Excepting the Holocaust, I might agree with you, McGrath. But in the ebb and flow of history, when Jews were tolerated in Europe, they were less so in Islamic lands; the converse appears to be true when Jews were not treated well in Europe.

That aside, however, I am speaking particularly and specifically about Jews in Palestine. Ironically, after the Roman destruction of Jewry in Judea (and renaming the area Palestine) the Jewish remnant never had it well in their own homeland...whether under Christian or Muslim rule. And history tells us that will happen there again under if there is single-state solution.