To: louel who wrote (131644 ) 3/7/2017 12:53:49 PM From: Haim R. Branisteanu Respond to of 218246 Unfortunate my long post was erase I will answer you in another time. Bottom line I am proud of being Jewish the way my heritage is human honest with integrity affectionate and without preconceptions You cannot generalize and I spoke of a minority - sufficient to be in NYC to be able to differentiate. Most people I know are warm and human and many also Jewish, on the other hand you have fanatics and only someone living in Israel for several year can differentiate. My parents where not in hard labor camps because of Hitler, my father back was not filled with deep scars not because of a German beat him - he was in a Romanian hard labor camp, my mother never permitted the subject be discussed in our home, her cousin was in Auschwitz, on his wife they experimented and died of cervical cancer less than 20 years later. The deep hatred of Hitler is un-explainable but so was the hatred of Europeans toward Jews, each for his own reason and it is planted in their subconsciousness. Poles and Ukrainian hated Jews Khmelnytskyi and his men as an example not less than German and committed horrifying crimes over the ages, as where the Spanish or Portuguese and the list is long. My point is and read history the Holocaust started as an explosion of frustration deep engraved hatred toward people that where serving their Boyars or where HofJuden or assisted the Tatars in Crimea to trade enslaved people from Slavic tribes or Romania to the Ottoman Empire. This does not mean what you understood and I specifically spoke of a minority.See my quotes from Israeli newspapers which I will post againIDF Deputy Chief Likens 'Revolting Trends' in Israeli Society to pre-Holocaust Germany 'On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we ought to discuss our ability to uproot the seeds of intolerance, violence, self-destruction and moral deterioration,' says Maj. Gen. Yair Golan. read more: haaretz.com Israel Has Been Infected by the Seeds of Fascism, Says ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak. Barak tells TV interviewer that 'there are no serious leaders left in the world who believe the Israeli government.' read more: haaretz.com Neo-fascists Threaten the West. In Israel They've Already Arrived From America to Austria, belligerent, xenophobic ultra-nationalism is rising. But its hold on power in Israel is far more secure — and uncontested. Our political predicament is worse. In the 21st century, the forces of belligerent, xenophobic ultra-nationalism have a much stronger, more secure hold on power in Israel than they do in any Western country read more: haaretz.com The Khazars converted to Judaism because they found to be the more human faith. A savage, Sviatoslav son of Olga of the Kiev Rus destroyed them, but the history is long to explain it all and the majority of Jews are not what you understood from my post. Read about the Radhanite, and their way of life and trade en.wikipedia.org