebrew sacred sites are not in Texas.
I blame all geography teachers everywhere for Ludwig not knowing this fact.
And all RE teachers too.

[naomi24]

The Jews wouldn't have accepted it. God promised them one particular bit of land, and that's the bit they wanted and got. If he hadn't done that in the first place, the problem wouldn't have existed. Since God apparently knows everything, I wonder why he didn't think a bit more seriously about maintaining peace on earth before making such a rash pledge.

[Sandy-Wroe]

Israel is where it is because the Americans didn't want a flood of millions of displaced Jewish people in their country.
The fact that Israel would grow like a malignant cancer in the body politic wasn't considered.
Radical Islam, and the violence that goes with it, is in no small part a consequence of the decision to permit a sectarian state in the Middle East.

[jno]

A corner of Germany would have been fairer, since the Germans were chiefly responsible for boosting the next-year-in-Jerusalem sentiment worldwide. However, the Jews had always wanted to return to their promised land, and God had not promised them Dallas, or Hamburg. I don't think America would have minded - they already had floods of displaced Jews, who were good and industrious citizens - but the Jews didn't want to go there and would have had no particular reason to do so.

None of it would have mattereed except for the unfortunate fact that other people had since settled in Palestine, and had to be disinherited.

[naomi24]

^^ Unfortunate is a bit of an under-statement when you're talking about 2000 years.

[123everton]

It's easy and rather simplistic to dismiss modern political expediency to express a prejudice.
The idea of making a Jewish state in Germany seems reasonable, until you look at the situation back then.
We went to war in 1939 to guarantee Poland's borders and by defintion freedom, we failed.
We could not deliver a sovreign government in one of our staunchest allies, so how could we invent a Jewish land in divided Germany?
Where would you put it in our half or theirs?
Neither side was willing to dilute their influence in the region.
Britain, despite Churchill's rhetoric to the contrary, had to dismantle it's empire to appease the U.S, we could no longer afford it anyway, we had possession of Palestine, we could pay lip service to the refusal of a Jewish state in Palestine knowing full well that we could run off and leave the problem to someone else.
We s h i t in the Arabs room and left them to smell the cheese.

[Kromovaracun]

It wasn't just God who promised the Jews a land in Palestine (though he did help). Remember the Balfour declaration.