First of all, Hamas has accepted cease-fire deals, but the US comes out and always claims they have not while “Israel” has then “Israel” turned around and says no we don’t accept the deal. Second of all what about settler colonialism happening in the West Bank right now that needs to be addressed and solved for this to come to an end. Third of all on your point of war crimes, the US is just as complicit and culpable of committing war crimes as “Israel” is.
Why do you put Israel in quotes? I find that funny some people do that or how others say “Palestinians” or “Palestine”, as if putting the side you don’t like in quotes makes them illegitimate or their claims to the land illegitimate 😂. The truth is both sides have legitimate claims. And don’t tell me the Jews are just Europeans. They have ancestry to the land and the mizrahi Jews (Arab Jews who were expelled from their countries) make up a large part of the Jewish population in Israel. This isn’t to excuse Israel’s behavior (war, occupation, discrimination, among other revolting actions), but getting rid of Israel or so-called decolonization aren’t ethical solutions given that the vast majority of Jews were born there.
An excellent explanation of settler colonialism and how it relates to the ongoing struggle of Palestinians and indigenous peoples of north America and elsewhere. This must stop!
Yes, it is not a proxy war like Ukraine or Taiwan, but a settler colonial project which in addition has the issue of the elites of both, Israel and USA/UK being extremely co-mingled through marriage and financial interest.
There is way too much both-siding going on. 14:44 Implying Hamas is equally in the way of a path forward as Israel and the United States is infuriating.
He didn’t do any “both-siding.” He didn’t say they have equal responsibility/power to making peace. He just suggested Hamas plays a role to their bringing peace. After all, they do have hostages/captives and commit violence, including war crimes. Not to the level of Israel of course, but they aren’t completely blameless either.
I wish i found Richard years ago. But its been a year now and there is not a thing i dissagree with. He has the same ideas just better ways of explaining it
A warning letter signed by 130 Israeli economists: Without a change in the current trajectory, these processes threaten the very existence of the state. Many of those bearing the burden will prefer to emigrate from Israel. The first to leave will be those who have opportunities abroad... The population that remains in Israel will be less educated and less productive, thereby increasing the burden on the remaining productive population - which will encourage further emigration from Israel. This process of a 'collapse spiral,' where increasingly larger circles prefer to emigrate while the situation of those remaining worsens, will severely harm populations with limited ability to emigrate, including the ultra-Orthodox sector. The demographic and economic processes that have been affecting Jerusalem over the past few decades - its rapid decline in socio-economic indicators, accompanied by the departure of large segments of its secular population - clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of the collapse spiral and the dangers it poses to the entire State of Israel. Jerusalem has Israel. Israel has only itself. The danger is clear, and in our estimation, the likelihood of its realization is very high... This is a real alarm. History will not forgive the state's leaders, both present and future - from all across the political spectrum - if they stand idly by.
Professor, you are ( and I´ve already said that here on youtube) one of my best friends inside my gauche solitude -- which bends to the left I´m a Brazilian almost elderly, and I´d like to extern my salut to you -- kind of warrior with out swords, words of trues only having. So therefore... ... Excuse me for my rococo poor style trying to be a shakesperian one
I remember well what the British had to say about that. They told me, they were helping the people there by giving them an employment, as well as educating them (or pacify them) and make them civilised.
_Vote this way in November:_ *1 of 2. This is how you always need to vote-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including *Tim Walz, Kamala Harris,* AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge. _Vote this way in November:_ *2 of 2. This is how you always need to vote-* We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including *Trump,* RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction. For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide. Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either. If no candidates for a position fit that bill: -Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person; -Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank. This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete. Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
TLDR My view is: if you are in a swing state or district, vote D. If you are in a heavily blue or red state/district, vote Jill Stein. I’m in GA - Harris/Walz 2024
@@timc1604 Dont respond if you don’t read. Read. “Swing State” is not an accurate term to use. It’s pure Democratic and Republican propaganda. Why are you perpetuating such propaganda? Are you unfamiliar with this?. How can there be a “swing-states” for _only_ 2 parties where free will is involved so much: People have been freely voting for those two equally-horrible parties. The problem is all those people are making bad mistakes when _choosing_ to vote this way. Likely including you. Stop voting such. And educate all others to vote correctly. Since you’ve read this far, now you have the knowledge. Be gracious, use it, teach all others, and go out and do good.
Remember, even _Chomsky_ made the horrendous continuous-mistake of telling people to vote for Democrats. You have to fully oppose Noam Chomsky telling you that, _and also all these media “journalists” for the Ds or Rs of the duopoly._
Harris or Trump will be the next president, no matter how you feel about the two party system. A 3rd party can’t win without major reforms that will not happen in the next few weeks -Time to come to grips with it. No one in the U.S. -not in Gaza-will be served by another Trump administration. I can tell you that much.
Your argument is totally fallacious. Here is why: Israel and its Jews were never nor aspired to be an "empire" as were the Romans, the British, the Spanish, the Arabs or the Ottomans. Jews were persecuted in Europe (Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, England, Russia etc) as citizens therefore do not qualify as Europeans. They were a persecuted religious minority, an despised exiled people. Half of the population of Israel is coming from Arab countries because of being kicked out of these countries. Their origin was not European. Israelis are therefore not settlers but refugees coming back to their ancestral refuge. The only people that got pushed in Israel were Arabs who had been on a religious war and colonization since the 7th century. Christians or Druzes were not pushed. Pushing back on real colonizers is exactly what the Arabs did to the French empire in 1962. What Israelis are doing is pushing back on Arab violent colonizers not out of a desire for land resources, but to regain a defensible refuge after many pogroms and a holocaust. As a professor of Jewish origin you should know this better than anyone else. Jewish people have every right to their only country, including the right to aggressively defend it, in spite of what the world may think. Arabs have 22 States acquired through violent colonization. Israel is the sole tiny Jewish State.
I agree. The settler colonial argument to explain the creation of Israel is historically incorrect. Re-colonization of Jews (from both Europe AND the Arab world [lots non-whites in Israel too]) in the region of Palestine/Israel, where Jews originated, would be more accurate. However, colonialism did play some role in the creation of the new Jewish state in that colonial powers helped the Jews create Israel. Moreover, Israel deserves criticism for expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians (who were born there; Arab conquests centuries earlier wasn’t their fault) in 1948, their ongoing (illegal, according to international law)) occupation of Palestinian Territories, and misbegotten war in response to Hamas’ attack last October. The war was supposed to bring back the hostages and destroy Hamas. The war has brought back few hostages. Prisoner exchanges did. And Hamas is apparently not close to be destroyed. Worse, many tens of thousands of Palestinians have died.
So are you saying colonizing was not about taking land but about returning the various groups to the land they were originally located on? I'm confused 🤔
@@politicallil7060 read more about the conflict. I recommend “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know” for a very even-handed explanation. Jews in 19th Century suffered through anti-semitism and some decided they should return to where Jews originated: the land of Israel (known by the 19th century as the region of Palestine). Only a minority of Jews at the time supported the idea. Some saw this movement, known as Zionism, as antisemitic as it could be seen as similar to telling an African-American to “go back to Africa.” Nevertheless, long story short: the movement gained steamed after the Holocaust in the 1940s, which convinced most Jews they needed a safe refuge. After the Zionists claimed independence in 1948 and created Israel, many Mizrahi Jews (Arab Jews) fled to Israel after they were expelled by Arab countries who objected to Israel’s creation. They objected for obvious reasons: there were many people, known by this time as Palestinians, already living there. The Israelis, wanting their state to be majority Jewish to ensure they could make the state a refuge for Jews around the world, expelled about 750,000 Palestinians, who fled, mostly to surrounding countries, creating now millions of refugees, a huge injustice. The Israelis see themselves as the true native population because Jews were in that region long before the Arabs living there (known as the Palestinians), who had conquered the land many centuries earlier. Of course, that is not the fault of present day Palestinians (or 20th century Palestinians) but this narrative is what Israelis tell themselves to justify their continued mistreatment of Palestinians. There’s much more to the story of course, but that’s the cliff notes version.
@@politicallil7060 To make it clearer: Were Algerians colonizing or occupying when they kicked out the French in a war, in the 1960s? No, because they were reclaiming their land that had been colonized by the French empire under Napoleon. Jews have always remained separate with a unique indigenous culture, religion and language anchored in Israel. They cannot be considered occupiers or colonizers since that land was historically theirs to begin with and was invaded and colonized by multiple empires: Mesopotamia, Persia, Rome, Arabs, French crusaders, Ottomans, British. The Jews were never an empire and were simply indigenous to this land. It is OK to want back what belongs to you but Israelis were accommodating and proposed many peace deals, to no avail. What Arabs consider theirs is what they colonized in the middle ages, "from the River to the Sea". Until they acknowledge the valid indigenous claim of the Jews, the conflict will perdure. Considering how tiny Israel is and how vast the lands of 22 Arab states are, this land conflict should have never festered, unless it is fundamentally a war of religion, therefore unsolvable.
Thanks for the facts Wolf
First of all, Hamas has accepted cease-fire deals, but the US comes out and always claims they have not while “Israel” has then “Israel” turned around and says no we don’t accept the deal. Second of all what about settler colonialism happening in the West Bank right now that needs to be addressed and solved for this to come to an end. Third of all on your point of war crimes, the US is just as complicit and culpable of committing war crimes as “Israel” is.
Why do you put Israel in quotes? I find that funny some people do that or how others say “Palestinians” or “Palestine”, as if putting the side you don’t like in quotes makes them illegitimate or their claims to the land illegitimate 😂. The truth is both sides have legitimate claims. And don’t tell me the Jews are just Europeans. They have ancestry to the land and the mizrahi Jews (Arab Jews who were expelled from their countries) make up a large part of the Jewish population in Israel. This isn’t to excuse Israel’s behavior (war, occupation, discrimination, among other revolting actions), but getting rid of Israel or so-called decolonization aren’t ethical solutions given that the vast majority of Jews were born there.
His time would've been better spent explaining why the duopoly is committed to Zionism
An excellent explanation of settler colonialism and how it relates to the ongoing struggle of Palestinians and indigenous peoples of north America and elsewhere. This must stop!
Secondly, Richard, there is NOT a war in Palestine.
It is a genocide.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this - agree wholeheartedly.
Thank you so much for covering this. Organized protests and vote against genocide
Important point for the majority of Israelis to acknowledge-that they are European.
Thank you mr wolff for speaking the naked truth ⚘️👍
Thanks!
Ever succinct.
Yes, it is not a proxy war like Ukraine or Taiwan, but a settler colonial project which in addition has the issue of the elites of both, Israel and USA/UK being extremely co-mingled through marriage and financial interest.
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There is way too much both-siding going on.
14:44
Implying Hamas is equally in the way of a path forward as Israel and the United States is infuriating.
He didn’t do any “both-siding.” He didn’t say they have equal responsibility/power to making peace. He just suggested Hamas plays a role to their bringing peace. After all, they do have hostages/captives and commit violence, including war crimes. Not to the level of Israel of course, but they aren’t completely blameless either.
I wish i found Richard years ago. But its been a year now and there is not a thing i dissagree with. He has the same ideas just better ways of explaining it
We've followed him closely for at least five years for the exact same reasons. We're educated Marxists now.
A warning letter signed by 130 Israeli economists:
Without a change in the current trajectory, these processes threaten the very existence of the state. Many of those bearing the burden will prefer to emigrate from Israel. The first to leave will be those who have opportunities abroad... The population that remains in Israel will be less educated and less productive, thereby increasing the burden on the remaining productive population - which will encourage further emigration from Israel. This process of a 'collapse spiral,' where increasingly larger circles prefer to emigrate while the situation of those remaining worsens, will severely harm populations with limited ability to emigrate, including the ultra-Orthodox sector. The demographic and economic processes that have been affecting Jerusalem over the past few decades - its rapid decline in socio-economic indicators, accompanied by the departure of large segments of its secular population - clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of the collapse spiral and the dangers it poses to the entire State of Israel. Jerusalem has Israel. Israel has only itself. The danger is clear, and in our estimation, the likelihood of its realization is very high... This is a real alarm. History will not forgive the state's leaders, both present and future - from all across the political spectrum - if they stand idly by.
Professor, you are ( and I´ve already said that here on youtube) one of my best friends inside my gauche solitude -- which bends to the left
I´m a Brazilian almost elderly, and I´d like to extern my salut to you -- kind of warrior with out swords, words of trues only having.
So therefore...
... Excuse me for my rococo poor style trying to be a shakesperian one
I remember well what the British had to say about that. They told me, they were helping the people there by giving them an employment, as well as educating them (or pacify them) and make them civilised.
_Vote this way in November:_
*1 of 2. This is how you always need to vote-*
We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Republican *and* Democratic Parties- including *Tim Walz, Kamala Harris,* AOC, all of the squad, Bernie Sanders, Edward Markey, Mark Pocan, the justice democrats, & all other democrats. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction.
For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide.
Real progressives will never be Democratic Members or Democratic loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Republican member or loyalist either.
If no candidates for a position fit that bill:
-Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person;
-Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank.
This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete.
Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
_Vote this way in November:_
*2 of 2. This is how you always need to vote-*
We must fully criticize and _always vote_ *against* (& less authoritarian than) both the Democratic *and* Republican Parties- including *Trump,* RFK Jr., Vivek Ramaswamy, Rand Paul (He’s _no_ Ron Paul), Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Ron Johnson, and all other Republicans. Vote in every single election- at all levels. And also _endorse or anti-endorse,_ in all elections you can, for outside your voting jurisdiction.
For _all_ public positions. And this same strategy applies against the same one or more party-monopolies in _all_ countries worldwide.
Real libertarians will never be Republicans or Republican loyalists. Never vote for _any_ Democratic member or loyalist either.
If no candidates for a position fit that bill:
-Where _write-ins_ are permissible, always write-in an anti-authoritarian person;
-Where write-ins aren’t permissible, always vote uncommitted or leave the ballot blank.
This will continuously reduce the power of _all_ authoritarian parties in the party monopolies: Until our task is complete.
Repeat strategy for all new authoritarian parties that emerge.
I'm voting kelly- mint - chartreuse this election because they reflect my interests on the issues.
TLDR
My view is: if you are in a swing state or district, vote D. If you are in a heavily blue or red state/district, vote Jill Stein. I’m in GA - Harris/Walz 2024
@@timc1604 Dont respond if you don’t read. Read.
“Swing State” is not an accurate term to use. It’s pure Democratic and Republican propaganda.
Why are you perpetuating such propaganda? Are you unfamiliar with this?.
How can there be a “swing-states” for _only_ 2 parties where free will is involved so much: People have been freely voting for those two equally-horrible parties. The problem is all those people are making bad mistakes when _choosing_ to vote this way. Likely including you. Stop voting such. And educate all others to vote correctly.
Since you’ve read this far, now you have the knowledge. Be gracious, use it, teach all others, and go out and do good.
Remember, even _Chomsky_ made the horrendous continuous-mistake of telling people to vote for Democrats.
You have to fully oppose Noam Chomsky telling you that, _and also all these media “journalists” for the Ds or Rs of the duopoly._
And do what? Not vote while MAGA gains absolute power?
Harris or Trump will be the next president, no matter how you feel about the two party system. A 3rd party can’t win without major reforms that will not happen in the next few weeks -Time to come to grips with it.
No one in the U.S. -not in Gaza-will be served by another Trump administration. I can tell you that much.
Prof Joseph Massad gave a longer, more in depth explaination on Electronic Intifada last week. Amd he isnt 'two-siding' anything. Check it out
This ain't it, professor
Do you think a universal wage would resolve the slave labor?
no...please tell me your not serious
why do we need to be paid and why do we need to be slaves? why do we need permission for living?
This is a man made mess....had everybody stayed where God placed them we'd bout be at peace
a truthful analysis. thank you so much, Richard!
Unsubbed ✌️
Your argument is totally fallacious. Here is why: Israel and its Jews were never nor aspired to be an "empire" as were the Romans, the British, the Spanish, the Arabs or the Ottomans. Jews were persecuted in Europe (Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, England, Russia etc) as citizens therefore do not qualify as Europeans. They were a persecuted religious minority, an despised exiled people. Half of the population of Israel is coming from Arab countries because of being kicked out of these countries. Their origin was not European. Israelis are therefore not settlers but refugees coming back to their ancestral refuge. The only people that got pushed in Israel were Arabs who had been on a religious war and colonization since the 7th century. Christians or Druzes were not pushed. Pushing back on real colonizers is exactly what the Arabs did to the French empire in 1962. What Israelis are doing is pushing back on Arab violent colonizers not out of a desire for land resources, but to regain a defensible refuge after many pogroms and a holocaust. As a professor of Jewish origin you should know this better than anyone else. Jewish people have every right to their only country, including the right to aggressively defend it, in spite of what the world may think. Arabs have 22 States acquired through violent colonization. Israel is the sole tiny Jewish State.
I agree. The settler colonial argument to explain the creation of Israel is historically incorrect. Re-colonization of Jews (from both Europe AND the Arab world [lots non-whites in Israel too]) in the region of Palestine/Israel, where Jews originated, would be more accurate. However, colonialism did play some role in the creation of the new Jewish state in that colonial powers helped the Jews create Israel. Moreover, Israel deserves criticism for expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinians (who were born there; Arab conquests centuries earlier wasn’t their fault) in 1948, their ongoing (illegal, according to international law)) occupation of Palestinian Territories, and misbegotten war in response to Hamas’ attack last October. The war was supposed to bring back the hostages and destroy Hamas. The war has brought back few hostages. Prisoner exchanges did. And Hamas is apparently not close to be destroyed. Worse, many tens of thousands of Palestinians have died.
So are you saying colonizing was not about taking land but about returning the various groups to the land they were originally located on? I'm confused 🤔
@@politicallil7060 read more about the conflict. I recommend “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know” for a very even-handed explanation. Jews in 19th Century suffered through anti-semitism and some decided they should return to where Jews originated: the land of Israel (known by the 19th century as the region of Palestine). Only a minority of Jews at the time supported the idea. Some saw this movement, known as Zionism, as antisemitic as it could be seen as similar to telling an African-American to “go back to Africa.” Nevertheless, long story short: the movement gained steamed after the Holocaust in the 1940s, which convinced most Jews they needed a safe refuge. After the Zionists claimed independence in 1948 and created Israel, many Mizrahi Jews (Arab Jews) fled to Israel after they were expelled by Arab countries who objected to Israel’s creation. They objected for obvious reasons: there were many people, known by this time as Palestinians, already living there. The Israelis, wanting their state to be majority Jewish to ensure they could make the state a refuge for Jews around the world, expelled about 750,000 Palestinians, who fled, mostly to surrounding countries, creating now millions of refugees, a huge injustice.
The Israelis see themselves as the true native population because Jews were in that region long before the Arabs living there (known as the Palestinians), who had conquered the land many centuries earlier. Of course, that is not the fault of present day Palestinians (or 20th century Palestinians) but this narrative is what Israelis tell themselves to justify their continued mistreatment of Palestinians.
There’s much more to the story of course, but that’s the cliff notes version.
@@politicallil7060 To make it clearer: Were Algerians colonizing or occupying when they kicked out the French in a war, in the 1960s? No, because they were reclaiming their land that had been colonized by the French empire under Napoleon. Jews have always remained separate with a unique indigenous culture, religion and language anchored in Israel. They cannot be considered occupiers or colonizers since that land was historically theirs to begin with and was invaded and colonized by multiple empires: Mesopotamia, Persia, Rome, Arabs, French crusaders, Ottomans, British. The Jews were never an empire and were simply indigenous to this land. It is OK to want back what belongs to you but Israelis were accommodating and proposed many peace deals, to no avail. What Arabs consider theirs is what they colonized in the middle ages, "from the River to the Sea". Until they acknowledge the valid indigenous claim of the Jews, the conflict will perdure. Considering how tiny Israel is and how vast the lands of 22 Arab states are, this land conflict should have never festered, unless it is fundamentally a war of religion, therefore unsolvable.