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Barozi on 19 May 2021
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EnricoPallazzo said:
Barozi said:

If you did a little research first you'd realized that the majority of Jews live outside Israel, so they are still scattered around the world (about 8.1m vs. 6.3m).

Now take away the religious reason and the minority that would want to live in the "promised land" would be even smaller.

I though it was clear and implied that I was referring to the Jews living in Israel as living across the world in case of no Israel, as the discussion here is about the Jews living in Israel.

But we can never lose an opportunity to try to look more intelligent and informed than others on the internet right?

I'm not feeling bad because I've done my research.

But good job attacking me while ignoring my second sentence which was about Jews living in Israel.

Religion IS a big motivation for the state of Israel existing in that very location. Remove religion from the equation and the people currently living in Israel would be fine with living somewhere else. Not necessarily scattered around the world (though a lot wouldn't mind) but maybe in a state of their own... elsewhere. There's enough land where no one lives after all. Of course that land belongs to some other country but taking it away from them wouldn't be nearly as bad as taking it from a place where plenty of people have been living for a long time.

Ignoring religion, you really think they would have been against forming their own state outside of Israel's territory if they were given the opportunity?