Quote Originally Posted by William F. Owen View Post
Sorry what did I know?
Not you. The comment referred to this:

By 1945 every Jew in Europe knew they would never be safe again, unless they had their own country
They "knew" they would never be safe unless they had their own country, yet the very act of seizing a country and taking it for their own that left them less safe than many Jews who do not have "their own country". The prediction, or at least expectation, that Jews in Israel would be safer than those outside Israel was not entirely accurate. The predictions and expectations regarding the reaction of the non-Jewish population to the prospect of incorporation in a State where they would be by definition marginalized or excluded - a State "as Jewish as England is English" - might have been slightly faulty as well.

I do understand the power of an idea... and the power of the unintended consequences that so often arise when we submit to the power of an idea.