lesschum: European Rabbonim DID come to America even before the turn of the century and thereafter. And yet the delapidated state of Judaism in America.
simcha: Just between 1948 and 1997 alone Israel suffered 20,093 war dead. There have been many more since. And many thousands more civilian terror victims. How many dead did Shevet Efraim suffer?
We would have been far better off with no State of Israel and over 25,000 Jewish lives — and countless never born children of the dead — preserved.