Palestine: The Samaritans' Struggle I ARTE.tv Documentary

[@artetvdocumentary]

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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

[@Alex-ez1lk]

So this is what a good Samaritan looks like.

[@7kingjames33]

Lol

[@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

[@NarnianLady]

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

[@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?

[@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.

[@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.

[@ZeuzBluez]

What a beautiful peaceful religion and culture.

[@erm12341]

unlike islam

[@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

[@AKAK-WiQ-EX-8-1-9-7]

@@silviaargent551only if Americans knows

[@inmyopinion651]

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

[@gael1050]

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

[@c.kainoabugado7935]

It's great & very informative 👍🏾

[@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

[@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

[@AKAK-WiQ-EX-8-1-9-7]

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]

@@AKAK-WiQ-EX-8-1-9-7 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.

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@@nuqwestr فلسطين

[@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).

[@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.

[@needmoreramsay]

Beautiful story and people.

[@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.

[@Jamuna-Atma]

Shaloha Abdullah. What a good Samaritan. 🙏

[@sanjayvhawal2404]

NICE documentary. sanjay India

[@artetvdocumentary]

Thank you!

[@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.

[@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]

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[@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.

[@SapphireZeev36]

32:35 it really is love that knows no borders

[@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 .

[@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.

[@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

[@rosaliegutierrez8923]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@parsamcjacob5557]

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

[@claudiaruthcarbajal5694]

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

[@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.

[@bennymorais7513]

HOLY Heavenly LORD Jesus Christ gave Blessings 🙏 for Samaritans people

[@Yaqubsalama]

bliblical name of nablus is sechem

[@laurenceskinnerton73]

Interesting.

[@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.

[@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...

[@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.

[@andromilk2634]

You seem to be insulted. Instead of misinterpreting and overinterpreting everything, you could ask them their view instead of listening to your own stories only. You are a newcomer in this region, you have a lot to learn by the looks of it.

[@andromilk2634]

@@EmeraldGrover20 I was responding to the other user, sorry for being unclear.

[@truthseeker-nv6ny]

The good samaritan

[@jaypatchy3889]

The palestines or palestine or samaratins palestine was never mentioned in the bible or quran .

[@tarekabdallaelshingeiti196]

Actually samaritans were mentioned in both the quran and the bible

[@Long-Ball-Larry]

@@tarekabdallaelshingeiti196 But not as "Palestinian Samaritans". They're simply Samaritans as the land they're living on is Samaria, which was part of the kingdom of Israel, as the Samaritans, like the Jews are from Israelite tribes (and the Palestinians are basically too - Arabized Jews and Samaritians). A conflict between blood brothers.

[@smileyface7054]

@@Long-Ball-Larry the word Palestinian don't exists in quran

[@Long-Ball-Larry]

@@smileyface7054If you say so habibi. I didn't claim otherwise.... so not sure why you're telling me.

[@ZviJ1]

@@Long-Ball-Larry It's more complex than that.... only about 60% of the Palis descend from Arabized Samaritans and Jews. The rest trace back to Johnny-come-laties from various other lands, as far away as the Caucasus and Bosnia, that have no Israaelite ancestry. This is borne out by many of their surnames that betray their places of origin from other lands.

[@abiryaakovalmoznino3395]

As a Jew I hope abdallah’s can live back in Jaffa it’s rlly not fair what they did

[@Mykaelous]

They make the best Tahini in the world.

[@AboodCohen]

Truth

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

*Free Judea!* 🕎💪

[@TheMsYemo]

❤❤❤

[@APilgrimInAFallenWorld2030]

All the separation of the people of the One true God Almighty… He will redeem all His people and bring them together in the last days. He will make all things new and He will be our King and we shall be His people! The suffering is for His purpose and His promises are true and will come to pass! God called His people Israel and though there are divisions today, He will gather His people in the last days! All honor and glory and praise be to God Almighty!

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

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

[@JupiterMoon777]

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

[@somaliland247]

Ancient Hebrew is very close to Arabic.

[@sammshroo3494]

That's because ancient hebrew and arabic came from aramaic.

[@Adit-sl3cd]

No but more close to ancient of Phonecian (extinct language in Lebanon)

[@Adit-sl3cd]

@@sammshroo3494 no aramic, Arabic and Hebrew is different languages, but still related

[@JacobIX99]

You didn't know? both Semitic

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@JacobIX99 Antisemites usually don't know this

[@emmanuelameyaw9735]

Please move al asqa to Mecca. Don't built your mosque on someone's holy site...and don't turn churches and catherals into mosque. Respect others and their religion...it will lead to peace.

[@ZviJ1]

If the Fakestinians wanted peace, they'd not try to hinder Jewish rights at the Temple Mt. environment. This is the least they could do to prove peaceful intentions, but they're seeking Nazoid genocide.

[@nichasakul9173]

You should go back to Poland and Hungary. You are not from this land.

[@ZviJ1]

@@nichasakul9173It's very rich when a coward -- probably a white European -- who doesn't show his/her face and divulge his/her national &religious affiliation, purports to know that strangers are foreigners to some land, lived once in some country and urges them to "return" to it.

[@natadodo1564]

Does Samaritan are followers of Judaism?

[@ef2718]

Very roughly speaking, yes, same base religion, language, ancient holidays, same holiest book. The main difference is the holiest place of Jews is in Jerusalem Jewdea/Judea on Temple Mount while the holiest place for Samaritans is as shown in the video, on Mount Gerizim. Obviously if you go into details you will find more and more differences.

[@PodcastCentral333]

Samaritans are much closer to jews than arabs

[@wiszak9370]

According to their highest priest the answer is: No, they consider themselves as a different separate religion. They claim they are the true holders of Moses's message, and that their Torah is the correct one that was not changed by the jews. Their holy city is Nablus and they consider themselves Palestinians and Arabs. They are not Zionists and they don't support the establishment of a state for the jews of the world on the account of Palestinians in Palestine.

[@natadodo1564]

@@ef2718 Interesting. I thought the followers of Judaism called Jews, but I did not realise they can be Samaritan too. Can a Samaritan entitled for aliyah? and Are you Jewish? Thanks

[@wiszak9370]

@@Long-Ball-Larry yes you can't expect everyone to adopt the highest moral position. Some people are afraid, ignorant, selfish or brainwashed. There were Algerians who preferred the French occupation that genocided their people, Jews who cooperated with the Nazis, and millions of Ukrainians are still more loyal to Russia than their country. For Samaritans, their religious leaders and most of the community are antizionists and consider themselves Palestinians. That doesn't mean that they hate Jews.

[@akie8332]

Their Elders looks like Elders Muslim

[@ShawarMoni]

The Quran sounds a lot like the Hebrew Bible for some reason...

[@stephenmarcus9601]

Being gay in that community must be tough. Statistically, there must be some

[@theworldisavampire3346]

Inbreeding is a HUGE problem for this community.

[@hamzamahdi104]

Stop demolishing their homes and properties

[@neilsumanda1538]

who is demolishing their homes?

[@davidtrak2679]

Of the Samaritans? Never happened, what a clown

[@ZviJ1]

Stop demolishing homes and property of the Jews.

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@ZviJ1 There were Palestinian Rabbis and Jews that objected to the creation of the state of Israel. They were silenced and some killed. Maybe you are an Ostrich?

[@ZviJ1]

@@JupiterMoon777 What you argue here is irrelevant to my comment, but a pro-PaliNazi hack like you must pretend their input is relevant even when it ain't. You yourself wrote at 2 other places whom you mean by those Jews -- "Neturei Karta", because you're already aware their position doesn't really hold water, since religious Zionism is integral to Judaism, so NK had to lie about Judaism in order to make it seem to its audiences that Zionism is alien to Judaism. I've seen NK members mounting provocations and being partly silenced in reaction, but none of them have been killed. We're used to the fact that you, like them, feel compelled to lie.

[@yosikama2611]

Samaritans are actually a branch of Judaism, so this is extra positive.

[@asmasm9736]

It’s not a branch of Judaism

[@yosikama2611]

@@asmasm9736 Depending if you accept all Israelite tribes as Jewish or only Judah and Levy, The unquestioned acceptance of Indian and Ethiopian Jews since the 1950's was the a definite answer to that question. Under the realistic inclusive approach, they are definitely a branch of Judaism.

[@asmasm9736]

@@yosikama2611 its a known secret that Indian, russian and Ethiopian new olem are mostly not actually jewish but use judaism to run away from their countries

[@yosikama2611]

@@asmasm9736 The Russian immigration since the late 1980's is known to include some/many of no Jewish people. The Jews in Ethiopian, as Jews in Europe, have been persecuted for generations there is absolutely no sense in the claim that they are not "real Jews" You might be referring to the community that had converted to Christianity, under coerce: The Falashmura.

[@ZviJ1]

@@yosikama2611 You mixed apples and oranges. Unlike the Samaritans, the Indian and Ethiopian Jews never attached sanctity to Mt. Gerizim and have always accepted the sanctity of Jerusalem and the entire Jewish Bible. Both the Orthodox and Qaraite denominations view Samaritanism as outside the bounds of Judaism, and so does Samaritanism, but you know better??

[@hamzamahdi104]

Say no illegal occupation of Palestine

[@TheDistruptor]

Palestine was Israel before Israel

[@davidtrak2679]

These guys are Israelites and never left the land. It was centuries before it was called Palestine

[@ZviJ1]

This is why I object to the PaliNazi occupation

[@hamzamahdi104]

Hi joker bots ✌️🇵🇸☝️♥️📖🔥🌏

[@ZviJ1]

@@hamzamahdi104 An apt projection

[@victoremman4639]

Samaris can't mean Keepers. The root SMR expresses the concepts of "journey, continuous one" through time. It doesn't mean eternity as well.

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

Facts about Israel that the haters of Israel don’t like: *1.* Israel became a state in 1312 B.C.E., two millennia before Islam. *2.* Arab refugees from Israel began calling themselves “Palestinians” in 1967, two decades after (modern) Israeli statehood in 1948. *3.* After conquering the land in 1272 B.C.E., Jews ruled it for a thousand years and maintained a continuous presence there for 3,300 years. *4.* The only Arab rule following conquest in 633 B.C.E. lasted just 22 years. *5.* For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem was the Jewish capital. It was never the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even under Jordanian rule,(East) Jerusalem was not made the capital, and no Arab leader came to visit it. *6.* Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in the bible, but not once is it mentioned in the Qur’an. *7.* King David founded Jerusalem; Mohammed never set foot in it. *8.* Jews pray facing Jerusalem; Muslims face Mecca. If they are between the two cities, Muslims pray facing Mecca, with their backs to Jerusalem. *9.* In 1948, Arab leaders urged their people to leave, promising to cleanse the land of Jewish presence. 68% of them fled without ever setting eyes on an Israeli soldier. *10.* Virtually the entire Jewish population of Muslim countries had to flee as the result of violence and pogroms. *11.* Some 630,000 Arabs left Israel in 1948, while close to a million Jews were forced to leave the Muslim countries. *12.* In spite of the vast territories at their disposal, Arab refugees were deliberately prevented from assimilating into their host countries. Of 100 million refugees following World War 2, they are the only group tohave never integrated with their co-religionists. Most of the Jewish refugees from Europe and Arab lands were settled in Israel,a country no larger than New Jersey, USA. *13.* There are 22 Muslim countries, not counting Palestine. There is only one Jewish state. *14.* Fatah and Hamas constitutions still call for the destruction of Israel. Israel ceded most of the west bank and all of Gaza to the Palestinian authority, and even provided it with arms. *15.* During the Jordanian occupation, Jewish holy sites were vandalized and were off limits to Jews. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian holy sites are accessible to all faiths. *16.* Out of 175 United Nations Security Council resolutions up to1990, 97 were against Israel; out of 690 general assembly resolutions,429 were against Israel. *17.* The U.N. was silent when the Jordanians destroyed 58 synagogues in the old city of Jerusalem. It remained silent while Jordan systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and it remained silent when Jordan enforced apartheid laws preventing Jews from accessing the temple mount and western wall. *18.* Arabs started all five wars against Israel, and lost every one of them.

[@princessnina3310]

Did you write those fiction I your free time How much lies you want to make Like I literally have a Palestinian coin from 1946 Before your state ever existed

[@triola3983]

@@princessnina3310 the "palestinian" coin was actually British. When you are so "indigenous" that all your culture comes from Jewish and British rule

[@Long-Ball-Larry]

"There are 22 Muslim countries, not counting Palestine." Small correction here - there are 22 Arab countries (predominantly Muslim) - together around the size of the USA, 15 of them outside the Arabian Peninsular - as a direct consequence of Arab Muslim colonialism (nobody ever talks about). There are far more Muslim countries in the world - like around 50.

[@princessnina3310]

@@triola3983 The entire middle east was colonized by Europe so what your point Most of Jewish came from Europe While Palestinian Muslims,Christians,Jewish We're living there for centuries Some of the Muslims in Palestine came from Jewish background Can American go back to Europe and claim there original Nationality This nonsense Why isrealie are allowed this against international laws Keep defending evil

[@patriotsforisrael3610]

This is a coin of the British Mandate 🇬🇧 which clearly inscribes on it the words *"Eretz Yisrael"* = Land of Israel in Hebrew (!!!). But who cares about facts, ah?

[@emmanuelameyaw9735]

Why Samaritans can live close to their holy site and Jews cannot? Well, because muslims have seized it and built a mosque there. If muslim seized and built their mosque on mount gerizim and called it their fourth holy site, there would not be peace between samaritans and muslims...of course.

[@boxlabs]

Samaritans don't believe there ever was a temple on Mount Moriah (where alaqsa) Only a fort, and that the other Jews have it wrong.

[@ZviJ1]

@@boxlabs The "fort" part is the fake narrative promoted by Christinsane liars, like Robert Cornuke.

[@ZviJ1]

@emmanuelameyaw9735 There would be reluctant recognition by the Samaritans of their unfortunate situation, while continuing to be pacifist. At the same time, the anti-Zionists would argue that this state of affairs is peace between the Samaritans and Muslims. I guarantee you this.

[@boxlabs]

@@ZviJ1 You should go there and see how much peace there is between the real Jews and the Muslims.

[@ZviJ1]

@@boxlabsI live there, unlike poltroons like you. You consider your Neturei Karta Arab-paid traitors, who fake a form of Judaism that promotes a**licking of Muslims and propagates this to you as "real Judaism".

[@mkadi70]

They are not called the Good Samaritans for nothing :)

[@charles2521]

"A good Samaritan (in singular)" suggests that others are evil. There are exceptions but in general Jews see Samaritans as "the others", which is why they refuse to call them Israelites.

[@abiryaakovalmoznino3395]

@@charles2521as a Jew I literally love those people. Stop talking for me antisemite ya’ll don’t trend anymore

[@pointsoflightradio9785]

John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

[@itsytyt5192]

Hg

[@hexoroid]

See and Zionist say they cant live together.

[@ajarnwordsmith628]

Narrator: "Elite Israeli troops regularly carry out raids...to arrest or execute Palestinian activists suspected of terrorism." Execute? I think not. Sloppy use of language does not help to bring peace and justice to all the peoples of the Holy Land.

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

There are also a few other cases of "misspeaking" throughout this upload that prompted me to thumb it down. I've already watched several uploads on this subject that prove it's possible to narrate also this one without an anti-Israeli slant.

[@issacshlomo171]

Yes he did not mentioned that Palestinian Arabs are occupiers and colonizers of Samaria.Palestinans Arabs are in Samaritans land

[@alonraigorodetsky1803]

28:20 I guess everyone besides the Jews belong to this land thus the name "Jewish settlers" right?

[@asmasm9736]

That’s their name in international law & even israel מתנחלים

[@japanlovesyou]

It's ironic that "settler" became a word with a bad connotation. In their holy book, the Torah, that's supposedly given by God, the Jews are commanded to settle the land (Deuteronomy 26:1): "when you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and settle in it" Go figure, sounds like divine irony to me!

[@zeeveijonezevijaione9289]

@@asmasm9736 Anyone with more than 2 brain cells who learns the entire gamut of facts on this subject understands the reason -- the Jewish leftists, notably in Israel, ensured this would happen so as to portray the Jewish residents of those aboriginal Jewish regions as foreign implants and usurpers.

[@JupiterMoon777]

These are not settlers. Israelites and Israelis are not the same people. You can't be THAT thick?!

[@oneofkind-i7e]

It seems the real jew religion !!

[@ZviJ1]

Only if you're dumb enough to consider people who don't care at all about Jerusalem and reject the Jewish Bible's holiness as Jews. Unfortunately, lots of people are this obtuse.

[@johnmann8659]

@user-po8vo2qn3r John 4:22

[@hayasakakini7568]

Jerusalem is the capital of the West Bank, not Ramallah.

[@ZviJ1]

Logical fallacy -- the "west bank" is not a country or state.

[@JupiterMoon777]

​@@ZviJ1 you are right. It was part of Palestine pre-1948 state of Israel.

[@ZviJ1]

@@JupiterMoon777 "Palestine" was what the Romans had named the Land of Israel in late AD 135, and it was never a state (except in some revisionist PaliNazi narratives).

[@tussoon1390]

Jerusalem is the eternal and indivisible capital of all Israel, and not just the "western bank" = Judea and Samaria.

[@Dani-wc9cu]

​​​​​​@@ZviJ1You play with the words. When we speak about Palestine we are speaking about the territory which has its Natufian/PPN/Canaanite/Israelite/Aramaic/Arab Islamic/Turkish... Past. There's a continuity in History and all of it is in Modern Palestinian culture/Genetic. Modern Palestine as a geographical state was created by you and the British... So that's not the real subject. The problem is that 2000 years later after the Judeans had fled to Europe with all their cultural evolution and mixture that occurred during this period in Europe decided to come to the Nearest to create by force and terrorism a state against the Palestinians. The cultural and genetic aspects of Ashkenazi make them refer to Eastern Europe today.

[@hexoroid]

This is a proof they can kive together and that Muskims are not a problem. ZIONISAM IS A PROBLEM and Settlers.

[@TheArchitect101]

It’s strange that the Palestinians have lived over 1500 years longer than Jews actually lived on that land. Most of the time the Jews have lived in exile! Palestinian have lived longer in Palestine than Americans lived in the states! Crazy!

[@y.l7455]

Not true, majority of palestinians are descendants of Arab emigrants since the 18th century.

[@noamsitbon8151]

That’s pretending like the Levant is not at the crossroads of 3 continents. It was conquered dozens of times and the population mixed each and every time. There is no such thing as “the Palestinian people” from a 1000 years ago. It continuously changed hands from Israelites, to Greeks to Israelites to Romans back to Israelites to christians to Ummayads to Mamluks to Ottomans to Brits and to Israelites++ once again. Each time, the population mingled and called themselves something different. The Palestinian identity started forming in opposition to the new Israeli identity. Before that, they just considered themselves as whatever religion they were, and whatever city they lived in.

[@TheArchitect101]

@@noamsitbon8151 The term "Palestine" (in Latin, Palæstina) a term coined by the Ancient Greeks for the area of land occupied by the Philistines. To your point, nevertheless by your own definition it ‘existed’ whatever shape or form and much longer than the state of Israel throughout history. Right now, it continues to exist in many hearts and minds and recognised by majority of world except the Anglosphere! The Jewish identity is very questionable not only from religious texts but factually. Abe had left Mesopotamia to a ‘promised land’ therefore not native to the holy land. The more we look into it, there is no such race as Jews but just a bunch of mixed people who converted with the added convenience concept of ‘chosen people’ where the rest are just lower class gentiles. This is very troublesome in a world of equality. Didn’t we fight world war 2 against this! Now just look at your own statement that the so called Palestinians are mixed, let’s take that on essentially they were early ‘Jews’ that converted to Christianity and Islam. So it’s amazing, that the modern state is destroying its own ‘real’ people that more than likely have strong genealogy going back to the ancient. Regardless, the idea that it was an empty land before the Europeans arrived is a complete comedy. Rewritten by the victors! Huge evidence is merging between fiction and factual!

[@ZviJ1]

@@TheArchitect101 But 40% -- or at least a substantial percentage of the Palis -- do not descend from Roman and Byzantine era Jews who converted to Christinsanity and Pisslam. Your "real" people don't give a crap about the Torah's own quest to found an Israelite state in the Land of Israel a.k.a. Palestine. The notion that the LOI was an empty land before the Europeans (or "European") arrived is a strawman argument that anti-Zionist buffoons set up. No Jewish person or group has argued that. There's no equality, doofus. You dis Judaism but give Pisslam a pass while its aggressive adherents wrong members of other religions and peoples in many regions worldwide, notably the Land of Israel. Spare your BS for your own friends. All credible and reputable historians of the region -- which leaves those you may have relied upon apart from yourself and your anti-Zionist propaganda pamphlets outside of the ballpark -- accept the historic fact that there's been a continuous Jewish demographic presence in the Land of Israel a.k.a. Palestine since AD 70, no matter how much it would dwindle in Medieval times. Prior to that our Israelite ancestors had a continuous presence since the 15th century BCE, including independent states from 1025 BCE till 586 BCE and again since 142 BCE until 63 BCE, followed by semi-independence under imperialistic Roman occupation for several more decades. Not only didn't the Fakestinians have any polities of their own, but as late as 1977 a PLO executive member stated in an interview to a Dutch newspaper that there had been no Palestinian people. These are the inconvenient givens of history that lovers and worshipers of PaliNazis, like you, are fond of ignoring.

[@charles2521]

@@y.l7455 I know that lying is part of your culture, but genetic research proves what all historians know: the native Levantines are descendants of the same people who have lived in the Levant since at least the Neolithic period. We can't say the same about Khazarian colonizers.

[@hamzamahdi104]

Free illegally occupied Palestine

[@ZviJ1]

Free illegally occupied Land of Israel a,k,a, Palestine from PaliNazi occupation.

[@CCI320]

free judea and samaria from the arab invaders.

[@mohammedbashir1281]

Talking about names, the jews took on first and second names from christians

[@y.l7455]

It's the other way around. It's Christians and Muslims that took Jewish names.

[@abiryaakovalmoznino3395]

🤣

[@jujijiju6929]

islam and it's aftereffects lmao

[@sealove7607]

U must have oppressed a lot of people and convert them against their will to be good Christians:)

[@jujijiju6929]

@@sealove7607 Not a Christian, but they're leagues ahead of you lot. When a comedian can make a pedo joke about Mohamed openly and doesn't get his head cut off for it, we can talk.

[@jujijiju6929]

@Danny Al Yeah, I guess worshipping a pedo warlord was so appealing they converted. Gtfo here.

[@kayjr9795]

@@Yazan26579 keep your biased views to yourself

[@Liork89]

The way you oppressed and made Christians of native people in Africa, Americas and Pacific

[@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!

[@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

[@shiteguides]

I visited this community a month ago when I went to the gorgeous city of Nablus. I even met the dude getting married! I thought the kindness and hospitality of the Palestinian people was unrivalled, but the Samaritans were genuinely the most friendly, lovely and welcoming group of people I have ever encountered in my life. I didn't know anything about them before I went up the mountain, but many of the community came out and brought me around and showed me the first temple and told me their story and history. Everyone of them was an absolute legend! Much love to all the people of Palestine and Israel, from Ireland.

[@A.Musa76]

Mount Gerizim but there is also Mount Ebal. In Arabic we call the mountains Jaba el-Nar means Mountain of Fire. The meaning behind Jabal el-Nar because its inhabitants played leading roles in fighting invaders through history since the periods of the Egyptian pharaohs.

[@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".

[@rayyanaghaalnimer5742]

@@patriotsforisrael3610 much of Nablus does not fall within the original borders of Shechem, with the exception of Tel Balata that started off as a refugee camp in 1948 when the Zionists kicked native Palestinians from Jaffa, Akka, Haifa, and many countless villages that are under the current Israeli borders. Besides, multiple genetic studies have shown that most of the people of Nablus descend from the Samaritans of Mount Gerizim, so they originate from Shechem as well. Its just a name that stuck across history to that place, much like most of the places in modern times :)

[@Mer1912]

@@rayyanaghaalnimer5742 you can’t kick people out if they already left before you got there

[@AbrahamsBridges]

@@rayyanaghaalnimer5742 many Palestinians are probably Israelites.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@michaelmarzano2759]

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

[@yoshi999z7]

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

[@Rotti17]

4 if you count ancient Hebrew

[@aviwinegarten3859]

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.

[@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!!

[@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...

[@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.

[@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!

[@samikadar]

Good documentaries always. ❤️ from Kenya.

[@artetvdocumentary]

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

[@SHAKHSIYAA]

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

[@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

[@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…)

[@eden55272]

Samartian are original indegenoius jeews,not mixed with others

[@ZviJ1]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the genetic studies have revealed that most of their women trace back to Mesopotamian women, while their priests trace back to native Egyptians.

[@issacshlomo171]

Yes Palestinians are occupiers and colonizers of Samaria

[@veggiedisease123]

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

[@laanaa26]

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

[@abiryaakovalmoznino3395]

As a Jew I couldn’t agree more

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@judysteadman799]

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

[@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.

[@מזלנימן]

ישראל ישראל ישראל ישראל.

[@simko8665]

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

[@davidfryer9359]

Not Palestine....its Judea and Samaria. Israel.

[@boislie]

did you think Israel today is the same as the kingdom of Israel? lol

[@davidfryer9359]

@boislie no it's the only democracy in the Middle East. Are you anti democracy? I am certainly not. Palestine never existed beyond the fact of being just a territory. Never a state. And it only got its flag in 1964. Israel is a leader of industry and tech on the world stage. Westbank Arabs have choked down the Samaritan population to under 900. No one is talking about that silent genocide in Westbank. And the Samaritans get along with everyone. They are being slowly suffocated out and smothered out of existence. Most forget they exist. They are the Torah keepers written in Antient Hebrew from before the Babylonian exile. They remained in Israel . They never left. Israel is Israel. It exists The nation of Israel, and it people LIVE. BUT HATERS WILL DO WHAT THEY DO BEST. THEY WILL HATE JEWS. AND THEY WIL HATE ISRAEL AND AMERICA. WHich one are you. עם ישראל חי!

[@davidfryer9359]

@@boislie that's funny.

[@Satoshi-yd7lj]

​@davidfryer9359 Samaritans mostly converted over the centuries. The so-called Arabs of Nablus are mostly all descended from Samaritans. Makes it quite ironic that the descendants of Israelites became Arabized and now don't have a claim to that land.

[@davidfryer9359]

That's absurd. They are there.