and via the threat of torture and murder of oneself or one's loved ones. Also he underestimates what can be achieved through bribery and lies. The blood libel stories were fabricated in order to arouse hatred of Jews. The kind of blood rites described are utterly forbidden under all possible interpretations of Jewish law. Thanks, Toaff, for your contribution to the cause of anti-Semites everywhere. I'm sure they will thank you as they murder Jews in "reprisal" for the fictitious crimes that you claim are real.

The old "blood libel" has always struck me as being far more fiction than fact, sort of what we today classify as an "urban legend." Nonetheless, it is well known that , in the 17th and 18th centuries, certain Eastern European Jewish communities, under the spell of charismatic rabbis, engaged in bizarre and sometimes criminal activities. As far as I know, however, these activities were internal and did not target the surrounding Christian community.

...and which "climate of hatred" is that? the one Toaff is helping to foment, possibly?

certainly didn't help. After all, we were dealing with an extremely uneducated, ignorant populaton, who would believe anything their religious leaders told them.

were used, there would certainly be at least one Orthodox Jewish Rabbi who'd write about it and there'd definitely be some Orthodox Jews or Jewish children who'd mention it to their non-Jewish friends and neighbors. According to this apostate son of a Rabbi this is the only issue "according to Jewish law" that all orthodox Jews from young to old must be extremely discreet about. How foolish is anyone in the world who'd believe such garbage.

'Your people' have been in the business of killing children since Herod's time and still slaughtering them now in their thousands in Palestine.

Have you ever thought how could a handfull of what you described as "fallen Jews" form a cult that could take over the Roman Empire and establish its capital in Rome, bearing in mind that those jews were persecuted by the romans for the first 400 years. Have you ever asked yourself how could that cult who you described as "uneducated Jews" be able to organise their church and be able to convert that large number of jews & gentile to christianity. Have you asked yourself how can a crucified poor jew rabbi have victory over the same empire that organised his curcifiction 400 years after & he became the king of all the christian world. Untill now my friend if you look at your date of birth it is recorded in reference to Jesus's resurrection. But as for your accusation that christians were involved in barbarism. It is against our beleive to promote or to practice violence. Christianity is funded on love, peace, compatience & forgivness. Whoever practice violence is not adhearing to Jesus's teaching. I tell you my friend, in all civilisations & religions you find people who are driven by revenge or ambitions who tend to use religion to promot violence. Those people shall not be seen as true representatives of their religions. SHALOM

Your Hamas and Your Fatah has been killing children, have you fogotton, the civil war among the Pals?

slaughtered many in their push for land. Some of the chief architects of the Zionism and Israel formation movement have been quoted as believing in employing lies to see their people given the privilege of being given other people's lands. There was a famous man by the name of Herzl who has many quotes talking out how he planned and did lie to the world about the realities of the construction of the state. Just because the majority of people do not have the motivation and sometimes even the intellect to go through historical sources and text does not mean that their uniformity of ignorance and the Jewish campaigns of deceit are true or accurate. There is a very vile stink to what the conservative and orthodox Jews were and have become. They were twisted by mistreatment and have become demented and evil.