Prestwich_Blue said:
Pretty well agree with that. In many places they still get on fine because their culture & ethos is very similar. As we've said before, the problem is politics not people, with leaders on both sides too ready to pander to extremists.
Point taken about Sanhedrin 57a. Similar quotes can be found in any religion and I believe that we have to be very careful about giving potential fuel to the rising of true ant-Semitism which always seems to raise its ugly head through history with dreadful consequences. I just wanted to illustrate that the way that zionists demonise Arabs, when it was or is done the other way round it was/would be unacceptable.
If you exchanges the words Arab/Muslim and Jew in the Shimon Peres article it would rightly be viewed as anti Semitic, but when done by a leading Israeli politician that is OK and barely goes uncriticized. This pattern is repeated in the established media.