Description "It has been a series of cycles invariably following the same steps.
There follows here also, after a period of amicable interfusion, a growing, half-conscious ill-ease, which next becomes acute and leads to new explosions, and so on, in a fatal round." "If we are to stop that wheel from its perpetual and tragic turning, there seems to be no method save that for which I plead." "For if the quarrel is allowed to rise unchecked and to proceed unappeased, we shall come, unexpectedly and soon, upon one of these tragedies which have marked for centuries the relations between this peculiar nation and ourselves." --Hilaire Belloc, 1922..
He meets again with the largest hospitality.
First a welcome; then a growing, half-conscious ill-ease; next a culmination in acute ill-ease; lastly catastrophe and disaster; insult, persecution, even massacre, the exiles flying from the place of persecution into a new district where the Jew is hardly known, where the problem has never existed or has been forgotten.
It comes to violence." "It is always the same miserable sequence.
The Jew resists their claim.
They call themselves masters in their own house.
He opposes his hosts.
He resents it.
Whether from mere contrast in type--what I have called \'friction\'--or from some apparent divergence between his objects and those of his hosts, or through his increasing numbers, he creates (or discovers) a growing animosity.
He is rather treated as a friend.
His presence is not resented.
He thrives.
The Jew comes to an alien society, at first in small numbers.
Description "It has been a series of cycles invariably following the same steps
