Throughout historical past Jews have suffered mass homicide frequently. It started with the expulsion from Judea (which the Romans renamed Syria Palestina) after the Bar Kokhba riot within the yr 135. Crusaders killed hundreds within the Rhineland massacres of 1096. During the Black Death of 1346-53, Jews had been blamed for the plague and murdered. Many extra had been tortured to demise and burned throughout the Spanish Inquisition. In 1648-49, Bogdan Chmielnicki and his Cossacks slaughtered tens of hundreds of Jews in Ukraine. The identical factor occurred throughout the Russian pogroms. In Kishinev, 49 Jews had been savagely annihilated in 1903, and extra had been killed in 1905. Arab riots in Hebron and different locations in 1929 resulted in 133 Jews killed. Two millennia of murders reached the unthinkable with the Nazi Einsatzgruppen and extermination camps.
These massacres all had one factor in widespread. After they befell, the identical factor occurred, repeatedly: nothing. That is, after being expelled from their land, Judea, two millennia in the past, irrespective of the placement or period, Jews had been prisoners of an inescapable sinister circle: Enter a society, reside and thrive there for a while, and shortly sufficient be robbed, attacked, murdered or expelled. And then, every time, nothing occurs.
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