McGrath, there is some truth in what you say. Europe's record re the Jews has been abysmal...'has been' being the operative words. The record since the end of WWII has been rather good, with few exceptions. But if the Holocaust taught us anything, Jew and non-Jew, Jews need a safe haven in the land of their origins.

There has been no time in the Islamic world where Jews have been permitted full participation, up to and including Januray 22, 2009. This is not to say that Jews were never tolerated, nor that some Jews even attained high position in the Islamic world (11th & 12th centuries)...but they have never had anything near full rights of citizenship.

In pre-Israel Palestine this was true, and in Palestinian territories it remains true. I would reiterate the history of Arab riots towards Jews in the 19th and early 20th century, but you've already read about them at the 'Cat and other places, or not.

While this may not prove implacable enmity on the part of Muslim Arabs, it comes pretty damned close.