Not surprising the world is against Israel

Dear Editor:

For Jews, there is always a sense of that impending danger even during the last few decades when we have risen to positions of leadership and power here in the U.S. and abroad. There were other times in modern history where Jews were well integrated professionally, economically and sometimes politically yet later faced persecution — Jews during the Golden Age in Spain, Jews in 19th century France, Jews in the Ottoman Empire and, of course, Jews in modern Germany and Poland.

It would be histrionic, paranoid and hyperbolic to say that these recent events approach that level of perse...