This is the reality of the Jewish presence in the Middle East to counter the views of the obnoxious Jew-hater, Malaysia's geriatric PM, Mahathir Mohammad, who told BBC's Hard Talk last week that all the problems in the Middle East are due to the founding of Israel.
They are not.
They are due in large part to vicious Jew-hatred inherent in Islam. See, for example, the meticulously researched The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, by Andrew G. Bostom.
From the Fathom article:
From the Fathom article:
Earlier this year Fathom's Grant Goldberg interviewed Lyn Julius about her new book, Uprooted, which documents 3,000 years of Jewish civilisation in the Arab world and explains how and why that civilisation vanished in a single generation in the middle of the 20th century. Julius describes what brought Nazi Germany, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem into an alliance and how this impacted Jews in the Middle East and the formation of the State of Israel.
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