What if Israel Did Move?
In the long list of anti-Semetic statements from Arab theocracies, Iran's president has recently suggested that the state of Israel be moved to Europe. To quote Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
"If European countries claim that they have killed Jews in World War II... why don't they provide the Zionist regime with a piece of Europe. Germany and Austria can provide the... regime with two or three provinces for this regime to establish itself, and the issue will be resolved."
Of course Israelis would likely never leave their homeland, but what if they did? For centuries those in power in Arabia (and elsewhere) have used Jews as a scapegoat to divert the public's attention away from its own problems. The Arabs can argue that Jews are oppressing the Palestinians, Christians can argue that Jews in power at the time were responsible in part for Jesus's execution, and the poor can point to those evil rich Jews.
But what if these folks couldn't scapegoat the Jews? Would Hitler have risen to power had he not been able to scapegoat the Communists and Jews? Would theocracies exist in Arabia if it weren't for Jewish hatred? What would happen to those existing systems setup, in part, on blame of the Jews? Would the populace still back the same anti-Semites if Israel picked up and moved?
As Adam Corrola once said, the Jews should move their state to Baja, Mexico. There's some nice, very affordabe ocean-front property there mired in rural Mexico's economy. Could you image how prosperous that place could become if Israel relocated there? How much safer and cleaner places like Tijuana would become? What a boon for the region? And it would give those who scapegoat the Jews a taste of life without a convenient scapegoat. (Plus, and I'm stealing this from Adam Corrola here, you'd have the greatest discrepency in hats - you'd have the Jews living there with the yarmulkes and the Mexican's with their sombreros.)