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From Dennis Prager via The King of Fools:

If you want to understand the Middle East conflict, Iran has just provided all you need to know.

A massive earthquake kills between 20,000 and 40,000 Iranians, and the government of Iran announces that help is welcome from every country in the world . . . except Israel.

This little-reported news item is of great significance. It begs commentary.

Israel not only has the world's most experienced crews in quickly finding survivors in bombed out buildings, it is also a mere two-hour flight from Iran. In other words, no country in the world would come close to Israel in its ability to save Iranian lives quickly.

But none of this means anything to the rulers of Iran. The Islamic government of Iran has announced to the world that it is better for fellow countrymen and fellow Muslims -- men, women and children -- to die buried under rubble than to be saved by a Jew from Israel.

That is how deep the hatred of Israel and Jews is in much of the Muslim world.

When it comes to hating Jews most of us think of Adolf Hitler, but it has become apparent that no group of people in the history of civilization can match the genocidal hatred felt by Muslim extremists for Jews.

If this earthquake had happened in Germany during Hitler's rule would have have accepted help from a Jewish state? Does it really matter?

What matters is that the majority of the Muslim leadership in the middle east hate Jews, and that has to stop. As a country of civilized people we do not tolerate genocide and state sponsored racism in other countries. We stopped Hitler, we stopped Milosevic and now we're going to stop the Muslim extremists.

I wish this hatred got more attention. It seems like everybody wants to ignore it, but its there and its wrong.