To be realistic, given the way people in general work, it is always going to be difficult to move a large number of people of a well-defined group into an area mainly populated already by people of different culture. But it's not as though the Jews who moved to Palestine after WWII had a lot of choice. Most of them couldn't move back where they had come from, and we in America had not exactly done what I would consider to be our part in allowing them to come here.
At the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, there is an entire deep well covered with the photographs of the Jewish people from one small town in Lithuania, Eishyshok. I recently found a book by the woman who designed that space, Yaffa Eliach - 750 pages (plus indexes) of the history of that town from the early middle ages through the time right after WWII. The photographs are there...and every caption lists what happened to those in the picture (if it is contemporary with the war). Reading it brings a new level of understanding of why a homeland was necessary... If only it had been possible to gain it without the ongoing complications and injustices. Two wrongs do not make a right. One thing I know -- I am not wise enough to solve the puzzle.
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Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan
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