I have said enough about this in other forums. I do understand the feelings of muslims being insulted with such cartoons, but the cartoons were not the reason for the outbursts, just an excuse. In Israel there was a football match between a overall Jewish team and an overall Arab team. both playing in the liga. The Arab team played very good. The Jewish supporters shouted "Mohammed is a homo". The Arab supporters shouted "Hitler should have finished the job". The day after (it was discussed in the news and the papers and all the country spoke shame of it) we laughed on it at work (I work in a company with about 200 Jewish workers and 250 Arab workers) and that was it. There is a mutual understanding and respect. Where such things don't excist, mistrust and fear grow, as is the case between Israel and the Arab world, the Arab world and the west etc. Besides that I dislike the double standard of muslims who for decades insult us jews with antisemitic cartoons most horrid (newspapers, state TV, internet, not just lately but for DECADES!!!!), where antisemitic cartoons lead to antisemitic education, leading to antisemitic actions like suicide bombers etc.

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