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To: michael97123 who wrote (125404)	7/15/2005 11:41:12 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793840

Nadine, This quote is from robin wrights article posted by moemac. Does all this anti-semitism relate to the growth of zionism in the 20th century or is there an historical reason going back to earlier times that places Jews way above Christians on the Muslim hateometer? I can only repeat what Bernard Lewis says: the pre-20th century Muslim attitude towards Jews was to despise them and hold them in contempt. Christians were feared worse as representing real political threats. In the 20th century the Arabs picked up the European strains of anti-Semitism which regarded the Jews as demonic, powerful, threatening. This was due to the rise of Zionism but much more the successful Nazi wooing of the Arabs. The Arab Nazi parties picked up the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other anti-Semitic works. Since 1948, the Arabs have been using the Arab/Israeli conflict as an all-purpose scapegoat, so the stuff has just continued and continued. When you are taught in your state school history classes that the Protocols are not forgeries, but historical documents, and this is how the Jews are (how else could the combined might of the Arabs have failed to destroy them?), what kind of attitude do you expect to emerge?