08-29-2003, 05:56 PM
Quote:Why should Jews try and hog the \"oh, woe is us\" feeling to themselves? It often seems as if they want to be acknowledged as the world's resident chewtoy, when that is simply not the case
agreed,
but at the same time, they have had a sustained history of persecussion,
But it is their own doing,
as a people without a state,
their religion became the only thing that defined them as a people.
so they were very seperatist.
They never really tried to merge into their host society.
SO, they were very identifiable,
AND
they often lived lives of exclusion, so they didn't engender much support from the populace when they were mistreated.
they were the bankers to nations of Christians precluded from being money lenders. hence they were seen as the evil ones with all the money.
oh well.