I fully agree we cannot lump everyone in together, but the fact as I see it is that virulent anti-semitism is rampant in both muslims and Christians in the middle east. And sure, there are Christians in Gaza, but I am willing to bet they are a vanishingly small minority.
The best expression and description of this reality of anti-semitism is in Bridgitte Gabriel’s excellent book “Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America”.
She grew up a Christian in Beirut and was a teenage girl in 1975 during the Civil War, so she knows of what she speaks, IMO.
She said the anti-semitism was rampant, codified, baked into the schooling and upbringing of everyone (Muslims and Christians alike) and included everything-the bizarre blood slanders of how Jews use the blood of murdered muslim and Christian children to make pastries and all that nonsense.
She said all kids and their parents just lapped this evil pap up, and it was like breathing the air. She believed it as well, and was frightened and repelled by Jews and the Israeli state.
She had to live for over a year in a bombed out basement of their house, and they couldn’t go outside to even use the bathroom during the day, due to snipers and such.
Her cellar was hit by an artillery shell (I think it was most likely a Christan/Druze shell) and her mother was badly injured. She could get no medical assistance from anyone, and in desperation, went to the Israeli border.
With no hesitation, they took her in, hospitalized and treated her mother with the best available care, equal to that given to any Israeli citizen, gave her shelter, money, food, and clothing.
She was astonished that these inhuman Jewish Beasts with blood dripping from their fangs would treat her and her mother this way.
She realized that she had been lied to and indocrinated from birth with these hideous lies and slanders about Jews, and that everyone in that part of the world had been.
Thus, her book.
I had the opportunity to see her some years back in a very small venue (A Portuguese Club, of all places) as a speaker, and she was astonishingly good. Unafraid, attractive, well dressed, well spoken (and outspoken) it is no wonder they hate her and want her dead. She goes against everything they believe in.
Of course, the whole time she spoke, she had a large muscular guy nearly within reach at all times, and I am pretty certain he was armed.
For good reason.
I’ve known muslims from the middle east and all of them yes here dead set against Israel. Could not stand the Jews.
The Orthodox Christians from the middle east that I’ve known? I’ve never heard they say anything. Then again they were easier to talk to and I had more in common with them. We usually talked about the Virgin Mary or the saints, religious stuff like that.
I did not detect the anger in the Orthodox Christians like I do the muslims.
A very brave woman.