Prior to the the establishment of Israel, how did the Jews and the Arabs of Palestine get along?

Why didn't the Zionists give the Jews of Europe, a homeland carved out of Germany and/or Russia.

I know that this is an oversimplification but shouldn't the punishment fit the crime?

I think we should give Chicago to the descendents of all Africans who were brought to the U.S. as slaves so they can have a homeland. (Perhaps Georgia would be more fitting but I was thinking of Martin.)

Maybe we could give Northern Ireland to the Travellers in the British Isles.

India is a big country, we could give all speakers of Rom a bit of it.

Maybe Canada has a province they'd like to give the displaced natives of North America.

Seems to me that the Kurds are having a similar problem. Maybe we should give them a part of Iraq or Turkey.

Oh, I forgot the most persecuted minorities of all - homosexuals. We could create a place for lesbians, too. Maybe a place in the Mediterranean.

Zion was a wonderful idea before it became political. I believe that Jews should be free to practice their religion and their traditions without discrimination but I do not believe they should have the right to displace others. Seems to me it is a country founded on guilt and anger.

...or we could set up little Vatican-like countries all over the world and then the public would just have to live in secular states surrounding their places of worship.

I know this is absurd - thats why I wrote it. I think the State of Israel, the Vatican and rule by Mullahs are all absurd and do nothing to advance freedom.