In a word, the world as we now know it would simply not exist without the Jewish people. Paul Johnson summed it up this way: “To them (the Jews) we owe the idea of equality before the law, both divine and human; the idea of the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person, individual conscience and, therefore, individual repentance, as well as collective conscience and, accordingly, social responsibility, the idea of peace as an abstract ideal and love as the basis of justice, as well as many other things that constitute the basic moral the basis of the human mind. Without the Jews, all these important moments could have been missed.” The most paradoxical thing is that while the world was busy introducing Jewish inventions into its culture, at the same time it brutally persecuted and often tried to destroy the Jewish people! How strange that one of the most positive participants in human relationships aroused much more hatred among those around him than anyone else. Paradox! Gary Cahill described the phenomenon this way: “Our history is replete with examples of those who refused to understand what the Jews really were. People did this out of intellectual blindness, racial chauvinism, xenophobia, or just plain evil - and all these reasons stood in the way of making this extraordinary, distinctive people, this diverse group of people, a nation of eternal wanderers who are the progenitors of all Western culture , all the respect that is due to them according to their merits.” Let us follow the example of American President John Adams, who said: “I will insist that the Jews have done more for human civilization than any other people. Even if I were an atheist and believed in a blind, unchangeable destiny, I would still believe that for some accidental reason it was the Jewish principles that were destined to become the most important instruments for the civilization of the world community.