My mistake, i wrote that i was responding to AAQ when i meant to respond to Avi – my eyes played tricks on me.
I’ll also add that Mendelssohn and his ilk believed that becoming assimilated, dropping Torah, and becoming similar to goyim would stop anti semitism. Zionists believed the flip side, that dropping Torah, becoming our own secular country with an army, would stop anti semitism, because “well show them! Never again!” Both are equally wrong. Anti semtism is from Hashem and it’s specifically designed to distance ourselves from both such machinations. The jews in yerushalayim who responded to the threat of rommel by fasting and doing teshuva, rather than take up arms, were saved, while their European counterparts who “declared war on hitler”( in the publicized words of chaim weitzman) were not. The brisker rov made this remark when yerushalim was saved; it’s not my chiddush.
AAQ – I think America would be the best bet because they have had a relationship with Israel for decades, millions of Jewish votere live there, they respect freedom of religion, and have a great strategic interest in having a foothold in the middle east.