Article: Why Jews are always viewed as aggressors

SHMULEY BOTEACH
Jerusalem Post
01-13-2009
Headline: Why Jews are always viewed as aggressors
Byline: SHMULEY BOTEACH
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 14

Tuesday, January 13, 2009 -- It's a curious thing about the Jews. Whenever we get attacked, we get blamed for having provoked the attack and being aggressors rather than victims. This strange phenomenon did not begin with Israel's current war against Hamas. It has an unending series of precedents. It was true in the pogroms that followed the Black Death, when the Jews were accused of poisoning the wells of Europe. It was true of the massacres of 1648-49 in which hundreds of thousands of Jews were slaughtered by Bogdan Chmielnicki's ...

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