Europe and the Middle East, by both Christians and Arab. This was referring to the latest pogrom, this time in the once Jewish region called Yemen...that's right, Yemen.
Nothing changes, except now Israel can defend itself. For those centuries, they were as lambs to the slaughter.
the Epistle,
on account of the vast number of our sins, God has thrown us into the midst of this people, the Arabs, who have persecuted us severely and passed baneful humiliating legislation against us . . . never did a nation molest, degrade, debase and hate us as much as they . . . We have borne their humiliations and falsehoods and the absurdities that are beyond the powers of humans to bear . . . we have trained ourselves young and old to endure this humiliation as Isaiah decreed ‘I offered my back to those who flogged it and my cheeks to those who tore out my hair’ and still we do not escape their constant outbursts. We prefer peace with them yet they prefer strife and war.9
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