European Jews wanted to go to the Levant for dumb religious reasons. The world would be much better off today if they just went to the US instead.
Zionism is irreligious. Herzle in fact considered mass-converting Jewish immigrants to Christianity to appease the Arab rulers.
The creation of Israel was not predicated on religion, its opponents however always justified their conflict from a religious-dimension. Naturally ignorant trolls like yourself are quite ignorant of Israel and how it is the most legitimate state currently in existence.
Even 20 centuries of murdering and holocausts still does not satisfy the critics. The Jews cannot have a state because it angers racist fuckers. Well boohoo. We have a military, be nice. We may start treating our enemies like the US treats theirs.
I don't think that arabs were popularly known as jew-hating suicide bombers back then.
no need. jews were charged a jizya tax, could not own weapons, and were regulated to specific areas of the economy. of all religions, the jews were the most persecuted.
well, except for religions that are post-islam, like the bahis. muslims consider all religions post-islam to be hearasy and therefore subject to forced-conversion.
in iran bahis are basically crucified.
the muslims also destroyed the jewish armies, and forced convert any dissent.
though the biggest losers were the hindus. nearly 80 million were murdered by the muslim conquerers in india between the 11th and 14th century.
but the universities wont teach this for fear of angering the muslim lobby.
brief history of muslim antisemitism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_antisemitism#Islamist_groups
sample of islamic intolerance of jews:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1066_Granada_massacre
4,000 jews killed in 1 day
http://www.hsje.org/Jews Kicked out of Arab Lands Part 2.htm
the jews were treated like dogs by the arabs in morroco, egypt, and syria, well into the 19th century.
jews were forced to live in mellahs:
a name derived from the Arabic word for salt because the Jews in Morocco were
forced to carry out the job of salting the heads of executed prisoners prior "
to their public display.
A young European had this to say when he visited morroco:
"They are the most unfortunate of
men, every Jew belongs body and soul to his seigneur, the sid[Arab master]".
the persecution of Jews was more severe and systematic than the persecution of
Jews in Europe.
Europe ultimately had an enlightenment, unlike the Arab and Muslim world.
And Europe has slowly recognized its historical hatred of Jews,
while the Arabs deflect their hatred by scapegoating Israel
and exploiting the Palestinians to avoid any apology.
in many cases, a single massacre would spark dozens all throughout the
arab world. similar today, where arabs flip out simply from rumors,
like jews harvesting organs.
Many from the West buy into the propaganda that the Jews and Arabs
lived in harmony until the evil Zionists showed up.
This is not only untrue, but insulting to the millions
that suffered at the hands of Arab masters.
And the 1,000,000 Jews cleansed from their land by the Arabs in the 20th
century.
Any Muslim who attacks Israel I consider to be a bigot
because they refuse to look at their own legacy and realize
why Israel exists.
If it weren't for 2,000 years of persecution in every continent,
Jews would not need a state, now would they?
that is what inspired herzle, after witnessing antisemitism in Europe.
and look today, Jews are no longer being killed in Europe.
They have a military, and it pisses off Arabs.