If the US joins with the Europeans, Israel will be in immediate peril

Submitted by Michael S (United States), Jan 6, 2015 at 23:08

Hi, Tovey.

"changing dynamic that seems to underlie a global shifting back to a former time of targeting the Jewish population of just about any place there are Hebrews saying that the EU is the largest threat to Israel is an easy assumption, but slightly understated."

Country - Jews [Major anti-Jewish Incidents]

Oceania: 119,500+ [50]

Australia - 112,000
New Zealand - 7,500

Africa - 70,000+ [15]

S. Africa - 70,000

W. & E. Europe: 1,023,000 [10 East, 324 West]

EU - 1,105,700+ [W. Eur. 324, E. Eur. 10]
Switzerland - 17,400

North America: 6,300,000 [103]

USA - 6.000.000
Canada - 300,000

CIS: 277,300+ [80, incl Baltic States]

Russia - 190,000
Ukraine - 67,000
Belarus - 11,500
Azerbaijan - 8,800

Latin America: 476,305+ [11]

Argentina - 230,000
Brazil - 107,329
Mexico - 67,476
Uruguay - 34,000
Chile - 18,500
Panama - 10,000
Venezuela - 9,000

S & SW Asia: 6,211,356+ [n/a]

Israel - 6,180,300 [n/a]
Turkey - 17,300
Iran - 8,756
India - 5,000

E. Asia: 6,000+ [n/a]

Hong Kong - 6.000

[http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/102301.pdf]

Yes, it is slightly understated. With fewer than 10% of the World's Jews, Western Europe accounts for over half the anti-Jewish incidents in 2006. (Considering their lower number of Jews, Australia and South Africa are even more anti-Semitic.) North America has just under half the world's Jews, and accounts for about 20% of the anti-Jewish incidents. That means Jews in the EU, Jew for Jew, are over 10 times as likely to be objects of anti-Jewish acts than their brothers in America.

"One might observe that of all the places that should be ethnically touchy about the Jewish population, one should think Europe was; and yet anti-Semitism was just recently announced as being so resurgent, it is now competitive with the continent's stain of conscience just after the Krystalnacht(sp) in prewar Germany."

True. Europe is brimming with anti-Semitism.

cf: http://www.globescan.com/images/images/pressreleases/bbc2013_country_ratings/BBC2531_M1ft_ctry.gif

though as the graph shows, the only places with positive attitudes toward Israel are the US, Equatorial Africa, and probably Israel.

"Now, the time has come and the implications are more compelling; that Israel, in fact, is being targeted in a way that history has not known for centuries"

Yes. The majority of the UN's time has been taken up, virtually since its inception, with resolutions condemning Israel. During a time when countless man-made disasters were happening in China, the Soviet Union, India-Pakistan, the Congo, Angola, Zimbabwe, Central Africa, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali, Colombia, Mexico, North Korea and elsewhere, while Israel has built an advanced society while being attacked by all its neighbors, this is lopsided to say the least. Israel has been targeted by the nations, to an absurd extent.

It's interesting that while Europe has the most hatred for Israel, outside of the Muslim countries, non-Islamic countries in the rest of the world, such as China, India and Brazil, vote even more consistently against the Jewish state in the UN than the Europeans do. Virtually the entire world, the "United Nations" (in Hebrew, the "United Goiim") stands against Israel. The US is exceptional in its support for Israel; and as soon as we withold that support (as we almost certainly will if we consumate a trade agreement with the EU), Israel will be in immediate peril.

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