Does Israel Occupy the West Bank? | 5 Minute Video

[@stony2494]

What’s interesting is we must keep telling the history because most don’t know it. Especially those in so called educational institutions

[@feedyourmind6713]

But the higher education institutions will not stand for that.

[@markaxworthy2508]

If the Nazis occupied the Warsaw Ghetto, among others, then Israel occupies the West Bank. The Nazis allowed Jews to administer themselves in the ghettoes. Israel allows the Palestinians to administer themselves on the West Bank.

[@stony2494]

@@markaxworthy2508 flawed assumptions. The West Bank was given to Arabs by the UN at the same time Israel was given to the Jews. Israel traded Gaza for peace. They removed all their settlements. Gaza Palestinians received hundreds of billions in aid. They could have their own water and electricity, but their leaders stole billions for themselves and spent the rest on tunnels and bombs. Israel doesn’t need to supply them but they do. Thousands of Palestinians cross into Israel to work every day. Arabs account for over 25% of Israel’s population and even have high level positions in parliament. The Ghetto reference is nowhere near accurate and is only more hateful propaganda aimed to discredit Israel and somehow equate butchering babies and children as somehow a moral equivalent, it’s not

[@feedyourmind6713]

@@markaxworthy2508 The nazis won Warsaw in a war of aggression against the Poles, which means they have to give it back when they lose the war. The Israelis won the West Bank via a war of aggression against them by the Arabs, which means they do nor have to give it back, if only to prevent similar attacks. Your attempt to see a similarity in the two is folly, for there is none.

[@ConsciusVeritasVids]

This video makes that obvious, considering Dennis Prager and crew interpret and report history like a pastor preaches about the Bible; selectively while glossing over unsavory details that don't support a biased narrative.

[@sarahwing7468]

I keep hearing that Israel is an apartheid state, so this was an informative video. As I’m learning more about the history of this conflict, the bottom line that is emerging to me is that Israel and Palestine can not live in peace, because many of not most Palestinians hate the Jews. You can’t have live peaceably alongside people who want you to die.

[@elizabeths4272]

Israel cannot be an apartheid state because Arabs who live in Israel have the same legal, democratic rights as everyone else. They vote, they are elected to government, and they sit on the judiciary, including the Supreme Court. That is the antithesis is apartheid.

[@Iblk13]

Correct, thank you. Hopefully someday it will change. They also have a preguru video of a South African politician explaining why israel is not an apartheid.

[@michaelplunkett8059]

And the only Arabs who live in a multiparty democracy with an independent judiciary are in ISRAEL.

[@hanaezra9452]

In Israel beside the Jews, Muslims are members of parliament and judges in the court of law and study and teach at universities, have the same rights. I hope this helps and well done for not being intellectually lazy❤

[@samsoum9356]

Actually it is a one sided love ... Israeli send flowers and gifts to the Palestinians, but the are faced with rockets. ... cry me a river air-head

[@scugniz]

Very interesting, would be nice if many of our politicians and fellow citizens would understand this and history before jumping on the bandwagon with terrorist organizations such as Hamas.

[@Brujo2016]

I know right. When this conflict began, I immediately went online and began researching. I wanted the truth or at least try to understand the history behind it. I find it disingenuous that many people were repeating leftist talking points without actually looking into this situation.

[@jims3276]

@@Brujo2016unfortunately, it’s seems everyone against Israel seeks their “own” truth instead of universal truth.

[@stevehicks8944]

Without exception, those “truths” are based in anti-Semitism.

[@colinpeck8257]

No the question should be why do they occupy the West Bank?...

[@scugniz]

@@colinpeck8257 they aren't

[@LeeLe412]

When Israel made peace with Egypt, Israel also offered to give Gaza back along with Sinai. Egypt refused (wonder why). Same happened with Jordan who didn't want the West Bank back. How can land be called an "occupation" when the country it was occupied from doesn't want it back? Make it make sense. That is without adding the fact that Jordan illegally annexed the land while Israel won the land through a defensive war, which is legal under international law. Even if people do want to claim that the West Bank is "occupied", it is not occupied from the Palestinians themselves as they never had a sovereign state nor did they ask for one between 1948-1967, although they did create the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in 1964.... 3 years before the 1967 war.

[@tnndll4294]

*Yeah, Jordan, the greedy country that started that war, hardly gets any criticism.* Just another dictatorship.

[@bilalbataineh8367]

" Israel won the land through a defensive war, which is legal under international law." can you provide me a link to that law????

[@tnndll4294]

*The video is good.* But it skipped the part of Egypt, Jordan and others starting that 67 war.

[@TheAntManChannel]

Yup Palestine is a myth

[@thatdamnedwalrus7949]

Awwwwww honey🥺

[@katiedc8239]

Can you all please forward these historical facts to all the legacy "news" stations and Squad members in Congress? Seriously. Because many truly do not know history.

[@vxy357]

I doubt if it would have any affect. Truth is like kryptonite to these entities.

[@charlieburns1385]

There's no logic or critical thinking skills for some people to get it 🙄

[@unisophia]

they know this. well, those who lead the false narrative. but they aren’t interested in truth and are counting on ignorance and hysteria of the crowds.

[@romamak2367]

They do know it very well. The are just envy of Israel becoming so prosperous and successful despite being in hostile environment.

[@rob5197]

​@@romamak2367I'll be millionaire if only USA donate me $$$$$$$$$

[@TickedOffPriest]

The PA rejected the claims, because it has never been about land.

[@ronielaledo4521]

I am Catholic and a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, as such I agree with 90% of Prager Content as far as Natural Moral Law, and the Traditional Family and State against secularism, atheism, liberalism, etc. But because I am Catholic I cannot agree with the Neo Calvinist version of “Capitalism” defended here, and of course with this Version of the Narrative of the Palestinian Conflict. The Holy See have been RIGHT about Palestine ALWAYS. Even then Pius XII warned NOT to create a Jewish State in Palestine in 1943 for fear of the tragedy it will become. Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis, they all had the SAME POSITION: the suffering of the Palestinian People have been beyond imagination. The WHOLE international community agrees that the West Bank and East Jerusalem are PALESTINE and illegally occupied. That all COLONIES there are illegal in international law. Even the USA allowed Resolution 2334 (2016) that clearly states that: “The Security Council reaffirmed this afternoon that Israel’s establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security, within internationally recognized borders.” Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases Now, to debunk the Disinformation of this VIDEO: The Jews were not the indigenous people of the area. By 1930 Arab Palestinians were by FAR, MOST of the people of the area and the people whom have been there for hundreds of years since the Jews left 19 Centuries ago. Most of the Jews CAME LATER, after WWII. The borders of Israel were SET by ALL the international community by 1947 with Jerusalem as OPEN to all religions and Peoples. The JEWS did Ethnically cleansed dozens of thousands of Arabs and changed the BORDER by WAR in 1967, taking lands that NEVER did belong to the modern state of Israel. They OCCUPIED illegally EAST Jerusalem and other areas of Palestine, making even SMALLER the Palestinian territories, today a STATE recognized by many countries. The so called offer from Israel to Palestine has no validity as it offers conditions that no country can ever accept: it offers Palestine a FULLY OCCUPIED state with no control of its Borders, No control of its Air Space and occupied by half a million foreign COLONERS in illegal colonies all around its territory, with military check points, walls, barriers, etc that make the state of Palestine unviable (imagine that the British offered independence to the US so far as the British still control the borders, ports, have hundred of military check points around Boston and New York, and left behind hundreds of thousands of British coloners in untouchable Colonies protected by the British Army) While I LOVE Prager University for its Defense of God, Family, the Natural Moral Law, as Catholic I must support the position of the Holy See, the Vatican and those of Saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Furthermore, as Knight of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem I am under Oath to defend the Christian of Jerusalem, which as few as they are, are the Palestinians.

[@Mr9mann]

@@ronielaledo4521 keep supporting the KGB abortion. Made possible by the marxoid prophets themselves.

[@davideskerlot2945]

Exactly, the entire conflict on the side of the palestinians and even Hezbullah (in Jordan) is all about liquidating the state of Israel and it's people. Period. They do not care about state hood. They care about destroying Jews. They are Anti-Zionist because they are Anti-Jewish. Which is why they even attack Jews in synogogues in Texas (recently) because it's about attacking Jews. Not just Zionism. If it were only against Israel they would only attack Israel. But they attack any Jewish community or synogogue they can find in the world.

[@ronielaledo4521]

@@Mr9mann for Catholics like me Communism and Abortion are abominations

[@Mr9mann]

@@ronielaledo4521 and yet you support the communist abortion called Palestine. 😂

[@Nirolevy1]

You nailed it ! Every word was right, and add to all that - The common Arabic name for this region is "Yahuda wa - Samara", not palestine and not occupied territories whatsoever

[@christopher9727]

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

[@markaxworthy2508]

If the Nazis occupied the Warsaw Ghetto, among others, then Israel occupies the West Bank. The Nazis allowed Jews to administer themselves in the ghettoes. Israel allows the Palestinians to administer themselves on the West Bank.

[@an_nie_dyc1386]

That’s not the same and you Know that

[@CaptainSarky]

@@markaxworthy2508 I thought that it were the Jews who "occupied" the Warsaw ghetto! I will have to re-read a lot of history. Can you recommend some good books about this?

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@CaptainSarky I see you get my point. If you want more detail, any basic history of WWII or the Holocaust will do.

[@jaronby]

The original Mandate of Palestine included Jordan, previously kown as Trans- Jordan. In 1922 GB decided single-handedly to bring over the Hashemite royal family from Saudi-Arabia to Trans-Jordan and dividing the Mandate the facto in to two. Palestine and Trans-Jordan. Only after 1949 when Trans-Jordan annexed Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank, it called itself Jordan, as it had two sides of the river Jordan...

[@timothybuchanan1611]

What is GB?

[@jakolu]

@@timothybuchanan1611 The UK (Great Britain)

[@brianbeag]

You are correct, albeit the area which was named Transjordan by the Brits was known at that time as Southern Syria. The Brits arbitrarily broke the agreement reached at San Remo due to their wider interests in the area largely to do with oil and placed two hashemite brothers at the head of two new states, Iraq and Transjordan. The Arabs opposition to a Jewish state in Palestine increased and became violent. The massacre of Jews in Hebron in 1929 and the pillaging and ransacking of Jewish homes and synagogues ensued and within a few years all Jews had been removed (ethnically cleansed in today’s parlance) from Hebron by the Brits. It was becoming increasingly clear to the Brits that a unitary Jewish state was not acceptable to the Arabs, the Peel Commission came up with the first partition plan for separate Jewish and Arab states, rejected by the Arabs but accepted by the Jews. The 1936-1939 war against the Jews and the Brits ensued. At the conclusion of WW2 and in order to appease the Arabs the Brits imposed a cap on Jewish immigration resulting in Jewish militias fighting against the Brits. The mandate for Palestine expired in 1947 and the Brits decided they did not wish to renew it and responsibility for Palestine was passed to the the newly formed United Nations who came up with a new partition plan, again rejected by the Arabs but accepted by the Jews who then declared the new independent state of Israel. The Arabs launched a war on Israel and were quickly supported by 5 neighbouring Arab States. The occupation of Gaza and the subsequently renamed West Bank occurred in 1967 as a result of another war waged on Israel by their Arab neighbours.

[@JeffShacter]

Great Britain, aka Perfidious Albion.@@timothybuchanan1611

[@somenamearound]

Jordan IS the arab "palestinian " state. Their population is the same as the arabs in Judea and Samaria

[@geraldhartley]

I wish more people would watch Prager U videos. They are clear and concise, and full of simple FACTS.

[@Phe961]

Hahahahaha

[@markaxworthy2508]

If the Nazis occupied the Warsaw Ghetto, among others, then Israel occupies the West Bank. The Nazis allowed Jews to administer themselves in the ghettoes. Israel allows the Palestinians to administer themselves on the West Bank.

[@obrigaah]

No they peddal trash for the far-right

[@CatouMilou]

I agree. Lots and lots to learn and understand in short instalments.

[@007kingifrit]

@@markaxworthy2508 i don't think the jews were constanty attacking germany though, not really the same thing

[@blackeyedturtle]

Thank you for such a succinct and rational explanation. I have never understood why proPalestinians refer to Judea/Samaria as "occupied" territory, as the only other recognized government to briefly hold it in possession was Jordan.

[@jefffeldstein]

It begs the question as to why Jordan didn't simply turn over the "West Bank" to the Palestinians had there been such a people or nation in history. After all, today's Palestinians claim that the land is theirs. That's today, because Israel controls the borders. But when the PLO was first formed, it clearly stated that the "West Bank" and Gaza were part of Jordan and Egypt respectively, which raised the question about just what the PLO intended to 'liberate'? And of course the answer was and is, any land where the Jews have sovereignty or control.

[@gamingkingdom1146]

he also forgot to mention that if a nation conquers land in a defensive war it can keep it

[@ofirgabbay5273]

Also he didnt mention san remo conference in 1921 which says the land of the jews including israel of today with palestine and jordan..yes guys..jordans as well. And this decision prior to 1947. According to the law of the un , decision were taken in the league of nation is greater than the UN

[@ravenmusic6392]

The Six Day War was not a defensive war, it was a strategic one. The Israelis were the ones who initiated a ground offensive in both Sinai and the West Bank, attacking relatively neutral countries such as Jordan and Lebanon with their Air Force

[@awildweeb4376]

so if you slap me, i can then rob your house, then claim it as mine as i have conquered it in a defensive war. i will be expecting the lease to be handed over in 3 days.

[@hugehappygrin]

@@awildweeb4376 only in California.

[@gamingkingdom1146]

@@ravenmusic6392 initiating a war does not make you the agressor (imagine if someone is going to shoot you so you shoot him first, that was the situation in 1967)

[@stephen6851]

I pretty much knew everything he said… but to hear the facts in such a concise, factually spoken manner, with the legalities explained is great and so helpful!

[@TTTT-oc4eb]

Unfortunately, facts will never trump emotions. It's much easier to cheer for the eternal "underdog" than to actually try to understand why we are here.

[@hanaezra9452]

They will. People don't want to look like fools, the more such info is make common knowledge, the more everyone will understand the facts.

[@sapiruwu3799]

​@hanaezra9452 seems like millions around the world don't mind it... they just deny everything. I can't tell you how many debates I was in where pro Palestinians based it all on lies no matter what I showed them. For instance you have so much evidence spreaded about Oct 7th and what happened to women there yet so sooooo many people denying it. Ignorance is bliss. They won't feel stupid because they are unwilling to accept the truth

[@JackSquat54]

Who are the real underdogs here ? The Israeli Jews with thousands of years of suppression, and displacement, or the Arab Palestinians 75 years of phony kvetching and moaning.

[@Damascene-Syria]

These are all lies though. The WB is so occupied that Netanyahu proposed to annex parts of it. You cannot annex what you don’t occupy. Israel has about 500,000 settlers in the WB. I can tell you that that a majority of Israelis would tell you that it is occupied and say that it is a good thing.

[@JeffShacter]

Judea Samaria is Israel. Peaceful Arabs can stay. The rest must leave. The same goes for Gaza. Live with your Jewish neighbors in peace as the over 2 million Arab Israeli citizens do, or else GTFO and don't even think about coming back. Period. Full Stop. Without lies Islam dies. Am Yisrael Chai @@Damascene-Syria

[@roberthuismans3533]

Another often overlooked question must be repeated: Where else other than Israel in the middle east is it most free and safest to be a religious minority, a female of any age, a homosexual or someone who wishes to practice freedom of expression and assembly?

[@youtube-user25]

Homosexuality is not part of freedom.

[@1krani]

@@youtube-user25 No, but the right to one's life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness while being a homosexual is. How many countries in the Middle East would NOT compromise that?

[@mochithepooh5368]

But if you're arabs who live in Israel, you become a 2nd class citizen. The color of your license plates determines which roads you can and can't use. Not to mention the citizen hatred for arabs, business and homes burned down by mobs.

[@1krani]

@@mochithepooh5368 Aaaaaand there's no reason why the Israelis would have a decades-long cultivated mistrust and aversion to Arabs brought on by, say, multiple violent attacks both foreign and domestic? I'm not saying it's right, but at the same time, there comes a point where military aggression trumps man's better nature.

[@hpyrkh3]

@@mochithepooh5368 this is a lie. Israeli Arabs are over represented in medical and pharmaceutical professions. Israeli Arabs enjoy all rights Israeli Jews enjoy. Heck, arab party is in power right now. Stop listening to slandering of the Jewish state. There are way more antisemites than there are Jews in the world. If you want to know the truth, go look for yourself. Pack your bags, buy a ticket and see what Israel is all about.

[@TemplarMedic]

For decades we in the West have been told the circumstances in Israel are "complicated". After a five minute video from Prager U, I think to myself, "Self, what is so complicated?". Thank you for this video.

[@skullfucker6064]

yeah, it's fairly easy when THEY teach you THEIR point of view. It's also fairly easy to notice some weird shit when you see that THEY only represent 0.1% of the population here in the UK, yet have 1/5 of all billionaires and 22MPs in parliament, it's freaking funny. It's much worse in the US

[@needsaname5696]

It isn't complicated. Israel is oppressing a minority of people in territory that it has occupied and recognised as such by the UN no matter how much this guy tries to gymnastics his way into constructing an argument to prove that they aren't.

[@eg9145]

This video is simple because it's unbelievably simplified in a way that makes it completely one sided

[@TemplarMedic]

@@eg9145 the funny thing about truth is, it is always one sided. If you think an opinion is one sided, maybe begin to question if you are aware of the truth or maybe you are following propaganda?

[@eg9145]

@@TemplarMedic there are layers of history to the issue of sovereignty though. Sometimes the truth is complicated and deserves to be explained fully, even if that doesn't lead to a nice tidy answer. To get anywhere each side needs to recognise that the other side has a point and oversimplifying the debate by cutting out details like the Sykes-picot agreement, the McMahon letters, the Balfour declaration, and the Nakba makes peace harder to achieve

[@dabooser1048]

This clearly explains the truth of the lands and who they belong to. It unfortunately reveals that Israel has created much of their own problem when they allowed "Palestinians" governance over some of the land.

[@direwolf6234]

perhaps but it never was the intention to occupy or rule the west bank .. they would trade land for peace and it was rejected 5 times over 75 years ...

[@janiceridsdale2904]

MAJOR PRESSURE TO - FROM YOU KNOW WHO !

[@E_politolog]

But what was the alternative? Really turning into an aptheid state

[@xpusostomos]

​​@@E_politologwhy... Because they weren't free to go live in Israel? Or not free to vote in Israel? The Soviet union didn't let people move anywhere they want, they weren't called apartheid.

[@BiharyGabor]

@@xpusostomos The USSR did not differentiate on racial or national base. They oppressed every nation equally. Israeli law is based on Jewish supremacy both within and out of its borders. And THAT is exactly the point.

[@el_padron_1795]

So.. when do Indigenous peoples all over the world get their original land back?

[@lisbethgiverhaug9513]

Jews are the indiginous people of Palestine. Jews have always lived there. Jerusalem has been their capitol for many 1000 years. This man is right. Reading history helps a lot.

[@patriotstanding6292]

So simply understandable. Media needs to study in your history class.

[@markaxworthy2508]

If the Nazis occupied the Warsaw Ghetto, among others, then Israel occupies the West Bank. The Nazis allowed Jews to administer themselves in the ghettoes. Israel allows the Palestinians to administer themselves on the West Bank.

[@AarcWolf]

@@markaxworthy2508 wtf? dont compare a ghetto to the west bank

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@AarcWolf Why not? I get that you don't like it, but you don't explain why?

[@AarcWolf]

@@markaxworthy2508 because the ghetto was concentration camp to confine Jews. The west bank is not a ghetto, Israel does not try to concentrate all the Arabs there, there are a lot of Arabs who lives in Israel outside the west bank and they are not being hunted and being moved over there.

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@AarcWolf So, Israel is happy for all the Gazan residents whose ancestors were displaced in 1948 to return to their homes in Israel?

[@roeesadan8862]

The mandate of Palestine was of Jordan as well. Don't forget Jordan a country that was completely invented by the british (there were no people calling themselves Jordanian just like Palestine) mind you, and it was supposed to be the "Arab state" as a part of the "two state solution" given by the british

[@Oseiwe]

Conveniently forgotten. Israel must be the worst PR nation in the whole world

[@progressivebusiness4537]

The better question is who occupied Israel, made Jews & Christians second class citizens and built Al Aqsa on top of the most sacred temple in the Middle East?

[@IsraelUnfiltered]

This is a very important video. People need to come to Israel and see forthemselves how they been lied to by the corporate media.

[@markr.katzman3743]

But if the Israeli left has its way there will be no JEWISH state...only another secular state controlled by islam...in which case it won't be secular.

[@redpoppy4816]

@@markr.katzman3743 A country cannot be a democracy unless it is secular. (BTW, a country cannot be secular, if it is 'controlled' by Islam.)

[@Flower-cu5li]

Uh.... you know who controls the media?

[@mavrick2398]

@@Flower-cu5li thank you. Delusional right wing Christians in the US believe Israel is their friend. Smh

[@mor43311]

@@Flower-cu5li you do realize the Jews population is like 0.2 percent of the world’s population and Israel is smaller then New Jersey , in fact you can bypass the entire State of Israel in 8 hours!! logically they have no chance, they are not even a grain from the world population 🤪😅😂😂

[@delven121]

West Bank and Gaza should go back to the Jewish people period. If Arabs want to live in Israel in Peace, the Jewish people have no problem with that as I have experienced working in Israel many times.

[@joeandurien7115]

Very informative. I don’t see a way for peace in the area as long as Hamas controls Gaza though.

[@Law19157]

Palestinians voted for Hamas, there can be no peace so long as Palestinians live in Gaza and the West Bank, they need to be expelled.

[@MisterHowzat]

Hamas has a strong hand in the West Bank too.

[@masada2828]

Hamas is NOT to control Gaza again.

[@YaYeet47]

No, it doesnt. It owned it legally from Jordan's illegal annexiation. The Palestinians got 40% of the West Bank from Israel as a part of the oslo accords agreement. The word "occupation" is an anti Israeli idea, that people try to say again and again. All I can say is you can visit Israel yourself. Even Israel and the Palestinian Authority have acknowledged that and recognize each other. It is all politics. Note: Judea and Samaria is called that way for a reason and Jordan called it the West Bank for a reason.

[@fatalconceit3362]

And Jordan artificially created itself on 78% of the original Palestine territory for a reason.

[@YaYeet47]

@@Julio-io9hm what are you trying to say? I just said facts and it doesnt matter who I am for saying that.

[@YaYeet47]

@BusterPlanet 🤗

[@karenbrittingham8072]

Mandate for Palestine.” What the Israeli Education Minister seems to miss or avoid, is a far more important “map.” It is the map of the legally binding “Mandate for Palestine” document of July 24 1922.This historical League of Nations [Today’s United Nations] document, laid down the Jewish legal right to settle anywhere in western Palestine, a 10,000 square mile area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, an entitlement unaltered in international law and valid to this day.

[@f-86zoomer37]

Seriously, we just have to listen to the UN now? or its predecessor? That's not a very good argument for Israel. The UN supports Zionism, is actually a very good argument against the creation of Israel. The UN also declares the West must let in millions of climate refugees to stream through their borders. Do we listen to that? I bet over 150 UN member states would approve that resolution and pass it.

[@TemplarMedic]

The Tanakh is 4,000 years old and it promised Israel’s borders would extend all the way to the West Bank….of the Euphrates River. Just be glad they stopped at the Jordan.

[@TemplarMedic]

@@calitaliarepublic6753 It is not your fault you have such a. Skewed sense of history. I blame western educators. I support the Nation of Israel, and you think that equates to supporting the Holocaust? Your circular reasoning is horrific. But again not your fault. You are a product of Jew hatred.

[@bananamilkshake5135]

@@f-86zoomer37 since when UN supports Israel? UN hates Israel and loves muslim countries. They think Israel violates human rights but none of those countries (like pakistan, iran, saudi arabia... list can go long) where honor killings, dictatorship, public execution, throwing gays off the roof, treating women like second class citizens etc. still exist. That along, who trust UN's judgement?

[@f-86zoomer37]

@@bananamilkshake5135 Are you really that ignorant on history? Who allowed Israel to happen? It was literally the UN that created Israel. Why? Because after WW2, the winners of the war created the UN to settle the war and its aftermath. One of the main goals of the creation of the UN was to establish a permanent homeland for the Jewish diaspora, because of the Holocaust narrative and “never again.” Israel owes its existence to the UN. If there is no UN, there is no Israel.

[@jonathont5570]

This is what I recall learning in college, I always scratch my head when I hear the Palestinians own the land... since when.

[@TheRed02151]

You do realize Palestine existed long before Israel was a thing right and that his video is misleading. The U.N. only requested that jews can live in a part of Palestine, NOT THE WHOLE THING.. All of current day Israel and then some was Palestine. What about all the palestinian refuguees, the millions of people that owned the land who were kicked out and are treated like 2nd class citiziens. Arabs still outnumber jews in that region, why do you think gaza and the west bank are full of Palestinians. Why does Israel limit access to water and electricity the people of the west bank??

[@markaxworthy2508]

Many still have keys from the houses they fled from after a series of massacres by embryonic Israeli security forces that killed around 800 Palestinian Arab civilians and prisoners. (This is according to Israeli historians). Hamas terrorism has precedents on the Israel side as well.

[@animaticToshiue]

​@@TheRed02151You serious Palestine existed BEFORE ISRAEL was a thing? Do you know it didn't exist until the Romans decided to exile the Jews (the people of Israel)?

[@salmaomar8466]

@@markaxworthy2508 Nearly a million Jews were expelled from Arab countries after the creation of Israel. They were kicked out of their homes and forced to flee. Why do we never ever hear about this? Because they carried picked up the pieces and continued their lives elsewhere. They didn't allow hatred to fester and turn to violence. The Arabs will forever be jealous of the Jews and play the victim card until they die. I say this as a practising muslim with an Arab mother.

[@therabbi9848]

Palestinian Arabs have definitely owned their own land. Its totally true that there has never been a Palestinian state, but people do live there and own land. Just because you control the region doesn't mean you can kick people out of their homes.

[@davidfryer9359]

This man is excellent.

[@furkanyb]

As an international law scholar, I must say that Kontorovich's depiction of the events is far from consistent and accurate. Here is a legal analysis of his claims: 1. Uti possidetis iuris was an important principle that was applied in the post-1945 world. However, the principle didn't properly apply to the region after WWII. For instance, Syria had five administrative units. Four of them became modern-day Syria, and one became Lebanon. If we followed the principle very closely, most of the European nations wouldn't exist today. So, he is very wrong to invoke the principle in this instance, as there is almost no discussion of this principle at the end of the British Mandate for Palestine or any proper application of the principle in the region. 2. Before the British Mandate for Palestine ended, Britain transferred this mandate to the UN in 1948. The UN resolution that Kontorovich labels as a "non-binding recommendation" was the legal basis of the Israeli state. Israel declared independence with the legal right given by this resolution. In fact, the Israeli organizations in the Mandate approved the resolution, which shows that Israel didn't have a land claim to the entire mandate. What he is saying is wrong and justification after the fact. 3. Ethnic cleansing. During the war in 1948, both sides ethnically cleansed their territories. Arab nations that declared war on Israel had no legal right over the Palestinian lands. Yet, they did so to prevent the creation of Israel. Objectively speaking, Israel displaced a larger population of Arabs from the territories it controlled, given the smaller share of Jews living in the Mandate territory and the somewhat equal partition. The cleansing on both sides is clearly illegal in international law and morally wrong. 4. Taking what is rightfully Israel's. We can tell that this claim is also clearly inaccurate because when Israel took East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, it didn't assume that they were taking their own territory. In fact, Israel didn't annex East Jerusalem until 1980. Why would they wait if they thought they had the legal right to the land? 5. Recognition by the international community. A state's statehood has two main faces: domestic and international. The domestic side is about a state's control over a given population and territory. But it is not enough to be a state. ISIS wasn't a state because the international community didn't recognize it as such. The other side is the international recognition. The vast majority of the states in the international community don't recognize Israel's ownership of the Palestinian lands. Thus, Israel's claim has no legal backing via recognition. To sum up, Kontorovich has used international law to justify a situation that is hardly legal and almost impossible to justify legally and factually. I am ashamed that I have colleagues who weaponize our discipline to further political agendas.

[@pakibeatmachine]

Wow finally someone who can think critically. I was searching for a learned comment from someone who could debunk the semantics played in this video. Thank you so much for enlightening us

[@infinitafenix3153]

It is called propaganda. The more your cause is unfair, the more you need to work on building justifications ;)

[@kennethtennysfan6101]

Let's set aside the "legaleeze" and perform an objective analysis. There were Jews and Arabs living in the region of Palestine during the reign of the Ottomans. But Jews had been there for 2,000 years before. After WWI, the region reverted to British rule. During WWII the Arabs sided with Hitler. Their side lost. As stated in the video, the entire region was carved up into separate nation-States: Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and eventually, a homeland for the Jews: Israel. When the UN created the State of Israel, the borders were very different than they are now. The Arabs (never such a thing as "Palestinians") got the best land, including the seaside of Gaza, the West Bank, most of Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and more. Israel got mostly desert. However, the Arabs wanted everything. They attacked Israel in 1948, 1967, and 1973, with the goal of destroying Israel, killing most, if not all Jews, and taking all the land for themselves. Guess what? They lost. Israel took over Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula. To the victor goes the spoils. That is history, Mr. furk. Since then, Israel has returned the Sinai to Egypt. Returned Gaza to Hamas. Let the PA rule most of the West Bank. And allowed Muslims access to their Holy sites in Jerusalem. Additionally, on multiple occasions, Israel has offered a two-State solution. The Arabs rejected every offer because their stated goal is to destroy Israel; not live side-by-side in peace with Israel. There are 2 million Arab (non-Jewish) citizens of Israel. They have rights equal to every citizen who is Jewish. So, the claim that Israel is an Apartheid State is garbage. Maybe Prager U's legal analysis is somewhat flawed. The History of the world is not pretty, especially when it comes to territory. That is why my "practical analysis" bypasses any legal analyses. Israel has a right to exist. Jews were there thousands of years before Arabs and 600 years before the creation of Islam. Israel wants to live in peace with its neighbors. They Arabs don't want that.

[@furkanyb]

@@kennethtennysfan6101 Thank you for your comment. It is good to see that people are reading things. It is always great to engage in a respectful and fact-based debate. While I agree with some of your comments, I disagree with others. Here is a step-by-step analysis of your comment from legal and historical points. As a legal scholar, the legal analysis is objective. Law follows what peoples and states think is right. It is not made in a secret laboratory by some elites. You are absolutely right that Jewish people are one of the natives of the land. Mizhari Jews, especially, never left the land after the Muslim conquest and lived with Muslims side by side. However, living on a land and having the legal right to statehood on that land are separate things. Following your logic, Native Americans have the right to a state on the United States territory. Then, should they form their state and wage war on Americans? Should we support the return of Britain to Britonic Welsh people and expel the invasive Anglo-Saxons and their Anglicized French/German overlords? No. Historical ties to a land don’t give anyone a right to statehood in the modern political era. Ancient historical claims can be relevant to their nationalist sentiments. For their right to statehood, it is irrelevant. It is not to say that Israelis do not have the right to statehood. They do. And history alone is not the reason. You claimed that Arabs sided with Germans in WWII. It is true that many Arabs sided with the Germans who promised them independence. However, it is not the full truth, is it? Both the British Army and the French Army had Arab legions. In fact, hundreds of thousands of Arabs fought and died for the Allies. If we are talking about the Palestinian Arabs, some of their leadership figures, like the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, supported the Nazi ideology. The majority of Arabs in the region remained either passive or supported the British war efforts. Ironically, Jewish armed organizations in the Palestinian Mandate targeted British authorities and killed British officers and civilians in bombings during and after the war. They all wanted independence, and in the course of achieving it, some Arab leaders collaborated with Germans while others didn’t. Then, you mentioned that Arabs attacked Israel, and Israel defeated them. Again, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had no legal or political justification to represent Palestinians, similar to the idea that the US or Western states don't represent Israel. These Arab nations attacked Israel in 1948 to prevent the birth of an Israeli state, in 1967 to destroy the Israeli state, and in 1973 to capture the territories they lost to Israel so far. Israel’s wars with these nations and its subsequent peace with Egypt and Jordan don’t bind Palestinians legally or politically. Apparently, Palestinians felt the same so that they formed armed organizations to fight against Israel. You mentioned something very special to my research. That is, “to the victors goes the spoils.” It is the specific topic I have been working on for years. WWII was the product of this mindset. After the war and thanks to the American efforts, the UN was formed, and territorial aggressions and conquests were banned. In the post-WWII world, conquests are extremely rare. The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan. At no point did the US presidents or media assume that they would become US territories. After WWII, victors didn’t get to enjoy spoils, and this is thanks to international law created and supported by the victors of WWII and Western powers. This is the most Western thing to say, and saying otherwise is against international law and the post-war values of the Western world. Turkey will never fully enjoy its conquest of Northern Cyprus. Russia will never fully enjoy Crimea. The international community doesn’t recognize them, and they will never become legal. The situation is not different for the Palestinian territories under Israel’s control. It is because we forbid conquests, and conquests are wrong regardless of the context. There is no moral difference between saying that a country should keep a territory it illegally conquered and saying that a rapist should keep a raped person. I agree with you that several Israeli politicians made serious efforts for peace. However, these efforts have been sabotaged by two actors: Hamas and the Israeli far-right. Oslo Peace Accords started when Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat came together to sign a deal for the two-state solution. It was a great achievement. Soon after, a radical Israeli assassinated Rabin for considering the peace with Arabs. After that, Hamas increased bombings in Israeli cities, and in that security vacuum, the Israeli right’s rise began. Eventually, Likud Party and many right-wing parties gained great power, thanks to Hamas’ aggressive bombing campaigns and terrorist activities, all hope for peace was lost. Collectively, Likud and Hamas ended the peace process. Peace wasn’t rejected by all Arabs. In fact, the majority of Arabs and the PLO were for peace and two-state solutions. Today, Israeli efforts to establish settlements in the West Bank have weakened PLO so much that Hamas may take over in the West Bank, get stronger, and attack Israel from both sides. This is the result of Israeli right-wing parties’ plan to “manage the problem, not solve it.” If you start reading about Israeli politics, you will understand what I am talking about. If you want citations for what I said here, please contact me. I can provide academically sound resources for every claim I made or the facts I presented.

[@Uzkadi89]

​@@furkanyb Thank you for such a well-explained and dispassionate argument on a highly controversial topic. Although I am not an expert, the video felt one-sided to me and seemed to intentionally omit valid counterarguments, which made it come across as disingenuous. The world is usually not as simple as "good guys vs. bad guys," and there is always nuance involved.

[@mauricecohen3830]

Unfortunately too many people have now use for the truth. Note that Jordan was also earmarked for Jews. Britain broke the terms of the mandate and gave it to a Saudi prince in order to secure oil supplies. As such Britian is greatly responsilbe for today's conflict.

[@HVACSoldier]

No, Transjordan (Jordan) was never apart of the special provisions (a Jewish homeland) of the mandate. It was decided early on that those provisions of the mandate did not apply east of the Jordan River.

[@beslanintruder2077]

Hashemites and House of Saud are not the same.

[@HVACSoldier]

@@beslanintruder2077 True.

[@mauricecohen3830]

@@beslanintruder2077 They are related, aren't they?

[@mauricecohen3830]

@@HVACSoldier That was changed in 1923 for duvious reasons. Addtionally, the west bank, Jerusalem and Gaza were never allocated to the Arabs.

[@jad1714]

Would help if you didn’t call it the West Bank because it’s not part of Jordan and isn’t a West Bank

[@mervfer1162]

It's called that because it's the West bank of the Jordan River. The State of Jordan is the East bank of the Jordan River.

[@thehonesttruth415]

@@mervfer1162 its called Judea and samaria, its got nothing to do with Jordan now.

[@ЦветанГанчев-у4п]

@@thehonesttruth415 It's not 1st century

[@Mr9mann]

It isn't called Judea because the obvious questions might rise. The reality czars won't approve.

[@thehonesttruth415]

@@ЦветанГанчев-у4п it can be called whatever Israel desires.

[@WhatHistoryShorts]

I heard an interesting question: whose side would Hitler be on? Israel's or Hamas'? And if Palestine laid down its arms, what would happen? Likewise, if Israel laid down its weapons, what would happen then?

[@markaxworthy2508]

Palestine had none of the advanced weaponry of the Israelis acquired in 1948 - no aircraft, no tanks, no artillery. If Arab armies hadn't been present, the Palestinian Arabs might well have been wiped off the map entirely then, following a series of massacres by embryonic Israeli forces that killed around 800 of civilians and prisoners and put hundreds of thousands to flight - and this is according to Israeli historians! So, I don't think it reasonable to expect Palestinians to disarm any more than to expect the Israelis to.

[@trentcheney7441]

Hitler would be on the "Palestinian" side. He wanted to kill Jews. If the "Palestinians" put down their weapons there would be peace. If Israel put down their weapons there would be no more Jews in "Palestine".

[@007kingifrit]

not an interesting question at all, i will quote hitler directly "islam is the perfect religion for soldiers"

[@sharonefee1426]

Easy: Palestinians. He was a close friend with the Mufti, the leaders of the Arabs who lived in Palestine back then. Not hardgo guess.

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@sharonefee1426 While Hitler did support Arab nationalism everywhere, he was never a "close friend" with the Mufti. The Mufti was just anther powerless exiled foreigner Hitler hoped to exploit.

[@TBSWORLD77]

It's hard to negotiate with a group when the only thing they want is for you to not exist. Democrats / Palestinian sympathizers you really need to know your history and who/what you are supporting.

[@sarabrown7488]

Sadly the majority do. They have been sent a strong delusion.

[@1AnimeWorld]

Zionist don't want Palestinians to exist they even are not calling them "Palestinians"

[@justinshabtai]

'West Bank' is an Arab neo-colonial term. It was always called Judea and Samaria until Jordan's occupation.

[@LeeLe412]

yeah, they go on and on about "from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" and yet the west bank is on the east of "Palestine" but is on the west of Jordan... The name itself makes it obvious that the occupation is fake.

[@tahahagar7664]

The name is irrelevant, the West bank can be called Timbuktu and still would not be part of the genocidal illegal apartheid terrorist regime of Israel and no terrorist settlers from Brooklyn are native there

[@kenton6804]

@@tahahagar7664 If it was called Timbuktu, then we would know that the Black Hebrews were claiming it from the Palestinians and the Israelis. And you don't know the equality that arabs and non-jews have in Israel compared to any other country near to it. Try again before you compare it to pre-90s South Africa.

[@Lazurath101]

@Michael No

[@GeoffSh4rt]

@@tahahagar7664 Surely Israeli apartheid is a jolly good thing. It means that everyone in the country, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion: 1. Can vote in national and local elections. 2. Stand for election. 3. Become a member of the Knesset, the government and the cabinet - and become prime minister and president. (Israel had an Arab president in 2007) 4. sit as a judge in the Supreme Court. 5. Join the IDF and rise to a position of prominence. 6. Join the diplomatic service. 7. Enter the same hospital and receive the same treatment. 8. Attend and graduate from any university in the country. And so on and on. Israeli apartheid is wonderful. Let's celebrate it!

[@brianbeag]

As far as I know the UN and the ICJ do not recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed territories and have ruled their occupation of the West Bank to be illegal. They also consider Gaza is still occupied even though Israel withdrew in 2005. It would be interesting to hear the legal arguments debunking these claims, not just restating the UTI Possidetis Juris argument which clearly the ICJ rejected.

[@DMain-tb8ye]

The best and authoratative explanation i have heard. Thanks.

[@MENSA.lady2]

Occupy is the wrong word. The West Bank is part of Israel.

[@pavel_markin]

Long story short: in 1948 Jordan annexed a piece of Israel and called it the 'West Bank' and in 1967 Israel took it back. Palestinians can complain about suffering and unfairness, but it's their own fault - Palestinians are 'paying the huge bill' for their fathers' and Arab countries' mistakes - like starting several wars against Israel. And future generations of Palestinians will 'pay the bill' for today's shooting rockets and stabbing - more checkpoints, more military control, more advanced weapons, and security systems controlling their lives. Only peace dialogue with Israel can break walls and checkpoints, bring investors and prosperity.

[@moonshiro]

We can also talk about the fact that Israel was the one that offered peace *five different times* and every single time the Arab states and the Palestinian refused even when the odds were in favor of them instead of Israel! Also the " Palestinian " (who by the way are not real and you should call them Jordan Arabs because Palestine was never a thing and they don't exist it's not a thing to call them Palestinian) are complaining and complaining but they were offer a chance on multiple occasions to go back to living in Jordan where they originally came from but they don't want to, why? because they're very much well aware that they would never have the life quality and life level they have in Israel in ANY of the Arab states. Besides the fact that most of the Arab states hate them and see them as pe$t$ there's also the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the middle East, the only place where women have multiple rights and they are not an immediate property of their families, the only place where the kids get free education (even when that education is anti-israeli education) the only place where they have health and life insurance free, the only place where gay Arabs can live without being ki||ed because of who they love, the only place where women can go and have big roles in society and not just be Housewives or walking w0mbs and the only place when they can talk sh!ts against their government and not be immediately mu£de£ed or disappeared mysteriously because Israel democracy unlike all the Arab states. They love to complain and play innocence and say that they are the innocent child and Israel as the Big baddy but in reality and Truth they know very well that Israel is their best chance and they don't want to leave not because they feel connected to the land but because they have all of that and they will not have it in the Arab countries, and they're playing hard on the fact that for some odd reason the world doesn't view all their Te££o£ attacks as something bad ( and I'm not only talking about the m!ss!|e's there's enough b0mbing su!cides, knife st@bbing, sh00ting exct' exc') but when Israel defend itself that's not okay. Lebanon and Syria are in serious downfall after 10 plus years of Civil War There's an actual aparthe!d happening in the middle of Africa including r@c!al c|eansing, there are r@c!al c|€ansing happening in the middle of Asia , Ru$sia is !nv@d!ng other countries but no one is saying anyting but when Israel is involved or talks about the hypocrisy is off the roof.

[@darrenkumar8735]

@@moonshiro hands down the truth

[@shebsheb8850]

@@moonshiro Palestine 🇵🇸

[@moonshiro]

@@shebsheb8850 not a thing 😄

[@shebsheb8850]

@@moonshiro shh, you're zionist

[@IronSharpensIron510]

Can this man please explain this to the world today to end the debate?

[@markaxworthy2508]

If the Nazis occupied the Warsaw Ghetto, among others, then Israel occupies the West Bank. The Nazis allowed Jews to administer themselves in the ghettoes. Israel allows the Palestinians to administer themselves on the West Bank.

[@R2023-NV]

Why? He’s deliberately missing the 2000 years before WW2. Lmao. This area was not majority Jewish durjng that time. The area was a majority Muslim and Christian…

[@maingate7672]

@@R2023-NV: And you're missing the millennium before that, when it was Israel. Proven by archeological evidence.

[@colejones6312]

@@R2023-NV lmao, 2000 years before World War 2, Jews were living in their independent Kingdom of Judea, before the Romans came along, brought the kingdom under its rulership and eventually destroyed it all together in response to the Bar Kokhba Revolt, kicked out the Jewish population and renamed the land Syria-Palaestina.

[@007kingifrit]

@@markaxworthy2508 stop spewing this stupid argument, the west bank belongs to israel, jordan invaded it

[@YishaiBarr]

No. Jewish people lived there and were expelled or murdered 19 years prior by Jordan/Palestinians. Israel liberated the West Bank and the international community has the nerve to call the returnees "illegal" or the expulsion of squatters from Jewish owned homes in Sheikh Jarach "immoral".

[@dreamtheater_92]

Facts don't care about your feelings. Thanks for sharing the truth. Am Yisrael Chai!

[@SamytheGreek]

I dont know about banks, east or west but I do know Judea and Samaria, and I can tell you that Israel should never ever give up one square foot of that.

[@davesax11]

Excellent job. Do need to clarify that Trans-Jordan was created out of the original Palestine mandate as the Arab portion.

[@alikasim9627]

Would like to know more.

[@cliffdixon6422]

@@alikasim9627 When the League of Nations decided on the British mandate in the area, it was given what the Ottomans referred to as 'South Syria' which the British renamed 'Palestine' in deference to the Roman name of Syria Palestina. This mandate included what are now 2 nation states - Israel and Jordan. The whole mandate was supposed to be transitioned to a Jewish state - Unfortunately, there were debts outstanding to the Arabs who had risen up against the Ottomans at the urging of Laurence of Arabia. An Arab family, the Hashemites, were supposed to be given dominion over what is now Syria which at the time was the French mandate. The French, however, refused to do so. In honour of the debt, the British then took 70% of their mandate and gave it to the Hashemites to fulfil the wartime Allies promise of land to rule over. This became TransJordan and, subsequently, Jordan.

[@alikasim9627]

@@cliffdixon6422 really interesting to learn more specially about jordan. That majority of the inhabitants are palestinian. And that if the 2 state solution happened, there will be 2 palestinian states. One in jordan and one in the westbank/gaza.

[@cliffdixon6422]

@@alikasim9627 The only reason that there are a majority of Arabs in Jordan is because the Jews were ethnically cleansed from the area when the state was founded and more Arabs came up from the South. Likewise, when Jordan occupied Judea & Samaria in 1948, renaming it 'The West Bank', Jews were forced out at gunpoint. The Arabs then moved more of their people in, renaming areas (eg Shimon HaTzadik became Sheikh Jarrah) and giving out land they did not legally possess which Israel took back in 1967. The Arabs were offered all of Judea & Samaria with East Jerusalem as it's Capital under the Olmert peace plan as a 'Palestinian state' - They refused. Israel now has just 17% of the land promised under the San Remo Treaty (Gaza is self governing, as is 2/3rds of Judea & Samaria) yet the 'Palestinians' want more. This is not about land, it is about a pathological hatred of the Jews and a wish to eliminate them - Have a look at Palestine Media Watch which covers what is put out by the PA. It is difficult to have peace when only one side wants it

[@alikasim9627]

@@cliffdixon6422 its such sad we do not have books out really covering this facts you mentioned. Only one sided taking up stories without full context. For example when people mention shaykh jarrah they have automatically associated it with ethnic cleansing. Rather than knowing the reality abut the court case and disputed land from which jordanians confistaced this land and evicted the real jewish owners.

[@jeffs7915]

Tell this to Susan Sarandon.

[@frankcortes6852]

And she will say “propaganda”. 🤷🏻

[@UniverseSinking2011]

Clear, simple, and accurate. Thank you.

[@yochevedbrachasimon4979]

important history . the day to day lives of the people in the area are fairly smooth with unfortunate incidence. To call this Israel an apartheid or genocidal state dangerously reduces the rights of actual refugees around the world.

[@redpoppy4816]

Israel is an apartheid.

[@williamsmith9699]

@@redpoppy4816 , and you are clueless and willfully ignorant . The Arabs are the only ones doing apartheid .

[@redpoppy4816]

@@williamsmith9699 *This video is a cunning piece of Zionist propaganda designed to white-wash reality.* Every statement is a cleverly contrived lie. A major effort has been made to bamboozle those who are not well informed on the issues. *The region called Palestine NEVER belonged to the Jews.* Countries and Provinces don’t BELONG to people; rather people have citizenship of a country. Every Jew that came to Palestine already had citizenship in some other country. Only a small number of Jews lived in Jerusalem, and had citizenship in the Ottoman Empire/Palestine. Wars commence because someone wants something that cannot be got by other means. This is the true reason for the 1948 War that has never ended. Jews from Europe wanted Palestine, and the Palestine could only be got through ruthless warfare. The Palestinians already lived there, and had done so for many centuries, as can be shown in various Ottoman census figures.

[@williamsmith9699]

@@redpoppy4816 , every sentence you wrote is a contrived lie and arab propaganda trying to whitewash the truth . Everything he said was LAW , INTERNATIONAL LAW . This video was the legality of the State of Israel . There is nor was ever a Palestine . It was named that by Hadrian so the Jewish people would not have a land , Israel to comeback to , even thought it had been that for almost 2,000 years before. As I said you are clueless and believe propaganda . Palestine comes from the Hebrew word polesh , which means invader , so he named it invaded land . The Philistines were obliterated and assimilated in to the Jewish people 800 years before that . Also the Philistines were from the Island of Crete , which makes them Greek . Yasser Arafat started calling himself a Palestinian in 1964 , so that is further proof , there is no such thing as palestinians . The arabs told the arabs living in Israel to leave in 1948 because they were going to genocide the Jews , but I'm sure you have no problem with that , it is all right for arabs to murder but jews are not allowed to defend themselves . And 95% of Israelis are zionist which it is obvious from your brainwashing , you have no ideal what that means . When Jordan invaded Jerusalem and ethically cleansed it of jews , destroyed all the Synagogues and started using tombstones as bathrooms , you have no problem with that either I'm sure . And on top of that, the 19 years they illegally had control of it , they never once called it palestine because they knew there was no such thing or entity . As I said , you are the only one believing propaganda and lies from the facist , nazi , arabs .

[@redpoppy4816]

@@williamsmith9699 *You have imitated the first sentence I wrote.* So Zionist ! So unimaginative.

[@bamaraiderable]

I keep pointing out that Israel has always been open to sharing the land. It is the Palestinians who demand "from the river to the sea." When challenged, I point to the nearly 2 million Muslim Arabs who live as free citizens in israel where they have freedom of religion, freedom of speech, where they can vote and hold public office. Ask about Jews in Palestinian land. There are none. So who REALLY wants genocide?

[@DomenicoMilone]

That's factually incorrect. Please refer to what's called in Israel "the demographic problem". Israeli Arabs are about 20% or the population, percentage that was established by Ben Gurion as the minimal to "have a viable Jewish State". That's the same reason why Israel didn't annex Gaza and the west bank when it conquered them, they want the land but without the people on it, because if they would just annex it with all the people that live on it Israel wouldn't be anymore a Jewish majority state. So they need to kick the people out before annexing it, and that's what they have been doing in the past 80 years. The ethnic cleansing it's intrinsic to this idea. When you see the map of the west bank reduced to small pockets, this is not a geographic map, it's a demographic map, it represents the areas from where Arabs where kicked out and replaced by Jewish population. As for the Israeli Arabs, I would like to point you not only to the systemic inequality between the Jewish and the Arab population (problem that affect minorities in other countries and it's by no means a peculiarity of Israel) but also to check the about 80 laws that are in several form discriminatory towards the "non Jew"(as so defined by the law) population.

[@adriangstern]

Thank you thank you. People just don't believe me when I tell them this. So clear!

[@rphb5870]

a war of aggression can very easily be used to change another countries borders, it is called "right of conquest" We may not always like it, but everything always defaults to it.

[@DrillPreacher]

THIS. That is just the way the world was at the time and in many ways, it still is. As moral and righteous as we claim to be, that is just simple pure human nature.

[@rphb5870]

@@DrillPreacher in 1945 we made a lot of silly promises, like condemning the concept of a war of aggression, forgetting the fact that every signature of the UN charter, even the small nations, completely accepted the concept of right and conquest in the past, and at some point in the past had used it to their advantage. Afterall, that is how states emerges in the first place

[@markaxworthy2508]

You are right. Israel's claims are based entirely on right of conquest. Nothing else.

[@arthurcollymore3691]

What the Muslim conquests have been doing for centuries, moving from one state in Saudi Arabia to 56 others today .

[@markaxworthy2508]

@@arthurcollymore3691 Yup. It is also what the Bible/Torah says ancient Israel did when it entered Canaan. (Archaeology and DNA says the otherwise, but that won't matter to literal believers of the Bible/Torah). Basically this is a 20th Century problem and all the historical justifications going back beyond that are irrelevant. The issue is that in 1900 there were very, very few Jews in the area but now there are about 7 million. This transformation was achieved almost entirely through immigration and the forced eviction of Palestinians in 1948 and later. Is it any wonder the Palestinians are pissed off?

[@thinksouls113]

This is really very reliable history. This is what I have known for over a decade ago and I hate the term, "settlers" or occupied West Bank.

[@Z91514]

Concise and informative, great job!

[@veekee75]

Knowing facts is so important. Something the ignorant Palestinian protesters living abroad need to know.

[@sharonefee1426]

I admit I even learned a few things. Thank you for this video.

[@YishaiBarr]

This video is refreshing, because it brings an a fortiori argument to existing legal arguments.

[@johnsmith-v9t8o]

Cringe

[@YishaiBarr]

@@johnsmith-v9t8o Cringe but true.

[@cthulademan5636]

Ok does the legal argument excuse the suffering of the Palestinian people who have been murdered in the streets by Israeli and as Anakin Skywalker put it “not just the men but the women and CHILDREN” kids are being killed and tortured for something they had no part in

[@YishaiBarr]

@@cthulademan5636 No. But Israel isn't doing that. If you're going to accuse Israel of the deaths Hamas causes by using human shields while actually murdering innocent Israeli civilians like Anakin Skywalker, you're as much as a hypocrite like Anakin Skywalker for demanding Palpatine stands trial after killing an entire tribe of Tuskens.

[@cthulademan5636]

@@YishaiBarr have u seen what’s happening at all have u been paying attention god when the solar flair that has been building up on the sun hits earth I hope it permanently wipes out ur power no matter where u are so u can stay off the internet

[@mixflip]

Billions can be made from playing world referee. Keep the 2 fighting and you will always have an excuse to build weapons of war.

[@simontimothy1599]

The original name of that place is Judea. Samaria in the north. So, who's occupying? Up to the sea of Galilee and beyond, was called Israel in the days of Jesus.

[@twelvestitches984]

You skipped over 3,800 years of Jewish history. The name Palestine was not used until AFTER the Jewish revolt in the year 70 AD and the Romans destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and the Jews left the area. The Romans wanted to erase the Jewish identity. Then the arab armies from Arabia invaded the land of Israel in the year 636 AD conquered it. The arab armies continued in every direction taking all of Northern Africa, Spain, Sicily, going north to Russia, and east to India. The arabs are the invaders. As for the mandate, it did absolutely nothing, and the Jews actually began returning to Israel in the late 1800's, long before the 1920 mandate. The Jews who returned to the land of Israel BOUGHT land/homes from the arabs at increased prices. No land was EVER stolen. Also, the name Judea applies to a specific time when there were actually two Jewish countries, Judea in the south and Israel in the north.

[@CarlWheatley-wi2cl]

Particularly interesting is the original and intended interpretation of Palestine (the Roman "Palestina" label intended to mock their Jewish subjects aside). A fact that so many seem to miss or choose to ignore. Nothing to do with the ethnicity or the claims of its inhabitants. Simply a collective term for an area of land inhabited by Jew, Muslim, Arab, Christian, Druze, Beduin, Armenian and multiple other identities of the time. The term "Palestinian" simply denotes ANYONE living within the Mandated area. So Jews could be and, in fact were "Palestinian". A statement that is unthinkable to make today for many.

[@Slynsmiley]

Thanks for making this video. It provides objective clarity that is so lacking at the moment.

[@robertsiebenrock3997]

They should, it's their land Love Isreal!❤❤

[@EdMcF1]

What this piece fails to address is whether what was recognised when Israel declared independence was the 'Israel' that was recognised the Israel generally recognised today (not the West Bank and not Gaza) or the entire 'Greater Israel'. At 4:49 there is the sin of omission, that the PA governs the lives of Palestinians in the West Bank, but without mentioning the Israelis in the West Bank. When you resort to such stratagems, the entire edifice crumbles. I'd be entitled expect better from a Professor of Law.

[@yeremychauvin7253]

Shalom from Israel 🇮🇱

[@Josealdojunior248]

I have read this topic in deep length but I have always failed myself while trying to make a Muslim friend understand that there is no Palestine. And My Muslim friend now angry with me will not speak to me for 1 week. 🙄 But I will also keep trying with my all Muslim friends & I am lucky I have got such a Amazing friends like brothers they always support me, 🤗🤗, but lot of Muslim politicians keep bringing this Palestine agenda to keep it in existence just like no student want to carry school bag with them but they have to carry for some reason or other and it's not just a bag it's a multi utility product. Let's carry On 🙏🏻🤙🏻🤙🏼🙏🏻

[@hpyrkh3]

They need Palestine agenda to keep people distracted from their internal problems. Same old scapegoating of the Jews. Nothing changed.

[@lazzoleon9150]

Yeah, Same here. I find it especially hard to find a common ground with a friend of mine who argues Palestinian cause is just but when asked to point out where exactly is Palestine, goes haywire. Their main argument is Israel killed Palestinians but hey They killed Israelis too. It was a war what did you expect? Its all about who prevailed. I never disappointed to see how easy it is to manipulate people by exposing them to cherry picked articles and news. (I'm not saying Israel is pure as heaven. Just that both faction went on a war to decide, Israel won so suck it up. It could have ended a lot worse considering history you know)

[@fungi2661]

@@lazzoleon9150 Hey, I understand that from a very myopic perspective, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and specifically the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, can seem like a tit-for-tat war, but the situation is actually far, far more nuanced. For one, what Israel is currently doing can, and is by many scholars, considered a form of settler colonialism. The Israeli government has repeatedly supported the expelling of Palestinian people from their ancestral lands, and has continued to expand Jewish settlements that encroach further and further into Palestinian territory. This is akin to the way in which British settlers colonized Indigenous country in Australia, or similar endeavours in South Africa or the Americas. Within this context, the apparent violence of the Palestinians makes a lot more sense. I'll use the example of Haiti, a nation which formed because of an uprising of slave, who killed their white masters and successfully started their own, emancipated country. I'm sure for the white people living in Haiti at the time, it probably seemed like the slaves were just being violent for the sake of being violent, but that's a very limited perspective, one that ignores the systemic subjugation and ill-treatment forced upon the oppressed group for centuries. Now, I am in no way conflating the plight of the Palestinians with slavery, but do you see the way in which a holistic POV can change your perception of an historical event? I'm sure, with the advantage of hindsight, any reasonable person would acknowledge that the slaves' violence was one of necessity. I don't think it's fair to tell them to 'suck it up,' especially when the Palestinian minority have been faced with incarceration without trial, Nakba (the systemic expelling of Palestinians from their homeland which some have compared to apartheid or even characterized as ethnic cleansing), and a poverty rate that is frankly unforgiveable on the part of the Israeli government. I hope you actually engage with my arguments; I understand that there are sides to evert argument :)

[@lazzoleon9150]

@@fungi2661 first of all, that comparison isn't fair in the first place. Both sides fought many wars over this with Israel being the defending side. How exactly does your example work? Are arabs slave masters since they attacked Israel first? Seriously don't spit on the graves of Israeli soldiers who died during those wars for thier beliefs just because the other side is still whining about the fact that they lost despite overwhelming odds they had against israeli forces? No I don't think so. 4 countries against 1 and they still lost. Israelis also has historic ties to the land so they are basically resettling back to the land of thier ancestors. So please come up with a better example.

[@fungi2661]

@@lazzoleon9150 Okay, I understand that both sides have engaged in the conflict. Palestine and Hamas specifically are in no way free of culpability, and I am certainly not advocating for the slaughter of innocent Israelis. That being said: zionism is inherently colonialist in nature. It is endemic to the ideology, and most of the first and second wave of Jewish settlers KNEW that it was a form of settler colonization. Many scholars even compare it to colonization in the Americas or Australia! (Read 10 myths about Israel - an Israeli Jewish author makes this exact argument) Anyway, we're in a situation where Israel is colonizing a land that already belonged to the Palestinians (biblical arguments aside). I think you'd find it interesting that the Palestinians at first were very welcoming of the displaced Jews (for more info, look up accounts from the first Jewish settlers). It wasn't until it became clear to the Palestinians that the Israeli government wanted to take over the land, not share it, that they began to retaliate. Now, the massacres committed by both sides should be condemned and punished accordingly. But historically, these wars have been very unbalanced. In the 1948 war, Zionists may have positioned themselves as "David fighting Goliath" but in terms of army size, the Arabs were greatly outnumbered. In EVERY conflict that Israel and Palestine have had, the losses have disproportionately fallen on the Palestinians. Hell, in the recent eruption of conflict, innocsnt Palestinian were killed in droves, many times more than the Israelis. Every loss is heartbreaking, of course, but this is in no way an even conflict. Why is it that over the course of these wars, only the Palestinians are expelled from the land; there are over 300,000 in the Palestinian diaspora. How many Israeli citizens have had to flee the country? When the Viet Minh fought the French, with historical perspective, it seems now like a necessity. Not a necessity because of the French's mere presence, but because the Vietnamese people were sinking further and further into poverty under the thumb of an oppressor. The conflict in Israel doesn't NEED to be a necessity. There are options out there, but the Israeli government isn't taking them. Instead, they refuse to leave Gaza or The West Bank, despite demands from the UN, they strip Palestinian people of their basic rights, and they enforce laws that prevent Palestinians from getting equal footing in Israel society. And, once more, this is in no way the fault of the regular Israeli citizen. I am not advocating for slaughter. I am not advocating for an Islamic theocracy - in fact, I'm not arguing for any kind of theocracy. Which is why this conflict upsets me. No, this is the fault of the GOVERNMENT, who spreads misinformation, sews distrust between Arabs and Jews, and allows their greed and corruption to steer their decision-making.

[@jaymudd2817]

5 -10 June 1967 Arabs got ass kicked

[@stfup9360]

honorable mention 2006 and 19... ( where jews got ass kicked so hard but not by arabs)

[@schlussmitschiss]

I wonder if Israel was too accommodating towards her enemies in the past thereby encouraging abusive behavior.

[@mechamongrel-ir2qt]

“Let’s look into this in the most objective way possible. But first let’s get completely sidetracked.”

[@JoelMMcKinney]

This was highly informative.

[@monsterhunter445]

Not really it was misleading and biased. Who cares if it's lawful is it moral.

[@Noname-dr1jm]

@monsterhunter445 Are you referring to Jordan entnic cleansing Jews in the West Bank?

[@mattjohnson180]

@@Noname-dr1jm I think he is referring to the Jewish settlements in the West Bank which is against the two state solution

[@thehonesttruth415]

@@mattjohnson180 which party believes in the two state solution? hamas? the palestinians?

[@mattjohnson180]

@@thehonesttruth415 Palestinians support Hamas bc they feel that the West Bank is their land. Also it’s bs to say that the all of Israel was Jewish before the Zionist movement. After ww2 the Jews took over. Both peoples have claim to the land the video made it seem like the Jewish people were the majority in Palestine

[@ronbenvenisti8271]

This is a brilliant video, it explains in the most clear and comprehensive way the facts that the whole world should know

[@IronDragon-2143]

I don't care what Democrats, Leftists or Progressives say. I fully support Israel 🇮🇱 and their right to exist as a Jewish State.

[@Along478]

Thank you

[@loona_mew]

That's because you're a slave to Israel Wake up white man

[@Rushour717]

What about the Palestine's right to exist? Or do you support their genocide?

[@Along478]

@@Rushour717 the Palestinian population is growing, so there can’t be a genocide. You just repeat what you’ve heard with no evidences.

[@masonblues1235]

@@Along478 bruuuuuuuh come on youre being silly

[@derekjuarez9762]

One thing he got wrong is that JORDAN was part of the Mandate for Palestine. Trandjordan was the First Nation state to be partitioned off from the Mandate land. Israel was established out of the remaining land which was only 1/4 of the original British Mandate for Palestine.

[@maidenminnesota1]

You forgot Gaza. That is also Israeli territory that is occupied by the so-called "Palestinians."

[@imCarlBrown]

Understanding this issue is easy- if Israel put down their weapons, they would die. If so-called Palestinians put down their weapons, there would be peace where there is already prosperity. Now, choose your side.

[@ahmadhamideh7966]

I'm not sure if you ever even lived here or experienced to make such biased comment. I'm Palestinian and I live through many aspects of the oppression by Israel.

[@liorajacob8094]

@@ahmadhamideh7966 what do you think would happen to the Jews of Israel if all soldiers and police officers put down their weapons and walked away? Leaving all borders and checkpoints unguarded? Be honest with your answer. Imagine if your leaders had the courage to accept the offer of a Palestinian state back in 2000, or 2008. They didn't because: 1. They would be assassinated within the month 2. They could no longer line their pockets with international aid money. 3. It's all about "from the river to the sea Palestine would be free" - what else was the PLO established to liberate 3 years before the 'Occupation' - so accepting the legitimacy of a Jewish state is impossible.

[@michealcorleone3570]

@@ahmadhamideh7966 I don't believe you. Where in Palestine do you live?

[@imCarlBrown]

@@michealcorleone3570 , you're message is spot on!

[@JolicoeurAbear]

Jews living in Judea and Samaria is not an occupation of something referred to as the West Bank

[@gabirican4813]

I noticed one thing missing in this presentation that would make it even more relevant - the numbers for various ethnic groups in the area, and the land ownership, through the 1920-1945 period. I'm sure the Ottomans kept such records for taxation purposes. And the same for the British administration. Just a thought.

[@therabbi9848]

Right, it was about 1/3 Jewish in 1945. Areas designated for the Jewish state were largely where Jews lived, and the same went for the Arabs. The only outlier was the Negev desert, which Israel would receive, though very few people actually lived there.

[@sharonefee1426]

There's a book called "palestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata" (palestine illustrated from ancient monuments) by Adriaan Reland who described the Palestine at the very end of the 17th centrury (or maybe some of the beginning). It says there are hardly any people at all there, but the vast majority are Jews. Some are Christians. Some very rare occasions of muslims, mainly Bedouin (who are not Palestinian). So where where did the Arabs come from, and how did they become the majority? At a certain point, Jews from Europe started to come to Palestine. As a response, Arabs came and were brought by the Ottomans to Palestine. They were in the land less than 150 years.

[@00-Chris]

Information on the ethnic groups: Some real history: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXvclGCCr72koZIsi=impr6CB_DmZaFtf8 more real info: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6HSoKOngrSXa9Esi=a7iiKMfLv8CDq0QZ this is the history: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXrCpKODrdVpqposi=7GnWORs-IKdrUgCh

[@Firstname_Surname]

@@sharonefee1426 This is an interesting take. Although not directly referencing this book, Benny Morris, a well-respected and known historian on the matter, claims that based on his research 450,000 of the Arabs living in Mandatory Palestine prior to the creation of Israel have lived there (with their ancestors of course) for at least several centuries, but it would be interested in delve further and determine the validity of that book, considering it was describing about 250 years prior to the creation of Israel, so I suppose there's some contradiction here.

[@arthurcollymore3691]

There was always a remnant of jews in Israel even during the reign of the Ottamon Empire that ended in 1918.

[@antsly]

Israel, uniquely amongst any country, has never said what it considered it's borders. This video is trying to say that legally Israel is all of Palestine. So what was to happen to the people who were already living there? The vast majority of whom were not Jewish?

[@georgesmathers6056]

Thanks!

[@israelbart1229]

Thank you for a very informative video, here are a few corrections: You forgot to mention the Golan Heights. They were also a part of the mandate over Palestine. You don't show them as a part of Syria in the Arab states' map. Also, the country known as Jordan was also a part of this mandate, but the British gave it to the Hashemite family in order to win their support against Nazi Germany in WWII. It can be seen in the mandate itself, which is available in English on the internet.

[@ricb7801]

Jews like to bring up the Balfour Declaration to explain the "purpose" of the British Mandate in Palestine, but the never mention the second half of main sentence in Balfour's letter which states that the civil and religious rights of the Palestinians living there must be respected. In other words, if Balfour were alive today he would be calling for the end of Apartheid and for the establishment of a "One State Solution"--that is, all people living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza should be granted full citizenship rights and Jews and Palestinians learn to live together as one people with one future.

[@antongreenberg741]

They could have had that. But something happened in 1948 and for 75 years since then. You know what that was? How do you see Israel absorbing, with full citizenship rights 6 million mostly brainwashed people who think that Jews should be killed. Have you seen the Hamas school materials? Or maybe you caught people dancing in the streets of Nablus whenever a terrorist takes Israeli civilian’s life? The Arabs and their descendants that remained in Israel since 1948 have all the rights any other Israeli has. Including voting. For the ones that became refugees, I’m afraid that ship has sailed.

[@torrespearls381]

Cheers to Israel. The media never puts it like that.

[@rathnammaraman1669]

The Arabs of Judea & Sumeria were nomads & now squatters. They tried it in Jordan in September 1970, in Lebanon (in 1980s & continuing to this day), Kuwait in 1991 (thanks to Saddam Hussain) but didn't succeed. Now they're trying in Israel (again!). They have a habit of trespassing when the landlord's not at home!!

[@katkapsa5761]

The arabs also fought for their own united national state againstg the ottomans during the arab revolt but were betrayed by the British and French who reneged on their promises of an arab state and instead split the land up between themselves! The land that was ocupied by the British then became Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

[@betendawy]

So let me translate European people come to Arab land as refugees and ask other European people to give them the right to build their country on Arab land after Ottoman Empire defeat and you don’t call this occupation! What kind of Logic is this?

[@doron3247]

Please comment only after you watch the video :) No European refugees, Jewish people from the diaspora, who are the indigenous people to the land "from the river to the sea" - according to the league of nations, as said in the video. And before you continue saying a list of whataboutisms, open a history book, or even just understand, I am a jew that his ancestors got expelled from Judea 2000 years ago, my ancestors lived in the country of Egypt for hundreds of years waiting for the right of the Jewish people to return home (the land of Israel). So no "European refugees" and other nonsense you said, or else you may argue that Egypt is part of Europe ?

[@DomenicoMilone]

​@@doron3247 So, when all the "indigenous people" of the world are going to get their land back?

[@barryw2659]

Vocabulary is important. Palestinians have usurped the term Palestine for their own political purposes. By doing so they create an exclusive relationship with the land in the minds of people who aren't familiar with its history. And, as a result, Jews become the 'occupiers'. They should be called 'Palestinian Arabs' and Jews 'Palestinian Jews'. That way Jews would also be associated with Palestine and, after one examines the legal history of the land (thanks, in part, to this wonderful video), would see a much more accurate description of the situation.

[@OutnBacker]

Exactly.

[@sarahjama398]

a white settler from california isn't more indigenous to the land than a Palestinian who's family lived on the land for generations. what are you smoking?

[@jcarh]

@@sarahjama398 White settler from California? What are you talking about? There has NEVER been a nation state known as Palestine. The area in the Middle East, which included what we know as Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, was designated by the Roman Empire as "Palestine". All that land was historically the nation of Israel for at least 4 millenia prior to and after AD 70. There is much more generational history in Israel of the Jews, especially Jerusalem, than any Palestinian Arab trying to lay claim to it. The Hebrews are the indigenious people of "Palestine" aka the Jews. Not to say those Palestinian Arab families don't have a right to any land legally theirs in "Palestine" but if we are using your logic they are occupying Jewish land. Those generations of Palestinian Arabs lived under the Allies who conquered and took control of the land from the Ottomon Empire. There were also Palestinian Jews living in "Palestine", historically the land of Israel, for generations as well.

[@OwassoYankeyGardenRailway]

I’m glad a person like him holding these views can keep a job in academia. It IS refreshing to hear this.

[@f-86zoomer37]

Dude you're not gonna get fired or cancelled for being Pro-Israel. You have to be pro Israel actually to have any sort of real power. 3/4 of Congress, which includes lots of Democrats and GOP, and the State Department under the administrations of either party are committed to the state of Israel and preserving the state of Israel for the Jewish people. The largest foreign interest lobby group in DC isn't the Chinese or Russians. It's Israeli. AIPAC is the largest and most influential foreign interest lobby group in Washington, with those nearly 3/4 of Congress on their payroll. Larger than Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Ag, etc. It's no wonder our politicians send our soldiers to fight wars for Israel and conduct regime change against regimes that aren't loyal to Israel. Why did places like Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, and Egypt all have the Arab Spring, but Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE didn't?

[@idorosenbaum6419]

@@f-86zoomer37 so many bullsh1t at one comment. Aipac is strong because it has a huge support from American jews and American Evangelical Christians that stand with Israel. And most of the politicians at the congress have pro-Israeli views since most of the Americans have pro-Israeli views. And when did the U.S sent Americans soldiers to fight wars for Israel? Not in 2021, 2014, 2008 for sure. And the U.S fought against dictatorship regimes that were against the West, not specifically against Israel, that regimes were against Israel as well since Israel is a Western state

[@f-86zoomer37]

@@idorosenbaum6419 okay Rabbi Rosenbaum. Dirty tricks and subversion all over. 2003, 2011, 2013 were all wars that were fought in Israel’s interests. 2001, initially wasn’t, but the occupation and nation building there was in Israel’s interests, to have an allied nations military literally bordering Iran to the East, and with the US occupation of Iraq bordering Iran to the West. Getting the Americans to do the dirty work and surround Iran, who has never bowed to Zionist influence and money. Of course we’re not sending troops into Gaza. That would be too obvious Shlomo.

[@OwassoYankeyGardenRailway]

@@f-86zoomer37 I was addressing Academia, but all the so called “evidence” that you mention point to government and the political parties. I’ve been around academia long enough to see people getting cancelled for their political views. Very few conservatives are teaching on college campuses. The ones who are conservative are hiding it to keep their jobs, and the students who are going there, are hiding their views to try to get good grades. This is so empirically self-evident I don’t know how it can be denied. Plus it’s all trickling down to the secondary schools. Even high school kids are being indoctrinated with this anti-Israel propaganda.

[@ЦветанГанчев-у4п]

Yeah, like 98% of academia is not pro-Israel... In which world you live in?

[@Jonesdude666]

"There was nothing exclusively arab about palestine." Well, maybe except of the 90% arabs living in palestine, but OK. "Israel is not occupying Gaza, as it is their own territory because if a new state is founded, it immediately has the borders of the old entity." Ok, what if the Italians decide to get "their land" back (it has been roman land more recently than it has been jewish land prior to 1947)? Could the Italians simply march in, found a new state, kill and ethnically cleanse the jewish inhabitants and push them into reservations? Since the new entity would have the same borders as the old one, the Italians could progressively annex more territory from the reservations because it already belongs to them? It's always double standards when it comes to Israel. The Zionists descended upon an arab majority, killed and expelled most of them and have been playing the victim card ever since.

[@theyoungdaee7155]

Palestinian people were ethnic majority thus had an incentive to have a state over the jews.

[@eitank30]

Simple & truth

[@MrGraemeb2022]

A very succinct summary. Thank you.

[@markaxworthy2508]

If the Nazis occupied the Warsaw Ghetto, among others, then Israel occupies the West Bank. The Nazis allowed Jews to administer themselves in the ghettoes. Israel allows the Palestinians to administer themselves on the West Bank.

[@torchybeacon245]

​@@markaxworthy2508did Israel commit genocide in the millions? Did it racially discriminate it's citizens? Stop comparing Jews to nazis

[@fullcirclehistory]

"There was nothing exclusively Arab about Palestine" What about the fact that it was 90% ethnically Arab??????

[@bananaguts]

Back during the Roman Empire the Arabs hadn’t colonized it yet.

[@Oseiwe]

It is Jewish land. A more powerful force dispossessed them of their land, became extinct and surrounding peoples with a warring religion settled there. The Jews were not welcomed all where they scattered to, and after the great crimes against them in WWII there was a need to get back to the only place they could truly call home, even if it was stolen from them 2,000 years earlier. Thankfully it was still not a sovereign country belonging to some Arab power. The only reason for this conflict is ISLAM and its evil injunctions

[@frankcortes6852]

Maybe arab but not islamic or muslim since the Ayubid dynasty were the ones who brought that religion into Palestine.

[@suhaibalkhazraji9907]

Dude, the word Palestine itself isn't an Arabic word! Those Arabs use it to justify their Islamic genocidal project against non -Arabs in the middle east, especially against Jews because they managed to establish their country unlike other minorities who still struggle with Arabic colonism and Islamic apartheid

[@SigMaQuint]

I have been wondering. Palestinians are used to occupation. And their sense of nationality emerged quite late compared to other groups.

[@CSLGSKS]

Ah yes, I remember after WW1 how Turkey was simply allowed to have its independence and didn't have to fight a war against occupying powers. Let's just pretend that Britain and the Allies were not acting as empires. Let's also forget the Suez Crisis, mass expulsion of Palestinians (I mean "ethnic cleansing" to use your term), Israeli settlements (which the U.S. still consider to be illegal), the population registry, Israeli checkpoints throughout the West Bank (which are different from the settlements), etc.

[@sebastiancalderon3273]

Well put!

[@paulstephen3257]

I support Israel, but this is insane. Under this logic India could just absorb bangladesh and pakistan by claiming that they were all part of the same territorial entity before their independence, namely British India.

[@IsraelThomas-fv3od]

india is already very big and the west bank was a big part of israel. Also this example compares the jodran occupation of the west bank (20 years) to pakistan (like 60 years!?)

[@paulstephen3257]

@@IsraelThomas-fv3od Doesn't matter about the size. The fact is israeli settlements are illegal and immoral. I support israels right to exist and fight against aggresors, but this guy;'s logic is just stupid. If israel wants the west bank then they should declare all palestinians as israeli citizens

[@IsraelThomas-fv3od]

@@paulstephen3257 maybe so

[@bnaZan6550]

@@paulstephen3257 Israel can't declare palestinians as citizens because giving citizenship to 6 million people that elected a political party that swore to destroy it would basically destroy Israel from the inside. I don't see how that would work well

[@paulstephen3257]

@@bnaZan6550 sure, then either come up with some sort of bi-federal state like bosnia or leave the west bank

[@11ddaann]

If Indigenous peoples may claim a land on the grounds that they were there first, Native Americans should ask to become the owners of the United States territory.

[@chuckyz2]

Someone has to conquer it first. When they took sides with Germany they lost their land. And it was given back to the last known occupiers. But if Russia or China happen to conquer this land, you can bet you ass they won't be giving it back to mexicos cartels.

[@davidh1927]

The mandate created it. They gave it to the indigenous people, the Jews. So were all the people who made the decisions on the mandate Jews? I think not.

[@Lazurath101]

@@davidh1927 The Jews weren’t the indigenous people of the land. Most Jews in Israel are from Europe.

[@davidh1927]

@@Lazurath101 Thank You for that. so, Jews are indigenous to Europe? I didn't know that. Got it. I thought they came from ancient Israel. What about the Jews from Arab lands?Jewish presence in what are now Arab lands long predates Islam and the Arab conquest of the Middle East and goes back to Biblical times. In 1945, there were approximately 866,000 Jews living in communities throughout the Arab world. Today, there are fewer than 7,000. In many Arab states, once thriving Jewish communities have all but disappeared. According to official statistics, 856,000 Jews , persecuted and under duress, were exiled from their homes in Arab countries between 1948 and the early 1970s leaving behind substantial property and other assets. What about these Jews? Are we going to give all that land back to them? All the property? All the businesses? Pardon my ignorance, I guess i am stupid. I promise I will try to watch more CNN, MSNBC and Al Jezeria....I will also read as much as I can from all the leftist media I can get because that's the source of truth.

[@hugehappygrin]

Then the Caucasians should remove everything that makes this the civilization that it is, because it wasn't here. However, even the Aztlan don't want that. Some people just want the so-called white people to leave everything as-is for lazy peoples that want it for free. No.

[@tkleinberger]

Thank you for clarifying this.

[@laithkittani8021]

This video is a masterclass on how to speak easily refutable nonsense for 5 minutes with a straight face

[@Zayphar]

The old saw goes "The Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

[@Whatever4867]

"Israel never missed an opportunity to ruin an opportunity"

[@redpoppy4816]

*Israel has blocked every peace endeavour.* Thus the 1948 war has never ended. Ultimately, all the refugee families will return, and Israel will be obliged to accommodate them in a fair and equitable manner.

[@Zayphar]

@@redpoppy4816 I agree that the '48 war never ended, but any plan based on the idea that the Israelis will willingly commit national suicide is very unlikely to come out well for the refugees. It has been 70+ years, and the refugees and their descendants returning to their ancestral homes will never happen. The PA needs a new plan.

[@redpoppy4816]

@@Zayphar It is Israel that needs a new plan.

[@Zayphar]

@@redpoppy4816 Why would they need a new plan? Their plan is working. Just stall and stall and stall. It's worked well for them for the last 70 years. The PA is becoming weaker and weaker every year, and Israel is growing stronger and stronger. Why would they change now?

[@andrewrozhen513]

Ukraine stands with Israel 🇺🇦 🇮🇱

[@angus7278]

Ukraine loves being illegally occupied by Russia? Who knew!

[@muhtalhajd]

Ukraine is integral part of russi@ My parents are older than Ukraine the fun fact is

[@saraurban3784]

Bravo 👏 👏 It can't be explained better. Hope it can be heard 🙏 🌹💙❤💚❤️‍🔥💝 עם ישראל חי וקיים 🌹💙🌹💙🌹💙

[@Carol__v7]

So, it turns out our funds decided to take a vacation - here's how we'll bring them back.

[@Padrid]

Weren't the arabs 98% of the occupaients of the land at the time of the mandate!! This is nothing like the neighboring countries at all.