Reply #24: Don't be disingenuous

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It doesn't have to be "every Arab on the face of the earth" to be a hell of a lot of them. To be more accurate, it is Arab Muslims who are the main antagonists, non-Muslim Arabs do not have the same record of unmitigable hostility towards Jews and anything Jewish. By and large we are talking about the same group of Arab Muslims, and their descendents raised on anti-Jewish propaganda, turned into people with such hate for Jews that they would kill their own children in the most horrible ways to see Jews dead.

Remember Krystallnacht? There were also pogroms against Jews in Israel incited by this Muslim-Nazi collaboration, though such incitement was hardly necessary considering that anti-Jewish pogroms in the territory that would become Israel predate the Nazis by at least a decade. Hitler found in the Arab Muslims of the area a group of people who did not need to be convinced of his program as they already shared his goal of eradicating the Jews. The legacy of the Mufti of Jerusalem is manifest in his nephew Yasser Arafat's PLO, and later in the even more bloodthirsty Hamas. The intifadas were the exact same type of hate-driven destruction that the Nazis undertook with their pogroms.

Remember Arafat getting 98% of his demands offered to him, turning it down and starting a war instead as a response? This is what Israel gets when it "negotiates". The problem with negotiation is that both sides need to negotiate in good faith.