Antisemitism has deep historical roots.
The three Abrahamic faiths, of Judaism, Christianity and Islam all claim Abraham as one of their forebears. Abraham’s Judaic and Christian families stem from their son Isaac, but the Islamic families stem from Abraham’s earlier surrogacy with his wife Sarah’s Egyptian handmaid Hagar, who gave birth to Ishmael some 14 years prior to Isaac’s birth.
Ishmael grew up apparently as a “wild donkey of a man” – a life lived malevolently against everyone.
The hatred between Isaac’s and Ishmael’s progeny now occupies some 3500 years of history. Today, large sections of the Arab world simply want to destroy Israel; this was evidenced in the 1948, 1967 and 1973 wars, where Israel was attacked by vastly larger Arab armies, and miraculously not only survived, but defeated their enemies. I personally saw the burned-out Jordanian tanks and military trucks in the Westbank and Negev when I visited Israel some years ago.
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