Ray
In response to: Of course such a movement does exist. Hamas is after all, principally an Israeli creation.
Principally it is not. It is an Arab creation that was not stopped by Israel for reasons that made perfect sense at the time.
Ray(quoting article)
In response to: Prior to the establishment by zionists of the state called "Israel" in 1948, Jews had lived in peace in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, and in nearly all Islamic countries for 2000 years.
In peace? Sure, if being treated like an animal, forced to convert, being massacred, and having your women raped is being at peace then sure. Some history;
In response to: Granada massacre, Jewish populations were confined to segregated quarters. Exiled from Morocco at one point and in Islamic Spain, were faced with the choice of either death or conversion. 1400, the Jews in Aleppo Syria were herded into their synagogues and slaughtered to the last man and the young women raped, in 1465, Arabs slaughtered thousands of Jews, in 1492, in Timbuktu it was decreed that Jews must convert to Islam or leave and in Mali and Spain Judaism became illegal.
1656, all Jews expelled from Isfahan and forced to convert to Islam. Bukharan Jews were denied basic rights and forced to convert to Islam having to then wear black and yellow dress to distinguish themselves from the Muslims. Yemenite Jews were considered to be impure, and therefore forbidden to touch a Muslim or a Muslim's food. Humble themselves before a Muslim, to walk to the left side, and greet him first. They could not ride a camel or horse, and when entering the Muslim quarter had to take off his foot-gear and walk barefoot. If attacked with stones or fists they were not allowed to defend themselves. There was a massacre of Jews in Baghdad and another in Barfurush in 1867. In 1839, the Jews of Mashhad, Iran, were coerced into converting to Islam
1860s, the Jews of Libya were subjected to punitive taxation. In 1864, around 500 Jews were killed in Marrakech and Fez in Morocco. In 1869, 18 Jews were killed in Tunis, and an Arab mob looted Jewish homes and stores, and burned synagogues, on Jerba Island. In 1875, 20 Jews were killed by a mob in Demnat, Morocco; elsewhere in Morocco, Jews were attacked and killed in the streets in broad daylight. In 1897, synagogues were ransacked and Jews were murdered in Tripolitania.
Doesn't seem like it was a very good peace and, things weren't that Great in Europe either what with the following from Wilki explaining;
In response to: During the High Middle Ages in Europe there was full-scale persecution in many places, with blood libels, expulsions, forced conversions and massacres. Jews were frequently massacred and exiled from various European countries. 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 English Jews; in 1396, 100,000 Jews were expelled from France; and, in 1421 thousands were expelled from Austria. Many of the expelled Jews fled to Poland.
As the Black Death epidemics Jews were taken as scapegoats. Rumors spread that they caused the disease by deliberately poisoning wells. Hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed by violence. Although the Pope Clement VI tried to protect them by the July 6, 1348 papal bull and another 1348 bull, several months later, 900 Jews were burnt alive in Strasbourg, where the plague hadn't yet affected the city.
The point of all this Ray, is that if the author of the piece you quoted can overlook such obvious occurrences as I found so easily, then the rest of his article cannot be depended on for any sense of accuracy.