Quote Originally Posted by Magpies1959 View Post
Lots of Palestinians bring their kids up to hate the Jews, this certainly doesn't happen the other way round.
If only the latter were true. A few moments on Israeli twitter would swiftly disabuse you of that notion.

Quote Originally Posted by countygump View Post
One question I would like answered but cannot seem to find an answer for is, why do so many different Countries, religions, hate the Jews so much? What did they ever do to anyone?
Christopher Hitchens observed that the Jews rejected the message of both Jesus and Mohammed, of Church and of Mosque. That undoubtedly contributed.

That said, if it had been Buddhists who took land from the Palestinians to establish a state, and then spent decades keeping the Palestinians in a state of occupation, does anyone really think there wouldn't be a hatred of Buddhists?

The lack of peace, and Israeli occupation, undoubtedly drives hatred and conflation of "Israeli" and "Jewish" (not helped as Israel's current government moves towards abandoning the secular nature of the state).