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To: Dog Gone
I understand what you're saying, but anti-semitism goes way back and, I'm afraid, way forward. It seems to me that Christianity and Islam both hold the seeds for a hatred of Jews simply because they spring from Judaism but wish to displace it. Judaism represents the old regime and the two evangelical religions it spawned represent the revolutionaries. As we know, the first thing revolutionaries do is kill off all the sympathizers of the regime they've dethroned. Now, Christianity seems to have calmed in the last few hundred years, but Islam is becoming more enraged rather than less. It doesn't help that the collectivists have catered to them, and fed their sense of aggrievedness (if that's the word. If that's a word at all, LOL).
71 posted on 04/20/2002 5:11:26 PM PDT by Anamensis
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To: Anamensis
I'm not Jewish, and I'm sure I don't know as much about anti-semitism as many here. I've primarily viewed the Middle East in political terms, and that's certainly not the entire perspective. I don't know how much of the conflict there is based on anti-semitism and how much is anti-Zionist.

Perhaps it's indistinguishable. Certainly both elements exist.

But it's not as if Arabs and Jews can't can't get along together in peace. They had for centuries prior to 1947.

It seems to me that if a political settlement were achieved that both sides bought into, it would go a long way toward making things stable. I'm under no illusions that there are Palestinians, and even Europeans, who wish that every Jew on the planet were dead, but that will never end, just like racism among other groups is persistent.

Unfortunately, we are very long way, it seems, from seeing whether I'm correct or not.

72 posted on 04/20/2002 6:52:26 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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