Ill make the challenge easier for you - can you name an Arab country that where the Jews make up 1% of the population? Or even 0.5%. The point that i am making is that a poster here claims that Jews hate the Arabs; and the demographics show the ridiculousness of that claim.
Within the last 100 years or so, Egypt and Somalia for starters. Possibly also Libya & Morocco and the rest of the Mediterranean states. However no longer true due to prolonged persecution by islamic extremists.
There used to be relict ancient Jewish populations all the way down the African east coast, even an ancient (black) group/tribe in South Africa (descended from 3000 years of coastal trading, black but with Cohen genetics) but they're all on their last legs now.
Most of these groups share genetic commonality with ancient Judean populations.
Where it all falls apart is that the majority of modern European (and consequentially American) Jews have no more connection to the archaic Judean population than our royal family does. Genetic studies indicate they're mainly derived from a pretty small area within Georgia, presumably they historically became Jewish though conversion / proselytisation though the origins aren't recorded.
What it does mean is that the majority of European Jews have no actual greater historic racial/genetic link to the geographic area now known as Israel than any other random European. But does conversion to Judeaism possibly 80-100 generations ago create a link? Too big a question for me to answer and I suspect for most here.
But in reality all this history is irrelevant. The problem is of more recent origin. Three things underlie the current problem: the Picot-Sykes agreement post WW1 which carved the middle-east up between British and French spheres of influence without taking into account tribal realities on the ground. The Balfour declaration which specified Palestine as a "national home for the Jews" but was interpreted as "THE national home for the Jews". Balfour deliberately hedged and obfuscated what he meant, with the Jews believing the interpretation they wanted. Hence post WW2 the inflood of refugees to what is now Israel, despite resistance from the UK (as UN mandate holders). The Jews believed they'd been promised the land by the UN and were going to grab it. And this is where Picot-Sykes comes back to bite us all - the French decided they didn't the way that had worked out, so aided the Jews in fighting the British mandate forces. The French provided the arms, the bombs, the finance and the refugee ships. The post-war terror groups like Irgun and Stern were French-financed. In the end the Brits thought "fuck it, not our problem" and walked away leaving the new state of Israel to do whatever it wanted - and a lot of that was ethnic cleansing as it sought to expand territory.
So what did we end up with? A Jewish state which hated us for trying to stop them. A bunch of Arab states who hated us because of Picot-Sykes (not forgetting the deceit which happened at the end of WW1 over granting them independence). They also hated us for allowing Israel to happen.......
Since then there have been numerous political changes in the middle-east, from military dictatorships, religious dictatorships, failed states, USSR/Russian proxies. We've sold the Arab states arms, helped them modernise but the simple truth is that in the main
the Arab states hate us. They blame us for Israel existing. There are states which are more tolerant of us - Oman, Jordan, the Emirates, but the bigger states are all fairly anti-UK.
So what does that mean? It means we, the UK, are a target for what we would regard as terrorist activity from the Arab/Islamic states (and for what they would regard as legitimate military action: asymmetric warfare is part of their playbook.) Revenge for us allowing Israel to happen. So what can we do? Israel isn't going anywhere. We've got a choice: either bury our heads in the sand, ignore the lot and wait for the terrorists and state-sponsored irregular fighters to bomb us and interdict our supply routes - as is currently happening in the Red Sea / Suez / Persian Gulf.
Or we can work on the basis "our enemies enemy is our friend" and cosy up to the only military resistance in the area: Israel. It may leave a bitter taste, but our only hope of containing the problems caused by Iran, Syria, Houthis, Palestinians is to throw in our lot with the Israelis - the only country in the area who can fight them.
We need to arm Israel, share intelligence with them. They may have bombed our troops during the mandate but they're not going to do that now. However by working with them we may be able to stop others waging an undeclared war against us.
