http://www.aish.com/v/hu/50574357.html

Brian what is your point? If it is that Jews punch above their weight in contributions to humanity and society, that is a given. My heritage is Christian but my mother would not hear a word against the Jewish folks as it is written that they are gods "chosen people" in the old testament.

My only issue is that the Palestinians were disenfranchised of their home and their future without reasonable ongoing reparation as evidenced by the past 60 years of turmoil and despair. For the smartest people on earth who have historically felt the sting of being pariahs and recently were decimated by the holocaust, Jews did not learn a thing in regard to others and their needs, or is this just an example of how corrupt humanity is as a whole?

"Jews could be found in all the cities of the eastern Mediterranean. There may well have been Jews, if not Jewish communities, living in Greek cities as far back as the Babylonian Exile (586-530 B.C.E.)."
http://www.greecetravel.com/jewishhistory/ancient.html

There was always a Jewish quarter in every important Greco-Roman city, Alexandria, Athens, etc, etc. Just as the various tissues and organs of the body play different and important roles in the functioning of an organism, similarly the Jews had an important part in the functioning of the Mediteranian World. This is the symbolical meaning of why the Euro-Americans chose David Petraeus (Hebrew name, Greek name) as the supreme allied commander in Afganistan; much of what is today Afghanistan was in ancient times known as Bactria, one of the three successor states of the Alexandrian empire; Jewish and Hellenic components are vital to building a Western society there.

quote sonofgloin : or is this just an example of how corrupt humanity is as a whole?.

YES !.

GEN 6:11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. 12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth..

that was in the days of NOAH , and JESUS said as it was in the days of NOAH so it will be in the days of the coming of the SON OF MAN