Palestine: The Samaritans' Struggle I ARTE.tv Documentary

The Samaritans are an ethno-religious group settled on the slopes of Mount Gerizim, near Nablus in the West Bank. In constant danger of disappearing, today they number less than 1,000 souls. ARTE meets Abdallah Cohen who is getting married, an important step for himself and for his community.
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[@artetvdocumentary]

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[@Businessinfluencer-dv2tb]

As you've mentioned The Samertions are also (what's known today as) Qalqilya, located in the Sharon region. Who by Jesus found out who they are when upon his traveling asked "would you kind woman give me water from your jug" she replied to him " who are you for i am a Samaritan", when he has given her through God what she has gone through and to what length she will adore, she told her people. ‏‪8:39‬‏ Whom thought nothing less weather interested ‏‪8:39‬‏ Their y'all's have it. Oh and btw Qalqilya is an Arab settlement (of which only was pushed towards were it is today by the Six day War, way before i was even thought to be considered to be born, heck the time i was born in America by my abusive Narcissist mother and my alcoholic father ‏‪8:39‬‏, my childhood was during when my adopted Narcissist parents in the 70s, while getting a glimpse of hearing on the news that Israel is at war, only through my research did i really know what war was Israel at (the Sinai War). ‏‪8:39‬‏

[@SevtapThurston]

They must be so sad about what's happening right now! I hope they are ok and I hope their good heart can be contagious. ❤ May they be the voice for peace?

[@rosestewart1606]

They're Palestinians too. They are in just as much danger now.... even Bethlehem was being bombed last week.

[@ZviJ1]

@@ΗλιαςΓεραλντο They are *culturally* Arabized, not Arab in each and every sense or aspect. Don't mix this up with full-fledged Arabs.

[@ZviJ1]

As to the new comment from 9+ hours ago (now deleted) by "MsJMan84": "Their religion and DNA is very similar to Ashkenazi Jews, according to studies" -- not really. 1.- In terms of both uniparental haplogroups and autosomal DNA, the Samaritans maintained all their Levantine ancestry and have no admixture from outside of western Asia (except for the Ukranian wives and those born of them). 2.- Samaritanism is closer to Judaism than any other religion, but it's actually closest to the Qaraite form of Judaism, whereas the AJs practice various forms of Rabbinical Judaism.

[@andromilk2634]

@@ZviJ1 And how do you know if the person in front of you is a "full-fledged Arab"? What is the definition of an Arab, if you happen to know it, in your opinion? The average day Zionist, quite unaware of any type of nuance in this region, would refer to Samaritans as "Arabs" if they didn't know what was their religion lol

[@ZviJ1]

@@andromilk2634 < LMAO > Evidently you convinced yourself of the fake facts you assert in your 2nd sentence in order to cope better with reality. But they are still poppycock. "Zionists:" are much more intelligent than you're willing to credit them for and probably make more money through accident in a given year than you make if you act to this end on purpose... Case in point: you forgot to factor in the most obvious thing iin the subject matter i.e. the difference between the Holon Samaritans and their brethren at Qiryat Luza. Even when "Zionists" don't know a population's religion, they can easily notice if its quasi-Jewish or not.

[@NarnianLady]

Thank you! Wishing this young man and his bride all the best... God bless the entire community, and all residing in the Land.

[@SionTJobbins]

Very happy to see Abdullah, who's done so much excellent work for his community and for explaining Samaritanism to the outside world. The wedding seems to be a very big thing, I hope it's not costing too much for him, or, that getting married is seen as being to expensive and something young people have to save a lot of money for and so postpone marrying, so as to keep face. If people marry late then they're likely to have fewer children, which is critical to the Samaritans existing. I'd like to have heard more about Adbullah's bride too - is she Samaritan or from outside the community. Good luck Abdullah - the last words by the narrator are basically telling you to have 4 or 5 kids!

[@suzybailey-koubti8342]

What a wonderful documentary! Thank you so much. May God bless the Samaritans, Palestinians and the Jews. May they all strive for peace in the Holy Land. Bless you, Abdullah, and your beautiful bride. Mabrouk! Mabrouk! ❤❤❤

[@artetvdocumentary]

Thanks for watching! :)

[@jeanettelebarron3306]

🙏 🙏 🙏

[@fabiankawau3362]

🙏🏽 peace and love ♥️

[@AA-co9vi]

Samaritans are palestinians

[@Smil7001]

The Palestinians are invaders

[@Alex-ez1lk]

So this is what a good Samaritan looks like.

[@7kingjames33]

Lol

[@christofferraby4712]

Samaritans are the last living descendants of Israelites who never left ancient northern Israel and are respected by Palestinians and Israelis alike.

[@JupiterMoon777]

This also proves that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not about religion, which is how the state of Israel likes to market the conflict for obvious reasons of course. Israel wants to brainwash the world that this coflict is about antisemitism and has nothing to do with colonization, occupation, ethnic cleansing, dehumanization of Palestinians, denying their history and existence, and the biggest land theft ever that is still ongoing.

[@sr969]

Actually lots of palestininan christian and muslims palestinian who live in nablus are actually descendants of these people. I read somewhere a palestinian muslim refugee has 96% gene of samaritan.

[@danial3600]

Modern day Muslim Palestinians are also descendants of these guys they converted to Islam in 625-635 due to a negotiation that they had agreed upon with Omar the rashidun caliph at that time.

[@Yoo-yooYeshua]

@@danial3600that’s very interesting. Where can I read about this

[@danial3600]

@@Yoo-yooYeshua Jandora, John W. (1986). "Developments in Islamic Warfare: The Early Conquests". Studia Islamica (64): 101-113. doi:10.2307/1596048. JSTOR 1596048. Gil, Moshe (1997). A History of Palestine, 634-1099. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521599849. Broshi, Magen (1979). "The Population of Western Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine Period". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 236 (236): 1-10. doi:10.2307/1356664. ISSN 0003-097X. JSTOR 1356664. S2CID 24341643. Ehrlich, Michael (2022). The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634-1800. Arc Humanity Press. ISBN 978-1-64189-222-3. OCLC 1310046222. Levy-Rubin, Milka (2000). "New Evidence Relating to the Process of Islamization in Palestine in the Early Muslim Period: The Case of Samaria". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 43 (3): 257-276. doi:10.1163/156852000511303. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 3632444.

[@michaelmarzano2759]

Abdullah seems to be the only voice of reason and hope in all this madness!

[@stevenv6463]

Interesting documentary. You all covered a lot of things that other documentaries don't cover about Samaritans. Also glad to see Abdullah Cohen getting married. I visited Nablus and met him once as well as watching everything available on Samaritans.

[@yoshi999z7]

Abood is so fluent in the three languages like native level, literally amazing

[@Rotti17]

4 if you count ancient Hebrew

[@Landofisraelforever]

Among the groups of people whose lineage and connection with the Jewish people is discussed in our Gemara are Kutim. The term Kutim refers to the nations (not all of whom were truly Kutim, as there were people from other nations, as well) that were exiled to the Land of Israel by the kings of Assyria who were interested in populating the land after they had removed the Israelite people from it. According to Sefer Melakhim (see II Melakhim, chapter 17), these nations converted to Judaism because of their fear of lions that had begun attacking them (from which derives the term gerei arayot - “lion converts”), but they continued worshiping their gods at the same time. Upon the return of the Jews to Israel at the beginning of the Second Temple period, the Samaritans, descendants of the Kutim, were active in trying to keep the returnees from rebuilding the Temple and the walls of the city of Jerusalem. Even so, there were families - including members of the kohanim - who intermarried with the Samaritans. During the following years there were continued tensions between the two communities, and Yohanan Hyrcanus led his troops into battle against the Samaritans and destroyed the temple that they had built on Har Gerizim. Nevertheless, there were also periods of cooperation, such as the period of the Bar Kokhba rebellion. As is clear in our Gemara, the attitude of the Sages towards them differed, although after a period of time a final conclusion was reached and they were ruled to be treated as non-Jews, due to their continued involvement with different types of idol worship. It is important to note that the Gemara in Massekhet Yevamot concludes that while a beit din should not accept potential converts whose reason for converting is anything other than a sincere desire to join the Jewish People, nevertheless, if such a person does undergo a full conversion process they are considered Jewish according to halakha. It is possible that the Kutim did not fall into that category because they continued with their idolatrous practices even at the moment of their conversion.

[@marwaqoura7804]

All Palestinian people are very educated and fluent in languages , in fact it is a shame for an educated Arab to speak only Arabic ! Most educated Arabs are polyglots and those who are not that educated speak or can manage with English ,French and Yiddish too if they were Palestinians ..I am Egyptian I was taught French , English , then German beside Arabic and I use Egyptian dialect in my everyday life .

[@SHAKHSIYAA]

Nice to learn about ancient religions and history. This land is so blessed.

[@darshansingh4375]

They are the Good Samaritans who can bring peace to this region., Sat Sri Akal , Salam, Shalom, Shanti.

[@scented-leafpelargonium3366]

@darshansingh4375 : I agree totally (from Belfast, Northern Ireland) 🌿🕊

[@theb3654]

Been watching Abdullah for years in various media congrats on the marriage bud!

[@A.Musa76]

I was there in 1983. I had to learn my heritage. My dad side of the family is from Nablus he was originally a Samaritan but with the history in the past. They converted. We knew Aramaic and then Arabic. My cousin was the only one that can also speak Hebrew. I need to go back it’s been to long. The worst thing for me is I had to slaughter a lamb at the age of 8.

[@jeanettelebarron3306]

Yes, go back & visit 👏

[@ForeverRepublic]

Many Palestinians have Samaritian and Jewish roots. Hopefully this can lay the ground work for peace.

[@goldstarrocketeer1]

@Arif what anti-semitic garbage are you spewing

[@尤正瑋]

@Arif It's wrong... it's a fake propaganda. I am a Nort African Jew, and I am for sure a mix of Levantine and local Amazigh. But I can still trace a important part of my DNA from the Levant. More than 60% of the Israeli Jewish people have family connections to North Africa and the Middle East... Even those who come from Europe still have part of their DNA from the middle east. Everyone is mixed now, but as you know Palestinian people are also very mixed. They have Levantine, Turc, Greeks, Armenian, French, British, Arabs and other different ancestors... So at the end, the culture and heritage remains the most important thing

[@A.Musa76]

@Arif true, but they claim that they have ancestry roots from there. For some reason they don’t like the truth. There so stubborn when you bring them facts with history and DNA.

[@sandraleiva1633]

If the World 🌎 was filled with men like Abdullah, it would truly be a better place.

[@ef2718]

Inevitable adaptive behavior for a minority that dwindled down to 140 people by the end of the Ottoman empire.

[@sandraleiva1633]

@@ef2718 There is so adaptive behavior. Humans are messed up be it 10 or 1 billion. You racial eugenics are idiotic. He happens to be an understanding and calm person. I'm sure many aren't. I'm sure you don't qualify either. But if the World had his attitude we would coexist much better. People think if aliens come Earth would bind together to resist but I don't think so. There will always be the group that works with the aliens just to keep their place above other humans. That's not adaptive behavior that's human nature.

[@veronw3850]

@@ef2718 what?

[@ZeuzBluez]

What a beautiful peaceful religion and culture.

[@erm12341]

unlike islam

[@godfreyfortuin1504]

As a Christian mixed race South African I have the greatest respect for the Samaritan community. Our lord Yeshua when he was on earth spent time in the Samaritan community he also told the parable of the Good Samaritan. Abdallah is truely a good example of his community. Nasser I can empathize with you and your heartache to return to Jaffa.Our peoples houses and property was also taken a way by the apartheid government. Many of our old people died of heart sore. We pray that peace will come to the holy land.Abdallah our Messiah said that those that seek peace shall see The Face of G d..May the lord bless you thanks for this beautiful video

[@mukhtarjibril4473]

We wanna see peace for Middle East please Jews, Christians and Muslims you’re same guys we’re all from Abraham you own this land together please live with peace 😍😍😍 I’m Somali from Somali region of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 in Ethiopia there’s Muslims, Christians and Jews and we live peace and together cause we’re alla human with same blood 🩸 same bless

[@freepalestine7687]

Well imagine someone came less than a century ago and started kicking you out of your House and killing civilians and the government still Projects illegal settlements.

[@bisharGellowMahad]

I'm Kenyan Somali .. greeting my friend

[@ZviJ1]

@@freepalestine7687 That's exactly what happened to us Jews in Israel -- the Palis began migrating to our ancestral land to kick us out of our homes that were on soil we had just purchased from absentee landlords, while murdering Jews and the Israeli gov't agencies nevertheless .tolerates illegal PaliNazi squatting.

[@MrBoazhorribilis]

The Samaritan synagogue was destroyed and the ruins used to collect garbage. That is "respect" for you ! Jerusalem looked like that till 1967.

[@EliHaNavi]

This is the nature of Muslim Arabs. The Nablus Samaritans cower and were forced out of their own quarter in Nablus by their “friends” and “neighbors” the Muslim Arabs (who call themselves “Palestinians”). Abdullah Cohen just survives, but you can see that when the Arab told Abdullah “this is my neighborhood” (false), Abdullah didn’t reply anything. Samaritans gain protection from Israeli army (as bad as it proved to be recently), but they always live on the edge.

[@m.c.fromnyc2187]

Very interesting documentary about an ancient, ethnic Community that today counts less than 1000 members. Similarly to the Samaritans, many Mizrahi Jews have Arabic first names - Biblical names - such as Ibrahim, Mussa, Yakub, Salim, Abdoh... These names originated in the Hebrew Biblical names of Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Salomon, Obadiah...

[@gael1050]

THANKS TO ALL FOR WATCHING AND COMMENTING. Glad our documentary finds such a wide audience

[@c.kainoabugado7935]

It's great & very informative 👍🏾

[@glorialoo3165]

It’s very interesting how the peoples of the Middle East have one ancestor yet culturally so different.

[@inmyopinion651]

Congratulations Abood and best wishes for successful marriage. If everyone there had the attitude of the Samaritans I believe peace can break out.

[@annecohen8927]

I’m very impressed with the Good Samaritan’s ability to maintain a positive and peaceful relationship with the Palestinians. I respect their commitment to find a peaceful way to coexist with their neighbors as well as to choose Mt. Geritsu as their holy site, instead of Jerusalem.

[@Maghrebi25]

Great documentary! How sad for this community to be stuck in the middle Much love from Houston Texas 🫶🏼

[@AbrahamsBridges]

Shalom from Conroe, Texas!

[@silviaargent551]

Maybe it’s a blessing to be in the MIDDLE

[@A.M.E-K-87-10]

@@silviaargent551only if Americans knows

[@samikadar]

Good documentaries always. ❤️ from Kenya.

[@artetvdocumentary]

Thank you for watching! That's lovely to hear :)

[@lornamorgan3575]

A flicker of hope for tolerance, even.if it cannot be acceptance. Truly fascinating. We are all just humans that come in slightly different coloured packaging and customs. Celebrate our similarities and tolerate differences as long as they are causing no harm to others.

[@livingrateful]

👏👏👏💕

[@JupiterMoon777]

Samaritans lived in harmony with Palestinians for centuries, my God you people are so brainwashed. Matter of fact thd music and dancing in the video is Palestinian. Samaritans consider themselves Palestinian just like Jews in Germany were German. This is not rocket science.

[@Long-Ball-Larry]

​@@JupiterMoon777 Jews in Germany were not ethnicially Germans nor Slavic people. It's called diaspora for a reason. Karl Marx was called "the moor" by his fellow students at the University of Bonn, because of his swarthy complexion. His nationality and that of other Jews might have been German... until they were stripped of it. In imperial Russia there were three nationalities. 1.All-Rus (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian) 2.European (Poles, German Baltic) 3.Non-Europeans, the "Inorodtsy", like Uszbek, Kazakh, Tartar and on the bottom of them the Jews, the only group not able to gain citizenship. Jews are from the middle east habibi, always have been. Again, it's called diaspora for a reason. An Arab living in the diaspora in the USA, Europe or Australia is still an Arab and so are his children. Not so hard to grasp. The Palestinian identity on the other hand was adopted by Arabs only in the 1960s and there has never been a Palestinian nation. Before that the ones who were referred to as Palestinians were the Jews. Saramaritans have been around for thousands of years long before Arabs conquered the land. Palestinians are Arabized Jews and Samaritans (the indigenous people of the land) at best or Arabs and other Muslims from all over the Ottoman Empire. That's why it's called Jewish-Roman wars - not Palestinian-Roman wars. The Arch of Titus in Rome (which you can still visit today) depicts Jewish captives/slaves and booty such as the Menorah from the Jewish Temple. On the shields/standards of the Romans is written in Latin: "Legis Judaeorum" (the law of the Jews - the Torah), "Candelabrorem Judaeorum" (the Menorah of the Jews) and "Sacra Judaeorum" (the Holy of the Jews). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Titus The coins the Romans minted also show a Jewish prisoner and have the inscription "Judaea Capta", not "Palaestina Capta". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaea_Capta_coinage Not a word about the "Palestinians" - Romans under emperor Hadrian renamed the land of Israel and Judea Province to (Syria-) Palaestina as a punishment for the Jews after the Jewish-Roman wars. You can't change history or falsify it. No matter how hard you try with your historic revisionism. Who are the Palestinians by a Hamas leader kzbin.info/www/bejne/oqKWh5drZbiNhK8 “There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented.” - Awni Abd al-Hadi, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee to the British Peel Commission, 1937 "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." "For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan." -PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, in a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw.

[@ZviJ1]

@@Long-Ball-Larry Secondly, my irony meter is off the charts when I see a vile Nazoid miscreant like him pushing the corny lie that Samaritans lived in harmony with "Palestinians" for centuries, only to bemoan that *others* are....brainwashed. We don't need to do more than point to the affair in Shekhem a.k.a Nablus in 1841, where the local Muslims almost massacred the Samaritans, but this was staved off only thanks to Jewish humanitarian intervention. This a$$wipe you've responded to seems to try blaming this affair on the Ottoman occupiers.

[@daoudkamal7768]

⁠@@Long-Ball-Larry a diaspora isn’t always genetically or ancestrally linked in this case it’s more of a religious and somewhat an ethnic/cultural link more then anything. That is other then the fact that Palestinians have a direct link to the ancient people as in the different Jewish tribes …. The reality you are missing is that Palestinians were arabizied they aren’t actual Arab rather the native population who adopted Arabic language and some cultural aspect, but remained distinct of the other arab groups both culturally and in their local dialect that they spoke. And Jordanians like the Palestinian have a similar culture and heritage but again if you look at ancient history you would know why… because the people who lived in Palestine also have families who lived in Jordan, and both countries have in the past aspired to unite under a federation …. So it’s not weird rather kinda fits with the history of the region… (and none of the levant people were ever replaced but ofc Israelis love to believe that is true because they think Arabs are a monolith even though genetic evidence shows they are pretty much a distinct group and are native to the area…)

[@FarrukoR]

I thank God I was born and raised in the USA... These conflicts are crazy...

[@bethgriesauer3825]

There are insane conflicts in the USA, too!

[@sealove7607]

Lol, you should thank satan that you were born in USA 😈 nothing but greed

[@FarrukoR]

@@bethgriesauer3825 ACTUALLY all over the world.. we are humans... However, after i have traveled to more than 30 countries, I'M GLAD I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE..

[@moonshadowsong]

Yes good luck with stray bullets

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@FarrukoR These conflicts are conflicts DIRECTLY because of American politics and Western interventions. American specialty: Regime change. You are thankful but people who are victims of these conflicts and regime changes are most definitely NOT thankful. But it is your tax dollars at work here.

[@steviewonders3654]

Fascinating! How do you pick the topics of your documentaries?? ❤

[@artetvdocumentary]

Hi Stevie, thanks for your question! There's a lot of different sources (some documentaries we make in-house; others are submitted by external producers and directors) but your feedback can also determine what we create. So please do let us know if you have any ideas! 👍

[@ef2718]

@@artetvdocumentary It is obvious this one was made by an external source with certain agenda.

[@gael1050]

Thanks for watching and asking. I travelled in the region a few years ago and made a Photo report on the community for two European magazines. Later, I proposed ARTE to make the documentary. Luckily they gave a green light. I used to work on the Isareli wall of separation and had to spend quite a lot of time in the West bank and Palestinian cities. I had no idea whi the Samaritans were. I discovered the fascinating community almost by chance and met this wonderful guy Abood (Abdallah Cohen who is the main character in the movie).

[@veggiedisease123]

This is really cool, I saw this same guy in another documentary about the Samaritans and was curious how he's doing now.

[@Klopp2543]

Israel/Palestine should be united, secular, democratic,equal and if possible under Samaritan guidance, leadership etc

[@Mer1912]

Israel is on a good path, but the country is generally segregated by choice. Arabs and Jews, secular and religious, they all go to different schools and receive different upbringings

[@Klopp2543]

@@Mer1912 Israel is on a good path? How can segregation be by choice? What about the Palestinians are they content? They can't be wished away.

[@Mer1912]

@@Klopp2543 I am talking about Israel proper, not the West Bank or Gaza Strip, only where israeli law applies. There is no legal segregation, but generally speaking, most people live with their own ethnic groups and sects. 73% of the population is Jewish, but the Jewish population is almost equally split between “secular” and “traditional and orthodox.” The secular, traditional, and “modern orthodox” populations intermix all the time, and they do business with and live near by the “Arabs Israelis.” But there are certain neighborhoods that are very religious, and some people from there don’t like outsiders. These are the “ultra-orthodox” Jews. Not all of them, but many reject the secular world. They are the ones pushing for Gender/sex segregation in public. The Arab population is mostly Muslim (85%), and they are all assumed religious. You can’t be “secular” and “Muslim,” you see? At least not everywhere. In Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, the Palestinian-Israelis are very unique from other Palestinian citizens of Israel. They speak Hebrew at home, and live next door to Jews. Almost everywhere else, Arab Palestinians choose to live in Arab neighborhoods, whether Christian or Muslim. There are also the “Druze people,” they were once considered Muslim heretics, but now they are their own separate faith. They are very huge supporters of Israel, and actually fought alongside the Jewish forces during the civil war in 1947. Israel is a democratic state, not a perfect one. I think it’s stupid, it’s far from American republicanism. They have so many elections, and so many prime ministers, you never know who is leading the country. The representation in parliament is proportional to the demographics of the country’s citizenry.

[@asmasm9736]

@@Mer1912 its not on a good path, thr extremist right wing are polling in higher numbers than leftists & Palestinian parties, israel even tried to ban a party that called for a democratic state & full real equality few weeks ago

[@Mer1912]

@@asmasm9736 it is a democratic state. The issue is whether or not it should be a “Jewish state.” The same way Iran and Pakistan are “Islamic republics,” but still have non-Muslim citizens, no? Most Jews in Israel want to live in a country that respects Judaism, not recogbize. They want a culturally Jewish country, the same way the Palestinians want an Arab state, where they can speak Arabic and where Islam is respected at the state level.

[@dr.r.chowdhury6539]

We read about Samaritans in the scriptures, but here are the real-life living Samaritans. I hope generous philanthropists will help to restore these ancient Samaritan synagogues and their old city. Thank you for this documentary.

[@simko8665]

I was in Nablus in 1988 on my way up to the mountain of Eival, the cursed mountain.

[@maisobh9390]

This is Palestine the land of peace and tranquility where all people from all religions live together and share same rights....where Jerusalem is the capital city of Palestine.

[@davidtrak2679]

Hiya, George Orwell

[@maisobh9390]

@@davidtrak2679 exactly that's Zionism for you 👍

[@davidtrak2679]

@@maisobh9390 Nope, Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to their own homeland. Arab Supremacism is where Arabs deserve all the land between Iraq and the Maghreb, all to themselves.

[@maisobh9390]

@@davidtrak2679 oh I've never known that Zionism is same as Judaism! Please double check 👍

[@davidtrak2679]

@@maisobh9390 Wrong again. Judaism is an ethnoreligious religion, preaching worship of God to Jews. Zionism is a societal movement, preaching that Jews should go back where they came from - the Land of Israel.

[@judysteadman799]

Precious thousand years old, OMG What has this war done to sacred places and people 🙏 🙏 🙏 prayers to these people, 🙏

[@benvad9010]

Samaritans have earned their respect and reputation because they behave in a true and just way.

[@cptspok]

The good Samaritans....still good and generous people , since biblical times....

[@needmoreramsay]

Beautiful story and people.

[@saintz177]

AMAZING DOCUMENTRY PEACE TO ALL..🌹

[@samflower31]

Samaritans have been called good for centuries, we all can see why. They are good, loving people.

[@AbrahamsBridges]

Excellent documentary! Thanks for sharing! 😃

[@dbetesh]

I think Israelis and Palestinians both agree that we want the Samaritan community to thrive and be successful

[@y.l7455]

Palestinians? Because of the Arabs the Samaritans almost cease to exist. If not the Jews and then Israel - they would actually cease to exist.

[@ZviJ1]

To any extent that the Palis want this, it's only for propaganda purposes, to dupe public opinion into believing that "Palestine" is a peaceful country, respectful and tolerant of all religions and peoples who aren't Muslim.

[@613Ruvis]

It’s good to see you showing the Israeli settler peace activists . Very important initiative . Also Samaritans believe to be the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. And acc to our Rabbis in the Talmud, they are descendants of the resettled people from Cutta , Iran ( during the Assyrian conquest they resettled populations to prevent rebellions ). I have a video about them on my channel

[@elijahcaon8094]

Lol, uh they were there long ago

[@elijahcaon8094]

Samaritans are indigenous. They're not Jewish settlers. Settlers are a huge problem.

[@ZviJ1]

@@elijahcaon8094 They pose a tremendous problem to the PaliNazi and other hostile Arab attempts to make Samaria and Judea Judenrein, much to the dismay of all anti-Zionists,

[@Jamuna-Atma]

Shaloha Abdullah. What a good Samaritan. 🙏

[@stephennicolay1940]

A wonderful presentation.

[@artetvdocumentary]

Thanks!

[@stephennicolay1940]

I will be visiting Mount Gerizim for the first time in 2023. I hope I will meet Abood then.

[@sanjayvhawal2404]

NICE documentary. sanjay India

[@artetvdocumentary]

Thank you!

[@yanpariztky4646]

You should ask why they were a million people in the past and now less than 1000.

[@charles2521]

There were thousands of them before modern "Israel".

[@yanpariztky4646]

@charles2521 Their numbers have been rising since 1948. They were killed and forced to convert by the Islamist colonizers of the area.

[@charles2521]

@@yanpariztky4646 You're not deceiving anyone. Jews take the Talmud too seriously, thinking that all Goyim are stupid and easily manipulated. There were thousands of true Israelites before Israel, now there are only a few hundred, and they are decreasing every day. And between what Jews say about Palestinians and what true Israelites say, I will always believe the true Israelites every day. Sorry, but anyone who knows you knows that the truth is more likely to be the opposite of what you say. And if you're going to make racist attacks against me, at least pick the right target because I'm not Muslim, Arab, Iranian or anything like that.

[@lukecage2131]

@@yanpariztky4646 their people have been massacred by the byzantines actually not by the ottomans as mentioned by the samaritan guy abood in one of the videos in this series. why do you lie?

[@y.l7455]

​@@charles2521 There were less than 150 Samaritans left alive in the beginning of the 20th century because of Muslims(Turks&Arabs) oppression. It was the Jews and then later Israel to save them.

[@raquelc7517]

We Jews and the Samaritans (Shomronim) are brothers and sisters. In Israel they are a protected minority because we share an ancient Torah tradition and they are our sister religion. May Samaritans continue to increase their numbers, Ken Yehi Ratzon!

[@asmasm9736]

We’re Palestinians not related to your murderous state.

[@meenawerda7521]

Most israeli Jews are not indigenous to historic Palestine 🇵🇸 (river to sea). Samaritans are closest to Palestinians genetically and culturally.

[@aylitinaruz7961]

From the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea, Palestine will be free and liberated. Zionist Colonizers out, Land back to indigenous Palestinians 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@yurichtube1162]

@@meenawerda7521 Get over yourself, you speak nonsense.

[@Adit-sl3cd]

Youre not jews people your face is like east asian

[@hanna.hochman7149]

Very interesting and enjoyable story to watch thank god pieceful for a change thank you

[@sameers4312]

What a wonderful documentary!

[@EzraB123]

This small community could do a lot for peace between Arabs and Jews.

[@JupiterMoon777]

They lived with Palestinians for centuries like brothers. Palestine was for all religions.

[@ZviJ1]

@@JupiterMoon777 You seem to have been brainwashed by some laughable false narrative where "Palestine" was a Muslim state and a pluralistic society. You even claimed in some other comment that it existed for at least a thousand years. This is an example of what yo-yos end up believing. I prefer real history.

[@EzraB123]

@@JupiterMoon777 Tell that to the Jews whose family members died in mobs in Hebron, Tiberias, etc.

[@EliHaNavi]

Another western peacenik deluded into Lala land. Abood’s parents and ancestors are from Nablus, aka Shechem. That city had been theirs for thousands of years. In the last centuries, however, more and more of them were forced and pressured to convert to Islam. Many were massacred, killed or had to leave. Do you see that they’re now not even living in the city of Nablus itself? Their former synagogue in the quarter of the city known as “Samaritan quarter” is turned to trash and the neighborhood is now fully Arab.. They live under Israeli protection outside their former city. And if it were not for a) them pretending to be Palestinians and 2) the Israeli military - their last remnants would’ve been annihilated already

[@SapphireZeev36]

32:35 it really is love that knows no borders

[@natadodo1564]

Love your documentary. Can you also please do a documentry of the Bedouin living in Israel. Just interested in their way of living under Israeli government.

[@ef2718]

Here, fresh from the oven, published today kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3bXiJhra9ebqZY

[@natadodo1564]

@Arif Source please? I thought Arabs was originally from Arabia migrated to as far as Ancient Phoenicia , Assyria, Mesopotamia etc..

[@Mer1912]

@@natadodo1564 the bedouin or “original Arabs,” are the Arabs that have been traveling between the Negev and Arabia for almost 7,000 years. The “Palestinian Arabs” are mostly the descendants of the surviving Jewish and Samaritan populations, but they also have Greek/Roman ancestry, and of course arab ancestry. Many bedouin tribes settled down and integrated with non-bedouin villagers.

[@veronw3850]

@@Mer1912 lmao pls sthu. You’re a new invader into the land. Jewish religion is just colonization and same as Romans. Palestinians have been there for over 12,000years, the oldest city in the world is Jericho in the Palestinian West Bank. I would SPlT on your face if a slimey coward like you were in front of me.

[@EliHaNavi]

I don’t envy the Samaritans living near Nablus. Forced to cower and play nice with the people who are just one or two misunderstandings away from massacring them. No wonder they moved out of Nablus, their very home and still have to play along and claim they are “Palestinians who have lived with Palestinians for… 3600 years.” Why not even say you lived with them for 10000 years, too?

[@EmeraldGrover20]

EliHaNavi It seems like the Samaritans are in good standing with their Palestinian neighbors you could learn a thing or two from them.

[@lavender5765]

They wear the original Babylonian costume.I believe that the origin of the Syrian and North African and Turkish sufi costumes is a Samaritan Babylonian Jew.

[@Shakspier]

May H”M bless the Samaritans with peace and freedom from the Zionist occupiers. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@ZviJ1]

May God bless the Jews and Samaritans with freedom and peace from the PaliNazi occupiers. Free the Land of Israel a.k.a. Palestine from PaliNazi occupation!

[@613Ruvis]

It’s regretful to see so much venom and hatred, lies and cheap political maneuvering , when this video is about an ancient community that predates Islam, and still uses the original Hebrew script in their Torah. Samaritans are very closely related with the Jews . Peace upon those seeking peace. And may the hatred and ignorance vanish with those who are spreading its venom

[@ZviJ1]

@@613Ruvis Well it's not the original Hebrew script, but an offshoot of the late paleo-Hebrew of the mid 2nd Temple era (a fact long ago established by the specialists that even the chief Samaritan scholar, Binyamim Sedaqa, conceded already decades ago). The original Hebrew script is known as "proto-Sinaitic" and if you find it on Google you'll realize it's quite different from the Samaritan script. Anyway.... there would scarcely be hate and venom underneath uploads like this one if it weren't for the presence of Arab and non-Arab antisemites.

[@613Ruvis]

@@ZviJ1 that’s correct . What I meant to say was it’s the closest we have today to the ancient Hebrew , which is still in use .

[@markdeeb4346]

After all there is hope just love to see all get along regardless of religion that was impressive 👌👍

[@rosaliegutierrez8923]

The Good Samaritan should multiply we love you....

[@omarlittle-hales8237]

Shalom, Salam, Peace. The World Needs To Have 60% Green Energy With 40% Fossil Fuels, With Reduction Within A Timescale, To Eventually Going All Green.

[@davidtrak2679]

Palestine huh? The Samaritans are descended from Israelites, keep kosher, sabbath and read the Torah, and never left the land. Congrats, Abood Cohen, my brother from another mother

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

To be fair, all credible historians acknowledge that there's also been a continuous demographic Jewish presence in the LOI since AD135.

[@michaelalek6490]

@@zeeveijonezevijaione9289 The Samaritans are not Jooz, they’re the real Israelites

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

@@michaelalek6490 In your neo-Nazi movement what do you call the children already born to Samaritan men and gals from the Ukraine? "The real Israelites"? Go masturbate on a high-res image of your spiritual mentor, Adolf Hitler.

[@JupiterMoon777]

They are the Palestinian Jews even before the creation of the state of Israel. When Christ was around which was more than 2000 years ago, the Holy land was called Palestine, up until 1948. You cannot erase more than 2000 years of its inhabitants who identified as Palestinians, regardless of what their religion was.

[@JupiterMoon777]

The US is not even 250 years old, yet you recognize those hillbillies as "American", yet Palestine existed for more than 2000 years, yet you scream "no such thing as Palestine"! Just wow, the level of hypocrisy and denial just like the holocaust deniers scum of the earth, no difference whatsoever!!

[@SDMervin]

❤❤❤nice video

[@bennymorais7513]

HOLY Heavenly LORD Jesus Christ gave Blessings 🙏 for Samaritans people

[@JewelRocks123]

They are essentially a hybrid between Arab Muslims and Jews. Their dressing, looks, mostly resembles Arab Muslims, but their faith is more similar to Judaism. Even their names like Abdullah Cohen sounds like Half Jewish Half Muslim.

[@antigenocide399]

They dress in Arabic clothes, also the name Abdullah could indicate an Arab speaking jew, there are so many coptic christians who are named Abdullah, specially in the 20th century.

[@stephenfisher3721]

There used to be many Jews who lived in Arab lands. They spoke Arabic and were part of Arabic culture.

[@stephenfisher3721]

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, former chief rabbi of Israel's Sephardic Jewish community and spiritual head of the ultra-orthodox Shas party was born Abdullah Youssef in Baghdad, Iraq.

[@JewelRocks123]

@@stephenfisher3721 There were many Jewish converts in Arab lands like Dhu Nawas.

[@Satoshi-yd7lj]

Palestinian Arabs themselves are a huge "hybrid" population.

[@khansahb-o4e]

Does Abdullah Cohen make his living from being in documentaries? I keep seeing this guy

[@MacrobianNomad]

No joke I've seen him in two documentaries in the past few years 😭

[@davidtrak2679]

He's a tour guide. Out of 800, I guess he somewhat stands out (from a well of family, society wise, as well)

[@AboodCohen]

Haha not really I never got paid to do this , would be a fun job though ;)

[@Cataracts203]

@@AboodCohen They're just hating bro. Keep representing your people

[@khansahb-o4e]

@@AboodCohen No hate. It's just sort of funny. But hey, I do appreciate your passion for introducing your people to the world.

[@Benlove57598]

The original Israelis ❤

[@hulksmash26]

💩💩💩💩💩💩

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Samaritans are real life Israelites in this modern time. I conduct DNA tests and Samaritan DNA, when compared to Iron Age ancient DNA samples from Human remains unearthed in Israel, Samaritans are nearly entirely of that ancient DNA unearthed in Israel. Another surprise, Palestinian Christians are also very genetically similar to Samaritans and very genetically similar to the ancient DNA unearthed in Israel. Palestinian Muslims are predominantly of that ancient DNA, but have a moderate amount of DNA admixture from Egyptians and Arabian types. It is recorded that the ancient population of Israel/Palestine were mostly converted to Christianity by the Byzantine era and then to Islam by the Islamic eras (with some remaining Christian). Samaritans are those that were able to retain their ancient religion (and thus identity) while Palestinians did not. If you think about it, Samaritans are just Palestinians that retained their ancient identity and religion.

[@ZviJ1]

You conduct DNA tests? So what's the name of your company or business and where is it located? I'm sure you've got nothing to hide and you'll divulge the details, right? (Seriously)

[@garisdanlukis8313]

Why do i have a feeling that samaritan jews are the righteous jews. The similarity of their practices to Islam shows that we worship the same God.

[@stephenfisher3721]

There is only one God.

[@ZviJ1]

Because you're a doofus, who doesn't know that people who reject the Jewish Bible's sanctity and do not consider Jslm. anything special are not Jews at all.

[@drfudgecookie5800]

They are not jews at all. It is a different religion. The documentary said this itself. Dont mix it up.

[@Satoshi-yd7lj]

​@@drfudgecookie5800they are an offshoot of Judaism, descendents of the tribes of Israel. Meaning, yes, they are Jews ethnically.

[@parsamcjacob5557]

any lead how can we get in touch with "Mount Gerizim International Peace Centre" or any other Samaritan organisation?

[@ibrahimsuleiman8473]

There use to be 2million of them in Palestine and Jordan,most converted to Islam and Christianity.

[@sammshroo3494]

by force.

[@ZviJ1]

The individual with the most knowledge of this subject, their scholar Binyamim Sedaqa, has written many times that their demographic climax was 1.5 million.

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@sammshroo3494 Not necessarily... The Ottomans levied heavy taxes on non-muslims, so for many it was a financial decision. And when did you ever hear of Christianity being forced on anyone? What an ignorant person you are!

[@ZviJ1]

@@JupiterMoon777 Sheesh Naziboy, you really do think non-Christians are all naive and dumb. Christinsanity has been forced on many millions, in almost every place that Xtians have reached on earth. And deliberate over taxing of non-Muslims is a form of economic force that many succumbed to under such duress. But none of this matters to some Naziboy a$$wipe who blames only Jews for wronging others -- usualy on false charges.

[@s..e.k...12o77]

I love Samaritans .

[@מזלנימן]

ישראל ישראל ישראל ישראל.

[@ZQH7]

32:17 what's this song name please?? Anyone!!

[@moeynola6747]

2:40 the so called choosen people can learn from the Samaritans on being good neighbors

[@paradox6604]

first learn it yourself unchosen.

[@bogumilaskowron2680]

Exactly,if they are chosen are chosen by shatan

[@paradox6604]

@@bogumilaskowron2680 shathan is someone you know

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

The original and biblical name of "Nablus" is *Shechem.* The term Nablus is an European colonial add on from the Romans who wanted to erase the Jewish connection to the land. (It didn't work for them :) The Romans also called *Jerusalem,* our eternal capital - "Aelia Capitolina". And they renamed our ancestral homeland - *Judea* to "Syria Palaestina".

[@asmasm9736]

Shechem is only a small part of nablus, and jews ruled the land for only 400 years, it doesn’t mean you can occupy the lands of Palestinians & murder them

[@suriaaminova6887]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮💩💩💩💩💩🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

🇮🇱💖🇮🇱💙🇮🇱💜🇮🇱💚🇮🇱💛🇮🇱

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

@@asmasm9736 Filastin is only a very young part of the Arab presence in the Land of Israel, and Jews have returned to rule their ancestral land. It doesn't mean you can occupy the lands of Jews and murder them.

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@zeeveijonezevijaione9289 The US is not even 250 years old, yet you recognize those hillbillies as "American", yet Palestine existed for more than 2000 years, yet you scream "no such thing as Palestine"! Just wow, the level of hypocrisy and denial just like the holocaust deniers scum of the earth, no difference whatsoever!!

[@JacobIX99]

LOL, I recognize in the video a Samaritan who was in the same class as me in high school.

[@stephenfisher3721]

Do you live in Nablus?😊

[@stephenfisher3721]

It is said that many Muslim families in Nablus are descended from Samaritans.

[@ForeverRepublic]

Genetically Palestinians, Jews and Samaritians are mostly the same. All with Hebrew roots. Probably 50% of the "Arabs" in the West Bank had Samaritian and Jewish ancestors that converted during Caliphate rule.

[@rasheedsadeq5684]

We cannot be sure, maybe just the people around Nablus

[@wewenang5167]

not if you are a khazarian Ashkenazi jews that came from Europe, most of them has loss their jewish DNA and made up of fake khazarian jews who were Turkic tribes that converted to Judaism. The original Jews all look like Arabs and have same DNA as Arabs and Samaritan and if you go to the Yemeni Jews and Iraqi jews community now you can see how the original jews look like, they are the oldest of the remaining pure blood jews in the world. After the conquest of Jerusalem by Caliph Umar and the Muslim, most of the Jews in Jerusalem has been killed or banished by the Roman Christians and Caliph Umar had to bring several family of Jews from Yemen to repopulated the Jewish community in Jerusalem.

[@PodcastCentral333]

@@wewenang5167 Wrong I am askenazi Jew and my family comes from the Middle East. There was zero Khazar Turkic dna found in European Jews population

[@ForeverRepublic]

@@wewenang5167 You not have the slightest idea what you're talking about. First, there is NO evidence to support the idea that Ashkenazim are Khazarian. There is also NO evidence that a Khazar conversion to Judaism ever happened. The core of what became Ashkenazi Jews first settled on Rhodes (Greece), in Italy, southern France and the Rhine River, it what is now Germany, and there is a mountain of written and physical evidence of those communities. The European ancestry that Ashkenazi Jews do have isn't Turkic, it's Greek and Italian. The rest (70%-90%) is identical to Sephardi Jews, Palestinians, Samaritians and Syrians. The largest genetic study ever done on Ashkenazi Jews was done at Wayne State University in the U.S and it completely debunked the Khazar hypothesis. It has no support among historians. Only delusional pan-Arabist still cling to it. Link to that study: digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol85/iss6/9/ Ever sense Israel became a country there has been an effort to white wash the Ashkenazi. ALL the EVIDENCE suggests that Ashkenazi are overwhelmingly middle eastern. There is no such thing as "original Jews." I know personally Samaritians with red and blonde hair. My mother is a 100% Syrian Jew from Aleppo and she also has blonde hair. My uncles have black hair. The Iraqi and Yemenite communities are no more or less "Jewish" than Ashkenazi. Genetically Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews are identical when compared with non-Jews. Levantine people vary in skin tone and hair color. There are blonde Palestinians and brown Jews and vice versa. And there are many ethnic groups indigenous to the middle east who aren't Arabs: Jews, Samaritians, Maronites, Arameans, Assyrians, Persians, Yazidis, Kurds, etc. Stop with the Arab-centric nonsense, they came to Jerusalem as invaders.

[@suzanhargreaves]

@@PodcastCentral333 really so why do AshkeNazi jews have zero semitic DNA

[@nuqwestr]

Samartians are not "Palestinian", they predate that Roman sobriquet. No Jesus or Allah, either, only Moses. "Pale" is Greek for "Wrestle", as Israel also means "Wrestle", and there is no letter "P" in Arabic.

[@ApproachingPerfection]

falastine

[@avtaras]

Thank you for being more accurate and not just blindly citing the Philistine etymology

[@A.M.E-K-87-10]

There’s letter P in Arabic. B ب P پ However, Palestine is written in English, but when written in Arabic we use F letter. Also there’s no “S” letter in Hebrew so where did ISRAEL came from lol?

[@nuqwestr]

@@A.M.E-K-87-10 There was no "P" in Arabic when the indo-European word Palestine was created and the region defined. The word is ancient Greek, came from there, not the other way around. The word is a cultural appropriation, an act of colonialism. So is this إسرائيل and Israel is the English translation of this ישראל, the "Shin" is part of the Hebrew alphabet. In Hebrew there is the letter called “Samech” written so: ס. This letter always pronounced like “S”. There is another letter, called “Shin” (ש). Merneptah Stele (c. 1209 BCE): This ancient Egyptian inscription, dating to the reign of Pharaoh Merneptah, mentions "Israel". Israel predates the Greek word Palestine by almost 1,000 years.

[@A.M.E-K-87-10]

@@nuqwestr فلسطين

[@lizhyink5636]

Does anyone know how these people are now? Are they currently safe? Did they survive?

[@dancocohen]

yeah there are doing fine, just little problems of supplies and school

[@shiningstar7775]

They don't live in Gaza. Most live in the West Bank. So yes they're safe. They're effectively the South African equivalent of 'Cape Coloureds'.

[@khaNab123]

@@shiningstar7775 Lol what are you talking about.. The Samaritans are art of the Palestinian fabric in Nablus. Palestine is multi-religious, multicultural country where Jews, Muslims and Christians lived peacefully until the israeli zionists arrived from Europe and started with their illegal ethnic cleansing, colonization and occupation. Ask any Palestinian, they'll tell the same exact thing.

[@y.l7455]

​@@khaNab123 Only 150 Samaritans were still alived because of Arabs only 100 years ago. Stfu with your illusions.

[@khaNab123]

@@y.l7455 Samaritans today consider themselves Palestinians. So how about you stfu with your ignorance

[@claudiaruthcarbajal5694]

Que hermoso 💙 Shehmaa los Bendiga y de muchos hijos 🙌🏽es mi mayor deseo

[@adriancalin8688]

E LOC pentru toata lumea

[@e.k874]

long live Palestine

[@nickmatatyahu9464]

Palestine is going to the hell 😂

[@ZviJ1]

long live the Land of Israel a.k.a. Palestine. Free it of PaliNazi occupation.

[@jsac3817]

jajajaja

[@eden55272]

​@@jsac3817Samartian are original indegenoius jeews,not mixed with others

[@finecon8391]

To me, Samaritans seem true and genuine Israelites.

[@TheCanaaniteUnionist]

All Israelites are “true and genuine” quit it with your orientalism

[@judaismtreasures9606]

Better to keep quiet than to speak nonsense

[@RaphiAB]

Stop being ignorant, both Samaritans and Jews acknowledge that They are from Levi tribe and Jews from Judah tribe Jews call the land “Judea and Samaria” (Judea in the south, Samaria in the north) and not “west bank”

[@ZviJ1]

@@RaphiAB The notion that the Jews are just from the Judah tribe is Christian tripe. All the Israelites who accepted the sanctity of Jerusalem and the Prophets & Writings, regardless of residence place and tribal affiliation during the Second Temple era, eventually got labeled "Jews". The Southern Kingdom included 4 tribes from the outset. Every ancient Israelite tribe was represented among the Israelites whose progeny are the Jews. Also the Samaritans use the designations Samaria and Judea.

[@reynaldotr30]

It's the best quesillo the Tahiti paste or cream

[@Mykaelous]

They make the best Tahini in the world.

[@AboodCohen]

Truth

[@eden55272]

Samartian are original indegenoius jeews,not mixed with others

[@kayedal-haddad]

What other differences are there between Judaism and the Samaritans?

[@numbersstationsarchive194]

Samaritans don't believe in the Oral Torah, Tanakh, Talmud. They are not considered to be Jewish.

[@ZviJ1]

Other than what? Their rejection of the Masoretic Torah? Most of the Jewish Bible? Jerusalem and the Temple Mount? There are various additional "technical" differences, such as that Samaritanism maintain that it's forbidden to have fast days apart from the Day of Atonement.

[@MrLantean]

@@numbersstationsarchive194 The Jews are descended from the last 2 remaining Tribes of Israel: Benjamin and Judah. They were formerly known as Judeans. The Samaritans are considered as the living descendants of the 10 Lost Tribes of Israel. Some of the 10 Lost Tribes members were allowed to remain in the former kingdom of Israel to maintain local infrastructures while the rest got deported throughout the Assyrian Empire. Israel then repopulated with migrants from the rest of the Assyrian Empire where they intermarried with the remaining Israelites. They embraced Israelite culture and religion, and their descendants were the Samaritans. However, to the Jews, the Samaritans are descended from pagans that converted to Israelite religion while embracing Israelite culture and have no Israelite blood in their veins.

[@Blitznstitch2]

When they read the ancient texts, Bible or Torah, it’s their tribal story. Jesus would look similar to them.

[@johnmann8659]

@blitznstitch2 John 4:22

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

Yeaa! The Samaritans love Israeli Hebrew music. 😊🇮🇱🎶

[@JupiterMoon777]

I actually heard Arabic music and they danced middle eastern style LOL

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Interesting.

[@laanaa26]

I think the Zionists needs to take good notes from the Samaritans.

[@abiryaakovalmoznino3395]

As a Jew I couldn’t agree more

[@akivagardner9749]

'Foreign tourists: Israelis and Palestinians' confusing.

[@ef2718]

Samaritans are Israelis. Israelis don't belong here. Now settle that logic.

[@ZviJ1]

@Arif Identify as such because they don't have a choice -- it's a means of survival. That's why they're friendly toward you, but as usual, you prefer to believe that this friendliness means love. You're mistaken about it. If the Samaritans were as numerous as the Jews and had their own state, they would hold Palis on a very short leash.

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@ef2718 You are conflating Israelites with Israelis, the 2 are completely different and not the same thing.

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@ZviJ1 Samaritans identified as Palestinians for centuries upon centuries and never had any problems with their Palestinian Christian and Muslim brothers.

[@ZviJ1]

@@JupiterMoon777 This is totally false, the product of reading PaliNazi propaganda. If you could pull your head out of your posterior and learn history from credible sources, you'd realize that nobody in the Land of Israel identified as "Palestinian" and that both local Muslims and Christians, but mostly the former, caused the Samaritans lots of problems, such as persecution, murder and massacres. I'm not going to bet you'll take a breathing space away from your indoctrination, much less long enough to notice the actual historical facts. And I'm not conflating anything; this is merely your lie emitted here.

[@mikeySHBK]

its such a disgrace calling it "of palestine". They are the indigenous people of the land. Palestinians are not. The land is called Samaria. Not Palestine. Their ancestors literally were killed by the (greek) philistines 3000 years ago.

[@Youngblade117]

no they werent killed off. Majority of them converted to Christianity and Islam. Which in turn led them to become hellenized and later ARABICIZED.They voluntarily chose to adopt this new religion and the customs of the people following it. They are of the same blood line of people that lived there 2000 years ago . In other words majority of the people in Palestine have Israelite ancestry but are just Muslim . Now they are being forcefully kicked off by their cousins who were exiled 2000 years ago . Remember that even after the bar Kokchba rvolt , the samaritan community was left unaffected until centuries later by byzantine emperors. Israelite-Christians and many non-rabbinical Israelites in the province of Judah ("non rabbinical jews " and "jewish Christians") did not take part in the revolt because the firmly believed that Bar Kochba was a false messiah.

[@mikeySHBK]

@@Youngblade117 the philsitines were absolutely killed off. They disappeared around 2500 years ago

[@truthseeker-nv6ny]

The good samaritan

[@LizzyFerretOfficial]

Why don’t we just give all the disputed sites to the Samaritans to control and that way no one can complain: actual Israelis with dual citizenship, they’re going to want to preserve the sites that each side find holy, but they’re aren’t going to care about the baggage. Get them to draw up the borders for each community to live within and again, no-one can complain - it’s not like outsiders came and brokered a semi-solution but rather Israelis who know each community. Abdullah’s little group of people could be the ones to save this region from complete annihilation.

[@y.l7455]

There are less than 1,000 Samaritans living today.

[@channelone3773G]

They worship face towards Mt Gerizim in Shechem ... Not Mt Zion ,They're believed to be lost tribes of ancient northern kingdom of israel, capital was Samaria as They're named after...

[@janbelljara4495]

The Good Samaritan... Jesus said that...therefore God recognizes you.

[@theworldisavampire3346]

Inbreeding is a HUGE problem for this community.

[@anjaseidl4003]

Did I get it right? Peace making is illegal?

[@zubeidamohamed2916]

Sad.. As a South African Muslim I can visit Al Aqsa anytime. But the Palestinian cannot. Let peace prevail Insha Allah

[@d-simpleexplorer9943]

Kawin juga si abdul ternyata wkakakaaka