phil51
I shall answer your post as far as I can, where I can find your assertions based on fact.
First you claim that the war is a religious war. The truth is that religion and politics are tightly intertwined.
In my view it is a political war with elements of religion impacted on and legitimising actions. The two opposing elements are almost entirely about nationalist Zionism v nationalist Islam. But it is first and foremost a political war, deeply rooted in economic resource, power struggle and of course regional rivalries.
Next you claim that Islam is an expansionist religion that wishes to take over the world.
We have evidence over the 1400 of periods of Islamic expansion which spread from the area now known as Saudi Arabia eastwards to Asia and westwards to North Africa and the south of Europe.
It is a religion like Christianity that proselytises (dawah) its faith, which has resulted - like Christianity in it spread, but it has not been so successful as Christianity.
That is in total contradiction to the Jewish faith which sees proselytising as offensive.
With regard to the Islamic wish to destroy Israel.
The majority of the Islamic league do not recognise or have any diplomatic relationship with Israel. This animosity goes back since the inception of the Islamic religion, with Allah warning Canaan against corrupting the land.
Your opinion concerning Jews who oppose Netanyahu and his action in Gaza - is just that. The opposition amongst Jews both inside and outside of Israel is growing, because of the growing evidence of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the illegality snd violence shown by settlers in West Bank.
With regard to the 9/11 and London bombings - and other violent snd revolting acts carried out in reaction to the wars in various Middle East countries carried out by the west. - utter tragedies - which would almost certainly not happened if Bush and Blair had taken note of voter opinion.
You use the term persecution of Jews over hundreds of years suggesting that they have been the constant victim throughout this time.
2.5million Palestinian refugees spread across the Middle East would stand in opposition to that assertion.
But if you go back over the centuries, I think that you would come to the conclusion that the relationship between the two groups has waxed and waned according to the politics, western persecution and religious difference. Indeed there were long periods when the two groups lived very peacefully together sharing culture and economic activity.
There has of course because of it longevity groups of Jews scattered throughout the Middle East for millennia, and as a result of the 1948 declaration, and expulsion of Arabs, these Jews found themselves also the victims of expulsion from countries in which they had lived - just like the Arabs for millennia.
I absolutely agree that anti-semtism is “beyond logical explanation” but so is Islamaphobia, and racism however it manifests itself.
This war it seems has lasted for over a thousand years, and will continue as long as the two groups exist.
But I still can’t get over the little children - “suffer the little children, and forbid them not” a message to Christians from Jesus. I’m am a humanist but that will always resonate.
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