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HaLeiVi: Where today, other than in Israel, do Jews get murdered and maimed in mass by suicide bombers killing dozens of Jews at a shot in bus stations, restaurants, at a Pesach seder, kidnappings, bombs, shootings, etc., year in year out, decade after decade from the founding of the State through this day?
Was this ness you speak of that many thousands of Jews died in the first war and each subsequent war that crops up every few years in the State? And thousands of more civilian and military casualties in between wars, during those times of “peace”?
Where else in the world are Jews subject to this death cycle today, since you say “Jews fare a lot better these days in Israel” and dismiss the comparative and relative peace of Jews under Arab rule for a thousand years – compared to their Jewish brethren living under Christian rule, and insist on forgetting how we fared relatively well (yes, even considering the anti-semitic instances that cropped up there as they did anywhere Jews lived in golus) under past Arab rule in favor of this supposed utopia of a peaceful Israel? Today a Jew is more at peace in Europe, despite all its anti-semitism, than in Israel where he is more likely to be attacked for being a Jew or die in war or terror. And less Jews were murdered proportionally over a period of time under pre-zionist (note: pre-zionist not pre-Israel) Arab rule in Arab countries (or in Palestine) than die in any comparable period of time in Zionist Israel’s many wars and instances of peacetime terror.