ROB -“and methinks that the nations did not need much encouragement to persecute the jews…see crusades, inquistion, pogroms….”
This is true, but having a State in Israel made their hatred much worse!
Quoted from the Satmar Rebbe on the other post:
“However, it is clear as day to anyone who can perceive truth that the source of all suffering, including the dangers of war, is the outcome of the existence of that Zionist state, that is of no value or benefit either to G-d or to the Jewish People. On the contrary, that State is the cause of all suffering and destruction, uprooting of religion and the Torah. The Zionist government is the one who ignited the anger of the Arabs by provoking them in various ways, and were it not for the stubbornness of these wicked rulers there would not be the danger of war.”