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The Importance of the Existence of Israel
(Wall Street Journal) William A. Galston - A poem by Robert Frost contains a thought-provoking line: "Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." Israel is the only country that guarantees immediate entry and citizenship to every Jew who knocks on its door. This is the sense in which Israel is the home for all Jews. It is also why Israel means the end of Jewish exile. For two millennia, Jews faced a terrible choice between persecution and statelessness, as when the SS St. Louis, crammed with Jewish refugees, wandered from port to port in 1939 looking for a country that would accept its passengers. The creation of Israel gave Jews a third choice.