Albert II, Prince of Monaco Quotes

Some bigots blamed the Jews for the Black Plague, then rampant. This is documentation of the Pope’s intercession to protect Jews. Pope Benedict XII, ?-1342, was an enlightened and moral leader who did not share the superstitions of many and realized that something was transmitting the disease. See {611790} for his behavior. The graphic is of the Pope.

Nasrallah claims to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad. Unlike some other Muslim fundamentalist terrorists and politicians who regard the Jews in Israel as enemies, Nasrallah is anti-Semitic and wants to kill all Jews, not just free the “holy land” from the Jewish presence. See {585748}.

The Arab States opposed the creation of Israel. They promised that Jews could like in Arab lands and would have “absolute protection” and “no discrimination whatsoever”, There was no need for a separate Jewish since the Islamic states were open to Jews. At the time, few took the statement seriously. The Islamic Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had been a general officer of the Nazi SS. There had been hundreds of anti jewish riots where Jews were killed and if they were lucky, only their property would be destroyed. Historically, only in Ataturk’s Turkey could Jews and Christians live as equals in an Islamic state. Under Islamic law, “people of the book”—Christians and Jews—could live in Muslim nations but had to pay special taxes and had many restrictions on their public visibility. Since 1947, there is not a single Islamic state in the Middle East with the exception of Turkey where Jews had “absolute protection: and were not discriminated against.

Zangwill had been asked to be part of a team to assesses the accusations of pogroms against Jews in the Ukraine.

Later, in the 1930s Ploetz became a Nazi and changed his views about the Jews and supported Nazi Anti-Semitism and crimes against the Jews.

The Iranian President has said publicly that Iran would wipe Israel off the face of the map. Iranian politicians and the public constantly clamor for death to Israelis and for that matter all Jews. Although not all Iranian politicians agree with the desirability or morality of such a policy, the nation was openly trying to enrich uranium and plutonium which are the key ingredients to atomic weapons. Israel is within missile range of Iran and sees Iran as an existential threat which justifies preemption as they did to stop Syrian and Iraqi nuclear development.

The reconstruction to which he referred was the rebuilding of Germany after the First World War. Anti-Semitism distracted most of the people from focusing on the terrible policies that guided Germany into WWI and the incompetent government that was operational.

The phrase “Never Again!” originated with Jews after the Holocaust—the extermination of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, and was adopted by most civilized countries to apply to genocide. It then was expanded to include other agreed upon weapons of mass destruction like gas and chemical warfare. Kerry was urging the Congress to authorize punitive military action against the Syrian government for using saran gas, and killing thousands of their own people in the Syrian Civil War.