To Kevin T. Keith:
“At any time beginning with the Allied occupation of post-war Germany, and afterwards, it became safe for Jews to live in the same countries that had worked their destruction only a few years previously (though few chose to do so).”
This is not historically accurate:
“The Holocaust victims were confronted with more or less open hostility on the part of the Polish population, which ultimately ended in pogroms. Gross’ book examines three of these in detail, in Rzeszow (1945), Krakow (1945) and the most notorious pogrom in Kielce (1946) in which 37 Jews were murdered.”
http://www.signandsight.com/features/1642.html
“Poland in 1968 when the regime responded to student protests with anti-Semitic propaganda: “Almost all the Polish Jews who survived the Shoah and who didn’t leave Poland immediately after the war, went then. They left from the Gdansk railway station in Warsaw for Vienna, from where they travelled on to Israel, the United States or West Germany. At the time, people called this station the ‘Umschlagplatz’ (the German word for collection or reloading point which was the name of the area in the Warsaw Ghetto where the Jews were collected for transportation to the Treblinka concentration camp.) Thank God their journeys did not terminate in death, but virtually no one decided to leave the country of their accord.”
http://www.signandsight.com/intodaysfeuilletons/1655.html
These examples are aside from the rising tide of antisemitism in Europe which has already claimed Jewish life:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E1DD1631F935A15751C0A9649C8B63
and shrunk the liberal space which should be the right of every citizen:
http://imshin.blogspot.com/archives/2004_08_15_imshin_archive.html#109310531498698773
I would suggest re-organize your arguments to better reflect the reality of Jewish existence.
