shylock taranto, the demonology has change. and in each period the demonology is centered on something that seems to have a chord with rally this respect. jews had no power. you couldn't treat them as powerful soldiers. and today there is -- a local power. jews are influential in the united states and the united states is a superpower of the world and to the imagery has changed. on this issue of reality, and this is an important point, the conflict was not itself produce this kind of hatred. in surveys of arab countries, we find that 95, 97% of people in egypt, jordan, lebanon say they are anti-semites. it's an unbelievably large number. they have a conflict so you say it's because of israel. but when you do a survey, surveys have been done about other groups in this country. take lebanon where there was a decade-long civil war. 100,000 people in a population of a few million died in the civil war. this is between christians and non-christians, among others. everyone in lebanon lost relatives and lost friends on know people who