Blaming Jews for economic woes is far from a new phenomenon, so it’s not surprising that the recent global financial crisis has unleashed a fresh round of Anti-Semitism, no less lethal than it’s been in the past.

Islamic terror groups – such as Hamas and Hezbollah – blamed Israel and the West for financial downturns worldwide.

“We see it as Allah’s punishment for the criminals US AND ITS WESTERN ALLIES,” Gaza-based Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh said.

“Nothing is more unjust than occupying an Islamic state. Nothing is more unjust than keeping the Palestinian people under occupation for over 60 years,” he said.

Haniyeh, who may soon reunite with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, has never accepted Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. He has never envisioned two states living side-by-side in peace.

Even a cursory glance at the history of the modern State of Israel reveals the Jews’ desire over the years to live in peace with their Arab neighbors.

But Islam wants no part of it.

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