Mr Meyerowitz-Katz,

Throughout history few people have ever said "I hate Jews for no rational reason." Every generation of Jew haters has its rationalisations. Jews are Christ-killers. Jews poisoned the wells causing the plague. Jews are engaged in a plot to enslave humanity as described in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

Tragically every generation has believed its rationalisation – believed it passionately. Here is Martin Luther on one of his obsessions:

>>I have read and heard many stories about the Jews … how they have poisoned wells, made assassinations, kidnaped children, as related before. … For their kidnaping of children they have often been burned at the stake or banished (as we already heard). I am well aware that they deny all of this. However, it all coincides with the judgment of Christ which declares that they are venomous, bitter, vindictive, tricky serpents, assassins, and children of the devil who sting and work harm stealthily wherever they cannot do it openly.>>

http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/chronography/documents/luther-jews.htm

And here is Morsi 2010:

>>Dear brothers, we must not forget to nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards those Zionists and Jews, and all those who support them. They must be nursed on hatred. The hatred must continue.>>

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3713.htm

Israel-hatred, the obsession with Israel, the belief that Israel is somehow the summit of all that is evil and wrong with the world, is merely the latest rationalisation for Jew-hatred. The Israel-obsessed truly believe that so long as they put the words "Zionist" or "Israel" in their rants they are not Jew haters, honest we're not.

Welcome to the twenty-first century Mr Meyerowitz-Katz. From the Jewish perspective it looks as if it will not be too different from the twentieth.

Except, well, this time Jews have nukes. And how that will play out I simply don't know.

Mr Meyerowitz-Katz (cont'd)

Here is an example of what "Saint" Chrysostom had to say about Jews:

"Although such beasts are unfit for work, they are fit for killing. And this is what happened to the Jews: while they were making themselves unfit for work, they grew fit for slaughter."

(Homily 1. Chrysostom wrote 8 homilies against the Jews)

http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/chrysostom-jews6-homily1.asp

And here is the tragedy. I have no doubt Chrysostom honestly believed everything he said about Jews just as I have no doubt today's Israel obsessed believe sincerely that they are not Jew haters. It's the "Zionists" they hate because of all the terrible things they are (allegedly) doing to the Palestinians.

Many Jews themselves buy into this narrative. Sometimes the results are bizarre. A Hebrew University research (sic) paper questions why IDF soldiers rarely rape Palestinian women.

>>A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.

[…]

The paper further theorizes that Arab women in Judea and Samaria are not raped by IDF soldiers because the women are de-humanized in the soldiers' eyes.>>>

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124674#.UQzocaV34g1

Of course usually dehumanisation is used to explain why soldiers do rape. When women are dehumanised in the eyes of non-Jewish soldiers they are raped. When women are dehumanised in the eyes of Jewish soldiers they are not raped!

This was so bizarre that I didn't believe the newspaper accounts. I acquired a copy of the paper myself. The newspaper report is accurate. If anything its understated.

But here is the bottom line. What is the single biggest obstacle to peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours?

Not the only reason. But the single biggest reason.

It's Arab hatred for Jews.

While that persists no peace is possible. So I guess it's nuclear war here we come.

See: Why we hate the Jews

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/12099.htm

Steven, the more things change the more they stay the same eh?
Do we all understand now that there is no such thing as progress?
There's no such thing as the "Past", everything which we perceive as reality runs on cycles. Anti Semitism is no exception, Herzl in his work "The Jewish State" infers a cyclical perception of reality when he talks about the inevitability of the Pogrom .