Why do people hate the Jews?, page 1
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Topic started on 28-7-2006 @ 09:47 AM by benevolent tyrant
Bigotry. Racism. Discrimination. These are all words to describe one thing -- hate. These are all words to express what the Jewish people , collectively, have endured for, well, as long as anyone can remember. But why?

Why do people hate the Jews? Forget, for just a moment, about the vague concept of Zionism as this really is another question. However, why is it that throughout history, the Jewish people have been vilified, persecuted, enslaved and have been actively, methodically, murdered? Surely, there can be a clear answer to this simple question.

It doesn't take much to find page upon page of "hate the jew" sites on the internet to tell us that "the Jew is an inferior race". And yet, on these very same sites, you can also read that the "Jew controls the world". Which is it? How can an "inferior" race dominate and control the world"?

Some might say that they hate the Jews because, after all, "the Jews killed Jesus". This has been the "justification" for Christian pesecution and the hatred of the Jews in spite of the fact that Jesus, Himself, was a Jew. How can Christians continue to call themselves Christians when they, in turn, deny Christs' own words to "Forgive them, for they know not what they do"? In the same light, how can Christians deny that, according to the very same Bible that they adhere, expresses that the Jews are "God's Chosen people"?

In trying to discern the reasons for the hatred of the Jewish people, I come up with nothing but contradictory, paradoxical or even unreasoned thinking.

In the Middle East, we find that all, if not most, of the Arab / Muslim nations despise the Jewish people. Presumably, this is because of the treatment that the Jewish / Israeli state has shown toward the Palestinian people. It would seem that these states feel that their Arab/Muslim brothers have been horrifically mistreated and, yet, when one looks at the history in that region, it would seem that the Palestinians were treated just as poorly by their Arab/Muslim "brothers" in Jordan and Syria. In fact, I am surprised that the rich Muslim oil states have not contributed, in any meaningful way, to help the Palestinians with anything but rhetoric and arms.

Nevertheless, I can understand the hatred that the Palestinian might hold for Israel -- after all, they do have legitimate claims for the same land. But why does Iran hate Israel? Why do other Muslim nations without direct linkage to Israel, hate the Jews?

It is difficult to conceive of a hatred that is so intense that it has survived millenia and, yet, the hatred for the Jewish people is such a case. Why?

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reply posted on 28-7-2006 @ 10:29 AM by pstiffy
Originally posted by benevolent tyrant
Bigotry. Racism. Discrimination. These are all words to describe one thing -- hate. These are all words to express what the Jewish people , collectively, have endured for, well, as long as anyone can remember. But why?



That would have to depend on the person who would be answering. I am sure anyone who hates the Jews have their particular reason for their hate, whether it is justified or not. One of the central themes when reading "anti jewish" posts/literature is many feel that the Jewish people, or more particularly the Jewish leadership has a sense of arrogance or moral superiority over the "common man," based on comments that have been well circulated throughout the internet and in literature, ex:

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."
— Israeli Prime Minister Menechem Begin

The body of a Jewish person," Schneerson bragged, "is of a totally different quality from the body of members of all other nations of the world. Bodies of the Gentiles are in vain. An even greater difference is in regard to the soul...A non-Jewish soul comes from three satanic spheres, while the Jewish soul stems from holiness."
--Rabbi Mendel Schneerson

“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail.”
~ Rabbi Ya'acov Perin in his eulogy at the funeral of Dr. Baruch Goldstein (Cited in the New York Times, 1994-02-28)

“Israeli lives are worth more than Palestinian ones.”
Ehud Olmert 2006-06-23

“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people… It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.”
Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel, Statement to The Sunday Times, 1969-06-15

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.”
Golda Meir (quoted in Chapter 13 of The Zionist Connection II: What Price Peace by Alfred Lilienthal )

Another main point main people bring up is that the WWII and the Holocaust have been made to look in the Western Society as though it was "only the Jewish people" who suffered, and it was mostly only Jewish people who were being killed in concentration camps, and the West barely hears about the suffering of the other cultures. Approximently 37 millions civilians were killed (source), in WWII, only 3 million were jewish, and many feel that the Jewish deaths were over played directly after the War to create the State of Israel, and since the creation of the Jewish State, it has been nonestop violence, hatred and death, on both sides of the table (jewish/arab)

These are a couple of the more "sensible" reasons I have been able to find, while looking into it. While there are many of the reason out there, most others are based of blinded hate.

Why can't we all just get along!
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