Question

Let’s assume the situation had been such that there was no Holocaust and no intense antisemitism. Do you think a state would have arisen here? If you look, for example, at all the waves of immigration, it was almost always because things were bad. Whether it was the Nuremberg Laws, the decrees of the tsar in Russia, the Holocaust, or simply a bad economic situation (as in Ethiopia and the Soviet Union), etc. Even today, hardly any Jews immigrate from the United States or the strong European countries. That makes me wonder whether Zionism as a value is basically just a fiction. In other words, is this whole story of yearning for thousands of years in exile really just a myth that we tell ourselves?