You need to go back further than three decades, Lucas. Find out about the origins of the state. Then the animosity between Israel and its immediate neighbours may begin to make more sense to you.

"You need to go back further than three decades, Lucas. Find out about the origins of the state. Then the animosity between Israel and its immediate neighbours may begin to make more sense to you."

Yes, go back to the time when Israel's neighbours did not only want to destroy it, but actually attempted it and came fairly close.

Learn how the UN divided Palestine and how the Arabs rejected the plan and vowed to kill every Jew instead.

Compare the fate of Arab refugees and Jewish refugees and how the UN helped the first group but not the second; and how Israel is blamed for expelling Arabs after the Arabs attempted to destroy Israel while no Arab country has ever been officially reprimanded for expelling Jews in the same time period.

Learn how Israel was not allowed to be a part of a UN regional group and thus excluded from many positions in the UN. (They know joined "Europe and others" but are still excluded from most positions.)

Learn how the Arabs put Palestinian refugees in refugee camps around Israel while Israel made Jewish refugees equal citizens. Learn how the UN blamed Israel for the refugee camps.

Read about how the UN withdrew peace keepers when Nasser demanded it so that Nasser could invade again.

The attitude of the UN towards Israel has changed a lot and Furry Canary is right when he points out that you should look at the history before the last few decades. Because if you think the UN was anti-semitic in the last few decades, than I'm afraid you have missed the big show.

The fact that Israel is now not allowed to build a security fence in occupied land (while every other country is allowed to do so), is nothing compared to the days of old.

Standing ovations for those who want to kill Jews are nothing new. If you are American and want to feel good about yourself, just remember that the US is not among those celebrating murderers.

And thank you for that!

Well Lucas, you pulled it off. A VERY good article with a lot of research behind it. And btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore her. You get an insightful from me for it.

this is just MY opinion... feelings.... thoughts.

The Jews have been persecuted for so many millenium that it just is not a big thing anymore for countries to have irrational hatred for them.

Have you noticed that it is always the current anti-semitism that is justified (or not anti-semitism)? Past violence or discrimination directed at Jews was always unjustified, but current violence and discrimination directed at Jews is always acceptable.

In 50 years or so people will look at the second half of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st and they will find that Arabs burning down synagogues IS anti-semitism, was wrong, and must never happen again. They will also notice that the UN discriminated against Israel and find that a typical example of the past's anti-semitism.

And then they will agree with the European Union expelling all Jews because the Jews attempted to take over Lithuania or some such event, citing concrete examples of Jewish wrongdoing and referring to anti-semitism as something that happened in the past, in the barbaric 20th century.

Why doesn’t the UN protect Jews? Because it is mostly made up of countries who have spent the whole of their time as a country persecuting and stealing from them. Don’t ever expect justice from the UN concerning the Jews.

It is not recent, I agree. Most people don’t know about England, France and the rest of Europe’s hate activities against the Jews. Below are some examples.

Lets go back to the year 1000 (I like even numbers). Jews were just starting to arrive in England.

By 1095 the Crusades take on a harsh anti-semitic tone.

1099 Jerusalem is captured by the Crusaders. They put the Jews in a Synagogue and burn it to the ground. (July16)..For 88 YEARS all Jews are BANISHED from Jerusalem!

JUMP
1171-In Blois France 51 Jews burned at the stake for “ritual murder.” (The first charge of that nature ever on the European continent.)

1182 FRANCE---Phillip II banishes all Jews from France.

BACK TO ENGLAND: 1189 3rd crusade begins….anti-Jew riots in London during the coronation of Richard I (The Lionhearted.)

1190 Jews of York England commit mass suicide to keep from being baptized. YIKES!

1194 THE ORDINANCE OF JEWRY proclaimed in England to keep track of all individual Jewish wealth (so the crown could later take it!)

1216 ITALY Pope Innocent III orders all Jews to wear a special badge (nov 30th). This is enforced in most all Catholic countries for 5 centuries!

1290 Edward I kicks all JEWS out of England (and keeps their stuff)

1306 All Jews expelled from France (but not their stuff).

On and on and on it goes…all across Europe and it has never stopped. Jews were segregated (that is where the word Ghetto comes from…places in Europe the Jews were forced to live in groups …so they could be watched…and kept from making money so the places were poor.)

Good summary.

Just for the sake of my own country of birth, Germany, I'd like to add that MOST OF THE TIME Germany treated Jews better than everybody else did. That is why most European Jews eventually moved to Germany, started speaking German (Yiddish), referred to themselves as Germans (Ashkenazi in Hebrew), and spread eastwards, still clinging to the German language and German traditions. Some orthodox Jews still speak Yiddish at home because of that history. In Germany, Jews often had the same rights as other citizens. That was unheard of in Europe at the time (and is, except for Bahrain and few others, unheard of in the Arab world).

Germany was once a safe haven for Jews, before it became hell on earth for most minorities.

(The French Dreyfuss affair shows how much Jews were associated with Germany at the time.)

But it is true that anti-semitism has been with us for a long time and few nations managed to get rid of it. Currently, the US have managed and have been quite stable. Germany managed it in the past, but was caught again.

The international community (whatever that is) still has much to learn.

How often has the UN General Assembly condemned wars by Arab countries against Israel with the goal of completely destroying that country?

How often has the GA condemned Israeli attempts to survive such wars and prevent new attacks?

Well Lucas, you pulled it off. A VERY good article with a lot of research behind it. And btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore her. You get an insightful from me for it.

*Falls over dead, he's shocked* Thanks Dr. M, means a lot...

for countries to have irrational hatred for them.

-Thats pretty much my point, although i didn't get it across well, is its irrational hatred...its just stupid...but...hey whatcha gonna do...

-Its almost as if they're thought of as a disease, leprosy, or the bubonic plague...

'And btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore her.'
Not for the first time, drmiler, I'm a HIM, if you don't mind!

nd btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore her.' Not for the first time, drmiler, I'm a HIM, if you don't mind!

Okay... All right already! And btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore HIM! And no, I don't mind at all.

Furry did make a good point though. Without that reminder, one might have gotten the impression that the last few decades were somehow representative of the UN's general behaviour towards the Jewish state.

'And btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore her.' Not for the first time, drmiler, I'm a HIM, if you don't mind!

Yes, Furry IS a man. He and I are going to run away together someday.....

'And btw.....don't pay any attention to the furry bird. Just ignore her.' Not for the first time, drmiler, I'm a HIM, if you don't mind! Yes, Furry IS a man. He and I are going to run away together someday.....

And here all this time I thought you were was running away with me?
Now I'm bummed! I'm telling Ma! (Runs away laughing like a maniac!)

And here all this time I thought you were was running away with me? Now I'm bummed! I'm telling Ma! (Runs away laughing like a maniac!)

Whose running with who? Huh!? Woah! Wait a minute... tell me, when did *this* develope.... hmmmm?