War and Democracy in Ancient and Contemporary Middle East

Victor Davis Hanson, Professor of Classics at California State University at Fresno, leads a discussion on the nature of war throughout civilization and how it might enlighten us about the contemporary troubles in the Middle East. Presented as part of UC Santa Cruz's Jewish Studies Lectures. [8/2004] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8856]

[@OOIEatte]

It's always a good day when you find a VDH speech or lecture on KZbin that you haven't heard before

[@nettsterr]

Fascinating watching this in Oct 2023 with everything going on at the moment. True insight by an amazing academic.

[@aswidener]

His closing comment regarding notions of moral equivalency and conflict resolution held by today's youth is monumental. The mindset and worldview he describes would explain a great deal of the otherwise inexplicable cognitive dissonance and delusion evinced by many students of our most elite institutions.

[@Realliberal]

Great point Scott. The Harvard/Ivy schools inundate our gov with smug elitist out of touch incompetent defective graduates that think they know better than the common man. An elite that believes that they are required to do our thinking and make our decisions for us. I don't know how this process which has been upside down since 1900 can be deconstructed. In fact it cannot. Only the dissolution of the swamp the shrinking and decentralization of the swamp monster can save our children and grand children.

[@canto10mosha65]

They are not so elite now, by my reckoning. Nothing more than glorified, money grabbing diploma mills.

[@rogerlephoque3704]

You need to listen to Carl Sagan and read Hemingway to better understand how to communicate in English

[@SeverSTL]

'' Peace is but a parenthesis '' Plato. V.D.H. is my favorite. An amazing mind.

[@larryschweitzer4904]

Peace is the time between wars when you re-arm.

[@jimkluska253]

Dr. Hansen s', ability to go deep without being a bore and slow is awesome!

[@3516mos]

*25:35** "That's very dangerous, when you lose that sense of deterrence...and your opponent does not necessarily believe in consensual government."* Dr. Hanson's point and it reflects the need, in our times, 2020, to have a president who is willing to show our resolve to be the leading world power.

[@rollotwomassey]

This man's views should be the default position of the American academic, intellectual and media class.

[@tarhunta2111]

I totally misjudged Victor Davis Hanson.He really is in the final analysis one of the Worlds greatest classicist and greatest thinkers which is rare these days.

[@Caizara29]

Personally i consider this speech one of the best Dr Hanson has ever gave . Also i interested in reading the works of the german historian Hans Delbruck who was mentioned by Dr Hanson . A few days ago i got a book about the german strategy leading to verdun and the historian Dr Foley name the historian Delbruck who tried to warn Germany about the changes of warfare and the impossibility to win a war by a decisive battle , but by war of attrition

[@tangerineloft1148]

Mr Koret was a close friend of my grandmother in Monte Rio CA. I'm proud his foundation had Dr Hanson speak.

[@brianmoran1196]

Listening to this in 2019 he is as prophetic as Churchill

[@lyn5559]

Now ask yourself "Was Churchill really Prophetic:> ;

[@ChayaLieberman]

This professor is just amazing.

[@altongrimes]

Refreshing to experience someone who is so exceedingly brilliant.

[@FearIsaLiar]

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[@pplrstrange]

I'm going to buy all of his book. Thanks Professor Hanson !!!!!!

[@Nasiruddin84]

I don't agree with all he says, but he gives a very rational analysis of things, which is hard to find nowadays.

[@vcecogo2575]

Nasiruddin84 but you don’t have to counter his rationale. Maybe because he is truthful.

[@gabemccall3523]

VDH is great! Love hearing him lecture.

[@michaelboyd7508]

@@motiu1869 thats the depth of your counter argument to VDH's historically based statements? I pity your offspring

[@davidjohnson3166]

Ardavan please produce any evidence that you’re referring to Victor Davis Hanson speech was really bullshit. I’m a little hazy on where you’re developing your evidence. Dave in Phoenix Arizona USA

[@alanabush555]

@@motiu1869 >> Saying it's so, doesn't make it so.

[@Norm475]

I love to discuss politics and history with people. I would also love to talk to VDH however, it would not be an exchange of information or ideas. This man is so brilliant that I would just keep my mouth shut and listen.

[@cinmac3]

Can't discuss in this Trump era

[@thomasbailey3511]

Oh and Barry Obama and sleepy, creepy joe biden are statesmen well versed in foreign affairs. Afghanistan withdrawl shows the ineptitude.Same way Milosevic punked barrySMH🙄

[@thomasbailey3511]

I meant Bashar al Assad not Milosevic

[@richardlindquist5936]

Skip the introduction-VDH starts at 5:10

[@hard2getitrightagain314]

It makes me almost sad to see those empty seats in the auditorium. Maybe I could have been there. I wonder if I would have had the sense to accept an invitation that day.

[@CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY]

Does VH use a teleprompter or a script on his podium??? Every time I have watched him, he appears to just wing it. Amazing memory!!!

[@qubit966]

He's winging it. Dr. Hanson is a walking encyclopedia.

[@stevehuffer7197]

CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY I'm sure he has an outline of his speech , meaning something like a list with talking points aligned to give a flowing speech and he looks at the notes and knows what he wants to say about each note's subject . Basicly winging it as he says what he wanted to about each note and adds to it anything that comes to his mind while he's saying what he wanted to on that particular note . Or else he practices his speeches (which is what your supposed to do if you're going to give a Speech) But he is without a doubt Brilliantly Smart with an Encyclopedic Knowledge and a Fantastic Memory (probably a bit of , if not a full blown , photographic Memory) . He's Great , I just wonder why I haven't heard of him until recently .

[@jamesobrienhunt]

CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY Haven’t you looked at it I looked it up I even sent to you

[@tmarkhamesq]

No TelePrompTer, but also not “winging it.” His preparation is not just assembling an outline for this speech. It is usually a book that he has just written. After you’ve written 20+ books and 1000s of columns, you can talk intelligently about these subjects without notes.

[@leejacobus5305]

CONTACTLIGHTTOMMY no. He is jam packed with research n knowledge !

[@Wawi633]

Excellent, always enjoy Mr. Hanson's enlightened and rational take on reality.

[@virgilcanada1552]

Excellent presention..l love history...keep up your work....we need you

[@lyralong]

thanks for such great and thoughtful discourse

[@nujac321]

Wonderful author.

[@gordonfreeman9634]

He’s just so great at connecting the past with the present

[@gerardk51]

Victor Hanson rocks!

[@davidcoleman2796]

I have always loved history and military history is so interesting. He is great.

[@philmcgroin1661]

VDH is one of the greatest historians ever!

[@trollol_]

An intellectual who understands emotions I think that's the appeal

[@trollol_]

Not understand s perhaps but infuses it into the logical

[@scotthyde5946]

The first gulf war was an amazing example ! If you listen to the Swartskoft’s lectures is very evident that Sadam’s troops were held on the front lines at gun point ! No food or water or want to and that’s why so many troops surrendered rather than fight the US led military !!

[@Linguiphile]

Kigamit, I am a long-time student of the history, cultures and languages of Native N. America. I am also of mixed Irish and Cherokee ancestry. Your comments are politically correct, not factually so. As much as I admire American aboriginals, honesty forces me to admit that, as tends to be the case in all primitive societies, such social ills as war, rape, thievery, vengeance killing and slavery were no less common among my American forefathers than among my pre-civilization European ones.

[@augustineo.6990]

This dude is brutal but he makes some legitimate points on warfare and deterrence.

[@rodidi76]

He's not a dude, he is a scholar and your language is vulgar

[@juliusschwencke142]

Oh really? Mr Hanson is from my generation. I think he's hip enough to appreciate the reference. We invented it.

[@winmine0327]

Mr Hanson begins at 5:20

[@thedelta88]

I've had a couple of his books on my kindle wishlist. is there one you would recommend?

[@6663000]

"Turkey gobbled Cyprus" sounds funny.

[@foxyone3]

VDH is a national treasure.

[@xavierpaquin]

I love this man

[@tangerineloft1148]

VDH is a rock star and a gift to American democracy!! Little d democracy!!

[@RyanCFoster]

20 years later... and all of this is still relevant. It is also depressing. Gandalf said that "even the very wise cannot see all ends." Well, Mithrandir, you have not yet met this Man of the West called VDH. Harken to him.

[@improvemyenglish]

can anyone tell me where i could find the guitar music at the end?

[@AjarnMatt]

28:00 sums up efficacy of Western civ as translating into lethality

[@wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister i went looking for u yesterday ,needless to say u werent at the olive garden.

[@boxcarent.3147]

Awesome.

[@Halo4Lyf]

@danbagheri Saying the "Palestinians" are the native inhabitants of the Levant is like saying that the Dutch were the natives of Pennsylvania.

[@philmcgroin1661]

In 70AD and again in 73AD all the “Jews” were killed or kicked out of Palestine. Give it a break there are no biblical Jews left. All white European Jews are Europeans.

[@Bucketheadhead]

Except the DNA analysis directly contravenes what you say.

[@khadija2739]

genetics, culture and basic understanding of ancient history disproves u.

[@philmcgroin1661]

Starts at @5:20 Dr. Hanson

[@nujac321]

I have only read his book on the Peloponnesian War: "A War Like No Other"

[@703tony]

superb!!!

[@mrniceguy7168]

Oh fuck I started laughing towards the end when the Sophomore Sociology major asked a question. I immediately stopped myself from stereotyping her when I realized this is a VDH lecture and thought she wouldn’t be so naive. And then she tried to put an equivalency to checkpoints and suicide bombings

[@foxyone3]

If we fought war today as we did in WWII we would have no problem with the Middle East countries or for that matter NK.

[@Noxcho-li8pn]

I wish you would fight harder and the NATO forces come and destroy the Muslim Wolrd even much more and in brutal way so that we Muslims finally call up open Jihad and the world wide Caliphate nothing brings People more toghteter than a War

[@brianbeaubien7371]

What a wonderful man

[@jaysmith3361]

Worth a relisten in Nov 2023.

[@Kurtlane]

About Andaluz. It's not Andalucia (the southern province of Spain), it's Andaluz (practically entire Spain conquered by Moors in 711-714). It is not 50 years of wars or 500 years of war. It's permanent war. This is how Islamists see it. I have their documents about it. Permanent war until total triumph of Islam over the entire planet.

[@rockman845]

We'll be out of the middle east by June 30th? We were still there 6/30/2021

[@stevewyatt3339]

His "STUDIES" class is probably a big hit

[@wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister there are padded rooms for things like you

[@Bobbel888]

Agree, he could go as coin designer.

[@HobbitHomes263]

SO, VDH, we can look at Trump as Americans sensing that now is th time to reestablish deterrence

[@quadcomputers]

Trump is a businessman and Pence is the politician they make a good pair and they both share one agenda rid the corruption!

[@tristaotezoira]

@Re5Publica I know man.... but they are strategically important... Now that US commands Kwait, they have a secure base there... I think that Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan were a diversion....

[@sonGOKU-gy7rg]

this guy in insase period>>>>

[@pretorious700]

@ChaneyBrinkmanBurlin Being "intelligent" means nothing if your conclusions are wrong.

[@roguedrones]

The guy from the audience with the primordial slime point is brilliant. Europeans see it as large uniformed armies. The Muslim sees it as an ideology.

[@Elgar337]

Seeing only old people in the audience in all of VDH's speeches is absolutely depressing.

[@davidcook5731]

I love Hillsdale and respect Dr Hanson but there are many experts ie Airline pilots Engineers Chemists etc who ask many questions all unanswered about 9/11 and there he goes blaming Bin laden Who gained from a neutered Iraq and the Trillions of dollars spent on munitions What was the nationality of the dancing students/?

[@adammiller3609]

Yes I agree completely. It seemed especially interesting when he noted regarding Bin Laden, "I think if he would of just taken off the top 1/3 of the buildings he would of been fine". LOL well it seemed other people knew that would be the case also and made sure the whole buildings would come down

[@venkataraghotham7586]

I have several of your work and I am a Historian with a PhD from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. I appreciate your criticism of multi culturlism and identity politics. Your attempt to equate Pakistan and India 🇮🇳 over the conflict in Kashmir is misplaced. And your discussion on Serbia too seems a little wrong. The exaggerated accounts over Serbian War Crimes and Genicide have been disproved by the IIC Judgement.

[@rollotwomassey]

That was more the case in the Middle Ages [especially during the Inquisition] but not so much now...

[@seamuspegleg7599]

video probably made in late 2004 early 2005 before Gaza disengagement.

[@arvidsky]

This is fairly short-sighted. The entire infrastructure of the Gaza and West Bank is obstructed by Israel and its settlements. It is very easy to say that "who is going to supply our energy?" is a ridiculous thing for a Palestinian to ask of the Israeli government, but we are talking about decades of occupation in which the Israelis have secured all the most vital resources, including over 90% of the water resources - and intend on keeping control of this infrastructure even after leaving - the Israelis still control the "main switch" to the West Bank and Gaza. Hanson is normally a brilliant scholar, but he seems to ignore alot of the very real problems about the Arab/Israeli conflict. He is right though, but it is more related to the Fatah - the Fatah is extremely weak in the West Bank. Also, whoever controls the Golan Heights controls vast water resources. Giving up the control of that water may not hurt Israel directly, but it would limits its control in the area, as Jordan and West Bank largely depend on the same source. Israel might therefore hesitate before handing it back. Jesus Christ. The last second-last woman does not know what she is talking about. In the areas where Jews and Palestinians live next to each other, the Jews often live on the upper floors. The Israelis have had to put up a fenced-roof because the Jewish settlers throw rocks and acid at the Palestinians.

[@mattihaapoja8203]

Palestinians consider rock throwing a form of non violent resistance so I guess its ok?

[@Bucketheadhead]

Fthcf Vgtjbv No, they consider non-violent protest to be non-violent resistance. Of course that doesn’t stop the occupation Israeli soldiers from exacting violence upon said protesters. Remember, under International Law the Palestinians have the legal rights to resist, violently or not. Does it not make you suspicious that some Israeli politicians almost succeeded in making it illegal to film Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank? Furthermore, as has been pointed out, the Palestinians also often face vicious attacks from crazed Israeli settlers (often in full view of the Israeli soldiers who stand by and watch while it happens). The entire apartheid system in the West Bank is utterly despicable. Thank you to the many Israelis who expose the human rights abuses. They are good people.

[@raydematio7585]

Always one idiot. Reading this makes me understand the Israeli cause and their heroic fight against barbaric violence. And the very strange people who chose to hate them.

[@Halo4Lyf]

@danbagheri Do you speak Ancient Greek and Latin? No? Yeah, that's what I thought.

[@cbraat27]

That almost weeping, hysterical voice liberals have when talking about Israel/Palestine

[@laueva6296]

Myron Jones who is this man

[@magistrorm2]

he said:no i will not be defeated by a foreign man.

[@hicaleb]

@ufster81 really?

[@Brian-dq2jc]

O'Lord, Please bless the current president and his office, his administration, and his campaign in the highest good❤️🇺🇸

[@user-mr3vd9wr5x]

Простите ..... Благородный Мэттис теперь многое понял ..

[@JoseAngelFlores]

Hernán Cortes was helped by thousands of Tlaxcaltecas and other tribes enemies of the Aztecs. It´s completely erroneous to suggest the Spaniards defeated the Aztecs with 1,600 soldiers.

[@xtremeownage2]

Exactly. Victor is a Western Supremacist liar. The Spaniards were actually fighting under an indigenous king with a large army. The euro centric view says the war was all about European domination but it was not. It was indigenous against indigenous and the Spaniards were just tagging along to try and benefit.

[@RickZackExploreOffroad]

Jose I don't think he was suggesting that from his lecture. The Aztecs were hated by many peoples that were more than willing to join with the Spainairds

[@RickZackExploreOffroad]

VDH is far from a Western Supremacist (whatever the hell that means) or a "liar". But you are correct that the tribal warfare of the indigenous people helped to subdue them.

[@murphys1999]

xtremeownage2 Well since western civilization has done more for the benefit of mankind then any other culture I guess there’s nothing wrong with being a western supremacist whatever the hell that is.

[@johndeagle4389]

It was a combination of Spaniards, Tlaxcaltecas, Small Pox, Horses, cannon, falconets, harquebuses, and the fact that the Aztecs attempted to capture their opponents alive on the fields of battle.

[@Kurtlane]

"Thus I believe today that I am acting according to the will of the almighty Creator: when I defend myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord." The 1st one is from an article by Kan'an Ubayd, published in Hamas newspaper Al-Risalah. April 23, 2007 The 2nd - from "Mein Kampf" by Adolph Hitler Finally, compare these quotes: "We love death more than you love life. Allahu akbar." (cont.)

[@B21983]

To apply "native inhabitants" to the Arabs only is very racially insensitive. I accept and honor the Arab presence on the land and their rights to it. Jews too are indiginous to the land. Neither Jews nor Palestinian Arabs are "genetically pure" or can trace every chromosome to an inhabitant living there in antiquity. First step to peace and mutual reconciliation is recognizing that the conflict is between two middle eastern peoples.

[@Bucketheadhead]

Ben Britton Well said.

[@lyn5559]

he;s from California State University CSU I should put weight behingd anything he says?

[@alanabush555]

lyn5559 >> He's an exception to the mainstream humanities of most universities, esp Ivy League ones. I'd figured about 85% are corrupted education of indoctrination and brainwashing. VDH noted around 95% in another podcast. So, he's part of the 5% who are prime, firsthand thinkers.

[@wikicross]

Sure, just call "racist" anything that you don't like.

[@jackjones3657]

wikicross I

[@jstanley011]

Funny how Europe became Eurabia on the watch of intellectuals like Hanson, and they all missed it. I know he's a military historian, and the invasion occurred below the military horizon. But Bat Ye'or wrote "Eurabia" in 2005, Styne wrote "America Alone" in 2010. This lecture sounds quaint by now.

[@xtrajently]

Rusty Shackleford Isn't it funny that Hanson talked about anti-semites just like you?

[@brobsty1856]

I don't don't hate Jew's. My ppl fought their own ppl to free them and others from oppression and it was the right thing to do. That doesn't mean I have to be blind to the realities of the world around me.

[@jt8169]

+Rusty I see you in the comments of so many videos lol

[@brankomilicevic6904]

@jen levins, Geroge Soros is not the same kind of Jew as Bibi Netanyahu. I'd go to the ends of Hell and back with Bibi, but I wouldn't throw a rope to a drowning Soros. Em I an anti-semite for that?

[@ishmaelforester9825]

It hasn't become 'Eurabia,' you hysterical prat.

[@wdsftygt]

@thepofmeister i didnt mean to destroy your family,they always said i was a home -wrecker.

[@rollotwomassey]

The Indians weren't any more or less humane than the Europeans. The Europeans just had more technology and, with Indian resistance fragmented and scattered, they could not drive off an endless flow of European and [eventually] American settlers. The Indians had wars too and were subject to the same human failings that we're all subject to. It's just that there is little to no historical record of their depredations and, moreover, no political will in academia to examine them closer.

[@JRRodriguez-nu7po]

American Indians were often worse, as in Iriqois Confederacy.

[@darbyohara]

The lack of a writing system or common language is a major factor in why the natives never advanced. They were even less cooperative than the Europeans. They just could not band together in any meaningful coalition to oust the undesirable Europeans.

[@patriciakimball8150]

Not “Andalasia” as the first questioner says; AndaluSia. (Al Andaluz). And the Arabs have absolutely no case, no gripe against the Jews for how that devolved. Christians? Yes.

[@John-vp2jq]

“When I was growing up in rural California in the 50s, the challenge was from the Neanderthal right. I think that challenge was met. Today I see that challenge from the boutique, aristocratic and sophisticated left.” I hope people caught what he said here because it is quite astonishing. Assuming that he’s talking about totalitarian states like NK, China, and USSR (with whom we did contend in the ‘50s) when he says “Neanderthal right”, 1) he’s got his ideologies backward - all three countries were communist or undergoing revolutions thereto, or on the extreme left of the ideological spectrum, and 2) I would argue that since none of those countries have relinquished their totalitarian tendencies (Russia just replaced one with another), those challenges are still very much being worked out. But most importantly, I hope everyone noticed that, even if he just got his dates wrong and meant nazi Germany/fascist Italy in the 40s, he’s still drawing an equivalency between fellow Americans who lean left politically (more than half the country, if estimates are to be believed) and foreign autocracies that Americans have died fighting against. In essence what he’s saying is that, despite the their status as fellow Americans, liberals are the enemy that America should fight against. This is reprehensible, disgusting and totally against the liberties of association and speech that we as Americans supposedly have.

[@Naa-ee7nq]

That was about anti-semitism and VDH was absolutely spot on. Time has only vindicated him.

[@Kurtlane]

The 4th - Mualana Inyadullah, speaking after 9/11 The 5th - Sheik Ikrima Sabri, Mufti of the PA, in a Friday sermon at the Al-Aqsa mosque The 6th - Al-Qaeda spokesman Abu Dujan al-Afghani, addressing the butchering of over 200 commuters in Madrid The 7th - Romanian fascist slogan, popular in the 1930s. Picked up by Spanish and other fascists (cont.)

[@arlieferguson3990]

"Turkey gobbled Cyprus."

[@neil03152]

I've become a convert to this brilliant man

[@mcsoja]

MATH!!!

[@dancroitoru364]

I'd ask distinguished Mr Hanson what's so bad in a more dialectical approach to history rather than this Kantian grip on freezing history at its "optimal" point? He should know better that no amount of renewed deterrence had stop any empire from falling and that the greater the victory, the more insidiously the seeds of decline are planted. No, the '1950s cannot be reinstated and Fukuyama's end of history was wrong.

[@magistrorm2]

the king of tyrus. read in ezechial how he dies.

[@RonaldMcPaul]

I like the special needs freeze frame Victor Davis Hanson for the thumbnail.

[@michaelashby9654]

Interesting to see how wrong VDH can be. I feel like his more recent lectures are much better. I wonder if he would repeat this lecture today. In this lecture, the examples to uses to show the benevolence of the US are now, 15 years later, seen in a very different light. And VDH ignored the longest war at the time of this lecture, Vietnam, in his examples. So why didn't he mention Vietnam? Or the carpet bombing of Cambodia? What was the "good" of the US dropping napalm on children in poor rural villages in Vietnam? The image of girl, skin burned off, running down a dirt road after being hit by US napalm needs to be remembered. For that matter, what was the "good" of using nuclear weapons on civilian cities in Japan? What is more terroristic than nuclear bombs on civilians? Nuclear weapons is not proportional to what the Japanese had done. And only by seeing the Japanese as inferior human lives can you say "well we would have lost too many for an unconditional surrender". And the condition of unconditional surrender is also something VDH should think carefully about in his moral frame. If you look at the world today, its pretty clear that the US seeks to encircle China. Is China an enemy? What was the first engagement between the US and east asia? It was the US sending gun boats to Japan, Korea, and China and firing canons at them. China had NOT sent warships to Europe or the US. So what was that the "good" in gunboat deplomacy? The British were trying to force China to accept their "freedom" to sell hard narcotics in China and that was the basis of the Opium Wars. The US had no problems with this. The US was also involved in humiliating China and weakening China to the point that the communist were later able to rise up and destroy China. VDH ignores all this. Well along that lines, the US carpet bombing of Cambodia weakened the Cambodian government which helped Pol Pot to rise to power. Again, our militarism helped communist rise to power. You see the same thing happen in Russia. VDH is ignoring all this.

[@kurukblackflame]

I've listened to a few of these now (talks by Mr Hanson)-he's interesting and broadly right-though he does have a habit of twisting certain facts and ignoring certain very important details in these situations. His political leanings seem to colour his ability to speak on modern history and politics a bit too much for this to be useful. I may stick to his histories of WW2 and earlier from now on.

[@TrondBie]

"he does have a habit of twisting certain facts and ignoring certain very important details in these situations" I'm waiting...

[@johanpappila6441]

Peter Anckorn Give me facts!

[@juliusschwencke142]

...looking forward to your next publication on your take of what modern history should imply, or your view of events that are consistent with inclusion and legitimacy.

[@backach1]

wrong have a look at the dancing Israelis urban moving if it has not been taken down by you tube and then of course there was always the liberty

[@brc3237]

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[@scotthyde5946]

Can you look at Trump’s peace Deal between Israel and Palestine that is fully supported by Saudi Arabia and 7 other Arab nations supported by a transference of technology from Israel to the Arab countries in the form of water purification and transforming desert to productive farm land ?

[@thefredkalis]

long live israel

[@xtremeownage2]

Long live Palestine

[@sea_clicks]

14:28 Kosovo Muslims were massacred later admitted to u.k as refugees..watched footage by a soldier who fought that war in u.k hundreds of Muslims mutilated while NATO was having conferences...to establish air no fly zones...

[@howardjohnson2138]

one word - mohammidism

[@bluegalactic]

he is such an apologist for isreal, using sensational platitudes to paint isreal as the bunny in the room. Weird?

[@greggreen6532]

This guy is great on Greece but hasn't a clue about the Talmud or Islam. Not a clue.