In early January, Roosevelt told Steinius that when he met with

Ibn Saud after Yalta, he wanted a map with him that showed the

small size of Palestine in relation to the Arab world in order to

make the case that “he could not see why a portion of Palestine

could not be given to the Jews without harming in any way the

interests of the Arabs with the understanding, of course, that the

Jews would not move into adjacent part of the Near East from

Palestine. (Breitman and Lichtman, p. 299). Would it not have been much more suitable for the Jews of Europe

who were completely European with European ancestry and European

customs to move to the US where there were thousands of Ashkenazi

Jews already living there whereas in Palestine, the Ashkenazi Jew was

completely alien to the region?