Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Israel

Personally I'd love it if all the Israelis came to the United States. The US has done very well by its Jews (and of course vice versa) so I think if we got more that would be even better. The Middle East's loss would be our gain.

But Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is wrong when he says that if others harmed the Jewish community and created problems for the Jewish community, they have to pay the price themselves because the US has discriminated far less against Jews than Iran and other Middle Eastern countries have. Sure, medieval Islam was very tolerant of Jews, arguably more tolerant than medieval Christian societies were. However, Jews need to ask Muslims today "What have you done for us lately?" There are a lot of Israelis, a lot, who are refugees from Muslim persecution, and Muslims cannot continue to say Christians are the only cause of the problem. There are statistically no Jews, NONE, who want to emigrate to Muslim countries. The United States continues to attract Jews, just as it attracts persecuted minorities from around the world. Far more Israelis become Americans than vice versa. How many countries can say that?

Come to think of it, if we can't have all the Jews, could we at least take the Palestinians? They are some of the best educated and most entrepreneurial of all Arabs, with the possible exception of the Lebanese. The United States has done well by its Lebanese and other Arab Americans. I think we could use some more. Send me your huddled masses in the refugee camps, please. I should like to lift my lamp beside the golden door again.