Dear HaKatan,
‘Where do we go from here’ is the question that Yidden have asked over the years, after their communities were massacred. Moving on to the next country was generally not an answer, it was reality. The only possible answer is Eretz YIsrael.
The discussion could be about any move. If one had enough of city traffic, or social pressures, or lack of kosher pizza – anything, and decides as a Jew they have to move out, where would they pick? There really isn’t any place that tells the Wandering Jew this is your home, other than our own land.
The fact is, Jews did not move to Israel to eat pizza, homestead, or assimilate. For all these very Jewish activities America was [And probably still is.] a wiser choice. They chose Israel because they had enough of a Europe that was soaked in Jewish blood. And had no interest in soaking another continent. We would rather die in our own home, than live among strangers. Go find Rabbanim that advocated going to America over Israel in the nineteenth century.And the same is mostly true for the early twentieth.