There are greener spots, just saying.

The Bible is a magnificent story, very cinematic, but that’s mostly all it is, a story. “King” David led a rag tag tribe jockeying for control of a motley tribal alliance that controlled a vital trading route between Egypt and Mesopotamia and his tribe won.

His wealthy son commissioned some of the most beautiful and exciting prose and poetry of the era to be written about him and his tribe based on the many legends told about them. Nothing wrong with, they all did that back then. Tough and tenacious as they were, the Israelites were never a conquering army against their larger neighbors…including the Philistines…but they could write like sons of bitches. No wonder 3,000 years later, their descendants invented Hollywood.  

I will always be grateful for the Allies for taking on Nazi Germany and defeating it.

At the same time, saving the lives of Jews was not a major objective for the Allies.  Before the war, the free countries met at the French town of Evian to discuss the Jewish refugee problem.  But, in the end, only one country, the Dominican Republic (of all places) declared that it was willing to take in more Jews. 

During the war, Allied leaders such as FDR felt that making the saving of Jews a priority would hurt the war effort against more important targets than death camps, and also that it would feed in to Nazi propaganda that the Allies were only fighting for the benefit of the Jews.  In fact, General Patton was involved in an effort to save horses (specifically Lipizzaners), which was considered more important than saving the lives of Jews.

Boca Raton?

Detroit Lions fans?