The common anti-Zionist argument of the Arab world was better than the Christian world so therefore the state of Israel must be the cause of the current animosity to Jews is faulty for many reasons. (1) It assumes that the way a country acted in the past was the way they will act in the future. There were many countries that had long term up and down mostly benign relationships with Jews who turned on them. Take Germany as an example (2)That argument ignores that in general the Arab world post WWI has little resemblance to the Arab world before that. There were also much more wars going on in general in the Christian world than in the Muslim world at the time periods being ignored (3)It isn’t much different than the Zionist viewpoint during the heyday of pre state Zionism. (1910-1948) Being that at that point of time Jewish blood was being spilled like water and Jews faced serious discrimination even in the more benign countries (With Germany being the exception for most of that time period) the idea that only if we have our own country will we be safe made sense. Today the anti-Zionists adopted that same view in reverse saying if we DON’T have our own country we will be safe (4)It ignores the many times that Chazal say that in the period right before Mosiach , Klall Yisroel will suffer terribly from Yismoel. See for example the Pireky D’Rabbi Eliezer about the birth of Yismoel.
