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For 2000 years people preferred dead Jews who don’t fight….
When Zionist Jews fight, as in WWI and WWII, backlash inevitable
Weaponless Jews can’t fight back. Jews with weapons can. Before modern nationalism created Zionist Jews who fight to decide their fate, Jews were hated for their weakness.
The prospect that Zionism would move Jews from defenselessness to armed defense alarmed a Muslim world habituated by 13 centuries of dhimmitude supremacy over Jews, starting with the Ottoman Sultan who refused to meet Theodor Herzl…
and Rashid Rida, the Salafist mentor of the father of Hitler/Himmler buddy, Palestine’s Grand Mufti, Amin Al-Husseini, who derided Jews as “the penniless of the weakest of peoples whom all governments are expelling:”
The fate of Jews who didn’t fight was often that of Sol Hatchouel, beheaded in 1834 by a Moroccan Pasha for refusing conversion to Islam: