The Left's Long War on Israel

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When it comes to Israel’s mortal enemies, the usual suspects are Arab authoritarian regimes, Iran, and the antisemitic far right. And yet, some of the most dangerous wannabe-destroyers of Israel have come from the left. Whether it has been communist states, or terrorist groups, or “peaceful” organizations, the left’s war on Israel has been long and determined.
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[@AynRandInstitute]

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[@henkverhaeren3759]

Thank you. Very insightful

[@lorenzkraus6888]

Objectivists believe in mass murder (Peikoff) and uphold GENOCIDAL BRITISH GEOPOLITICS (google it) against Germany and Europe (ethno-destruction and mass migrant invasion). Their objection to mass murder is open hypocrisy, including, their inability to apply the initiation of force principle properly, in the case of, British encirclement Germany or British invasion of Arabia. It is obvious that Objectivism is nothing more than two-faced ATHEISTIC ZIONISM and is devoid of new intellectuals to realize that. Hacks are not intellectuals. Both communism and zionism are British inventions for world domination. British Fabians groomed Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky in London. Fabian Sidney Webb was on the King's Privy Council and directly funded Lenin. The REDCOAT REVOLUTION in Russia was a function of British agents, including, freemasonry. Lenin's high school teacher was Kerensky's father, both masons. Masonry answers to the British royal family. Ayn Rand lauded Kerensky with some love-letter and received her break into Hollywood under Cecil B. DeMille. Ayn means eye, as in, all-seeing eye, five-eyes, or intelligence operative. The British created Israel under the Balfour declaration. The Queen knighted Shimon Peres who accepted knighthood on behalf of the state of Israel. As such, Israel is a British-servant state, not a Jewish sovereign-state. It is an extension of GENOCIDAL BRITISH GEOPOLITICS. The real evil empire is Britain. P.S. Ayn Rand plagiarized Hitler. Read Chapter 4 of Vol 2 of Mein Kampf. By supporting GBG, Objectivism is a genocidal movement.

[@julianpetkov8320]

@@henkverhaeren3759 He is parroting the stock Zionist propaganda which omits 95% of the story. I didn't see any contribution from Shekelopoulos. BTW something more important that needs to be told: The stuff they didn't tell you in school but which is public. Google: "Greek Trade Colonies map" Google: "the Jewish Diaspora map" Superimpose the two maps. Now tell me - why is the Greek Trade Colony Empire, euphemistically referred to as "the Jewish Diaspora", today? What does the Greek word "Diaspora' mean? Did you know that our current "Western" Empire is just the same old Greek Empire re-branded?

[@123Albarina]

Jeremy Corbin ...represents none of us in the UK.. envy !! Yes maybe..but l think more likely... nobody would have taken him seriously.. a man lacking in anything interesting ugly physically and desperate wanting his 15 mins of fame

[@DeletedRedactedConfidential]

@@aarqa Can you please provide us with examples of liberal media loving Israel and hating Palestine? To those like me that have been trying to watch media from both sides - I would say that liberal media actually loves Palestine and hates Israel. I'm happy to be wrong though - providing that there is factual evidence.

[@Crimea_River]

I miss the days when it wasn't considered controversial to condemn terrorism.

[@user-tb2ih2mc4c]

I know, like Terrorist Israel and America.. I totally understand bro

[@caseyhayes4590]

You mean before Jan 6? Seems like domestic terrorism is wildly popular in the US now.

[@Crimea_River]

@@caseyhayes4590 you mean the summer of love?

[@caseyhayes4590]

@@Crimea_River however you have to rationalize your passion for attacking our capitol I guess

[@Crimea_River]

@@caseyhayes4590 I had nothing to do with January 6th but you seem adamant about defending your Buy Luxurious Mansions buddies.

[@AndyPutt1]

I've tried logically discussing Israel with several "Anti-Israelers" and as soon as anything is presented which is contrary to their view points I'm met with a torrent of hysterical verbal abuse. Their personaly identities are deeply entrenched with the idea they are "freedom fighters"and any threat to that terrifies them.

[@MartinJoyceUFOConspiracy]

It's weird how they're brainwashed, I swear Russia and Iran are behind it somehow.

[@mikhailv67tv]

They need to learn about the left wing history of Israel. Israel’s history is made up of great leaders that were either socialist or labor leaders

[@AndyPutt1]

@@mikhailv67tv They need to learn about a great many things! And yes, Israel is probably one of the best and only examples of successful early "communist" settlements actually working. Most of the haters don't know and don't want to know either, though. Pretty good formula for perpetual ignoranace. I think for many it is more about appearing to be a certain type of person within their peer group rather than any actual useful purpose outside the scope of their own small circle.

[@christopherholly1392]

Agreed, except for that last point-- they have such a self-loathing identity crisis they might as well be schizophrenic, therefore, they either don't know what "terrifies" them, or are "terrified" by everyone.

[@paganjew0108]

I have heard Jewish people who are certainly not anti-israeli, but would not vote for Netanyahu in a democratic system if they were Israeli citizens, get shouted down labeled as anti-Semitic traitors and a lot of very unsavory things. My point is that there is enough hysteria and verbal abuse going around in every direction. No matter what direction it is coming from, it can't be reasoned with.

[@jigsaw556]

As a German, I`m especially ashamed of our lefties chanting mindlessly: "Frrommm ze Rriver tu ze see"

[@laracroft8420]

I am german too and pro Palestine. And its "from the river to the sea palestine will be free🇵🇸 many germans know the english language. Its not a left or right thing, its because Israel is doing a genocide to the palestinian people

[@brianschmidt9919]

Yeah I can imagine

[@estigoldman9597]

As a grandaughter of holocaust survivors, I can honestly say that those days, Germany is dear friend of Israel. We both see the thread of redical Islam and call it by its name - terrorists. Peace to Germany and Israel 🩵

[@netaji-thebritishslayer]

​@@estigoldman9597the zionists created it😅

[@estigoldman9597]

@@netaji-thebritishslayer Yeah yeah, zionists created also the earthshakes in Japan and Isis are zionists too. You sound like a broken radio. Boring.

[@genghismccann7659]

Excellent presentation, from a perspective I had not considered before. The connection between our universities and the disgraceful demonstrations in the streets is far clearer now. I stand with Israel. Thank you.

[@TonyPombo]

You must understand that Ayn Rand Institute is a far-right wing "think tank" with an agenda and is very biased. That is fine; they are entitled to their opinions too, but they leave out many important truths that conflict their conclusions. Please don't use this video as your only source of information on this topic.

[@genghismccann7659]

@@TonyPombo I don't. I've formed my opinion by reading many sources over the last decade. But I'm open minded. If you can give me a link to a good video for the opposite point of view I'm quite happy to look at it.

[@geeninebee]

Agree, very insightful. And and a person living in a former communist republic , it's not a farfetched story that the left was involved. Don't forget that their mortal enemy, the US, was supporting Israel.

[@yeruchom]

@@genghismccann7659 I don't think Tony will be able to find one. The sources I've heard giving a conflicting view have all been guilty of misinformation and incomplete information. In this video, I have heard historical facts.

[@Anna-vc6hu]

Thank you!

[@curtiscashen628]

Great summary of the situation. The one fact that he did not emphasize enough is the fact that no Arab country would allow the Palestines to immigrate to their countries.

[@angeliquebabst7034]

This is actually a very good and true point you are making! I support Israel 🇮🇱 ❤

[@ep2934]

... and play into the hands of Netanyahu? Would YOU relinquish your country where your ancestors have lived for thousands of years to invaders and their cohorts?😅

[@curtiscashen628]

@@ep2934If you are talking about the Palestinians, they have always had choices and the main choice they made was to fight with the Jews. They lost that fight and they will lose it again. They never choose to live in peace and make a good life for their community.

[@parler8698]

Exactly!!!

[@jonathanbuzzard1376]

@@ep2934 The Arabs are invaders of the Levant. The Jews are descendants of a people forcibly expelled from the same land. So exactly who's land is it? The inability of the so called Palestinians to conceptualize that they are descendants of invaders and need to share is the root of all their self-inflicted suffering.

[@KevinDunne-zc4or]

Very insightful and thoughtful talk, it makes me support Israel 🇮🇱 even more,

[@matthewbrophy6555]

Gasa is the Auschwitz-Birkenau of the Middle East!

[@epicccurusaurelius2634]

@@matthewbrophy6555 Yes, from a half million now there are 2 million of them. Yeah right.

[@jake8855]

The Palestinians are in trouble now. Some american boomer named Kevin supports israel

[@Skexal]

You've been misinformed the entire video ...

[@Zhana808]

@@Skexaltell us where we can find your video explaining the truth then.

[@janrbh17]

I am a half-studied person ( lazy and not accurate in my knowledge) with a leaning towards supporting jews/ Israel ( even wanted to take my family there for holiday to feel the sun and eat good food. But I think I will wait a few years now...). I am consumed by watching these videos now. I have gotten a better understanding for the whole situation. I can`t fathom that what I learn here is not the truth/ fact. I think the main narrative in Norway is that "palestinians are weak, Israel is evil" but no-one knows this story. It is staggering to me how right the Israelis/ jews are and how wrong the other side is. There are very few "grey areas" to this. There can`t be. Who chops off heads of mothers and throw babies into the fire? Those people won`t get 1 % of sympathy from me. I realize that the palestinians are the ones who suffers tremendously, but sorry; it`s their own fault. Feel sorry for the moderate palestinians, but even they are probably leaning towards supporting all the anti-Israel sentiments here in the west.

[@jerrylong6238]

I'm sure you would feel the same way if someone stole your Country out from under you and made you and your family slaves in your own land the way the illegal State of Israel has been doing by illegally occupying the Palestinians for the last 75 years now. I just turned 75 years old, so that is my whole life they have been treated as secondhand citizens in their own Nation of Palestine. If I were a Palestinian you are dam right I would be thoroughly pissed off. And have a dam good reason to be too.

[@ericaulbach]

I’m with you on this! From the States.

[@mayoarm11]

%100

[@hotcocoanmarshmallow]

I'm Canadian and I agree with you. I 100% side with Israel knowing the facts presented to me. War is ugly I know, but I just hope Israel will finally put an end to the chaos and destruction from Hamas causing suffering of those who just want to live in peace with each other regardless of their faith.

[@mpolokengMankoe]

Agree, how many lectures and books ones needs to read and watch until know that what Hamas did is lower than the lowest bottom?

[@LogarAcc]

Couldn't have said it better! Well done dr. Nikos, very informative lecture, much love from Greece.

[@aggerleejones200]

If the Arabs put down their guns there would be no more war, if the Israeli's put down their guns there would be no more Israel. - Golda Meir

[@rugbyslug]

Clever.

[@kskufan]

Arabs aren't putting down their weapons because violence & terrorizing by militant force is built into their religion.

[@brin57]

BS !!

[@beachboy13600]

So this gives Israel the right to keep them in a digital cage. You need to do some research.

[@codyvandal2860]

That's like saying "If the Cherokee put down their hatchets there would be no more war but if the British colonists put down their muskets there would be no more British colonies." You took the land by force and then are seeking to delegitimize the indigenous resistance to your imperial conquest.

[@iurk0_streaming]

I cannot shake the feeling that people blindly following the "underdog principle" rather than follow moral principles are people that refuse to think rationally

[@sedalia9356]

Postmodern neo-Marxism. Jewish people are ironically very prone to this, at least here in the USA.

[@PrivateSi]

The Right are as blind as confused as The Left, and it's all The Great Satan's fault, as an Atheist... They believe in colonisation and colonisers over natives... The European Right are natives who are fed up of being colonised... Euro and UK Righties that support Israel are utter hypocrites.. It would be like supporting a European nation being colonised by a foreign monoculture such as Judaism / Islam / Christianity / Hinduism etc... It was bad enough shaking off 1500 years of Christain domination in Europe, having it replaced with Judaism would be even worse.

[@amisoftau2659]

Yes. The woke false religion is dangerous and evil. It denies the truth, and denies the right to individual responsibility and individual freedom. Following false ideologies that embrace "group identity" enables them to consider good to be evil and evil to be good. They lose all touch with absolute truth and reality, descending into barbarity. Killing their own babies for convenience was just the beginning.

[@RedFeather36]

Indeed, but that's Woko-Haram for you.

[@stoneymcneal2458]

You are absolutely correct. Well said.

[@johnnynick3621]

That last part is the most important point. Enemies of freedom are not fighting for their own freedom; they are fighting for the subjugation of all free people. Enemies of prosperity are not fighting for their own prosperity; they are fighting for the impoverishment of all prosperous people. This is an extremely difficult concept for rational people to comprehend precisely because it seems so irrational.

[@julioperez8324]

From a Cuban breathing freedom in the US, you understand the depths of socialist evil.

[@RC-eb5hq]

Only seems irrational if you are not filled with hatred and jealousy. When filled with hatred and jealousy, makes perfect sense because resentment takes over the brain.

[@carstenhansen5757]

The massive inferior complex of islam, is leaking right down to the individual muslim. You see it in the west too. They are determined NOT to contribute in a constructive way to the western nations, even if they live there and it would their own lives on an individual level better. Islam needs to go. One way or another.

[@AudraT]

This concept is so true. I noticed this self destruction concept when I was reading on the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union did not like people who worked to hard, were to prosperous, to motivated, and to knowledgeable. No exceptional workers or people. It was like they valued second rate, minimal quality workers and a lower quality of life.

[@ErikVestville-yv9md]

We are not one humanity. We are a polarized swarm of primitive beasts guided by the most base instincts aimed at self destruction. Stop talking about GOD. There is no such thing. We are alone and miserable on a sinking raft. Sauves vous.

[@noface3641]

One of the more incredible and accurate talks I have heard on the topic. I'm an Israeli, and I am so thankful there are still good people who are dedicated beyond anything else, to the truth

[@hlmw2]

You are not alone, and never will be ❤there are many many millions of people around the world stand with Israel, love Israel, and pray for Israel fervently ❤ Be strong and be courageous, and be confident the good will prevail at the end ❤

[@catattack2742]

I’m an Israeli-American. Don’t believe the social(ist) media. There are tons of Jews and goys supporters all over the country rooting for IDF 🇮🇱❤🇺🇸

[@stanleyekene3723]

💯💯💯💯

[@chilldutchie8166]

Truly enjoyed this discussion/talk. Brilliant man. It sealed what I’ve been self educating, as he stated that it’s a rabbit hole once you get started. But this area is riddled with centuries of standoffs and layered with deeds.

[@Ilovedoggie313]

Thank you, Nikos. I am a gay man, and find it so hard to understand why there are some people from the LGBT+ community supporting the atrocities committed by Hamas. Most of us are aware of what happens to gay people in much of the Arab world. It now makes sense. Thank you for explaining this bizarre phenomenon, where some people support another group of people who actually hate them and want to destroy them.

[@WAdelstein]

People who feel rejected from society or machinations of life tend to go left and support rapine groups.

[@ellengran6814]

Zionism is nothing but colonialism = your land is now my land.

[@ladyjade6446]

They are brainwashed

[@terrorists-are-among-us]

I saw students protesting "Queers for Palestine" where they would be slaughtered 😂

[@sw.7519]

Victimology

[@ivandegrisogono3334]

Bravo Nikos, what a pleasure to hear the facts, the truth!

[@pikapi6993]

The people are motivated by envy. Antisemitism is rooted in envy.

[@asfasfasfasf8661]

You guys are crazy. You forgot to mention 6 million btw

[@Blackpilled-Chud-Named-Shane]

jews envying white people and attacking them. Then using words like antisemite to defend their sick behaviour. Yeah, antisemitism is rooted in envy. it's called Loxism.

[@luminous3558]

Seems shortsighted. Its Islamic zealotry. People read their holy book too literally and grow up in a country that teaches it as law. Why is this different? Well if they were envious they would stop after the Jews but they won't stop until every non muslim is gone. We in the west have long since abandoned these extreme nationalistic views and even frown upon the pure concept of nationalism and religion as a government, that makes it easy to underestimate those who still hold those values as their sole truth. There are many Muslims in the west who might as well be secular but there are also many who would gladly cheer at the downfall of western society as proven by the recent rallies in support of Hamas. Its not just these rallies that are proof but the groups that host and fund them, many of which have a criminal record and ties to islamic extremist groups like IS.

[@scootermom1791]

48:00 There was a documentary about a survivor of the October 7th massacre who'd been at the concert when Hamas attacked them. She said it was NOT just the hamas. It was also Palestinian citizens who joined in the atrociousness and horrific acts against humanity that day!

[@RAFAEL-haufo]

yes. the video GoPro from the arabs shows this. "civilians" joined in. lovely isn't it....

[@scootermom1791]

@@RAFAEL-haufo sickening TBH

[@netaji-thebritishslayer]

scootermom wt abt the fact tht idf killed 309 peoplea t nova music fstival!!

[@christopherjcarson]

For there to be an intelligence blind spot, preceding the attack,is a worrying observation. journalists suggests the internal gap in Israel between the left and its new political leaders, is much greater than during any previous time! For the Hamas leadership to live in affluence untouched by Israeli reprisals,in countries nearby means we are living thru uncharted times!

[@chenrhrh]

​@@netaji-thebritishslayerThat's not a fact- it's a lie

[@telesniper2]

An interesting fact about the 1967 war that you might not know -- after WW2, the UK sold surplus German Enigma cipher machines to Egypt, which they used as the basis for their "secure" military communications. It was still not publicly known at this time that the Enigma had been broken🙂 That was what was responsible for the fantastic military outcome in that war for Israel. They could read all of Egypt's military communications in realtime.

[@sjam1159]

I doubt that Enigma played a part in that, but there is so much that needs to be exposed about what the British did after WWII. For example, not prosecuting the Arab crimes in WWII (they were on the side of Hitler), and more. It needs to be opened for investigation. I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

[@xDomglmao]

wow good info!!!!

[@Anna-vc6hu]

Wow amazing info!

[@Nom1fan]

As an Israeli, I can confirm this is true :)

[@hlmw2]

God’s humor 😮

[@gavindoyle692]

A very impressive lecture. It needs to be watched by many more people who class themselves as “liberal”, but have a blind spot when it comes to Israel. 👏🏼

[@sixmillionaccountssilenced6721]

This clown would get completely demolished in a facutal/historical debate with guys like Chomsky or Finkelstein. That's why he will never do it and that's all you need to know hahaha...

[@kirkl9370]

It is an impressive lecture, but I think it’s worth keeping in mind that a country can be full of contradictions. They can celebrate freedom and look free within their borders, whilst still oppressing their neighbors with fear, control and, quite frankly, terrorism.

[@deepfamiliar3416]

The desire for a Jewish state is understandable and commendable, but it has came at a terrible price. For over 100 years now, Palestinian Arabs have been slowly ethnically cleansed and forceably removed from their homes by Israeli Jews. Why do you think there's so many Palestinians in Gaza? Nearly 2million people packed into a tiny area. Why? Because they were displaced by Jews and herded like cattle into the open-air prison of the Gaza Strip. Although Hamas' actions last week were disgraceful and unfathomably sociopathic, one has to wonder how we might act if we were expelled from our homes by an occupying force, i.e. the Israeli army, and routinely saw our family and friends slaughtered (Israeli army has killed Palestinian citizens effectively at random for decades). Jews owe it to themselves to be honest about what the project of Israel is: an attempt to steal land from Arabs who have lived there for hundreds of years.

[@ef2718]

@@deepfamiliar3416 The ancient community of Jews that used to live in Gaza perished in Islamist riots of 1929, concurrent with dozens of other communities, the massacre in Hebron was documented, you can see the photos of that ISIS style massacre in archives of the NYT. Photos like the gut churning photos of the massacre of Oct. 7 only in black and white. *The massacres of 1929 were committed mostly by un unorganized mob.

[@whorlwinds.9750]

@@JohnQuelle-uc6xs Thank you for your knowledge, presentation of such specific facts, and taking the time to share them both. I received the same comment and am most grateful you responded first to it- and that I, too, am able to learn from what you said. All best.

[@georgejacksom5661]

This need to go viral. We need people to see this now

[@haraldtheyounger5504]

No it doesn't. Ignorance never does.

[@PrivateSi]

You're on the wrong side again, Conservative. You support a neo-Nazi-like regime if you support the illegal occupation of Palestine by a load of psychopathic invasive criminal Zionists.. The ironic thing is, Palestinians have more ancient Jewish and Semitic blood in them than most of the neo-invaders of Palestine who call themselves 'Israelis'..

[@michaellamont2605]

This is very basic synopsis. It's pretty much everything I've already heard repeated but this is NEWS to some people. We need more like this Children of Jewish holocaust survivors - was the best channel

[@PrivateSi]

@@michaellamont2605 .. Those that agree with the highly militarised and murderous neo-colonisation of the Middle East by a load of Orthodox Zionist Jews breeding like rabbits and claiming every inch they can of Palestine as Lebensraum are as sick as those that keep bombing the M.E. in general, The Great Satanists of The US... I say this as an Atheist. You have purposefully pushed The M.E. into extremism. -- Israel is like a mini Right Wing US - a mini Satan that trampled on The Natives they invaded and who's land they now occupy... They support aggressive neo-colonisation abroad but despise the concept in the US. Christain Conservative Hypocrites... Why do you support policies that enrage the region while supporting the expansion of the region's culture's mortal enemy, a culture Jesus riled against so much it decided to executed him brutally. Orthodox Judaism, the fastest growing population in Palestine. 7 kids each on average.

[@haraldtheyounger5504]

@@michaellamont2605 What we need, is to get rid of religion, of belief, of politics... all evils.

[@adamtombar]

One of the best presentation . Was waiting the entire lecture to this word : ENVY .

[@islaadele1212]

Imagine being able to give such a powerful lecture in another language. Seriously impressive.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you! Rehearsing is key.

[@islaadele1212]

@@nikossotirakopoulos6876 Your English is better than mine! I just wish this lecture could be amplified somewhere like Twitter where more college kids would see it. I don't think they're all malign, some are for sure, but most are just like I was when I was a political science undergrad - stuffed full of Chomsky and Hanan Ashrawi, seething with indignation for the 'oppressed.' The big problem is the monoculture in academia; if all the professors are pro-Palestinian, then there's not much hope for the kids. Bad teachers do so much harm.

[@chrisherber1635]

He just knows English very well. You can tell by all his inflections and everything.

[@angeliquebabst7034]

Absolutely agree with you! 🇮🇱 (from South Africa)

[@NoName-cu4gr]

Just a shame it's all a pack of Zionist lies.

[@RAZR_Channel]

This is a FAR more comprehensive detail of the situation. People are WAY to quick to jump to conclusions...

[@newjerseyselfdefense6199]

David Ben-Gurion דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן‎ First Prime Minister of Israel - Born in Płońsk, then part of Congress Poland, to Polish Jewish parents, he immigrated to the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire in 1906. “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121. “Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. … Behind the terrorism [by the Arabs] is a movement, which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and self sacrifice.” - David Ben Gurion. Quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech. “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return.” David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar’s Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157. “It is very possible that the Arabs of the neighboring countries will come to their aid against us. But our strength will exceed theirs. Not only because we will be better organized and equipped, but because behind us there stands a still larger force, superior in quantity and quality …the whole younger generation of Jews from Europe and America.” Ben-Gurion, Zichronot [Memoirs], Vol. 4, p.297-299, p. 330-331. See also Teveth, Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs, p. 182-189 “It’s not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.” -Ben Gurion “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return.” David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar’s Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.

[@warrenpuckett4203]

When I went to Advanced Infantry Training there was a phase called recon by fire. No not the one you are thinking of. This is as a platoon leader you pick two soldiers to traverse a opening in the wooded area to draw fire. Then you call in artillery. The Palestinians are those privates that got selected to draw fire. As far as the rest of Muslim world is concerned. The Palestinians are expendable for a tactical advantage.. The Muslims do have those that want the world cleaned on non believers. Those that don't want to be the cleansers, watch. After the 2nd time somebody tells me 'I am going to kill you". I am inclined to believe them. Both those of Israel and Palestine believe God/Allah granted them the land. Been fighting over it for 40 centuries.

[@RAZR_Channel]

@@warrenpuckett4203 It's like this: Fighting over that land was going on long before we were born and will continue long after we're gone... Sometimes people attack me for not taking sides but I'm not going anywhere to kill anyone... REGARDLESS Of what the Media Pushes on Me!!

[@RAZR_Channel]

@@warrenpuckett4203 "As far as the rest of Muslim world is concerned. The Palestinians are expendable"... and not necessarily.. depends on which narrative you believe in. I would be more interested to know that if israel was gone... would the arab nations fight among themselves over it ... or something else. Right now israel gives them a common enemy... and ya maybe Palestinians are bearing the front lines as you say... No one can really know.... because we are flooded with information... and regardless from where which side it comes from people end up choosing 1 side or the other. I stopped doing that a while ago when I realized I would never figure it out... and even if I did : that land is not worth lives... Having said that . Theres a quote you might agree with : "There's only 1 truth about war - people die"...

[@TheAlanFFM]

I wish this had more views. Woah, this is amazing. Would love to see this guy in person.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you!

[@Riiyan]

I had a friend who was about as left as you can go and he idolized communism. Around the time China starting going downhill and they started being hostile to foreigners I had 6 friends living in China teaching English all talking to me through underground means because it was hard for us to communicate and they would tell me everything going on, this went on for years until it was to hostile for them to live there anymore, that was around 2015-2018 roughly (they all left at different times for the same reason; safety of their families). I had first hand experience of talking to folks who were getting their experience directly and this dude tried to tell me all kind of BS about how I should stop listening to youtubers and stay off of social media if I want to understand the truth. Some of these people don't care about facts they live their lives in a complete fantasy world with little to no understanding of what it is they are actually supporting, it just sounds good to them so they go with it.

[@crystallineblue4344]

Communist dictator Stalin referred to those types as Useful Idiots.

[@stanleytolle416]

Yes I too watched China going bad on foreigners watching with a couple of KZbinrs who were living in China and showing what China was like in their videos. I watched policies change against foreigners in their videos to the point they had to flee China even though they both were married to Chinese women and had long term roots in China. In some ways sad and I feel quite detrimental to China.

[@cessaly100]

Excellent! Why I felt so sorry for my ex-husband. Believer..!

[@Bronco541]

This reasoning should be applied to many areas of life; politics, religion... People dont wanna know the truth, the juat wanna sleep better at night. In short; theyre pussies.

[@buddyflood6761]

In many ways the extreme right does the same denying reality that you describe,most the left do not like communism,but we understand how democratic socialism has put several countries ahead of us on standard of living and that our govt is owned by corporations and the insanely rich to the detriment of the working class and the health of the world

[@unisophia]

you are wrong about antisemitism. antisemitism plays a huge part in all this. and no, a christian country won’t get the same double standard treatment as Jewish one. they won’t care, maybe. but they also won’t hold it to such an impossible standard. Soviets were deeply antisemitic. I was born in USSR, I know this country. antisemitism was an important aspect of Soviet-Muslim alliance against Israel.

[@lightworker4512]

I agree. Still, what is the root of antisemitism? To me, it is largely envy. It is written in the Torah that the jews are chosen. I wish that verse had never been written in the scriptures. That creates envy. Overall jews are very successful and made innumerable contributions to society for such a tiny piece of the global population. For that, there is envy. When people are programmed at an early age, they become dogmatic and protective of their beliefs regardless how erroneous they may be. This world of duality is the matrix of the thought -forms we reside in. Until we can transcend this matrix, can we be protected from the programming within the matrix.

[@Ryan-ys2bq]

Do you know Palestinians are semites?

[@TheJustinJ]

Ukrainian forces early in this current conflict there, were saying "Putin isn't the rightful leader of Russia, Putin is a Jew!" So, Yeah.

[@jonathantwort6980]

Ask yourself….why the Arab countries will never take their own Muslim refugees? Has Egypt opened a gate for the Palestinians? No! Has Saudi ever taken any? Never.

[@Vengenace455]

Because our leaders are puppets planted by the west you got rid of saddam and gaddafi when they stopped dancing to your tunes

[@ilonkastille2993]

I totally agree with nearly everything you say because it really is true. One point which is overlooked is that the islamic religion has always hated Jews from the time of their prophet and obviously until now. At that time there was no problem with an israeli state. They want the destruction of ALL jews in the world. This point should NOT be overlooked because it is the nr. One reason .

[@justinfowler5761]

Not true

[@ilonkastille2993]

@@justinfowler5761 are you saying that islam does not teach the destruction of jews? I am sure that you must have read the Hamas Charter among so many islamist papers. Have you read the Qoran?

[@justinfowler5761]

@@ilonkastille2993 Jews and Muslims lived side by side for centuries, even in Palestine. Christians lived there as well.

[@justinfowler5761]

@@ilonkastille2993 The Torah says to kill idol worshipers. That includes Muslim and Christians. I'm not saying one religion is better than another. I'm not even religious.

[@ilonkastille2993]

@@justinfowler5761 individual jews and muslims did but the religion describes them as the worst of creatures. Since Hamas and others are terrorists like Isis , who follow every letter of the "Holy Book", they will do whatever is asked of them.

[@Islamophobiaisalie]

This is fascinating. I will be listening to this talk many times to learn what I never really understood. Thank you! 🙏

[@andersongomez636]

propaganda

[@user-hr9in3be4g]

I also finally managed to understand, and the truth is very, very far from how the media portrays Israelis and Palestinians. It's good that the truth is slowly starting to be revealed.

[@TheDonmatt93]

@@andersongomez636by citing historical facts 😂

[@andersongomez636]

@@TheDonmatt93 half truths convert big lies only for the easily manipulated. I remember Irak when I was a falsely accused of terrorist apologist🙄🙄 for saying Irakis are normal and deserve their country. WMS destruction was a complete lie . I see the same pattern now

[@TheDonmatt93]

@@andersongomez636 Well there isn’t a video demonstrating the other side which states historical facts? Agreed on Iraq, should never have happened

[@1111shee]

Dr Nikos’ analysis is clever and accurate.

[@erine.5680]

Finally someone not appealing on emotion but teaching straight up historical facts.And to quote something Douglas Murray said ' when someone claims they wants to annihilate you, believe them"

[@newjerseyselfdefense6199]

David Ben-Gurion דָּוִד בֶּן־גּוּרִיּוֹן‎ First Prime Minister of Israel - Born in Płońsk, then part of Congress Poland, to Polish Jewish parents, he immigrated to the Palestine region of the Ottoman Empire in 1906. “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121. “Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. … Behind the terrorism [by the Arabs] is a movement, which though primitive is not devoid of idealism and self sacrifice.” - David Ben Gurion. Quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky’s Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan’s “Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech. “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return.” David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar’s Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157. “It is very possible that the Arabs of the neighboring countries will come to their aid against us. But our strength will exceed theirs. Not only because we will be better organized and equipped, but because behind us there stands a still larger force, superior in quantity and quality …the whole younger generation of Jews from Europe and America.” Ben-Gurion, Zichronot [Memoirs], Vol. 4, p.297-299, p. 330-331. See also Teveth, Ben-Gurion and the Palestinian Arabs, p. 182-189 “It’s not a matter of maintaining the status quo. We have to create a dynamic state, oriented towards expansion.” -Ben Gurion “We must do everything to insure they (the Palestinians) never do return.” David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar’s Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you, and very true!

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

I'll be waiting for you to post quotes from the neighboring countries about their thoughts on the Jews returning to their homelands, I won't hold my breath though, did you think that by posting that it was a gotcha moment? 1855 census showed Jerusalem as a dominantly Jewish city, 1829 the Arab mayor of Jerusalem said why wouldn't the Jews return to their home? The Quran says that Israel is the homeland of the Jews, yet at the same time it says kill them, do you refer to that book as a rational source of truth? 25% of the world does and thus sees Israel as to be eliminated

[@PaulBCohen]

Ben Gurion was limited in his vision and understanding, but much less so than the one giving alleged quotes.

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

@@PaulBCohen The one who gave the quotes has the ability to retain a lot of knowledge, thus indicating extensive vision, the DBG quotes show a realistic empathetic approach to the struggle with their Arabs. Kahane took 30 years of nationhood and his activism formed in the states and saw that a better approach could be had. If Irgun had been allowed more power in the early days, if they had Kahane's eloquence, if the world wasn't nuts.... Clarify further please

[@comptytom]

Palestinians claim that Israel forced them to leave back in 1948. I've read that the Grand Mufti directed them to leave ahead of the creation of Israel became official. Israeli leaders appealed to them to stay, but they went. In hindsight, it seems likely that the Grand Mufti knew the Arab states were going to invade, expected them to win, and then he could tell his Palestinians they could return. Of course, they weren't called Palestinians at that time.

[@nedgligich]

Now go and search for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

[@mlys7184]

As a Jew... this is the kind brain space that make you non Jews look goofy. A lot of those Palestinians have Jewish blood. A lot of those Palestinians are our brothers and sisters. One day the Messiah will come, and God will give us Israel, and there will be peace on our land. Until then, it is blasphemy for non-Jews or Zionists to rationalize that they can help expedite a blessing promised by God.

[@seanoconnor1478]

Typical revisionist history. Now that the jews have built a beautiful, prosperous country in the middle of the dessert, all of a sudden they stole the land and threw the Palestinians out. they just want the land back... 🙄

[@twelvethirty-mq5on]

@mlys7184, I wasn't aware that Niturei Karta/Satmar followers attended these seminars. Your argument might have been a question 150 years ago. Now, it is only made by a few anti-Zionist Chassidic groups. They do not represent the vast majority of Jewish opinion. More importantly, since you are making a religious argument, they do not represent the vast majority of Rabbinic opinion. Let God decide what is blasphemy. It's easy to see that all of Israel's successes and failures are the hand of God. So far, so good. If the Palestinians are causing trouble, it is only because it is written: Numbers 33:55: "But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell."

[@dtmwtch]

@@nedgligichand?

[@ChessMusclesBro]

Why aren’t people like THIS teaching at our universities

[@Georgiaredfern]

Because if they don’t talk the talk, they get bullied out of their jobs. If not that they find they just can’t do their job . I know this from personal experience. Very problematic if you have a family to support and mortgage to pay.

[@tomcurran8470]

They would not even get an interview. It is very uncomfortable, at least, to be a free thinker and being in the university environment for students and employees.

[@Iron-Lion-Zion]

​@@Georgiaredfern speak on the elections, mate. Vote, dont ignore.

[@jammin1881]

Fashion. It’s not fashionable to tell the truth or accurate history.

[@krisvq]

The idea that "the left" can't reason but to default to standing for the "underdog" is so ridiculously odd at first but I'm observing the same syndrome in people. How can't you grasp that the weak aren't always good and that the strong aren't always mean.

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

'The Strong' are those who defend their homeland from Jewish Occupation which has continually been described as ILLEGAL by the UN. In breach of International Law.

[@minkbach9452]

when you have the mindset of teenagers

[@peterllwlln]

Were I live you pretend to be interested in anti Isreal to get laid.

[@stevem-h3562]

the thing is, the left arent interested in supporting the underdog. The left's interest in the underdog is to weaponise it against their political enemies. its a behaviour pattern that has happened throughout history.

[@arthas640]

With the left they think that way largely due to socialist influence and socialism has the outlook of aiding the oppressed worker against the powerful owners, aiding the poor against the rich, and aiding the colonized against the colonizer. Problem is that outlook is mainly from the 1800s and early 1900s and doesnt take into account situations where the weaker side isnt in the right since they boil everything down to that "poor worker vs rich owner" dynamic.

[@kermkerm]

This is happening again where people are excusing the recent terrorist attacks, inexcusable!

[@BenjaminMilesPerry]

There are no people "excusing the terrorist attacks" that's Hasbara. Just Humans who are supporting Palestinian rights which seems to be a threat to the Zionist ideology. Deception is the only way Israel was born, grew, and hopes to survive.! General Maityahu Peled, Ha'retz March 19 1972 "The thesis that danger of Genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for it's physical Existence is only a bluff, Which was born and developed after the war"

[@donovan2723]

As opposed to excusing genocide?

[@RojaJaneman]

@@donovan2723define and detail this genocide that u r talking about

[@jerryjonas8178]

@@RojaJaneman Palestinians killed daily?

[@ancientclown]

@@RojaJaneman It's been detailed for years by the Human Rights Groups the World Over...perhaps pull your head out of your ass. Stop pretending this began in October or that Israelis haven't been murdering children in GAZA for DECADES. Using Human Shields by IDF has also been well documented over the years and wasn't created by HAMAS. I remind you as i must that mercy triumphs over judgment and murder is against GOD and LAW. That was why Jesus gave you the 'Golden Rule' to help you follow GOD & LAW and be among those counted as the 'Chosen People' because they are Jew and Gentile alike...not self-entitled Liars Murderers and Thieves.

[@denisceballos9745]

My old history teacher in high school actually said what you have said - and this was in 1968. Ms. Levy spoke of the ENVY that other countries have because Israel has been so successful - turning the desert into productive land. It makes the neighboring countries look bad. Thank you for your very insightful and timely discussion, Mr. Sotirakopoulos. 🙏🏼

[@stevearaque4362]

This is also echoed in the bible.

[@shirleyupvall9360]

The Palestinians were productive and made the land fruitful, the Zionists stole it all

[@angelatakano6072]

In my country ( Peru) we suffered from envy of the left, and have suffered from left terrorism ( shining path, MRTA) and still suffer today because leftist NGOs are allowed to shrewd their ideologies with the disguise of helping people. Please STOP these leftist NGOs !

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you very much, glad it was of value and brought back the memory of your teacher.

[@snyc6542]

Your old history teacher Mrs Levy (a common Jewish name) sounds extremely bias. It had nothing to do with making them look bad. Imagine being an Arab country and a European organization (the UN) comes in and tell you who your land belongs to and who you need to give it to. That is what created this conflict. Nothing to do with Israel’s success. That is a talking point of people bias to the Israeli narrative. That is like people in America who want to tell you we were attacked on 9-11 because terrorist “ hate us because we are free”. Research both sides of the argument to get a true understanding.

[@thegorn]

Thanks man this really helped me understand the whole conflict

[@Pickled73]

My mother was a scholar on modern day Israel. She was an amazing woman, and I’ve learned so much of this issue from her in conversations. If only people could simply read and think and listen and then, and then only make conclusions. My father was a lefty, and at the same time a very religious man. What he would say was from the ivory towers of pretentious academia. Whenever lthey discussed the subject his view was idiologicaland hers was based on a great deal of scholarship and study. I could do nothing but respect her position, because it was not based on emotionalism or ideology, but in a great deal of study. I have found that in the discussion of this issue people are either wildly emotional and have no interest in the facts or they are very educated to the truth in the history and those two things do not mix. How sad. What an excellent lecture.

[@picilocarnal]

“… was from the ivory towers of pretentious academia,” well said. I would add that among such, there is a good amount of hypocritical compassion too.

[@daveufirst]

You can't be a "lefty" person and "very religious."

[@Peekaboo-Kitty]

You cannot expect Religious Fanatics to think Logically even if the evidence is right before their eyes.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you! I also think that merely presenting the facts would change the mind of many people; though not everyone.

[@eugenediaz4386]

NO WHAT DOES'T MIX IS PIGS LIKE YOU TWO JEWS HEMHAWING ABOUT HOW GOOD YOU THINK YOU ARE AND HOW IMPORTANT YOU THINK YOU ARE HOW SMART YOU ARE HOW RELIGIOUS YOU ARE OR HOW MORAL YOU THINK YOU ARE. NONE OF IT MATERS ANYMORE TO THE WORLD WHEN YOU MURDER US 😅😂

[@F4R4D4Y]

Israel 🇮🇱 has the right to do whatever is necessary to protect its citizenry.

[@Butter9322]

Palestine has the righ to resist your occupation and human right violations.

[@esmifrado]

So you want them to be slaughtered? Or you want them to "resist" (or to atack Israel) withou any consequences? @@Butter9322

[@Hike_and_Yap]

They have no rights on stolen land

[@PaladinAzriel]

​@@Hike_and_YapJews bought the land they lived on before Britain left and they declared their independence. Are you saying they stole land by buying it?

[@anushasaxena8073]

​@@Hike_and_Yapnot stolen land palestine never existed as a name

[@galliehattingh7463]

“There is an old Russian fable, with different versions in other countries, about two poor peasants, Ivan and Boris. The only difference between them was that Boris had a goat and Ivan didn’t. One day, Ivan came upon a strange-looking lamp and, when he rubbed it, a genie appeared. She told him that she could grant him just one wish, but it could be anything in the world. Ivan said, ‘I want Boris’ goat to die.’” (Thomas Sowell Reader, p. 129). This, in short, is a description of the "envy" that you are speaking about and I fully concur with your analysis.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

We have a similar saying in Greece...glad to see we aren't the only ones notorious for our envy!

[@Kaurione]

Brilliant!!!

[@TeaParty1776]

Age Of Envy-Ayn Rand Envy-Helmut Schoeck

[@carsi7282]

That isn't a Russian Fable, it is the American mantra.

[@jasonmitchell7550]

@@carsi7282 Ha, very clever. Someone criticizes the Soviets and you turn around and use it to criticize the U.S. Brilliant!

[@rxrfun9198]

I wish I had this guy as a teacher. If he isn't, he'd make a great history professor.

[@1greggie]

not so intelligent a conclusion. he edits and then exaggerates, adds a couple absolute falsehoods, and then distorts objective reality. you are seeing a work of fiction, but masked as truth. I prefer Shakespeare.

[@Caim6311]

​@@1greggiepissed off because he doesn't go to your narrative.

[@birdgirl1516]

People can’t stand the truth especially when they’re brainwashed leftwing extremists

[@jerrylong6238]

He's talking out of his a**.@@1greggie

[@jerrylong6238]

@@Caim6311 And you are happy because he is going with your narrative. What's the difference?

[@robhuhges]

Brilliant. Everyone should hear this.

[@nedgligich]

Lies, Now go and search for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

[@dlaredo]

You sir are a blessing. In these awful times of hate, lies and misinformation you are a beacon of sanity. Thank you brother, for having the courage to say the truth.

[@nedgligich]

Now go and search for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

[@dlaredo]

@@nedgligich Im very familiar with the Balfour declaration. We Israelis learn about it extensively in school, so I could probably educate you on this. Regardless, I fail to see why you urge me to look for it. Got a point or are you just spitting random words?

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you, highly appreciate the kind words!

[@mickeyray3793]

Being GAY and in favor of Palestine is like being a chicken who worships Colonel Sanders.😮😊

[@DocSeabright]

And Israel is the land of Jesus. Israel LOVES Jesus!

[@oswaldbojangles5247]

​@@DocSeabright if Israel loved Jesus I would support them. Until then, I just hope both sides have fun

[@annetoronto5474]

@@DocSeabrightboth sides hate the Christians, Israel only wants US money and military support. Don’t be a sucker! Actions speak louder than words, look at how Trump is being persecuted. How many times do I have to hear these people mock common Americans, calling them White trash, Nazi, deplorable…. Look at what the opioid crisis is doing to North American, no one is coming to help…. more people are dead from drug addiction in one year than in Israel!

[@davidjennings4589]

When my mother lived in NY she said she was the ham hock in the matzo ball soup. She was tolerant enough to have dozens of Jewish friends. She was prized as their only gentile friend. Of course she could hear them snickering from behind the screen, but she did not take everydamn thing personally...Her grandfather was a circuit riding Baptist Preacher, four different congregations a month. A foot washer. Mr Bruni our special friend at the NYT, says we are all practitioner of a "twisted religion". If there is one thing they will never smear the Jews with it is humility.

[@davidjennings4589]

If there is one thing we have in common, regular army I mean, it's our hatred of the Jews. I remember once in occupied Germany we had a "Go home Linneman" party. And it worked, he packed up and left

[@user-zp1eo4jz4x]

Genius. Well done, Nikos. This answers questions that I've had for a while.

[@brunofigueiredo6697]

Amazing presentation! Let's share his speech.

[@iaincook5835]

I'm commenting from an Australian perspective. A few days ago, Australian unions marched in support of Gaza and Hamas, and a few people said "what the heck is all this?" It's a complicated historical rat's nest. Unions in Australia in the 40s and 50s were in the thrall of the USSR. The same policies and combative ideologies formulated by Stalin then, designed to undermine the Australian economy, are still in force today. When Israel was founded in 1948, Stalin initially supported it against Arab opposition, sending it arms and materiel via Czechoslovakia. Unions were thus obediently supportive of Israel (just as they supported Germany when the USSR were allies from 1939-1941). Very quickly, Stalin did the math, and realised the value of 500 million Arab allies against 3 million Jews, and switched policies in 1950. The USSR ramped up anti-Israeli rhetoric and international action. The unions fell obediently into line (as did all left groups in general) and have maintained the same anti-Israel policy ever since. If you've ever wondered why "Left, progressive" (sic) organisations support conservative, patriarchal, far-right organisations in the Middle East, wonder no more.

[@MissLenaBeamish]

Excuse me, I'm ignorant on this and I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but I was unaware Stalin had an issue with Jews specifically. I thought that was a Hitler thing?

[@iaincook5835]

@@MissLenaBeamish Stalin did have a problem with Jews, but not in a racial way like his confrere Hitler: Stalin was a psychopathic paranoiac, who saw counter-revolution and disloyalty to the State (and therefore himself) under every bed. During his late 1930s purges, when millions of imaginary foes perished, he imagined Jewish doctors (who, as in our society, were very prevalent) were out to get him, and purged them mercilessly. His paranoia regarding Jewish loyalty to themselves and their religion, and not to the State - which is not all that dissimilar to Hitler's delusions - grew and festered. Eventually, in the early 50s, he planned to round up and exile (or murder) hundreds of thousands of Jews before he - mercifully - died in 1953. A 2002 BMJ retrospective has it thus: The infamous “Doctors' Plot” speaks volumes about Soviet politics, Stalin's role, the persistence of a medieval view of doctors as potential poisoners, and the survival of overt anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, despite the known horrors of the recent Holocaust. For Stalin, whose deeds easily matched those of Hitler and whose deceits had been evident throughout his life, the Doctors' Plot and intended show trial were meant to cleanse the Soviet Union of “foreign,” “cosmopolitan,” and “Zionist” (read Jewish) elements. In fact, it was the only one of Stalin's show trials that did not come off-only because he died just before the spectacle was to begin.

[@adeleprince3913]

Lots of people over the years have been anti Jewish.

[@jon123xyz]

One of the most insightful summaries I have ever seen

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Many thanks!

[@OldHeathen1963]

You need schooling then.

[@Anaximander9]

Nikos is right. It's often hard to understand the incoherent and irrational leftists. However, the one thing that does seem consistent throughout almost all of the leftist activism, support of failure. Victimhood has been raised by the left to the status of virtue, regardless of circumstance. It doesn't matter if the victimhood is a direct result of a person's or people's own actions. All that is necessary to be virtuous in the eyes of leftists is failure, which equals victimhood. Correspondingly, if failure is a virtue, success itself must be evil. The success of Western Civilization and its free enterprise to raise the standard of living across the globe is not cheered by leftists, but instead decried as evil capitalism and oppressive patriarchy. Its very success is proof to the leftists that it is evil. The state of Israel is obviously successful, so it must be evil. The Palestinians are what is left of the failed Arab wars against Israel. The Arab nations have, at least temporarily, dropped their attempt to destroy Israel and have abandoned the Palestinians. The Palestinians themselves have accomplished little other than terrorist attacks on Israel. The Palestinians could be a poster child for failure and victimhood. In the eyes of leftists, Palestinians are therefore virtuous and must be supported.

[@thegodbombs]

💯 Exactly. Sad thing is most of them don’t directly acknowledge or see their own line of thought. They are so invested in victimhood they think only in terms of justice and injustice, oppressed and oppressor.

[@immanuelkhongsai6268]

Well said. Likewise, Israel can also victimized itself of the holocaust and from generations of persecution. But instead, they buckled up ,work hard, blame no one and started innovations and success is all that she wrote.

[@therealjordiano]

Rly nice piece of analysis there dude, i struggle to see how people can actually think like that but I've seen similar things myself, i believe it is probably the case

[@carlam1355]

Well said. We see the same victimhood approach with the woke movement and DEI. Some people are portrayed as absolute victims so everyone must cater to what they think and what they say. How about they take responsibility for their lives and not value themselves based on what others say and think?

[@MrToombstone]

This class needs to be taken to all of our Colleges and Universities.

[@user-kd3ic6do5n]

Sadly, I think he would be excluded So much common sense and truth.. the young have been trained to refute ideas which don't chime with their prejudices. Also, many universities are stuffed full with supporters of Islam and non-muslims are either brainwashed or scared to speak out. It's hard to see any way out.

[@91dodgespiritrt]

Our colleges and universities like to do their own brand of brainwashing, thank you.

[@pcb462]

I agree. We need examples of the lies that can be told by the right.

[@ianho-sing-loy7364]

@@pcb462 Whatever the "right" means cause this would be frowned by the right today let alone the left. If anything, the lecture is only the tip of the iceberg. I would like a more detailed lecture on the whole conflict and how the Middle East conflict is in part a remnant of the Cold War. By the way, 9/11 is not the US's fault.

[@jon123xyz]

When pigs fly

[@oliviasmith6865]

The lecture is absolutely outstanding! No words to express my gratitude to Nicos. Let's spread it widely!

[@paganjew0108]

As an American Jew, if I were living in Israel, I would be voting with the Labor party and not the conservative party. That said, I'm still Jewish. My prayers are with all of the women, children and elderly victims of this war, on both sides of the fence.

[@TrilobitesRTasty]

…because gullible right-wing/MAGAs need more pseudo intellectual drivel to justify their prejudices. Fortunately, Americans of the Jewish faith seek education and therefore see through this right-wing nonsense. …which is why the great majority of American Jews are Democrats.

[@patriciakimball8150]

@@paganjew0108 As a non-pagan Jew, I’d be voting with Likud.

[@user-gy3vp3tm3s]

@@paganjew0108 In what way are you still Jewish?

[@paganjew0108]

@@patriciakimball8150 .As is your right. Our choices don't make us more or less Jewish.

[@ronnieprettyman4818]

They should make every college kid in America listen to this lecture they might actually learn something n think twice before they run out n protest

[@rodgerhempfing2921]

Most will not listen because they will be mindlessly shouting slogans. For instance" from the river to the sea" is a euphemism for the genocide of the Jewish State, horrific meaning in reality.

[@matthewbrophy6555]

Gasa is the Auschwitz-Birkenau of the Middle East!

[@cmcer1995]

I will have to watch this a couple of times to educated myself on everything you talked about because so much of it I did not know and need to further digest it to understand fully. But, for now I do have a much better understanding as to who is behind most of this unrest in the Middle east. Thank you for taking the time to explain these things.

[@Skexal]

You've been totally misinformed my friend, this Is a asymmetrical and ahistorical take. He has intentfully excluded literally all, massacres by the israelis, all breaches of peace treaties between the two sides and all war crimes and breaching of international law.

[@rubylaser8601]

Isreal has long collaborated with China (PRC) on economic and technology development. China obtained a lot of technologies from Isreal, including military technologies. Then, China supports Iran. Iran supports Hamas. Hamas comes back to attack Isreal. This completes a full circle. Israel should rethink its relationship with China.

[@Meg-ts3kx]

what military technology Israel sold to China? genuinely asking, I'm unaware of this. as far as I know are not allowed to sell any tech without US approval To China , our technological trade with them is very restricted by U.S demand . which I'm perfectly fine with. the Iran-North Korea- Russia- China powers is a dangerous alliance the world needs to watch.

[@tomerzROTMG]

Amazing lecture, even as an Israeli I also learned new things, thank you

[@samsun01]

You still have a ton to learn, son. But one thing is sure, you're not on the right side of jew history. There are many good jews in the world but you and your clan ain't one of them.

[@picilocarnal]

@@samsun01says who? Are you perfect?🙄

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you, glad it was of value!

[@tomerzROTMG]

You are probably very smart if you know who I am and which tribe I belong to and who are the good Jews and who are not, I may need to learn a lot more but I do know and remember very well who did the selections to Jews and where is all of my father's large family from northern Greece@@samsun01

[@tomerzROTMG]

You are probably very smart if you know who I am and which tribe I belong to and who are the good Jews and who are not, I may need to learn a lot more but I do know and remember very well who did selections to Jews and where is all of my father's large family from northern Greece@@samsun01

[@NewToNC05]

Thank you so much for answering the questions I have been asking for years. I wanted facts, not politics. I wasn’t born while this was happening. I was in elementary school in the 70s when it was happening again. I did NOT learn about this in school (we were only taught about WW 1 and WW 2 from the American History side) the point being is as a grown adult with adult children myself now? All of this is happening again and now in mine/my children lifetime - I had no context. I had no facts, no education, to form an unbiased opinion. This talk was extremely helpful and I hope everyone listens and learns. I did just purchase the book he recommended. I want to base my opinions on facts and my own morality. He spoke in July, we now know there were beheadings of infants and children. These monsters exist but we must form opinions based on fact.

[@NuNugirl]

Thank you. I was born in 1958, a Jewish child in NY. I know all of this. Look into the hijacking of the Italian Cruise Ship The Achille Lauro in 1985. It was done by the “Palestinian Liberation Front”. That frightened me the most, because my Husband and I wanted to travel in Europe and they were separating the Jews from all the other passengers for punishment and death.

[@JUDALATION]

IF YOU BUY THIS crud YOU ARE A GULLIBLE FOOL...

[@nedgligich]

Lies, Now go and search for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

[@deepfamiliar3416]

The desire for a Jewish state is understandable and commendable, but it has came at a terrible price. For over 100 years now, Palestinian Arabs have been slowly ethnically cleansed and forceably removed from their homes by Israeli Jews. Why do you think there's so many Palestinians in Gaza? Nearly 2million people packed into a tiny area. Why? Because they were displaced by Jews and herded like cattle into the open-air prison of the Gaza Strip. Although Hamas' actions last week were disgraceful and unfathomably sociopathic, one has to wonder how we might act if we were expelled from our homes by an occupying force, i.e. the Israeli army, and routinely saw our family and friends slaughtered (Israeli army has killed Palestinian citizens effectively at random for decades). Jews owe it to themselves to be honest about what the project of Israel is: an attempt to steal land from Arabs who have lived there for hundreds of years.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you, glad you found it useful!

[@TXLionHeart]

What a fantastic lecture!

[@DetteBavid]

This filled in so many blanks thank you, my heart goes out to all the innocent lives involved 🙏🏻

[@deepfamiliar3416]

The desire for a Jewish state is understandable and commendable, but it has came at a terrible price. For over 100 years now, Palestinian Arabs have been slowly ethnically cleansed and forceably removed from their homes by Israeli Jews. Why do you think there's so many Palestinians in Gaza? Nearly 2million people packed into a tiny area. Why? Because they were displaced by Jews and herded like cattle into the open-air prison of the Gaza Strip. Although Hamas' actions last week were disgraceful and unfathomably sociopathic, one has to wonder how we might act if we were expelled from our homes by an occupying force, i.e. the Israeli army, and routinely saw our family and friends slaughtered (Israeli army has killed Palestinian citizens effectively at random for decades). Jews owe it to themselves to be honest about what the project of Israel is: an attempt to steal land from Arabs who have lived there for hundreds of years.

[@DetteBavid]

@@deepfamiliar3416 I don't care about Islamic supremacy

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you, and indeed let's hope for the best for the innocent involved.

[@dannybird4996]

⁠@@deepfamiliar3416removed due to attacks . They started a war . They certainly kicked a bees nest this time . And because Arabs are loosing y’all call it “ ethnic cleansing “ your basically parroting what MSM And the far left pundits are saying. Isreal has been there thousandth of years before Palestine was even Palestine. You don’t even know the history of the map in the last 100 years all of Palestine used to be Israel many many years ago .

[@Weirdomanification]

​@@deepfamiliar3416Wow, I never knew that a person could live for hundreds of years.

[@Sense2024]

Envy has been the theme of leftists for a long time.

[@nildaluzrodriguez]

Agreed

[@Dave-cf4vd]

It's funny - at some point I recognized this, and decided to learn from those who I was jealous of. My life improved dramatically.

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

Hatred has been the theme of rightists for THE longest time!

[@TheFluffyDuck]

Communists don’t love the poor, they hate the rich.

[@schifahrer123]

This is easily one of the best lectures I have heard in years. Excellent!! Well-articulated, crystal-clear, logical arguments, compelling and powerful presentation down to the timing and rhythm of every statement. My hat is off to this man. Bravo!

[@keithpeterson5127]

You have not heard many good lectures. This is pure right wing crap.

[@solygoldenbaum6262]

Great man saying the truth

[@sandraullmann5711]

Truth does ring clearly when you hear it.

[@adirosenfeld8419]

By far the most coherent, articulate, fact based and most important, interesting talk from start to end

[@dwo356]

😂

[@davidcole5464]

The Truth! At Last! I now understand, as a liberal, what has happened with “my” side. Thank you for this contribution to the greater good.

[@matthewbrophy6555]

Gasa is the Auschwitz-Birkenau of the Middle East!

[@user-cq5ez3ft4e]

I'm Jewish and voted DEMOCRAT for 37 ... 37 ... 37 ... YEARS. ... in 2004 I swallowed the "red pill." ..... WHO will join me???

[@sjam1159]

​@@user-cq5ez3ft4e Good job.

[@jessereichbach588]

Yup, as an actual liberal Democrat I have been sick to my stomach so to speak since around 2016 about what my party was doing and how so called "liberals" were acting. I didn't support Trump, but it was clear he was being railroaded, which was totally unnecessary given that he's Trump. But none the less, the DNC took it there, and the media was in pocket. They even bragged about it when Biden took office in a Time mag article called "the secret shadow campaign that saved the election". Where they literally brag about manipulating, deceiving, the American public, and making up what they considered "righteous lies", to oust Trump and get Biden elected. In 2020, they used racial division, and the entire African Amrican community for this agenda, as the DNC clearly instigated the rise of BLM, in riots that killed 25 people. And then as soon as Biden took office, poof, it all just stops. BLM disappear with millions, and not a single thing was achieved. I tried alerting other so called liberals about this, and all I got was vitriol and disregard, being called a fake liberal haha, and a Trumo supporter. Even though I never voted for the man once. I didn't vote for Biden either, or HIllary before, but other candidates just because I refuse to vote the establishment candidate when they so clearly lie and deceive, which they did to Bernie in 2016, that probably gave Trump the election. They were so inflicted with trump derangement syndrome, there was no getting through to anyone really. It was like talking to wood. Instead I found myself being heckled and berated for my "whataboutisms" and "bothsidisms", basically just empty and fallacious accusations as they had no real argument, just vitriol and hate. Those BLM riots that killed 25 people, most people don't know this. But 25 is the number of unarmed black Americans killed by police in 2018 or 2019, i forget which. THAT was the reality. The rhetoric was obviously completely distorted. In fact, thehy never ever gave the actual number in the media. Instead they would always use the same statistic. That unarmed blacks are 2.5x more likely to be killed by police than whites. But if you understand numbers, that can be quite deceptive. As 2.5x 1 is 2.5 lol. So if we are dealing with such low numbers, the disparity is not nearly what they made it seem. Of course attempting to explain that to marxists masquerading as liberals, was impossible. I was again called a racist, and a Trump supporter and all variety of nasty things. I'm a lifelong liberal Dem who worked for the party for years. Only ever voted Republican once and it was for the liberal in disguise Bloomberg when he ran for mayor lol. I am glad many actual liberals are finally waking up though. Maybe there is still time to salvage the Democratic party before its too late. I still havent jumped ship because I feel, if I did, and people like me did, then suddenly we've actually handed the entire party over to these insane marxists, which could ultimately be disastrous for the country. Anyway, welcome to enlightenment fellow liberal. I think we need to take that name back and make it mean something again.

[@jessereichbach588]

@@user-cq5ez3ft4e Im too worried that if we all jump ship, the Marxists in disguise would have complete control of the party then, which could be absolutely destructive to the entire country. I suppose I am still fighting from within even though it sometimes seems hopeless. I have no idea how so many ignorant ignorant people started calling themselves "liberal", but they clearly dont know what it means. I hope to resurrect actual liberalism, but I am not sure its possible. But I do know, that an entire Democratic party in the control of Marxist fake liberals, could be incredibly dangerous.

[@italeevn6200]

You forgot to mention that "palestinian people" is a K.G.B. invention from 1964. Prior to that there is no such a thing in any record

[@OldHeathen1963]

That is because the area wasn't empty after 70AD ! They ( Jews and Palestinian ) are both Semitic peoples! They are fighting a war of religion! If I HAD to choose, I'd pick Jewish religion because they leave you the flock alone!!

[@SeattlePioneer]

There is nothing new about identifying and building new ethnic identities. At the time of the American Revolution, there were no "Americans." It was a revolt by British people against rule by Great Britain, and for "the rights of Englishmen."

[@pontifexinstitute]

Roman coins stamped with Palestinae on them is also a KGB invention?

[@alecmally5433]

Great presentation. So much Wokeness these days (eleos!) that people have forgotten to look at the Soviet role in combating Israel's democratic, economic and military progress. Glad you put the spotlight squarely on that. Am afraid the young generation completely glosses over the Cold War. Keep the focus where it needs to be.

[@kelvinc1205]

While the Palestinians call the Jews "colonizers" for coming in from other countries, a lot of Arabs from surrounding countries moved to Palestine when the Jews made the region prosperous. But the Arab migrants are not considered colonizers. So it is a race issue. Additionally, hundreds of thousands of Jews moved to Israel as Jews were expelled from the surrounding Arab countries.

[@artnull13]

He did mention pan-Arabism and the ethnic-national/fascist concept

[@Spacecow78993]

This is the most brilliant analyses. Thank you. I loath Communists and idiots.

[@mikeecker]

Capitalism is the bane of humanity, and the cause of war in our time. Y'all need to get right with Jesus and realize that love not hate is the answer. Israel is an apartheid state, committing genocide. This talk justifies their position. Propaganda

[@RichRich1955]

You loath yourself?

[@BenjaminMilesPerry]

Communism is an Ashkenazi JEW, invention !

[@BinaryJoe]

Ayn Rand spent her entire life characterizing the average person as a parasite for any reliance on the state at all and ended her life riddled with cancer, because she refused to stop smoking, and penniless because she was a nightmare to try and cooperate with...all of which conspired to see that she was taken care of by state social programs until the day she died. I'd be hesitant to hitch any wagon to anything associated with someone who clearly had a loose grasp on what they believed to such a degree that they became the things they hated because of pride, and resentment, and the ignorance of self that comes along with them. Communists aren't great, but they also don't have a monopoly on idiocy. I'd rate Rand's philosophy as being as poorly conceived, stupid, and devoid of compassion as any Communist ideology and demonstrably as destructive.

[@colby25]

@@BinaryJoe So whats any of that got do with this lecture? Or is the point he is making hitting home?

[@boredwithcameraphone]

Honestly glad I found this. I was drifting into support for the Palestinians without this context. Spread this video to all. Regardless, let’s pray for peace

[@pittiedaddy-j8s]

I fell into the pro-Palestinian trap for a while after 9-11, primarily because I was listening to people like Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, and Ward Churchill, the Blame America First triumvirate. Eventually, I began to see through all of the half-baked ideas they spout, which they dress up in a sort of phony intellectualism. The stake in the heart was listening to Christopher Hitchens' crucifixion of the Palestinian "cause" and the false equivalency promulgated by the far Left. Thankfully, there are clear-headed thinkers like Nikos who are able to slice through all the baloney being put out there about Israel's supposed culpability for the Hamas' atrocities.

[@busterbiloxi3833]

Prayer is less than worthless. Instead, swear an oath of allegiance to Almighty Zeus, and all your problems will be solved. Heh!

[@Dave-cf4vd]

Watch some Brigitte Gabriel or Gad Saad talk about how Lebanon changed in a few years. Did you know that in 1970 Iran was a fashion mecca of the world and had the highest number of female med students? There is a fundamentalist cancer you need to understand. See if you fit in.

[@pittiedaddy-j8s]

@@Dave-cf4vd I am familiar with the work of Gabriel and am also aware of how modernized some Muslim countries were. I've seen the excellent Persepolis. The problem is that the fundamentalists use their power to brainwash the young so that the cancer is spread generation to generation. It is hard to know how to break the cycle.

[@charlytaylor1748]

@@Dave-cf4vd If you google pictures of street scenes from back then. It's quite an eye-opener.

[@shlomobachar4123]

Hamas cut an 8-year-old girl's hand off. For hours, she lay in her own blood, shaking. All alone. By the time rescue teams reached her, she took her last breaths. There will be no ceasefire with this evil.

[@bearowen5480]

Nikos' lecture was very affirming for me, because I too have believed for decades that the key to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is what he calls "the underdog principle" along with its concomitant reliance on basic human envy. The perverse effects on the current conflict of these principles is that the "underdogs" do not wish to be lifted up to economic and cultural parity with their Israeli neighbors, but to bring Israel down to the level of their own poverty and misery. This envy principle appears to be a flaw in human nature that has regrettably been with us throughout man's history.

[@user-te5vp6qv5h]

Nietzsche called this phenomenon “ressentiment”

[@countbooga6997]

They arent "poor" whatsoever. They get more foreign aid than ANY OTHER GROUP IN THE WORLD. they could be a first world country by now but instead they funnel it all into hamas and weapons.

[@ndgrad22]

All people want to bring others down? Do some want to be equal, rise up, share the bounty?

[@RockPile_]

Unbearably sophomoric comment. It’s painful to watch someone flail so much trying to sound smart. Or rather to sound “erudite” as you’d probably say lol.

[@bearowen5480]

@@ndgrad22 In the case of the Gazan Arabs, obviously not. The human flaw of envy runs deep in the human psyche. I'm the very farthest from being a Biblical scholar, but from my childhood religious education, I think i recall that there are important parables in the Old Testament that examine this basic psychological phenomenon of human motivation. One would be the Genesis story of Joseph and his robe. The angry jealousy of his brothers caused them to steal his coat of many colors and sell him into slavery with the Ishmaelites for 20 pieces of silver. It is also dealt with in the Ten Commandments as number 10 which prohibits covetness and theft of a neighbor's possessions. So, the weakness of envy and the desire to destroy the accomplishments of others out of jealous resentment has been around for a very long time. It seems obvious that it is a driving force behind the egregious animalistic behavior of organizations like Hamas. If a basic human instict were to strive to lift oneself up, think of what the Palestinian Arabs could have created in Gaza with the billions of dollars which have flowed into the territory from the developed world community and other Arab countries. Nikos is right.

[@CrisusAttucks]

I've worked with Jews and Palestinians. the jews are well mannered, polite and pleasant. the palestinians are not at all.

[@snakeplissken526]

I've been to Israel, it was nice. I've been to Arab countries, shitholes apart from the western hotels.

[@tomburroughes9834]

Given the terrible events of the weekend, extraordinarily timely. The reactions of far too many to the atrocities at the weekend have shaken me to the core.

[@ExistenceUniversity]

Suspiciously well timed. Like how Benjamin sponsored hamas to get a 9/11 to attack, and Friends of Mossad ARI had a propaganda video (starting history in 1947 is propaganda). Interesting

[@rykson161]

The murder of Africans and the sterilization of Africans by “ jews “ did not shake you to the core !!!

[@PrivateSi]

The Right are as blind and confused as The Left, and it's all The Great Satan's fault, as an Atheist... They believe in colonisation and colonisers over natives... The European Right are natives who are fed up of being colonised... Euro and UK Righties that support Israel are utter hypocrites.. It would be like supporting a European nation being colonised by a foreign monoculture such as Judaism / Islam / Christianity / Hinduism etc... It was bad enough shaking off 1500 years of Christain domination in Europe, having it replaced with Judaism would be even worse.

[@codyvandal2860]

People who say what you are saying seem to believe things stard over the weekend. It's like you don't even that thousands of innocent children are systematically exterminated in a genocidal policy by the occupation government. If you knew that the 'atrocities' would clearly be seen by you as resistance. It's like the Nat Turner slave rebellion.

[@nedgligich]

Lies, Now go and search for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

[@gloriaalonzo5714]

Excellent presentation.. this is how we need to confront the left and support Israel..

[@CARPB147]

Fabulous exposition of the state of affairs in the Middle East and the way a section of the world sees it.

[@ef2718]

He gave an exposition of affairs related to Israel only, the middle east has dozens of other conflicts, and the Arab Israeli one was/is (but less) used as a distraction.

[@Death2Hatred]

Yes, true. Even when Israel has the power to destroy capitals but it chooses peace. But HAMAS chooses violence wherever it suits them. That's the biggest difference. Israel warns civilians before any unavoidable attacks during the war waged after a unilateral and communally-driven terrorist acts by Hamas, but Hamas uses civilians as shields (true war crime) and puts blockades to prevent movement. They still want to stop Israel's retaliation.

[@GowriChengappa]

Arabs have to change- we r not in the middle ages😮

[@Tespri]

@@GowriChengappa they won't

[@arthas640]

@@GowriChengappa Saadly they wont. Hamas are Iranian puppets and Iran has a theocracy even worse than some that existed in the medieval period. People sometimes call Iran "Puritanical" but the real Puritans were in many ways much nicer (women had more rights, less emphasis on religious leaders and more emphasis on a personal relationship with God, and many positions were elected from among the community).

[@arthas640]

Fun (or rather depressing) fact: Israel is the only country to use armed ambulances such as the Merkava "Tankbulance" because nearly every enemy Israel faces will ignore the rules of war and attack ambulances flying the Red Cross/Red Crescent which is something even the Nazis usually avoided doing.

[@jhlasound]

And this is an EXCELLENT lecture. This guy is awesome

[@JustaJuboi]

Hes spitting bullets of truth 🙏

[@trevcharchartrev834]

While I already new all the historical facts Nikos mentioned, I have never heard them presented in the context of the mindset of the left. I am absolutely gobsmacked by this. It's a gamechanger for when I have to try and educate my friends on the realities behind what has happened in Israel and Gaza since Oct. 7. I think this lecture should be required viewing for every illiberal liberal out there

[@GreenCanvasInteriorscape]

Well said I call that immoderate moderates

[@angeliquebabst7034]

I agree with you 💯

[@flodjod]

pity you never learned english

[@urielvargas6777]

The left believes that inequality can be solved through government action. Socialism wants equality and absolute control by government.

[@readthetype]

*Define:* _“…illiberal liberal…”_

[@user-cq5ez3ft4e]

FANTASTIC presentation! All of my Christian brothers and sisters should STAND WITH ISRAEL!

[@XmanSully]

Thanks. One point to emphasis: when he says/we say “to throw Israel to the sea”, now after October 7th the world can see it was both metaphorical and literal. They would have literally thrown us to the see. Mass murder Hitler style. Thank you for your support. Btw I live in the Jordan Valley. An hour’s drive southward is Church of the Holy Sepulchre, an hour’s drive northward is Nazareth and Basilica of the Annunciation. How lucky am I? 😊 That of course if I won’t get slaughtered in my sleep by blood carving arabs

[@johndonahue3509]

We do..

[@ThundermansThunder]

@@XmanSully This information in this video isn't a new revelation to me, but the disgust hits me afresh, every time I hear someone talk of the evils that have been, and continue to be perpetuated against Israel. I pray for God's protection and continued blessing upon you, and upon all of Israel. I also pray for the ones attacking Israel, that they will realize their rebellion against God, turn from their wicked ways and repent to God. God is, always, in control, even though it may not appear so, and is the source of all life, He loves us, and His Son, Jesus, makes it possible for the Holy Spirit dwell within each of us as His temple, and give us HIs perfect peace, so, whatever our circumstances, we can live in this unshakable, unfathomable peace! This prayer is just part of a larger prayer against the evil that seeks to hide the truth of God's redemptive plan of salvation through Jesus, the Messiah, from whoever and wherever each individual person may live, that desire to know God and His will for their lives. Yes, you are, indeed, blessed to live in Israel. I would love to visit there sometime, of course, during a time when it is not actively under attack! It isn't likely to be any time soon, even if Israel was safe to visit right now, though, short of a miracle, due to the current circumstances in my life. It is amazing to see the incredible level of prosperity in Israel, especially considering the short amount of time that it has been re-established as a nation in 1948 and the many miracles that are an integral part of Israel, not only in the distant history, but also in the recent history and the present, as well! That is all due to God's favor, all the way, without question!

[@tomigun5180]

No thanks. We Hungarian Christians were oppressed by the Jews for 4 decades no less, after WWII, and killed 7 million Hungarian babies with their dictatorship and abortion, that we now know is part of the Jewish religion. We stand with the Palestinian nation, who had suffered through the same 40 years, PLUS 33 more years by the same psychopath people, while the whole world turned their back on them, which is INSANE!!! This is why here in Hungary the post-communist Left, led by Jews, is pro-Israel, while the real Hungarians, who are right wing, are pro-Palestine. (Orbán Viktor isn't right wing, he too is a post-communist turned left wing liberal. He's a Zionist controlled opposition, like Trump, Pence, Haley, DeSantis are in the US.) The fact that it's the other way around in America is also INSANE!!!

[@neacienation]

Why don't you stand with your Christian brothers and sisters that the IDF is murdering right now ??

[@skeptic4031]

Amazing lecture !! I learnt so much, thank you Nikos.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you!

[@tbone9603]

Learned not learnt.

[@whorlwinds.9750]

@@tbone9603 “Learnt” is also correct- just not as widely used anymore. It is also a great Scrabble word!

[@dirkbertels3872]

This is a very interesting perspective on terrorism especially in light of the latest massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The concept of the left 'taking the side of the underdog', though seemingly simplistic, makes a lot of sense to me. Another very helpful source are the videos from Major General Rupert Jones - who gives very balanced presentations regarding the war logistics.

[@James_36]

it makes sense really, it explains their complete contradiction to support people who are against freedom and rights for the LGCTQ community they also support

[@JD-yu3dk]

He’s so correct about envy being at the root.

[@-Swamp_Donkey-]

You should buy a shirt that says “I’m a freaking moron”.

[@JD-yu3dk]

@@-Swamp_Donkey- stay in the swamp, Donkey✌🏾

[@thisisobviouslynotmyrealname]

Envy is the essence of leftism

[@deepfamiliar3416]

The desire for a Jewish state is understandable and commendable, but it has came at a terrible price. For over 100 years now, Palestinian Arabs have been slowly ethnically cleansed and forceably removed from their homes by Israeli Jews. Why do you think there's so many Palestinians in Gaza? Nearly 2million people packed into a tiny area. Why? Because they were displaced by Jews and herded like cattle into the open-air prison of the Gaza Strip. Although Hamas' actions last week were disgraceful and unfathomably sociopathic, one has to wonder how we might act if we were expelled from our homes by an occupying force, i.e. the Israeli army, and routinely saw our family and friends slaughtered (Israeli army has killed Palestinian citizens effectively at random for decades). Jews owe it to themselves to be honest about what the project of Israel is: an attempt to steal land from Arabs who have lived there for hundreds of years.

[@MrFilthy35]

​@@deepfamiliar3416well said , however I don't think the truth is wanted in this situation

[@jan-olofharnvall8760]

I stand by Israel🇮🇱🇸🇪

[@nedgligich]

Lies, Now go and search for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

[@noobsaibot5285]

@@nedgligich What happened before that genius? What do you think the dome of rock is built on? Who has been in the land for over 3000yrs and what is its history? Did you know there was ancient mosaic of king David in Gaza? Do you know how many times most of Israel was offered to these idiots?

[@dannybird4996]

@@nedgligichI did what’s your point ?

[@bubbag8895]

​@@dannybird4996I would assume the point is Jews and and the West were planning Israel for a long time to weaken Arabs

[@oyeahjustcomenting]

@@nedgligich😂 yes that was a thing. So was inventing countries called “Syria” “Iraq” “Transjordan” etc

[@baggobilbins5183]

This was very good. It certainly answered a lot of my questions.

[@droneflyer5065]

Amazing talk. Thank you!

[@bumblebee8653]

What you speak of makes me think of actions associated with self loathing. The indoctrination of hatred is also turned inwards in order to be able to perpetrate such inhumane atrocities that have recently taken place. It is difficult for some to imagine others who function without conscience, but there are more sociopaths and psychopaths amongst us in every society than many realize. Emotional disregulation and psychopathy coupled with repeated doctrine of hate is not something that can be reasoned with.

[@michaellamont2605]

I constantly hear Dark Triad personalities are not that common. BS! It's HUGE

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Very bad ideas can make unthinking people, who otherwise wouldn't bother anyone, do very bad things.

[@michaellamont2605]

@@nikossotirakopoulos6876 Amen to that. Most people can't

[@bumblebee8653]

@@michaellamont2605 do you think there are more now than in the past, or do you think we recognize it better?

[@normanplombe2889]

That might well be the most insightful comment I've seen on youtube... or maybe it's just psychobabble... I don't know...but I do know that reasonable people ain't gonna stop this thing from happening. Logic has left the building.

[@shevetlevi2821]

Thank you Nikos. A cousin pointed out that if the population of Israel swapped with Gaza, that all Jewish Israelis were crammed into that s**thole of Gaza, and the palestinians took over all of Israel, in 5 years Gaza would be a thriving vibrant country and what was beautiful Israel would be a brand new s**thole. There's nothing they can't ruin.

[@hughmac13]

There was a particularly virulent strain of this kind of thinking going around in a certain European country during a few decades in the first half of the previous century.

[@shevetlevi2821]

I don't want to assume. Are you comparing my comment to the Nazis of WW2 and before, or are you commenting on the Left in Nikos video? @@hughmac13

[@hughmac13]

@@shevetlevi2821 You are wise to be wary of assumptions. I am observing the fundamental similarity between the kind language you use-together with the thought that drives it-and that of the Hitlerites.

[@moonchild7909]

true, the arab cult have the power to turn everything like a $hit hole they live in. Just see how they’re turning western countries to a dogpile with their radical ideology

[@shevetlevi2821]

Okay, clarified, and so typical of the hyperbole of the antisemitic Left. We have no common ground or even common language between us but I'll back up my statement for others reading. First of all there's nothing whatsoever similar about my language and that of Hitler. So, I said that Israel would turn Gaza's s**hole into a thriving vibrant country and Gazans would turn beautiful Israel into a s**hole. Let's look to see if history backs that up. Even though there have always been Jews living in Israel in the late 19th Century we started returning in greater numbers. What we found was a neglected backwater of the Ottoman empire. Travel writers, including Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Herman Melville attested to this. The Jews found a land of malarial swamps in the north, and arid dead desert in the south, and for all intents and purposes a sleeping and abandoned Jerusalem. We look today at what Israel has done and the first half of my statement speaks for itself. In 2005 Israel UNILATERALLY left Gaza. In effect telling the Gazans that they now have a country and their destiny is completely in their own hands. Israel left behind modern housing and state of the art agricultural infrastructure including modern greenhouses. What did the Gazans do? The blew them up with explosives. I've been to Gaza in the 1980s. The beaches were beautiful, much like the beaches in southern California with palisades and dune networks. With the billions of dollars that sympathetic European and Gulf Arab states poured into Gaza they could've easily created a booming, green tourist economy, the Riviera of the eastern Mediterranean. Maybe even a little Dubai and a bright future for themselves and their children. But what did Gaza do? They voted for hamas in 2007 and took that money that could've gone to schools and hospitals and turned the concrete and irrigation pipes into terror tunnels and rockets and polluted beaches. This proves the second part of my statement. So take your neoMarxist BS back to whatever college campus you slithered out of. It may wash there but it doesn't in sane, ethical society. @@hughmac13

[@georger6624]

Extremely well done. Thank you for this. You really put it straight out the way it really is.

[@MinimumWageREI]

I wish he'd point out that the West Bank and Gaza were conquered and run by Jordan and Egypt respectively. And that neither country wants anything to do with their people they abandoned in those territories. Israel would do a dance if those cou tries took over those territories.

[@HermanLabuschagne]

Outstanding presentation. The communist-Arab connection is very important to understand in the context of current events. Very few have the insight to point to its significance.

[@sedalia9356]

Yes, but Jewish people here in the USA are often socialist/communist. I don't understand. High IQ and education don't always translate to reason. See Cipolla's 5 laws of stupidity.

[@PrivateSi]

There is no justification for supporting a bunch of neo-colonising Jewish Supremacists known as Zionists who stole land while terrorising millions of the population there, who ironically have more ancient Jewish and Semitic blood in them than all the neo-invaders combined. Why do Cons always skip modern history and mud-rake further and further back in time?... -- I've just cut off the 'ancient blood rights' Zionist argument... The core term of the Oslo Peace Accords was NO ILLEGAL SETTLEMENTS. Arafat and the PLO put down their guns and chose peace but within 10 years 10s of 1000s of murderous, criminal Israeli 'settlers' (UNSETTLERS of the native population) move in by force.. -- Now every West Bank town and city has half or more of the streets off limits to Palestinians while Jews can go anywhere. There are Israeli soldier-grunt everywhere, Palestinians have no rights and no protection. Settlers get away with murder every other day. Add to that repeated, escalating bombing of Gaza and it's easy to see why Hamas gained power but also why more and more of the world DESPISE THE ZIONIST OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE. -- Ashkenazi Jewz turned into neo-nazi zionist where PALESTINIANS ARE THE NEW JEWS!.... yet more related to ancient Jews than actual neo Jews... Crazy.

[@susanmcdonald9088]

Can you explain, then, 2 million Russians encouraged to immigrate to Israel most Greek Orthodox not Jewish but educated as engineers, computer scientists, and "communist"? His overall theory and historical interpretation of medieval peoples & colonialism, are biased and myth... You might also wonder about Mossad ops all over the world, and Israel's partnership with China Russia Iran & Arabia on the Belt&Road trade empire wanting to destroy the West and become the new world order, with despots & dictators... The narratives he presents are just not making coherent sense anymore, and certainly not good historical inquiry...

[@the_Kurgan]

It's a natural alliance. They both serve the same master.

[@newfoundlanderonthego8729]

the capitalist american interest would have. even away for this ridiculous presentation to have some balance,if not integrity.

[@Kaurione]

Regarding The Underdog Principle, In both New Zealand and Australia there is characteristic often commented on called the “Tall Poppy Syndrome” which is an envy of those who do well or “think to much of them selves” It is used as a moralised justification for the attack and taking down of an individual, and is a very real problem. A recent quote i read of Margaret Thatcher was that socialists while talking equality they always level down.

[@simpetcla12]

Australians are grossly insecure.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

This mindset is what I had in mind when I talked about envy.

[@stvbrsn]

Crabs. Crabs in a bucket.

[@haraldtheyounger5504]

When anyone thinks they are "Chosen" "Special", obviously they are inviting trouble, and certainly require others to pull off the mask of falsity which they've adorned themselves with. Religion is an evil we can all do without. It is mind control, never forget that fact. As for evil Thatcher, she loved to spread needless suffering.

[@stevensmith797]

tall popy sydrom has 0 to do with this mate , israel isnt liked because of the 75 years history of israel , from breaking the 1946 border agreements , to how they treat palistinians , they like hamas are terrorists in every metric , only diference is they are state sanctioned with far better weapons , fk both israel and hamas , both killers of inocent people

[@SeanandBlanca]

You are 100% correct. Envy Hatred of success Weak and helpless. A cultural of despair and pity. Pathetic and evil.

[@mja351]

They could have united and become part of that success but they chose not to.

[@maggiegubermanetedgy9813]

Wow amazing lecture! Thank you!

[@ulliel_]

what an amazing and fascinating lecture.

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you very much!

[@volition51]

Thank you for a great talk! It's good to see that most of the comments are anti-envy: they're from people who appreciate and admire success. Very, very well done!

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Many thanks!

[@El_King911]

You mean supporters of war crimes?

[@alangregg5520]

Excellent presentation. It needs to reach more people, especially in the West where there is so much ignorance

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Thank you!

[@itzakehrenberg3449]

There is even more ignorance outside of the West.

[@arthas640]

the problem in the west is less about ignorance, after all nearly all the Jews outside of Israel are in the West and even in places like the US you'll see tons of Jewish media, it's more about repressed and unacknowledged antisemitism and weaponizing political issues for political gain. Under dog stories are popular in media and many liberal groups want to seem more inclusive so they back a lot of pro Palestinian stuff to draw in more Arabs and to seem like they're rooting for the under dog. A lot of people know a fair amount about the situation, they just dont really care since it conflicts with their goals and since backing Israel means not supporting the under dog Palestinians. It also doesnt help that antisemitism (and racism in general) is still present in many liberal, left, and far left groups but since left wing ideologies like to view themselves as the anti-racist, inclusive parties they ignore antisemitism and deny it. Backing Palestine is a nice way for them to pretend like its not racially motivated and allows them to both back the under dog and get points for that, and if they can get the west to abandon Israel and stop supporting them then they can just sit back and watch the Arabs finish what the Germans started and pretend like racism had nothing to do with things.

[@DeniseLunna]

One of the best analysis on this topic that I've heard. This gentleman literally nailed it by exposing long-term problem of the Left with an envy. Such a simple but an ingenious point! Same reason is behind proposing huge taxation on successful (and so rich) people, emphasis of equality, redistribution (it doesn't matter so much how I'm doing as long as my neighbor/competing company/other race or nationality isn't better off)...

[@buddyflood6761]

That's BS, we see how the ultra rich wants it all and don't care about our citizens! Them making record profits while we are going through very difficult times should show you that

[@pluckypluckster]

being rich is okay as long as you are paying your employess who helped you get rich a livable wage and not freezing their pay, cutting their benefits all while you're trippling your income, owning multiple homes you barely use around the globe, yada yada yada BS.

[@debschroeder7637]

You need to look at the 50's and sixties. Every dollar over 400,000 was taxed at 92%. We paid the war debt off and the economy did well. It started under Eisenhower and continued to Reagan. Not at 92% but close.

[@helbitkelbit1790]

Jealousy....

[@patriciakimball8150]

Excellent work, Nikos! Am I hearing a Spanish accent from a Greek? Love it! PS I was in Athens during the trials of the diktatorion and I remember a demonstration at which Greek socialists were screaming “death to Israel, death to the Jews”. So it is deeply comforting for me to see you speak like this.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

That's a Greek accent.. not Spanish

[@nikossotirakopoulos6876]

Greek and Spanish accents are alike! Anti-Israeli sentiments (and anti-americanism) have been rampant in Greece. And it's actually much better now than in the part. Arafat (the original leader of the PLO) was a guest of honour to the conferences of the then ruling socialist Party.

[@Phosphoreus]

@@nikossotirakopoulos6876certainly the Greeks are envious of Israelis.

[@fraudebs8786]

That's not a Spanish accent. It's totally Greek.

[@teachedteach]

Orthodox Christian nations are deeply antisemitic. They are probably the most antisemitic groups in the world. It has deep roots in that form of Christianity. About the accent it is clrearly Greek but there is a mysterious overlap with Spanish. I am myself a native Spanish speaker who has been dumfounded by how similar the pronounciation of both sound specially when speaking English. I even get confused sometimes.

[@mariuspessah2991]

This was a fabulous lecture . Very insightful and brilliant . Thank you !

[@my-therapist]

Thank you for this lesson! Truth is not told in todays societies.

[@nedgligich]

Now go and search for the 1917 Balfour Declaration.

[@epicccurusaurelius2634]

@@nedgligich Even if you go back to 1917 everything he told from 48 is true.