…Because that is all the Arab war against Israel is, which is different from Islam’s war against Israel. The Arab war is just Arab behavior from the beginning of recorded history. As the divine Midrash thousands of years old teaches, of all the peoples that Hashem offered the Torah too, the Ishmaelites rejected it because it says, “Don’t steal.” And I say it is no coincidence that the homeland of Islam is famous world over for chopping off the hands of thieves.

In 1939, Hollywood produced a marvelous special effects movie called “The Thief of Baghdad” drawn from A Thousand and One Nights, whose hero is a sweet scamp of a street thief whom Arab folklore significantly romanticizes.

In the epic movie “Lawrence of Arabia” 20 years later, T.E. Lawrence finds that in his efforts to mobilize the Arabs of the Arabian Peninsula to drive out the Turks whose empire had ruled over them for centuries, he discovered that his “troops,” just wanted to loot the Turks.

Indeed, almost a thousand years before Lawrence, the greatest of Biblical commentators Rashi described Ishmael, following his expulsion from Father Abraham’s encampment of hundreds of followers, as becoming a highwayman, an armed robber. That was Rashi writing form France in the 11th century reflecting the common knowledge of the Arabs, Rashi who was alive as the Christians launched the First Crusade because the Arabs here were preying on Christian pilgrims robbing, raping and murdering them…