The US-Israel relationship explained | Start Here

The US has always been Israel’s most important ally. What’s behind the relationship? What keeps it going? And why are some people questioning how it works? #AJStartHere with @SandraGathmann explains.
00:59 - The US has supported Israel from the beginning
01:44 - Why the US supported Zionism
02:29 - The US and Israel’s “shared values”
03:27 - The US and Israel are strategic partners
04:07 - How the US and Israel’s strategic partnership developed during the Cold War
05:29 - The US gives Israel a lot of money for its military
07:25 - Being pro-Israel pays off politically in the US
07:51 - Why evangelical Christians in the US support Israel.
08:34 - The influence of pro-Israel lobby groups like AIPAC
09:46 - Is the US the guarantor of Israeli impunity?
10:56 - Is the US-Israel alliance under pressure?
This episode features:
David Tal - Israel Studies at the University of Sussex
Khaled Elgindy - Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute
Steven Simon - Senior Research Analyst at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Alex Gatopoulos - Al Jazeera Defence Editor
Daniel Levy - President of the US / Middle East Project
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[@aljazeeraenglish]

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[@user-kl5yb7gh9l]

I relate to Hermit Crab and its Shell...now it is like the US is the Shell that being pulled by the Hermit crab- Israel. Many successful Jews resided in US and then building up significant influence in the finance and politics and that was how Israel was being built??? It is? And how did the world media report about the huge number of Palestinians who were being chased out of their long inhabited land??? Why did the world allowed that to happen? United Nation? Why did the UN accepted Israel ????

[@resurrectedone7463]

"You know what also died in Gaza? The Myth of Western Humanity and Democracy"

[@lilyannal5159]

Don't drag and blame the WEST for their own self-inflect injury. Don't waste our tax dollars on these spoil & entitlement brat. We don't own this people anything. Let Arabs take care their own. By the way, Palestinians can stop their suffering by simply point out the Hamas at. They won't do it. So stop crying for them, when they did not want to help themselves.

[@synth3611]

Does that mean that people like you move out of the West?

[@Just-One-God]

​@@synth3611 We're talking about Gaza, not Western countries.

[@ColoniaMurder20]

dont start a war if you cant finish.

[@resurrectedone7463]

@@ColoniaMurder20 Damage control?

[@Kwame-yw9kz]

Think of Israel as an unofficial 51st state, not only enjoying a special status but also being armed, receiving money per citizen and enjoying free healthcare without paying taxes-truly the favored child among the states.

[@mejust8392]

Israel is the owner of USA. When Israel tells US to jump, US will have to reply 'yes master, how high?'. Isreal citizens can receive free everything, paid for by US taxpayers, for US citizens even their own education they need to take loans.

[@user-xc6wd3hb4s]

More like, Israel has replaced Washington, DC.

[@ProsenjitDas-cw2fm]

No, It's QATAR who give USA Their land for MAKING LARGEST MILITARY/AIRCRAFT BASE in GOLF😂😂😂 hypocrisy of QATAR/AL JAZEERA. Shouting plz loudly🤮🤮

[@Loner-Wolf]

America is Israel's 2nd state. Obedience to Zion is America's motto.

[@ProsenJEET-jn4yn]

​@@mejust8392no it's Qatar who give USA Their land for make largest millitary base in GOLF😂 HYPOCRISY play out😂

[@christineplaton3048]

Best short documentary, most Americans are not aware of how aide is dispensed to Israel. Raises important questions , justified concerns regarding funding of the Israeli military. When used to oppress the Palestinians, and now for genocidal warfare, these are crucial areas that the US must reconsider.

[@houseofdiamonti]

We have been allies with Israel for 75 years, one war will not change that. In addition to our morals not changing, the US signed agreements years ago that promises 3 billion a year for probably another 7 more years.

[@jeanyves651]

Most Americans are not aware of "all the Jews in top roles of Biden administration" source times of Israel

[@abrahammorale605]

Just the way many Americans are not aware that they are European descendants, that America was created by the European power especially modern Italy Portuguese and Spain before the English British empire defeated them in war and took over the land now call America and colonised it into modern America . Just as the Americans are not aware that it was the Jews scientist that built the weapons that won America second world war and make America dollar to become worldwide currency and gave America dominance in the world . Americans are not aware that Julius Robert Oppenheimer who with his Jews teams built the atomic bombs that where used to stop Japan in 1945 where german Jews . Americans are not aware that the world most dangerous weapons America have are built by Jews experts . Americans are not aware that it was after Jews weapons won America second world war that the Jews told them the only compensation they want from America is to help them return back to their land . Americans are not educated enough to known that Palestine was never a nation none people , but was the name the Roman changed the Jews land of Judea to after killing millions of Jews and expulsed the Jews in millions of numbers away from their homeland which is modern Israel . Americans are not aware that Palestine used to include Jordan ,Syria and Lebanon and Israel , that Palestine was just a territory until 1943 when state of Lebanon was created no problem , Syria and Jordan states where created in 1946 the Arabs have no problem , untill the same UN wanted to created state of Jews call Israel but Arabs declared war on Israel which Israel won in 1949 , Americans are not aware the war was between Arabs vs Jews until 1967 when Palestine was invented to create the narrative that Israel took over Palestine land . Americans don't ask one simple question when did Arabs came to Jerusalem . How can Jerusalem meaning land of peace in Hebrew the Jews language became Arab land ? How come David who founded Jerusalem ,king Solomon , moses , Joshua , elijah , Daniel are all Hebrew who lived on the said land , but modern Jews who are Hebrew and state of Israel are stranger who came to steal land ???? How can I stole my ancestral land from migrants ?

[@fab-freshaquaponicbiospher6335]

How is it that the first Church AKA Catholic Church reads the same Bible as Evangelicals and Born Agains. But don't believe in Jewish Sovereignty of Israel. Rather believe that it is affair of Messiah to solve, not that of Christians. 😂😂😂 Looks like Jews bought their way into corrupt priest of capitalist and materialist AMERICA 😂

[@avanders457]

This religion is rooted in the ancient near eastern region of Canaan (which today constitutes Israel and the Palestinian territories). Judaism emerged from the beliefs and practices of the people known as “Israel”. What is considered classical, or rabbinical, Judaism did not emerge until the 1st century CE.

[@victormendoza5819]

I love Sandra, she is very smart, intelligent, elegant, beautiful voice, etc., she provides a lot of good information in few minutes.

[@georgelee6857]

I used to support Israel until I read the history. What they did to Palestinians is just downright wrong.

[@francisco1495]

mate then you need to re read again. palestinians were offered many times to share the land with the jews, they always rejected it, thus them started commiting acts of violence to the jews, the jews did not have any other choice than to seal of the palestinians.

[@pepessz32]

@@francisco1495 mate, how would you feel if someone decided to move in to your house and one day they stated that your living room is no longer accessible to you because it's their territory now. You need their approval to be able to access your own kitchen. How would you feel, Mate?

[@gamingwithaqua5861]

​@@pepessz32no use replying him he's bot spamming in every comment

[@francisco1495]

@@pepessz32 it belong to the jews first, they settled there millenia ago, they left, arabs took it... jews come back they make settlements, arabs attack them, they repeatedly do that even after offering to split the land, they get fed up and decide to seal them away 🤷

[@eddyjohan8650]

​@@francisco1495you've been fed with the wrong source. If you're really interested to find the truth in the Palestinians tragedy, do google and look into KZbin. Its not like you've to take a six months in a uni. Google Dr Norm Finkelstein, Noah Chomsky,the late Michael Brooks. All of them Jewish intellectuals who supports Palestinian cause. Watch about the murder of the lady journalist in broad daylight last year, the expose by former IDF soldiers about atrocities towards Palestinians civilians.the list goes on and on.

[@whiskeytangofoxtrot2324]

Israel is a military outpost for the US, hence the complete support from the mainland US and Israel has the money to backed the political candidates it wants that serve its interest.

[@hamedy3322]

Biden mentioned this back then that even if Israel doesn’t exists, USA will invent Israel so that they can establish their interests in the Middle East…

[@henryairconcepts2999]

Pretty much. But since the US built alliances with Jordan and Egypt (by sending them $$$) the US can no longer rely solely on Israel for military outpost . New generations are seeing that now and giving more sympathy to Palestinians

[@johnswoodgadgets9819]

And that is a problem why?

[@lacithedog5506]

Explain the USS Liberty. A lot of high up people in the Military know Israel isn't an asset. The Israel lobby is powerful enough to buy a lot of silence.

[@tylerdurdan7128]

the United States has bases in Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, the U.A.E., Qutar, and Saudi Arabia.

[@rickjames21]

This is so informative. Thank you for always being brutally honest.

[@toydigger]

She forgot to mention the mass killings in 1948 on the Palestinians by Israel, which is why Gaza and West Bank became a refugee place till this day

[@Monk-Amani.]

Israel is the largest military base in the Middle East. It's supported by 84 nations. It provides surveillance, immediate counters to threats of national interests, and strategic advantages, Etc.

[@zalllon]

You hit the nail on the head, that is exactly right

[@Sammich4839]

israel really is the best

[@user-xw5zl4cr9j]

So sad how the world has ignored the abuse of the Palestinian people for decades, but this latest battle seems to have woken the people of the world to the realities of the Israel/Palestine relationship. We will DEMAND statehood and freedom for the Palestinian people until it happens, no going back to the way it was.

[@cbs63]

You'll need to find the Palestinians, some leaders that aren't corrupt that don't murder their own people.

[@amycabacungan6640]

​@@cbs63let them have an election if state of palestine was indeed created.

[@user-xw5zl4cr9j]

@@amycabacungan6640 exactly Amy, and it the people elect someone who hurts them instead of helping them, they will just have to live with it, but at least it was their choice, not forced upon them. America is on the verge of electing Trump again. If they want to be ruled by an autocratic scumbag, that's their choice and they will have to live with the consequences.

[@Flyingtaco82]

Unfortunately, they lose the narrative when they resort to terrorism. Real freedom fighters don’t kidnap babies.

[@AMYV3]

👏👏👏👏❤️🇨🇦🌏. We are demanding our governments stop giving money to Israel !! And free the Palestinian people while giving them back their land !!!!!! Too bad for Israelis who are living on stolen lands. Say good bye to your homes on these lands. Too bad so sad.

[@amrajkhan9371]

another shared value is that in line with USA, Australia and Canada they are all colonial settler countries and were created by displacing and committing crimes against existing populations

[@clumsydad7158]

central & south america ... africa ... se asia

[@muha5593]

True

[@anonymouslurker2561]

that is precisely their real shared value. Countries founded on genocide and oppression. Not this democracy bs

[@majorityiswrong9986]

Remember This Christian powers are the main refuge and aid to all miserable Muslim failed countries. Because Christianity is the source of Civilization Humanity and Peace.

[@VonGoldfinger]

And that’s why white people support Israel. But they won’t say that outright because they are cowards. Israeli Zionists = white people.

[@user-cz6mq5mr4o]

As a Chinese, I've always been watching from the sidelines. I don't know how to evaluate the current wars. I grew up watching the Iraq War, and I've been following the Russia-Ukraine conflict for two years. Now, all I can say is that so many people have died, all just for politics. Life is worth more than anything.

[@tauqirhussain3778]

Thank you for the wonderful of sharing this history. Maybe I need to know more about it.

[@public.public]

Get Israeli money out of American political parties.

[@kasondaleigh]

But it is really American money. That should be spent on Americans. Not given away. Hypocrisy and greed.

[@SolHersh]

I'm not sure if you know how this symbiotic relationship woks but I can assure you it gives more to the US then it takes from it. The US doesn't give anything for free lol @@kasondaleigh

[@chocolate101f9]

@@kasondaleighit’s not American money, the US economy is funded, the Fortune 500 company major investors are Jews,

[@willabrams9449]

Do you actually have an idea how many Jewish families own the US industry? You want to earn half of what you earn now?

[@SolHersh]

@@kasondaleigh its not given away lol its an investment that comes back tenfold if you ever thought the US doesn't do whats in it's own interest you are wrong

[@teoengchin]

It wasn't only sympathy behind US and European support the creation of Israel. Many leaders wanted a Jewish state so they could push their own local Jewish community to migrate there

[@hamedy3322]

Only zionists, Jews are against the establishment of Israel back in 1948, and Theodor Herzl and many of the founders of zionism were accused by the Jewish community as an athiest. Zionism has nothing to do with Judiasm, more like a radicalized version to smear Judiasm as a religion…

[@Guest-uo3rp]

Everybody wanted to get rid of this jewish trouble makers from their country, so they planted them among the innocent arabs

[@thomashovgaard3134]

It was a colloboration zionists in palestine and nazis in germany. The jews were merely a means to an end.

[@pik6921]

So true! Balfour wasn't doing the Jews a favour with his declaration, neither was Chamberlain when he signed an agreement with the original Nazis-they wanted to solve their-own local Jewish problems. At the height of the rounding up of the Jews non of them were rolling out the welcome wagons and opening the borders, like America and the other western white colonies had done for other Christian Europeans. So they decided it was a good idea to give the Jews their own colony to settle, and a few places like Uganda (for its proximity to an independent Ethiopia the home of the first Hebrew state) Argentina were proposed also. But it was Russia (USSR) that was the significant factor in the legitimacy of the establishment of Israel-if Russia had said NO, and denounced colonialism as it purported to, then China wouldn't have either, and Israel wouldn't exist as the self declared independent colony, in the same mould as SA or Rhodesia failed...

[@MayorSom]

Zionism actually wanted Uganda, however, the White settlers told them sod off. Consequently, they ended in Palestine. This holy land is a myth.

[@kanikellashashank]

My favorite host.... Keeps me engaged the entire video

[@StevenSmith-dc1fq]

Absolutely brilliant, thanks. So funny that Bernie Sanders remains the best voice in the US Senate on this issue.

[@denandvon9809]

This is occupation not a conflict.

[@dogreviewdog9088]

More a blockade of Gaza than occupation?

[@user-id4vp6mr7n]

yeah thats why there is terror attacks against jews all over the world because the "occupation"

[@prosperitylife5344]

Facts

[@Sammich4839]

of what? palestine doesn't exist anymore

[@denandvon9809]

@@Sammich4839 in ur dreams

[@aalhorani]

USA TAX money to Israel must be directed to American people to improve their Healthcare, education, and housing.

[@user-gh3zv6qz5s]

Americans are hopelessly too fat already. better healthcare won't help till they drop the big macs and cokes. Diabetes, here we come!😆

[@UntrainedExorcist]

US tax money is also going to Israel’s enemies.

[@baurny7762]

no no and no! Jews first!

[@shiblizahir]

We all know they have father and son relationship. Spoiled bratt giving daddy hard time. Such a fatherly love. Make me cry. Oh my god i am getting emotional 😢

[@barbaracoit1640]

I find you all very unbiased in your reporting. I watch you a lot. Keep up the good work!

[@thecontentmuslimah]

Thank you Al Jazeera❤❤ ❤🇵🇸

[@tshelley4232]

Screw you! biased Al Jazeera…

[@Seabago]

How about Qatar's relationship with Hamas? How can the leaders of Hamas be so wealthy - billionaires - when they say that Israel has impoverished Gaza? Why not give some of that money to the people? Build the infrastructure to provide the water that you say Israel is depriving the Palestinians of? Oh because then you would actually solve problems and people will see that Israel is not causing their problems, but the channeling of resources into a campaign of terror instead of basic necessities is causing them to literally be reliant on their sworn enemy (while also antagonising that enemy and crying when that enemy decides not to be so nice anymore..) Al Jazeera is a joke.

[@facehugger3]

Al Jazeera is a joke.

[@Paul-fg7rh]

@@Seabago If hamas leaders are billionaires so where are US sanctions? Please get the right informations about Qatar-Israel-hamas relations

[@bdleo300]

@@Seabago Qatar is ISraeli friend, go ask them. Also ask Mossad why they supported Hamas over PLO.

[@lacithedog5506]

Remember the USS LIberty. Israel is not the US's ally. Israel often acts in ways that are out of the US's interest.

[@sands7779]

Israel is an ally when it suits Israel; US politicians and analysts think the benefits outweigh the costs.

[@danielhamilton351]

Israel owns the US and the West and soon the entire world as well. God's chosen people are taking off their masks and the supremacist mindset is laid bare for all to see. Today it's Palestine. Tomorrow it will be another nation. And so on, and so forth until Israel is stopped once and for all.

[@bdleo300]

Israel is not the US ally. Israel is the US master. All US media, all US politicians, left or right, Biden or Trump, Tulsi or Vivek, literally ALL of them obediently serve Israel.

[@abdalla967]

They have hijacked the American government people need to break these chains people of America need to deal with their leades

[@ljt3084]

Israel also supplied Argentina with weaponry before and during the Falklands conflict. Surprisingly very few Brits even British veterans know this fact. US president Carter declared the Argentinian junta a mass murdering dictator and banned the sale of US weapons. Israel ignored the ban and sold fighter jets and missiles to Argentina that were used against the British task force. Ironically the Argentinian leader was later deemed a far right fascist who murdered his own people to stay in power.

[@manbrains]

Brilliant neutral affect you maintained during your questioning.

[@bradsillasen1972]

Outstanding piece for journalism, content, editing, and presentation!

[@knae9216]

I love this lady's composure. She EXPLAINS.

[@ThePrinceOfNigeria]

It's a sick relationship though. Imagine giving us money only so we can create a group that supports your politicians to office, and in turn the politician implement policies that favor Israel. 😅

[@ghostlytavern129]

It’s corruption

[@liamcraig123]

Excellent video. Start Here is always on point. Thank you!

[@Allittakesiswillpower8371]

We are you You are us Exactly

[@salmon9698]

A Start Here episode about the Germany-Israel relationship would be great. As a foreigner living in Germany, I find it astonishing that the unconditional support for Israel is a matter of course in most part of German media, politics and society.

[@caro1606]

I’m from Germany (not living there anymore!) and what happening there is disturbing. I don’t think the past really was faced, it’s more so that the government gives impunity to Israel and thus try to wash themselves free from the guilt. “Never again” means never again for anyone. Germany should be an advocate for human rights, not another genocide…

[@salmon9698]

Exactly! @@caro1606

[@aismail8321]

Guilt-complex is the term you are looking for.

[@robertkern3887]

Ich kann mich Dass nicht verstehen. Wir sind nicht fruendlich. Es ist nur angst.

[@BushidoBrownSama]

Germany doesn't really have a choice considering history...

[@user-cu9pi4sf4c]

The U.N. has existed for 75 years and in all that time they have a failing record when it comes to stopping wars. Their record is exemplary though when it comes to passing resolutions and condemning in the strongest possible terms.

[@irkhanbasc]

Sadly, the UN has become an increasingly ineffective and irrelevant organization. Its corruption and general anti-American sentiment don't help either.

[@fe6767]

First, we have to ignore civil wars and wars of secession because the UN wasn't set up to deal with conflicts inside countries, its primary role was to deal with conflict and disagreements between countries. So let us compare wars between countries in the 75 years before the UN came to being (1870-1945) with the 75 years after 1945 (1946-2021). That first 75 year period included 2 very big wars (WW I and WW II), without looking at any of the other wars in that period we can easily see that combining all the wars since 1945 we don't come close to the death and destruction of WW I and WW II. Even if we chuck in all the civil wars, colonial wars and wars of secession between 1946 and 2021 we still don't come close. The comparison looks even worse when you look at per capita deaths because deaths due to war have gone down while the population of the world is more than 8 times what it was in 1870. We can argue about why there has been less international war since the UN than before the UN. The Cold War might be a contributing factor and ditto nuclear weapons. But looking at the reasons why international wars happen is also important. Before the UN it was Ok for a country to keep any territory it gained in a war. The desire to acquire territory was a major factor in many of the wars before the UN (including both WW I and WW II). When a country applies to join the UN it gives up that right to keep any territory it gained in a war as part of the membership agreement. This has meant that today very few countries want to increase their territory through war (and the few that do, try to disguise this by claiming that the territory was previously theirs and they are just "taking it back" or that they are helping someone else).

[@user-gh3zv6qz5s]

It's idiotic if you put hope in the UN solving this. The UN is just another tool set up by the US.

[@NaseemUllah-hq4eg]

Children not only died in Gaza but your proposed values also died in Gaza like democracy, human rights,self determination

[@polpol1005]

It is important to recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. People who are subjected to apartheid ways, will always have the "will" to Fight.

[@dennismorris7573]

Excellent piece by one of journalism's best and brightest, Sandra Gathman of Al Jazeera.

[@Ofelas1]

1. Israel via its lobby groups finances US Congress 2. Senate has many dual nationals 3. Some may be compromised...should ask Gishlain

[@VivaCristo505]

​@Ofelas1 yess I always say that.. they pledge alliance to a foreign nation, not the US, and that is dangerous

[@dennismorris7573]

@@Ofelas1 I take your point, and would add, the root problem is money in politics. I am for business, and believe business interests should be represented (fairly and honestly, of course), but when large amounts of money exchage hands, no matter the lobby (there are many), the appearance of impropriety cannot be avoided. Mind you, the United States has many fine leaders who live and work beyond the fray, and this is good, but the exorbitant amount of money needed to run a successful campaign is the root problem. Not an easy fix, I know.

[@dennismorris7573]

@@VivaCristo505 This is yet another problem faced when money and politics meet.

[@andosoup98]

so you think journalism and ideologies mix, you dont think they have any political allegiances that may result in a conflict of interest when it comes to journalism and there arent any better sources that dont have an obvious axe to grind in this tedious part of the world

[@jcpt8365]

What happens to Palestinians everyday, especially in Gaza and the hostages is wrong 😭 I stand with the victims on both sides of this conflict that has lasted 75 years. I hope the 2 state solution can be implemented that would be the right thing to do. So there can be peace! However, most of the people in power prefer geopolitical interests over morality. Nobody deserves what the Palestinians have endured and are still enduring it is inhumane!

[@RaptureHead1993]

Ignorance. Only one way this ends

[@HK00088]

IDF 🇮🇱 Terrorism

[@knae9216]

there are hardly any victims on the Israel side. be clear in whom you stand with, and feel sorry for.

[@eusunt123]

What gazans did in 7Oct, horrified the Earth. We love and pray for Israel.

[@aoamcmxviii]

@@eusunt123no we don’t …

[@aljazeeraenglish]

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[@chuck_dane]

It’s military strategic location for US. Keeping friends close, enemies closer.

[@sidali2590]

Gotta love Al Jazeera coverage from a different perpective

[@SolHersh]

Qatari perspective lol

[@user-kc8yn7vn8e]

Well done Al Jazeera ❤

[@facehugger3]

Al Jazeera is a joke

[@Gaminiheraliyawala]

Thank you for the comprehensive report presented in a well balanced manner.... 👍👍

[@supermario929]

very well done documentary...would have never been able to see something similar on CNN

[@Discover1948]

We will not submit We will not kneel From the river to the sea palestine will be free. ❤ 🇵🇸

[@thisisladystark948]

free palestine

[@PrinceArran]

Israel -The Zionist Terror regime is the Real Terrorist based on their actions in Palestine.

[@ProsenJEET-jn4yn]

​​@@thisisladystark948from River to sea, Israel is, was & WILL BE❤❤🇮🇱

[@luulsharaf6881]

Yes We Stand Palestine 🇵🇸 From the river to the sea Palestine 🇵🇸 Will be Free

[@abbachekarima3531]

​@@ProsenJEET-jn4ynfree palestine

[@veronicavarela2041]

Thank you for this video! I pray for the Palestinian people and the Jews standing up with them ❤❤❤

[@Seabago]

How about Qatar's relationship with Hamas? How can the leaders of Hamas be so wealthy - billionaires - when they say that Israel has impoverished Gaza? Why not give some of that money to the people? Build the infrastructure to provide the water that you say Israel is depriving the Palestinians of? Oh because then you would actually solve problems and people will see that Israel is not causing their problems, but the channeling of resources into a campaign of terror instead of basic necessities is causing them to literally be reliant on their sworn enemy (while also antagonising that enemy and crying when that enemy decides not to be so nice anymore..) Al Jazeera is a joke.

[@sebtinuss]

Military order 158.

[@dannysullivan3951]

As someone familiar with this history, I can say this is a fair piece of journalism. We supported Zionism because Jews have been persecuted for centuries across the world. But unlimited support at the expense of Palestine has been a colossal failure.

[@bigdaz7272]

I once heard some US Official describe Israel as America's unsinkable Aircraft Carrier in the Middle East which is probably the most honest description i have heard so far.

[@richardcook1987]

I could listen to Sandra's voice for hours.

[@PrinceArran]

To All Palestinians: Many blessings to you. May God Almighty protect, deliver, and bless you abundantly. 2 Chronicles 20:17 "You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, who is with you, for the LORD is with you.” Christ the Son of God and the Saviour will deliver you.

[@mffa9238]

Stop your HYPOCRISY! Christian pastors are calling for the genocide of Palestinians.

[@myelocake7]

Very well explained!

[@Adam_mohammed_]

Thanks! Really great explanation and clarifications

[@HumbledSlave]

Shame on America.

[@amilcareschettini5881]

Shame on United Nations, British, France too

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

The connection between Israel and the US is even deeper than this video proclaims (and it has NOTHING to do with "shared values"). Between WW1 and WW2, Britain, France, Poland, Germany AND the majority of the Zionist movement (who were atheists by the way) agreed to a new Jewish homeland in Madagascar. This program was why Germany started rounding up Jews in the first place and deportation remained German policy until at least 1942. After the war it was US intervention that swung the Zionist movement toward Palestine and the US that forced Resolution 181 through an unhappy United Nations. Israel is a US proxy state - providing a platform for US imperialism throughout the Middle East. US money built it and the US armed it. Israel is and always has been a glove puppet of US foreign policy. There is a direct parallel between the way the US fostered Jewish nationalism and Ukrainian nationalism after WW2.

[@anonymouslurker2561]

Thats been my suspicion, the part where they rounding up the you-know-who. I wouldnt be surprised if their own people were behind it to make them feel unsafe and therefore feel the need to have a state since Their orthodox were in opinion they should not have a state.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

@@anonymouslurker2561 I have seen Zionist movement letters expressing the view that Europe's Jewry should be forced to move to a national homeland whether they wanted to or not. This was obviously the view of *some* Zionists, not all. Nevertheless, if Zionists were not involved in promoting that policy in Germany, why then did they undertake a similar operation in Morocco in the 1950s, scaring people into moving to Israel? A documentary was made about this about 10 years ago. It does raise big questions about the way Israel uses victimhood as an excuse. If, in fact, what happened during the war has been distorted, that too could not have been done without US collaboration.

[@mashuduthidiela9643]

This was a phenomenal video. Clear and succinct.

[@alumgirkobir717]

The lecture of US on human rights and democracy has fallen down.

[@rsuriyop]

Izzzrael is just seen as a strategic land-based aircraft carrier meant to extend the U.S.’s influence and interests into the Middle East where there just happens to be an abundance of oil. This is why Izzzrael is very important to the U.S. Similarly, Taiwan is also seen as having very high importance just so that the U.S. could use it to extend it’s own influence into East Asia as well. Taiwan is technically supposed to be a part of China. But the U.S. government is determined to brainwash you into thinking otherwise. The name of the game when it comes to U.S. geopolitics is basically CONTROL & EXPANSION.

[@bdleo300]

Yes, but not in this case. ISrael don't serve America, America serve Israel.... Americans (like Brits) just use and discard their 'allies'/vassals, but ISrael is their master. All US politicians, left or right, are absolutely servile towards Israel. They care about Israel more than about Americans.

[@irkhanbasc]

In a way, it’s a continuation of British strategy of controlling certain critical locations. However, in the British case, it was mainly about controlling certain choke points along the sea lanes, such as Singapore, Hormuz, Aden, Suez, and Gibraltar. The U.S. is now the prime naval power.

[@Sammich4839]

israel and taiwan are separate countries

[@irkhanbasc]

@@Sammich4839 Don’t tell the Chinese that Taiwan is a country. They consider it a rebel province.

[@The_Other_Guy783]

​@peterding7803 you don't say?

[@danielacontras7303]

I said always, all the problems and suffering in the world, comes from US.

[@sunilkumarpandey1971]

Exllent content and presentation.

[@atiyashaba]

Good explanation ❤❤

[@nidodson]

Correction: Israel went to war with the Arab countries. They initiated acts of war first, the Arabs were just readying defense, because Israel being there was obviously a destabilizing event.

[@JC23CBrazil]

Not true but nice try. The Arabs launched the first punch and failed because Arabs are idiots when it comes to fighting wars for some reason

[@ritmo2k]

I want to be a good and obedient western liberal who supports the institutions, please confirm if I am supposed to pretend oct 7 never happened?

[@arrowslinger2460]

@@ritmo2k does it bother you that israel funded hamas for such a long time? or that they knew about the operation ages in advance?

[@MeemNoon485]

@@arrowslinger2460 I saw a marine say that Bibi had them on stand down that is why it took hours for anyone to turn up. And when turned up, they were given orders to blast everyone including their own civilians on the ground. Israel killed most of their own from that 1200 (if that's even the real number). They've lied about everything so far that I don't trust anything they say.

[@gauravdas6741]

😂😂😂😂 Jihadi had invaded countries and brutalise them since the Muhammed era.

[@rozme9422]

J. Biden famously said: you don't need to be jewish to be zoinist ...

[@user-xc6wd3hb4s]

Any Christian who is a Zionist is a HERETIC!

[@anshuraj4277]

Good

[@SolHersh]

he is right, if you believe in a two state solution you are a zionist, which simply means you agree in the right of jews to live in their indigenous homeland.

[@osiarizvi]

In short from what I understand Israel serves to protect American interests in the middle east and the US serves to protect israeli expansion. When they claim similar interests, they don't mean national values, they are referring to the leech like grip in the middle east which serves both interests. All in all, one fact remains, one of them needs one more than the other. What would really help in understanding the relationship is the stronghold Israel seems to have over the neighboring Arab countries? Why are they acting like they've been paralyzed??

[@9UaYXxB]

Well, they've witnessed what America and Israel have done to knock the pins out from under Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Syria. That would certainly give them anxiety.

[@ramikiwan9981]

The Soviet Union - not the U.S. - was the first country to recognize Israel after its declaration in 1948.

[@pik6921]

Israel may have all the tech in the world but this is not 1967 or 1970s-if they didn't learn that in 2006, then they are in for a rude awakening. All the countries and non state belligerents now have access to multiplicity of intelligence on the other, sourced locally or privately. The IDF doesn't have the manpower capacity to engage and continue occupying a multiplicity of fronts -the picture is starting to get clearer for them, even as the Arab armies remain tactically unmobilized and the US is starting to spin off from the pressure that Netanyahu and his racist govt have dumped on the lap of its US Govt supporters...

[@ch.3569]

Ummm no, look none state actors and Iran/ its proxies sure. but every other Arab leader just wants the problem to go away so they can get back to making deals with Israel, The US and Western partners to address economic concerns. Anything they say is more to stratify there people then to actually do anything.

[@freedom__and_peace]

People keep making the same mistakes throughout history, and it seems like we never learn from them. Think about the Holocaust, the Bosnian genocide, and the African apartheid - the world ignored the suffering and often blamed the victims. Nelson Mandela went through a similar struggle. He was seen by the Western world as a terrorist and a communist. He was even on the terror watchlist until 2007. It's ironic that the same people who once called him a terrorist now have a statue of him opposite the parliament, Westminster Abbey in London. This shows how we often misjudge people who fight for freedom, realizing their true worth only when it's too late.

[@genericmav]

We are you You are us

[@user-xw5pe7jv9o]

Such good information!

[@jadewings19]

Excellent, succinct presentation with clear conceptualizing and framing of extremely complicated historical and political issues. This short presentation should be seen in every American schools and by public. We all should be better informed in order to live our lives as individuals and as a nation with moral, ethical principals that we apply in how we relate to each other. Moral, ethical principles should be the ultimate guiding light for the humanity beyond religious doctrines or political gains.

[@Lily_of_the_Light_of_the_Night]

Agree. Our nation has its moral compass. I wonder if we ever had the morality that we imagine previous generations had. In all of the 246 years of American history, we were not at war for 15 years and if we count proxy wars, then we've always been at war. The American Empire has a lot of blood on its hands.

[@irkhanbasc]

@@Lily_of_the_Light_of_the_Night There's literally been a war every generation. The Revolutionary War. The War of 1812. The Mexican-American War. The Civil War. The Spanish-American War. WWI. WWII. The Korean War. The Vietnam War. Operation Desert Storm. The War on Terror. There are families in the U.S. that have had multiple generations of veterans and consider military service to be a family tradition.

[@intpt9785]

This video is clearly sided with an anti-American/anti-Zionist view and as such it is not proper to use it as educational material in schools. That would be propaganda. In the schools you teach history not your political view

[@blgdinger3]

Well of course it is, its Al Jazeera 😂 this whole channel is funded by the opposition and theyll never admit to lirerally losing a war that has spawned this unending hatred ​@@intpt9785

[@TheJohnreeves]

Agreed, except I would contend that if this short video can explain it, it isn't actually extremely complicated at all. It's pretty straight forward. It's just that it's constantly lied about and obfuscated.

[@Tollor1]

Really well explained and historically informative even though so short, well done. I'd just like to point out that most evangelical Christians worldwide have a different view than John Hagee and Benny Tate shown here. As an evangelical Christian I want to point out what the New Testament says in Romans chapter 9 verses 6-8 - and also in other places - that THIS Israel is not God's chosen people because it never was God's chosen people. TRUE Isreal is and always was a different Israel. I look forward to the day when evangelical, biblical views get presented in a more balanced way, rather than just by the ultra-pro-Israel ones shown here.

[@joeb134]

Those views doninated the American Christian views for anvery long time. Im an American Christian. I remember hearing this same rhetoric at church as a kid. Never once did i hear about the plight of the Palestinian. Views are changing and people are starting to wake up to the far right Ideology that has infiltrated the church but the views expressednin this video do represent a majority

[@mrsBainbridge]

Yes, it does seem to me that Zionists hijack Christian concepts to mislead people for their own benefit. Why do they even name the state 'Israel', not 'the Zion State' or something. I highly doubt Jesus taught favoring one people against another, to the point that it is okay to kill others as if they are less human. Or, as Israeli leaders put it, 'human animals'.

[@anonymouslurker2561]

@@joeb134 If American Evangelical persist with their Zionism support, I can't see how they would sell that to their next generation. They will see Christians as nothing but KKK. but instead of white its juice. What boggles me is how can they say thing like "God is love" "Jesus love you" but then supporting the bombing of civilians day in day out. They can't gaslight people all the time.

[@liamcraig123]

@@joeb134 We never heard about the 11% of Christian Palestinians are also egregiously harmed but American Christian loyalties lay with Israel and not the Christian values.

[@jaialaiwarrior]

Lol, then which were the TRUE ones? The Saudis? The Syrians? Right!

[@user-or6wc2jz3z]

Psalm 60:6-7 6 God has spoken in his sanctuary:[a] “I will triumph. I will parcel out Shechem; the Valley of Sukkoth I will measure off.[b] 7 Gilead belongs to me, as does Manasseh.[c] Ephraim is my helmet,[d] Judah my royal scepter.[e]

[@Loner-Wolf]

The Israel American relationship can by summed up as simple as this... Israel to America: 'bark'!!! America to Israel: 'how loud oh master?'!!!

[@darkgalaxy5548]

I'm afraid the Rev Jesse Jackson got it correct when he so coursely said "That's all Hymie wants to talk about is Israel. Every time you go to Hymietown that's all they want to talk about".

[@maync1]

If the US wanted to do something to redeem at least a fraction of its moral responsibility, it should come into Palestine and enforce the two state solution on both Israel and Palestine. Perhaps not all that has been lost to the deceptions of Israel can be regained, but surely the major part. It would take good will and the ability to compromise on both sides.

[@SolHersh]

interesting, enforcing peace nice concept has this ever been done? lol peace must come from within not enforced by any third party. Also can't be a 2 state solution has to be a 8 state one, the palestinians have different ideals and ruling factions that throw eachother off rooftops (look up 2007 battle of gaza) the PA barely controls anything out of Ramalla, an emirate model as in the gulf will be more efficient. Hebron will have its leader, Nablus, Jenin, gaza and so forth

[@chocolate101f9]

You can’t force a 2 state solution, that’s not how it works! And it’ll never work

[@ONUCHEJAT]

One of the finest Aljazeera reporter... She is one of the top three finest journalist in the world, She, Palki Shammah and Johny Harris, legends

[@user-er4jm1ln8c]

Your forgetting Shireen Abu Akleh. The IDF killed her

[@PAUSE_podcast_HAJI]

SO DISGUST !//

[@davidgafo]

Top notch production

[@TauvicRitter]

We in the Netherlands have a democracy and values too. We are constantly fighting the sea and love America so much. Why are we not loved by the US that much? Should we do more? Support the presidents campaign? America first, the Netherlands second. Please advise, groetjes uit Nederland.

[@Seyiwale6127]

If Russia 🇷🇺 did same thing the Americans government will start crying 😭. No problem.

[@1991slsd]

What same thing? Ruzzians are already funding terrorists, you want for them to also fund Hamas? Why you mudslimes are sto stupid"?

[@sirn1246]

Even Russia can't do that, the issue is Russia is also achristian nation and we Christians especially dedicated ones opposing israel is like God against God because He established that land himself. Its very complicated for a born again Christian to oppose israel.

[@bdleo300]

@@sirn1246 only for shabbat goys, especially protestant sects from Murica who are not even Christians but low-level Zion Cultist. Real Christians absolutely NOT support Israel. Not even orthodox Jews support it.

[@atticus1000]

Because of Israel we have the scriptures and because Jesus was a Jew. That’s why it’s hard.

[@satnamo]

In the United States of America, there is basically 1 party- the business party. War is a racket. The few profit. The many pay. Battle tested weapons are highly valued commodities in war industry.

[@bdleo300]

In the United States of America, there is basically 1 party: Ziodemorepublicans. They ALL serve Israel, left, right, literally ALL US politicians.

[@leoobroin3804]

Amazing report. Thank you.

[@EcoShibajee]

You only provide the complete picture of international issues as far as possible in a restricted timeframe. Thanks for that. Tragically it's ultimately the same nexus of politicians & corporations selling arms. This war is between two pawns.

[@godafton1]

Shared values of bullying and vengeance?

[@acesov3869]

This is journalism at its best. Keep up the good work

[@Who-ef3cb]

Right because Qatar supported journalism is impartial to shaping your world view.

[@arj665]

@@Who-ef3cbyes and your view of Zionist owned west media is best journalism lol one sided biased views

[@eusunt123]

She is lying. She did’t say that genetic, that land is jew land, are proof from 1700 BCE …

[@itsbeyondme5560]

​@@Who-ef3cbSame as USA media

[@anonymouslurker2561]

@@Who-ef3cb they are for sure farrr more impartial than the west corporate medias. Their narrative is far more in line with most of independence sources

[@Britalcollection856]

V good explanation impressive work❤

[@alonsandler7670]

God bless America 🙌

[@tullapokriefke5529]

It s good that there is Al Jazeera with its great comments and reports. More objective an independant than most of German medias. There are also state near broadcasters in Germany.

[@farjanabegum7906]

free Palestine

[@masti437]

nonsense

[@what-when-where4177]

your parents must hate to have u as a child.@@masti437

[@ThomasMorrison141]

@@what-when-where4177 this one's not even mine and even I feel the second hand embarassment of it's parents Lol

[@gulruhama9450]

Thanks for compiling the data.

[@jram9571]

That era is coming to an end.

[@SD-gx5pd]

Here is the relationship of the US & israel in a nutshell....israel says 'jump' and the US says 'how high'

[@mujtabasir2782]

Free Palestine.

[@SolHersh]

From Hamas, Islamic state, PIJ and the countless other Islamic terror groups

[@pipdowning9436]

I like 'Start Here'. This video is a break from Al Jazeera's approach to covering this conflict, which is unashamedly one-sided. This was genuinely informative.

[@huntersuarez1528]

Anyone know where I can find a non bias explanation for this conflict? One that can provide sources/information from both sides

[@sahlah99]

Sir this is a biased situation lol

[@philliphudson9092]

So it would be fair to refer to the US as the United States of Israel.

[@victorkolo5142]

Yes what is written in the Bible is Holy & Pure truth... “Your word, LORD, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens” (Psalm 119:89). So the word of GOD is for every eternal!!!

[@arctic1505]

Does anyone else believe this lie?

[@rattle-can-resto5893]

God suks and fake-creator of lies and the manifest destiny BS

[@velenceigabor1418]

Actually it isn't the US supporting Israel, it is more the US doing what Israel requires from them.

[@KiZiLOK1]

these poor people have been expelled from over 100 countries throughout their history for no reason whatsoever.

[@user-jz6uk8rj9r]

There is a lot of other things mentioned in bible that they don’t follow but only follows what’s for their interests wow what a belief system .

[@Meraqueen-vb5hn]

Lol most of then are atheist but believe God give them land😂😂

[@physicianbd]

Thanks for always being brutally honest

[@robertchilders8698]

This is the best video I have ever seen! 😊❤ The average Americans are burying their heads in the sand! Mainly due to religious beliefs,!! Most every time I get on this subject - I get censored!😢

[@TheArabDemocrat]

In 1967, Israel did not fend off. It initiated hostilities.

[@smutz131]

"These Zionist monsters attacked us when we were only amassing our militaries on every border of Israel for a peaceful military exercise. What barbarians!"

[@bobbyschannel349]

What people have to understand is that the United States is an ex apartheid society, not to mention they supported the South African apartheid system and they support Israeli Palestine apartheid system.. the United States is a big supporter of apartheid.. it is in its heritage🤔