In their “wisdom”, the moderators routinely omit to print my contributions. So be it- but I have to be “moiche” (in the language of some of the posters) on this “alilas dam” (for the unitiated, it means blood libel) at what some posters routinely decry the fact that more jews have been killed in Eretz Yisroel than elsewhere in the world. Conveniently, they start the clock after the medinah was founded- conveniently omitting the Holocaust, the Russian pogroms under the czars and the Communists, the many persecutions in all countries-including the Arab nations, for centuries.
It is fatuous to look at the Jewish position in the West now- this is only for the past few decades- before that, jews were killed and persecuted all the time. And if you think it cannot happen here, look at Argentina and venezuaela- where jews are being persecuted right now.
Only by having our fate in our our hands -as we do now in Eretz Yisroel- can we, with the Almighty’s help, fight our enemies.