Folks - take off the blinders of bias - educate yourselves to other views.

I refer you to the Middle East Information Center - the entire essay is excellent.

http://middleeastinfo.org/library/lewis_antisemitism.html

"Semites and Anti-Semites"
By Bernard Lewis
from Islam In History (1973).

Third paragraph - (divided)

"The Semite, like the Aryan, is a myth, and part of the same mythology.

Both terms -- Semite and Aryan -- originated in the same way, and suffered the same misuse at the same hands. Primarily linguistic, they date from the great development of scientific philology during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when European scholars made the momentous discovery that the languages of mankind were related to one another and -- formed recognizable families.

"The term Aryan, of Indian origin, was first applied to a group of languages spoken in south Asia, to which Sanskrit and its derivatives belonged, and then extended to a larger group of languages in Europe and Asia, more commonly known as Indo-European.

"Semitic was applied at about the same time to another family of languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Aramaic, and, later, some other languages of the Middle East and North Africa.

"The name of course comes from Shem, one of the three, sons of Noah, from whom, according to the Book of Genesis, the Jews and most of their ancient neighbors were descended. The term Semite in "this sense seems to have appeared in print for the first time in 1781, in a contribution by A. L. von Schlozer to J. G. Eichhorn's Repertoriumfur biblische und morgenlandische Literatur.

Further down note:
"One of the characteristics of the anti-Jew as distinct from the pro-Arab is that he shows no other sign of interest in the Arabs or sympathy for them, apart from their conflict with the Jews. He is completely unmoved by wrongs suffered by the Arabs at the hands of anyone other than Jews -- whether their own rulers or third parties. He shows no interest in the history or achievements of the Arabs, no knowledge of their language or culture.

"A second characteristic of the anti-Jew as opposed to the pro-Arab is his tendency to harp on Jewish power and influence, which he usually greatly exaggerates, and to complain of Jewish double loyalty. There are about 450,000 Jews in Britain. The anti-Jew proceeds on the assumptions (a) that they are all as rich as Rothschild, as efficient as Marks & Spencer, as clever as Isaiah Berlin, as articulate as Bernard Levin, as resourceful as John Bloom; (b) that they are all working together for Israel; (c) that they are committing some offense in doing so.

"In fact of course the great majority of Jews in Britain, as elsewhere, are as ignorant, inept, and inert as anyone else.

"...inverted anti-Semites ... those who basically accept the anti-Semitic myth of the secret Jewish world power, but see it with respect and admiration rather than with hatred and fear. A classical example is Benjamin Disraeli... Awe for the mysterious power of Jewry has given place to respect for the political and military power of Israel -- but this is not a racial consideration.

"There can be no doubt that one of the most important sources of support for Israel in the period following the fall of Hitler was guilt ....

"Jews are by no means unanimous in their support for Israel.

"Today the phenomenon of Jewish self-hate is found chiefly on the far left, where hostility to Israel provides, or appears to provide, an opportunity of freeing oneself from ancestral and, more immediately, parental bonds....

"All this... has nothing whatever to do with the rights and wrongs of the Arab-Israel dispute. It does however influence and sometimes determine the attitude of ... journalists, politicians, officials, and hence even governments.

Today It is easy to view multiple facets of the world.
....www.gulfnews.com (UAE)
...www.arabnews.com (House of Saud)
...www.gulf-times.com (Qater)
...www.israelnationalnews.com (Israel)
...www.hindustantimes.com (India)
...www.timesofoman.com (Oman)

Broaden your views - did you know Obama is the first president to attend a seder in the White House? (But this is not good - in in one Jewish view) Israel's leaders are being tried in Norway for war crimes? The brother of the ruler of the UAE was videoed torturing and then running over a man with his SUV?

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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