Israeli President Shimon Peres, much of whose own family perished in the Holocaust, says he hopes the world has matured beyond hatred for the Jews.

But the six-decade history of the modern State of Israel suggests that is not the case.

“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. And it shall come to pass, that as I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the Lord." Jeremiah 31:27-28