mdd, last I checked most civilized countries today have entitlement programs for their unemployed. If I’m not mistaken, Britain’s entitlements are particularly generous.
And what is this Chillul Hashem you keep going on about? How on earth is any of this a Chillul Hashem?
zdad:
You claim that in a 101 year, span 201 Jews were killed and a Jewish neighborhood was destroyed by the Arabs. True. But in the 65 years since the creation of the State of Israel, between 13,171 and 14,657 Jews were killed in the various wars, and just about every Sephardi community throughout the Middle East was expelled, left with nothing besides what they could carry (and then suffered a spiritual holocaust at the hands of the Zionists).
There was violence against the Jews by Muslims before the founding of the Medina, but it cannot be compared to the amount of violence that we have unfortunately seen since then.