[MarkL]

I think a big part of the distrust and nervousness Medved espouses is due to history.

Just like many American Blacks can’t seem to get over the “effects” of slavery, even though they may never have experienced slavery themselves, American Jews seem to have a “racial memory” of historical mistreatment by Christians, and this will probably be the case for a couple more generations, but as was mentioned, younger Jews tend to be more open-minded.

The problem has been that many European Jewish immigrants have handed down their stories of mistreatment by Christians, Catholics, or Russian Orthodox, though for some reason, they overlook the communists. I recall my grandfather telling me to never trust a Christian, and that was directly from his experiences in Poland and Russia around the turn of the century, before the Russian Revolution.

Mark

[SJackson]

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[SkyPilot]

Fair enough. If there is any group of people in the world who could make the case that they have been (and are) besiged, it is the Jews.

My own theory is that the Jews are attacked because Satan hates the Jewish people. They are key to God's plan of salvation, and His plans for the future.