One gets the impression from Arab and pro-Arab media reports that Jews are a people prone to violence without provocation. Is there a Jewish tendancy for violence?
• “The Jews are the mildest of men, passionately hostile to violence. That obstinate sweetness which they conserve in the midst of the most atrocious persecution, that sense of justice and of reason which they put up as their sole defense against a hostile, brutal, and unjust society, is perhaps the best part of the message they bring to us and the true mark of their greatness.” – Jean-Paul Sartre, in his 1946 Reflexions sur la question juive • “one could not believe one word [of the massacres alleged by the biblical narrator to have been perpetrated by the Hebrews upon the tribes of Canaan, for] their numerous servitudes rendered them far removed . . . from the warrior’s life of the Arabs and their glorification of carnage. – Jules Michelet, La Bible de l’humanit (Paris, 1864) • “[the Jews] are full of pity for the poor fools who pass their life cutting each other into pieces, instead of enjoying the pleasures of a peaceful life as they do.” – Ernest Renan, History of the People of Is
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