Labour Party Former Mayor Under Fire Over Facebook Post Saying Hitler Killed Six Million Zionists

[Ken Burch]

44. Yet even with "Dhimmi"(which I don't think was imposed rigidly everywhere)

And there were many instances(such as the Moorish era in Spain)in which Muslims treated Jews far better than European Christians did.

There was no Arab or Muslim equivalent of the ghetto(used in the medieval European sense of the term here) or the Inquisition, or the Holocaust. And the Jewish communities in North Africa, Iraq, and Iran survived World War II unscathed.

It's also telling that, prior to 1948, there was essentially no such thing as a Mizrahi Zionist.

Arabs and Muslims weren't saints in their treatment of Jews, but they weren't unrelenting villains in the way many European monarchs and Christian religious hierarchs were (you should read some of the things Martin Luther said on that subject).

If it hadn't been for the 800,000 Palestinians(most of whom were noncombatants) driven away from their homes in the Nakba, it's likely the Arab leaders would have come around to accepting Israel in a few years. Once the expulsions occurred, the Israeli government lost any real right to expect peace from the Arabs.

It isn't as simple as the Likudnik myth that the whole thing is down to unrelenting Arab bigotry. Nothing is ever that simple.

And no, people don't "condemn Jews"-they criticize the Israeli government. Israel is not synonymous with the entire Jewish world.

And I say this as someone who wants Israelis to live in peace and security in the only territory that can ever be legitimately considered Israel-the pre-1967 lines. Not the West Bank, which MUST be a Palestinian state.