You should remember that the US didn't get its independence on a "silver platter".
They too had to fight for independence, against England.

I'm afraid that I don't really feel anything towards Rachel's Tomb. I had thought that ancestor worship was a Chinese practice, not a Jewish one. :-)

Seriously, though, could anyone tell us anything about this Rechel's Tomb? Is this purportedly the same Rachel who was Jacob's second wife?

BTW. if someone wants an interesting subject for a thesis, the Russian preoccupation with WWII is an interesting one.

It borders with national obsession, even worse with the one Americans have with health food.