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I think you have a fairly good correlation between a lack of education and a lack of tolerance.
Let me guess your a member of the ultra-tolerant (unless your Jewish) New German Leftist Movement!
We are talking about nowadays not the rulers of the past. If you are going to give credit to peoples who have been the best to the Jews it was the Persians under the Rule of Cyrus the Great (who truly lived up to his name)!
But of course as a member of the German Left you will deny (or rather not address) a list in which majority are the are from Muslim country!
Why should I deny that Muslim countries tend to be more intolerant? That is so obvious its hardly worth debating.
It is totally true that building a mosque in Germany is a fair bit easier than building a church or a synagouge in Turkey.
What I wrote in my post is my "lack of understanding" why these countries choose to be intolerant.
If you are intolerant, you:
-need to have a repression apparatus to keep you non tolerated minorities in line
-have to convert everything you conquer to something you can tolerate. Just imagine what a mess iraq would be if the US had to try to convert them to Christianity -.-
-You get dissatisfied minorities which could be used by other states
-You loose a lot of productive and technological potential
The gains, a more obediant population and greater resistance to foreign influences are pretty minor in comparison.
Since a country following the Sharia already represses 50% of its population (the women) intolerant Sharia countries would only be successfull if their population suddenly becomes twice as productive as the Western one.
I dont get where you got the idea that the European/German left is antisemitic. Antizionism does not equal Antisemitism. It is the other way round, beeing an Antisemite will usually mean beeing an Antizionist too.
The thing is, there are still (regretfully if you ask me) countries that place a higher emphasis on the Sharia than on secular law. According to the Sharia, non Moslem must be converted (atlhough Christians and Jews can be tolerated, which I dont really care about since I am an Agnostic, which would be a bad thing to be in such a country). There was a time where the bible or biblical verses had an impact on European jurisduction too. Thankfully, these days are over in europe, although I am totally aversed to the Sharia now beeing used in Britain.
Most jews I know(actually, I know only about 5 to be honest) tend to be a lot less supportive of Israels actions than you are.
Also, quite a number of Jews from israel are more critical of israels action than I am at the moment.
My proposal to acutally solving this mess.
-Large monetary compensations for Palestinian refuguess that lost their land, establishment of a decent education infrastructure for the refugess. That should hopefully produce educated and decently rich emigrants who should be able to build up new existances somewhere else. We need to empty these refugee camps, or any Palestinian leader will be unable to make significant territorial concessions.
Germany (an example where the loss of ethical German territory did not result and decades of war and insurrection) was only able to accept its territorial losses in East Prussia and Silesia after the refugess from there built up existances in what remained of Germany. That the Palestiniean refugees cannot do that in Jordan/Egypt etc. is propably the root of the problem. There wont be peace as long as this refugee camps remain.
That this refugee camps remain is not really Israels fault by the way.