What Sam Harris Realized About Palestinians That NO ONE Else Did

Rabbi Weinstein Reacts to Sam Harris deep dive into Palestinians drive for Terrorism.
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Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein is the Director of the Jewish Learning Academy at Lubavitch of Bucks County, Pennsylvania as well as the Rabbi of The Shul at Newtown. Rabbi Weinstein is the host of the Beginning Within podcast and the creator of The Bar Mitzvah Prep School to help Bar Mitzvah boys prepare for their Bar Mitzvah in a meaningful way.
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[@Ruach7777]

Oct 7th has NEVER been about land. People who think a two state will solve the conflict, are completely ignorant to the reality.

[@owenarnold7611]

Even Isaac Herzog (who's centre left) - who when he was housing minister for Israel spearheaded the signing off of the 2005 Gaza disengagement where 8000 Israeli's were forcefully withdrawn from that region - is now accepting the two state solution is over and that it's not about land.

[@cmarais-ks3kd]

Jew hatred: because God of the Bible, favoured the Jewish race.

[@finalio]

@@owenarnold7611exactly, especially when he said no innocent civilians in gaza. So much left leaning there

[@owenarnold7611]

@@finalio While he did say an entire nation was responsible for October 7th (he recognises Palestine's legitimacy and sovereignty) and that "This rhetoric of 'unaware, uninvolved civilians,' is not true. They could've resisted, they could've fought this evil regime that took over Gaza." (Herzog) He also said at the world economic forum that his words were "twisted partial and fragmented quotes, with the intention of supporting a fabricated legal contention" he would go on to say "There are also innocent Palestinians in Gaza." He did emphasize that "the reality cannot be ignored, a reality which we all saw with our own eyes as published by Hamas on that cursed day, and that was the involvement of many residents of Gaza in the slaughter, in the looting, and in the riots of October 7. How the crowds in Gaza cheered at the sight of Israelis being slaughtered and their bodies mutilated. At the sight of hostages - God knows what they did to them - wounded and bleeding being dragged through the streets." (Herzog) Politically he used to be full on 2 state solution and wanted Palestine to exist as a thriving nation. He's just honest enough to admit he got it wrong post October 7th and has done a 180 degrees on his initial Israel /Palestine political beliefs....

[@shadowkhan422]

@@finalio Quess people can learn they where wrong , huh? When people you wanted to have peace with act like rabid dogs , even an idealist can get a hint

[@longandshort6639]

Hamas said that they “love death more than Israelis love life”. So why all the whining and complaining when the IDF gives them what they want?

[@wintergreentheme]

100% 😂

[@philflip1963]

"Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life". John 12:25 So much for Muslims being perverts!

[@janemzen3694]

Good question. The answer is the need of the wests support to win a political victory over Israel.

[@urbanx3922]

72 virgins plz

[@outandabout4812]

Sound bites on KZbin

[@pomegranatepip2482]

“You must tolerate my religious intolerance!. Kinda sums it up hey.

[@MarkFranklin-ws5jf]

That is bullying 101

[@sabo7081]

If Islam is rightfully criticized for its psychopathy, they scream Islamophobia, or hunt down the offending party and murder them! ** In a civilized world, murder is antithetical to peace, cooperation, compassion, and moving human civilization and its potential towards greater heights of a homogeneous world where our similarities are valued more than our differences. ** Tolerance of Islam is humans moving in the wrong direction!

[@MiladaKaiser]

This is exactly right!!!

[@katzino27]

Exactly. The all-too-sizeable far left (and in some cases not so far) has become so tolerant that they tolerate intolerance. I have been saying this for years, and it seems to have only gotten more and more valid. At the same time, a huge push back against Wokeism has begun, and scored a major victory with Trump's re-election (something I'm thrilled about, despite being as happy and relieved as one could be that he lost the last one!) Still, there is a very long road ahead if this problem is ever to be fully under control.

[@minkowski4d]

How tolerant are ultra Orthodox Jews towards Christians? 😅

[@dkstewy]

Palestinians on the wrong side of so many issues: 1) Grand Mufti of Jerusalem supported Hitler 2) 1948 choose war over recognizing Israel 3) 1967 war again, humiliating defeat 4) 1970s/80s choose the IRA and Red Army Faction terrorists over democratic Europe 5) During the Cold War they choose USSR 6) 1940s til today chose violence over 7 different offers of statehood 7) 1990s chose Saddam Hussain’s Iraq over Kuwait 8) Today they choose Iran over other Arab states, China over Taiwan and Russia over Ukraine

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

Well said!

[@cairistionamacleod3154]

Number nine They were the first to kill the pilot after hijacking the German aircraft

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@cairistionamacleod3154 That was their thing when they were called “Black September”, hijacking’s Such wonderful contributions to the world….

[@FactStorm]

Zionist Israeli Jews on the wrong side of so many issues: *Makes a similar list* These things are for simple-minded people who bait racism.

[@SeekerGoOn2013]

Anybody want to mention British colonialism and its horrors, and the ever-increasing land grab since 1967? How can those people be trusted? They are called occupied territories for a reason.

[@Dominus_Augustus]

We really need to re-adopt the motto: "We don't negotiate with terrorists."

[@teresaamanfu7408]

Who are the terrorists?

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@teresaamanfu7408 I think it’s pretty clear. They have always tried to annihilate the Jews. This Israeli government did not “happen in a vacuum” to throw that phrase back at that corrupt U.N. leader Guetterez. The Palestinians turning down offers for a state (listen to Bill Clinton on Arafat turning down Ehud Brarak’s offer) and then always walking away and initiating violence by blowing themselves up and any Jews they can take with them. It was hijackings and murders always. They are jihadists with a mind set we cannot understand as westerners.

[@kamelkani4051]

You are the terrorist you Stinky pig

[@mosesCordovero-uw5vw]

the islamoNazis

[@PaulGill-jf9cm]

Muslims

[@hedonismbot3274]

The things people do for 72 goats.

[@Acediscoface]

Or grapes.

[@hedonismbot3274]

@Acediscoface ali getting graped in the mouth. 😁

[@MrPati0]

Correction: Underage goats.

[@MarkFranklin-ws5jf]

Many would settle with 33 1/3 milfs!

[@melcomc19]

Billy goats.

[@Druffmaul]

When they say "This is OUR land," they mean that as in Arab Muslim land, not Palestinian land. I caught that when I noticed if an interviewer asked them why they didn't mind when the West Bank being occupied by Jordan or Gaza was occupied by Egypt, the answer was, "Why should that bother us? They are our Muslim brothers and sisters."

[@PrometheanRising]

Yep. They are Islamic Supremacists. This is about Islam. They have no separation of church and state in their minds. To fail to be governed by the church is to be in rebellion against Allah in a very real sense to them.

[@MiladaKaiser]

It is not a land problem. It is all just Jihad.

[@stefanbrill4165]

"Palestinian" is only a label that makes sense in the West, going back to the British protectorate, and was a name for the region from Roman times. "Palestinians" are actually just Arabs who claim ownership of this region. The core of this conflict is muslim expansion and conquer, which is hindered and has partly been reversed by Israel.

[@EmperorsNewWardrobe]

Which interview, can you remember? That’s a useful reference

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@Druffmaul The Palestinians revolted against the Hashemite kingdom in Jordan. King Hussein, King Abdullah’s father, thought Arafat and the PLO were a danger and a national security risk to Hashemite Jordan sovereignty.

[@spelunkerd]

The other thing nobody talks about is the way international aid was largely responsible for nurturing a dependent culture of hatred. By taking care of food, water, and shelter, they freed up generations of boys who dream of nothing more than hatred. Even moderates in that culture ended up building tunnels.

[@jaybee9269]

They don’t have jobs, either.

[@mboerefyn2512]

Thanks! I am at a loss as to how Hamas gained so much sympathy. I would love to hear a podcast go thru the decades to help non-Jewish people understand how Hamas a terrorist group gained world sympathy thru propaganda. I have explained to many people here in Canada 🇨🇦 the history and all of the concessions Israel has made. All the wars, all the terrorism, and the history of the land going back to Judaea. Israel definitely need to step up it’s game propaganda wise. Actually even just getting the truth out it doesn’t have to be like the Hamas lies. If people truly understood what Hamas is and the never ending war with Palestine which it’s own state despite never having one ever in history. Jewish people have been eliminated in pretty much all Arab countries, but 2 million arabs live in Israel. A genocide because 25,000 civilians died, but the population in 2024 is increasing in Gaza. Wasn’t the population in Gaza 57,000 people when Egypt had control of it? Keep up the good fight some of us are listening.

[@shaifarber4243]

No, not 57,000 more like 3/400,000 people when Gaza was conquered in the 6 day war.

[@yehuditcollins6783]

Unfortunately when we try to explain the history of this war, we're preaching to the choir. There's them as don't want to hear.

[@Scriptorsilentum]

three weeks ago i came home via sarnia as a longhaul truck driver. there over the footbridge above the road hamas, their supporters, waving foreign flags (palestinian) and in my country, a good Dominion if there ever had been... i come home to foreigners making as much trouble as they can, twisting my fellows and poisoning national thought. the knesset has moslems sitting in it who DO NOT take discussions to the lunatic extremes of most arabs and moslems and much prefer parliamentary govt. canada used to be like this... israel does need to step up its game. the world has to know of the 2 million moslems who live in and prosper peacefully and peaceably in Eretz Israel. the palestinian physicians in israeli hospitals discharging honourably their duties as doctors, nurses, policemen, teachers, tradesmen, scholars, farmers, all of it - everything needed to build a society that values rule of law and parliamentary tradition. hamas does not. And israel should make better efforts to point this out for a start.

[@mylesleggette7520]

It's mainly a result of liberalism's and marxism's offshoot, progressivism. The idea that all humans and cultures are fundamentally the same, combined with the idea that everything about the world can be understood in terms of class conflict between oppressors and oppressed means that people in the West are not ideologically equipped to understand that some groups simply can be accurately classified as barbaric, and do not deserve a place in our society as equals. Ask pretty much any person living in a Western country if they think any group *really* wants to actually eradicate other societies, and they'll tell you no.

[@stuartzsombor-murray5569]

@mylesleggette7520 zionists want to eradicate Palestinians to make their ethnic super state, and ya, it's all founded on the "we're oppressed" bull.

[@lourencoalmeida]

I don't think the radicals are the problem. It's Islam itself. Those you call "moderates" still want a world wide caliphate in the end, made by force when necessary, and rightfuly so because that's what their founder told them to do and what he actually started doing!

[@MarkMclennon]

u have to be very harsh with these people it’s the only thing they understand

[@MarkFranklin-ws5jf]

Yes! Being nice is weakness

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@MarkFranklin-ws5jf we bombed Dresden to end WW2 in Germany. No social media damning America for that bombing because if we hadn’t done it we would be living under the Third Reich. Anyone seeing a similarity here.

[@tremolando6066]

Be harsh: Well that hasn´t exactly worked, ever, has it? Perhaps it is you that needs to understand.

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@tremolando6066. It worked with the Nazis. Hamas could have surrendered and returned the hostages, but no, Sinwar said if a 100,000 Palestinians die to destroy Israel it will be worth it. He was a psychopath that put civilians in harms way. He said he would do October 7th again and again. They need better leaders who actually care about their own people. They steal humanitarian aid to buy weapons and make themselves rich. They turned down offers for a state but their leaders refused because they want ALL the land and to be able to steal the aid for themselves. Israel was mostly left until that final offer of a state was met with violence. They pulled out of Gaza in 2005. Hamas destroyed the greenhouses Israel left to grow food. Hamas was voted in and started firing rockets into Israel, hence the blockade by Israel, though Palestinians could get work passes for jobs. Egypt had a complete blockade. Israel will swing left again at some point, I just hope the Palestinians have leaders that seize that opportunity

[@kevin2028]

Nothing that is said in the conversation moves the needle in either direction, and I can't comprehend why. I am pro-Israel, and my wife is pro-Palestinian. A few weeks ago, I pulled a trump card in our discussion on the topic, which we mostly avoid because it goes nowhere and emotions run high. I showed her a New York Times article from 2009 called Fighter Sees His Paradise In Gaza's Pain. It features an interview with a jihadist where he is asked about the dying children in the conflict, and his answer is the answer no one on the left wants to acknowledge. My wife quickly dismissed the article as biased. They don't want to see that for them, it is glorious when a child dies for Allah. I think the Pro-Palestinian stance is anti-Palestinian if you reason out the stance. It gives Hamas permission to continue to push children, women, and the weak forward to the frontlines of this conflict. I think it is an act of pure evil to try and maximize the civilian deaths of your own people in a war. It's an act of pure evil to build your tunnel under apartment buildings, schools, and hospitals, knowing that when Israel launches a defensive strike, it can't help but inflict civilian casualties. The pro-Palestinan will never, through sheer will, come to the realization that Hamas and those fighters do not share our values, and no matter how hard we project Western values onto them, it doesn't transform the reality of the conflict. Those numbers of civilian dead we hear are because the Jihadists believe they are sending those people to paradise in the name of Allah's glory on earth.

[@Waiting4Him111]

A short trip to the middle east would set your wife straight on who she is supporting. How did she get brainwashed in to thinking the Palestinians are peace loving people ( if you don't mind me asking)?

[@mdhj67]

Sadly true. "the Pro-Palestinian stance is anti-Palestinian"

[@southerncross4956]

Kevin you and Sam Harris have, at least for me, explained the jihadist. I am not ignorant and was already aware of the facts and circumstances talked about here but had not put the pieces of the puzzle together well enough to see the jihadist’s twisted belief system and purpose.

[@ekesandras1481]

Jews have to give up the idea that the political Left in Europe or America is on their side. The Left has moved towards embracing Middle Eastern immigrants as their new voter base. The French author Michel Houellebecq was very right with his novel "Submission".

[@kamelkani4051]

Allah is God name Maybe you should read the Quran And we all gonna be alive again so dying is not worst part The worst part is to die as a disbeliever and go to hell Wanna know what am talking about, read the Quran it's an easy book you can finish it in Days

[@jyrkiseppala3385]

I recommend a new book from David H. Stone; Antisemitism in the Arab-Israel conflict. Sam Harris is not alone in his thoughts, but many are still asleep. Time to wake up to reality!

[@starlite556]

Only ALMIGHTY GOD, can wake them up.

[@davidonaroll99]

Hooray! for sanity wake up to reality. I just heard Sam Harris speaking about the Arab Israeli war. Its a gem.

[@HuzonFurst]

@@starlite556 Oh please -- it's *religion* that's causing this problem!

[@alias177]

Yes, is 100% fundamental Islam, which is what they never will say, same with Afghanistan!

[@philflip1963]

"Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life". John 12:25 So much for Muslims being perverts!

[@sindhyartalpur7313]

Which country has Afghanistan invaded?

[@alias177]

@sindhyartalpur7313 Pakistan. And I was referring to US invading Afghanistan and then saying we were only fighting Taliban terrorists, we would never win doing that, we were fighting ISLAM.

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@sindhyartalpur7313 He’s talking about the Taliban, that forbid women any rights or education, total Sharia law. They hid and helped Osama Bin Laden whose Jihadists caused 9/11. Anything more you need to know? We should have left a US army foot print there. We abandoned the women and helpful Afghans that wanted a better life. Both presidents had a hand in that. The military felt we should have kept a presence there.

[@FactStorm]

Islam, not Palestinians as the title states. There is stupidity and incitement on all sides.

[@janemzen3694]

Sam harris is a very smart and well educated man. The sad thing is; there are too many dumb people in the world unable to understand that.

[@MarkFranklin-ws5jf]

Yes, When I moved to a rural island from an urban island, I learned about how ignorance and violence go hand in hand. I also learned to run real fast!Later I learned to stand my ground and won most fist fights, but found most were just barkers not biters, and many wouldn't go past the barking. Jihadists, appear to be biters

[@MikeNube]

Maybe Sam Harris is the ONLY one who comprehends ANYTHING.

[@ibntulun9405]

Sam Harris understands absolutely nothing. The guy is a moron.

[@stuartzsombor-murray5569]

​@@MikeNubeor a gas-lighting shill serving his own delusions

[@overcspurs8027]

He is a realist vs leftist idealist

[@niyanlan8928]

We don’t have to tolerate your religious intolerance - a great line and sentiment very well voiced, thank you.

[@willek1335]

True. Every time someone asks me if I'm for free speech, I remind them that it's a social contract within a society. It only works as long as all parties agree to the contract. That it's for the good of society. The moment some intolerant group decide to use violence and threats to silence people, that free speech ends.

[@niyanlan8928]

@@willek1335 very true words indeed.

[@wegder]

Many decades ago I thought there could be a peace plan with the Palestinians, then I realized that is impossible with Hamas. I'm definitely islamophobic

[@djimiwreybigsby5263]

I'm hamas-phobic

[@Scriptorsilentum]

when i hear the "charge" of islamophobia levelled at anyone i always ask "is there a reason...?" they usually stfu.

[@katepenk3401]

You are not Islamophobic. Your fear is rational. Phobia is irrational fear. You are a realist.

[@sebastiannin4655]

The support for "Palestine" (Hamas) of so many people makes me lose hope in humanity. We are too dumb and innocent.

[@tekkertruth1256]

Yeah sure because a 3yr old child knows what a Hamas is let alone a 2,000 pound Israeli bomb! As far as I’m concerned you’re not a man, and don’t have a penis.

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

No. Just anti-Semitic. Jealously, mostly.

[@TheModerateMillenial]

Islam needs a reformation. I’ve been saying it for years. Judaism had a reformation from biblical to rabbinical Judaism. Christianity was a reformation of Judaism. Islam needs its own reformation.

[@gazwa-e-islam2716]

Shit Jinx Pong understood islam and reformed it completely, in Xinjiang. 😁

[@cyberpunkalphamale]

Islam had its reformation 200 years before Christianity. Compare Luther to Ibn Taymiyyah

[@karendowden697]

It cannot be reformed or it will be changed. It is a hardcore supremist ideology where "Muslims are the best of peoples" and the doctrine teaches hate of infidels with Jews at the top of the list. Jihadis are following the koran, hadith etc. to the letter.

[@gazwa-e-islam2716]

@@cyberpunkalphamale Reformation of islam? Surely you mean that the Operations Manual of War & Peace was edited to make it even more fearsome & barbaric ?

[@adamzain6770]

Jihadis know what the Quran says. You can’t reform Islam if you leave the Quran intact. And the Quran is supposed to be the perfect word of god, explicitly demanding a literal reading, so how could moderate Muslims reform it?

[@WillJ5112]

It is odd how Hamas is rarely criticised by those in the West who rightly condemn the extent of the bombing of Gaza.Why do they not call for the Hamas leadership to accept the existence of Israel and agree to a deal that will stop the further killings of women and children in that narrow strip of land which they have ruled for over a decade and a half without any further democratic election.Tragically they are not expected to by supporters of an independent Palestine many of whom seem content to allow them to hold onto the hostages and continue the conflict.

[@justincase7848]

What i love is this mans lack of emotion. He is genuinely gentle, thoughtful, and analytical, without getting caight up by passion.

[@Dragumix]

Well, at leat he's showing little or no emotion. This doesn't mean that he doesn't have emotions.

[@justincase7848]

I didn't mean that he doesn't possess emotion or that it's good to not have emotions. I meant that he seems to be speaking from intellectual reasoning vs from passion without sufficient thought

[@gavriloprincip11]

evryone forgets the term "islamaphobe" was coined by the Iotala's propaganda wing of the revolutionary guard in the 70s (kind of like how the Colombo crime family started the Italian anti defamation League during the US congressional Mafia hearings)

[@BanonOmus]

I had no idea Sam Harris spoke so openly about this

[@PrometheanRising]

Do these anthropologists also fail to understand that the average fundamentalist Christian is also substantially motivated by concern for the next life? As a recovering Christian fundamentalist, I find the Islamic mentality difficult to fathom because it is so insane, but i do understand at least some of the steps that get there.

[@janedoe5229]

I think the difference is that Christians were instructed by their God, to "tell" everyone about Jesus and how to get to heaven. So the worst thing that a Christian can do to a non-believer is be a complete nuisance. No one's life is in danger. But a Muslim's god told them to tell everyone to convert or die. And kill all the Jews and Christians. That is quite a different message.

[@oo2free]

Allowing the religious to brainwash your children is how this happens. People need to be aware that any organized religion is a human organization, and being convinced to kill for your religion is not acting on behalf of anything holy but is in the interest of certain human beings.

[@katepenk3401]

Please define Christian fundamentalism.

[@billsawyer7796]

Taqiyya (Arabic: تقیّة‎) is an Islamic concept that refers to the practice of concealing or disguising one’s faith, beliefs, or religious practices in situations where expressing them could lead to harm, persecution, or danger. The term is most commonly associated with Shia Islam, though it has also been discussed in various Sunni contexts.

[@bernardquasaar1254]

This is the clearest most direct explanation of what's been going on. If only the world had this much clarity about the situation

[@philflip1963]

"Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life". John 12:25 So much for Muslims being perverts!

[@mangaranwow2543]

Lots of people are afraid to speak out on what Islam stands for. It takes lots of courage.

[@IvorNovello112]

@@bernardquasaar1254 the world is so under informed, they think that there was a country called Palestine before. Israel is losing the information war, also the conflict is too complicated for your average Joe to understand.

[@joe18750]

Many people have made this observation going back 10, 15, 20 years. Mark Steyn, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved and Lawrence Wright to name a few.

[@westoneaston4775]

Yes, this is the elephant in the room to the nines! People are extremely hesitant to cite religion as the essential/ integral factor and component. "Islamiphobia" is a label people simply avoid at all costs.

[@hueyjmedina0]

You can't argue with these people. They will argue on one hand that hamas is a resistance group and say its a mossad op to make the Palestinians look bad. Never ask them about the hospital bombing mid october last year btw

[@LiberalGuy-z1n]

Sam Harris is someone everyone should listen too.

[@river_eagle]

I'm going to share this conversation out. I wish more people would understand what he's saying here. Thank you Rabbi Weinstein.

[@marikaoconnor5058]

Do we also need to ask how the West has contributed to a cult which can see nothing more desirable than dying for their cause?

[@janemzen3694]

Good idea.

[@MarkFranklin-ws5jf]

I liked Sams use of the term bullying by the jihadists. I've encountered bullying my entire life and its no fun. A different set of race relations from another part of the world but its most often subtle but can lead to threats of violence at the drop of a hat

[@alaakela]

Sam read their book. This is not rocket science. READ THEIR BOOKS. IT'S ALL IN THERE.

[@craigefc]

Of course they knew who they were killing. Many of them had worked there. They also knew the music festival was a peace festival. Lets get it right.

[@MB-xe8bb]

Nobody to fight back.

[@shawnpatton3795]

Peace is impossible when people decide that it’s not possible.

[@katepenk3401]

Or when one side doesn't want it.

[@shawnpatton3795]

@@katepenk3401 so the opposite side knows what the other side(s) want? And that’s what businesses do when they are making deals, give up because they know what the other side wants? That’s nonsense!

[@johnholland1308]

Sam Harris’s clear thinking always amazes me. “If liberals cannot guard our boarders then fascists will,” that is what is happening and liberals don’t get it.

[@marieparker3822]

In Britain, MI5, our internal security service, has 40,000 British Muslims on their watch list.

[@dianehghzn7670]

Oohh my god “Really “???????

[@paulineverriere8054]

@@dianehghzn7670suggest deport

[@johnkumeu811]

Sad but probably true

[@rstafford9191]

@@johnkumeu811 very true, but probably underestimated. we now have twice our british army in recent immigrants who are all male men in superb health and fitness and are all from muslim countries, and I stress all

[@NatureBoy-b2h]

Borders matter. You will lose your national identity if you don’t GET THEM OUT !!!!

[@paraweir]

It's a sin in Islam to sin... EXCEPT if its to support Islam or if it brings Islam into disrepute. That means, if you look at it logically, it's ALWAYS allright to lie!!! This is confirmed in the Quran, where this law/edict is confirmed.

[@Fusion-dl3ld]

as a ex muslim , i know what u r talking about

[@justgivemethetruth]

I totally agree with Sam Harris, and so does history. If Americans would just listen to Sam, those who are civilized would finally understand, and those who are hardcore Muslims would be outed.

[@vance9460]

I've never regained any respect for.Ben Affleck, after that outrageous embarrassing defense of muslims.

[@HuzonFurst]

Sam did just say recently that he finally got Ben to understand the point.

[@simonetartocchi6968]

I've studied antisemitism, and I've noticed that Islam took its racism much more from Russian and Soviet antisemitism than from Nazism.

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

Actually both, but good point. It was the Russians that started the lie that Zionism is racism

[@lozfromozlyons4749]

They have a saying “we love death like you love life”

[@burieddreamer]

When Sam Harris speaks, everything is simple to understand. He is a great public speaker.

[@dzelal2441]

It’s not so easy to understand him though. For complete understanding one have to be knowledgeable about Hasbara

[@MsDamosmum]

How did the belief that Isreal is an apartheid state that have committed genocide for decades originate? Until that myth is eroded this conversation isn’t going to change anything. It may change a few minds but on the whole, so long as the genocide myth continues, I don’t think anything much will change!

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

Any reason to blame the Jews because we don’t believe in THEIR GOD. Ironically, every time they pray to Jesus, they are breaking the FIRST COMMANDMENT.

[@katepenk3401]

Thank you❤

[@davidn4125]

Quote of the day "If liberals won't protect boarders fascists will."

[@dovgoldstein3755]

Thanks Sam

[@ChromeKiddo]

No one calls it like Sam. What clear and correct logic...

[@HuzonFurst]

RIGHT ON, SAM!! I've been following you since you first appeared in San Diego decades ago and while practicing meditation didn't really work for me, you have become one of our better spokespersons for reason and common sense, so please continue for everyone's sake!

[@nicodemus1010]

just a set of ideas... and ideas have NO rights I teach in Brussels, 17 years now.. the escalation is real

[@Marc-o4x]

Brussels is lost. So is Amsterdam and the rest of Europe.

[@nicodemus1010]

@@Marc-o4x This is my fear. when I started I was young, educated, armed wit with knowledge produced by the sommation of the greco-judean-christian culture elevated by the aufklarung. Gradually I saw the fanatiscism to which we have no defense in the minds of 18 year old youth's. They do not so see the cage, they do not see the 1400 old programming that forces them into this manichistic, low resolution worldview. I tried, soo many years and sometimes I could plant the seed of critical thinking of which seneca speaks. every so often it came to fruition. Alas most did not respond well and continued on their road of haram and halal, secretly dispising and refuting reason. Fot those I have saved from this monstrous ideology, I hope they pass it to their children. I'm tired.

[@sumralltt]

Land for Peace didn't work - Time to take the land back!

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

Every time the Palestinians were offered a state they not only walked away they start killing Israelis. I am not a fan of the current Israeli government but to use that insensitive Gutierrez comment he made the day after October 7th, “Things do not happen in a vacuum”. Israelis got tired of offering statehood and getting blown up in return. It’s clear most Palestinians want all of Israel gone. While Israel continues to advance both medical and technological research what do the Palestinians contribute to the world???

[@jaybee9269]

Quite.

[@karendowden697]

It is not right wing bigotry and intolerance. Com e on.....

[@RedMenace-fp6dw]

Just before 6:00 min he outlines something we've all said for 30 years: The moderate and rational Muslims who want peace and jobs need to reject the jihadists. Just like our politics is made of many parties and many agendas, they need to reject being monolithic/tribal in their support. It is not anti-Muslim to shun and/or prosecute killers or groups who create political chaos/destruction. Pakistan hiding Bin Laden is a good example. As a solution, I don't know what sort of political/social/education change would be required. Or, if it is possible on a reasonable time line.

[@DAPS-bl7ez]

the fools don't realise that there is no 'paradise', it's just stories they have been told for years. They are living a lie!

[@IronIck45]

Dont tell our christian neighbours...

[@alnon6304]

They know that. Is only an excuse to kill. Very sick.

[@katepenk3401]

@@IronIck45 Sorry you don't get it. Eternal life with God is NOT the "Paradise" Muslims have invented. Learn the truth.

[@marlow769]

If you’re a sheep and you can’t get your head around the ideology of the wolf, you will alway be his prey. This, “thank god we can’t think like a jihadi” is the sheep talking to the flock…or the future food of the wolf.

[@cyberpunkalphamale]

4:55 Amar Taqi's Podcast - Hamas Leader Abroad Khaled Mashal: 'We Reject The Two-State Solution; October 7 Proved That Liberating Palestine From The River To The Sea Is Realistic And Has Already Begun'

[@markdunham744]

Religions are so wonderful. All fighting each other in the name of god. If people could step away and realize we’re all in the same boat, maybe we could learn to row together.

[@katepenk3401]

It's a matter of truth and lies. It's a good verses evil. The truth is found in God's word, the Bible, which is often misconstrued because of ignorance of ancient culture and history. I don't see any religion other than Islam causing problems today, and in fact for centuries. "You shall know them by their fruit." Look at the misery Islam spreads and subjects Muslims to as well, especially women.

[@lrj_oneill_]

“Military victory without apology” like Ghengis Khan would say! 👏

[@richd9683]

Fuck with the bull, get the horns.

[@danf1862]

They are no martyrs; only fools who died for someone else's vanity.

[@pmarreck]

It's a death cult. Speaking as someone who used to take his Catholicism very seriously (wait for it...), I don't think many of my Jewish friends ("moderate" Judaism, bless its heart, and perhaps in fact almost all Judaism, is about debating beliefs, not unquestioningly accepting them) understand (at least to the extent I do) what it's like to even possess unquestionable beliefs. So as I learned about Islam, and then realized that these folks take their faith even more seriously than I used to take Catholicism, I must tell you: Just like the early Christians in Rome, they WILL DIE for these beliefs. And it is critical to extract as many as you can, somehow, from the death cults of the world. Love is the way.

[@davidloveday8473]

You need to correct your thumbaiil title. Sam Harris is talking specifically about jihadist terrorists (and not only Palestinian ones, given his references to IS). He is not talking about Palestinians generally. Nor is he talking about Muslims generally. Obviiously the vast majority of Palestinians are not jihadist terrorists. Your title wrongly suggests they are. Labelling an entire people as terrorists is derogatory and not likely to end the cycle of violence. I say this as someone who utterly condemns the horrific and completely unjustifiable atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7.

[@muttput]

show me one palestinian that was unhappy or spoke out against the attacks on Oct 7th

[@YenneY01]

Hamas.gets its recruits from Gaza. Gazans now shout how much they hate Hamas. But they really hate jews more!

[@the_koo3151]

Naw, but the majority of them support it

[@davidloveday8473]

​@@the_koo3151your evidence? Or are you just happy to go with your prejudices?

[@muttput]

@@davidloveday8473 prove him wrong. show evidence that a resident of gaza denounced the attack or was shocked by the brutality

[@jthakurdin]

Misleading title. Not all Palestinians are Jihadists.

[@YenneY01]

Looking the other way is complicity.

[@fotoviano]

The title implicitly equates Palestinians and Hamas jihadists. So I was expecting some new insight and heard what we mostly all already know (bait and switch).

[@davidpayne8413]

Not true many including myself know and appreciate that many Muslims actually believe what they are taught

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@davidpayne8413 you appreciate the jihadist mindset???? Or peaceful Islam. Your point is not so clear.

[@davidpayne8413]

@@dr.lebowitzoffice3076 Appreciate, has un intended connotations - I mean many including myself understand that Muslims really do believe what they are taught - where as many Christians' including myself grew out of our childhood indoctrination and no longer pretend to believe, and many actually come out as atheists - I do understand that Jihadist and more moderate Muslims are two sides of the same coin. - Moderates could contribute greatly to peace by reining in the Jihadist

[@Guyverman01]

Link to the original video?

[@mogglie]

Complexity enters when dreaming of becoming a martyr you need a war to get to heaven. They need a murderer by definition. If you dream of being a martyr. You have to find a murderer. . If you have a god that tells you. “The way to get to heaven is to go out and create someone else as a murderer.” The doctrine is messed up.

[@ren5715]

It has to come from them..and that is why i give utmost support to Dahlia Ziada from Egypt Ayaan Hirsi Ali Loui ahmed from Sweden Mossab Louy Al Shareef Israel Nomani Rawan Osman Yasmine Mohammad Harris sultan These people really understand the danger of Radical Islam..and that this behavior MUST BE STOPPED. We need to support these Muslims and ex Muslims to grow in number to have the courage to put an end to this type of thinking. For everyone's sake The world The west The muslims themselves Children who are brane**..wshd etc Ultimately this is about right and wrong...less about religion and more about integrity. Which side of the moral compass do you stand on??

[@YenneY01]

Brain washed.

[@MattCofer-sw2if]

don't forget Nabeel Qureshi.

[@ren5715]

Will look him up. Thanks Amjad taha Harris sultan in Oz

[@mrsteve555]

one man reads about jihad and sees no issue, another man goes after the things of babylon and reads babylonian talmud and they also see no issue... people choose their blindness and its shocking how cultish religion becomes when morality is replaced with law.

[@brettansley8600]

This is a disappointingly vapid argument from such a strong intellectual.

[@joncygardner]

I don't believe this. I think they hope so. But when they want to fight , they actually demonstrate that they are cowards. What I think is that they push others to die like the civilian population, but not them.

[@XxjazzperxX]

"it was never about land" - the people who took all the land

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

Not ‘take.’ Untrue. Purchased farms from Ottoman not Palestinian owners ,and mostly swampland. Won territory in wars Arabs started and never stopped whining about when they lost. JORDAN was the land carved out for Palestinians but they no longer let Palestinians in because they bring terrorists. In fact, NO ARAB COUNTRY WILL ACCEPT PALESTINIANS. Meanwhile, Syria, Iraq, Iran, have killed MILLIONS OF ARABS IN THE LAST 40 YEARS. How about that?

[@katepenk3401]

Israel is whom I assume you mean. They simply came back to the land given them by God thousands of years ago slightly before WWII and especially after. It's documented history, and archeologists are proving it on digs throughout Israel. None of the other Muslim countries want the people occupying Gaza. Why is that, with all the massive land they have between them? They were always nomadic; they don't have a homeland. Gaza was given to them by Israel: very gracious considering the hell she has received in return.

[@XxjazzperxX]

@@katepenk3401 Yeah I'm not reading that. God is dead, the zionists who colonized Palestine weren't even religious, and you're a racist bigot. Go away.

[@HeathenHammer80]

Sam is so good on Islam. I wish everyone understood the nature of the problem like he does.

[@nodgene]

There's a tendency for religious apologists to forget that all religions are like this. Shin Bet intercepted a plot by religious ultrazionists to blow up the dome of the rock, in the hope of triggering the third world war, ushering in the messiah. During the Troubles the PIRA's hunger strikers knew that for the underdog, they could win by dying, as it would help unify public opinion against the British. Lane Craig's sort of Christian apologetics says that if a child dies, because they are innocent they go to heaven (doesn't say this anywhere in the bible but okay), and thus the command to commit genocide in the old testament wronged ONLY the Israeli [sic] soldiers ordered to kill all Caananites. During the Middle Ages they would submerge alleged witches, and say oh if she drowns she's innocent and goes to heaven! During the Albigensian crusade, the priest leading the army said they put 20,000 men women and children to the sword, and "Kill them all; God will know His own". So yeah, Christians, Muslims, Jews, have been literally praying for the end of the world for thousands of years and killing innocent people because of a sincere belief that innocent people go to heaven. Don't pretend otherwise! It's not just Muslims!

[@dr.lebowitzoffice3076]

@@nodgene any religious zealots are dangerous in any religion. My father’s first cousin was Justice Minister of Israel in the 1990’s and he told me the ultra Orthodox Jews will kill us from within.

[@MrShyAlter]

Rabbi, I and many others recognize Sam Harris' points of view and agree with many. But please keep in mind that you're cherry picking here. Harris is an avowed atheist. And believes that religiosity, such as the one you're probably espousing, is in general the source of many human conflicts. This one included. That said, Islam as it is practices by Hamas (and all other Iran proxies), is especially pernicious in this context.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

Much of his explanation of Islam can also be applied to evangelical Christian’s.

[@ianjones3568]

You cannot have Islam separated from the 'ism' it's just the pure interpretation. Harris should know this.

[@draganban]

The theory seems solid to me. Interesting that last comment about an extreme right-wing backlash - that's what's happened in Israel, the rise of an expansionist ideology based on military conquest, with critics being silenced in mainstream media. I find this as distasteful as jihad, and it's depressing that a nation with such talents can turn so violent and ruthless.

[@jaybee9269]

Israel is not expansionist, as they don’t have the means for that.

[@fotodeci]

So sad. What a waste of lives and souls. They need deliverance.

[@philflip1963]

"Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life". John 12:25 So much for Muslims being perverts!

[@dianehghzn7670]

They think their getting deliverence so what are you worried about they are a death cult they love death more than life - i wonder why in gods name they have kids at all how crazy ????!!! It makes no sence at all its complete and utter nonsense its more of a mental illness i think 🥲🥲🥲

[@shawnpatton3795]

Wouldn’t we say the same thing about confederate slave owners, natzis, or Japanese and German citizens post WWII?!

[@KathyPrendergast-cu5ci]

No.

[@shawnpatton3795]

@@KathyPrendergast-cu5ci why not?

[@avoidable69]

link the original video

[@rodkoehler]

When you're a poor group fighting the rich group with all the technology, you fight back in a way you can afford.

[@katepenk3401]

Why the fight? End Islamic hatred and there will be peace. They started it and they continue it.

[@danielreiss-cy4zr]

How come Aryeh Weinstein never noticed that?

[@sanjosemike3137]

Millions of people have reported what they experienced during NDE’s. Virtually none have reported a Jihadist viewpoint of any NDE. In fact, the reverse is true: The purpose of the Universe, according to NDE’s is LOVE. We never hear of any effort to “add corpses of infidels to the accounting of holiness to your afterlife status.” Atheists of course dismiss NDE’s as either hallucinations or the “chemical changes of the dying brain.” Whether you accept or deny NDE’s as valid is beside the point. They are very common and consistent, even considering cultural variations. They demonstrate certain veridical patterns that are difficult, even for atheists to understand. My point: We don’t have very many indicators of our potential afterlife. NDE’s at least point in that direction. And Jihadism is the antithesis of that experience. Sanjosemike (no longer in CA)

[@donmadziva1689]

It takes a special person to misunderstand Sam.

[@joelcarson4602]

Special Ed kind of person.

[@GonzoSA]

They want their land back and they hate you for not giving it to them. It is that simple.

[@LindaLinda80Linda]

They want a world Caliphate and Sharia law. Aren’t going to get either. Stop starting wars you can’t win. Palestinians fled because their Syrian leaders told them to. Read a book,. Learn the true history. Land was also purchased from farms Ottomans owned and Palestinians worked. Mostly Swampland. Look what Israel has done with it. The Arabs had let it become a destroyed backwater. Work harder. Read more. Good Advice.

[@katepenk3401]

It's never been their land. Do some research. Learn the history of the area. If it is their land why are international unbiased archeology digs going on all over Israel finding Hebrew artifacts and buried ruins of Hebrew villages that are many centuries old?

[@davehughes8212]

The clearest explanation of the real problem I've heard and his comments about the UK (where I am) are exactly right. Our political "right wing" has never been so extreme and is gathering support from ordinary people.

[@FlytoColombia]

That's not entirely true. In order to be fascist, you need a massive following, and power. The Far Right is actually ostracized. The right has been able to stick to Conservatism, in a moderate sphere. The Far Left have power, and they have a massive following. If I asked you to name me a prominent Centre Leftist, who doesn't have any Socialist, Marxist or Communist ideals, you would struggle to answer me.

[@i.karlhood3825]

Don’t you mean “far left”? Present reality does not validate your claim.

[@longandshort6639]

Untrue. The left has a huge blind spot when it comes to Islamic jihadi terrorism.

[@josele844]

@@i.karlhood3825everyone that reduces human struggle to socioeconomic status, believes in equality of outcome, reduces human interaction to opressors/opressed, wants to restrict freedom of speech in media they do not control and introduce blasphemy laws. All this is far left and they are not far from power, msm and academia. This IS the reality.

[@stevenanthony578]

Nothing justifies genocide.

[@katepenk3401]

What genocide? Hamas started it. "You can choose the action, you can't choose the consequences". Israel is doing the world an immense favor by dealing with a murderous, evil bunch of hate filled tyrants in the only effective way. In fact, the Muslim world wants to irradiate all Jews( read Hamas constitution); THAT is genocide.

[@donwinston]

Well you are assuming Palestinians are Hamas and Palestinians are Gihadists. C'mon. It is the other way around. Hamas are Palestinians, Some Gihadists are Palestinians. It is NOT THE SAME THING! Please. Stop it.

[@MB-xe8bb]

But the others don't stop it.

[@donwinston]

@ US citizens don’t stop murder and rape so US citizens are murderers and rapists! This is warped logic.

[@timorean320]

Sure, we all can relate to it. Im willing to die for what I believe in, but I am not willing to kill others for it.

[@csansolo]

Still, he is a democrat.

[@NatureBoy-b2h]

Really????? How can that be?

[@Tomm9y]

But why do the 'Palestinians' have such power over Ireland, where on Monday, December 23, 2024, Taoiseach Simon Harris expressed Ireland’s “unbreakable support” for the people of Palestine during a call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Is this due to the Palestinian's support of the IRA alone, or is it something wider. Now, it is very worrying that Israel closed its embassy in Dublin earlier this month claiming “extreme” anti-Israel policies by the Irish Government. Why does Ireland, along with Norway and Spain, not recognise the danger of supporting Palestine?

[@judgedayan9934]

For the atheist, Sam Harris, his analysis is a huge nuance that he has discovered and exposed. To any Jew knowledgeable of Torah, this analysis is elementary stuff known for 3000 years.

[@rclaws3230]

People who sincerely believe they are rational have lost the perspective to understand the limits of their logic and understanding.

[@judgedayan9934]

@@rclaws3230 An atheist has no reason or motivation to be humble.

[@Peter_Kropotkin]

"If only they knew the victims of apartheid are conditioned to want to kill their oppressors"

[@pedrosanchezgonzalez8693]

Yes as you said before son or later main religions should drop the belief in nonsense

[@anthonydhan]

The challenge is that the Islamists are actually truer to the teachings of Islam. Any reform or moderation is criticized as a subversion by the Islamists and they are correct. The central problem is the conduct of the founder of Islam since he sets the primary example for the followers. The founder was a successful warlord that led the troops into many battles. It is difficult to explain why waging a war is wrong when the founder created the concept of Jihad and personally led men into battle. He killed uncles and other relatives in the field of battle in the taking of his hometown by conquest. He then led the execution of civilians that resisted conversion. How then can anyone argue that waging a war of religion against both the military and civilians is morally wrong?

[@AndiWard]

I was agreeing with him until the last few words when he used the word right wing bigotry and fascists.

[@i.karlhood3825]

Except if he is referring to the jihadists.

[@AndiWard]

@@i.karlhood3825 He said if the liberal don't stop it, then the right wing fascists and bigots will.

[@mattwhite399]

It’s a warning to the left to govern responsibly, not an indictment of the right. If the left won’t enforce borders, Facists will. Flipping it around, you might say something like, “If the right won’t control corporate overreach, Communists will.” Also, Sam may have said the word “bigotry” at some point, but I didn’t hear it in the referenced section of the video.

[@AndiWard]

@@mattwhite399 Or you could say, if the main parties don't, normal people will vote in a party that will.

[@La0bouchere]

@@AndiWard No, he meant that if countries keep importing jihadists, and fascist parties are the only ones offering a solution, they'll win. He didn't mean that anyone on the right is a fascist.

[@siamsasean]

And Netanyahu saying all Palestinians must be killed "from the river to the sea" so that Israel can take their land, that's not fanaticism?

[@hrvad]

Despite everything that I think is wrong with Sam Harris these days (TDS, Covid crisis fanboy), his understanding of this issue was and is PERFECT. And he's held this belief for at least a decade or two.

[@thehoogard]

He's been against trump from the start. His position hasn't changed, you have.

[@hotrodandrube9119]

Covid is real. A million people in the US died after a moronic disbanding of the pandemic response team.

[@La0bouchere]

His argumentation and conclusions about those other issues are also "PERFECT". The only reason they don't seem right is due to your own bias.

[@jaynekirsopp7123]

The best analysis of the whole thing I've watched or read about

[@eran5005]

Nobody realized it…? We’ve been saying this for decades. Harris is not even fashionably late with this insight, he’s missed the party altogether, and if anything, he’s still clinging to the naive faith in the so called ‘moderate muslim’.

[@abigailwall3465]

These people will never understand peace

[@lisawise9849]

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