> Saying Eastern European Jews were a nation doesn't
> imply they need a homeland in any case. Although as we
> know much ink was spilled on this in the Soviet Union.
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Or if they needed a "homeland", that they also needed their own state. The
Balfour Decleration promised the oppressed European Jews a "homeland" in
Palestine - ie. the right to emigrate there - under a British mandate and
foresaw, at some point, a binational state of Jews and Arabs with equal
claims to a shared homeland. The Zionists susequently established an
exclusively "Jewish state" which expelled and reduced its Arabic-speakers to
second-class status and wreaked havoc in the surrounding region.