I personally feel less hostility toward icons,, even though those might be said to be great images as well.
I've heard that the argument is that since God incarnated Himself in human form, it's now okay to make images of Him, but I still don't buy that.
Interestingly, Eusebius, the early church historian, reports that the woman that Jesus healed of the issue of blood had a statue made of Him afterwards, and she herself was likely a Jewess.
