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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: neolib who wrote (192745)7/24/2006 12:47:14 AM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
That Arabs were more accepting of Jews prior to the influx and establishment of a state, which was largely forced on the Arab world, not something of their own choosing. I.e. Arab hatred for Jews is largely linked to land issues.

That is true and yet it doesn't mean what you think you are saying.

It's sort of like saying that Southern plantation owners were much more accepting of blacks before the Civil War than after the Civil war; the rise of racist organizations after the war was largely linked to emancipation issues.

That seems an odd formulation to us because we know that however fine race relations seemed to the antebellum plantation owners, they were far, far from fine as far as the black enslaved population was concerned.

Well, the same holds true for the status of Jews throughout most of the Middle East before 1948. It wasn't just that Arabs become more hostile to them after 1948; it was that finally they had an alternative to staying & being treated like 3rd class citizens.
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