You don't know the history of Israel is a modern nation-state, do you?

Do you know where the schism between jews and arabs comes from?

Have you ever incorrectly used the word "anti-semetic," thinking that it means "anti-jew?" While it's often defined that way, and certainly much of the arab world is anti-semitic in that it is anti-jew, it is also paradoxically true that both jews and arabs are semites.

You're aware that the arabs and the jews are both semites, of course. Aren't you?

You're aware that anti-jewish literature and sentiment for a great many centuries has been far more aggressive and prominent from Christian sources, than from Islam? Did you not know that?

Israel is under attack by Hamas. What year was Israel established? If you guessed 1947, you'd be right. Give yourself a pat on the back. (UN partition in 1947, declaration of the state of Israel 1948). If you guessed that arabs, and specifically Palestinians outpopulated jews in the new partition by 2:1, you'd also be right.


Now--so far as us air traffic pulling back from the current conflict zone, that's a yes and no. Legacy carriers will pull back, but ACMI operators will see increasing frequency of travela and transport. Every time Israel starts lobbing rockets, someone has to bring those rockets to Israel. Been there.