From Robert Spencer comes this reasoned article on exactly why Jews are hated in Egypt.  No, it has nothing to do with those pesky Mennonites.


From Human Events May 7 by Robert Spencer

Why Egyptians Want War With Israel: It's in the Koran 

Fifty-four per cent of Egyptians want to scrap the Camp David accords that have kept an uneasy peace with Israel since 1979—in yet another blow to the credibility of the many analysts and commentators who assured the American people that the Egyptian uprising heralded the dawn of a new, secular democracy there.  A new poll conducted by the Pew Research Center reveals that a significant number of Egyptians manifest a deeply ingrained Islamic antisemitism that leads them to hate Israel—and the Camp David accords—for religious, not political, reasons.

"Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews ..."  5:82.  The Koran contains a great deal of material that forms the foundation for a hatred of Jews that has persisted throughout Islamic history.  It portrays the Jews as the craftiest, most persistent, and most implacable enemies of the Muslims—and there is no Islamic authority that has moved to mitigate the most destructive interpretations of all this.  The Koran's material on the Jews remains the prism through which far too many Muslims see the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Camp David accords, and Jews in general to this day.

A vivid illustration of this came several years ago from Islam Online, a website founded by, among others, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, in 1997.  Al-Qaradawi has justified suicide bombings against Israeli civilians,