ISRAEL FINAL FOR TODAY: Two points: First, saying that in 1948 Jews “should have gone to Brooklyn instead” ignored some basic realities about immigration–how many Jews would actually have gotten in? I alluded to this by saying that Israel was basically where Europeans (and Americans…) stuck Jews in order to get ’em out of their hair. Look how well that worked. But I didn’t mean to sound quite so flippant about Jews’ lousy options at the time.

Second, for those who believe that Jews have a right to a homeland because they have been persecuted in the countries where they tried to settle: Do you support a homeland for the Gypsies? Where would you, uh, put it?