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I feel the Doboii opinion is almost baseless, particularly the part where Jews could somehow pick and choose their own homeland, when, as a historical fact, the Jewish people had a strong desire to return to Israel ever since the Romans gave them the boot in the 2'nd century AD. Such a return had been tried before but never quite became doable until after the Holocaust. But I submit, in the Jewish imagination, it was Israel, Israel, or Israel and nothing else would do. The larger world still could have still said no, but did not, but sadly, IMHO, for stinking nimby reasons that have since backfired.
Even though I am a forum critic of subsequent State of Israel behavior, to get world approval for the formation of the State of Israel in 1948, all Israeli leaders were promising to give equal citizenship rights to all inhabitants of the British Mandate, and were not true to their word. And its on the latter point that all my Israeli criticism rests.
I submit this wiki links runs rings around Doboii for facts and opinions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliyah#10th.E2.80.9311th_century
I personally detects anti-semitism or anti-anyoneism. But ever since the Romans kicked the Jews out of Israel, almost everywhere they went, subjected them to some degree of antisemitism in the next 1800 years. But still, partly because of Jewish organization
and scholarship, they tended to out preform the non-Jewish majority, and as a almost historical fact, any nation that expelled their Jews went into instant decline, and every country that took them in flowered.