my non-Jewish friends often ask, in light of the violence that still plagues Israel, why it wasn't founded in the Jewish homeland and area that is mostly sand and populated lightly with Arabs that would be greatly out numbered by the Jewish nation, I've told them that Religious Zionists believe that till G-d calls the people of the book can't go back, Labor Zionists just don't care about that area, but what if rather than where it is today Israel was founded in the middle East would that be more peaceful than what we have today?