Many Jews, myself included, have positive experience with Arabs and even Arab friends. That seems to imply that Arabs are generally good and peaceful relations with them can be established. But recall that anti-Semites dispel criticism with “I have a Jewish friend” mantra. On the micro-level, an Arab taxi driver or bread seller is decent, hardworking person. He wants to earn money and is nice to Jewish customers. His immediate inclination is to serve Jews, not kill them. Complex systems do not equal the sum of their parts and nations behave differently from individuals. Ideology cements nations, and they are concerned with ideology more than well-being. Palestinian Arab community does not want to sell more pita bread to Jews, but realize Palestinian aspirations by destroying a Zionist state. Zhabotinsky accepted Arabs in Jewish state, presuming they would follow individual interest. Since then, Palestinian Arabs developed national backbone, and Israel failed to destroy it from village bosses up. Israel lost an ephemeral chance of coexisting with individual Arabs, and has to fight an Arab nation.
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The reason that individual Muslims are generally decent and peaceable, whereas groups of Muslims tend to spell trouble for non-Muslims (or Muslims of the wrong sect…) is because Islam systematically paralyzes moral reasoning. The concept of moral restraint is as foreign to Islam as a ham and cheese sandwich is to the Passover.
Compounding this is the present centralization of Islamic theology; individual Muslims are discouraged from drawing their own conclusions from the Quran or the Hadith.
So when the hothead waves his bomb and says "Death to (whatever)," the peaceable Muslim can offer no counter-argument.
Well spoken, John
Many Arabs are worse than one… or two or three Arabs.., and so on, and so on! The ARAB MAIN PROBLEM is One Obvious Single DILEMMA: ISLAM - ISLAM - ISLAM! Until they get rid of this horrible meaningless scum, NO PLACE ON EARTH WILL BE LEFT IN PEACE!