To: Road Walker who wrote (212640 ) 12/4/2004 10:23:21 AM From: RetiredNow Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1573028 You should know, since by claiming everyone on this thread is an idiot you obviously seem to think you have a superior intellect. Read your history books. Hatred of Jews in the religion of Islam started with Muhammed himself. You can read many lines in the Qu'ran which are very derogatory when it comes to Jews. Then it was perpetuated and escalated by the collaboration of the Nazis and the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem (http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php), who used to foment attacks against the Jews in Palestine. Islamic hatred of Jews reached a fever pitch when Israel was carved out of the old Jewish homeland of Judeah/Samaria. When Israel declared their independence and sovereignty in 1948, that is when the Arab armies took the gloves off and attacked Israel. They actively urged all Arabs in the region to leave so they could wage a total war of annihilation against the Jews. This mass Arab exodus from Israel instigated by the Arabs was the birth of the Palestinian refugee crisis, which also became the birth of the Palestinian people with a unified identity. Then during that 6 day war, the Arabs promptly got their asses kicked. After that debacle, the Arabs funded the newly created concept of the Palestinian people to continue their war by proxy, with the stated intention of "wiping Israel off the map". Israel has been defending itself ever since, with only one goal in mind: being allowed to live in one small desert section of the world where they can be free from persecution. The Muslims deny the Israelis even that small right in their constant spewing of hatred and vitriol. You can read it in the textbooks, the speeches by Arab politicians and mullahs. You can hear it at the mosque every week. Muslims pump their youth so full of hatred and bile against the Jews and Americans that it is no wonder they grow up with the desire to commit suicide just for the opportunity to take an Israeli or American with them to hell. So you ask, what started this destructive cycle of death? The Muslims started this cycle of violence and have perpetuated it for 60 years with their inability to live in peace with their neighbors and their unrelenting hatred of one very small population of Jews in Israel.