More on anti-semitism

Why anti-semitism? My theory is that people hate G-d, pure and simple. Life is hard, you have to get up every day, you get angry, 'pleasures' don't really provide pleasure, 'entertainment' is not so entertaining...what kind of G-d would do this to us? And yet, everyone knows that the
G-d of Israel is G-d; when the founders of the Christian and Islamic religions wanted to root their religions in a foundation of truth, they based their religion on the G-d of Israel, then added that G-d had changed his mind about the Jews, which of course he didn't.

Everything concerning Jews is big and important. We are constantly in G-d's 'eye' and we are the subject of his 'attention'. We are truly his royal family on earth. He wants us to serve him and we don't. We, just like everyone else, find it painful to live under G-d 'thumb'. We also hate G-d (G-d forbid). So...

Non-Jews hate Jews, except for Jews who are truly pure and holy and righteous.
Jews Hate Orthodox Jews, except for Orthodox Jews who are truly pure and holy and righteous.
Orthodox Jews hate Jews who are more Orthodox than they are, unless these Jews who are more religious than they are are truly pure and holy and righteous...

...and very few of us are successful at achieving purity and holiness and righteousness. May G-d bless me and you with a "arousal from above" to be successful in our quest to be pure, holy and righteous.

Bombings and Death

In Iraq, a suicide bomber kills 20, 25.

In Israel, a suicide bomber kills three.

In Gaza, an Israel mortar kills 40 in a school where Hamas men were firing mortars at the Israeli troops.

In Sederot, a kassam lauched deliberately at a school damages an empty kindergarden classroom.

A katusha launched from Gaza at Ashdod kills a family of Israeli ARABS.
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Why do so many more Arabs die in attacks than Jews?

I believe that it is an open miracle. My wife thinks it is a hidden miracle. Hashem is protecting us.

If you look at the # of Arab attacks against Jewish targets versus attacks aimed at Arab targets (by both Israel and their fellow Arabs), clearly the casualties on Israel's side could be much "less", G-d forbid.

As with any miracle that Hashem does in this generation, there are logical explanations that don't involve Hashem's intervention, as far fetched as they seem to me.

Many generations to come

Here is a comment from a NY Times reader, 'Hakim':

"Once again, Israel has demonstrated its thirst for blood and callous disregard for human life and international law. The carnage they leave behind in Gaza will fuel hatred and violence in the region for many generations to come and they will surely pay for it sooner or later!."

It is worth noting that sixty-one years after the establishment of the State of Israel, no one worries that the fact that no Arab country or party recognizes Israel as a Jewish State or that Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction will fuel hatred and violence on the part of Jews will for 'many generations to come'.