Puzzling historical parallel?

The two German policemen missing in Iraq are probably dead. I mentioned that already. But...
I watched the news yesterday: Some Iraqis who claim to have been involved in the attack on the convoy apologized, saying they never wanted to hit Germans. They would like the Germans and hated the British and Americans.

This alone is hard to digest. So it has really come to that: Hatred so deep that one can be sure these Iraqis would commit Genocide if they had the tools. They hate Americans and British not only for their politics but also for their nationality.

Now, my father is an archaeologist and he has spent two years in Iraq in the 50s. There was one incident which really went under his skin.
The european group was in the city center of some town when suddenly an angry mob began throwing stones at them shouting and cursing. The guide of the group shouted back that the group was German and not English. All of a sudden the crowd calmed down made way and raised their right hands for the NAZI Greeting.

Anti-semitism forms strange alliances.

Situations in history change, ideologies change, mentalities change... all the more frightening if hatred can last that long.

However, I am aware of other interviews I have seen yesterday in which some Iraqi claimed that they would crush and destroy all the foreigners no matter if they were Americans, Germans, Chinese or whatever.

This post is not meant as a political opinion but just as a note of some thoughts that have crossed my mind recently. I am not ready to daw large scale concluisions by now.


Sidenote to Anti-semitism in the region: No matter if we think the movie "The Passion of the Christ" is anti-semite or not, its success in the arab world indicates that a large proportion of it seems to think so.