What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II

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I probably should make another point here. The people in the Middle East in general don't really cotton to this idea of "nation". The people there identify with their tribes and their sects first. It has been that way for over 1300 years. 'Nation' is a foreign concept forced upon them by the West when the Brits and French decided to draw imaginary borders and create nations after WWI to reward tribal leaders who assisted them in fighting the Ottomans. The people there have went along with the 'nation thing' only as long as there was some type of hardline dictator or potentate in power, like Saddam, to make them go along it. But, with the exceptions of the tribes that acquired power like the Ba'athists, the people never really bought into this whole nation concept. Iraq is the perfect example. But it is like that throughout the Middle East.