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Survey: 31% of Europeans blame economic crisis on Jews
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Published: 10.02.09, 18:42
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1. and how many
logic ,   us   (02.10.09)
And how many of the respondents were Arabs? I would bet a majority since they practically have infested Europe.
2. We are on our own!
Ram ,   London   (02.10.09)
3. Repent before mighty blows come again
Josh   (02.10.09)
Too much talk about what others think and not enough about what God thinks. If we cannot be righteous and a light to be all nations then we will be the soucrce of something much worse. We need to turn to the brother and say stop doing evil. The rumblings of a repeat of history are nearly at our doorstep. Torah is for all time, so we can do this again and again till we get it right. Do we want to?
4. Repeating the 1930's
Rob ,   Toronto, Canada   (02.10.09)
...and we know what happened in the 1940's... we're walking right into the next world war... or at least a horrific war in the Middle East. Read it in Ezekiel 38-39. I think we are less than 10 years away... prove me wrong.
5. personal self-survey
Micha ,   Berlin   (02.10.09)
(as a european living in one of the named countries^^) * "blame economic crisis on Jews"? I blame the economic crisis on greedy capitalists who still earn way too much. Now they even beg for taxpayer money to continue their game. Pathetic. * Jews "have too much power in the business world"? Some of our key companies are run by Swiss and Austrians (Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen, Lufthansa, Siemens, Frankfurt Stock Exchange). It's a conspiracy, for sure! * 'Jews talk about Holocaust too much' This subject is omnipresent in our country, even without the help of jewish compatriots. It's a bitter part of our history and will always be. * "for the death of Jesus" As He Himself was a jew, it's hard to judge this from outside. Those who killed Him were Romans. Europeans, thus. * "Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own country" Really interesting question. Some jewish-german officials seem to avoid clear answers on this. We'll check this using a polygraph during the next german-israeli football match... ;-)
6.  #1 you just cannot face reality can you !!!!!!
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the world is wide awake , there might be lots of blind people who just dont wanna face the real world , but still there are many , who are awake and can see whats going on ...
7. Jews talk about the Holocaust too much
Zionoid ,   Occupied Toronto   (02.10.09)
They blame us for talking about the death of six millions Jews seventy years ago when they cant stop talking about the death of one Jew two thousound years ago.
8. Like the middle ages. Jews also caused AIDS
Liliane ,   Brighton, UK   (02.10.09)
Don't forget that Jews caused AIDS. Not too much has changed since the Middle Ages.
9. We've outlived Pharaoh, we'll outlive Europe.
Tahl ,   Ashdod, Israel   (02.10.09)
Antisemitism never really dies. Ironically, it is the glue that keeps us together for all these generations. All of our historic oppressors have long since been extinct. Let the Europeans antisemites hate, and let us do what we do best - succeed and give them more reasons to be hateful and envious.
10. Some things never change .....
Terry ,   Eilat, Israel   (02.10.09)
11. #6 regarding reality
Josh   (02.10.09)
The world is not living in reality. Deut 13 forbids adding a word to what Moses delivered that afternoon. Guess everyone in the three big religions missed that. Reality is that God is humiliating us for not listening with these evil wars based on religions not authorized to be there in the first place according to Deut 13. War is a curse and some religions want to make it a blessing.
12. #2
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you are right, but this aloneness has been at the core of what has always made us strong enough to depend on ourselves and to survive and live in freedom. remember, we jews around the world also have a safe haven now with an army that will protect us from antisemitism. there is a country in the middle east, israel, that we can go to if things get tough. this is why it was created.
13. Would you dare say that blacks talk too much about slavery?
rachel ,   usa   (02.10.09)
Me don't think so !.....
14. No disrespect intended here....
Marco ,   Spain   (02.10.09)
But its true, isnt it?
15. #1 lack of logic, us
Marco ,   Spain   (02.10.09)
Stop hiding behind you finger. I am neither Muslim nor Arab. I am a christian and I believe the survey is right. As a matter of fact, I believe the percentage should be higher. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see the cliche of anti semitism coming.
16. The greedy gentiles are as much to blame as the greedy Jews
econowatch ,   usa   (02.10.09)
Greed has no religious boundaries. Madoff is a crook who screwed his own people. Blame won't solve the economic problems of the world, but hopefully a few decent Jewish economists with names like Geithner and Summer WILL.
17. What a surprise
BEN ,   Monroe USA   (02.10.09)
Of course the Jew is responsible for all the ills iof the world. The non-Jew has used that tactic since the birth of Christianity. Do you expect the non-Jew to take responsibility for his actions or lack of same? Who caused the black plague? The Jew of course. Stupidity, anti-semitism reign supreme in the world. The greed of the non-Jew is ignored just as his hatred of the Jew obvious. Yes, the good Jew, is the victim of those who need a scapegoat, while the Jew who stands up for himself and defends himself is a racist, a murderer, etc. We live in a sick world, not merely in a dangerous one.
18. Is it any wonder that when the blame starts flying toward
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the direction of the Jews, the Jews start reminding people of the Holocaust?
19. And why the citizens should be "loyal" to their country?
Lednah ,   Europe   (02.10.09)
This is typical socialists writing - "to be loyal to your country". In the normal world the state and the citizen have an informal agreement. The citizen should give part of his incoem as taxes ONLY if the state provides to him the services he needs from the state. This is not matter of "loyality", this is a matter of interest. If soem state provide me with the services i need at sufficient qulity and at reasonable price I will live there and will pay the taxes.
20. just leave Europe and let's them enjoy muslims
smith   (02.10.09)
21. This poll shows one thing :
Charles ,   Petach Tikva   (02.10.09)
Those 31 % are ignorant , and still believe those old tales . This reminds of this guy , in 1956 , who told me that i can't be Jewish because i don't have horns .
22. TRUE Christians???
TRUE Christian ,   Ukraine   (02.10.09)
TRUE worshipers, that love Almighty God of Israel and worship Him in spirit and truth, love also State of Israel and Jewish people. I love State of Israel and Jewish people. Amen!
23. People don't like to acknowledge how much they hate Jews.
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (02.10.09)
Throughout history anti-Semites have used Jew-hatred as a way to rally their troops. By attacking Jews as the collective enemy, tyrants have given their people a convenient, weak culprit to attack to deflect criticism away from their own failures or to hide real enemies from pacifistic publics uninterested in fighting. Anti-Semitism appeals to people's basest instinct. But people don't like to acknowledge how much they hate Jews, and Jews have always preferred to deny that they are hated. We should not ignore the facts : http://xrl.us/otzko
24. I have my own data
Alexander ,   Herzliya, Israel   (02.10.09)
Jews constitute 0.2% of the human race and yet 20% of all Nobel Prize Winners are Jews. And Jews invented Google, Facebook, much of the software and hardware that we take for granted, Israel is the 2nd most important high tech center in the world after Silicon Valley - USA and the 4th largest exporter of military goods and stands alone for 15% of the world trade in high tech. And Israeli GDP is $200 billion and the world economy is $60 TRILLION. So if my calculations are correct, it means that Israel's economy is 1/300 part of the world economy. Yeah, definitely dominance. And even if Jews would dominate the world economy - so what? Dominance is a result out of brilliance, success, power, amount of people and resources at hand. Why would gentile power be more or less moral than Jewish power? And even if the suppose that Jews control the world - most people in the west are free, can vote, have food, clothes, water, electricity, liberty and democracy and free trade - so what's so bad about it? Nobody likes Poles. Everybody hates them. Swedes, Danes, Germans, Russians, Czechs, Slovaks, Ukranians, Belarussians, Jews/Israelis - everybody hates them. It is common knowledge that Poles are intellectually retarded and they are world famous for "Polish cleaning ladies". Hungarians are Catholics. Poles are Catholics. Spaniards are Catholics. They are primitive peoples with a primarily and predominantly agrarian past - people of the land - cheap people - cheap labor - cheap and low cultures. Jews civilized the Poles and the Spaniards. The Poles believe that Yoshua Ben Yoseph was Polish, but they have difficulties to explain what Slavic tribes of Polish ethnicity were doing in Israel 4000 kilometers away from Poland 1000 years before the birth of Poland...? Oooops dear Poles... And Spanish Catholics used to say during the Spanish Inquistion: "Clean people don't have to wash themselves." They were referring to "spiritual cleanliness". Jews were "obviously" "spiritually unclean" - yet the Jews bathed and did not stink like their Spanish Catholic friends that were "spiritually clean". So my dear friends: much of Europe is retarded. Why bother? Europeans are suffering from a demographic crisis. Their population is going down because they don't produce enough babies - and this goes for Poles, Russians, Germans, French, Italians, Spaniards and many many others. But the seeds of Israel have survived 2000 years of exile and our JEWISH population is increasing in Israel EVERY YEAR 1.5% WITHOUT aliyah.
25. Hatred of Jews and general xenophobia are on the rise in ...
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (02.10.09)
Hatred of Jews and general xenophobia are on the rise in Europe. Partially accounting for the rise in European anti-Semitism has been the views held by continental Muslims. Though far-right groups have been responsible for the bulk of anti-Semitic incidents in Europe, in recent years, Muslim youth have also been increasingly involved in these acts. Negative attitudes toward Jews are quite common among European Muslims. We have to fight anti-Semitism as explained at : http://xrl.us/kw6hh
26. #15, Marco...que idiota!
DR ,   Florida, USA   (02.10.09)
Are you serious? What a dumb, ignorant thing to say Marco. I thought Spain and the rest of Europe was supposed to be progressive and forward thinking? Not so, Instead you revert back to your archaic way of thinking...maybe this is why Europe cannot advance past the US and Israel in modern technology, medicine, etc?
27. Numbers are actually good 69% don't blame us
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (02.10.09)
Always look at both halves of a statistic. If almost 70% don't blame Jews for this mess that is an actual improvement.
28. #14 So what your saying is...
Josh   (02.10.09)
That Christians and Muslims have too little power? Mayne the vatican doesn't have enough? Are you saying it is true that no banks are owned by rich oil barrens, japanese companies or entrenched blue blood christian elite? All Jews own and control banks, even the trashmen in rehovot are part of a conspiracy?! What are you saying is true?
29. takes one to know one
Y ,   Nitzan, israel   (02.10.09)
A majority of Europeans support the expulsion of Jews from their homes, the destruction of their synnogogues and community centers, and the giving of their neighborhoods to the local arabs surrounding the Jewish neighborhoods. Oops, that was the position of the Anti Defamation League in 2005 towards the 8000 Jewish residents of Gaza and the northern Shomron. It takes a Jew hater to know a Jew hater.
30. In trouble ? Blame Jews...It works
Nora ,   Tel Aviv   (02.10.09)
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