Reply To: Terrorists Murdered Hostages Shortly Before They Were Located

philosopher: Somebody would need to be willfully blind to not see how the Arab/Muslim attitude and relationship with Jews changed after the advent of Zionism (which set forth its goals in 1898 and, especially, after they got official British backing in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration that put the Arab/Muslim world on notice that the Zionists wanted to take over the Holy Land and had serious backing to accomplish doing so.)

Once the Zionists riled up the Arab world, they went from 1,000+ years of mostly peaceful relations with Jews living in the Arab/Muslim lands, and yes it was *mostly* peaceful (despite occasional tragedies) where Jews and the Arabs/Muslims lived side by side. It was the Ottoman Turks who invited in and saved a huge portion of our Jewish brothers and sisters when Christian Spain and Portugal expelled them and forcibly converted hundreds of thousands of Sephardic Jews to Christianity under the threat of torture and death by burning at the stake by the Church-run Inquisition, to the terrorism and murder and expulsion of Jews from the Arab countries after the Zionist got the Balfour Declaration and later prepared to seize the Holy Land by Zionist terrorism against the British soldiers in Palestine.

Unlike in Christian Europe where they were genocidal maniacs against the Jews for almost 2,000 years, with official and public backing by the Pope and Church down to national, regional and local political entities throughout the European continent from the time of the Crusades shortly after Rashi’s life through the Holocaust, which occurred during our own grandparents lives. With expulsions (including by England among other European nations), inquisitions, blood libels, tach v’tat, pograms led by the church and Christian peasent masses and what not occurring every Monday and Thursday for 2,000 years starting from Roman times (Romans are Europeans and that’s where Christianity spread from) when they destroyed our Bais Hamikdash right down to our own times.