land
> >  dated back to before the U.S. even existed.
>
> Here is as good as link as any in that regard:
>
>      http://www.jewishsf.com/bk970829/usquest.htm
>
> Although this bit of history is well-known among Zionists, it tends to
come
> as a surprise to almost everyone else that the first proposed sitings
in the
> early 1900's for the Jewish-state-to-be were in British East Africa or
> Uganda, not modern-day Israel.
>
> In a great number of ways, if this had happened, world history would
be
> substantially different today.

Yes, but that is like saying "If the north wasn't against slavery, we
wouldn't have
had the Civil War".  I don't think that most Jews were ready to accept a
home
land anywhere but Eretz Israel.

Nick D.

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