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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (14500)	2/25/2007 2:21:59 AM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

The Jews were hated due to long seated religious bigotry, esp. in Germany, their ability to out-compete the neighbors (not all societies are as comfortable with competition as America), and their identifiability, which made them so very useful as a scapegoat. The strange thing is that answer boils down to mainly "they were hated because they were hated". I guess that may have been true, and all minority groups were always hated at that time, but it still seems counter-intuitive when the minority group is highly productive. The ability to "outcompete the neighbors" should have resulted in either a generally rising level of quality of life for all (which would be a good thing) or a rising power of Jewish people relative to others, which then makes them harder to oppress. Being identifiable makes sense as a cause of discrimination, but how Jewish competitive talents can have as the endgame them getting uniformly discriminated against really doesn't add up.