Bobby. wrote on Nov 13
th, 2023 at 10:39pm:
It turns out that placing the Jews in Israel surrounded by 70 million Arabs
at the time - was not such a good idea.
We've had the constant threat of a nuclear war starting there since about 1973.
In terms of the European societies of 1945, it was the best possible solution.
Nazis didn't invent European Jew hate, it is baked-in to European cultures.
What surprised the SS was how enthusiastic many non-Germans were with assisting Nazis in the rounding-up, expelling, and murder of local Jews.
By the end of WW2 in Europe, there was no place in European societies for Jewish communities - either due to the revenge instinct, in the extreme, within those communities towards Nazis and their many local collaborators, or due to the guilt factor within the non-Jewish local communities over those collaborators - what the Dutch refer to as those who were 'right' vs those who were 'wrong'.
That there was a possible 'homeland' where all Jews could migrate after 1945 - if it hadn't already existed, Europeans would have had to invent it.
that's not much of a loss of French territory to be given away.