What It’s Like to Grow Up in an Israeli Settlement | Op-Docs

This week we bring you Iris Zaki’s thought-provoking short film “Natural Born Settlers.” A self-described liberal from cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, Zaki wanted to get behind the politics of Israel’s controversial settlements in the occupied territories - so she moved there, temporarily, setting up an improvised cafe where she could chat with settlers from her own generation.
Zaki’s previous Op-Doc was “The Shampoo Summit,” for which she took a job at a Christian Arab-owned hair salon, using a similarly playful, open-minded approach to transcend rhetoric and ideology and spark serious conversations with her fellow Israelis.
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[@joshmiller2725]

Imagine stealing someone’s land, and then acting like the victim when they fight back.

[@seeya339]

Josh, where are you from?

[@joshmiller2725]

I’m from a place where my ancestors have lived for many generations, and I purchased my house when the previous owner decided to sell it and move. You know, like basically everyone on earth does it except for Jews in Israel

[@seeya339]

​@@joshmiller2725 you didn't even mention where you are from, what's the reason for that?

[@joshmiller2725]

Typical Jew response, nothing but deflection. Why don’t you respond to my original comment. By the way the world knows that Israel was behind 9/11. Just like this recent attack by Hamas which the Israeli government allowed to happen so they could genocide the Palestinians in Gaza. Always playing the victim. They cry out in pain as they strike you. There’s a reason you guys have been kicked out of every country you’ve ever lived in.

[@munax-pd9tu]

Bro it’s insane to witness.

[@bibit3856]

Seeing the woman laughing about being a fascist, and admitting that the feelings of her neighbors are irrelevant…. That she never cared to even think of how her neighbors felt. She even believes that there’s basically no other way to be. And she closes her statement with a huge wide open laugh. That was scary to watch. I never seen such level of entitlement and arrogance….she looked so cruel. And imagine that in order to have an idea of what happens there, you need to multiply this woman by the thousands. But she is the clear representation of what takes place in that part of the world EVERYDAY. ( I appreciate how the journalist just look at her straight in the eye…and then look down. Those two looks…said a million words. )

[@defneguven]

and she, and people like her, will always bring the topic back to the holocaust while still laughing about being a fascist. bone-chilling statement for sure.

[@TheLsd76]

I fear if given a chance, that fascist young woman would be capable of hurting people she sees as inferior. Obnoxious, evil person. Dangerous for any country to claim her as a citizen.

[@livingmodern]

the admission and self-awareness in a way at least carves a path that if she would be educated then her awareness that something is off would be reconciled...maybe? but people usually don't change. The scarier thing is when people are so convinced that they are right and will never accept that maybe there is something wrong out loud. The point is, we need more discussion like this one to hear the spectrum OUT LOUD, and it will take more than just one person and example, because one person you can ignore, but many, then we need to see why. Obviously her sentiment is echoed throughout which is troubling, and on both sides that we've seen in interviews.

[@galtupor-bi7fg]

But someone being a comunist is accepted despite all the genocide they practiced in the last century...!

[@mateogruszynski8362]

AND shes a teacher like wtff

[@shebreathesingold8043]

Interesting how she admits she would spit on Arabs as a teen. I point this out because she was never arrested, but Palestinian children are often arrested for similar offenses and treated as criminals. If you are anti-Palestine and didn't think, "She spit on a human? She needs to go to jail" then I hope you never think it's appropriaite to arrest and keep children for years/decades who are from Gaza for similar offenses. Because this kind of dichotomy in treating these offenses shows your bias if you do.

[@idoturgeman1589]

I have never heard about someone who jailed for spitting on someone. dont say spitting isnt crime or disrespecting but it isnt crime I would consider as jail worth.

[@mathquir190]

It's just like a fun thing... Omg... This is obviously ethnic hate but seems okay...

[@haddarlevy9349]

Didn’t she say that she had a criminal record as a teenager for this?

[@elishevak.6795]

To be exact: she said that she HAD a criminal record for spitting on arabs and such as a teenager, which means that she was delt with by the police and treted as a criminal. Sometimes we are so desperate to see the narrative we want to see, that we stop listening...

[@elishevak.6795]

@@haddarlevy9349 Yes. People hear what they want to hear.

[@HussamKhorshid]

One more point: The video did not highlight that most settlers have weapons while their Arab neighbours do not. There is no self-defense here.

[@user-fp7rz5vg8w]

what propaganda have you been reading? There has always been a significant Jewish presence in Israel. Unbroken for 3500yrs. Arabs aren't cannaan. That is an outright fabrication designed to fool people. Jews were even classified as palestinians after ottoman rule and during in two census. So stop the nonsense.

[@alexandraestre1731]

Why would you need weapons when the settlers never attack first?

[@HussamKhorshid]

@@alexandraestre1731 You really need to educate yourself more

[@Sadoodi]

​@@HussamKhorshidthe settlers are armed and backed by the army. That is how they steal land

[@HussamKhorshid]

@@Sadoodi exactly

[@gagemcphail]

The issue isn't comlex, it is incredibly simple. End the occupation and give Palestinians their very, VERY basic human rights.

[@ellarose1685]

It is actually. Their leaders are corrupt and won’t hear peace talks

[@gagemcphail]

Oh, but they definitely can. The people who stole the land though, they would prefer to keep using the pitiful excuse of "but Hamas" to continue their genocide and ethnic cleansing.

[@gagemcphail]

@@Yamin-zo1bm Great analysis friend, solidarity

[@SuperDflower]

@@57andstillkickingSupported financially by Netanyahu in order to divide and conquer. Read the history

[@Yku30]

@@Yamin-zo1bmsoft words don’t convince Israel to stop, but terrorist attacks by Hamas make the situation even worse for the Palestinians. Israel has never had such a good excuse to invade once and for all.

[@nicojames3031]

When a Jewish young woman says openly while smiling “ I am a facist “ the world needs to pay close attention to what is going on there.

[@hamilt55467]

Her life has been threatened by terrorists her entire life. You pay no attention to the ones committing disgusting acts running around stabbing pregnant women. Don’t close one eye while keeping the other open.

[@nicojames3031]

G B she is saying with her own words that she is a “facist”.... facist ideology is connected to Nazi ideology ... ....But I guess ,according to you ,some kinds of facism /Nazism is ok ... .... And then you wonder why people resist your own racist and facist behavior ... without any self reflection.!!! Next you will tell us “ if you oppose facism .... “this is antisemitic “ You will try and say “ we/ Israelis came in peace and then became facist because of people being against us ” I imagine many nazis would try to justify themselves in the same way “ ... that is not an excuse ... if we can excuse facism , then we can excuse nazism If you are a facist / racist in your heart and you treat people that way , you need to look in the mirror and reflect .... and as the song goes “Make That Change”

[@tahahagar7664]

@@hamilt55467 Yeah life is hard for terrorist colonizers. If you dont want to be stabbed or attacked, maybe stop stealing and colonizing peoples land

[@Antonio_DG]

Yes, cause they aren't fascist, but nazist

[@Antonio_DG]

@@nicojames3031 Fascism was the base of nazism.

[@deekneumann3943]

It is impossible to co-exist with a people that believe they are superior and act like it.

[@user-tt8lo2gx4p]

I think you're right when you look at history

[@PingproLtd-jx4um]

Do you mean that the Arabs are self-righteous? I would agree, the Arabs are a greedy uncompromising bunch of evil hypocrites.

[@orwellianyoutube8978]

Literal flashbacks to 40-45. Yet with the new passed bill, it is antisemitism to mention the similarities between these two ideology's. Truly orwelian.

[@pr-ji1ni]

You are right, but your statement doesn't just apply to the so-called "chosen people". Sadly most believers of major religions think they are superior and, if given the opportunity, act like it. You see it with Catholics and other Christians, Muslims, Jews, even Buddhists and Hindus. Every single time they have power over those around them, they abuse it to oppress and destroy those who think differently.

[@elitedima9672]

zionists are the new nazis

[@richardperez109]

They're terrified of being stabbed and harassed, yet when its time to build something they're more than happy to let the "terrorists" come into their homes and build their kitchens, underpaid while under armed guard. Extremely despicable.

[@user-fp7rz5vg8w]

land isn't the issue. Islam is. It's that simple. History shows this clearly. The west has been taught exoticism and other bad revisionist historical narratives. An expansionist genocisdal religion of peace. Give them the entire Africa, middle east, iberean peninsula, and southern Europe and they'll still want the rest.

[@lioraferrero5791]

So they should not live there, they should live in the areas of Israel and not in the occupied lands. And I say that as an Israeli.

[@davidshapiro5616]

Payment was not mentioned. Did you just make that slur up?

[@richardperez109]

@@davidshapiro5616 from New York Times piece titled In West Bank Settlements, Israeli Jobs Are Double-Edged Sword: “The deeper problem, she said, was that the Palestinian minimum wage was $410 a month, compared with Israel's $1,217, and most Palestinian workers lacked pensions, vacation days and disability insurance” If Palestinians don’t have a functional economy they will take what ever job is given for what ever price, it’s not a slur, it’s facts. Not to mention Palestinians need to purchase a workers permit to work in Israel.

[@davidshapiro5616]

Richard, this is surely no different than West German companies taking former GDR workers from the Eastern part of Germany, US companies employing Hispanics or African miigrant taking whatever route will get them to the UK. You're correct, it's economics. If I were running a company I would wish to keep my fixed overheads as low as possible so as to increase the company's profits. Do you remember when the Jewish settlers were dragged (many crying and screaming) out of Gaza in 2005 by Israeli police and IDF soldiers? Guess what came flying over several weeks later? I was in Ashkelon at the time. That's right, the sirens went off and everyone and their dog ran for the shelters. I'm sorry, life is a b i t c h.@@richardperez109

[@Abdul-Y]

Imagine a foreign family building their home in your backyard, knowing that this is illegal under international law, yet they're protected by the police, and the army even, while you can't say anything and if you did you get arrested.

[@vedicwarriorOriginal]

Go further back into history and u'll see who stole whose house. 😉

[@ariellekangha3297]

@@vedicwarriorOriginal that’s irrelevant! So natives Americans can come and take over America because they lived here 2000 years ago?

[@juanarrivillaga2683]

@@vedicwarriorOriginal Who did?

[@shaphyshaphy]

@@vedicwarriorOriginal no matter what the history is, you have to acknowledge the fact that the settlement lands are recognized as palestinian lands and it is illegal to built settlements in those lands. Israel has been systematically facilitating for this for years, bit by bit. And now most of the Palestinian territories are occupied. If that is not the most lowly way of stealing idk what is?

[@vedicwarriorOriginal]

@@shaphyshaphy Recognized by whom? What vested interests facilitated that? What was the agenda behind that?

[@petercohen5563]

When will you do one about what it’s like to be a Palestinian living near a settlement?

[@nopublicbathroom]

FORREAL

[@GD-jc3wx]

Who cares?

[@petercohen5563]

@@GD-jc3wx, As a human being, I care, because Palestinians are my fellow human beings. Why would you not care?

[@cockyrooster361]

Never!! It doesnt work that way, at least not with the NYT. They're only concerned with one tribe.

[@petercohen5563]

@@cockyrooster361, true.

[@ordinaryvalley]

These people are deeply disturbed. This is like a piece from a distopian horror movie. I hate the injustice in this world

[@ibobeko4309]

I would go crazy if I have deal with such extremist for the rest of my life.

[@DavidVenegas-rq2cy]

Yeah it's called "Zone of Interest". It's about the Holocaust and some Fascists living next to a concentration camp. And the director said something like "This movie is not about what they did then. But what we do now"

[@bbharim]

I know your type. When I was beaten to death, and got up when I came to, there was no one around, everyone had fled. Not one person came to my aid, not then, not since. You say you hate injustice, but you will never lift a finger. You're way too indoctrinated.

[@zervaunt]

@@ibobeko4309 I agree, I dont understand why Israel is so surprised that Palestine is fighting back after all the extreme violence they have caused them.

[@MrSmithct4]

@@zervaunt OVER 75 YEARS OF IT AT THAT!

[@kingocto]

My father and his family were booted out in 1948 from Al Lydd Palestine now Lodd, he was born a year before in 1947. I want most of you to understand that palestinians are not people that came after israel was conquered. Palestinians are the descendents of the people of Israel. Many of them converted to Christianity other converted to Islam. I live in the wonderful country of America. Many people thought I was jewish including my siblings. What should have been distant cousins living with distant cousins under the same land, was switched to "you! make room, take what your hands can carry, and live over there!" This wonderful video makes me want to cry for that missed opportunity of seeing peace between people. Instead, we see people far removed, with internal hatred in their hearts in both sides.

[@Zaes223]

There is a group of power hungry right wing Israelis that do not and have never wanted peace. Just look at what happened after Netanyahu and Likud came to power the first time. Oslo Accords just won Arafat and Rabin the nobel peace prize and were a big step forward towards peace and a 2 state solution. One of the architects Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is then assassinated by an ultra right wing Israeli and then Benjamin Netanyahu comes to power and all that progress is not just erased but set back even further.

[@user-fp7rz5vg8w]

no they are arabs. Arabs never existed in Israel;, nor ancient Judea nor ancient canaan. You are naive

[@Diana030993]

My grandmother and her family were ethnically cleansed from Al Lydd too. She was 13 or 14 when at night israelis with guns came and didn’t allow to take anything with them. They ran to Gaza. 75 years later my grandmother lost her home again, as she was living in the Gaza city. She told that their bloodline was descendants of Canaanites so basically my family was living there for thousands of years. Now I only pray for my family in Gaza to survive. Watching the videos with israelis, seeing how they think only brings utter disgust to my heart.

[@mrtelevision8079]

As long as your goal is that Israel stops existing, there will not be peace. As you can see in this video, even settlers in the west bank which are far-right, will gladly accept peace, they don't mind living under a confederation, etc. But Israel is not going anywhere.

[@2321s0m]

@@Diana030993😢🇵🇸♥️I hope your family is safe! Yes they way they think is absolutely disgusting god will punish them the end is near

[@raulbatiz5423]

"If you pass by the checkpoint every day, and see 200 Palestinian workers, that's something one should be aware of. At first it bothers you, makes your stomach cringe, from the idea of a slave market, but by the 30th time you become indifferent." I'm at a loss for words...

[@Someone-ew3ln]

They are not slaves they have working permit in Israel

[@jadesingleton4110]

@@Someone-ew3lnstop it. These people are underpaid and undereducated purposely.

[@Someone-ew3ln]

@@jadesingleton4110 how do you know? Cuz I live in Israel I know what’s going on here

[@Ariel-jq1if]

@@jadesingleton4110 ok that's just stupid, the Palestinian Authority has complete control over their education and they could easily choose to work wherever they want. Why spread a lie about a place I bet you don't even live in?

[@greinerphil]

@@Someone-ew3ln No, because it is a feature of every hierarchical socio-economic system, especially Capitalism. You keep a segment of the population poor and undereducated to trap them into a cycle of poverty to exploit them. If it wasn't the Palestinians in this case, it would be a segment of the Jewish population.

[@ivtch51]

There seems to be a basic settler assumption that they have a right to this land that is already occupied by others. Their ancestors may have lived there 2000 years ago and any continuous connection to this particular piece of land has been lost. What is happening is despicable. It is delusional and inhumane. It is theft.

[@lisalisa1656]

It's evil

[@aysepersona4194]

And we all know that not even their ancestors have lived there as most Israelis are genetically white and not Semitic! They are Europeans colonising Palestine

[@Alexandraplotnik]

The bones of Jewish settlements are all over the West Bank. There is certainly a continuous connection; however the occupation is clearly not favoring the rights of Palestinians.

[@yippee8570]

@@Alexandraplotnik The Palestinians and the Israelis share a common heritage. It's in their very DNA.

[@ramujaku]

"it is theft" then go do something about it..

[@nilsnorden2092]

It is a real challenge for me as a German citizen to form my opinion because we have been and are under so much moral pressure to hold back on our political positions and opinions towards Israel. On the one hand, born in 1948, I have personally always felt great guilt towards the Jews. On the other hand, I don't understand how those who experienced the Holocaust can behave like the Nazis once did. Who can explain that please?! Besides: Thanks for the initiative of the NYT and the journalist

[@57andstillkicking]

Israel is not behaving as the Nazis did. There is no comparison. They have to occupy Gaza and the West Bank to protect Israel from the terrorists in both places.

[@anonanon1879]

Idk but my guess is, it's similar to how when a child is abused by a parent in a particular way, sometimes they grow up to abuse their children in a similar way. Maybe it touches that part of them that's traumatized, when they can cause that same trauma to somebody else. Maybe they want others to suffer like they did. I can only guess but it is shocking to see israelis act exactly like nazis.

[@yusefkhan1752]

Because what you were told is a huge exaggeration of the truth. Don’t even believe me but pick up a history book and look at the behavior of these so called persecuted individuals and how their “persecutions” manifested themselves-from both sides

[@iFre3zeHD]

Here is a tweet by Mosab Hassan Yousef maybe it will help you understand someday Arab ancestors lied to their descendants about their past defeats. The "Palestinian" forefathers were so ashamed of their defeats that they turned them into massacres and ethnic cleansing. (better to be a victim than defeated) Many Westerners today have been repeating the same false narratives as if they were true. If Israel ethnically cleansed the Arabs we would not have 1.5 million proud Israeli Arabs!! Spreading false narratives by some morally bankrupt liberals who found an opportunity to inflict emotional pain on the jewish successful minority is pathetic and disgusting and their evil intention will only contribute to the endless cycle of violence. What is happening in Gaza is not a massacre nor a genocide. It is the latest Palestinian irresponsible gamble of their own children's blood. Palestinians brought this onto themselves. If the Pro-Palestine movement in the West really wants to help Palestinians they should educate them on how to be civilized, how to coexist, to renounce violence and let go, instead of investing their energy in spreading false, baseless, and delusional narratives.

[@peeweebarney]

There are extremists on both sides. This fiasco should be blamed on Britain. They made up the Balfour Declaration in 1917 that allowed Jews to move to Palestine and be given Palestinian passports. Mr. Balfour was a British Christian Zionist who supported the Jews. The Palestinians should make up their own declaration and call it Arafat Declaration and give all Palestinians British passports and the right to live in Britain & set up a Palestinian homeland there.

[@Killshot15]

The saddest thing imagine coming to work building buildings and homes that you won’t ever be able to purchase or live in heck you probably won’t even be able to walk on the road the buildings are on. As an American I always thought oh Israelis are constantly attacked and need to protect themselves that is until I went to Jerusalem and traveled throughout the West Bank even stopping by Hebron. This trip really opened my eyes and reality smacked me across the face with my own eyes I’ve seen roads and areas that Israelis and Foreigners were allowed to be in I’ve seen roads and checkpoints specifically designated for Israelis/foreigners and one for Palestinians. I met a Palestinian family where there homes front door is on a road Palestinians are not allowed to walk on so they bolted her front door shut and the whole family needs to climb through windows or go through the back road just to go to work school or even for a simple thing as a breath of fresh air. While in Hebron i stopped by a store to get water and as I was walking I seen a Palestinian women with kids no older than three all being harassed by a group of young Israeli teens no more than 15 they were throwing garbage at the women and her kids while yelling what I think were insults all while 3 IDF soldiers stood no more than 10 feet away I tried to intervene but I was called a stupid American and the soldiers proceeded to escort me away for trying to help this woman with her kids. I left to visit Israel to experience a nice peaceful trip and what I got was opposite simply put what is happening in the West Bank is apartheid and Palestinians are second class citizens at the very best I can’t imagine to think what the Palestinians in Gaza go through.

[@Zoyeboi]

One of my friend had similar experience 😔she is American Muslim .She was hit by police in Jerusalem. She heard screaming of women in the middle of night.

[@benmay4911]

There was none of this before the Palestinians started attacking Jews. Listen to Mossab Hassan Yousef. The Jews in Hebron are an ancient community and as a minority in the city have a right to be protected. The Arabs tried to murder them all in 1929 and they need protection.

[@PingproLtd-jx4um]

Remember that the Arab neighbours told Arabs in Israel to leave whilst they destroyed Israel and started a war. They lost the war and other wars since. The Israelis did not evict the Arabs. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria were all defeated in the 6-day war. The Arabs were part of Hitler's solution to exterminate Jewish people via Genocide. The Arabs don't deserve rights, the land was never theirs, they won't accept their given land, are evil and racist too, and they should move out or be forced out as is now. Do you mean that the Arabs are self-righteous? I would agree, the Arabs are a greedy uncompromising bunch of evil hypocrites.

[@guitarninjarick8179]

It does seems disturbing the more I learn and watch about these issues. The more it seems like Palestinians are treated like 2nd class citizens and how alot of Israelies are either indifferent or seem like they are justified in doing anything they feel like in response to any problems with Palestinians.

[@elcatoMemes]

Its worse than 2nd class therse videos more disgusting and hard to watch

[@elcatoMemes]

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[@itzharmaor5853]

@@elcatoMemes That's only the Palestinian's perspective. I agree those are horrible acts that I would never do, but those exact things happens to Israeli people way more commonly.

[@elcatoMemes]

@@itzharmaor5853 no u lying its 2021 we can see everything

[@itzharmaor5853]

@@elcatoMemes you can't see what the news don't tell you.

[@johnnyrocker7495]

"Thou Shalt Not Steal." God to Moses, 2000 BC. "If I don't steal your house, someone else will." Yakob from Long Island, May 2021.

[@abebabe3069]

Who stole what and when?

[@johnnyrocker7495]

@@abebabe3069 Ask Yakob. He'll tell you.

[@lancome4600]

@@abebabe3069 there was a video, where a Palestinian woman tried to reason with a Jew settler. She said O uncle Yacoub, you cant steal this house, you know this is wrong (something like that). And the Jew, Yacoub, said "IF I DONT STEAL IT, SOMEONE ELSE WILL STEAL IT".

[@abebabe3069]

@@johnnyrocker7495 You cite a stupid man`s saying as if it represents anything. Also, what he meant is that it is not her home anyway, she only thinks it`s her`s. So he lives in the house which she thinks is her`s and it doesn`t matter who will live there, as she won`t. He was too stupid to make his foolish comment

[@johnnyrocker7495]

@@abebabe3069 You call him stupid yet you agree with what he's doing. Interesting. At least he was honest about being a thief.

[@humblecrabd6981]

the woman who was stabbed is inspirational. her aura just exudes wisdom and calm. so glad her and her baby were okay

[@Youtube.10a]

And the over 6000 babies bombed? Ur glad theyre dead by the likes of her? Because shes a source of "wisdom" 🤡 ugh shame on her and u and anyone who support an occupyer!

[@joeidaho5938]

Aside from all; that, this is NOT a land where someone with blatant white skin somehow has entitlement. She comes to Israel...and somehow she is entited to land that never remotely belonged to anyone she ever knew. It is clearly stolen land...and they wil never acknowledge that.

[@user-bl7uw7vi2l]

Number of people killed in Gaza: 12,000, including 5,000, thousands of children and thousands under the rubble as a result of the bombing. The world is deaf and blind and a challenge to humanity and international laws And genocide and false goals regarding persecution of Hamas, the purpose of which is to complete Netanyahu’s plan to exterminate people, violations and arrests in the West Bank on a daily basis. Stop the crimes of the killer of innocents, children and defenseless people. Stop Netanyahu

[@arnaudinstalle]

She seems the most reasonable. But even she gaslights herself and the world when she says things like "I believe no one is to blame", "the people of Israel have only the land of Israel. history brought the Palestinians here".

[@Adultwomanlol]

​@@arnaudinstalle Does this hate justify stabbing the Palestinians in the US?

[@guillermotell2327]

Not one Palestine voice is heard in this report. 2:28 Huge swimming pool, while the Palestines are left with very little water.

[@PingproLtd-jx4um]

Remember that the Arab neighbours told Arabs in Israel to leave whilst they destroyed Israel and started a war. They lost the war and other wars since. The Israelis did not evict the Arabs. Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria were all defeated in the 6-day war. The Arabs were part of Hitler's solution to exterminate Jewish people via Genocide. The Arabs don't deserve rights, the land was never theirs, they won't accept their given land, are evil and racist too, and they should move out or be forced out as is now. Do you mean that the Arabs are self-righteous? I would agree, the Arabs are a greedy uncompromising bunch of evil hypocrites.

[@lilleyprescott2448]

I would love to go back to Scotland to reclaim my families ancestral castle, but its illegal and guess what my ancestors left, probably under not so favorable conditions. By there we were here 2,500 years ago rule does that mean that an American Indian can come over to my place and pitch a tent ? The logic is insane and so is the way they treat the peoples of the land they stole. The entitlement is astounding

[@Ariel-jq1if]

Agreed, but then so is the insane and violent rhetoric of the 'from the river to the sea' logic of Pro-Palestinians who want to kick Israelis living within 1967 borders out of their homes. Everyone needs to respect international law and that's it, but people on either side of the conflict are adamant not to.

[@yuliaakh]

Such a great analogy

[@knowbert]

stole? that's funny because i've been watching quite a few of these docs and all i'm seeing is how much they are overpaying way above market value for these PL homes. One man was even able to get out of his gambling debt from the overpriced sale. Somebody needs to pay closer attention.

[@lilleyprescott2448]

funny because ALL I see is settlers attacking the Palestinians on occupied territory, literally going in and living in someone house when they are there at times by the IDF. I see the settlers fighting , stabbing, extrajudicial killings, calling them names all backed up by the IDF or police. Your courts even sided with the Palestinians on this very issue so BIBI gutted your Supreme Court, Your gaslighting won't work with me, a gambling debt your a real piece of work and your entitlement and hubris is astounding and unfortunately for the Palestinians lethal.

[@lykolik]

👏👏👏

[@rayandaas1695]

“How does it feel to grow up in someone else’s home”

[@gaylerosenthal1828]

There are very few indigenous Palestinians. Even Yasser Arafat was a Tunisian.

[@sbeyson6307]

@@gaylerosenthal1828 they were over a million in 1948 and yasser arafat was born in egypt to a palestinian mother and father

[@piyushdas079]

same as to build mosques on someone's else holy shrines

[@user-mc4on6cj1r]

@@piyushdas079 Arabs indeed captured many countries and built mosques, for example Al-Axa

[@user-mc4on6cj1r]

@@sbeyson6307 to arabic parents, before they called themselves palestinians.

[@gerri577]

I know that if I grew up on stolen land and eventually learned that the land I've been living illegally on stolen property, I would be compelled to do the right thing and leave. That's how humanity should be. It's unhumane to live next to and on the land that belongs to the very people you see everyday and feel okay with that.

[@rennyskiathitis8178]

The Land wasn't Palestinian, It was Ottoman territory before WW1 and then after that it was British territory. There was no Palestinian state ever before 1948, in fact the Mandate for Palestine was created for the purpose of creating a Jewish state, not an Arab.

[@Cihadyldz]

@@rennyskiathitis8178 your answer is total proof of zionist atrocity. let say you are right. let say palestine created for jew state so what happens to arabs living there. your answer totally away from humanity , justice , wisdom. your comment proof of zionist occupation

[@pdk7415]

If you happen to be American, chances are you are living on Native American land..?

[@gerri577]

@@pdk7415 you're right, but that does not dismiss hostile settler's from their duty to do the right thing.

[@natty55555]

@@pdk7415 I used to lived in Russia in Ural region on the land stolen from native tribes Mansi, Komi, Chud. And I have left the land and I now live as a guest in a native country because I do not want to live on a stolen land. Due to the same reasons I will never visit Israel, Crimea

[@VictimOfModernAge0]

At 6:38 the Israeli settler states they know the suffering of the Palestinian people under their occupation, but they've grown indifferent to it. The banality of evil on full display. What a sick society.

[@showman903]

settler once said "If I don't steal your house, someone else will"

[@rimonpatwery6700]

@KESHAUN DEONTAY WILLIAMS Show proof or Stop justifying apartheid and Genocide.

[@hearty1240]

Our esteemed Yaakov, the Long Island settler.

[@yiskash]

@@namlamadni5718 It's not a proof.

[@NPCorangebad]

@@yiskash I wonder why Jewish people are always prosecuted and about have been at least booted one from each country in Europe over the last 1000 years?

[@RE-xv9fp]

Jacob, is that youuu?! :D

[@malfaro3l]

I think the farmer put it best, when you get to know your enemy, it becomes complex. The only way to indiscriminately harm others is to dehumanize them. It is much harder when they are your neighbors, employees, and, maybe, friends.

[@Doom_Hawk]

Isn't that just the truth. Propaganda has become so intertwined with modern society as well, with advertisements and such, that it becomes harder to remain impartial when everyone is trying to shove a view down your throat, that is biased and unfair.

[@malfaro3l]

Irina Rostkoko that is an absolute fact and a testament to how dispicable we can be as a species, but I think the better point is that it begins with dehumanizing people. When you create a nothin of "them" as opposed to "us" it is much easier to hate.

[@Americansikkunt]

Sergio Díaz Nila What do you think that brainwash scene in Clockwork Orange was based on? Alex was subjected to imagery and sounds. What are people doing when they watch Television PROGRAMMING? It IS the same, you fool.

[@malfaro3l]

2manynegativewaves I think you hit the nail on the head. We need to ask, what is it that can cause people to change in such a dramatic way after having years of non violent interactions. I would put out there that the difference is that an ideology or practice that allows one person to dehumanize another lies at the foot of the problem. Another way to look at it, is by examining how people defend the truly dispicable among us. Whether we are taking about Stockholm Syndrome, press releases by a cult, or criminal defense attorneys, the fundamental principle is the same, we treat people we think we know better because we think we know them. Sadly, this does not mean we can solve the world's problems by introducing people but that was never the point. The point, to the extent there is one, is that human connections are powerful and, when possible, should be used to give people pause before they drive head first into hateful ideologies.

[@MikeBoucher]

This is exactly how the USA government has been able to demonize not whites as terrorists. For countless war. It shows they're different and not the same as us. It's always been about dehumanization. We must wise up and move immune to these tactics.

[@SpoopySquid]

This is like reading those old NYT headlines trying to downplay Hitler

[@MrSmithct4]

truly insane to see

[@livinginparallel]

"the first time it makes your stomach cringe....by the 30th time you're indifferent.." exactly 💔😓

[@code07sam]

"If I don't steal your house, someone else will" -Yakob, 2021

[@MrSarcasticOne]

@rama rambo that settler look like Peter from Family Guy

[@1997lambchops]

And he’s American. He just has more right in Israel than Palestinians because he’s Jewish.

[@lnaallah1324]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fp-9hJSBjtKDaNU

[@cnacma]

That blonde Jewish girl said she was a fascist. Like she happily described herself as a fascist. I will never for the life of men understand how a Jewish person could happily and willfully embrace the ideology that got 6 million Jews exterminated 70 years ago.

[@vhyles]

I've seen that comment copy-pasted all over the Palestine-Israeli part of youtube. It's getting very cringy now

[@EbrahimHasan]

It's not only those settlers who can't interact with their surroundings. This whole footage was taken without talking to a single Palestinian.

[@adamgreenberg1959]

Ebrahim Hasan because the piece wasn’t about Palestinians it was about Israeli settlers duuu

[@thereisnone9621]

Ebrahim Hasan and what would they say?

[@EbrahimHasan]

@@thereisnone9621 Things that don't make this one-sided reporting

[@amitkenan3878]

@purplinko 🖕🖕

[@s.t.7683]

In the beginning she stated that she wanted to hear the point of view of the settlers that many Israelis view with very mixed feelings and therefore it’s easy to make assumptions about them. She herself admitted to it. The documentary (big difference) deals with this topic. For the amount of time she had approx. 10 min. You can’t deal with more than one question. Yes I agree that in general it is important to hear all sides. But one documentary can’t do it all and also shouldn’t. There are other videos that deal with other points of views. Someone else already pointed out, that it’s obvious what the Palestinians think concerning the question wether the settlers should stay or leave in their settlement.

[@harakatidi8722]

No people in their right minds can support such actions. You can't take somebody else's land just because you feel entitled. A psychiatrist could give us an enlightening view how these people think, but honestly they have serious issues that require treatment

[@ja9795]

We are all looking at Gaza and the West Bank now.... and perhaps we could look at the historical facts of the place we live as well... What has happened to the original Indigenous people of SO MANY places on this planet we call home...

[@sebastianoviedo253]

Now NYT should interview Omar Suleiman, for those who don’t know him he’s a Palestinian American civil rights leader, scholar, and president of the Yaqeen Institute of Islamic research.

[@heatherbrown384]

That this woman admitted, laughing that she regarded herself a fascist, it begs the question: did she not read the history books? Indeed, the entire situation reminds me of the boy who witnessed his father beating up on his mother and then, himself, growing up to be a wife beater. Truly, truly sad.

[@xanbex8324]

" I and every citizen knows what each school boy comes to learn. Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return." W.H. Auden

[@aksmex2576]

Facism is pro genocide and colonial. That explains a lot.

[@AnonymousReader-er4eg]

@darzsh , the oppressed become the oppressors

[@ArifKhan-ir3vl]

You know what's more disturbing? She is a "TEACHER", imagine what kind of pupils she will rear.

[@Imserious184]

True. coming from a jew.

[@lspyderp]

The woman who got stabbed and did not turn to hate is on a different level than most of us humans, she is truly a woman of God ! The world could learn a lot from her !

[@noah1502]

this is the eternal plight of the jews. get stabbed but still be nice to your stabber. get bombed but dont bomb back. get killed but dont hate those who killed you. its anti semitism

[@Ksu_]

wow yeah, though I don't support what most settlers are doing to Palestinians (you can't forget the ongoing occupation) I have to say she's very sweet natured and if more people were like that the world would be a pretty peaceful place

[@Peculiarsteve]

Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan

[@toutounr8120]

i was sceptical to watch this video, however because of this woman i cried.. im so glad she turned towards love and light, it was difficult im sure. Both sides are highly affected by the horrible zionist regime,both no longer hide they have been a subject to generational trauma.. both want a better life for all.. it's now the time for israeli government to turn towards the light and finally stop opressing palestinians with unequal military force ..

[@nyioo7]

She already got everything from them. What's the point of hating?

[@SpoopySquid]

Interviewee: Yeah i'm totally a fascist NYT: Wow she's so quirky! If you're wondering why people are abandoning legacy media, this is why

[@alexlefay]

"Sooo me and my family came here, we know it's illegal, but we still came. We kicked out a family and no they and their neighbours are making our lives difficult. How dare they! Haven't they heard of the Holocaust????"

[@abmujvek1]

on the money

[@moeezS]

"When you meet individuals behind faceless groups, you see things in a more complex way". Exactly, which is why dehumanisation must be fought at all times.

[@user-me7mm7gr1p]

Open boarders for Israel. Without multiculturalism and interacial jewish-black african relationship. Israel won't survive.

[@JH-dl6vu]

"Be careful of what you read in the papers as it will have you hating the people being oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing".

[@MoejiiOsmanTV]

they are eastern European, after WW2 European countries wanted to rid of themselves of the Jewish population so the british decided to give them land that wasn't there's to give away which was Palestine... And then the Israelis came over by the millions and the Palestinian population was in shock, how could the world powers give away our country? Bcuz some book that nobody knows who wrote claims the land belongs to them from 2,000yrs ago? The country was named Palestine by the Roman's for a reason... The Jewish population in Palestine was less then 10%....if they claim like they do that the land was given to them by God why were most of them living in Europe? Poland, Russia etc? The European super powers also didn't want to deal with these people and basically gave them a one way ticket to Palestine, how else would the Palestinians act but aggressive and start a war? There country was given away by people who had no righ to do it and now we are left with settlements all over the west Bank, homes that belonged to Palestinians for hundreds of years confiscated by invalid Israeli courts who always side with settlers. Palestinian farmers forced to give up there agricultural land for the building of settlements bcuz they shut off the water to there olive tree plantations, what else can the Palestinians do? It's the worst form of apartheid ever seen much worse then south Africa. And Israel knows as long as they have America in there pocket, the palest Ian's will always suffer under there thumb... U would think jews who went thru the holocaust would never want to oppress another people's like they were but it's basically Stockholm syndrome, oppression leads to more oppression

[@MoejiiOsmanTV]

they are eastern European, after WW2 European countries wanted to rid of themselves of the Jewish population so the british decided to give them land that wasn't there's to give away which was Palestine... And then the Israelis came over by the millions and the Palestinian population was in shock, how could the world powers give away our country? Bcuz some book that nobody knows who wrote claims the land belongs to them from 2,000yrs ago? The country was named Palestine by the Roman's for a reason... The Jewish population in Palestine was less then 10%....if they claim like they do that the land was given to them by God why were most of them living in Europe? Poland, Russia etc? The European super powers also didn't want to deal with these people and basically gave them a one way ticket to Palestine, how else would the Palestinians act but aggressive and start a war? There country was given away by people who had no righ to do it and now we are left with settlements all over the west Bank, homes that belonged to Palestinians for hundreds of years confiscated by invalid Israeli courts who always side with settlers. Palestinian farmers forced to give up there agricultural land for the building of settlements bcuz they shut off the water to there olive tree plantations, what else can the Palestinians do? It's the worst form of apartheid ever seen much worse then south Africa. And Israel knows as long as they have America in there pocket, the palest Ian's will always suffer under there thumb... U would think jews who went thru the holocaust would never want to oppress another people's like they were but it's basically Stockholm syndrome, oppression leads to more oppression

[@MattBiden]

That doesn't make any sense. There is more anti black racism in FL than anti eskimo racism in FL. No eskimo's in FL to hate. Racism happens when two or more races come into contact with each other.

[@socdemigod]

Ok now do a doc on "What It's Like to Grow Up Palestinian in Gaza".. Let's be fair and balanced here

[@DixieBanjo]

THIS

[@frbe0101]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYWrnmSNfryIotk

[@burtonl7239]

LOL. Fair and balanced would be to do a doc at sites in the shadow of Gaza rocket strikes. "What it's like to grow up beside a race literally bent on your destruction."

[@lostwisdom7789]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqnZf42fqMZ1bqc

[@jayqpublic6209]

@Mr Daddy Please Spank Me And Any more jokes up your sleeve?

[@joebloggs5812]

To everyone outside Palestine: boycott Israeli products; write politely but firmly to journalists when they show bias or misreport events; write to politicians to tell them to condemn Israeli loudly and publicly (for contravening international law, for genocidal actions in Gaza, for ethnic cleansing, for using starvation as a means of war, for collective punishment of Palestinians, for murdering thousands of innocent children, for abusing and humiliating Palestinians every day for 75 years; etc.etc. Be active! Every effort helps, big or small - and you'll sleep better at night.

[@osaabd390]

Wait NYT, did your thought-provoking journalist describe "I am a fascist" with "lack of political correctness"? Does your thought-provoking journalist even know what the term political correctness even mean? This tops my list of the jokes of the year.

[@RangeGleasry]

💯 shocking « journalism » this was more of a settlership propaganda piece.

[@SteamyBun]

The woman openly admitting she is a fascist and saying "when there is animosity between two sides, you can't think about their feelings" - wow. And you know that she is representative of how many of the settlers and non-settler Israelis feel. There is zero difference between her and the Nazis who stood by and laughed as millions of Jews were exterminated. We truly never learn.

[@shachargabbay1496]

im an israeli, she doesnt represent me and many others

[@mrtelevision8079]

The Hebron settlers are the most extreme, albeit being a very small minority.

[@aravil2858]

@@shachargabbay1496 go solve ur country's fascism with ur "many others" friends then

[@truthbybasya]

I don’t understand why that’s all you noticed from what she said. Major confirmation bias. She literally said she was terrified of being stabbed her entire childhood. Why don’t you focus on that part?

[@Mar86111]

​​@@truthbybasyathat what you experience when your doing something criminal and illegal . Palestinans there are daily living through risks of being killed, arrested or thrown out of their homes just for existing. She is protected by her powerful government, the apartheid state. There is no comparison.

[@rso1411]

The woman that got stabbed is just a deep down, good person. I wish there were millions more like her in the world.

[@gable906]

she's weird

[@adigakoshbay]

Exactly! such a pure heart

[@5Gazto]

All the contradictory views and cognitive dissonance she has to go through because the world doesn't offer her an alternative.

[@beratceylan4668]

as soon as she finished her last sentence I paused the video to write exactly what you wrote its also impressive how genuine acts move human soul .. l would like to learn more about this sulh/peace making delegation ..

[@laurencedavey3121]

@@gable906 definitely unusual, which is a shame.

[@Rose.878]

We live in a time when satan doesn’t even hide anymore, and people still don’t see him.

[@enf.j1830]

After seeing this, I can't really fathom the amount of suffering Palestinians have been enduring all those years living amongst these monsters,In another world I could've been born there amongst them, I was feeling sad for what Palestinians have been going through for over 100 days but now I have a deep felling of sorrow that will never go away after dipping more in the history and watching for myself what kind of creatures they've been dealing with

[@yahya4370]

It’s hardcore to fire a gun to scare children with rocks?? The bar is set really low

[@gungame9486]

This children killed last year israeli with their rocks!

[@veshallaes1767]

@@gungame9486 Pathetic soldier it must be getting killed by a kid. Pathetic indeed!

[@hudaahmed794]

Gun Game good on them if I was there I will do the same

[@xanbex8324]

@@gungame9486 GOOD on them!

[@casualBob7]

yea, it's not like you can killed by a rock to the head.

[@stenorio90]

It's interesting to see how a nation founded by persecuted and oppressed people liberated from concentration camps has in time become the persecutioner and the oppressor of others. It's as if they've forgotten their own history. The lack of accountability and self awareness is staggering.

[@Ariel-jq1if]

Building settlements is definitely a form of oppression for sure, but the blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt on Gaza is 100% a legitimate (and the only reasonable) security response given who their government is. Regardless you need to remember that Israel has offered 2-state solutions and the dismantlement of settlements multiple times, and that the majority of the population is anti-settlements except for the religious people. To compare Jews to Nazis is unhinged.

[@trapd00rspider]

I don't think they've forgotten. Part of it is driven by legitimate fear and trauma, and part of it is the entitlement of thinking that everything a victim does must be justified.

[@JT-np1op]

Think about PTSD and how PTSD works, even generationally. Think of Soldiers and how they handle family with PTSD. Think about Family life and how PTSD changes it permanently. Then multiply this PTSD by a NATION worth of people. A people that were already somewhat united, now united by PTSD. It is MUCH more nuanced than your interpretation, and it should be studied. It is a phenomenon caused by unbelievable circumstances.

[@AA123TD]

more interesting is that the same people who survived the holocaust are the ones who perpetrated the nakba. Israel was established through terrorism

[@uioplkhj]

Most Israelis are from the surrounding middle east not Europe. The ones from the middle east were also unfairly kickec out.

[@zeeshandogar9406]

A thief never becomes an owner.

[@RaghadW]

Answer to the last question is for the settlers to leave, simple. It is not your land, Palestinians do not have to suffer or compromise. Just live in Tel Aviv where most Israelis live. I dose not matter if you were born here at all, because you stole the land in the first place, just give it back.

[@ujalasaadi2017]

The question should be what its like to live in someone homes after stealing from them forcefully.

[@FirstLast-ox1vj]

these people are young. if shed want to ask that question she should of gone to elder people in the yeshov

[@yusufalraqi4903]

these are the children of those settlers

[@karrot101]

as if they care?

[@ilomilo1387]

@@FirstLast-ox1vj she is still old enough to know better

[@asher8754]

Now do Kalya, beit harava, the Jewish quarter, and Kfar etzion where jews where first massacred by Arabs . The same Arabs from Deir yassin

[@al.1024]

9:08 *When you meet the individuals behind faceless groups, you see things in a more complex way* This might be the best phrase of this video.

[@colebennett1785]

The two minutes starting at 10:33 with the stabbing victim are so powerful. To see how she took this terrible event and refused to let it harden her heart, but as an opportunity to learn about people and commune with them - this is the best nature we can aspire to.

[@Tyronejizz]

Pretty messed up that she says the Palestinians "came to the land" when the iews are the invading occupiers

[@RandomBloke007]

​​@@TyronejizzThe Palestinians did come to their land. It's the same as a native American saying the Europeans came to their land. That land was Jewish before the Arabs invaded.

[@Tyronejizz]

@@RandomBloke007 well guess what there was human inhabitation before judaism ever existed. Point is that letting the UK decide to give their colony carved up from the Ottomans to a loose religious ethnic diaspora because they had a 2000 year old claim based on religion isnt a solid basis for state building.

[@RandomBloke007]

@@Tyronejizz Every land in human history has been conquered. Get over yourself.

[@bobobobo3142]

@@RandomBloke007 But the problem is you didn't conquer it. Europeans dumped their trash to get rid of it and that is how you got it. They support you so they don't have to take you back. We will keep fighting until we get back our land or in your words we conquer it. Oct 7th was an attempt to conquer it and we will keep trying until we exist.

[@YahELaz]

"We feel fear in our settlement" Read it again Did you understand it?

[@user-jd1oq4wu2n]

I love how the Israeli reporter has to continuously remind the viewer how liberal she is. Spare me the shock and awe that the colonizers from a religious extremist apartheid state are 'politically incorrect', please.

[@movingtargets7833]

and... they even failed to find people that politically incorrect. admitting there are fascistic tendencies in one's feelings hardly falls in that category.

[@tuhufazi2207]

i know right theyre not even sure themselves

[@rabahker4570]

"the single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not they are not true; they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story " - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[@biancaoneata5578]

I started reading your comment and I hoped this would be Chimananda.

[@marcus3173]

It's crazy how settlers act like they're the victims even though they stole someone elses land.

[@slowed_to_perfection]

i love how they always make them appear like nice people although they stole homes of other people.

[@heartsofiron4ever]

they didn't there was a dessert before the Israeli's built a settlement.

[@NubiansNapata]

​@@heartsofiron4everthese European squatters have no right in the land

[@batmscot6149]

It's always amazing how a people taking another's lands expects those people who's land it is to work for them to except the rules and to leave the land that belongs to them to live some where else where they don't want to live.

[@yeahyeahhhhh698]

An ancestry dna test, will send these back to Europe where they belong. It’s funny how when Europeans leave their native lands and claim North America, Oceania and Israel as if they were there.

[@abdullahbenhassan]

@@Joeyknows924 But but he does it tooooo. Very childish

[@EmmyWagner]

Luckily, the video and argument presented was done by a person who belongs to the same Country, Culture and Religion. Otherwise it would be biased and I would have agreed with you. People are definitely amazing. Are we not? Cheers.

[@IsraelistheJewsland]

Pallywood lost the war they started

[@spikeshnoops9940]

Turkey colonized Cypress in 1974 (war). Erected a demonic wall to divide Muslims & Christian Cypriotes into settlements. (Apartheid) Since 1985, butchered 35,000 Independence seeking Kurdish freedom fighters seeking to regain ancestral Kurdistan Most Turkish journalists are in jail Palestine-Executing homosexuals. Christianity forbiden FREE TIBET! China conquered Tibet in 1956 (2 million dead) & transformed her into a giant Chinese satanic SETTELMENT. Incarcerated 2 million Muslim Uyghurs into hard labour indoctrination camps. Sterilizing Muslim women. Barbaric & demonic ethnic genocide Russia bombarded Independence seeking Chechnya back to the Stone Age. 200,000 men, women & children killed (Grozny ’93) BDS Turkey’s tourism, Russian vodka & Chinese sweet & sour sauce at once! Morality is color blind…is yours?…

[@CiaranGallagher1]

Many of these settlers are sick and demented people. And many of those expressing love and peace platitudes I feel don't mean it in practice. Kudos to those who are speaking out against these evils and those who are genuinely extending an olive branch to those in the nearby Arab communities.

[@liamcraig123]

Makes me wonder about the nature of human beings. Would most of us turn into beasts if we belonged to the dominant group? Majority of the Israelis justify domination and cruelty towards the Palestinians because of their supposed link to the land 3,000 years ago. Not all jews came from the middle east.

[@abesapien9930]

You might want to update your definition of "sick and demented" given the recent attacks we just witnessed.

[@yousra8728]

@@abesapien9930 yes please cause the death toll has risen to 2,215 in Palestine, 2,215 innocent civilians and still counting, these are the ones whose bodies were recovered. I am Not okay with killing babies and innocent and at the same time would like to say that the response to 75 years of oppression would be aggressive and violent. I would also like to say that it's Hamas who committed the acts against Israel, Hamas which is unlike the IDF which truly represents Israel, Hamas has nothing to do with Palestine really, so Palestinians shouldn't be the ones who pay the price!! Gaza has a population of over 2 million people with more than 40% of them being kids, did you see how many babies died ? and this time there is actual proof, not just word from mouth to ear? do you support Israel ? cause if you do you are a monster! I do not support Hamas, I do not support Israel, I support Palestine and will always support Palestinians!

[@munax-pd9tu]

@@abesapien9930They caused these attacks. How dare they steal someones homes and play victim when they’re attacked? You people are colonialists.

[@_Fluorescent_]

@@yousra8728I can’t disagree with you. I support anyone who is truly peaceful.

[@andrewdeen1]

Settler: you know I’m something of a fascist myself NYT: I’m shocked… at your bravery 👏👏👏

[@inconvenientfacts6452]

These peoole say they feel guilt but have no issue living illegally on their land

[@JadeScarlett]

For those saying that she should’ve spoken to the Palestinians as well, you must’ve missed the part in the very beginning where she says she wanted to speak to the people she disagrees with the most - meaning the Israelis settled there. Geez, pay attention before ruffling feathers!

[@jaanaviit3847]

Yes but she is naturally biased being Israeli Jewish herself... she pointed out that she was really affected and saddened by the Mark family attack by gunfire ... Indeed a very sad event.... but what of the many more Palestinians who have been murdered in those parts? The degradation, slavery and segregation of their existence in a land that their ancestors have always occupied? The woman that was stabbed (who seems a very beautiful soul) stated "The people of Israel have only the land of Israel, history brought the Palestinians here" But the Palestinians were not "brought there by history". They were always there...? No? I am curious to know why people of Israel refuse to accept or believe that it was the country 'Palestine' before it became 'the land of Israel' Jewish people were settled there thousands of years ago as the farmer guy stated. But how does that give them the right to take over the land and kick out Palestinians from their homes that their families have been in for generations. Please enlighten me...

[@asunduko1]

@@jaanaviit3847 Several deserts separated Jewish and Samaritan dwellers of the land of Israel from Arabs. So "History brought PLO here" is a very nice euphemism from a terrorized woman. The reality is that Muslim armies invaded 1300 years ago and brought with them occupiers.

[@iron2468]

Jade Scarlett that's why it's so important to hear with our own ears...because SERIOUSLY biased people LOVE TO DISTORT what is ACTUALLY BEING SAID. SHE ALSO NEGLECTED TO SAY ISRAEL WON THE AREA FROM SYRIA IN THE 6DAYS WAR OF 67. She only spoke of the "occupation" from 67. So right off the bat she is being disingenuous

[@ouplinytheill8815]

Frankly if she really wanted to do that she should have gone to talk to the settlers in Hebron, not this hippie commune.

[@TheIspretzZz]

Jaana Viit its clearly biased as she is a zionist jewish herself lol

[@BoomerGamer629]

"If i dont steal your house someone else will " setler

[@itzharmaor5853]

That's the perspective of 1 man. I live there (no hate please) and I want peace with the Palestinians as well as a lot of other people.

[@isadeporzzi2287]

@@itzharmaor5853 free Palestine

[@isadeporzzi2287]

@@itzharmaor5853 go back to Europe

[@itzharmaor5853]

@karmina ADLY Wow. Ok. That is horrible and i would like to get a source on that because I did not know that happened. Just to be noted, Gaza, thousands of jews lived there until the government decided they want to make peace with the palestinians and give them some actual land. Today they're shooting rockets on israel and peace for them is not an option it seems.

[@Butterscotchbutt]

This is just like when you see images of segregated restaurants in the 50s or something in America and think "Wow how did people behave as if this is normal?" future generations will surely be ashamed.

[@mattcantstop]

When the gentleman was saying that you cringe when you see Palestinians stopped at a checkpoint, but you become comfortable with it after 30 times, I was reminded of this little poem: "Vice is a monster, of so frightful means, as to be hated, yet needs to be seen. Yet seen too oft, familiar with its face, we first endure, then pity, then embrace."

[@freudbrahms254]

4:46 . Sure, some kids throw stones at you and the most logical response is of course to pull out an m16. What else would a sound sane person do.

[@mariamahmed-ei8js]

Also the fact that she is occupying his land by force and has zero legality to be there in the first place

[@blockbasher6475]

Sure, Palestine gets into a fight with Israel.. so they retaliate with suicide bombings - every single bombing claimed and condone by Hamas.

[@Soesii]

I know it's serious but your sarcasm made me chuckle

[@nacholibre1962]

10:44 Wow. Not many people could come to terms with such a horrific act in such a way. A brave, considerate, and compassionate woman. God bless her!

[@angad10]

what an amazing woman, full of love and embodiment of what a religious person should be like.

[@noahii7577]

Just wish she was more considerate of international law and moved elsewhere.

[@FVBmovies]

@@noahii7577 Even Palestinians would rather choose such a woman living there instead of radical Israeli.

[@lasfsk]

Bravery doesn't mean you can be willingly stupid and put yourself in a situation that begs violence then survive it. That's just stupidity. Farthest from brave.

[@noahii7577]

@@FVBmovies Palestinians would rather choose them stopping stealing their land.

[@fgvevdbcbvng]

If I occupied someone's land I would not feel entitled to live in peace.🤔

[@monjur1016]

this is one of the most profoundly honest video I've ever watched...hats off to everyone for being honest to themselves and with us. I see the spark of hope among you.

[@DavidJohnson-ck9qi]

My fav was the teacher that had a phobia of Arabs, yet had a criminal record for spitting on them.... Lol

[@joshdonn1606]

Me too she was fit

[@tristanmeadows]

@@joshdonn1606 haha ^ second this

[@YoutubeGirlie]

She also admitted she had fascist tendencies. Classy all around.

[@callisto537]

She was pretty

[@DavidJohnson-ck9qi]

@RedJoker I'm sick of morons like you bragging about Israel being a democracy like they're more human than everyone else, when in fact, they're not a true democracy when they say it's a nation for the Jews ONLY... And yeah they do punish Palestinians... WITH A BULLET

[@mrcsrkcrz]

"when you meet the individuals behind faceless groups, you see things in a more complex way" beautifully said. Too many people prefer to stay in their comfort zone and never actually get to know a side they believe to hate. While they could find much more common values than they think they have and also even some values to learn from. There will surely also always be some things to disagree, but its important to simply acknowledge we all have our disagreements and negative sides. But we should focus on the good to learn and to tolerate disagreements and understand they don't need to overpower the good. It is more complex than good or bad. Some people just prefer the easy and comfortable route instead of accepting complexity, even if that means violence as a result.

[@user-ur8mf4nu6f]

I am so grateful for the experience I had in grade school. There was this very small kid in my grade. I had a little brother whom I would pick up and play airplane with. I was big for my age, playing airplane entailed being lifted full height of extended arms and then I would run full speed balancing the "Airplane" 7 feet off the ground on my hands. The small kid I did this too begged me to stop, of course I did not listen. When I set him down he poked me in the eyes with his fingers. I could have destroyed him but realized I was in the wrong. It taught me anyone can hurt another, no one at no time is unhurtable. We all hold each other in trust and it should be in respect too. Its sad that Zionists do not understand this base human principle. Do not expect good from the person you openly steal from. Only a egotist bent with a false sense of superiority can think like Zionists and Nazis.

[@freddiemerc9857]

The lady who was stabbed is the true representation what everyone on both sides should be. True mother, god bless her soul.

[@CadenceFilmsInc]

She had every reason to hate and be bitter, but instead she exudes love and is very positive, remarkable considering what happened to her really.

[@bluesclues132]

@@CadenceFilmsInc pmsl- she shouldnt' be there.

[@universalteriorghtodels]

@@bluesclues132 and you "shouldn't be" where ever tf you are.

[@bluesclues132]

@@universalteriorghtodels Goyphobic comment.

[@TomHutchinson5]

Maybe her message from God should have been to stop what she was doing, not simply to change what she felt.

[@manusiakerdus1233]

Why they use "settlers or settlements" words? The right word is THIEVES, ROBBER.

[@spaceman9599]

Squatters. Settlers is a colonial term that plays into the 'land without a people' narrative which erases the colonised

[@asher8754]

It’s our land don’t like it then cope

[@yaksak2706]

How the occupation came to be: All of Israel's friendly Arab neighbors (Egypt, Syria, Jordan, etc.) were on the verge of a well-coordinated attack to end the state of Israel, and Jews, forever. This non-critical small bit of info always seems to be ignored. How convenient.

[@skrigged9270]

@@asher8754 tell that to the ukrainians you love so much, "its Russians lands if you dont like it then cope"

[@ismth]

Hearing that the settlers are taught from birth to fear violence and attacks when their people are the terrorist was extremely hard to listen to. I get this is where they grew up and they were brainwashed into this way of thinking but that woman who literally got stabbed still managed to think critically about the situation, there is no excuse. I mean the one guy who said his dad sprayed bullets at people throwing rocks??? An M16 likely issued to him by the state to terrorize his neighbors with? It's just not normal never has been never will be. Even the researcher who seemed more moderate of the bunch was still like you get desenstized to it after seeing the workers a few times. Follow up question should've been are you concerned that you feel nothing when you see genocide happening? The thing these people lack is empathy it's astonishing that empathy can be trained out of people. These people come off as inhumane at times and it's genuinely scary.

[@VivaLibano]

What it’s like to live on someone else’s land and house by force just because you think that you are gods chosen people

[@CyberDrone0]

Settlers are some of the most unpleasant humans you’ll ever meet. They are angry, territorial and delusional

[@wft15]

And they keep invading Europe via rubber boats

[@gabbarsingh7182]

I found a clay pot in my back garden here in London, yey... my people lived here thousands of years ago so I'll just stop paying rent.

[@123misou]

Hahahhaha

[@xanbex8324]

Can someone come up with away to eradicate Zionism. Like the pandemic Covid 19, it is a disease....perhaps an aerosol spray?

[@BeeboHamido]

My father works in Israel. He looks for artifacts in the land. They find Ummayad, Ottoman,and Roman coins and artifacts. Palestinians have a lot more heritage in this land than any other Jew on this earth since they are descendants of all the parties that existed there over different eras even Hebrews themselves.

[@gabbarsingh7182]

@@BeeboHamido they've got more chances of finding their real heritage and family members in Birobidzhan, which is the original state given to them by the Russians. Even though they wiped out the Romanovs in cold blood.

[@asher8754]

They are Arabs most of whom came in the later 19th to early 20th centuries

[@jakemorrison2104]

At 16:35: 'Today there are 132 settlements and 106 illegal outposts across the West Bank'. Well actually, all of them are illegal.

[@claudelebel49]

How not to be pro-palestinian under this racist apartheid regime yet it was nice to hear and see some humanity pouring out of the settlers who were interviewed.

[@waleedabukhader607]

I'm an Arab. A Palestinian who was born in Jordan. Politics have screwed everything up and created a big rift between people. Thank you for the nice video.

[@realhotgirlshit9144]

Waleed Abu Khader I’m jordanian and half of my family is palestinian. Palestinians are always allowed and will always enter jordan!!!

[@sirob1193]

Its sad that Most Arabs an Palestinians in particular Dont know that Jordan was part of Palestne before the British came.

[@realhotgirlshit9144]

Rob K yes and they never mention Jordan in their videos and they’re Palestinians

[@liamabucasis4809]

You can't be a Palestinian if you were born in Jordan. That the whole point of the right, is that the Palestinians have no connection to Israel because they're not Palestinian, they are refugees from Jordan.

[@realhotgirlshit9144]

Liam Abucasis Um yes you can I’m pale-jordani

[@zoobedajada295]

The lady who was pregnant and stabbed I salute u U harbour no hatred A God fearing soul Unbiased God protect and bless u Amen Glad u see and understand the hardships the Palestinian go thru

[@jonathanhouser8194]

You know she is Jewish right?

[@user-zs6mq6rd5w]

Is this a reason to stab innocent people?

[@End-Result]

עמרי גולן Palestinians - are just as “innocent”

[@End-Result]

Understanding each other is the only way

[@Nicolay406]

@@End-Result that's what they told us before the second Intifada do you know how many Jews in Israel wanted peace? but after all those suicide bombings we knew that Arabs don't want peace.

[@toatatoa]

8:00 the Germany 1933 vibe is strong in this one.

[@najlabawazier]

the logid is: "My family came here to create settlement on their land, and wehen we grow up we're scared for our safety" darling, they should be scared of YOU

[@ljli]

The lady with the baby at 12:00 is just amazing. Her empathy, radiance, and positive energy is an inspiration.

[@ThatDurre]

Also the baby 🥰

[@ManalMet]

If she was so great she wouldn’t be living in an illegal settlement 😅 y’all really trying to humanize land theft WHAT

[@NoVisionGuy]

@@ManalMet she grew up there, there's nothing wrong about a human when clearly politicians are to blame

[@NoVisionGuy]

@@CatAndDogs21 same thing Muhammad did after Islam conquered Afro-Eurasia lol

[@maestro723]

@@ManalMet it's not that easy. they aren't first generations. there are 3-4 generations of people. did you not watch the video? some adults lived their entire lives there. sure the settlements are wrong but they literally were born there and grew up there and this is all they have known.

[@dianereiser6417]

Very one sided video, would’ve been nice to hear from the Palestinians too.

[@d4rkpkzz]

Yes but that wasn't the point of the video, it was specifically to talk to the Jews who grew up in these settlements.

[@armandodane4588]

Who? Aren't those undocumented Immigrants?

[@user-vn7gc6qw2o]

But the thing is, Israelis aren't allowed in Palestinian territories. They could get killed.

[@lostwisdom7789]

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[@pcangeldust]

@@user-vn7gc6qw2o That's funny, they are openly occupying Palestinian territories, how are will they get killed when they got an army protecting them.

[@nvrwdu]

"If Israelis don't want to be accused of being like the Nazis, they simply need to stop behaving like Nazis.." - Norman Finkelstein 👈

[@benjamincalvorivera]

While I have tremendous respect for the woman who was stabbed and her forgiveness, it doesn’t change the fact that she is a fundamentalist religious settler on land that was allocated for another group of people already expelled from their homes (Palestinians). While I can appreciate the nature of this documentary and the nuance it provides, it’s ultimately just a documentary about Israelis debating if they should mass murder Palestinians or not without a real analysis over the existence of the settlements. The narrator is not the radical she thinks she is given that she did not interview a single Palestinian.

[@maryann2970]

That wasn't the purpose of the documentary she was making.

[@leilasesmero5910]

I think you missed her point: She wanted to clarfiy to many of us what is the deep down need of people to "settle" in this "foreign" land. Different points of view emerged I found it enlightning and helping me understnad the conflic a bit better. Yes, the Israeli pregnant woman who was stabbed is taking the high ground. Make peace, not war!

[@EbrahimHasan]

As a matter of fact, before a journalist lands in Israel, there's a whole lot of "help" organised for them. Help that functions like blinders work for a horse. They advise them on what to see, and "how to keep safe". They get escorted by a whole team you don't see in the filming who provide them with so much "extra help" in the form of extra footage and photography, and in general make it easy and tempting for a journo to be lazy yet look like they did so much coverage. That's what's really behind the scenes here. If some renegade journo doesn't comply, they get harassed, have equipment seized (just the hint of that threat steals the sleep from a journo), and may also get his/her cavities searched like a regular Palestinian. Also bear in mind that the settler community is highly militaristic and aggressive towards dissent (something brazen in those streets but the escorts have edited out on the fly), so you can't roam that area and flaunt a contrarian opinion. Now you can see this documentary in a new light.

[@sdasdsdsd213]

I don't think you even saw the documentary. It did not paint Israel in a god light. I t went over complex information.

[@EbrahimHasan]

@@sdasdsdsd213 Only seemingly so. The trick is, as Chomsky puts it, to limit the viewpoints allowed to be discussed, and then discuss them fiercely. And then you have the appearance of honest coverage. Your trick should be to find out what the coverage is avoiding.

[@sdasdsdsd213]

@@EbrahimHasan I do not think it painted Israel as some amazing place. It said the Palestinians live in a system of opression. You shoould listen to the llady with a baby I think she has a perspective you would appreciate.

[@stackorlee6053]

@@sdasdsdsd213 nah if she got kicked off the land she stole and had to suffer like the Palestinians she'd be singing a different tune. It#s because she knows she still 'won' that she can be gracious like another commenter pointed out.

[@WhenYouveGoneGuru]

@@stackorlee6053 Yet there are also Palestinians who think much like she does. It's not about who "won" but wisdom, perspective, and compassion for fellow human beings.

[@samogla1960]

As a jordanian iam AMAZED to hear what jew settlers are saying I will pray one day soon there will be peace between you two. We all think it's time

[@samogla1960]

@max metrikin its nice to live in a state of democracy I like to visit isreal one day

[@brittany4038]

@@samogla1960 too bad Israel isn't democratic.

[@samogla1960]

@@brittany4038 we dont know that qhat if america is in control of them?? Like they do

[@brittany4038]

@@samogla1960 we do know that given that there is apartheid and occupation in Israel and native citizens (the Palestinians) are not even allowed to vote in their elections. America isn't democratic either, as much as it projects it is. It was built on land theft, genocide, and slavery and barely acknowledges this fact.

[@samogla1960]

@@brittany4038 yes but look at the arab isrealis citizens their are muslims Christians druzz etc... serving the idf zionest isn't alway jews

[@lilithoeden6709]

1. Haifa Massacre 1937 2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937 3. Haifa Massacre 1938 4. Balad al-Shaykh Massacre 1939 5. Haifa Massacre 1939 6. Haifa Massacre 1947 7. Abbasiya Massacre 1947 8. Al-Khisas Massacre 1947 9. Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947 10. Jerusalem Massacre 1947 11. Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947 12. Jaffa Massacre 1948 13. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956 14. Jerusalem Massacre 1967 15. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982 16. Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990 17. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994 18. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002 19. Gaza Massacre 2008-09 20. Gaza Massacre 2012 21. Gaza Massacre 2014 22. Gaza Massacre 2018-19 23. Gaza Massacre 2021 24. Gaza Genocide 2023/24 of still ongoing. DON'T LET ANYONE CONVINCE YOU THAT IT STARTED ON OCTOBER 7th***

[@menib7574]

You forgot the Hebron massacare But hey, it's only one side's fault. Let's generalise just like the state of isreal "All of the gazans are hamas," "All arabs are terrorists" "All jews are zionists"

[@AlAminKhan03]

my god how these original terrorists call the very person whose land they stole call a terrorist, the audacity.

[@HananyaNaftali]

*She is not a settler, she's in her ancestral homeland*

[@lostwisdom7789]

Usurper

[@I_Cunt_Spell]

Great. Now would you kindly leave whites' ancestral homelands? Thanks.

[@visuali235]

😂the chief propagandist of the occupying settler

[@GuyDaniel]

I found this amazingly insightful. The religious lady who could take a violent attack and digest it in such a way that creates the perpective of the realities of both sides with no malice (even after scathing attacks from her own people) I found exceptionally moving. This gave me a glimmer of hope in that conflicted side of the world!

[@tayseerar-rahmaan3973]

Does a criminal complain about getting stabbed whilst breaking and entering others homes.If it really happened is another discussion on its own

[@Ariel-jq1if]

@@tayseerar-rahmaan3973 she isn't breaking into anyone's home and I'm sure this woman does not feel that by her living in a settlement she is directly harming her Arab neighbors.

[@tbuc2920]

Its called empathy for the oppressed.

[@lukeivan6601]

@@Ariel-jq1if But the fact remains that she is an illegal occupant.

[@allezsibrahim]

@@Ariel-jq1if she's deep down a very sweet woman we can agree on that tho she is also selfish. The purpose of a settlement is oppression. Living there and just accepting the idea that you're living somewhere illegally just weirds me out, like if it were fine for those houses to exist in that land they wouldn't be called settlements. The bare minimum is to accept the consequences of your own actions, you choose to help a terrorist state by living in a land that was stolen while clearly knowing that people used to live there and were forced to leave for you to stay there, that's quite literally a crime. Now idk about you but that makes me itchy i would hate participating in the oppression of innocent people when i could've chosen to just immigrate there and live with them without having to help in their expulsion. If you oppress someone you shouldn't be surprised about them getting back at you even if the consequences are awful, and that's a fact.

[@liashufflepuffs3584]

Imagine I take a house that was taking by force from others, Imagine I live on their lands that they worked so hard to plant and build? and then seeing them being treated like foreigners and not even taking their rights? I would be so disgusted of myself for living with no single guilt

[@robikin4563]

Settler: Oh hey I am a literal fascist Nyt: wow what a cool renegade

[@xaviermehrez3207]

Should Be Titled: What It Is Like To Be A Number One Senseless-Opportunist Hypocrite In The Modern Day.

[@sekhmet7774]

Don't be a sore loser

[@xaviermehrez3207]

@@sekhmet7774 I can see that thru the pic. You trying to be politically correct, ya miserable rat ?

[@omaralghamdi9035]

I hope that in my lifetime, I get to see peace between both groups and visit the country.

[@evepotatoe7778]

You can still visit!! Don't listen to the news or social media, if you go to Israel there isn't some war between the two groups all the time. I live here and it's perfectly safe and beautiful ❤️

[@bcyourself]

@@evepotatoe7778 hahahah nice joke!

[@andnowyouknow3363]

@@evepotatoe7778 Yeah go tell that to the Palestinians. You clearly aren't Palestinian yourself. Otherwise, you wouldn't even be saying this.

[@evepotatoe7778]

@@andnowyouknow3363 I bet you get all your news from the media

[@andnowyouknow3363]

@@evepotatoe7778 On the contrary, I get my news outside the media. Hence why I don't buy into Zionist propaganda.

[@jeremydade5402]

Alternate Title: “what it’s like to be a terrorist on stolen land”

[@shukorabunad3133]

" What it's like to grow up in stolen land"simple modification to the video title

[@IMMPJ10]

Interesting to learn more about how the settlers' minds operate. They generally think that they are a superior race which will bring in huge negative consequences for them in the future.

[@xanbex8324]

We can hope you are correct about future consequences.

[@phoenix.]

Like listening to KKK wives.

[@asher8754]

Nonsense it’s not about being superior it’s about the land being rightfully our by birthright our ruins for the land our holy sites our relics. We are the indigenous people to eretz Israel and now we are taking back what has always be ours

[@Meh34066]

@@asher8754 so native Americans shall be given back USA correct?

[@byjynydjshsnny2430]

@@asher8754 gross nazi