A long long time ago, back when the net was still young, I asked some Jews online, guys, why do people hate Jews so damn much? They pointed me to a book by a rabbi named Dennis Prager called Why The Jews? Prager's argument is that Jews have their own God (YHWH), their own laws (halakha), and their own nation (Israel), and this puts them in a natural position of opposition to other people's gods, laws, and nations.
Also, he argues that Arabs and Europeans never really liked monotheism, seeing it deep down as alien, yet those same people couldn't openly reject it, because for most of history doing so meant death. (Muslims who jump ship are still put to death in many places in the Islamic world.) The solution: Shoot the messenger, meaning the Jews.
After I read it I thought, wow, Jews are pretty damn cool. They have survived 3000 years of attempted extermination, but here they are, still tweaking the nose of the Man. Also, I decided to reject monotheism, since being an American I can do so without fear of retribution for the most part. One God is for Jews. I don't have a god. You might try and find Why The Jews? on Amazon. Or you might find it in the scanned books archive at Google.
I just read your latest post, and I realized that people in Europe and America don't realize that most Israelis HATED the Hizbullah war in 2006, and how the Israeli army willy nilly bombed Lebanon with mines, which they called "inferior American ammunition" and believed that George W. Bush had put the Israeli leadership up to it. In that view, Israel was America's toady. Weird that so many think it's the opposite. 