  This Land is Whose Land?   If I were Jewish, I would want
there to be a Jewish homeland. The Holocaust alone would be
enough. Any other pogrom would be enough. Consider the violence
against Jews which took place in Romania in 1941. Among other
forms of violence, 200 Jews were subjected to the inhumane
experience of being taken to a slaughterhouse, put on a conveyor
belt, and killed in the way food animals are. The idea of a
defined, defensible state would give me comfort, whether I chose
to live there or not.  None of this justifies what is happening
in the Middle East today. None of this addresses whether the
modern state of Israel was created in the best place, or whether
the creators could have predicted trouble from the start. The
borders of Israel were determined primarily by the British after
WWI.  The world has found no good way to determine what lands
belong to which people. Look at the problems in Africa caused by
Western nation making. Look at Macedonia. Does it belong to
Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey,