Was this actually a good idea to keep jews away from palestine?

It was an unhospitable wasteland under Stalinist rule. I wonder why Jews chose Palestine instead.

>>1710249
A desert surrounded by hostile people is better? Why didnt they took madagascar?

>>1710261
JAO is shit, Madagscar is shit, Palestine is strategically located shit they have personal relition to.

>>1710261
>A desert surrounded by hostile people is better?

Yes.

>>1710536
>desert with aggressive but dumb and easily defeated arabs
>tundra with no resources that happens to border chingchangchong
You decide.

>>1710237
>Sharing a border with China
>Better than sharing a border with poor arab countries that can barely sustain themselves let alone sustain a military.
>I'd choose the latter any day.

>>1710237
It had nothing to do with Zionism. There was some legal technicality under Soviet law where every recognized ethnic group had to have some sort of home territory.

>>1710261

its not really a desert

>>1711280
yes, and that's why Chechnya is still struggling for independence

>>1711583
I don't follow.