re: #458 jamesfirecat

I get the extant Jewish community thing now.

Because its the Jewish holy land Jews like to go there, and it also seems like there was a flood of them to what became Israel whenever things got “extremely unfriendly” for Jews in Europe.

This in turn meant that there were already a lot of Jews there by the end of WW2.

I was using “we” to refer to America which I realize is wrong and I should have been using “we” to refer to the UN since they were the ones who agreed to split up what used to be Palestine, into two sections one Jewish one Arab.

Then the Arab section attacked the Jewish section which beat them up, and that’s how Israel came to be.

Class dismissed?

Not dismissed. There was continuous Jewish habitation of the land of Israel that goes back into antiquity. The population was often reduced through warfare, expulsions and massacres, but the land of Israel has had continuous Jewish habitation up until the present time.

The Jews didn’t go there because they “like to go there”, they went home.