Thank you, Joseph. I thought that answer went without saying, but I guess nothing does.
Avi, I’m not anti-Israel or anti-aliyah. What I’m against is when the pro-aliyah folks are faced with the difficulty of convincing people to move to a dangerous country, they rely on misleading instead of other methods of proving it’s worth it. The US is much bigger geographically, and the violent crime rates are not evenly distributed. If somebody said, “I don’t want to live in Israel because it’s dangerous, so I will live instead in a place like Crown Heights, Washington Heights, or downtown Baltimore,” then you would have a good case.