How can the Lamanites’ hatred for the Nephites help us understand the sentiments of some modern enemies?

Thomas R. Valletta

“It is sad to realize that these kinds of sentiments … exist in the world today. On 1 February 1991, during the first Gulf War, Brother Ogden wrote in his journal: ‘How the Israelis are hated. Iran, who has insisted on its neutrality in this Gulf War, … today announced that it would fight alongside Iraq if Israel joined the war. It is incredible to hear that after nine years of bitter war between Iran and Iraq, with over one million dead, that Iran would stand united with Iraq if Israelis were to join the war. Maybe that is an example of … [the] eternal hatred between Lamanites and Nephites’” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 2:74).

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