No Arab nation ever codified ‘kill all Jews’ as official policy. But Nazi propaganda absolutely bled into the region, Husseini’s partnership with Hitler exported that poison, and Hamas later picked up those tropes. That’s not the same thing as a blanket Arab policy. The problem is, history itself feels antisemitic to DrZoidberg, so as long as he keeps derailing into that angle, there’s no way to have a deeper good-faith discussion. Which just leaves IIDB spinning in the same circles as every other platform.
You just don’t understand how Arab culture and Islam works in the Middle-East. We get a warped understanding of it because we in the west have a lot of contact with second generation Arab immigrants. And they don't get it either. That’s why so many suicide bombers are recruited among second generation Arab immigrants.
In the Arab/Muslim rhetoric Islam owns the middle east. Christians and Jews are tolerated as long as they accept being second class citizens.
Arabs didn't have a problem with Jews until the founding of Israel in 1948. When they all, all at the same time, kicked out their Jews and sent them to Israel.
The modern nation states of the Middle East were built by the colonial collaborators, who sold out their people to gain power. When the colonial system collapsed, these people took power. The same groups and families still hold political power. They're not popular among the people. And before this it was local collaborators to the Ottomans. The Arabs equate having power with being a theif and a sell out.
As a result the Middle-East doesn't have nation states in the same way we do in the west. They're not loyal to their nation for the same reasons. Its just a different tradition. Because, history, took some different turns
The Middle-Eastern nation states stay in power through brutality and repression. They also, typically, suppress militant Islam. Because Islam is also a problem for the Middle-Eastern nation states. As it was for the Ottomans. Which explains why it was such a shit show when Iran got ruled by the Ayatollah.
Anyway... the Middle-Eastern Arab countries are not democracies and their official stances do not need to reflect:
1. Their actions
2. The people's opinions
3. Nor the actual policies of the government
The antisemitism of the Middle-East is a nuisance for most Middle-Eastern governments as well. Israel is a stable democracy. Not a kleptocracy. Of course all the Arab countries would prefer doing business with Israel. So they do it as much as they can. Without the people rising up.
They don't want to murder all the Jews, but feel they have to pretend like they do.
Different countries have different histories. So there’s variations. But this is the general story of them.
Iran isn't an Arab nation. It's quite different
