How And Why Does Israel Have So Much Power?

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@AmazingGrace People are sharing valuable information in this thread. It is a centralised point on this board where this information about Israel is gathered. If we make several threads on this, we will not be able to tie this information together. Not all the information shared here can be considered directly addressing the question, but its all pieces of the puzzle that are forming part of the bigger picture. Hope you understand.
 

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Well no one is preventing you to call your new thread "Israel's crimes against Palestinians", you would still have it nicely together.

The name of this thread is "HOW and WHY does Israel have so much power?" Not how Israel is misusing it's power...
Israel and the murder of innocents are practically synonymous. Literally for decades Israel has slaughtered woman and children with impunity. Idk how many times they have been called out for their war crimes by the global community at large from small states like Cuba to the UN itself.

One has to ask why you do not want this info discussed. Does it affect your squeaky clean, westernized image of Satanyahu?

I remember a thread on the old boards, title was something like "Israel is Gods chosen" or something. Biggest thread on the boards that went for 100's of pages filled with 1000's of stories and pictures highlighting the utter cruel nature of "gods chosen".
Anywhere you mention Israel be sure God will expose them.

Maybe we will start to see their downfall because this newest round of cruelty, where they walked into a mosque during Ramadan (where people were praying) and opened fire... is indefensible, so much so even Israelis are speaking out against it.
 

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Maybe we will start to see their downfall because this newest round of cruelty, where they walked into a mosque during Ramadan (where people were praying) and opened fire... is indefensible, so much so even Israelis are speaking out against it.
Some new examples:
Former Israeli pilot: ‘My government and military are war criminals’



'This isn't the Judaism that I was raised in'

 
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Israel and the murder of innocents are practically synonymous. Literally for decades Israel has slaughtered woman and children with impunity. Idk how many times they have been called out for their war crimes by the global community at large from small states like Cuba to the UN itself.
Like Israel is the only nation that has slaughtered woman and children :D China, North Korea, Russia... ever heard of them?

One has to ask why you do not want this info discussed.
Where have I wrote I don't want this info to be discussed?
 
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Like Israel is the only nation that has slaughtered woman and children :D China, North Korea, Russia... ever heard of them?


Where have I wrote I don't want this info to be discussed?
If you want, you can discuss whatever it is you want to discuss in this thread:


The last post was about a year ago and this one is just happens to be more active.
 
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Like Israel is the only nation that has slaughtered woman and children :D China, North Korea, Russia... ever heard of them?
This is happening right now, as we are speaking. No government is lifting a finger. The world's foremost superpower, the United States of America, is supplying Israel with money and weaponry, turning a blind eye to its criminality, blocking UN attempts to discuss a ceasefire. Israel is bombing Palestinians in the occupied terroritories with state-of-the-art weaponry with impunity, no matter if they're man, women (pregnant women too), child, baby, animal. They bomb hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, houses, tower blocks, offices, shops, whatever. The Palestinians in turn, have nothing to defend themselves, except the rocks and sticks on the ground, and their own bare limbs. Since Monday last week, they have been bombing Gaza, a tiny patch of land on which 2 million people live, every night. So far more than 220 people have been killed, and 1400+ injured. Hospitals are overflowing with injured, and morgues and cemeteries are overflowing with the dead. It is especially egregious that they did a lot of this in Ramadan. But guess what, they don't care, they want to maximise the pain as much as possible, that's why they target them at their weakest. They continued shooting rubber bullets, tear gas, stun grenades, live ammunition at the worshippers, especially when they are at their most vulnerable, while they are praying. On the day of Eid, when children are supposed to be happy and recieve gifts and wear nice clothes, instead they are being bombed. All because they are not Jewish, and primarily Muslim. All on land that does not belong to them (you will see the vast majority of Israelis are of European origin).

The double standard is very blatant:

Do you know what the most bitter part is? Its the double standard. If there was a technologically- and militarily-developed Muslim state that had a large Jewish or Christian minority, who they besieged, blockaded and bombed in a slow-motion genocide, you would call them them Extremists! Fascists! Terrorists! You would point to them and say, look, these are the fruits of Islam. You would not hesitate to decry their crimes and demand justice. So why is it, all of a sudden, that when its the other way round, Israelis are not terrorists. Are the Palestinians animals? Are their lives more worthy of being stamped out than other lives? Do their lives hold little value compared to other lives? Are they little more than brute beasts, born to die? These are the logical conclusions that Zionists must inevitably come to.

So you can keep your empty apologisms, your tired excuses, your "selective" empathy, your double standards. Nobody needs them.
You will lament the Holocaust and decry the bombing of English cities by the Nazis. Men, women and children put to death indiscriminately and with impunity. In the Blitz, children and their families buried under the rubble of their homes. You erect memorials for them, and commemorate them every year. You remember the fallen, and the sacrifice they made. You say "Never Again". Never Again will we permit a ethnofascist state to wage genocide on innocents. But it's all baloney isn't it? If you were given the option of pressing a button that would eradicate the Palestinians and fulfil your interpretation of this prophecy, would you hesitate? I think not. "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others," right?
 
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Israel and the murder of innocents are practically synonymous. Literally for decades Israel has slaughtered woman and children with impunity. Idk how many times they have been called out for their war crimes by the global community at large from small states like Cuba to the UN itself.

One has to ask why you do not want this info discussed. Does it affect your squeaky clean, westernized image of Satanyahu?

I remember a thread on the old boards, title was something like "Israel is Gods chosen" or something. Biggest thread on the boards that went for 100's of pages filled with 1000's of stories and pictures highlighting the utter cruel nature of "gods chosen".
Anywhere you mention Israel be sure God will expose them.

Maybe we will start to see their downfall because this newest round of cruelty, where they walked into a mosque during Ramadan (where people were praying) and opened fire... is indefensible, so much so even Israelis are speaking out against it.
Why do you have to be so rude, assault me and mock me and my faith almost every time we start a conversation? Have I ever done anything to you, did I ever attack you or mock you, or your religion? I'm not pretending that I know everything. I try my best to treat everyone here with respect. But you look at me with prejudice and blaming me for beliefs and things you don't even know if I stand for... but you immediately suppose so just because I'm Christian.
I don't need your respect, but I wouldn't mind some decency.

I like to comment on politics as little as possible, because I think it's just a big theater. But just so you know, dear Daze, I stand for ordinary Israeli people just as I stand for ordinary Palestinians, Iraqis, Egyptians... what I hate and stand against are crimes against humanity of elites and their pawns, whatever country they're from. I believe that what we're seeing here is them playing divide and conquer tactic on us, the millionth time.
 
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Why do you always have to be so rude, assault me and mock me (edi: and my faith) almost every time we start a conversation? Have I ever done anything to you, did I ever attack you or mock you, or your religion? I'm not pretending that I know everything. I try my best to treat everyone here with respect. But you look at me with prejudice and blaming me for beliefs and things you don't even know if I stand for... but you immediately suppose so just because I'm Christian.
I don't need your respect, but I wouldn't mind some decency.
Perhaps I should apologize if you think I'm coming off that harsh.

Far as your religion goes i do nothing but call to the truth. I attempt to do this by using your own book. I mean in my book its absolutely clear.

On Judgment Day˺ Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary! Did you ever ask the people to worship you and your mother as gods besides Me?” Jesus will answer, “Glory be to You! How could I ever say what I had no right to say? If I had said such a thing, you would have certainly known it. You know what is ˹hidden˺ within me, but I do not know what is within You. Indeed, You ˹alone˺ are the Knower of all unseen. (5:116 Quran)


That verse is referenced in your own book time and time again. From Jesus not knowing the hour while Gods knowledge is total and complete to Jesus going into the mountains to worship God. 90+ verses in the Bible deny the divinity of Jesus, ponder on that.

Its not assaulting your religion. Its trying to save you from an eternity of torment.


Far as "the Israeli post", i have no tolerance for Zionists and those who defend them. There evil is open for all to see and always has been. I am beyond tired of these decades of death, r*pe and slaughter of the innocent. All the while those who claim to represent Jesus have been defending it because there pastors like John Hagee told them to.

If your ignorant of the situation in the middle east that has been raging for decades then i apologize but you kinda have to be living under a rock to be. I mean for you to suggest "take it to another thread" is more then just a little heartless.

Regardless I do not intend to offend you and the Quran actually says to show you respect.

"And do not argue with the People of the Scripture except in a way that is best, except for those who commit injustice among them." (29:46 Quran)


However some things are lost in text it seems as I don't remember mocking you. I do nothing more then try to point out the truth in the clearest way possible. So that even a child could understand.

None the less i apologize if i offended you.

May God guide you as none but the One who creates life and commands death are worthy of worship.

O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say, "Three"; desist - it is better for you. Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.
(4:171 Quran)
 
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Why?


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What Zionists instil in their children


Some Israeli arms production occurring in the UK has been shut down!


Israeli says he wishes all Palestinians to be wiped out, including children, saying it is easier to kill them now before they grow up.


Similar sentiment from Ayelet Shaked, Israeli parliamentarian.

 
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Perhaps I should apologize if you think I'm coming off that harsh.

Far as your religion goes i do nothing but call to the truth. I attempt to do this by using your own book. I mean in my book its absolutely clear.

On Judgment Day˺ Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary! Did you ever ask the people to worship you and your mother as gods besides Me?” Jesus will answer, “Glory be to You! How could I ever say what I had no right to say? If I had said such a thing, you would have certainly known it. You know what is ˹hidden˺ within me, but I do not know what is within You. Indeed, You ˹alone˺ are the Knower of all unseen. (5:116 Quran)

That verse is referenced in your own book time and time again. From Jesus not knowing the hour while Gods knowledge is total and complete to Jesus going into the mountains to worship God. 90+ verses in the Bible deny the divinity of Jesus, ponder on that.

Its not assaulting your religion. Its trying to save you from an eternity of torment.


Far as "the Israeli post", i have no tolerance for Zionists and those who defend them. There evil is open for all to see and always has been. I am beyond tired of these decades of death, r*pe and slaughter of the innocent. All the while those who claim to represent Jesus have been defending it because there pastors like John Hagee told them to.

If your ignorant of the situation in the middle east that has been raging for decades then i apologize but you kinda have to be living under a rock to be. I mean for you to suggest "take it to another thread" is more then just a little heartless.

Regardless I do not intend to offend you and the Quran actually says to show you respect.

"And do not argue with the People of the Scripture except in a way that is best, except for those who commit injustice among them." (29:46 Quran)

However some things are lost in text it seems as I don't remember mocking you. I do nothing more then try to point out the truth in the clearest way possible. So that even a child could understand.

None the less i apologize if i offended you.

May God guide you as none but the One who creates life and commands death are worthy of worship.

O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say, "Three"; desist - it is better for you. Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.
(4:171 Quran)
I'm not blind to what's happening in the middle east. Not blind to one of the most famous occult symbols, the seal of Solomon in flag, neither blind to see who is behind this all. I believe my second paragraph you didn't quote, and my answer to pescatarian009 hidden in spoiler sums my point of view on what's happening quite well. I'm not sure if you've read it. I don't think I have to repeat myself in this comment.

My heart and prayers are with innocent people who suffer, whoever they are. I'm well aware of what pastors say about Israel, and while I would never say a bad word about ordinary ignorant Israelis (they were victims of elite's holocaust as well after all), I do my best to educate those around me that things are not exactly the way we were told.

My sense for order and system got better of me when I asked why new thread wasn't created - and I want to apologize.

Thank you Daze for trying to save me. But I know myself. Trust me. In this matter no man can change my mind, only God could :)
 

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I would never say a bad word about ordinary ignorant Israelis (they were victims of elite's holocaust as well after all)
Actually, I have something to blame them. They could open their eyes to what's happening on their own border. Propaganda is a strong weapon it seems.
 
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Interesting how that channel has a big eye. One can only wonder where that information comes from.

If you want to know where the Jews went, history dictates they were kicked out of nearly every country (I'll let you research the "why"). And went into Palestine taking homes at gun point.

Its amazing really. They walked into these homes, stuck a gun into the inhabitants mouths and said "god gave me this land, get out" while today, 70% reject the existence of God.

In my humble opinion it is absolutely disgusting to defend this, but hey. You be you Red.


Edit : Went to spread some truth on that channel and I see the comments are disabled. Gee, i wonder why? Truth does not fear investigation Red.
 
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Fallacy alert - whataboutism.

Let's conveniently ignore all of this:

Historic treatment of Jews under Christians​

Persecution of Jews in Europe begins with the presence of Jews in regions that later became known as the lands of Latin Christendom (c. 8th century CE)[22][23][24][25] and modern Europe.[26] Not only were Jewish Christians persecuted according to the New Testament, but also as a matter of historical fact anti-Jewish pogroms occurred not only in Jerusalem (325 CE), Persia (351 CE), Carthage (250 CE), Alexandria (415), but also in Italy (224 CE), Milan (379 CE) and Menorca (418 CE), Antioch (489), Daphne-Antioch (506), Ravenna (519), amongst other places. Hostility between Christians and Jews grew over the generations under Roman sovereignty and beyond; eventually forced conversion, property confiscation, synagogue burning, expulsion, stake burning, enslavement and outlawing of Jews—even whole Jewish communities—occurred countless times in the lands of Latin Christendom.[27][28][29]

In the Early Middle Ages, persecution of Jews also continued in the lands of Latin Christendom. After the Visigoths converted from more tolerant non-trinitarian Arianism to the stricter trinitarian Nicene Christianity of Rome, in 612 CE and again in 642 CE, expulsions of all Jews were decreed in the Visigoth Empire.[32] The Catholic Merovingian dynasty decreed forced conversion for Jews in 582 and 629 CE. Under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toledo, multiple persecutions (633, 653, 693 CE) and stake burnings of Jews (638 CE) occurred; the Kingdom of Toledo followed up on this tradition in 1368, 1391, 1449, and 1486-1490 CE, including forced conversions and mass murder, and there was rioting and a blood bath against the Jews of Toledo in 1212 CE. Jewish pogroms occurred in the Diocese of Clement (France, 554 CE) and in the Diocese of Uzes (France, 561 CE).[28][29]

Persecution of Jews in Europe increased in the High Middle Ages in the context of the Christian Crusades. In the First Crusade (1096), flourishing communities on the Rhine and the Danube were utterly destroyed; see German Crusade, 1096. In the Second Crusade, (1147) the Jews in France were subject to frequent massacres. The Jews were also subjected to attacks by the Shepherds' Crusades of 1251 and 1320. The Crusades were followed by expulsions, including in 1290 the banishing of all Jews from the Kingdom of England by King Edward I with the Edict of Expulsion. In 1394, 100,000 Jews were expelled from France. Thousands more were deported from Austria in 1421. Many of the expelled Jews fled to Poland.[38][39][40]



Historic treatment of Jews under Muslims​

The Constitution of Medina, written shortly after hijra, addressed some points regarding the civil and religious situation for the Jewish communities living within the city from an Islamic perspective. For example, the constitution stated that the Jews "will profess their religion, and the Muslims theirs", and they "shall be responsible for their expenditure, and the Muslims for theirs". After the Battle of Badr, the Jewish tribe of Banu Qaynuqa breached treaties and agreements with Muhammad. Muhammad regarded this as casus belli and besieged the Banu Qaynuqa. Upon surrender the tribe was expelled.[4] The following year saw the expulsion of the second tribe, the Banu Nadir, accused of planning to kill the prophet Muhammad. The third major Jewish tribe in Medina, Banu Qurayza was eliminated after betraying the Muslims during the Battle of the Trench. However, there were many Jewish communities in Medina who continued to live in Medina peacefully after these events such as Banu Awf, Banu Harith, Banu Jusham Banu Alfageer, Banu Najjar, Banu Sa'ida, and Banu Shutayba.[5][6]

During the Middle Ages, Jewish people under Muslim rule experienced tolerance and integration.[8]:55 Some historians refer to this time period as the "Golden Age" for the Jews, as more opportunities became available to them.[8] In the context of day-to-day life, Abdel Fattah Ashour, a professor of medieval history at Cairo University, states that Jewish people found solace under Islamic rule during the Middle Ages.[8]:56 The Muslim rule at times didn't fully enforce the Pact of Umar and the traditional Dhimmi status of Jews; i.e., the Jews sometimes, as in eleventh-century Granada, were not second-class citizens. Author Merlin Swartz referred to this time period as a new era for the Jews, stating that the attitude of tolerance led to Jewish integration into Arab-Islamic society.[8]:56

Social integration allowed Jews to make great advances in new fields, including mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, chemistry and philology,[9] with some even gaining political power under Islamic rule.[8]:55 For example, the vizier of Baghdad entrusted his capital to Jewish bankers, Jews were put in charge of certain parts of maritime and slave trade, and Siraf, the principal port of the caliphate in the 10th century, had a Jewish governor.[10] Increased commercial freedom increased their integration into the Arab marketplace.[8]:58 Leon Poliakov writes that in the early ages of Islam, Jews enjoyed great privileges, and their communities prospered. No laws or social barriers restricted their commercial activities, and exclusive trade and craft guilds like those in Europe did not exist. Jews who moved to Muslim lands found themselves free to engage in any profession, resulting in less stigma than in Europe where such restrictions were still in force.[8]:58 This, coupled with more intense Christian persecution, encouraged many Jews to migrate to areas newly conquered by Muslims and establish communities there.

Historian Mark R. Cohen proposes a comparative approach to understanding Jewish life under Islamic rule, noting that Jews in Islamic lands often experienced less physical violence than Jews under Western Christendom.[8]:58 He posits that Muslims considered Jews less theologically threatening than Christians did, suggesting that the Christians wanted to establish a separate religious identity from Judaism, from which their faith split and diverged.[8]:58 According to him, instances of persecution were occasional, more the exception than the rule.
 

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Fallacy alert - whataboutism.

Let's conveniently ignore all of this:

Historic treatment of Jews under Christians​

Persecution of Jews in Europe begins with the presence of Jews in regions that later became known as the lands of Latin Christendom (c. 8th century CE)[22][23][24][25] and modern Europe.[26] Not only were Jewish Christians persecuted according to the New Testament, but also as a matter of historical fact anti-Jewish pogroms occurred not only in Jerusalem (325 CE), Persia (351 CE), Carthage (250 CE), Alexandria (415), but also in Italy (224 CE), Milan (379 CE) and Menorca (418 CE), Antioch (489), Daphne-Antioch (506), Ravenna (519), amongst other places. Hostility between Christians and Jews grew over the generations under Roman sovereignty and beyond; eventually forced conversion, property confiscation, synagogue burning, expulsion, stake burning, enslavement and outlawing of Jews—even whole Jewish communities—occurred countless times in the lands of Latin Christendom.[27][28][29]

In the Early Middle Ages, persecution of Jews also continued in the lands of Latin Christendom. After the Visigoths converted from more tolerant non-trinitarian Arianism to the stricter trinitarian Nicene Christianity of Rome, in 612 CE and again in 642 CE, expulsions of all Jews were decreed in the Visigoth Empire.[32] The Catholic Merovingian dynasty decreed forced conversion for Jews in 582 and 629 CE. Under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toledo, multiple persecutions (633, 653, 693 CE) and stake burnings of Jews (638 CE) occurred; the Kingdom of Toledo followed up on this tradition in 1368, 1391, 1449, and 1486-1490 CE, including forced conversions and mass murder, and there was rioting and a blood bath against the Jews of Toledo in 1212 CE. Jewish pogroms occurred in the Diocese of Clement (France, 554 CE) and in the Diocese of Uzes (France, 561 CE).[28][29]

Persecution of Jews in Europe increased in the High Middle Ages in the context of the Christian Crusades. In the First Crusade (1096), flourishing communities on the Rhine and the Danube were utterly destroyed; see German Crusade, 1096. In the Second Crusade, (1147) the Jews in France were subject to frequent massacres. The Jews were also subjected to attacks by the Shepherds' Crusades of 1251 and 1320. The Crusades were followed by expulsions, including in 1290 the banishing of all Jews from the Kingdom of England by King Edward I with the Edict of Expulsion. In 1394, 100,000 Jews were expelled from France. Thousands more were deported from Austria in 1421. Many of the expelled Jews fled to Poland.[38][39][40]



Historic treatment of Jews under Muslims​

The Constitution of Medina, written shortly after hijra, addressed some points regarding the civil and religious situation for the Jewish communities living within the city from an Islamic perspective. For example, the constitution stated that the Jews "will profess their religion, and the Muslims theirs", and they "shall be responsible for their expenditure, and the Muslims for theirs". After the Battle of Badr, the Jewish tribe of Banu Qaynuqa breached treaties and agreements with Muhammad. Muhammad regarded this as casus belli and besieged the Banu Qaynuqa. Upon surrender the tribe was expelled.[4] The following year saw the expulsion of the second tribe, the Banu Nadir, accused of planning to kill the prophet Muhammad. The third major Jewish tribe in Medina, Banu Qurayza was eliminated after betraying the Muslims during the Battle of the Trench. However, there were many Jewish communities in Medina who continued to live in Medina peacefully after these events such as Banu Awf, Banu Harith, Banu Jusham Banu Alfageer, Banu Najjar, Banu Sa'ida, and Banu Shutayba.[5][6]

During the Middle Ages, Jewish people under Muslim rule experienced tolerance and integration.[8]:55 Some historians refer to this time period as the "Golden Age" for the Jews, as more opportunities became available to them.[8] In the context of day-to-day life, Abdel Fattah Ashour, a professor of medieval history at Cairo University, states that Jewish people found solace under Islamic rule during the Middle Ages.[8]:56 The Muslim rule at times didn't fully enforce the Pact of Umar and the traditional Dhimmi status of Jews; i.e., the Jews sometimes, as in eleventh-century Granada, were not second-class citizens. Author Merlin Swartz referred to this time period as a new era for the Jews, stating that the attitude of tolerance led to Jewish integration into Arab-Islamic society.[8]:56

Social integration allowed Jews to make great advances in new fields, including mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, chemistry and philology,[9] with some even gaining political power under Islamic rule.[8]:55 For example, the vizier of Baghdad entrusted his capital to Jewish bankers, Jews were put in charge of certain parts of maritime and slave trade, and Siraf, the principal port of the caliphate in the 10th century, had a Jewish governor.[10] Increased commercial freedom increased their integration into the Arab marketplace.[8]:58 Leon Poliakov writes that in the early ages of Islam, Jews enjoyed great privileges, and their communities prospered. No laws or social barriers restricted their commercial activities, and exclusive trade and craft guilds like those in Europe did not exist. Jews who moved to Muslim lands found themselves free to engage in any profession, resulting in less stigma than in Europe where such restrictions were still in force.[8]:58 This, coupled with more intense Christian persecution, encouraged many Jews to migrate to areas newly conquered by Muslims and establish communities there.

Historian Mark R. Cohen proposes a comparative approach to understanding Jewish life under Islamic rule, noting that Jews in Islamic lands often experienced less physical violence than Jews under Western Christendom.[8]:58 He posits that Muslims considered Jews less theologically threatening than Christians did, suggesting that the Christians wanted to establish a separate religious identity from Judaism, from which their faith split and diverged.[8]:58 According to him, instances of persecution were occasional, more the exception than the rule.
First - I agree that due to replacement theology, many Christians have treated the Jews appallingly for hundreds of years. No dispute at all.

Second, I don’t dispute the point that there have been times when Arabs and Jews have co-existed well in various countries.

But the question remains to the countries addressed at the UN - “Where are your Jews” (present tense). Where did they go and why?
 
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Arabs and Jews
"Arabs and Jews." No, Muslims and Jews. Jews were safer because of Islam. Same with Jerusalem. Compare the Crusader and the Ayyubid conquests. Christians and Jews were safe in Jerusalem under Salahuddin.

Christian Crusader conquest
The Crusaders inflicted complete destruction on the Muslims and Jews. They killed them all, so that the streets of Jerusalem ran with blood, knee deep. No child or woman was spared. When the Muslims fled to the temple of Solomon, the crusaders attacked them and 10,000 were slain there. When the Jews retreated to their synangogues, it was burnt over their heads. The corpses of the dead were so numerous that they had to be dragged to the city outskirts, piled upon each other, and then lit in huge funeral pyres.
Muslim Ayyubid conquest
When Saladin took back Jerusalem in 1187, he didn't have to kill innocents to establish his rule there. He let the Frankish Christians pay a small ransom to leave, and let the poorest ones leave anyway, even if they couldn't pay. He let the Eastern Christians stay, and let Jews settle in the city too. It remained in Muslims hands until the 13th century. In the sixth crusade, Frederick II negotiated with Muslim rulers of Jerusalem to let Christian pilgrims visit the Holy Sepulchre unmolested, achieving what the crusaders had never accomplished without force. Ironically, the Pope thought that he'd become a Muslim because he refused to wage another crusade against them, and Frederick II was excommunicated as a result.

Where are your Jews
I assume migration and demographic outcompetition. But I'm no expert. See this Wiki article from the 19th century onwards.
 
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