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Source: https://forward.com/opinion/790396/australia-shooting-jews-israel-antisemitism/
Australia Shooting Strengthens the Case for Israel
(Forward) Rob Eshman - Randomly killing people at a holiday festival in Sydney makes the case for Israel. Bad actors keep proving why Jews worldwide feel such an intense need to have a Jewish state. The vast majority of Jews who settled in Israel went there because they felt they had nowhere else to go. The "ingathering of exiles" was a result of an outpouring of hate and violence. Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism, didn't have a religious or even a tribal bone in his body. But bearing witness to the rise of antisemitism, he saw the Land of Israel as the European Jew's best option. The Eastern European pogroms, the Holocaust, the massacre of Jews in Iraq in 1941, the attacks on Jews throughout the Middle East after Israel's founding, the oppression of Jews in the former Soviet Union - these were what sent Jews to Israel. Most Jews would rather take their chances on a state created to protect them, instead of one that just keeps promising it will.