Hatred against Israel.?
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Israel is a delicate situation.\n\nIs Israel itself a great example of democracy, economy, etc.? A resounding YES! \n\nUnfortunately, that plays ZERO part in the mentality of their regional neighbors.\n\nIsrael was CREATED by the US and Britain after WW2, largely as a byproduct of the guilt associated with the holocaust's effects on Jews.\n\nThe US and Britain (primarily) created the boundaries of a new israeli nation, taking terrotory previously controlled by Turkey (Ottoman Empire) and then Britain (after WW1). \n\nImagine the city where you live, being suddenly designated as the "homeland" for a minority such as Native Americans, or Mexicans (what have you). You and all of your city's population are told... "move out". We are giving this city to this new group because HUNDREDS of years ago it was once predominantly occupied by them. \n\n"Pack up! We are going to give you two pieces of land on the outskirts and on basically opposite ends of the city. Move there." (Gaza and West Bank)\n\nWe actually had intended to allocate a great piece of land for all of your people right next door, BUT... the mayor we chose, made himself King and decided he didn't want you to sully up his town and said NO to any immigration (Jordan) and thus you are stuck in two essentially useless pieces of land, so we can alleviate our guilt. \n\nI know this scenario sounds over simplified, and it is, but the point is... WE (US and Britain) arbitrarily recreated a nation of Israel by wielding our power over weaker people.\n\nTHIS is what has caused the hatred of us and the Israelis as much as anything. \n\nBritain backed off of nation building and manipulation considerably after WW2, while we intensified our nosing in. Thus Britain took less and less direct attacks, while we were seen more and more as the enemy and the big bully supporting an illegitimate state (in Arab minds).\n\nI am NOT an Israel hater...dont get me wrong, but Israel is not this poor, pitiful nation that is unfairlyu beat up on by big arab bullies. \n\nShe is HEAVILY armed, nuclear capable and despite our wishes, has violated MANY UN charters (developing nukes, selling arms to South Africa during apartheid (even co-developing nukes with South Africa), selling F14 technology to Iran (while we were embargoing them), selling missile tech to China, Pakistan, India, et al for ICBMs, etc, etc. \n\nIsrael is a CREATED cause for the Arabs... and it was created by us. \n\nWith all ofthat said. Israel deserves autonomy, and deserves our support, BUT not our BLIND support.
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Unfortunately, you are not educated about the situation.  Israel should be criticized, just as any other country, for any wrongdoing.  However, what is antisemitic is when Israel is criticized for an action that is very small at the same time other countries are commiting crimes that are ignored.  Does that make any sense?  Of course not.  \n\nYou really need to find facts on Israel, as well.  Jews have ALWAYS lived in the land of Israel -- always.  The Jews were happy to share the land with Muslims.  But the Muslims couldn't stand to have any non-Muslims in the world, so they rejected the two-state solution.\n\nAre you aware that Arab nations made refugees out of anywhere from 600,00 to 800,000 Jews after WWII?  Those numbers are many times over the Muslim refugees from Israel.\n\nThe fact is that Muslims have explicitly stated that they want world domination.  Open your eyes and look at all the filth that they spew not only upon Jews but upon ALL of the western world.  You've been gullible and bought the Muslim "victim" card they love to play so well.\n \nDo some serious research from credible sources - not Muslim sources, which are not only biased, but they contain actual lies (that may be misproven time and time again).\n\nPlease, don't become another dumb American who doesn't know how to find out the truth!
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It is not just about Israel, but about everything that highlights their bruised pride and utterly humilliation. \n\nThe following quotes go a long way to explain the pathological hatred in arab (and several muslim non-arab) societies against everything they perceive (rightly so) as more advanced than their decadent lifesyle, largely dominated by a retarded system obsolete theocracies and dictatorships.\n\n"The Arab world is suffering a crisis of humiliation. Their armies are routed not only by Americans, but also by tiny, Jewish Israel; and as Arthur Koestler once remarked, the Arab world has not, in the last 500 years or so, produced much besides rugs, dirty postcards, elaborations on the belly-dance esthetic (and, of course, some innovative terrorist practices). They have no science to speak of, no art, hardly any industry save oil, very little literature, and portentous music which consists largely of lugubrious songs celebrating the slaughter of Jews"\n\n"Now that the Arabs have acquired national consciousness, and they compare their societies to other nations, these deficiencies become painfully evident, particularly to the upper-class Arab kids who attend foreign universities. There they learn about the accomplishments of Christians, Jews, (Freud, Einstein, for starters) and women. And yet, with the exception of Edward Said, there is scarcely a contemporary Arab name in the bunch. No wonder, then, that major recruitment to al-Qaeda's ranks takes place among Arab university students. And no wonder that suicide bombing becomes their tactic of choice: it is a last-ditch, desperate way of asserting at least one scrap of superiority—a spiritual superiority—over the materialistic, life-hugging, and ergo shameful West"\n\nRead it all:\n\nhttp://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19107
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If you read the news you would know that the Israelis are occupying some of the Syrian land. Do u need a better excuse for hate?!!!
334791
The conflict is over an area called the Gaza Strip. The United Nations gave the palestinians this strip of land as a part of a treaty which made the isrealies mad because this land had belonged to them. There is lots of information on it on the internet and you can probably pull up the UN Resolution from their website that shows the trade of land. Its simply a fight over land. The palestinians hate the isrealies because they want to become a country but isreal does everything in their power to stop this from happening.
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only 4 of the 57 muslim nations on this planet recognize the one jewish state of israel. It is simple intollerance and hatred. IN the case of iran, it is a theocratic dictatorship, that diverts its peoples attention from their dire prediciment and living conditions and makes an enemy of of a small nation over 1000 miles away
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It was always obnoxious.  The US wouldn't have nearly the international political problems today if it hadn't been for Israel.  It started with supporting Israelis that were throwing grenades in to family homes in order to evict the Palestinians.  For what happened to them in Germany, it seems the future Israelis learned a lot about oppressing other people, herding them off to concentration camps, etc.\n\nI don't recall any information about how the original Israelis were oppressed by the Palestinians of the 1940's or the earlier century.  Was there any?  It seems like it was about the equivalent of anyone trying to get revenge on Mongolia... what's the point?  You're only a few hundred years too late...  Are these even the same people?\n\nOf course, now that we have decades of hate between them, there is plenty of atrocity to go around now, but I find it interesting that Israel plays off their aggression with cries of "holocaust" - particularly when that's what they have done to the Palestinian's - and would do if creating death camps were not frowned upon by the international community.\n\nEven so, a great recipie for eternal religious hatred:\n\n* Take one religion convinced that they are the "chosen" of God and are only special by lineage.\n\n* Take one religion whose faith is open to all, but has over the centuries taken a "convert or die" attitude as well as a strong emphasis on "an eye for an eye."\n\n* Mix together in an environment with some resource sarcity.\n\n* Watch the wars bloom.\n\nGod has an interesting sense of humor.\n\nAs for the specialness of Israel, I believe we could baste the whole country with neutron bombs and the rest of the world would be no worse for wear, just as the US could be wiped and the rest of the world would find some way to go on.  It's the vomitous pompus stupidity that keeps the problems kindling and I have NO respect for such insolence, just as I have no respect for people that kill innocents.\n\nMy guess is that the US keeps funding Israel in order to keep jews fighting muslims to destabilize the region.
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They attack other countries, but they see us as the biggest threat to their way of life, so they attack us the most.  They think we are going to colonialize the rest of the world (I can't say that I disagree), and since they see our (western) lifestyles as evil, they want to stop us before that happens to them by raising awareness in their own countries of our evil deeds.  It certainly doesn't help that we back Israel.
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people around the world hate the united states because of its one-sided foreign policies. in iraq, bush and blair have already said that the war was a mistake. there was no weapons of mass destruction (which was the basis for the war) so it was a false declaration by bush and he lied and manipulated his allies to attack iraq. now why would civilized people listen to a ridiculus call to war? iraq is an oil rich country. i wont be surprised if the americans and british have started drilling oil in iraq. of course they wont tell you that. anyway the war was called 'OIL' for 'operation iraqi liberation'. first of all, the reason for war (weapons of mass destruction) is a false claim and the evil saddam has been captured so why in the world is the US still in iraq? that makes people angry. the scandal at abu ghraib prison makes people angry. the deaths of civilians makes people angry. the continual insurgency shows that iraqi people DO NOT want americans there. and therefore, the general frustration with a superpower that has infringed human rights and is acting like a superior bully over helpless civilians makes people angry.\nanother case, israel. many people can't stand the backing of the US towards atrocities caused by the israelies towards the palestinians. i am not arab and i do not relate to the palestinians but am i the only one to see the similarities of the jewish holocaust by hitler and the current palestinian holocaust by lets see...israel, the US and every other country that remains silent. that is why people hate the US. i am sure palestinians have caused atrocities as well but we all know that more palestinian civilians die for every israeli. and there is no justice. that is why people hate the US and its claim that israel has a 'right to defend herself' and so i say the palestinians have a right to defend themselves.\nanother issue is iran. people hate the US because it is unfair in its foreign dealings. the US deals with whoever they seem to like and not others. thats ok, but sabotaging the sovreinity  of other countries and making assumptions about them is wrong. well iran has said it hates israel n israel says it hates palestinians so its a cycle. u cant say that iran has no right to hate israel just as israel is allowed to despise and 'accidentally' slaughter palestinians. george bush's blindness to the truth is frankly frustrating. sometimes i think that if i ever got my hands on him, i'd spend a whole lifetime educating that guy. there is someone pulling his strings. the US might apparently be the most powerful nation in the world but someone else is pulling the strings of the puppet president bush.\nyou should read this book 'the protocols of the elders of zion' it will give an insight into a different world for you.\ni am not against the jewish people but against corrupt politicians who are doing things wrongly. that is why i hate bush. not the american people, not liberal jews, but the reigning one-sided political situation prevalent in this increasingly ignorant and uncivilized world.
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I doubt if they know, its racial hatered bred into them.But from what I know, the fault lies with the allies of world war two. Churchill and Eisenhower just drew lines on the map. Israel did not exist. The Palestinian were there, they had no claim to the land. The allies should have given both of them land, bigger than what the gave Israel. There was plenty of room. Who would have been able to question it.If they had the Palestinian problem would not exist
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how could the people believe anyone other than the muslims were the perpetrators that day?  they have videos of the 19 boarding the planes.. and believe me there is no way an Islamic terrorist is going to do anything for Isreal.  their hatred for the jew runs way too deep for that.
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yes, israel is beyond the pale.  they are committing mass murder in gaza.  they used depleted uranium in their vicious attacks on lebanon.  just as they sank our USS Liberty in the 60s, they've now fired on a german military ship.  israel must be stopped.  they have become the nazis.
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Why don't you Israel bashers acknowledge that the Israelis were retaliating for rocket and mortar attacks that were launched from a civilian neighborhood? Blame the coward terrorist who hide amongst civilians, not Israel. And if it were not for U.S. pressure on Israel, they would have overrun all the Palestinian territories already. They don't fool around with their security.
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I just love these "head in the sand" answers regarding the US.\nI understand those that do not reside here but those that do who bash this country seem to forget all those that died in order to give them the freedom to bash this country.\n\nIran is a huge threat folks--like it or not. Israel is not.\nThe religious quest that Muslim coountrys support via acts of terror is real and not about to go away any time soon.\n\nThe next time we have an attack on our shores--those same bashers will continue to make excuses for the violence and blame their country the US and Israel while never considering that there is never an excuse for killing innocent men, woman and children.
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I knew about all of these and tell other people.  Unfortunately, people ignorantly give Israelis a permanent "get out of jail free" card regardless of how repugnant, murderous and terroristic their actions are.\n\nNo doubt you have been call "anti-semetic" as much as I have for saying these things, and no doubt you defend Israel's right to exist, as I do.\n\nOh, that's right: any criticism of Israel means you're a "nazi", no matter how factual your words are....
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I am shocked at the no. of anti-Semites who post on this site. Israel is the only ally the US has in the Middle East. It is a democracy and its citizens have the right to vote and a constitution much like ours. They are surrounded on all sides by terrorist nations determined to destroy them. These same terrorists are responsible for 9/11 and many other attacks on US interests.
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While I do not condone Israels policy towards the Palestinians, I am sick and tired of racist questions like yours. The Nazis organized systematic mass-murder of Jews, very effectively: they murdered around 6 to 7 million Jews in 6 years.\nThe  Israelis have absolutely no policy like that, not even sistantly