23:50 denmark was able to save 95% of their Jewish population due to germany's diplomat to Denmark warned the resistance that Germany would roundup all the Jews, he even was the one to get Sweden accept the jews
@@alexanderthegrape5641 Hebrew is an ancient Semitic language (it is the language of most of the Bible) and Yiddish is a variation of High German spoken by Jews throughout Europe and is an Indo-European language. They are both used almost exclusively by Jews.
@@alexanderthegrape5641. Yiddish is a German dialect with spoken in by Jews in Eastern Europe. It’s tied to a couple of different practices in the Holy Roman Empire the Jews came under the authority of the Emperor not the local lord and as such were likely to live in the cities And then, further east, many areas had German aristocracy (e.g. the Teutonic Knights) who ruled over Slavic and Baltic dual populations while the Jews were the Merchant class in the cities. So they spoke German…. With a Jewish accent all over Eastern Europe .
I’m a little annoyed of the description of the first Aliyah in 1880 and the portrayal of Russias pogroms against the Jews as a reaction to Jewish emancipation across Europe is just wrong. The violence against the Jew was caused by the assassination of tsar Alexander the second in 1881 by an anti-monarchist group and the Russian peasants naturally blamed the Jew which lead to the violence. Also, that comment from the Arab, “aren’t you guys Russians” is misleading. The Jews in Russia were not Russians. They were Jews they were distinctly separate and treated as such. Jews weren’t allowed to live in Russia proper they had to live in the pale of settlements (modern day this refers to Latvia Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, the eastern half of Poland, and a good chunk of Ukraine.
I’m also annoyed at the portrayal of lord Balfour. He may have had other motives but he also recognized how poorly Europe had treated the Jews for centuries and wanted to make it right in some way.
Wait, so you’re saying Jewish Russians weren’t Russian? I’m sorry but that’s ridiculous. It’s like saying a Japanese American isn’t an American or that a German Jew isn’t a Jew (like the USA said of Japanese Americans or the Nazis said of German Jews during the Second World War). While they might have different cultural practices, they are still very much of the nation they were born in, whether they be Jewish or any other ethnicity or culture. You’re playing into a talking point used by the literal fucking Nazis, that of “dual loyalty”.
Lovely content, but I do have to say some things are somewhat misleading.... Jews in Arab states werent "encouraged" by Israel to leave. In what is in many ways a reverse Nakba, the Arab states they lived in relentlessly persecuted them and forced them out. The 1948 Arab Israeli war was the result of the Jewish state declaring its independence, but also all neighbouring Arab Nations and Palestinians absolutrly refusing the UN compromise which drew the borders, something Israel accepted. Now these borders suited Israel just fine, and the Palestinians saw some of the land granted to the Jews as theirs (which to be fair, some was). Regardless, the bloodshed and violence needs to end. What the Israeli government is currently doing in Gaza is horrific, and so were the attacks made by Hamas. Too many people have died. The only way we can live together is to put this all behind us.
I'm palestinian and that's definitely true. And some were also terrorized by the zionists in their arab countries like throwing hand grenades into synagogues in iraq
I can’t believe you just equated what a bunch of rugtag losers like hamas did to an occupying force to a nuclear state leveling the whole land,This two things aren’t equivalents.
@@ot8479Amazing, all three actions are in response to Arab terror against the Jews which started in the 1800s (even before), the list of Arab massacres on Jews is much larger and goes back further.
At 18:22 he says that the Balfour declaration recognized a future Jewish home on Arab land. When did it become “Arab” land?? It might be properly referred to as Ottoman land, but not Arab. To call it Arab is setting up a false narrative that pervades the rest of the video. What is worse is at 20:39, the word Palestinian is used to describe the Muslim anti-Zionist population. This is highly misleading and historically inaccurate. All the people who lived in “Palestine” were Palestinian. This included Christian Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians and Muslim Palestinians. The use of the term “Palestinian” to refer only to the Muslim Palestinians was a new term coined by Yassir Arafat. It has a deeply political appeal because it allowed the Palestinian Muslims to label themselves with the land at the exclusion of the Jewish Palestinians and the Christian Palestinians. Golda Meir, an early Prine Minister of Israel, called herself a Palestinian Jew. This commandeering of the word “Palestinian” was a trick of the tongue and one this presenter uses for the rest of the film to further a misleading narrative. It right away sows the seed that the “Palestinians” from which the Jews were unilaterally excluded, are associated with the land and the Jews are not. Labels matter. “Pro Life” Americans could just as easily be called “anti-Abortion rights” but they developed and use the term “pro life” to frame the narrative. Those who co-opted the term “Palestinian” did so for their own political purposes. A true historian might still use the term “Palestinian (since that term has been so successfully tied yo only the Muslim Palestinians) but must explain the use of the term and its qualifications. Failing to do this makes the reporter complicit in excluding the Jews, an intentional or unintentional act that is, at the very least, negligent. He then commits a heinous act by, at 23:42, including the deaths of Soviet Civilians and other collateral casualties of war as “Holocaust Victims.” No. These were victims of war, not the Holocaust. In no legitimate historical text, do we see civilian deaths in WWII listed as Holocaust victims. That “distinction” is reserved for the Jews, Gypsies and others who were persecuted on the basis of their identity. Other deaths of civilians are casualties of war. This also is no mistake by the author. This is precisely what antisemites do when they try to dilute the Jewish nature of the Holocaust. At 25:23, he explains that the UN proposed a partition plan but “none of this was implemented as it sparked a civil war between the Jews and Arabs….” Oh geez! It was never implemented because it was flatly rejected by the Palestinian Muslims. I guess he forgot to mention that. He then points out that the fighting happened “as the 2/3 majority Arabs would be getting less than half of the land.” Kind of true but misleading. Most of the land allocated to the Jews was the unpopulated, arid Sinai desert which had been left unpopulated and was deemed not arable by the Muslims. He soon goes on to state that the Arab states invaded Israel but what pushed the Arabs out was an Israeli victory. This is false. What pushed many Arabs out was the war started by the invasion. In fact, there exist today the news accounts from the invading Arab states whose leaders urged the Muslims to pack up and get out in advance of the invasion and that they will soon be able to return after the Jews are defeated. The historical inaccuracies are manifest throughout this video. I stopped watching at 25:44.
Another thing to mention is the Jewish state, as laid out by the 1947 UN partition plan, would have been only 55% Jewish, whereas the Arab state would have been 99% Arab. [1] The proposed Jewish state would have only contained 20% of the arable land in all of Mandate Palestine. [2] It's hard to say that Israel would have always treated the Arabs outside of its borders so harshly, since Israeli violence against the Arabs has always been reciprocal to, sometimes massive, Arab violence. The Six Day War, inclusive- considering the Arab states' flagrantly provocative actions. 1. Report of UNSCOP: 3 September 1947: CHAPTER 4: A COMMENTARY ON PARTITION 2. Michael R. Fischbach (13 August 2013). Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries. Columbia University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-231-51781-2
I hope you don't mind, but I formatted your wall-of-text into something a little easier to read. I only added line breaks and leading spaces. The text is otherwise untouched. " At 18:22 he says that the Balfour declaration recognized a future Jewish home on Arab land. When did it become “Arab” land?? It might be properly referred to as Ottoman land, but not Arab. To call it Arab is setting up a false narrative that pervades the rest of the video. What is worse is at 20:39, the word Palestinian is used to describe the Muslim anti-Zionist population. This is highly misleading and historically inaccurate. All the people who lived in “Palestine” were Palestinian. This included Christian Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians and Muslim Palestinians. The use of the term “Palestinian” to refer only to the Muslim Palestinians was a new term coined by Yassir Arafat. It has a deeply political appeal because it allowed the Palestinian Muslims to label themselves with the land at the exclusion of the Jewish Palestinians and the Christian Palestinians. Golda Meir, an early Prine Minister of Israel, called herself a Palestinian Jew. This commandeering of the word “Palestinian” was a trick of the tongue and one this presenter uses for the rest of the film to further a misleading narrative. It right away sows the seed that the “Palestinians” from which the Jews were unilaterally excluded, are associated with the land and the Jews are not. Labels matter. “Pro Life” Americans could just as easily be called “anti-Abortion rights” but they developed and use the term “pro life” to frame the narrative. Those who co-opted the term “Palestinian” did so for their own political purposes. A true historian might still use the term “Palestinian (since that term has been so successfully tied yo only the Muslim Palestinians) but must explain the use of the term and its qualifications. Failing to do this makes the reporter complicit in excluding the Jews, an intentional or unintentional act that is, at the very least, negligent. He then commits a heinous act by, at 23:42, including the deaths of Soviet Civilians and other collateral casualties of war as “Holocaust Victims.” No. These were victims of war, not the Holocaust. In no legitimate historical text, do we see civilian deaths in WWII listed as Holocaust victims. That “distinction” is reserved for the Jews, Gypsies and others who were persecuted on the basis of their identity. Other deaths of civilians are casualties of war. This also is no mistake by the author. This is precisely what antisemites do when they try to dilute the Jewish nature of the Holocaust. At 25:23, he explains that the UN proposed a partition plan but “none of this was implemented as it sparked a civil war between the Jews and Arabs….” Oh geez! It was never implemented because it was flatly rejected by the Palestinian Muslims. I guess he forgot to mention that. He then points out that the fighting happened “as the 2/3 majority Arabs would be getting less than half of the land.” Kind of true but misleading. Most of the land allocated to the Jews was the unpopulated, arid Sinai desert which had been left unpopulated and was deemed not arable by the Muslims. He soon goes on to state that the Arab states invaded Israel but what pushed the Arabs out was an Israeli victory. This is false. What pushed many Arabs out was the war started by the invasion. In fact, there exist today the news accounts from the invading Arab states whose leaders urged the Muslims to pack up and get out in advance of the invasion and that they will soon be able to return after the Jews are defeated. The historical inaccuracies are manifest throughout this video. I stopped watching at 25:44. "
as a 13 year old israeli who grew up with a famliy that hates the govermant and learned as much as i could about this conflict for almost a year, who have been through scary experiences before, i really hope that my generation would be the end of this conflict.
I hope so as well kid I’m sorry I can imagine hearing people call for your country to be gone to be difficult and confusing. You’re doing a good job educating yourself, I don’t agree with Israel’s existence not because I don’t think Jewish folk deserve community but because I think you can not solve one genocide with another. I think no religious government should have control of the state, it should be safe for all religions and all people. Your history is horrific and beyond sad I just hope that a good end can come from this conflict and that no one in our modern age has to fear where they live because of they’re religion
Sorry it’s not gonna be fixed in this generation because the Palestinian generations are getting more and more entrenched in a fictional narrative in which Jews are the villains of the world and lies about stolen land and they just wanna kill you October 7 was there declaration they don’t want peace they want you and your family gone and or dead did not ask anybody’s politics. They didn’t ask whether you wanted a two solution or a one solution whether you voted for Leor labor they didn’t ask whether people were Jewish or Muslim. They didn’t ask whether you were Israeli or Palestinian, they just raged and tortured and gourd like a water buffalo. You cannot make peace with somebody who wants you and your family dead please be careful.
I need to actually clarify the "migration" claim regarding the Jews in the middle east Whilst it is true many Jews did come into Israel after the establishment of the State in 1948, they usually found themselves in the same situation as the Palestinians during the Nakba It's estimated 900,000 to over a Million Jews were expelled from their homes in Muslim majority countries, reasons can vary including; Not able to own property, not able to work or even have a living, not able to practice their religion Most of Israel's population is mainly Middle Eastern Jews, such as those from Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan ETC. Friendly reminder; compared to the Middle East not allowing Jews to practice their religion in public or even at all, there are churches, mosques, synagogues etc, all in Israel so people of all faiths can practice their religions The Jews weren't convinced to migrate to Israel, they were FORCED to, EXPELLED, an Ethnic Cleansing if you will
If you knew history, you wouldn’t say what you just said. When the collective West refused to take in Jewish refugees during world war 2, it was the Islamic world that gave the Je..ws refuge , especially Turkey and Palestine. When Christian Europe kicked the Jews out of Spain in the 15th century, the Muslims gave refuge to the Jews, in Morroco, Palestine, Iraq, all over the Islamic world. don’t take my word for it , look it up! Antisemitism historically was never a problem of the Islamic world where Jews lived peacefully. Let’s look at 2 Jewish sources on this , 1: Let’s see what a Jewish Historian says about this, «Jews under medieval Islam never suffered from the same general negative perception as in the Christian West. Despite regional variations and high medieval political instability, in medieval Islam multicultural environments, combined with active engagement in sciences and literature, led to something of an Islamic golden age for the Jews, at least according to most historical accounts. It has been primarily in the context of recent political developments that the once assumed positive views of Jewish life under medieval Islam have been seriously questioned.» Source : Dean Phillip Bell, Jews in the Early Modern World. New York, 2008, p. 25. 2: the Jewish magazine, the Jewish chronicles say the following: «Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth…Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Jews lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier of Iran and beyond. Almost all the Jews in the world were now ruled by Islam. This new situation transformed Jewish existence. Their fortunes changed in legal, demographic, social, religious, political, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural terms - all for the better…»
Who resettled Jews in Palestine after their long exile since Roman times ? The Muslims did ! Go look this up! The second Khalif of Islam Umaar Ibn Al-Khattab resettled Jews back in Palestine in the 7th century. Umaar brought Jews from Medina, and resettled them in Jerusalem. The Jews had been kicked out by the Romans. Those Jews have nothing to do with the modern Jews of Poland , Hungary and Russia who are not from the Middle East, they’re Europeans.
No they werent, actual historians and actual jews who still live in muslim countries such as in yemen, iraq, syria, Lebanon and morocco would suggest otherwise
Israeli Historians like Avi Shlaim , himself a middle eastern jew has documented the history of middle Eastern Jews and the assertions in your comment are not historically accurate ! About middle Eastern Jews : «Invention of the Mizrahim: Israel invented the word Mizrahim to strip Arab Jews of their histories as they tried to do with Palestinians. The State of Israel was conceived at the turn of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by a group of elite European Jews who launched a movement called Zionism that sought to establish a physical nation state exclusive to Jews. It was a typical settler colonial enterprise, complete with the narrative of a divine mandate and a non-existent or savage indigenous population, central to which was the myth that Jews of the world formed a singular people, favored by God, who were returning to their singular place of origin - Palestine - after a three thousand year absence. Although it was a project conceived in Europe by Europeans and for European Jews, they lacked sufficient numbers to build a population large enough to conquer the indigenous Palestinian population. Thus, recruitment of Jews from the surrounding Arab world was a necessary inconvenience. They did so through propaganda and by creating false flag terror incidents (bombing of synagogues or Jewish centres) in order provoke an exodus of Arab Jews. A prime example of this happened in Iraq, where the oldest Jewish community in the world had lived for millennia as contributing members of Iraqi society, and who prospered, contributed to the arts and the economy, and participated in government. But these Jews were not embraced as brethren by European Zionists. Zionism was decidedly colonial, and that meant that Jews of the Arab world were seen as incomplete, barbaric, dirty, uncivilised. Za’ev Jabotinsky, one of the forefathers of Zionism said, “We Jews have nothing in common with what is called the Orient, thank God. To the extent that our uneducated masses [Arab Jews] have ancient spiritual traditions and laws that call the Orient, they must be weaned away from them, and this is in fact what we are doing in every decent school, what life itself is doing with great success. We are going in Palestine, first for our national convenience, [second] to sweep out thoroughly all traces of the Oriental soul.” A multitude of programs and protocols were implemented towards this goal. One of the most egregious was a large initiative of stealing the babies of Arab Jews and giving them to be raised by European Jews. But the larger efforts were simple propaganda campaigns that were implemented in schools, communities, and national projects. In essence, it was a project to strip ancient peoples of their identities, which was not unlike what they tried to do to Palestinians. Zionists were trying to create a new nation with a unified people. So, they could not abide allowing parts of this population to continue to identify as Iraqi, Moroccan, Persian, Tunisian, and so on, and certainly not as Arab Jews. At the same time, the racist impulses of colonialism could not abide putting these people on par with Jews of Europe. They could not simply be Jews in the new Jewish state. Thus, the word Mizrahim, from the Hebrew and Arabic words meaning “those of the East,” was popularised to lump all of these peoples of different nations into a single miscellaneous category that erased their individual ancient histories and cultures that spanned thousands of years of life and tradition, replete with countless and invaluable achievements in their respective nations. Before Israel, Jews of Iraq identified as Iraqi, of Morocco as Moroccan, of Tunisia as Tunisian, of Iran as Persian, of Syria as Syrian, of Egypt as Egyptian, and of Palestine as Palestinian. They spoke Arabic, ate the same foods as their Christian and Muslim compatriots, celebrated and partook in the same national events and traditions, lived by the same social protocols, and moved through their respective cultures as other natives did. And despite the similarities of their cultures, Tunisians were distinct from Egyptians, who were both distinct from Iraqis, who were distinct from Moroccans, etc. But Israel collapsed them all under a single identity, which was to be distinguished only from Ashkenazis, European Jews, who were higher up on the social order, and, of course, from non-Jewish Palestinians and Arabs, who were to be despised. The level of their resulting self-hate can be measured in the heightened cruelty they practise against Palestinians. However, as Zionists would learn from Palestinians, erasing the identity of others is not an easy task. Memory is stubborn, and roots will continue to tug at humans long after they’ve been uprooted. Arab Jews continued to speak Arabic at home, to dance to Arabic music, eat Arab food, and dream of once again seeing the mountains, rivers, architecture, libraries, and colours of Persia, Babylon, North Africa and the Levant. Israel has moved away slightly from early Zionism’s contempt for our part of the world. And while it remains a colonial project, bent on erasing the native Palestinian presence, their social efforts are more focused on “indigenising” themselves to the land. The obstinacy of Arab Jews in clinging to their cultural roots has provided a convenient avenue to lay claim to regional indigenous culture. So now, Arab foods (like falafel, hummus, shakshouka), traditional Arab clothing (like tatreez, galabiyas, keffiyehs), and Arab folkloric dances are all being rebranded as “Israeli,” yet another phase of colonial renaming, and they use the rebranded Arab Jews to justify their claim.» An article by Susan Abulhawa
Let’s see what your own Je..wish sources say about this : the Je..wish magazine, the Je..wish chronicles say the following: «Islam saved Je..wry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth…Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Je..ws lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier of Iran and beyond. Almost all the Je..ws in the world were now ruled by Islam. This new situation transformed Je..wish existence. Their fortunes changed in legal, demographic, social, religious, political, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural terms - all for the better…»
A very very important point to make is: the philistins mentioned in the video and the palestinians of today have nothing to do with each other, they are completely different groups.
One could equally say the Judeans and the Z*onists of today have nothing to do with each other. They are two different groups. In fact, the Palestinians genetically have more in common with the Levant's original residents that most Is*aelis. Is*ael refrains from doing genetic testing like 23andMe to prove otherwise for that reason.
Yes, it was quite wrong for him to say that the non-Jews in Israel primarily originated from the Bronze Age people of that region. Not true at all! As rather they're more recent immigrants / colonizers.
as well as the isreali kingdom that existed in 1050 bc isn't the same as israel of today in which it's populations are mainly comes from the other side of the world prior to ottoman losing ww1 and the rise of antisemitism in europe.
But let me tell you something for sure. Modern jews have a very strong blood connection with the jews in the ancient jewish kingdom, and blood tests prove that.@@muhammadfarid8740
The Romans changed the region name to Palastine in order to seperate the Jew's connection to the land. You didn't mention why that did that. You also missed when then Islamist arabs invaded them, driving out the local population and colonizing it themselves. 10:00 You forgot to mention it being in retaliation of hundreds of years of muslim wars and aggression. This video seems to be coming at it from a biased angle with what it being left out.
Regardless of your point. The indigenous people who called themselves Palestinian were expelled from their land to make way for foreigners. I say the indigenous people the Palestinians have more Jew DNA in them than the foreigners. Stop defending the indefensible.
@@Spk-r6x umm kinda wrong dna does not equal ingenious and jew were living in palestine and when arab nation kicks out jews from their nation(because of a jewish nation) most of the jew are mizrachi jew and are arab in israel so wrong and muslim treat the jew kinda like chrsitains and those arab are the palestinians. their not foreigner your family of jew dont need to live in palesine your jewish because your mom is. what do you mean by foreigner
@@godhelp7535History sides with no-one. Both parties of this conflict have committed atrocities and portraying either side as righteous is absolutely wrong.
1. No they didn’t. The name Palestine finds its earliest uses in the roughly translated Egyptian “Peleset” and Assyrian “Palashtu” in referring to the region, as well as the Biblical Philistines. In the Torah, the area of Palestine was never given clearly defined boundaries, but was just said as having been in conflict with the Kingdom of Israel. The Greeks used the term Palestine as early as the 5th Century, and Romans renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina as it was part of larger Syria. It is unknown if this happened before the Bar Kokhba revolt or after. It is inaccurate to say that the name Palestine was exclusively used to pave over Israel and erase Israel’s Jewish roots. 2. When? I’d love to know exactly what colonization or conquest you’re talking about. Was this before or after the Jewish diaspora into the wider European continent after the Bar Kokhba revolt? 3. Muslim wars and aggression? It’s hard to say that this “aggression” is unique to the Muslim nations of the time. Compared to their European counterparts, the Muslim nations were actually considered more peaceful and accepting of different faiths during the Middle Ages. As well as being a hub for growing scientific and mathematical knowledge, Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike were allowed to life their lives practicing their own religion. So painting Muslim nations with such a broad brush just comes off as Xenophobic. What about the aggressive and warmongering Italian states, constantly embroiled in their own civil wars? And their aggressive colonization of the Mediterranean? Wouldn’t that perhaps make Muslim states nervous for a European Catholic invasion? Or maybe you can’t paint states full of “people I don’t like” as violent and destructive without proof.
I'd give this history a "Mostly Accurate but cherry picked" for example Liberia was built by former slaves who wanted to leave the US and Americas one of the concepts founders being Fredrick Douglass
Or at 27:00 where instead of saying that the arab states ethnically cleansed the jews living there, he states that israel "convinced" them to move......
@@enjoyingend1939 Well Israel did support immigration from these areas, It just should have also emphasized that many where pressured by the ruling population and government to leave either by economic pressure or violence.
@@generalamsel437 The problem is that the campaigns of ethnic cleansing by those arab states which now have almost single digit jewish populations was entirely omitted. He only mentions the part that doesn't make the arab cause look bad, and that isn't the only time he does that in the video either.
@@enjoyingend1939 False flag attacks carried out by Israel in places like Iraq to get Jews to flee to Israel is also a factor I'm sure you don't mind being added to the discussion.
@@King_Gum i deal in facts, and the fact of the matter is, aside from the lavon affair there is little evidence to support any other israeli "false flag" operation, the iraqi bombings as i believe you're referring to are to this day an unresolved issue with no clear motives. It's all allegations to this day and i don't pick sides in a she said/ he said situation.
26:48 this is by far the stupidest thing I've seen, they weren't "Convinced" they were kicked out, expelled, forced out, robbed, and often times persecuated by those arab nations in the name of palestine and they were forced to leave to israel
I’m not trying to be obtuse, but it is worth noting that most Jews from Arab countries were expelled from their nations after Israel’s creation - they didn’t go to Israel of their own accord
They were offered incentives by Israel to move there. Many did so willingly. There were also persecutions as well as Arabs wanted to unfortunately exact revenge for Palestinians in an unfair way. Many Arabs governments also rightly feared that Israel would use their Jewish populations against them to influence foreign policy and pressure their government just like Jews do in the US still today
There are so many holes in your story, i just dont know where to begin. Youd think that in the age of information, you would have at least come across the numerous sources of information that is available in relation to this most covered of conflicts. You are either totally naive and captured by the usual insidious palestine propaganda, or you are pretending to be impartial, because you have done nothing but regurgitate countless lies, disinformation and propaganda. I used to be pro palestine my whole life because i too swallowed the usual propaganda, cleverly crafted by the most sophisticated of propaganda masters on the so called palestinin side, to appeal to all the usual cues of people in the west. But it was only with the advent of the internet, that i was finally able to deep dive and check out all sides with an honest desire to get to the truth, and I like many others who have also done this deep dive, have come to the only sensible conclusion, which is that we been duped big time by the so called palestine cause, which is nothing short of the most disingenuous cause ever to have existed possibly in the history of humanity. I dont have time to go into all the countless points of history that this video has either missed or deliberately failed to include, but anyone who is genuinely interested in getting closer to the truth, I would recommend a youtuber called Destiny, who recently took an honest and public deep dive from a totally neutral perspective, and shared his findings with his audience. Its not perfect, but at least he was thorough and honest and done in genuine good faith and anyone who is genuinely interested in the truth, should start there and examine what he has found, research it further yourself, and check his conclusions to see if it holds up to the light of day.
@@lexaron ah,no . jews and christians werent banished from the muslim world in general till tanzimat. after tanzimat any minority that demanded equal rights to muslims(and even muslims who are non arabs or quiet minorities) were persecuted and killed in huge numbers by the islamists or pan arabs. we got off easily compared to the yazidis and assyriacs.
@@lexaron ah ,no .arabs barely have banished christians and jews prior to tanzimat. after tanzimat when ethnic and religious minorities started to demand equal right-thats when the pan arab and islamist carnage started. we came off easily compared to the assyriacs,yazidis and kurds.
27:01 I'm a descendant of Iraqi Jews and so I can tell you without a doubt it wasn't Israeli encouragement that convinced my grandparents to flee Iraq. It was the governing powers within Iraq persecuting jews with most of their life long friends and neighbors turning on them as well (partially as a result of pan-arabism which I noticed was completely neglected to be mentioned in the video). I disagree with the statement that Israel is a colonial state, but even if you view it's foundation as such you'd have to agree it had become a refuge for persecuted Jews worldwide.
Mossad agents dressed up as Arabs and Muslims and carried out and heinous crimes against Jews in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Assyria, "Israel" and even their allies UK/USA. The term Islamic terrorism was created by those attack. The reasons being for cheap Jewish labour for the ruling class that is Ashkenazi Jews and the false urgency to build a Jewish Utopia. There are official evidences as well as many whistle blower accounts that lead to arrests and resignations.
exactly. so much disinformation and ommission. first,huge poortion of mizrahi jews aint even from the arab world(my mom's family are from the assyriac jewish diaspora). assyria/kurdistan,india,caucasus,central asia,turkey,iran.and we "lost our arab heritage"? not every middle eastern is arab. he doesnt mention the fact the jewish "colonialism" in israel was jews buying land from the registered owner(as per the ottoman land registry) and many cities like tel aviv and west jerusalem being built before 1917. he doesnt mention that mizrahi jews wanted to move before 1948 and that by 1948 they constituted sixth of the population (and tel aviv first neighbourhoods were created by sephardi and yemenite jews). we would have moved there first if we weren't held as dhimmis till 19th century. he doesnt mention the 1910 shiraz blood libel,1903-1912 morrocan + 1921 nabi mosa +1929 hebron and safed +1938 tiberias +1941 baghdad farhud + 1945 tripoli and egypt's + 1947 eden and aleppo pogroms. he doesnt mention the racist legislation in egypt and baghdad. he doesnt mention the mass massacres against ethnic and religious minorities by pan arabs and islamists since tanzimat. "we were just invited to come to israel"(yeah and we left all our wealth behind giving up on our former citizenships to live in tents in maabarot). he says israel has got aid and weapons from the us after 1948 . no it didnt. we got aid from the american jewish community while the american gov put embargo on us,no major aid till 1967.
Ok but that’s literally the definition of colonial state. It was colonized…. I understand from your perspective arguing that to be a good thing, but to argue against actual reality seems a bit silly.
@@grayishcolors good or not good. muslims(And few non muslims) from all over the ottoman empire moved here, not all were even arabs....circassians of kafr kama and rihania,bosniaks of keisaria,turkmen of abu zurayk and hirbat turkmen,afro arabs from sudan,egyptians from masrawa(biggest muslim clan in israel) and al masri clans,north africans in kafr sabt,bedouins speaking hijazi arabic to this day...they didnt pay anything,just took the land by force or were given it by the ottomans for their services.all while jews were held as dhimmis and barred from moving to their ancestors lands. how does jews purchasing land from the registered owners(in the ottoman land registry which continued into british era) is more of colonialism or less moral? now a jew buying land in the middle east is "colonialism"?
@@grayishcolors no, that is the definition of a refuge: _a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble._ The Google definition to colonies is: _a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country._ however the difference here being that Israel is its own country not governed by a foreign rule. (Unless you count US interventionalism and then you might as well count the rest of the world including Europe as colonies.) that also brings into question plenty of Arabs of originated from other countries and migrated to mandatory Palestine.(Not that there is anything wrong with that, but most Muslims living in the North are more culturally aligned with Syria, Muslims within Gaza are more culturally aligned with Egypt, and Muslims living in the West Bank or Judea and Samaria as some prefer had Jordanian citizenship before the agreements between the PLO and Israel, after which they had those revoked) And of course finally most Jews would argue the entirety of their culture was born and based around the country, if we skim over the Bible we know of the early existence of at the very least two Jewish kingdoms in the area, not to mention DNA tests also confirm a middle eastern origin in Jewish DNA. Personally I don't much care for the last explanation, I just want to live in a country where my well-being and the well-being of my family are truly guaranteed to be protected and not persecuted by the government. And the rest of the world hadn't really given me a true guarantee.
While I don’t have the exact stats, today about 80% of Israeli Jews were born in Israel, 14% are immigrants from Europe and the Americas, and the last 6% are from Asia and Africa. This is according to Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Considering that the majority of Israeli settlers were originally European Jews and American Jews, majority Orthodox in the first and second waves of settlement, its probably not accurate to describe Arabic and North African Jews to be the majority of Israeli Jews.
@@AshleyBreads Im Israeli and I can tell you that Mizrahi jews (Arabic and North African jews) are definitely the majority here. Ashkenazi jews are almost considered a minority by this point.
@@AshleyBreads What you're assuming incorrectly is that the majority of Israeli Jews who were born in Israel are descended from the European and American Jews who came prior to 1948. In 1948, the population of Israeli Jews (made overwhelmingly of European and American Jews) was 600,000 and between 1948-1957, roughly 500,000 Jews from the Middle East and North Africa immigrated to Israel, meaning that by 1957, the country's Jewish population was roughly evenly split between people from European/American ancestry and people from MENA. The Jews from MENA had somewhat higher birth rates and so they became the majority of the Jewish population in Israel, at least until Soviet Jewish migration in the 1990s. If we compare Jews with origins from Europe/America and Jews with origins from MENA, there are still more Jews with origins from MENA but not a majority since there is a significant percentage of Israeli Jews with mixed heritage now.
@@oremfrien Neat, I’d love to see where you got those statistics from, by the way. Doesn’t change the fact that the Zionist movement was inspired by European colonialism, was headed by European Jews, and was largely encouraged by European governments. And the first waves of people to arrive were largely European and American Jews, ingrained with a “Manifest Destiny” mindset nearly identical to those of American settlers and British colonists. Take the United States for example: While the demographics of the United States are quite diverse, containing large populations of White, Black, Latiné, Asian, Middle Eastern, Slavic, etc. etc. it is undeniable that the United States was founded by White European men, with the interests of keeping White men at the top of the social ladder. The same is true of Israel. While it now contains a multitude of people of different ethnicities and colors, it was created with the interests of European Jews in mind. (South Africa is also a good example, having a black majority population but having apartheid laws that propped up a white minority, so just having a diversity of population does not necessarily make a nation any less systematically racist or oppressive.) There’s also a storied history of “Ashkenaziation” in which Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jews have become almost a standard for Jewish-ness within Israel itself, with Mizrahi (Arab and North African) Jews and Ethiopian Jews encouraged to integrate into Ashkenazi culture and leave their own cultural customs behind. I believe it’s even addressed in the video itself. It’s not about how many people there are, it’s about the dominant culture and the systems built around that culture.
Thank you so much for creating this. I generally have a good grasp on the history around topics like this, but you have unearthed so much more detail that I was totally unaware of. Please keep up all your efforts in everything - one of if not the best video you have ever created. Thanks again.
You know what would be really cool? You did a video on the history of Lord of The Rings- maybe do one about the history of A Song Of Ice And Fire- like the Targaryen dynasty
I noticed there is no mention of the leader of the Arabs in Palestine; Amin Al Husseini, who was an actual Nazi who was prosecuted by the Allies post-war for collaborating with Hitler, notwithstanding conveniently leaving that part out; the creator also left out the extensive persecution of Jews in arab nations before the founding of the state of Israel (eg. The Farhud, lack of property rights and pogroms in North Africa); the fact the Arabs rejected every single 2 state solution offered to them including the peel Commission and the UN resolution, and they seem to have completely fabricated the United states arming Israel in the 1940s when in reality whilst they recognized Israel straight away they held an arms embargo against both sides for the duration of the conflict. It is important to note the British actually supported the Arab armies far more in the 1948 war with British officers directing some of the more elite Jordanian army units so I'm not sure where the idea of Britain as their "overlord" comes from, furthermore, they reneged on the Balfour declaration by appointing to Husseini as the leader of Jerusalem AGAIN conveniently left out here. Not telling the whole truth is tantamount to lying when studying history. This man should really stick to drawing Pokemon tutorials
why would someone accept a deal that would displace millions of their people and give them the worse quality land whilst the colonisers/settlers would receive the rich and fertile lands?
@@tomgachagan1347 sorry but you're misinformed. The UN proposal for the foundation of the state of Israel did not call for the displacement of the Arabs living in mandatory Palestine nor did the Israeli Declaration of Independence, such guarantees are included in the declaration itself: " we call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institution" - from the Israeli declaration of independence written in 1948 by David Ben Gurion. Also, the land marked for a Jewish state in the partition plan consisted mostly of the Negev desert, which was largely uninhabited and unirrigated contrary to your aspersion of the lands being "rich and fertile", the Arab land contained all of the larger urban areas of the land as well as extensive arrable land. hope this helps
@@benjaminfleming1512 israeli settlers stole land of displaced palestinians after the war and they still cannot return. israeli settlers colonised the land
@@benjaminfleming1512 It was quite reasonable for the palestnians to reject the un partition plan. Nobody would ever give up any percentage of their home to new immigrants. If it was the other way aroud im sure the jews would have done the same.
It was mostly peaceful. Not devoid of violence, in the same way as the civil rights protests in Northern Ireland were mostly peaceful. I know I simplify history, but be careful you don’t simplify it too much either way.
it was majorly non violent all the violence which was committed was initiated by Israel and all those bombings came as response read about the intifada even U.N agrees it started out as a non violent protest which was turned violent by I.D.F
@@striker7625 the UN has a majority for anti-west dictatorships, that's why every year 50% of all condemnations are on Israel, it's completely biased political source. In reality you had lynches of civilians, suicide bombings, stabbing and mass shootings of civilians and policemen, hundreds of violent riots with explosives and rocks thrown... every intifada was a period where jews knew not to go near a palestinian village because those who accidentally did- appeared on the news that night, in a hospital or a coffin. On what ground do you say it was "mostly peaceful"? That's like saying the kristalnacht or the Farhud were mostly peaceful (well, since the majority of the rioters didn't get the chance to kill or burn anything they didn't do any violence, only a few!). Such BS apologism for terrorism.
2:47 I've just started watching this video, I had to pause it to say thanks for the mention, Mr Ruddy. I'm sure your special take on history will do this conflict justice, and thanks for making content like this free to watch. With support from New Zealand 🇳🇿. 29/8/24 edit: well, I just heard the news about the west bank attack... the white kite metaphor is only getting more real 😔
its very special because "its unique" in the amount of crucial information it ommits. . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians... saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
18:01: in what universe was the Ottoman Empire secular? It was literally ruled by an Islamic caliphate. The country we know as Turkey didn't become secular until Ataturk became president in 1923, which was after the fall of the Ottoman Empire
Some of the "facts" on this video were wrong, for example that Israel led by European Jews convinced Jews from Arab countries to join, when the actual truth is that Arab countries kicked out and hurt their Jews. Also he is adding his own thoughts about Israelis destroying Gaza for example for "living space" (which is a reference for Nazi terminology). Have you looked at Gaza in Google maps? It's tiny. We don't care about it and as he said correctly, religiously and spiritually we don't care too much about this area. he is bias and not really hiding it too much.. you can talk about the tragedy of the people of Gaza how much you want, but the truth needs to be said- they are extreme Islamic jihadist population who teaches their children from day 1 that they should become a terrorist and anyone, especially a Jew, who don't follow Islam should die. They are Nazis and I'm talking about actual nazi books translated into Arabic found in Gaza at large numbers, this is an evil society and no nation would just live with that situation after that massacre they did to us and after all those years of terror attacks, there is simply no one sane leader we can make peace with unfortunately.@@Pangloss6413
Okay here @32:00 you simply skipped the part where Lebanon had become a base for the PLO (after being removed by the Jordanians who had claimed this territory through war)which in its charter stated publicly it's goal was to claim the newly created concept of Palestine from the river to the Sea the river being the Jordan River meaning to claim back the territory conquered by Jordan and to qoute "from the river to the sea and tofind every Jew hiding behind a rock tree or in a cave and Mohammed get the Jew hiding behind me" to give the full and accurate direct quoted declaration
But invasion was still probably not the best option. The U.S invasion of Afghanistan was under similar pretenses, but it still led to widespread chaos and civilian death. And as said within the video, the PLO’s radical and antisemitic edge would mellow out, seeking peace rather than conquest. Not every small detail can be addressed all in one video, unfortunately.
@@AshleyBreadsPLO didn t ever wanted any peace! They ended 1st intifada and signed that damned agreements only because they lost all their sponsors and allies at once. USSR and eastern block after the fall of communism in 1989 and, Saddam s Iraq and also arab gulf states after the PLO had to support invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Together with Kaddafi s Libya or Bashir s Sudan. Arafat never had to stop support and organize terror onto Israel citizens. He created so called ,,martyr fund" for the famillies of sucide boombers or for prisoners im West Bank. Mostly from ,,Al Aqsa brigade of martyrs".
@@BEEFYP.I.M.P.Think: What exactly would have provoked Hamas (who, again, are not representative of the entire Palestinian population or Palestinian political environment) to commit an atrocity on the level of October 7th? It’s not a defense, but when you take into account the cruelties committed against Palestinians by the Israeli Government, it becomes harder and harder to say that October 7th was completely without cause or without precedent. Hell, the Israeli Government was aware that October 7th was going to happen, but dismissed the reports. Nobody is entirely without blame here, but Israelis definitely deserve blame more than others considering they are attempting a literal genocide right now.
I think you exaggerate American aid. Israel's weapons in 1948 war was mostly funded by Czechoslovakia (encouraged by USSR), not the USA. At that time USSR wanted to get a socialist foothold in the Middle East. Israel was quiet socialist in the 40s. During 6 Day War, US didn't provide aid to Israel. Most Israeli weapons were bought from France and Britain before. Israel's Iron Dome is Israeli design. Rafael, the company that developed the system, have factories in USA. Sure US did paid some of those systems for IDF. But at the end, it is an Israeli weapon
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan If the US just decided to take a hands-off approach to Israel, then sure, Israel would be fine. US support for Israel were not really significant, until after the Six Day War Israel is much stronger than it was founded, and has one of the world's best domestic arms industries in the world. They are second Biggest Arms supplier of India and Vietnam. Most of the US' foreign aid to Israel is 3.8 billions military aid, which is like 16% of the aid, and Israel's defence industry already exports hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms every year. They don't rely on foreign military aid to defend themselves. As the matter of fact, without aid, Israel's military industry might be forced to grow, which benefits their home industry in long term, but bad for US arms industry Also US "aid" to Israel isn't even all that high in comparison to what the USA spends on its other allies. The USA spends 10s of billions on putting a military presence in it's foreign allies. The main difference with Israel is that Israel is risking its own troops. The USA spends far more on their presence in South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Iraq, etc... no one mentions that. The Israeli Military Industry is also part of the reason that even if the US stops actively supporting Israel, they probably won't actually turn against Israel. If Israel were backed into the corner and the US started being an enemy, instead of an ally, the Israelis develop some of the world's most advanced military technology, and could use that as leverage to get a different foreign backer. Russia is active in the Middle East, and would kill to get their hands on Israeli military tech. China would be another option, although, given the neighbourhood, India would be an interesting option. If Russia or China or India collaborated with Israel, things would actually look bad for the United States. Also, US aid is not exactly a 1 way street. US benefit a lot by funding Israeli military. It can access to Israel's military technology and prohibit them from selling those to American opponents (like China). In general, Israel has benefitted from US assistance for a long time, but they don't need that aid to survive. Many Arabs thought they could wipe out Israel in the cradle in 1948, but they failed. If Israel could survive back then with US arms embargo (yes, US embargoed selling weapons to both sides of the conflict), it could totally survive nowadays.
29:20 "The UN called for" the UN is a political organization, not a legal organization. They did not even mention Palestinians at all in that resolution. The wording of that resolution was sent back 3 times before it was finally approved.
@@Pangloss6413 No, Interpol is Not a division of the UN. They are a Permanent Observer of the UN since 1996. Interpol was established in 1923, the UN in 1941, and became more active after WW2.
5:47 Just a quick correction, the Roman did call this place "Provincia Iudaea", the "province of Judea" for a while, it was only after the great Bar Kokhba Jewish revolt in 135 that as part of the punishment the official name changed to "Provincia Palaestina”.
@@michaellynes3540 sure you do. you even have thr right to hear it without all the facts the video creator ommitted . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians... saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
John, I can understand the trepidation you had over posting this. It's about to be your most watched video ever. I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to create and publish this video. It's important. You're exasperated reasoning at the end really resonated with me deeply. I hope someone learns this lesson.
14:55 , The region of Palestine referenced in 1890 report includes, The provinces of Jerusalem, Nablus, Acre, Beirut (part of it including the city), and Damascus (part of it including the city). Thus the comparison with what is known today as Palestine is of little use. What it does tell us, is that even though the area referenced to shrinks (British mandate of Palestine only included Israel and Jordan), the Muslim population grows at what seems to be normal rates for the area. Since the people here did not have wayy more children than anywhere else it points to migration within the area. Specifically migration into the west side of the Jordanian river, is because of the economic prosperity the region has witnessed, mainly because of the Jewish settlements. Before you call me racist, it is proven that there have been migrations from the surrounding areas to the mandate. It is also proven that the Jewish settlements, thanks to the highly educated workers and skilled labourers have become the most advanced and prosperous cities in the region thus attracting the immigrants. It were also these technological advancements that allowed the population explosion you see demographically.
I like how he goes into detail about Jewish persecution and expulsion in Europe, but glosses over Jewish persecution and expulsion from Arabic empires and Arab states in the 1960s, saying that Israel "recommended" they move.
14:33 that is wrong, the most early 25k Jews who came back were the Jews from the ottoman empire during the years of 1500 and 1900 not to be confused with the first aliya that were mainly Russians who ran away from the pogroms and find themselves with this idea of coming back to their ancient homeland
@@jaredbrooks9717there is a huge difference between a prisoner that was arrested for attempted murder, and a HOSTAGE that was taken for the crime of being an Israeli civilian. Stop spreading lies
@@abenalif2147 so when the IDF or police arrest people after ramming their cars into bus stops, or after successful stabbings, or after opening fire in crowded civilian locations... Those arrested individuals are "political prisoners"???
Saying that Israel just decided to invade Lebanon without mentioning that there was rocket attacks from The invasion followed a series of attacks by PLO from Lebanon prior to the invasion is just spreading lies. Also, you "forgot" to mention that PLO actions were one of the key factors in the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War
Best illustration for the real situation can be seen clearly even in this, palestinian biased video. In 25:10 author claims that arab majority got only 1/3 of the land and in 25:45 we see how all other surrounding territories are already arab countries populated by arabs and how jews agreed on getting a super-tiny area that immidiately attacked by arabs. I truly hope that without Hamas, some day palestinians will stop playing "or us or they" game and leave a chance to a peaceful coexistence.
But suggesting all Arabs are just the exact same is disingenuous in itself. That’d be like kicking Polish people off their land and saying “yea, sure you can go to Russia or Ukraine or somewhere! You’re all Slavs!”
Thank you for providing a great example of national uniqueness. As someone who is half Russian (Slavic) and half Jewish (Semitic), I am neither Polish nor Arab. However, due to my love of history, I can name many events that happened to the Polish people since medieval times. Unfortunately, it is impossible to identify any historical events specific to the modern Palestinians (not Arabs) before the partition plan was discussed. Perhaps I am wrong, and you can easily provide at least one historical event unique to the Palestinian arabs who lived within the current borders of Palestinian land that distinguished them from their neighbors, such as those in present-day Jordan? My advice for you is to start creating a video on this issue. Conduct your own research, and you will see by yourself that there wasn't any ethnic difference among Middle Eastern Arabs.
23:43 why did you show Ukraine there out of all the places, not France, Hungry or Romania, which all kept much greater degrees of autonomy compared to Ukraine? I thought this wouldn’t be “Anti imperialist” contrarianism but alas I am wrong
To be clear I'm also for a ceasefire and two state solution, I despise Netanyahu (and Hamas) and the settlers in the west bank and unnecessary destruction of Gaza. But while I love your videos, this one is clearly biased - perhaps not factualy, but your description of events emphasising every Israeli transgression and basically glossing over everything palestinians (and other arab states) did both politically and militarily seems very disingenuous. For example the armed uprisings - borderline civil wars - started by PLO in both Jordan and Lebanon were also fueled by racism and hatred? You barely mentioned such events (even giving Israel a smiley face as one happened) and Palestine is an entire half of this conflict and deserve more coverage. Another example is the rule of Hamas in Gaza.
He also calls much of the migration from Arab countries to be encouraged by Israel but he does not mention both Arab pan nationalism or that many programs against Jews that lived in arab countries were a major reason for Jews migrating to Israel.
@@the7screw▪︎Actually the Arab League sent notice to the Arab and Muslim countries of the Middle East to consider the Jews living in these countries as Israeli citizens, ▪︎their citizenship was revoked, ▪︎their bank accounts were frozen, ▪︎their businesses were boycotted, ▪︎they were fired from any government jobs and teaching positions, ▪︎their men and women arrested as Israeli spies. ▪︎They fled those countries with only the clothes on their backs to live in Displaced persons camps in Israel in canvas tents and metal shacks with no running water or heat for up to three years. The new country of Israel had no infustructure in place for these refugees, but didn't turn even one away. They learned Hebrew, received schooling, lessons in new employment, some joined the New IDF. There was 850,000 Jews forced from these Arab and Muslim countries. They are today owed over $160 billion dollars in property and land stolen from them with more than 4 times the landmass of Israel.
Very true throughout the whole video. He was also just wrong when he glossed over the Camp David Summit of 2000. Palestinian negotiators wanted Israel to agree to the Right of Return in principle and from there negotiated a specific number of Palestinians who would be allowed to return keeping Israel demographics in mind, which Israel agreed to but they never agreed on a specific number. The actual deal breaker was over the temple mount. Israel offered either joint control or offered de facto control to Palestine while still technically owning it, which Arafat rejected with no counter offer and he instead helped initiate the violent second intifada.
@@8is he also "forgot" to mentions pogroms by palestinian islamists against jews like 1886 attack on petach tikva,tel hai attack,1929 hebron and safed,1938 tiberias... all the pogroms against mizrahi jews from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogrosm to 1947 aleppo and aden pogroms...the mass massacres against ethnic and religious minorities in the middle east by pan arabs and islamists since tanzimat totalling in millions of violent deaths...
Yeah, I did also notice a lot of the wording in the video showing inherent bias here for Palestine and the glossing over of some important information definitely paints Israel in a far more negative light than Palestine.
The burden of being a history UA-camr when history is being loudly made. Good on you for making this and there are people trying hard to supress this history, glad to see you trying to keep it known.
aint telling half the story like this video did supression of history ? . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians... saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
Imagine thinking this is history content. Dude omitted so much history from the last 80 years because it didn't fit his narrative and tried to twist facts and thought people weren't gonna notice.
@@OdensRaven wdym there is no narrative from the other side lol there is but you just too focus on the Palestinian side because how you had the hatred to the Palestinian people lol
41:10 You're right! In my country, Vietnam, two Israelis accused a Vietnamese shop for being antisemitic, just because the owner had a Palestinian flag on his door.
It's funny, this video talks about the arab league conference and yet doesn't mention the most famous part of that summit: The Three No's. No Negotiation, No Recognition, No Peace with Israel.
Exactly. I'm still looking over all of the conflict but it seems to be a constant thing people are ignoring. No negotiation , no recognition and no peace.
I’m sorry but anyone who puts more stock into some stupid political statement from 50 years then the death and suffering of almost 2 million people now is a total and complete sociopath It would be like if a bunch of Germans decided they were justified to invade England in the 90s because Churchill said “we’ll fight em on the beaches”
Thank you John. It feels sometimes that there are some people who are not learning from the mistakes of the past, and are continuing to let dehumanisation take hold of their fears. We should all stand together, not tear each other apart. I seems to be the only way we can bring an end to this horror.
its hard to learn from the past when videos like that ommit crucial details of the story or make gross misrepresentations . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians... saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
@@kierano8390 Old pieces from the ww2. They were not from the US. The only countries that actually have to support Israel through the first war were Czechoslovakia, France and Nederland.
How do you define "massive"? from wikipedia: The corps consisted of ten obsolete Hotchkiss tanks from France, two Cromwell tanks stolen from the British Army, and a single Sherman tank stolen from the British Army. Later in the war, additional Sherman tanks were purchased from Italy @@kierano8390
I’m not really terribly concerned about going back to 1200 BC, I’m more concerned with the 20 years since Israel abandoned Gaza and the Palestinians have had a state which they turned into what people call an open air prison. Israel has tried over and over and over again to make peace with the Palestinians and the Palestinians just can never ever bring themselves to take the deal. I don’t care about the Palestinians anymore, they need to surrender and they need to made to make peace, or they need to be shoved into Jordan and Egypt and never let back in. Their entire national identity is tied up in oppression. Except they’re not oppressed anymore, they have had sovereignty well something close to sovereignty for nearly 20 years. The rest of the sovereignty that they don’t have, they don’t have because they can’t be trusted with it. They need to surrender utterly.
this is the exact same thing Americans who supported manifest destiny said in order to justify the near-complete genocide of the Indians, because “we signed treaties with them, gave them a chance for peace, but apparently these people are just so obtuse!” You have no legs to stand on even if you were correct because stupid high level political horseplay is secondary to the suffering of humanity, PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN IDEAS
That’s like if Hitler told all the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto that he “gave them a chance” and that THEY were the ones who turned it into a shithole, not Hitler, and then using that as an excuse to invade the ghetto
@@Pangloss6413 how silly to imagine that ideas compete with people. You may not like the genesis of either the United States or Israel, but they are both a force for good in the world today. You can’t go back and fix the past, it just can’t be done. The state of Israel exists, it’s never going anywhere, it’ll be here long after you and I are gone. If you have another, please explain how that gets flushed out if you would. Move into modernity, sir.
@@Pangloss6413nah they’re two completely different decisions. How America was created: 1) Settlers show up on land belonging to some native tribe 2) The native tribe attacks the settlers (in justified or unjustified ways) 3) The settlers fight back and use the conflict to take even more land 4) A treaty is made in which the settlers are only allowed to settle in certain areas 5) The settlers break the treaty, settling in territory they’re not allowed into, that belongs to a native tribe 6) Repeat steps 2-5 until you’re satisfied with the amount of land that you have 7) Send all the natives into reservations How Israel was created: 1) Jewish communities are peacefully established in land which historically belongs to the Jewish people 2) A bunch of Arab leaders begin inciting violence against the Jewish communities 3) The Arabs attack the Jewish communities, leading to multiple deaths 4) The Jews and the Arabs continue fighting each other 5) The two sides try to set up a peace treaty in which Jews and Arabs are allowed to continue existing 6) The Jews accept the treaty. The Arabs reject it and attempt to commit genocide against the Jews 7) The Jews do everything necessary to defend themselves, which doesn’t end well for the Arabs 8) More Jewish communities are set up 9) Repeat steps 2-8 10) The ending unfortunately hasn’t happened yet
Thank you for this very good historical summary of this conflict. I commend you for the effort. However, I have one criticism about your speech at the end of the video, and if anyone reads this and know more about this, then perhaps you can help me. The “Free Palestine” Movement wishes to achieve the complete removal of the state of Israel, yet you also seem to be in favour of (or at least open to) a two state solution. I would suggest this is quite contradictory. It seems to be very ironic that you say that “we keep falling for mistakes and being fed lies” and then you go ahead and support the aggression and support of terror, by showing support to this movement. I suppose this is not your intention, but I think we should be careful about acts like these. I am referring to around 50:00 in this video. Personally, I recognise the state of Israel and I do not believe that the UK was in the wrong to be in possession of the territory after the events of WW1. In my view, if you are going to call this colonisation, then it would be like calling the management of Germany after WW2, colonisation. And in this particular conflict, I also see the occupation of Gaza by Israel in itself as a self-defence act, and we must not forget that they are dealing with multiple terror groups, or at least one. Finally, I will add that I also condemn any unnecessary killing of innocent civilians on either side of this conflict, and I condemn Israel for the settlements in the West Bank and Gaza (Even though Israel have later pulled out of Gaza in terms of these settlements). Israel has seemingly been careless and brutal about the civilians in Gaza since October, and I think this should have consequences for them as well. I suggest we do not pick any sides in this conflict, but work for peace for all.
34:48 "intimidating Palestinians off their own land" Really? The British Land Survey of 1945 showed the Palestinian farmers only owned 3.3% of the land. The wealthy absentee Arab land holders (living in Damascus, Cairo, Aleppo and other cities) owned 16.5% of the land. The Jews owned 8.6% of the land. And, 70% of the land was State Land transferred from the Ottomans, to the British, and then to Israel. Israel was created by almost 80% of non-Arab owned lands!
Damn, you know, I wonder who was living on the State-Owned land and living on the absentee owned land. Was it possibly native Palestinians who worked and lived on that land? To use an example, U.S indigenous reservations are technically owned by the U.S, not individually by indigenous people. But most would still consider it indigenous land. During the colonization of America, indigenous people were forced off their land as well. But many indigenous tribes and cultures didn’t have a concept of land ownership. Even so, they were removed from land that they had lived, worked, and cultivated on for generations, so it’s pretty fair to say the U.S government forced them off their land. Why would Israel’s actions against Palestinians be any different?
Nope!! The British ahd the Ottomans kept very good records. There was some Bedouin tribes that used the deserts and other lands for grazing their herds. But there was not even a large population of anyone in the land. Today there are over 14 million people in the land, in 1860 there was 350,000 people and 30,000 were Jews. In the first British Mandate census of 1922 there were just 750,000 people. Most of those calling themselves as Palestinians are not even from Palestine. They are Arab Levantine migrants that came into the land as support personnel for the British, and because of the prosperity brought by the Jews reclaiming the land. Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis, Jordanians and Lebanese are not Palestinians!! The others are descendants of Muslimrefugees invited into the land by the Ottomans from Europe and Africa. Bosniaks, Circassians, Chechins, Turkemans and Sudanese are not Palestinians!!!
@@Pangloss6413 Who was forced out? When? Please explain? They left because the Arab leaders advised them to leave after the War in 1948 that 5 Arab armies started. Search, *_"How We Really Became Refugees, Palestinians tell their Personal Stories"_* and note, The Institute for Palestine Studies, an Arab organization based in Beirut stated, *68% of Arabs fled the land the land without seeing a Jewish man with a gun, or a soldier* So when were "Palestinians" forced from the land?
Israel has tried that numerous times with two state solutions but the palestinians think everything is their and act like spoiled brats when they don't get what their way.
@22:11 you're missing the whole part where Germany was joined by the Ottoman empire which was decolonized by the British empire with the agreement England would divide the Arabian peninsula for freeing it from the Ottomans and under the same agreement wrote the boundaries for virtually Every current country in the region including Jordan Lebanon Saudi Arabia and even Egypt coming into existence after being freed from the Ottoman Empire which again had allied itself from Germany during WW1 (pre Nazi)
And the Arab rebels were promised they'd get a unified state consisting of all the Ottomans' territories from Syria to Yemen, and instead they were carved up and turned into British and French colonies. They weren't "freed" from anything.
@@libertatemadvocatus1797, whether or not that's true (which I doubt), the fact is the Hashemites were promised a single state, and the Entente betrayed that promise in nearly every way imaginable.
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan It's a very poor historian who quarrels with facts because they flatter people he dislikes. You have made several questionable omissions in this video.
not so deep. talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians... saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
And yet he only presents about half the picture, mostly the pro-palestinian side. One thing i found particularly funny is at 27:00 where he says that israel convinced the jews living in the arab states to move to israel, while in reality it was ethnic cleansing by those states.
What those jews and others around the world have gone through is what Palestinians now are going through. You nitpick a part of history but neglect to acknowledge that israel became what it fought against in the first place
@@markoherceg3707 so jews before the holocaust committed atrocities against germans like 1929 hebron and safed massacre and 1938 massacre and held the germans as second class citizens like mizrahi jews were held as dhimmis(And before you say jews have taken lands from them-yes lands they have bought from registered owners in ottoman land registry which the brits kept. petach tikva,tel aviv and rishon letzion were even built during ottoman era)? the jews of germany supported racial or religious supremacy against germany(whne most of them were secular) like hamas (islamists) or PLO(pan arab) support?
Syria Palestina meant that Judea was annexed to the province of Syria. Later a Palestina province was carved out, but "Syria Palestina" was not a separate province next to Syria like the map suggests, that would have been silly
*_"Israel made its capital Jerusalem against UN Resolutions"_* UN resolutions are political opinions, Not laws. And, Jerusalem was not anyone else's land but Israels under the International Law of Uti Possidetis Juris. Israel's borders under Uti Possidetis Juris are the former borders of the Mandate of Palestine. It was Egypt and Jordan that took Israeli land (Gaza and the West Bank). According to the "Palestinians" themselves the West Bank and Gaza were NOT Palestinian sovereign land. This from the 1964 PLO Charter; *_"This Organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields."_*
Although UN resolutions are not laws, they hold immense diplomatic and moral authority. So even though one could definitely reject the UN’s statements, it comes at the cost of being alienated and also causing a delegitimization of International Cooperation. On Uti Possidetis Juris. The principle does indeed support the preservation of existing territorial boundaries upon state succession. However, the application of this principle to the specific case of Jerusalem's status and Israel's borders is complex and subject to interpretation, with many in the international community not recognizing that status for Jerusalem and also the reason why many in the international community do not recognize Israeli claims that the entirety of the lands of the former Mandate of Palestine belongs to them. However, this is subject to anyone’s specific interpretation of international law and also where they politically lean. The PLO did say they didn’t have any regional sovereignty over Gaza and West Bank as of 1964, that is true. However, this is because of the current political reality and historical context of the time which was, as you’ve shown in the quote, that the West Bank and Gaza were under the administration and control of Jordan and Egypt respectively. This is did not mean that the PLO relinquished the rest of its claim to the lands of the Mandate of Palestine under Israel. The possible historical reason for this is that the PLO didn’t want to alienate itself from its Arab allies (and perhaps wanted to conjoin its movement with the broader Arab Nationalist movement) and also wanted to be able to achieve a sovereign state within internationally recognized borders. Then, finally to note is that the PLO's stance evolved over time, particularly after the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel gained control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Subsequent to this conflict, the PLO expanded its territorial claims to encompass these territories and asserted its sovereignty over them in pursuit of Palestinian statehood.
Even if it wasn’t technically illegal, it’s still definitely not a good action. Not every legal action is moral, and not every illegal action is immoral. You’re confusing legality with morality here.
@@fives5555arcLook up Dr. Jacques Gauthier who wrote his doctorate on the status of Jerusalem. There are several videos and articles on him and his work. Please search, *_"Whose Land?"_*_ by UKLFI Charitable Trust_
There never was an independent, sovereign, nation called “Palestine.” Before the Babylonian Empire conquest, there were the ancient Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Prior to the Kingdom of Israel, there was the 12 Tribes of Israel. This land was home to the Israelite Jews, until it was conquered and renamed Syria Palestina in an attempt to disconnect the Hebrews from their ancient homeland (‘Palestina’ after the close enemy, the Philistines.) However, the Jews kept settling in “Palestine” after the conquering, until eventually shortly after the Holocaust when the British Empire’s occupation allowed the Jews to establish a nation in their indigenous homeland. There are claims that in 1948 (the establishment of the independent State of Israel), Israel stole and occupied “Palestine.” This means they occupied it from a country named Palestine. But there was no country. There was no military. Who was the president of Palestine before 1948? What was this country? There was none. (Also, there were no ‘Palestinians.’ This was the term used to describe the Jews and Arabs who settled in the British rule.) This was a British Mandate called Palestine (which the British Empire adopted the names from the Roman conquest of Judah) where, in fact, many Jews (and Arabs) settled there. In 1948, it wasn’t like a new, unheard of rule sprung up in the land. Rather, it was the rebirth of the Jewish people re-dedication their traditional homeland. There is no historical geographical region known as the "West Bank." The "West Bank" refers to the west bank of the Jordan River - a region historically known as the Israelite Judea & Samaria - which Jordan illegally occupied from 1949-1967 after its failed attempt to annihilate Israel in 1948. In fact, the Arabic word for Jew is Yahud, because Jews are the people of Yahuda (Judea), presently called Israel. Islam has no real connection to Jerusalem. There is no site in Jerusalem that is of importance to Islam except for the mosque compound built after the Islamic conquest. Not to mention that The Arabic word for Jerusalem, "Al-Quds," is derived from "Bayt al-Maqdis," which is the Arabic term for the ancient holy Jewish Temple, also known as the "Beit HaMikdash" in Hebrew. Even the Al-Aqsa mosque compound was built atop the ancient Temple. Ever wonder what that old wall by the Dome of the Rock is? It’s called the Western Wall (in Hebrew, Kotel), a remaining part of the Holy Temple which dates back to the 2nd Century BCE. Jerusalem is also home to the Mount of Olives, which has been used as Jewish cemetery for over 3000 years now, despite claims of “occupation.” Dig in the ground of the land, and you will find Hebrew artifacts, such as coins, emblems, etc. The Jewish people have an indigenous right to their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel and the holy city of Jerusalem.
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan Your complete inability to directly answer any of the (completely justifiable) criticisms of this one-sided, biased video speaks absolute volumes about the so-called "Palestinian cause"; and honestly makes me question the validity of the other politically charged videos you've spewed out onto this platform.
@benjaminfleming1512 I agree. I was a big fan of his work but unfortunately for a historian he let's his own biases/opinions shine into his work. Thia would otherwise be fine if not for the fact the video is framed as if he was neutrally stating facts, which isn't the case. Valid criticism of aspects of the video from his own fans is met with dismissive comments
The Spanish Inquisition was not to convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity. It was to inquire if those who claimed to convert to Christianity were truly converted or if they were heretics.(It only affected Christians, not practicing Muslims or Jews or of any other faith.) This is a big mistake on the videos behalf.
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManhmm before occupation they where radicalised just look at their attacks on Jewish settlements before 1948 and d expulsion of Jews from places like Hebron in the 30s, they still performed terrorist actions against the Jews when the west bank amd Gaza where under Jordanian and Egyptian control yet they didn't complain about that because the person occupying them was their fellow Arab brothers
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMana lifetime of terror attacks, rejected peace deals, expulsions, incitement to genocide, relentless demonisation by outsiders, all following 2000 years of oppression, will also do that to you
Sorry Manny but the US did not arm or fund Israel at all until after the six day war. In fact there was a strict arms embargo on Israel during the 1948 war. This should be corrected.
Til 1917, as dhimmis, Jews were not allowed to own land in Israel. It was extremely hard for Jews to live in their own land. The Arab revolt started in 1917 when the Sharia law was replaced by British law, making everyone equal. For that reason, the Arabs started attacking Jews in 1917 and to this day. The perfidy of the British in carrying the Mandate by restricting Jewish immigration and turning a blind eye to Arab illegal immigration from neighboring countries (over 500,000 Arabs came between 1917 til 1948, that is why the UNRWA defines a Palestinian refugee as “a person living in Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and includes all his descendants"). John Glubb, a British general led the Jordanian troops in conquering East Jerusalem and blowing up 28 Jewish synagogues. All Arab land conquered was made Judrenrhein, both in the West Bank and Gaza, where Jews had lived from time immemorial. In 1948, those Palestinians who stayed in their homes became full citizens with full equal rights in Israel. The quantity of Jewish properties stolen by the Arabs far exceeds that of the Jews. The Jews have been faced with a genocidal enemy since 1917 and only after these days started developing a military defensive organization to defend themselves.
And people have claimed that I’ve ignored facts. Lad. Read a book, preferably one that wasn’t written by a Zionist. Foreign Jews were purchasing land from absentee Ottoman landlords from at least the 1900s.
19:44 Your drawing of the Mandate for Palestine is very small. The League of Nations gave Britain the mandate to the land of "Palestine" and "Transjordan" as one unit, to split between the Jews and the Arabs. Britain split off Transjordan in 1921 and didn't count that as the Arab country the League expected, requiring the further split of the land of Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs. 27:06 They "literally still have the keys" because they left their homes willingly. A significant amount of the displaced Arabs during that war had left on their own volition, under the encouragement of the neighboring countries. They were promised it'll take very little time before the land is liberated, some promised it'll take just a couple of hours. They had the time to lock their doors and take the key, expecting to return shortly. Having the key is not a sign of forceful displacement, but of a voluntary evacuation. 38:07 You say Israel showed no signs of appeasing the Palestinians, but during Trump's term, a two-state solution was offered to the Palestinians in 2020, before the Abraham Accords. While it didn't contain the pre-1967 borders, it DID offer an equal land area. Your video, in general, seems to portray Israel as some sort of an uncaring sociopathic bully of Palestinians, but throughout the years Israel did offer solutions to the Palestinians who kept rejecting them. To the Palestinians, it's all or nothing. You actually saying the PLO requested pre-1967 borders sounds so uncharacteristic of them, I'm having difficulties believing it. Several notes on your portrayal of "Israel just randomly decides to attack poor Gaza for no apparent reason", Cast Lead was in response to rockets launched at Israeli civilians. Pillar of Defense was in response to a series of events that included rockets launched at Israeli civilians. Protective Edge was in response to rockets launched at Israeli civilians in response to an operation in Judea and Samaria where the IDF searched for 3 kidnapped teens who were later found murdered.
Just like how you said “the world does not want this war” since Russia invaded Ukraine, we should say the same for both Israel and Palestine. The whole world MUST understand how we should end this conflict peacefully and to possibly bring up a long term solution to end this decades or centuries long conflict.
@patrickparker7430 that doesn't change the fact they instantly started committing such acts on the locals when given the slightest bit of power. Its a fact they are an occupation. It's makes perfect sense why someone would want death for their occupiers.
This is heavily biased forwards the Palestinian side the Jew from the Middle East didn’t choose to go to Israel they where expelled. The present day Palestinians don’t descend from the ancient plistine. It’s the Jews ancestoral land nobody else’s so they didn’t colonize they decolonized it
It's amazing that in a video claiming to give the "Whole story", I still feel a narrative is being spun with things omitted. I'm already seeing many comments claiming and detailing some misleading things about how the 20'th century of Arab-Israeli relations was framed in this video specifically. This truly in the worst time to learn about this conflict, when everyone has already backed a horse, no offense and with all due respect.
Yes this is a hilariously biased video. I actually laughed out loud at 27:00, the silly goose forgot to call that what it was, the ethnic cleansing of jews from the arab states and instead it was just israel, casually convincing thousands to move to israel from their homes that they spent their whole lives at.
@@kingofcards9 I'm fine with people having a bias, but if you're a historian, you have to put them aside, even if it seems callous to do so. Have the same problem with Cynical Historian. They let their biases win to the point where "Historian" is just a LARP.
The reason why Jews migrated to Israel was because they had been persecuted for centuries and just got out of the holocaust. The arab nations also persecuted them, so they all believed they had no choice. Would you stay in a home where you are forever a persecuted minority? What would make the settlers think that another holocaust was going to happen in Europe after they just barely escaped Nazi persecution with their lives? It's easy to say "Why can't we all just get along" when you aren't at the receiving end on over 2000 years worth of persecution.
Past persecution doesn’t mean you get to walk into someone else’s home, rape their wife and murder them and then live in their house. Before the founding of Israel, Jews came peacefully for the most part, buying land. Then the colonial powers created Israel, giving them tons of land that already had Arabs living on it, so the Israelis raped and pillaged until they had successfully forced most of the Arabs out of their homes.
Also because it’s kinda where the Jews come from. It’s said in the video about the kingdom of Judea or the king of Jews. About 3000-4000 years ago. And they’ve been living their ALONGSIDE the Palestinians for thousands of years continuously.
@@de_plum123Hungarians come from Central Asia as did the Turks, the residents of Madagascar can trace their lineage to Malaysia and almost nobody living in America today is native This is the same argument as “give all the Roman Empire territory back to Italy” Every human being in immigrant, a refugee, a conquerer or a transplant, there is no such as “we come from this place” unless that place is the Kenyan rainforest where all humans evolved
At 8:29 you stated that when Muhammad *_"was in Jerusalem"_* Muhammad was never in Jerusalem in his lifetime. It Nowhere states in the Quran that Muhammad was EVER in Jerusalem. In fact, Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran even once! The Quran makes the claim that God's messenger went to the al Aqsa mosque, this means, _"the farthest mosque",_ There was no al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem until over 60 years after the death of Muhammad. The Umayyads had named the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem so that when they were not allowed to hajj to Mecca, they considered Jerusalem as an alternative hajj site. They named the mosque after the Quran passage. The Quran was not written with Muhammad ever in Jerusalem. The Real al Aqsa mosque is in Ji'rrana, Saudi Arabia near Taif, and is written about by many Arabic sources during his lifetime. The village of Ji'rrana had 2 mosques, al Adna (the closest), and al Aqsa (the farthest). This idea that Muhammad was ever in Israel, or Jerusalem is fantasy. There is NO record in the life of Muhammad that he was ever in the land of Israel/Palestine.
There is NOT one Arab source that EVER has Muhammad in Jerusalem!!! Please present this source(s). There is one piece of the Quran that speaks about the al Aqsa mosque, doesn't say in Jerusalem, as there was NO al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem at the time of Muhammad!!
Dude, this is history. People aren’t always right and sometimes people make claims that are advantageous to them at the time. Maybe it’s as you claim and Muhammad never actually went to Israel (maybe Muhammad never really existed or wasnt only one person, but that’s besides the point). But the point is, some people believed it, and that spurred them on to certain action that led us to where we are today. Making these pedantic claims and squabbling over specifics isn’t helping anyone and certainly isn’t saving lives. You’re just being an asshole defending atrocity. Fucking stop it.
@@shainazion4073bradda he means that many Muslims believe that the prophet went to Jeruzalem but he doesn’t say that he actually was there. Leave the man alone
its because those in charge know we are easier to control divided, if we stood together we could topple the unjust regimes that run our lives, but if they keep us radicalized and angry at each other, they can keep us controlled, and that is what is happening
This is painfully biased and cherry-picked... I'm not an Israeli apologist or someone who thinks they are free from criticism, but your characterization of the conflict leaves so much out that it effectively absolves the Palestinians of any blame. No mention of the pogroms committed by the Palestinians in the 1920s and 1930s, no mention of Palestinian nationalist roots having ties with the Nazis, no mention of the "3 No's", no mention of what lead to/instigated the 1967 War (it wasn't because of blocking the Suez Canal), no mention of the wave of suicide bombing that prompted the blockade of Gaza, no mention of the Palestinians REPEATEDLY (several times since the 1930s) being offered their own state and THEM rejecting it... I could probably go on, but this is just off the top of my head.
Didnt Isreal agree to all the different UN two state solutions? Because the Palestinians attacked them so Isreal defended themselfs. Didnt Palestinian/Arab leaders tell their people to leave Isreal to fight another day. Isnt that the reason for many people leaving Isreal in 1948 / the Nakba?
@@capncake8837 Yeah i figured, i mean im neutral in this conflict because there is no real winner here. Even if you are agianst how Isreal have fared their war in Gaza you should still provide valid facts and history and still try to find a solution for a better future. Theese people saying isreal should be ereased just create more conflict...
I found it odd how you mention that Israeli youth have been “radicalized” when what we see the PLO and Hamas have done in radicalizing their youth. Saying that Israel youth have been radicalized and not mentioning the much greater radicalization that happened in Palestinian Territories seems dishonest.
That’s kinda fair. A lifetime of occupation will radicalise young people. Israel’s radicalisation of the youth is much more institutionalised in what I’ve seen in my research.
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManyou do realise that the Palestinians have political institutions too? People often talk about “the Palestinians” as if they’re some sort of monolith without any political leadership, organisation, etc. when in reality, Palestinian propaganda has been inciting unnecessary violence against Israeli civilians since the Second Intifada, all for the purpose of enriching their billionaire leaders in Qatar who profit off of the conflict. And it’s not just the Palestinians either. Ever since Mein Kampf was translated into Arabic, the entire Islamic world has been EXTREMELY unsafe for virtually all Jews of all backgrounds. Every day, Jews in the Islamic world are demonised, being compared to apes and pigs, and holocaust denial is rampant there. And all of this began long before the so-called “occubation” began
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManyou do realise that the Palestinians have political institutions too? People often talk about “the Palestinians” as if they’re some sort of monolith without any political leadership, organisation, etc. when in reality, Palestinian propaganda has been inciting unnecessary violence against Israeli civilians since the Second Intifada, all for the purpose of enriching their billionaire leaders in Qatar who profit off of the conflict. And it’s not just the Palestinians either. Ever since Mein Kampf was translated into Arabic, the entire Islamic world has been EXTREMELY unsafe for virtually all Jews of all backgrounds. Every day, Jews in the Islamic world are demonised, being compared to apes and pigs, and holocaust denial is rampant there. And all of this began long before the so-called “occubation” began
I agree with the general message of this video, in that violence against anyone is never justified and a peaceful solution is always to be sought. But there are sadly so many (minor, but all too more important, regarding this topic) historical mistakes and missing of nuance, that it makes me question if they were just accidents or deliberate. All in all, really not a good video, even though you got your heart in the right place.
This videos off to a bad start 💯 firstly he clearly shows his political bodies when he says Israel invaded Gaza for the second time 🤨 since he considers the IDF going after its hostages then invading I won't even try to touch bases on what he considers the first time 🤔 But let's just set that aside and pay attention to where he claims the name Palestine came from 😬 the real historical legacy of the name Palestine is what the Romans named the land after attempting to ethnically cleanse the Jewish population that live there at the time the name Palestine was a direct flight in the face of the Jewish people that remain 💯 All of this is in the first 5 minutes are you serious what kind of historian is this 🤯
@@Pangloss6413 play the Palestinians attacked trans Jordan and Egypt after they did nothing but give them land and allow them to remain on their land right up until they try to cool the government of the countries that were actually trying to help them Israel had absolutely nothing to do with the Palestinians attacking and trying to cool the government of transjordan which had allowed them to remain on the West Bank at the time or Egypt that allowed them to stay at the Gaza Strip at the time only after the Palestinian refugee staying in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip try to cool the government of trans Jordan and Egypt did they get blockaded out that's why Egypt doesn't allow them to come into their land it's not only Israel that has a blockade on the Gaza Strip
Two major reason: they don’t have the resources to support the refugees and they fear that if they do except the refugees Israel will then take the land that the refugees fled from and refuse to allow them to return.
Native lands belong to native people, this includes Jews, does this mean being cruel to Arabs? No, but Judaea/belongs to the Jews just as Hawaii belongs to Hawaiians, Puerto Rico belongs to Puerto Ricans, etc etc Jewish people being kicked out for years doesn’t mean they are no longer entitled to their land.
The conflict is so old that multiple generations of families have forgotten the actual history. I know this because of friends in both sides of all this. Even if you tell it to their faces as an external party, they won’t believe you. What’s more baffling is that people outside of the conflict are actually picking sides without a full understanding of how it even started in the first place.
Couldn't have said it better myself, people who don't know any of the history should really just stay out of it all together instead of picking sides based on personal bias or misinformation
I think it might be important to talk about why Israel was taken over by Babylon and Assyria, but of course you can only go to the Bible for those answers
Oh because God was jealous and decided to punish his Chosen People for worshipping the wrong gods by having the babylonians destroy their temple and enslave them?
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan yep basically. He had a two side covenant with them, and through reading the Old Testament we see we cannot keep God's laws no matter how hard we try, which is why we now have a one side covenant covered by the blood of Jesus. God was not evil for sending the Israelites into exile, he gave them a thousand years to change. But like the gracious God He is, they returned.
26:07 No this was not the Naqba, the Naqba (catastrophe) was that 5 Arab armies could not win against a ragtag group of Holocaust survivors all speaking different languages, with one weapon for every 3 people fighting. The Naqba was that Arabs sold Jews waste lands, malarial swamps and rocky deserts and the Jews were able to make those lands flourish. Only later propaganda changed the meaning of Naqba to a false narrative that said that the Jews forced the Arabs from the land.
The Israelis had pre-established militias well before the war, such as Haganah and Irgun which were instrumental in Israeli victory while the Arab nations had a major lack of any military cohesion or logistics given many of these states are newly independent and don’t have the same pre-established advantages of Israel. Also, The statement of Jews purchasing and developing "waste lands, malarial swamps, and rocky deserts," implying that Palestinians did not make productive use of the land. However, many Palestinian communities had long-standing agricultural and cultural ties to the land. Establishing very sustainable and sufficient communities in these so called ‘waste lands’
@@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273 Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq all independent by 1948!! In fact the British trained the Jordanians and Egyptians and many of their officers were British!
In the context of the coordinated attack by Hamas and other armed groups against civilian and military targets throughout the Gaza periphery, the mission team found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred in multiple locations during the 7 October attacks, including rape and gang-rape in at least three locations, namely: the Nova music festival site and its surroundings, Road 232, and Kibbutz Re’im. In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed, and at least two incidents relate to the rape of women’s corpses
The names and purposes of the early colonization instruments read as follows: "The Jewish Colonial Trust" (1898), the "Colonization Commission" (1898), the "Palestine Land Development Company.”
Mr. Cecil Rhodes: For some months mutual friends have been trying on my behalf to arrange a meeting between us. At the moment, however, I am so inordinately busy that it would hardly be possible for me to come to London, unless I knew in advance that you took a serious interest in the matter. This, to be sure, would be a sufficiently strong reason to travel, for I need you. In fact, all things considered, you are the only man who can help me now. Of course, I am not concealing from myself the fact that you are not likely to do so. The probability is perhaps one in a million, if this can be expressed in figures at all. But it is a big-some say, too big-thing. To me it does not seem too big for Cecil Rhodes. This sounds like flattery; however, it does not reside in the words, but in the offer. If you participate, then you are the man. If you don't, then I have simply made a mis take. You are being invited to help make history. That cannot frighten you, nor will you laugh at it. It is not in your accustomed line; it doesn't involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor, not Eng- lishmen, but Jews. But had this been on your path, you would have done it yourself by now. How, then, do I happen to turn to you, since this is an out-of-the- way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something *Colonial* . [11] The Complete Diaries Of *Theodor* *Herzl* , Volume 3, p. 1194.
"It is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting Palestine from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. [...] This is equally true of the Arabs. They feel at least the same instinctive, jealous love of Palestine as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling prairies. [...] Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs of Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of Palestine the Land of Israel." -[12] The Iron Wall, Vladimir Jabotinsky (leader of Zionism)
My only criticism is that it feels like the jewish people being expelled from israel/ palestine .. how many times? Was glossed over with a mention of it once for like 5 seconds. - But this seems like a great video.
Oh the Irish…. You are trying to present this as an objective read on history, But this is a mere interpretation of yours and also an highly inaccurate one. What genocide are you talking about? What mass starvation? No numbers support your claims. What kind of “historian” are you? Do you know what genocide really looks like? Try covering what Bassar El Assad did it his people on Syria, or the war in Yemen, or what the Turks did and still doing to The Armanians and Kurds. I don’t mind you being a hypocrite and ignorant, But all in all this is pretty amateur work if I’ll be honest. Considered subscribing when I saw the title, but hard pass for me.
@Very_Silly_Individual Of course he's biased. He's biased against the oppressors and in favour of the oppressed. And so am I. I remain confident that the Israeli Apartheid regime will finally be overthrown. The Palestinians may be face terrific odds, but they're a tough people, and they know what they're fighting for. Intifada until victory!
1: After witnessing Jewish people harrassed by Palestine supports. That ruined any sympathy, I have for Palestine. 2: Bold of you to assume that Palestine will let the Jews, Queer people, and other religious minorities keep their rights when they commit jihad.
I grew up watching your videos and have always enjoyed them. Going into this video, I was very hopeful to get as you claimed "an unbiased" video. I think you started the video off like that. Half way through, the video became extremely one sided and just blatantly incorrect. Israel was under an arms embargo from the U.S. until after the six day war, yet you completely disregard that. You don't mention that Egypt and Jordan occupied Gaza and the West Bank after the '48 war. You say that Mizrahi and Sephardi jews left arab countries because Israel convinced them to do so. While there were communities who left because they thought they would have a better life, you completely ignore the confiscations of citizenships, massacres, and forced deportation experienced by Jews in the arab world. I am not denying Israel's actions, you seem to be at best ignoring the Arab world's actions. You mention the Sabra and Shatila massacre (a tragedy) but you don't mention the massacres committed by the PLO against Lebanese Christians. In fact, Sabra and Shatila was in response to an earlier massacre. I am not defending the actions of the Christian militias. War crime is a war crime, but don't pretend like one side is an innocent; history is complicated. When you simplify history to an audience who is unfamiliar with historical context, you spread misinformation. I stopped watching the video around the 30 min mark. I can't comment about the last 20 or so min, but this was a sad attempt at an unbiased video.
He definitely pointed out the rabid anti-semitism in the Middle East more than once in the video. The treatment of Jews in Arab countries was indeed horrible. However, that does not give Jews the right to kill innocent people and set up an Apartheid regime in Palestine. Not at all.
@@FilthyTrot I agree it doesn't give Israel the right. I simply disagree at what an apartheid state looks like (having spent time in both Israel and the Palestinian territories). By your logic, the Palestinians do not have the right to form a terrorist regime so the sword cuts both ways. Neither side is innocent.
@davidsokolovhill3902 I think the term Apartheid should absolutely be used to characterise a state that repeatedly drives members of one group off their land and then gives their homes to members of another group. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu also visited the region, and they regarded the Israeli state as just like the Apartheid state they had fought against in their own country. And I think they would recognise Apartheid more easily than you and I. Not to mention Amnesty International recognising Israel as an Apartheid state. I oppose the killing of all innocent people, whether they be Jewish or Arab. However, I support the oppressed, and I oppose the oppressor. In this situation, I do not think the oppressed is the nuclear power supplied by the US, which controls the borders, and the land, sea and air around Gaza. I'd say the oppressed are the defenceless population without a military who are currently being bombed to kingdom come. I certainly oppose terrorism, but I still recognise that subjecting a region to Apartheid and illegal occupation for decades inevitably creates fertile soil for such groups to develop.
This video feels like it has a very pro palestinian agenda. failing to mentioning how many people have died in palestinian terror attcacks, and the reason wars have started, for example 2014 war, you made it seem like Israel was just bored and attacked.
I challenge you to have a one to one debate with me as you have made so many inaccurate claims in this video and have conveniently missed out a lot of important points that would have given this video a more balanced perspective instead of an inherently biased one.
I’d be interested in a conversation. Debates, particularly online debates are rarely constructive and say nothing about certain perspectives, and more about someone’s ability to debate.
Why does it have to be one or the other?? History is not black and white, real life is not black and white, and yet everyone looks for the simple “these people good, those people bad” explanation. Both sides are certainly radicalised in different ways. Both sides are victims in different ways, but it’s where equivalences are drawn. The 1000+ people who were murdered in October are being used to casually justify 30 times that and more in Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza. None of these deaths are justified. Blatantly demonstrating how little value Palestinian lives are is horrendous, not to mention the huge power imbalance between Israel and Palestine, Israel and Hamas.
@JohnDRuddyMannyMan I get that. Both sides have done horrible things believing they are right. But it is a feeble attempt on the Gazan side to recover their wounded pride. If the Gazans could, in your own keywords, "colonise," they would, and have. That's how they got there in the first place. They just aren't very good at it anymore. So if I had to choose between two evils.. well, I know which side I'd choose. And don't ignore the millions of Arab Muslims live successfully in Israel. The same cannot be said in Gaza.
23:50 denmark was able to save 95% of their Jewish population due to germany's diplomat to Denmark warned the resistance that Germany would roundup all the Jews, he even was the one to get Sweden accept the jews
Danke schoen to an unsung hero.
Who was this diplomat
This took balls to post.
Lots of them...
@@raz5802 cry more im almost done
@@MidnightStrikesTabby almost done what?
@@raz5802You really don’t want to know what he is almost done doing
@@raz5802you say "post lies" without providing anything to prove there were lies let alone a single source to counter them
17:16 - "kibbutz" is a Hebrew word, not Yiddish
Whaaaaaaa, person pointing out misinformation actually points out real misinformation?
Wait what’s the difference between Yiddish and Hebrew. Ain’t em both Jew language lol
@@alexanderthegrape5641 Hebrew is an ancient Semitic language (it is the language of most of the Bible) and Yiddish is a variation of High German spoken by Jews throughout Europe and is an Indo-European language. They are both used almost exclusively by Jews.
@@alexanderthegrape5641. Yiddish is a German dialect with spoken in by Jews in Eastern Europe.
It’s tied to a couple of different practices
in the Holy Roman Empire the Jews came under the authority of the Emperor not the local lord and as such were likely to live in the cities
And then, further east, many areas had German aristocracy (e.g. the Teutonic Knights) who ruled over Slavic and Baltic dual populations while the Jews were the Merchant class in the cities.
So they spoke German…. With a Jewish accent all over Eastern Europe .
@@alexanderthegrape5641aren’t English and French both Christian languages? 🤣🤣
I’m a little annoyed of the description of the first Aliyah in 1880 and the portrayal of Russias pogroms against the Jews as a reaction to Jewish emancipation across Europe is just wrong.
The violence against the Jew was caused by the assassination of tsar Alexander the second in 1881 by an anti-monarchist group and the Russian peasants naturally blamed the Jew which lead to the violence.
Also, that comment from the Arab, “aren’t you guys Russians” is misleading. The Jews in Russia were not Russians. They were Jews they were distinctly separate and treated as such. Jews weren’t allowed to live in Russia proper they had to live in the pale of settlements (modern day this refers to Latvia Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus, the eastern half of Poland, and a good chunk of Ukraine.
I’m also annoyed at the portrayal of lord Balfour. He may have had other motives but he also recognized how poorly Europe had treated the Jews for centuries and wanted to make it right in some way.
Wait, so you’re saying Jewish Russians weren’t Russian? I’m sorry but that’s ridiculous. It’s like saying a Japanese American isn’t an American or that a German Jew isn’t a Jew (like the USA said of Japanese Americans or the Nazis said of German Jews during the Second World War). While they might have different cultural practices, they are still very much of the nation they were born in, whether they be Jewish or any other ethnicity or culture. You’re playing into a talking point used by the literal fucking Nazis, that of “dual loyalty”.
Lovely content, but I do have to say some things are somewhat misleading....
Jews in Arab states werent "encouraged" by Israel to leave. In what is in many ways a reverse Nakba, the Arab states they lived in relentlessly persecuted them and forced them out.
The 1948 Arab Israeli war was the result of the Jewish state declaring its independence, but also all neighbouring Arab Nations and Palestinians absolutrly refusing the UN compromise which drew the borders, something Israel accepted.
Now these borders suited Israel just fine, and the Palestinians saw some of the land granted to the Jews as theirs (which to be fair, some was).
Regardless, the bloodshed and violence needs to end. What the Israeli government is currently doing in Gaza is horrific, and so were the attacks made by Hamas.
Too many people have died. The only way we can live together is to put this all behind us.
I'm palestinian and that's definitely true. And some were also terrorized by the zionists in their arab countries like throwing hand grenades into synagogues in iraq
I can’t believe you just equated what a bunch of rugtag losers like hamas did to an occupying force to a nuclear state leveling the whole land,This two things aren’t equivalents.
Am Yisrael Chai!
1. Haifa Massacre 1937
2. Jerusalem Massacre 1937
3. Haifa Massacre 1938
4. Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939
5. Haita 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. Deir Yassin Massacre - 1948
14.tantura Massacre - 1948
15. Khan Yunis Massacre 1956
16. Jerusalem Massacre 1967
17. Bahro Al Baquar in 1972
18. Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982
19 Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990
20. Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994
21. Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002
22. Gaza Massacre 2008-09
23. Gaza Massacre 2012
24. Gaza Massacre 2014
25. Gaza Massacre 2018-19
26. Gaza Massacre 2021
27. Gaza Genocide 2023 is still ongoing
Don’t let anyone tell you it started October 7
@@ot8479Amazing, all three actions are in response to Arab terror against the Jews which started in the 1800s (even before), the list of Arab massacres on Jews is much larger and goes back further.
At 18:22 he says that the Balfour declaration recognized a future Jewish home on Arab land. When did it become “Arab” land?? It might be properly referred to as Ottoman land, but not Arab. To call it Arab is setting up a false narrative that pervades the rest of the video. What is worse is at 20:39, the word Palestinian is used to describe the Muslim anti-Zionist population. This is highly misleading and historically inaccurate. All the people who lived in “Palestine” were Palestinian. This included Christian Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians and Muslim Palestinians. The use of the term “Palestinian” to refer only to the Muslim Palestinians was a new term coined by Yassir Arafat. It has a deeply political appeal because it allowed the Palestinian Muslims to label themselves with the land at the exclusion of the Jewish Palestinians and the Christian Palestinians. Golda Meir, an early Prine Minister of Israel, called herself a Palestinian Jew. This commandeering of the word “Palestinian” was a trick of the tongue and one this presenter uses for the rest of the film to further a misleading narrative. It right away sows the seed that the “Palestinians” from which the Jews were unilaterally excluded, are associated with the land and the Jews are not. Labels matter. “Pro Life” Americans could just as easily be called “anti-Abortion rights” but they developed and use the term “pro life” to frame the narrative. Those who co-opted the term “Palestinian” did so for their own political purposes. A true historian might still use the term “Palestinian (since that term has been so successfully tied yo only the Muslim Palestinians) but must explain the use of the term and its qualifications. Failing to do this makes the reporter complicit in excluding the Jews, an intentional or unintentional act that is, at the very least, negligent. He then commits a heinous act by, at 23:42, including the deaths of Soviet Civilians and other collateral casualties of war as “Holocaust Victims.” No. These were victims of war, not the Holocaust. In no legitimate historical text, do we see civilian deaths in WWII listed as Holocaust victims. That “distinction” is reserved for the Jews, Gypsies and others who were persecuted on the basis of their identity. Other deaths of civilians are casualties of war. This also is no mistake by the author. This is precisely what antisemites do when they try to dilute the Jewish nature of the Holocaust. At 25:23, he explains that the UN proposed a partition plan but “none of this was implemented as it sparked a civil war between the Jews and Arabs….” Oh geez! It was never implemented because it was flatly rejected by the Palestinian Muslims. I guess he forgot to mention that. He then points out that the fighting happened “as the 2/3 majority Arabs would be getting less than half of the land.” Kind of true but misleading. Most of the land allocated to the Jews was the unpopulated, arid Sinai desert which had been left unpopulated and was deemed not arable by the Muslims. He soon goes on to state that the Arab states invaded Israel but what pushed the Arabs out was an Israeli victory. This is false. What pushed many Arabs out was the war started by the invasion. In fact, there exist today the news accounts from the invading Arab states whose leaders urged the Muslims to pack up and get out in advance of the invasion and that they will soon be able to return after the Jews are defeated. The historical inaccuracies are manifest throughout this video. I stopped watching at 25:44.
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Much of what you just said is meaningless and historically inaccurate. We should all hope too Free Palestine from needless slaughter 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Another thing to mention is the Jewish state, as laid out by the 1947 UN partition plan, would have been only 55% Jewish, whereas the Arab state would have been 99% Arab. [1] The proposed Jewish state would have only contained 20% of the arable land in all of Mandate Palestine. [2]
It's hard to say that Israel would have always treated the Arabs outside of its borders so harshly, since Israeli violence against the Arabs has always been reciprocal to, sometimes massive, Arab violence. The Six Day War, inclusive- considering the Arab states' flagrantly provocative actions.
1. Report of UNSCOP: 3 September 1947: CHAPTER 4: A COMMENTARY ON PARTITION
2. Michael R. Fischbach (13 August 2013). Jewish Property Claims Against Arab Countries. Columbia University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-231-51781-2
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At 18:22 he says that the Balfour declaration recognized a future Jewish home on Arab land. When did it become “Arab” land?? It might be properly referred to as Ottoman land, but not Arab. To call it Arab is setting up a false narrative that pervades the rest of the video. What is worse is at 20:39, the word Palestinian is used to describe the Muslim anti-Zionist population. This is highly misleading and historically inaccurate. All the people who lived in “Palestine” were Palestinian. This included Christian Palestinians, Jewish Palestinians and Muslim Palestinians. The use of the term “Palestinian” to refer only to the Muslim Palestinians was a new term coined by Yassir Arafat.
It has a deeply political appeal because it allowed the Palestinian Muslims to label themselves with the land at the exclusion of the Jewish Palestinians and the Christian Palestinians. Golda Meir, an early Prine Minister of Israel, called herself a Palestinian Jew. This commandeering of the word “Palestinian” was a trick of the tongue and one this presenter uses for the rest of the film to further a misleading narrative. It right away sows the seed that the “Palestinians” from which the Jews were unilaterally excluded, are associated with the land and the Jews are not. Labels matter.
“Pro Life” Americans could just as easily be called “anti-Abortion rights” but they developed and use the term “pro life” to frame the narrative. Those who co-opted the term “Palestinian” did so for their own political purposes. A true historian might still use the term “Palestinian (since that term has been so successfully tied yo only the Muslim Palestinians) but must explain the use of the term and its qualifications. Failing to do this makes the reporter complicit in excluding the Jews, an intentional or unintentional act that is, at the very least, negligent.
He then commits a heinous act by, at 23:42, including the deaths of Soviet Civilians and other collateral casualties of war as “Holocaust Victims.” No. These were victims of war, not the Holocaust. In no legitimate historical text, do we see civilian deaths in WWII listed as Holocaust victims. That “distinction” is reserved for the Jews, Gypsies and others who were persecuted on the basis of their identity.
Other deaths of civilians are casualties of war. This also is no mistake by the author. This is precisely what antisemites do when they try to dilute the Jewish nature of the Holocaust.
At 25:23, he explains that the UN proposed a partition plan but “none of this was implemented as it sparked a civil war between the Jews and Arabs….” Oh geez! It was never implemented because it was flatly rejected by the Palestinian Muslims. I guess he forgot to mention that. He then points out that the fighting happened “as the 2/3 majority Arabs would be getting less than half of the land.”
Kind of true but misleading. Most of the land allocated to the Jews was the unpopulated, arid Sinai desert which had been left unpopulated and was deemed not arable by the Muslims.
He soon goes on to state that the Arab states invaded Israel but what pushed the Arabs out was an Israeli victory. This is false. What pushed many Arabs out was the war started by the invasion. In fact, there exist today the news accounts from the invading Arab states whose leaders urged the Muslims to pack up and get out in advance of the invasion and that they will soon be able to return after the Jews are defeated.
The historical inaccuracies are manifest throughout this video. I stopped watching at 25:44.
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@@coleschoenberg9971explain how they’re wrong
as a 13 year old israeli who grew up with a famliy that hates the govermant and learned as much as i could about this conflict for almost a year, who have been through scary experiences before, i really hope that my generation would be the end of this conflict.
Your generation needs to stop zionism
"אני בן 13 וזה כל כך עמוק"
I hope so as well kid I’m sorry I can imagine hearing people call for your country to be gone to be difficult and confusing. You’re doing a good job educating yourself, I don’t agree with Israel’s existence not because I don’t think Jewish folk deserve community but because I think you can not solve one genocide with another. I think no religious government should have control of the state, it should be safe for all religions and all people. Your history is horrific and beyond sad I just hope that a good end can come from this conflict and that no one in our modern age has to fear where they live because of they’re religion
Sorry it’s not gonna be fixed in this generation because the Palestinian generations are getting more and more entrenched in a fictional narrative in which Jews are the villains of the world and lies about stolen land and they just wanna kill you October 7 was there declaration they don’t want peace they want you and your family gone and or dead did not ask anybody’s politics. They didn’t ask whether you wanted a two solution or a one solution whether you voted for Leor labor they didn’t ask whether people were Jewish or Muslim. They didn’t ask whether you were Israeli or Palestinian, they just raged and tortured and gourd like a water buffalo. You cannot make peace with somebody who wants you and your family dead please be careful.
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I need to actually clarify the "migration" claim regarding the Jews in the middle east
Whilst it is true many Jews did come into Israel after the establishment of the State in 1948, they usually found themselves in the same situation as the Palestinians during the Nakba
It's estimated 900,000 to over a Million Jews were expelled from their homes in Muslim majority countries, reasons can vary including;
Not able to own property, not able to work or even have a living, not able to practice their religion
Most of Israel's population is mainly Middle Eastern Jews, such as those from Yemen, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan ETC.
Friendly reminder; compared to the Middle East not allowing Jews to practice their religion in public or even at all, there are churches, mosques, synagogues etc, all in Israel so people of all faiths can practice their religions
The Jews weren't convinced to migrate to Israel, they were FORCED to, EXPELLED, an Ethnic Cleansing if you will
If you knew history, you wouldn’t say what you just said. When the collective West refused to take in Jewish refugees during world war 2, it was the Islamic world that gave the Je..ws refuge , especially Turkey and Palestine. When Christian Europe kicked the Jews out of Spain in the 15th century, the Muslims gave refuge to the Jews, in Morroco, Palestine, Iraq, all over the Islamic world. don’t take my word for it , look it up! Antisemitism historically was never a problem of the Islamic world where Jews lived peacefully. Let’s look at 2 Jewish sources on this , 1: Let’s see what a Jewish Historian says about this, «Jews under medieval Islam never suffered from the same general negative perception as in the Christian West. Despite regional variations and high medieval political instability, in medieval Islam multicultural environments, combined with active engagement in sciences and literature, led to something of an Islamic golden age for the Jews, at least according to most historical accounts. It has been primarily in the context of recent political developments that the once assumed positive views of Jewish life under medieval Islam have been seriously questioned.» Source : Dean Phillip Bell, Jews in the Early Modern World. New York, 2008, p. 25. 2: the Jewish magazine, the Jewish chronicles say the following: «Islam saved Jewry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth…Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Jews lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier of Iran and beyond. Almost all the Jews in the world were now ruled by Islam. This new situation transformed Jewish existence. Their fortunes changed in legal, demographic, social, religious, political, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural terms - all for the better…»
Who resettled Jews in Palestine after their long exile since Roman times ? The Muslims did ! Go look this up! The second Khalif of Islam Umaar Ibn Al-Khattab resettled Jews back in Palestine in the 7th century. Umaar brought Jews from Medina, and resettled them in Jerusalem. The Jews had been kicked out by the Romans. Those Jews have nothing to do with the modern Jews of Poland , Hungary and Russia who are not from the Middle East, they’re Europeans.
No they werent, actual historians and actual jews who still live in muslim countries such as in yemen, iraq, syria, Lebanon and morocco would suggest otherwise
Israeli Historians like Avi Shlaim , himself a middle eastern jew has documented the history of middle Eastern Jews and the assertions in your comment are not historically accurate ! About middle Eastern Jews : «Invention of the Mizrahim:
Israel invented the word Mizrahim to strip Arab Jews of their histories as they tried to do with Palestinians. The State of Israel was conceived at the turn of the 20th century in Eastern Europe by a group of elite European Jews who launched a movement called Zionism that sought to establish a physical nation state exclusive to Jews. It was a typical settler colonial enterprise, complete with the narrative of a divine mandate and a non-existent or savage indigenous population, central to which was the myth that Jews of the world formed a singular people, favored by God, who were returning to their singular place of origin - Palestine - after a three thousand year absence. Although it was a project conceived in Europe by Europeans and for European Jews, they lacked sufficient numbers to build a population large enough to conquer the indigenous Palestinian population. Thus, recruitment of Jews from the surrounding Arab world was a necessary inconvenience. They did so through propaganda and by creating false flag terror incidents (bombing of synagogues or Jewish centres) in order provoke an exodus of Arab Jews. A prime example of this happened in Iraq, where the oldest Jewish community in the world had lived for millennia as contributing members of Iraqi society, and who prospered, contributed to the arts and the economy, and participated in government.
But these Jews were not embraced as brethren by European Zionists. Zionism was decidedly colonial, and that meant that Jews of the Arab world were seen as incomplete, barbaric, dirty, uncivilised. Za’ev Jabotinsky, one of the forefathers of Zionism said, “We Jews have nothing in common with what is called the Orient, thank God. To the extent that our uneducated masses [Arab Jews] have ancient spiritual traditions and laws that call the Orient, they must be weaned away from them, and this is in fact what we are doing in every decent school, what life itself is doing with great success. We are going in Palestine, first for our national convenience, [second] to sweep out thoroughly all traces of the Oriental soul.” A multitude of programs and protocols were implemented towards this goal. One of the most egregious was a large initiative of stealing the babies of Arab Jews and giving them to be raised by European Jews. But the larger efforts were simple propaganda campaigns that were implemented in schools, communities, and national projects.
In essence, it was a project to strip ancient peoples of their identities, which was not unlike what they tried to do to Palestinians. Zionists were trying to create a new nation with a unified people. So, they could not abide allowing parts of this population to continue to identify as Iraqi, Moroccan, Persian, Tunisian, and so on, and certainly not as Arab Jews. At the same time, the racist impulses of colonialism could not abide putting these people on par with Jews of Europe. They could not simply be Jews in the new Jewish state. Thus, the word Mizrahim, from the Hebrew and Arabic words meaning “those of the East,” was popularised to lump all of these peoples of different nations into a single miscellaneous category that erased their individual ancient histories and cultures that spanned thousands of years of life and tradition, replete with countless and invaluable achievements in their respective nations.
Before Israel, Jews of Iraq identified as Iraqi, of Morocco as Moroccan, of Tunisia as Tunisian, of Iran as Persian, of Syria as Syrian, of Egypt as Egyptian, and of Palestine as Palestinian. They spoke Arabic, ate the same foods as their Christian and Muslim compatriots, celebrated and partook in the same national events and traditions, lived by the same social protocols, and moved through their respective cultures as other natives did. And despite the similarities of their cultures, Tunisians were distinct from Egyptians, who were both distinct from Iraqis, who were distinct from Moroccans, etc. But Israel collapsed them all under a single identity, which was to be distinguished only from Ashkenazis, European Jews, who were higher up on the social order, and, of course, from non-Jewish Palestinians and Arabs, who were to be despised. The level of their resulting self-hate can be measured in the heightened cruelty they practise against Palestinians.
However, as Zionists would learn from Palestinians, erasing the identity of others is not an easy task. Memory is stubborn, and roots will continue to tug at humans long after they’ve been uprooted. Arab Jews continued to speak Arabic at home, to dance to Arabic music, eat Arab food, and dream of once again seeing the mountains, rivers, architecture, libraries, and colours of Persia, Babylon, North Africa and the Levant. Israel has moved away slightly from early Zionism’s contempt for our part of the world. And while it remains a colonial project, bent on erasing the native Palestinian presence, their social efforts are more focused on “indigenising” themselves to the land. The obstinacy of Arab Jews in clinging to their cultural roots has provided a convenient avenue to lay claim to regional indigenous culture. So now, Arab foods (like falafel, hummus, shakshouka), traditional Arab clothing (like tatreez, galabiyas, keffiyehs), and Arab folkloric dances are all being rebranded as “Israeli,” yet another phase of colonial renaming, and they use the rebranded Arab Jews to justify their claim.» An article by Susan Abulhawa
Let’s see what your own Je..wish sources say about this : the Je..wish magazine, the Je..wish chronicles say the following: «Islam saved Je..wry. This is an unpopular, discomforting claim in the modern world. But it is a historical truth…Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Je..ws lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier of Iran and beyond. Almost all the Je..ws in the world were now ruled by Islam. This new situation transformed Je..wish existence. Their fortunes changed in legal, demographic, social, religious, political, geographical, economic, linguistic and cultural terms - all for the better…»
A very very important point to make is: the philistins mentioned in the video and the palestinians of today have nothing to do with each other, they are completely different groups.
One could equally say the Judeans and the Z*onists of today have nothing to do with each other. They are two different groups.
In fact, the Palestinians genetically have more in common with the Levant's original residents that most Is*aelis.
Is*ael refrains from doing genetic testing like 23andMe to prove otherwise for that reason.
Yes, it was quite wrong for him to say that the non-Jews in Israel primarily originated from the Bronze Age people of that region. Not true at all! As rather they're more recent immigrants / colonizers.
as well as the isreali kingdom that existed in 1050 bc isn't the same as israel of today in which it's populations are mainly comes from the other side of the world prior to ottoman losing ww1 and the rise of antisemitism in europe.
Vid never said that
But let me tell you something for sure. Modern jews have a very strong blood connection with the jews in the ancient jewish kingdom, and blood tests prove that.@@muhammadfarid8740
The Romans changed the region name to Palastine in order to seperate the Jew's connection to the land. You didn't mention why that did that.
You also missed when then Islamist arabs invaded them, driving out the local population and colonizing it themselves.
10:00 You forgot to mention it being in retaliation of hundreds of years of muslim wars and aggression.
This video seems to be coming at it from a biased angle with what it being left out.
more like history sides with the palestinians and your crying over it
Regardless of your point. The indigenous people who called themselves Palestinian were expelled from their land to make way for foreigners.
I say the indigenous people the Palestinians have more Jew DNA in them than the foreigners.
Stop defending the indefensible.
@@Spk-r6x umm kinda wrong dna does not equal ingenious and jew were living in palestine and when arab nation kicks out jews from their nation(because of a jewish nation) most of the jew are mizrachi jew and are arab in israel so wrong and muslim treat the jew kinda like chrsitains and those arab are the palestinians. their not foreigner your family of jew dont need to live in palesine your jewish because your mom is. what do you mean by foreigner
@@godhelp7535History sides with no-one. Both parties of this conflict have committed atrocities and portraying either side as righteous is absolutely wrong.
1. No they didn’t. The name Palestine finds its earliest uses in the roughly translated Egyptian “Peleset” and Assyrian “Palashtu” in referring to the region, as well as the Biblical Philistines. In the Torah, the area of Palestine was never given clearly defined boundaries, but was just said as having been in conflict with the Kingdom of Israel. The Greeks used the term Palestine as early as the 5th Century, and Romans renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina as it was part of larger Syria. It is unknown if this happened before the Bar Kokhba revolt or after. It is inaccurate to say that the name Palestine was exclusively used to pave over Israel and erase Israel’s Jewish roots.
2. When? I’d love to know exactly what colonization or conquest you’re talking about. Was this before or after the Jewish diaspora into the wider European continent after the Bar Kokhba revolt?
3. Muslim wars and aggression? It’s hard to say that this “aggression” is unique to the Muslim nations of the time. Compared to their European counterparts, the Muslim nations were actually considered more peaceful and accepting of different faiths during the Middle Ages. As well as being a hub for growing scientific and mathematical knowledge, Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike were allowed to life their lives practicing their own religion. So painting Muslim nations with such a broad brush just comes off as Xenophobic. What about the aggressive and warmongering Italian states, constantly embroiled in their own civil wars? And their aggressive colonization of the Mediterranean? Wouldn’t that perhaps make Muslim states nervous for a European Catholic invasion? Or maybe you can’t paint states full of “people I don’t like” as violent and destructive without proof.
Thanks for the video, Ruddy, and i hope you had a happy Easter
I'd give this history a "Mostly Accurate but cherry picked" for example Liberia was built by former slaves who wanted to leave the US and Americas one of the concepts founders being Fredrick Douglass
Or at 27:00 where instead of saying that the arab states ethnically cleansed the jews living there, he states that israel "convinced" them to move......
@@enjoyingend1939 Well Israel did support immigration from these areas, It just should have also emphasized that many where pressured by the ruling population and government to leave either by economic pressure or violence.
@@generalamsel437 The problem is that the campaigns of ethnic cleansing by those arab states which now have almost single digit jewish populations was entirely omitted. He only mentions the part that doesn't make the arab cause look bad, and that isn't the only time he does that in the video either.
@@enjoyingend1939 False flag attacks carried out by Israel in places like Iraq to get Jews to flee to Israel is also a factor I'm sure you don't mind being added to the discussion.
@@King_Gum i deal in facts, and the fact of the matter is, aside from the lavon affair there is little evidence to support any other israeli "false flag" operation, the iraqi bombings as i believe you're referring to are to this day an unresolved issue with no clear motives. It's all allegations to this day and i don't pick sides in a she said/ he said situation.
26:48 this is by far the stupidest thing I've seen, they weren't "Convinced" they were kicked out, expelled, forced out, robbed, and often times persecuated by those arab nations in the name of palestine and they were forced to leave to israel
American Indians: cool story, bro
I’m not trying to be obtuse, but it is worth noting that most Jews from Arab countries were expelled from their nations after Israel’s creation - they didn’t go to Israel of their own accord
Israel actively pursued that
@@shafsteryellow they for sure wanted it, but they didn’t write laws in Libya, Egypt, Iraq etc banning Jews
@@amcc666Well, Israel did pursue false flag attacks in 1954 that gained the name The Lavon Affair intending to pressure Israelis to emigrate
They were offered incentives by Israel to move there. Many did so willingly. There were also persecutions as well as Arabs wanted to unfortunately exact revenge for Palestinians in an unfair way. Many Arabs governments also rightly feared that Israel would use their Jewish populations against them to influence foreign policy and pressure their government just like Jews do in the US still today
There are so many holes in your story, i just dont know where to begin. Youd think that in the age of information, you would have at least come across the numerous sources of information that is available in relation to this most covered of conflicts.
You are either totally naive and captured by the usual insidious palestine propaganda, or you are pretending to be impartial, because you have done nothing but regurgitate countless lies, disinformation and propaganda.
I used to be pro palestine my whole life because i too swallowed the usual propaganda, cleverly crafted by the most sophisticated of propaganda masters on the so called palestinin side, to appeal to all the usual cues of people in the west. But it was only with the advent of the internet, that i was finally able to deep dive and check out all sides with an honest desire to get to the truth, and I like many others who have also done this deep dive, have come to the only sensible conclusion, which is that we been duped big time by the so called palestine cause, which is nothing short of the most disingenuous cause ever to have existed possibly in the history of humanity.
I dont have time to go into all the countless points of history that this video has either missed or deliberately failed to include, but anyone who is genuinely interested in getting closer to the truth, I would recommend a youtuber called Destiny, who recently took an honest and public deep dive from a totally neutral perspective, and shared his findings with his audience. Its not perfect, but at least he was thorough and honest and done in genuine good faith and anyone who is genuinely interested in the truth, should start there and examine what he has found, research it further yourself, and check his conclusions to see if it holds up to the light of day.
27:00 Might be important to mention that many were expelled from where they lived for centuries…
for like the 15th time
Biased video
@@lexaron ah,no . jews and christians werent banished from the muslim world in general till tanzimat. after tanzimat any minority that demanded equal rights to muslims(and even muslims who are non arabs or quiet minorities) were persecuted and killed in huge numbers by the islamists or pan arabs. we got off easily compared to the yazidis and assyriacs.
@@lexaron ah ,no .arabs barely have banished christians and jews prior to tanzimat. after tanzimat when ethnic and religious minorities started to demand equal right-thats when the pan arab and islamist carnage started. we came off easily compared to the assyriacs,yazidis and kurds.
Facts
27:01 I'm a descendant of Iraqi Jews and so I can tell you without a doubt it wasn't Israeli encouragement that convinced my grandparents to flee Iraq.
It was the governing powers within Iraq persecuting jews with most of their life long friends and neighbors turning on them as well (partially as a result of pan-arabism which I noticed was completely neglected to be mentioned in the video).
I disagree with the statement that Israel is a colonial state, but even if you view it's foundation as such you'd have to agree it had become a refuge for persecuted Jews worldwide.
Mossad agents dressed up as Arabs and Muslims and carried out and heinous crimes against Jews in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Assyria, "Israel" and even their allies UK/USA. The term Islamic terrorism was created by those attack. The reasons being for cheap Jewish labour for the ruling class that is Ashkenazi Jews and the false urgency to build a Jewish Utopia. There are official evidences as well as many whistle blower accounts that lead to arrests and resignations.
exactly. so much disinformation and ommission. first,huge poortion of mizrahi jews aint even from the arab world(my mom's family are from the assyriac jewish diaspora). assyria/kurdistan,india,caucasus,central asia,turkey,iran.and we "lost our arab heritage"? not every middle eastern is arab. he doesnt mention the fact the jewish "colonialism" in israel was jews buying land from the registered owner(as per the ottoman land registry) and many cities like tel aviv and west jerusalem being built before 1917. he doesnt mention that mizrahi jews wanted to move before 1948 and that by 1948 they constituted sixth of the population (and tel aviv first neighbourhoods were created by sephardi and yemenite jews). we would have moved there first if we weren't held as dhimmis till 19th century. he doesnt mention the 1910 shiraz blood libel,1903-1912 morrocan + 1921 nabi mosa +1929 hebron and safed +1938 tiberias +1941 baghdad farhud + 1945 tripoli and egypt's + 1947 eden and aleppo pogroms. he doesnt mention the racist legislation in egypt and baghdad. he doesnt mention the mass massacres against ethnic and religious minorities by pan arabs and islamists since tanzimat. "we were just invited to come to israel"(yeah and we left all our wealth behind giving up on our former citizenships to live in tents in maabarot). he says israel has got aid and weapons from the us after 1948 . no it didnt. we got aid from the american jewish community while the american gov put embargo on us,no major aid till 1967.
Ok but that’s literally the definition of colonial state. It was colonized…. I understand from your perspective arguing that to be a good thing, but to argue against actual reality seems a bit silly.
@@grayishcolors good or not good. muslims(And few non muslims) from all over the ottoman empire moved here, not all were even arabs....circassians of kafr kama and rihania,bosniaks of keisaria,turkmen of abu zurayk and hirbat turkmen,afro arabs from sudan,egyptians from masrawa(biggest muslim clan in israel) and al masri clans,north africans in kafr sabt,bedouins speaking hijazi arabic to this day...they didnt pay anything,just took the land by force or were given it by the ottomans for their services.all while jews were held as dhimmis and barred from moving to their ancestors lands. how does jews purchasing land from the registered owners(in the ottoman land registry which continued into british era) is more of colonialism or less moral? now a jew buying land in the middle east is "colonialism"?
@@grayishcolors no, that is the definition of a refuge: _a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble._
The Google definition to colonies is: _a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country._
however the difference here being that Israel is its own country not governed by a foreign rule. (Unless you count US interventionalism and then you might as well count the rest of the world including Europe as colonies.) that also brings into question plenty of Arabs of originated from other countries and migrated to mandatory Palestine.(Not that there is anything wrong with that, but most Muslims living in the North are more culturally aligned with Syria, Muslims within Gaza are more culturally aligned with Egypt, and Muslims living in the West Bank or Judea and Samaria as some prefer had Jordanian citizenship before the agreements between the PLO and Israel, after which they had those revoked)
And of course finally most Jews would argue the entirety of their culture was born and based around the country, if we skim over the Bible we know of the early existence of at the very least two Jewish kingdoms in the area, not to mention DNA tests also confirm a middle eastern origin in Jewish DNA. Personally I don't much care for the last explanation, I just want to live in a country where my well-being and the well-being of my family are truly guaranteed to be protected and not persecuted by the government. And the rest of the world hadn't really given me a true guarantee.
Also aren't Jews from Arab states the North Africa the largest demographic of Jews in israel not those who came from Europe
While I don’t have the exact stats, today about 80% of Israeli Jews were born in Israel, 14% are immigrants from Europe and the Americas, and the last 6% are from Asia and Africa. This is according to Israel Central Bureau of Statistics. Considering that the majority of Israeli settlers were originally European Jews and American Jews, majority Orthodox in the first and second waves of settlement, its probably not accurate to describe Arabic and North African Jews to be the majority of Israeli Jews.
@@AshleyBreads Im Israeli and I can tell you that Mizrahi jews (Arabic and North African jews) are definitely the majority here. Ashkenazi jews are almost considered a minority by this point.
@@AshleyBreadsSephardic Jews are the biggest population group, more like a plurality. They aren't the majority but the biggest group.
@@AshleyBreads What you're assuming incorrectly is that the majority of Israeli Jews who were born in Israel are descended from the European and American Jews who came prior to 1948. In 1948, the population of Israeli Jews (made overwhelmingly of European and American Jews) was 600,000 and between 1948-1957, roughly 500,000 Jews from the Middle East and North Africa immigrated to Israel, meaning that by 1957, the country's Jewish population was roughly evenly split between people from European/American ancestry and people from MENA. The Jews from MENA had somewhat higher birth rates and so they became the majority of the Jewish population in Israel, at least until Soviet Jewish migration in the 1990s. If we compare Jews with origins from Europe/America and Jews with origins from MENA, there are still more Jews with origins from MENA but not a majority since there is a significant percentage of Israeli Jews with mixed heritage now.
@@oremfrien Neat, I’d love to see where you got those statistics from, by the way. Doesn’t change the fact that the Zionist movement was inspired by European colonialism, was headed by European Jews, and was largely encouraged by European governments. And the first waves of people to arrive were largely European and American Jews, ingrained with a “Manifest Destiny” mindset nearly identical to those of American settlers and British colonists. Take the United States for example: While the demographics of the United States are quite diverse, containing large populations of White, Black, Latiné, Asian, Middle Eastern, Slavic, etc. etc. it is undeniable that the United States was founded by White European men, with the interests of keeping White men at the top of the social ladder. The same is true of Israel. While it now contains a multitude of people of different ethnicities and colors, it was created with the interests of European Jews in mind. (South Africa is also a good example, having a black majority population but having apartheid laws that propped up a white minority, so just having a diversity of population does not necessarily make a nation any less systematically racist or oppressive.) There’s also a storied history of “Ashkenaziation” in which Ashkenazi (Eastern European) Jews have become almost a standard for Jewish-ness within Israel itself, with Mizrahi (Arab and North African) Jews and Ethiopian Jews encouraged to integrate into Ashkenazi culture and leave their own cultural customs behind. I believe it’s even addressed in the video itself. It’s not about how many people there are, it’s about the dominant culture and the systems built around that culture.
Thank you so much for creating this. I generally have a good grasp on the history around topics like this, but you have unearthed so much more detail that I was totally unaware of. Please keep up all your efforts in everything - one of if not the best video you have ever created. Thanks again.
Uh oh, this won’t get controversial.
I find it funny how he uses the Gregorian calendar with BC E but it still is centered around Jesus
You know it will. Sadly saying “mass slaughter of innocents for more living space” is controversial now
Hopefully no antisemitism OR islamophobia in the comments section! :-)
@@Crystal_Dylanthat sounds awfully similar to another regime
Hold my Beer
Well this is not going to be even slightly controversial
You know what would be really cool? You did a video on the history of Lord of The Rings- maybe do one about the history of A Song Of Ice And Fire- like the Targaryen dynasty
That comment is going to be a “Hold my Beer”
@@michaellynes3540 Which one? The first one or the second one?
@@maninthewall7050 the first one.
bro when are you going to make a new video
I noticed there is no mention of the leader of the Arabs in Palestine; Amin Al Husseini, who was an actual Nazi who was prosecuted by the Allies post-war for collaborating with Hitler, notwithstanding conveniently leaving that part out; the creator also left out the extensive persecution of Jews in arab nations before the founding of the state of Israel (eg. The Farhud, lack of property rights and pogroms in North Africa); the fact the Arabs rejected every single 2 state solution offered to them including the peel Commission and the UN resolution, and they seem to have completely fabricated the United states arming Israel in the 1940s when in reality whilst they recognized Israel straight away they held an arms embargo against both sides for the duration of the conflict.
It is important to note the British actually supported the Arab armies far more in the 1948 war with British officers directing some of the more elite Jordanian army units so I'm not sure where the idea of Britain as their "overlord" comes from, furthermore, they reneged on the Balfour declaration by appointing to Husseini as the leader of Jerusalem AGAIN conveniently left out here. Not telling the whole truth is tantamount to lying when studying history.
This man should really stick to drawing Pokemon tutorials
why would someone accept a deal that would displace millions of their people and give them the worse quality land whilst the colonisers/settlers would receive the rich and fertile lands?
@@tomgachagan1347 sorry but you're misinformed. The UN proposal for the foundation of the state of Israel did not call for the displacement of the Arabs living in mandatory Palestine nor did the Israeli Declaration of Independence, such guarantees are included in the declaration itself:
" we call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institution" - from the Israeli declaration of independence written in 1948 by David Ben Gurion.
Also, the land marked for a Jewish state in the partition plan consisted mostly of the Negev desert, which was largely uninhabited and unirrigated contrary to your aspersion of the lands being "rich and fertile", the Arab land contained all of the larger urban areas of the land as well as extensive arrable land.
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@@benjaminfleming1512 israeli settlers stole land of displaced palestinians after the war and they still cannot return. israeli settlers colonised the land
Thank you Benjamin, I was looking for a comment addressing his mistakes.
@@benjaminfleming1512 It was quite reasonable for the palestnians to reject the un partition plan. Nobody would ever give up any percentage of their home to new immigrants. If it was the other way aroud im sure the jews would have done the same.
man until 31:44 you had me but saying the intifada was most a peaceful protest is just lying or not knowing the history
It was mostly peaceful. Not devoid of violence, in the same way as the civil rights protests in Northern Ireland were mostly peaceful.
I know I simplify history, but be careful you don’t simplify it too much either way.
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan suicide bombings, mass shootings and kidnappings... what's the non violent part in all of this?
it was majorly non violent all the violence which was committed was initiated by Israel and all those bombings came as response read about the intifada even U.N agrees it started out as a non violent protest which was turned violent by I.D.F
@@striker7625 the UN has a majority for anti-west dictatorships, that's why every year 50% of all condemnations are on Israel, it's completely biased political source.
In reality you had lynches of civilians, suicide bombings, stabbing and mass shootings of civilians and policemen, hundreds of violent riots with explosives and rocks thrown... every intifada was a period where jews knew not to go near a palestinian village because those who accidentally did- appeared on the news that night, in a hospital or a coffin. On what ground do you say it was "mostly peaceful"? That's like saying the kristalnacht or the Farhud were mostly peaceful (well, since the majority of the rioters didn't get the chance to kill or burn anything they didn't do any violence, only a few!). Such BS apologism for terrorism.
@@barzomer2639 do you have a credible sources ??
Give sources for the lynches and bombs with reference to where you got you're sources from
2:47 I've just started watching this video, I had to pause it to say thanks for the mention, Mr Ruddy. I'm sure your special take on history will do this conflict justice, and thanks for making content like this free to watch. With support from New Zealand 🇳🇿.
29/8/24 edit: well, I just heard the news about the west bank attack... the white kite metaphor is only getting more real 😔
its very special because "its unique" in the amount of crucial information it ommits. . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians...
saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
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“Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
He is clearly biased the "Palestine" side. And this is unfortunate.
@@netanelzionfinally! an educated person. Please spread your knowledge more so videos like this won't happen again.
18:01: in what universe was the Ottoman Empire secular? It was literally ruled by an Islamic caliphate. The country we know as Turkey didn't become secular until Ataturk became president in 1923, which was after the fall of the Ottoman Empire
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There will be no peace until Palestine has all of its land
Peace you make with defeated enemies
I support neither side. I just want this war to end and for innocents on both sides to not suffer
There will be no peace so long as the settler colonialist regime continues to exist
A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.
Could you be more specific about what you’re talking about?
Some of the "facts" on this video were wrong, for example that Israel led by European Jews convinced Jews from Arab countries to join, when the actual truth is that Arab countries kicked out and hurt their Jews.
Also he is adding his own thoughts about Israelis destroying Gaza for example for "living space" (which is a reference for Nazi terminology). Have you looked at Gaza in Google maps? It's tiny. We don't care about it and as he said correctly, religiously and spiritually we don't care too much about this area.
he is bias and not really hiding it too much.. you can talk about the tragedy of the people of Gaza how much you want, but the truth needs to be said- they are extreme Islamic jihadist population who teaches their children from day 1 that they should become a terrorist and anyone, especially a Jew, who don't follow Islam should die.
They are Nazis and I'm talking about actual nazi books translated into Arabic found in Gaza at large numbers, this is an evil society and no nation would just live with that situation after that massacre they did to us and after all those years of terror attacks, there is simply no one sane leader we can make peace with unfortunately.@@Pangloss6413
Okay here @32:00 you simply skipped the part where Lebanon had become a base for the PLO (after being removed by the Jordanians who had claimed this territory through war)which in its charter stated publicly it's goal was to claim the newly created concept of Palestine from the river to the Sea the river being the Jordan River meaning to claim back the territory conquered by Jordan and to qoute "from the river to the sea and tofind every Jew hiding behind a rock tree or in a cave and Mohammed get the Jew hiding behind me" to give the full and accurate direct quoted declaration
But invasion was still probably not the best option. The U.S invasion of Afghanistan was under similar pretenses, but it still led to widespread chaos and civilian death. And as said within the video, the PLO’s radical and antisemitic edge would mellow out, seeking peace rather than conquest. Not every small detail can be addressed all in one video, unfortunately.
@@AshleyBreadsPLO didn t ever wanted any peace! They ended 1st intifada and signed that damned agreements only because they lost all their sponsors and allies at once. USSR and eastern block after the fall of communism in 1989 and, Saddam s Iraq and also arab gulf states after the PLO had to support invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Together with Kaddafi s Libya or Bashir s Sudan.
Arafat never had to stop support and organize terror onto Israel citizens. He created so called ,,martyr fund" for the famillies of sucide boombers or for prisoners im West Bank. Mostly from ,,Al Aqsa brigade of martyrs".
@@AshleyBreadsmellowed out so much they never condemned Oct 7th ok buddy
@@BEEFYP.I.M.P.Think: What exactly would have provoked Hamas (who, again, are not representative of the entire Palestinian population or Palestinian political environment) to commit an atrocity on the level of October 7th? It’s not a defense, but when you take into account the cruelties committed against Palestinians by the Israeli Government, it becomes harder and harder to say that October 7th was completely without cause or without precedent. Hell, the Israeli Government was aware that October 7th was going to happen, but dismissed the reports. Nobody is entirely without blame here, but Israelis definitely deserve blame more than others considering they are attempting a literal genocide right now.
@@AshleyBreads Most of Hamas militants were orphans they just hated Israel so much so its Israel fault for killing their parents
I think you exaggerate American aid.
Israel's weapons in 1948 war was mostly funded by Czechoslovakia (encouraged by USSR), not the USA. At that time USSR wanted to get a socialist foothold in the Middle East. Israel was quiet socialist in the 40s.
During 6 Day War, US didn't provide aid to Israel. Most Israeli weapons were bought from France and Britain before.
Israel's Iron Dome is Israeli design. Rafael, the company that developed the system, have factories in USA. Sure US did paid some of those systems for IDF. But at the end, it is an Israeli weapon
So if USA removed its financial support tomorrow, Israel would be fine?
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan
If the US just decided to take a hands-off approach to Israel, then sure, Israel would be fine. US support for Israel were not really significant, until after the Six Day War
Israel is much stronger than it was founded, and has one of the world's best domestic arms industries in the world. They are second Biggest Arms supplier of India and Vietnam. Most of the US' foreign aid to Israel is 3.8 billions military aid, which is like 16% of the aid, and Israel's defence industry already exports hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms every year. They don't rely on foreign military aid to defend themselves. As the matter of fact, without aid, Israel's military industry might be forced to grow, which benefits their home industry in long term, but bad for US arms industry
Also US "aid" to Israel isn't even all that high in comparison to what the USA spends on its other allies. The USA spends 10s of billions on putting a military presence in it's foreign allies. The main difference with Israel is that Israel is risking its own troops. The USA spends far more on their presence in South Korea, Japan, Turkey, Germany, Iraq, etc... no one mentions that.
The Israeli Military Industry is also part of the reason that even if the US stops actively supporting Israel, they probably won't actually turn against Israel. If Israel were backed into the corner and the US started being an enemy, instead of an ally, the Israelis develop some of the world's most advanced military technology, and could use that as leverage to get a different foreign backer. Russia is active in the Middle East, and would kill to get their hands on Israeli military tech. China would be another option, although, given the neighbourhood, India would be an interesting option. If Russia or China or India collaborated with Israel, things would actually look bad for the United States. Also, US aid is not exactly a 1 way street. US benefit a lot by funding Israeli military. It can access to Israel's military technology and prohibit them from selling those to American opponents (like China).
In general, Israel has benefitted from US assistance for a long time, but they don't need that aid to survive. Many Arabs thought they could wipe out Israel in the cradle in 1948, but they failed. If Israel could survive back then with US arms embargo (yes, US embargoed selling weapons to both sides of the conflict), it could totally survive nowadays.
Lol 70% of military aid to Israel comes from USA. Next in line is Germany and UK
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan The financial support amount to 3 B a year, Israel will survive without it
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManyou strawmanned his argument. He made no mention of modern US support
29:20 "The UN called for" the UN is a political organization, not a legal organization. They did not even mention Palestinians at all in that resolution. The wording of that resolution was sent back 3 times before it was finally approved.
Isn’t Interpol a part of the UN? Aren’t they a legal organization?
@@Pangloss6413 No, Interpol is Not a division of the UN. They are a Permanent Observer of the UN since 1996. Interpol was established in 1923, the UN in 1941, and became more active after WW2.
5:47 Just a quick correction, the Roman did call this place "Provincia Iudaea", the "province of Judea" for a while, it was only after the great Bar Kokhba Jewish revolt in 135 that as part of the punishment the official name changed to "Provincia Palaestina”.
this video is full of mistakes so don't even bother
Herodotus mentioned region Palestine in his book 500 BCE and ancient Egyptians named this region "paleset" 1500 BCE
@@imjoeimwhich is the one that has you most annoyed?
This is a talking point. The name of the region was still Palestine under the jurisdiction of the Province of Iudea.
And where can that be seen?
This video has been age-restricted/taken down due to violating UA-cam guidelines
I believe i have witnessed some blackouts that paused the video randomly
Bro these people blacklist this just to cover up the truth over their continued hate they are so dumbass
This is stupid. We the American people have a right to hear about this.
@@michaellynes3540 sure you do. you even have thr right to hear it without all the facts the video creator ommitted . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians...
saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
@@michaellynes3540PREACH
John, I can understand the trepidation you had over posting this. It's about to be your most watched video ever. I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to create and publish this video. It's important. You're exasperated reasoning at the end really resonated with me deeply. I hope someone learns this lesson.
14:55 , The region of Palestine referenced in 1890 report includes, The provinces of Jerusalem, Nablus, Acre, Beirut (part of it including the city), and Damascus (part of it including the city).
Thus the comparison with what is known today as Palestine is of little use.
What it does tell us, is that even though the area referenced to shrinks (British mandate of Palestine only included Israel and Jordan), the Muslim population grows at what seems to be normal rates for the area. Since the people here did not have wayy more children than anywhere else it points to migration within the area.
Specifically migration into the west side of the Jordanian river, is because of the economic prosperity the region has witnessed, mainly because of the Jewish settlements.
Before you call me racist, it is proven that there have been migrations from the surrounding areas to the mandate.
It is also proven that the Jewish settlements, thanks to the highly educated workers and skilled labourers have become the most advanced and prosperous cities in the region thus attracting the immigrants.
It were also these technological advancements that allowed the population explosion you see demographically.
I like how he goes into detail about Jewish persecution and expulsion in Europe, but glosses over Jewish persecution and expulsion from Arabic empires and Arab states in the 1960s, saying that Israel "recommended" they move.
I found that weird too, but later on he brings up that many antisemites are zionists, because it validates some final solution.
Arabs can do no wrong. Everyone knows that Islamic empires were peaceful and beautiful places with no ethnic cleansing or religious oppression.
no, islam is a religion of peace and they would never do anything like genocide
I 100% bet you guys are Westeners.
@@whailingwhale6352 I'm hispanic, lol. Also, I like you, didn't even deny it.
14:33 that is wrong, the most early 25k Jews who came back were the Jews from the ottoman empire during the years of 1500 and 1900
not to be confused with the first aliya that were mainly Russians who ran away from the pogroms and find themselves with this idea of coming back to their ancient homeland
Could you make a video about the Spanish Civil War?
Hear! Hear! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸
The fact that the comments on this video is semi-civilised is a sign you did this well
39:10 "Hamas took the world by surprise" despite warnings to Israel from US and Egyptian intelligence...
Also, Israel holds more Palestinian hostages than Hamas holds of Israelis.
@@jaredbrooks9717there is a huge difference between a prisoner that was arrested for attempted murder, and a HOSTAGE that was taken for the crime of being an Israeli civilian. Stop spreading lies
@@Lwihit"attempted"..... sure..... Ever heard of Political Prisoners?
@@abenalif2147 so when the IDF or police arrest people after ramming their cars into bus stops, or after successful stabbings, or after opening fire in crowded civilian locations... Those arrested individuals are "political prisoners"???
@@Lwihitwhen one sides been oppressing the others for 70 years, hard to think the oppressed are wrong for being upset
Saying that Israel just decided to invade Lebanon without mentioning that there was rocket attacks from The invasion followed a series of attacks by PLO from Lebanon prior to the invasion is just spreading lies.
Also, you "forgot" to mention that PLO actions were one of the key factors in the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War
Dude conveniently left out alot.
Yeah lots of missing context which is sooo dangerous when talking about this….
this video is pure propaganda and he knows it.
Best illustration for the real situation can be seen clearly even in this, palestinian biased video. In 25:10 author claims that arab majority got only 1/3 of the land and in 25:45 we see how all other surrounding territories are already arab countries populated by arabs and how jews agreed on getting a super-tiny area that immidiately attacked by arabs.
I truly hope that without Hamas, some day palestinians will stop playing "or us or they" game and leave a chance to a peaceful coexistence.
But suggesting all Arabs are just the exact same is disingenuous in itself. That’d be like kicking Polish people off their land and saying “yea, sure you can go to Russia or Ukraine or somewhere! You’re all Slavs!”
Thank you for providing a great example of national uniqueness. As someone who is half Russian (Slavic) and half Jewish (Semitic), I am neither Polish nor Arab. However, due to my love of history, I can name many events that happened to the Polish people since medieval times. Unfortunately, it is impossible to identify any historical events specific to the modern Palestinians (not Arabs) before the partition plan was discussed. Perhaps I am wrong, and you can easily provide at least one historical event unique to the Palestinian arabs who lived within the current borders of Palestinian land that distinguished them from their neighbors, such as those in present-day Jordan? My advice for you is to start creating a video on this issue. Conduct your own research, and you will see by yourself that there wasn't any ethnic difference among Middle Eastern Arabs.
23:43 why did you show Ukraine there out of all the places, not France, Hungry or Romania, which all kept much greater degrees of autonomy compared to Ukraine? I thought this wouldn’t be “Anti imperialist” contrarianism but alas I am wrong
Hungary is ruled over by a despotic Sith Lord and I’m willing to bet Romania isn’t much better, those places make Cleveland Ohio look like Rome
To be clear I'm also for a ceasefire and two state solution, I despise Netanyahu (and Hamas) and the settlers in the west bank and unnecessary destruction of Gaza.
But while I love your videos, this one is clearly biased - perhaps not factualy, but your description of events emphasising every Israeli transgression and basically glossing over everything palestinians (and other arab states) did both politically and militarily seems very disingenuous. For example the armed uprisings - borderline civil wars - started by PLO in both Jordan and Lebanon were also fueled by racism and hatred? You barely mentioned such events (even giving Israel a smiley face as one happened) and Palestine is an entire half of this conflict and deserve more coverage. Another example is the rule of Hamas in Gaza.
He also calls much of the migration from Arab countries to be encouraged by Israel but he does not mention both Arab pan nationalism or that many programs against Jews that lived in arab countries were a major reason for Jews migrating to Israel.
@@the7screw▪︎Actually the Arab League sent notice to the Arab and Muslim countries of the Middle East to consider the Jews living in these countries as Israeli citizens, ▪︎their citizenship was revoked, ▪︎their bank accounts were frozen, ▪︎their businesses were boycotted, ▪︎they were fired from any government jobs and teaching positions, ▪︎their men and women arrested as Israeli spies. ▪︎They fled those countries with only the clothes on their backs to live in Displaced persons camps in Israel in canvas tents and metal shacks with no running water or heat for up to three years. The new country of Israel had no infustructure in place for these refugees, but didn't turn even one away.
They learned Hebrew, received schooling, lessons in new employment, some joined the New IDF. There was 850,000 Jews forced from these Arab and Muslim countries. They are today owed over $160 billion dollars in property and land stolen from them with more than 4 times the landmass of Israel.
Very true throughout the whole video. He was also just wrong when he glossed over the Camp David Summit of 2000. Palestinian negotiators wanted Israel to agree to the Right of Return in principle and from there negotiated a specific number of Palestinians who would be allowed to return keeping Israel demographics in mind, which Israel agreed to but they never agreed on a specific number. The actual deal breaker was over the temple mount. Israel offered either joint control or offered de facto control to Palestine while still technically owning it, which Arafat rejected with no counter offer and he instead helped initiate the violent second intifada.
@@8is he also "forgot" to mentions pogroms by palestinian islamists against jews like 1886 attack on petach tikva,tel hai attack,1929 hebron and safed,1938 tiberias... all the pogroms against mizrahi jews from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogrosm to 1947 aleppo and aden pogroms...the mass massacres against ethnic and religious minorities in the middle east by pan arabs and islamists since tanzimat totalling in millions of violent deaths...
Yeah, I did also notice a lot of the wording in the video showing inherent bias here for Palestine and the glossing over of some important information definitely paints Israel in a far more negative light than Palestine.
The burden of being a history UA-camr when history is being loudly made. Good on you for making this and there are people trying hard to supress this history, glad to see you trying to keep it known.
aint telling half the story like this video did supression of history ? . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians...
saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
Imagine thinking this is history content. Dude omitted so much history from the last 80 years because it didn't fit his narrative and tried to twist facts and thought people weren't gonna notice.
@@OdensRaven wdym there is no narrative from the other side lol there is but you just too focus on the Palestinian side because how you had the hatred to the Palestinian people lol
41:10 You're right! In my country, Vietnam, two Israelis accused a Vietnamese shop for being antisemitic, just because the owner had a Palestinian flag on his door.
It's funny, this video talks about the arab league conference and yet doesn't mention the most famous part of that summit: The Three No's. No Negotiation, No Recognition, No Peace with Israel.
love you dude. it's so important to notice those critical points that are being "pushed under the carpet" and show them
Thx for sharing important part of history
Exactly. I'm still looking over all of the conflict but it seems to be a constant thing people are ignoring. No negotiation , no recognition and no peace.
I’m sorry but anyone who puts more stock into some stupid political statement from 50 years then the death and suffering of almost 2 million people now is a total and complete sociopath
It would be like if a bunch of Germans decided they were justified to invade England in the 90s because Churchill said “we’ll fight em on the beaches”
Thank you John. It feels sometimes that there are some people who are not learning from the mistakes of the past, and are continuing to let dehumanisation take hold of their fears. We should all stand together, not tear each other apart. I seems to be the only way we can bring an end to this horror.
its hard to learn from the past when videos like that ommit crucial details of the story or make gross misrepresentations . talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians...
saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
Most of the Jews who live in Israel today speak Hebrew, a Semitic language, a biblical language, which it states is from a family of Arabic.
Israel was under an arms embargo, the US gave Israel no aid for the first 25 years of creation. The US started aid after 1973, not before 1948!!!
after 1967 when France implemented it's own arms embargo
oh yeah? how did Israel have a massive tank force of Sherman m4 tanks if they were in an arms embargo?
@@kierano8390
Old pieces from the ww2. They were not from the US. The only countries that actually have to support Israel through the first war were Czechoslovakia, France and Nederland.
@@kierano8390 When was this? Is the US the only country that made tanks?
How do you define "massive"?
from wikipedia: The corps consisted of ten obsolete Hotchkiss tanks from France, two Cromwell tanks stolen from the British Army, and a single Sherman tank stolen from the British Army. Later in the war, additional Sherman tanks were purchased from Italy
@@kierano8390
I’m not really terribly concerned about going back to 1200 BC, I’m more concerned with the 20 years since Israel abandoned Gaza and the Palestinians have had a state which they turned into what people call an open air prison. Israel has tried over and over and over again to make peace with the Palestinians and the Palestinians just can never ever bring themselves to take the deal. I don’t care about the Palestinians anymore, they need to surrender and they need to made to make peace, or they need to be shoved into Jordan and Egypt and never let back in. Their entire national identity is tied up in oppression. Except they’re not oppressed anymore, they have had sovereignty well something close to sovereignty for nearly 20 years. The rest of the sovereignty that they don’t have, they don’t have because they can’t be trusted with it. They need to surrender utterly.
this is the exact same thing Americans who supported manifest destiny said in order to justify the near-complete genocide of the Indians, because “we signed treaties with them, gave them a chance for peace, but apparently these people are just so obtuse!”
You have no legs to stand on even if you were correct because stupid high level political horseplay is secondary to the suffering of humanity, PEOPLE ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN IDEAS
That’s like if Hitler told all the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto that he “gave them a chance” and that THEY were the ones who turned it into a shithole, not Hitler, and then using that as an excuse to invade the ghetto
@@Pangloss6413 how silly to imagine that ideas compete with people. You may not like the genesis of either the United States or Israel, but they are both a force for good in the world today. You can’t go back and fix the past, it just can’t be done. The state of Israel exists, it’s never going anywhere, it’ll be here long after you and I are gone. If you have another, please explain how that gets flushed out if you would. Move into modernity, sir.
@@Pangloss6413nah they’re two completely different decisions.
How America was created:
1) Settlers show up on land belonging to some native tribe
2) The native tribe attacks the settlers (in justified or unjustified ways)
3) The settlers fight back and use the conflict to take even more land
4) A treaty is made in which the settlers are only allowed to settle in certain areas
5) The settlers break the treaty, settling in territory they’re not allowed into, that belongs to a native tribe
6) Repeat steps 2-5 until you’re satisfied with the amount of land that you have
7) Send all the natives into reservations
How Israel was created:
1) Jewish communities are peacefully established in land which historically belongs to the Jewish people
2) A bunch of Arab leaders begin inciting violence against the Jewish communities
3) The Arabs attack the Jewish communities, leading to multiple deaths
4) The Jews and the Arabs continue fighting each other
5) The two sides try to set up a peace treaty in which Jews and Arabs are allowed to continue existing
6) The Jews accept the treaty. The Arabs reject it and attempt to commit genocide against the Jews
7) The Jews do everything necessary to defend themselves, which doesn’t end well for the Arabs
8) More Jewish communities are set up
9) Repeat steps 2-8
10) The ending unfortunately hasn’t happened yet
Thank you for this very good historical summary of this conflict. I commend you for the effort. However, I have one criticism about your speech at the end of the video, and if anyone reads this and know more about this, then perhaps you can help me. The “Free Palestine” Movement wishes to achieve the complete removal of the state of Israel, yet you also seem to be in favour of (or at least open to) a two state solution. I would suggest this is quite contradictory. It seems to be very ironic that you say that “we keep falling for mistakes and being fed lies” and then you go ahead and support the aggression and support of terror, by showing support to this movement. I suppose this is not your intention, but I think we should be careful about acts like these. I am referring to around 50:00 in this video.
Personally, I recognise the state of Israel and I do not believe that the UK was in the wrong to be in possession of the territory after the events of WW1. In my view, if you are going to call this colonisation, then it would be like calling the management of Germany after WW2, colonisation. And in this particular conflict, I also see the occupation of Gaza by Israel in itself as a self-defence act, and we must not forget that they are dealing with multiple terror groups, or at least one.
Finally, I will add that I also condemn any unnecessary killing of innocent civilians on either side of this conflict, and I condemn Israel for the settlements in the West Bank and Gaza (Even though Israel have later pulled out of Gaza in terms of these settlements). Israel has seemingly been careless and brutal about the civilians in Gaza since October, and I think this should have consequences for them as well.
I suggest we do not pick any sides in this conflict, but work for peace for all.
A very measured response. Thank you. I’ll reply properly later hopefully :)
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan That sounds good. I'm looking forwards to learn more 👍
34:48 "intimidating Palestinians off their own land" Really? The British Land Survey of 1945 showed the Palestinian farmers only owned 3.3% of the land. The wealthy absentee Arab land holders (living in Damascus, Cairo, Aleppo and other cities) owned 16.5% of the land. The Jews owned 8.6% of the land. And, 70% of the land was State Land transferred from the Ottomans, to the British, and then to Israel. Israel was created by almost 80% of non-Arab owned lands!
Damn, you know, I wonder who was living on the State-Owned land and living on the absentee owned land. Was it possibly native Palestinians who worked and lived on that land? To use an example, U.S indigenous reservations are technically owned by the U.S, not individually by indigenous people. But most would still consider it indigenous land. During the colonization of America, indigenous people were forced off their land as well. But many indigenous tribes and cultures didn’t have a concept of land ownership. Even so, they were removed from land that they had lived, worked, and cultivated on for generations, so it’s pretty fair to say the U.S government forced them off their land. Why would Israel’s actions against Palestinians be any different?
Nope!! The British ahd the Ottomans kept very good records. There was some Bedouin tribes that used the deserts and other lands for grazing their herds. But there was not even a large population of anyone in the land. Today there are over 14 million people in the land, in 1860 there was 350,000 people and 30,000 were Jews. In the first British Mandate census of 1922 there were just 750,000 people.
Most of those calling themselves as Palestinians are not even from Palestine. They are Arab Levantine migrants that came into the land as support personnel for the British, and because of the prosperity brought by the Jews reclaiming the land. Egyptians, Syrians, Iraqis, Jordanians and Lebanese are not Palestinians!!
The others are descendants of Muslimrefugees invited into the land by the Ottomans from Europe and Africa. Bosniaks, Circassians, Chechins, Turkemans and Sudanese are not Palestinians!!!
“They were a minority so it was ok to force them out”
@@Pangloss6413 Who was forced out? When? Please explain? They left because the Arab leaders advised them to leave after the War in 1948 that 5 Arab armies started.
Search, *_"How We Really Became Refugees, Palestinians tell their Personal Stories"_* and note, The Institute for Palestine Studies, an Arab organization based in Beirut stated, *68% of Arabs fled the land the land without seeing a Jewish man with a gun, or a soldier*
So when were "Palestinians" forced from the land?
What ever happened to “Love thy neighbor”? :(
Sadly, some people like to leave “neighbour” open to interpretation…
Doesn't exist in Arab mentality, you are either Muslim or kafar...
Israel has tried that numerous times with two state solutions but the palestinians think everything is their and act like spoiled brats when they don't get what their way.
Lol not when it comes to loving jews 😂
How can we love an invader?
@22:11 you're missing the whole part where Germany was joined by the Ottoman empire which was decolonized by the British empire with the agreement England would divide the Arabian peninsula for freeing it from the Ottomans and under the same agreement wrote the boundaries for virtually Every current country in the region including Jordan Lebanon Saudi Arabia and even Egypt coming into existence after being freed from the Ottoman Empire which again had allied itself from Germany during WW1 (pre Nazi)
And the Arab rebels were promised they'd get a unified state consisting of all the Ottomans' territories from Syria to Yemen, and instead they were carved up and turned into British and French colonies. They weren't "freed" from anything.
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But you're also leaving out the ethnic and religious differences which made a single state an impossibility.
@@libertatemadvocatus1797, whether or not that's true (which I doubt), the fact is the Hashemites were promised a single state, and the Entente betrayed that promise in nearly every way imaginable.
You completely ignored that the British till the arab revolt was intended to gice the arabs Jordan as a Palestinian state
Aw how generous of that empire on the far side of Europe…
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan yeah very... But the arabs wanted the river to the sea
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan It's a very poor historian who quarrels with facts because they flatter people he dislikes. You have made several questionable omissions in this video.
You're very brave, John! Thank you for the video!
Bless you John D. Ruddy. Never before have I seen anyone dive so deep into a topic so important to the modern layout of our world.
not so deep. talking of "colonization" without mentioning it consisted of jews buying land from registered owners in the ottoman land registry the brits kept(and tel aviv,rehovot,petach tikva,west jerusalem outside the walls and many other cities were purchased and built through the roman era). talking of paramilitary violence without mentioning the 1886 attack on petach tikva,1929 hebron and safed massacre or 1938 tiberias massacre(against unarmed sephardi religious communities) is at least "weird". saying we mizrahi jews were "convicned" to move to israel without mentioning we were held as dhimmis till tanzimat(and in practice after as well),that till 1948 we constituted 1/6th of jews in israel,and we built the first neighbourhoods of west jerusalem and tel aviv. its leaving out all the pogroms we suffered from 1903 to 1912 morroco pogroms through 1941 farhud to 1947 aden and aleppo pogroms and the racist legislation against us in egypt and iraq which made us feld the muslim world so we wont face similar faith to the assyriacs(Simmele,seyfo),rom and pontic greek,yazidis,armenians...
saying we "lost our arab heritage" when huge portion of us(including my family) didnt come from arab speaking countries or areas(assyriac/kurdistan,iran,central asia,caucasus,turkey,india diasporas).we assyriacs jews,iraqi jews and irani jews all maintained very close connections as jews regardless of the common language where we lived. not every middle eastern person is arab. finally saying "israel started receiving aid from the us" right after 1948 is not true. till 1967 we got donations from american jews and in many cases america had weapons embargo on us. no major american governmental aid till the cold war spike in the 1960s.
And yet he only presents about half the picture, mostly the pro-palestinian side. One thing i found particularly funny is at 27:00 where he says that israel convinced the jews living in the arab states to move to israel, while in reality it was ethnic cleansing by those states.
@@enjoyingend1939I am happy google exists
What those jews and others around the world have gone through is what Palestinians now are going through. You nitpick a part of history but neglect to acknowledge that israel became what it fought against in the first place
@@markoherceg3707 so jews before the holocaust committed atrocities against germans like 1929 hebron and safed massacre and 1938 massacre and held the germans as second class citizens like mizrahi jews were held as dhimmis(And before you say jews have taken lands from them-yes lands they have bought from registered owners in ottoman land registry which the brits kept. petach tikva,tel aviv and rishon letzion were even built during ottoman era)? the jews of germany supported racial or religious supremacy against germany(whne most of them were secular) like hamas (islamists) or PLO(pan arab) support?
Syria Palestina meant that Judea was annexed to the province of Syria. Later a Palestina province was carved out, but "Syria Palestina" was not a separate province next to Syria like the map suggests, that would have been silly
*_"Israel made its capital Jerusalem against UN Resolutions"_* UN resolutions are political opinions, Not laws. And, Jerusalem was not anyone else's land but Israels under the International Law of Uti Possidetis Juris. Israel's borders under Uti Possidetis Juris are the former borders of the Mandate of Palestine. It was Egypt and Jordan that took Israeli land (Gaza and the West Bank).
According to the "Palestinians" themselves the West Bank and Gaza were NOT Palestinian sovereign land. This from the 1964 PLO Charter;
*_"This Organization does not exercise any regional sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or the Himmah Area. Its activities will be on the national popular level in the liberational, organizational, political and financial fields."_*
Although UN resolutions are not laws, they hold immense diplomatic and moral authority. So even though one could definitely reject the UN’s statements, it comes at the cost of being alienated and also causing a delegitimization of International Cooperation.
On Uti Possidetis Juris. The principle does indeed support the preservation of existing territorial boundaries upon state succession. However, the application of this principle to the specific case of Jerusalem's status and Israel's borders is complex and subject to interpretation, with many in the international community not recognizing that status for Jerusalem and also the reason why many in the international community do not recognize Israeli claims that the entirety of the lands of the former Mandate of Palestine belongs to them. However, this is subject to anyone’s specific interpretation of international law and also where they politically lean.
The PLO did say they didn’t have any regional sovereignty over Gaza and West Bank as of 1964, that is true. However, this is because of the current political reality and historical context of the time which was, as you’ve shown in the quote, that the West Bank and Gaza were under the administration and control of Jordan and Egypt respectively. This is did not mean that the PLO relinquished the rest of its claim to the lands of the Mandate of Palestine under Israel. The possible historical reason for this is that the PLO didn’t want to alienate itself from its Arab allies (and perhaps wanted to conjoin its movement with the broader Arab Nationalist movement) and also wanted to be able to achieve a sovereign state within internationally recognized borders. Then, finally to note is that the PLO's stance evolved over time, particularly after the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel gained control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Subsequent to this conflict, the PLO expanded its territorial claims to encompass these territories and asserted its sovereignty over them in pursuit of Palestinian statehood.
Even if it wasn’t technically illegal, it’s still definitely not a good action. Not every legal action is moral, and not every illegal action is immoral. You’re confusing legality with morality here.
@@fives5555arcLook up Dr. Jacques Gauthier who wrote his doctorate on the status of Jerusalem. There are several videos and articles on him and his work. Please search, *_"Whose Land?"_*_ by UKLFI Charitable Trust_
There never really was a true Palestinian people. The Palestinians are a mixed group of Lebanese, Jordanians, Syrians and Egyptians.
@@fives5555arc Perhaps you should read Dr.Jacques Gauthier's dissertation on *_"Sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem"_*
26:25 That quick frame is really a cherry on top
There never was an independent, sovereign, nation called “Palestine.” Before the Babylonian Empire conquest, there were the ancient Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Prior to the Kingdom of Israel, there was the 12 Tribes of Israel.
This land was home to the Israelite Jews, until it was conquered and renamed Syria Palestina in an attempt to disconnect the Hebrews from their ancient homeland (‘Palestina’ after the close enemy, the Philistines.) However, the Jews kept settling in “Palestine” after the conquering, until eventually shortly after the Holocaust when the British Empire’s occupation allowed the Jews to establish a nation in their indigenous homeland.
There are claims that in 1948 (the establishment of the independent State of Israel), Israel stole and occupied “Palestine.” This means they occupied it from a country named Palestine. But there was no country. There was no military. Who was the president of Palestine before 1948? What was this country? There was none. (Also, there were no ‘Palestinians.’ This was the term used to describe the Jews and Arabs who settled in the British rule.)
This was a British Mandate called Palestine (which the British Empire adopted the names from the Roman conquest of Judah) where, in fact, many Jews (and Arabs) settled there. In 1948, it wasn’t like a new, unheard of rule sprung up in the land. Rather, it was the rebirth of the Jewish people re-dedication their traditional homeland.
There is no historical geographical region known as the "West Bank." The "West Bank" refers to the west bank of the Jordan River - a region historically known as the Israelite Judea & Samaria - which Jordan illegally occupied from 1949-1967 after its failed attempt to annihilate Israel in 1948.
In fact, the Arabic word for Jew is Yahud, because Jews are the people of Yahuda (Judea), presently called Israel.
Islam has no real connection to Jerusalem. There is no site in Jerusalem that is of importance to Islam except for the mosque compound built after the Islamic conquest. Not to mention that The Arabic word for Jerusalem, "Al-Quds," is derived from "Bayt al-Maqdis," which is the Arabic term for the ancient holy Jewish Temple, also known as the "Beit HaMikdash" in Hebrew. Even the Al-Aqsa mosque compound was built atop the ancient Temple.
Ever wonder what that old wall by the Dome of the Rock is? It’s called the Western Wall (in Hebrew, Kotel), a remaining part of the Holy Temple which dates back to the 2nd Century BCE.
Jerusalem is also home to the Mount of Olives, which has been used as Jewish cemetery for over 3000 years now, despite claims of “occupation.”
Dig in the ground of the land, and you will find Hebrew artifacts, such as coins, emblems, etc.
The Jewish people have an indigenous right to their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel and the holy city of Jerusalem.
The sky is also green…
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan Your complete inability to directly answer any of the (completely justifiable) criticisms of this one-sided, biased video speaks absolute volumes about the so-called "Palestinian cause"; and honestly makes me question the validity of the other politically charged videos you've spewed out onto this platform.
@benjaminfleming1512 I agree. I was a big fan of his work but unfortunately for a historian he let's his own biases/opinions shine into his work. Thia would otherwise be fine if not for the fact the video is framed as if he was neutrally stating facts, which isn't the case. Valid criticism of aspects of the video from his own fans is met with dismissive comments
The Spanish Inquisition was not to convert Muslims and Jews to Christianity. It was to inquire if those who claimed to convert to Christianity were truly converted or if they were heretics.(It only affected Christians, not practicing Muslims or Jews or of any other faith.) This is a big mistake on the videos behalf.
Fair enough, it was an oversimplification
lmao what? Yet they were fleeing the country. Are u dumb?
Wait are the the palestinians not radicalised too
A lifetime of occupation would do that to you yea
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManhmm before occupation they where radicalised just look at their attacks on Jewish settlements before 1948 and d expulsion of Jews from places like Hebron in the 30s, they still performed terrorist actions against the Jews when the west bank amd Gaza where under Jordanian and Egyptian control yet they didn't complain about that because the person occupying them was their fellow Arab brothers
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManwhere was the occubation in 1929? And why are literally all Muslims everywhere just as radical as the Palestinians?
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMana lifetime of terror attacks, rejected peace deals, expulsions, incitement to genocide, relentless demonisation by outsiders, all following 2000 years of oppression, will also do that to you
Sorry Manny but the US did not arm or fund Israel at all until after the six day war. In fact there was a strict arms embargo on Israel during the 1948 war. This should be corrected.
Til 1917, as dhimmis, Jews were not allowed to own land in Israel. It was extremely hard for Jews to live in their own land. The Arab revolt started in 1917 when the Sharia law was replaced by British law, making everyone equal. For that reason, the Arabs started attacking Jews in 1917 and to this day. The perfidy of the British in carrying the Mandate by restricting Jewish immigration and turning a blind eye to Arab illegal immigration from neighboring countries (over 500,000 Arabs came between 1917 til 1948, that is why the UNRWA defines a Palestinian refugee as “a person living in Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and includes all his descendants"). John Glubb, a British general led the Jordanian troops in conquering East Jerusalem and blowing up 28 Jewish synagogues. All Arab land conquered was made Judrenrhein, both in the West Bank and Gaza, where Jews had lived from time immemorial. In 1948, those Palestinians who stayed in their homes became full citizens with full equal rights in Israel. The quantity of Jewish properties stolen by the Arabs far exceeds that of the Jews. The Jews have been faced with a genocidal enemy since 1917 and only after these days started developing a military defensive organization to defend themselves.
And people have claimed that I’ve ignored facts. Lad. Read a book, preferably one that wasn’t written by a Zionist.
Foreign Jews were purchasing land from absentee Ottoman landlords from at least the 1900s.
19:44 Your drawing of the Mandate for Palestine is very small. The League of Nations gave Britain the mandate to the land of "Palestine" and "Transjordan" as one unit, to split between the Jews and the Arabs. Britain split off Transjordan in 1921 and didn't count that as the Arab country the League expected, requiring the further split of the land of Palestine between the Jews and the Arabs.
27:06 They "literally still have the keys" because they left their homes willingly. A significant amount of the displaced Arabs during that war had left on their own volition, under the encouragement of the neighboring countries. They were promised it'll take very little time before the land is liberated, some promised it'll take just a couple of hours. They had the time to lock their doors and take the key, expecting to return shortly. Having the key is not a sign of forceful displacement, but of a voluntary evacuation.
38:07 You say Israel showed no signs of appeasing the Palestinians, but during Trump's term, a two-state solution was offered to the Palestinians in 2020, before the Abraham Accords. While it didn't contain the pre-1967 borders, it DID offer an equal land area. Your video, in general, seems to portray Israel as some sort of an uncaring sociopathic bully of Palestinians, but throughout the years Israel did offer solutions to the Palestinians who kept rejecting them. To the Palestinians, it's all or nothing. You actually saying the PLO requested pre-1967 borders sounds so uncharacteristic of them, I'm having difficulties believing it.
Several notes on your portrayal of "Israel just randomly decides to attack poor Gaza for no apparent reason", Cast Lead was in response to rockets launched at Israeli civilians. Pillar of Defense was in response to a series of events that included rockets launched at Israeli civilians. Protective Edge was in response to rockets launched at Israeli civilians in response to an operation in Judea and Samaria where the IDF searched for 3 kidnapped teens who were later found murdered.
Just like how you said “the world does not want this war” since Russia invaded Ukraine, we should say the same for both Israel and Palestine. The whole world MUST understand how we should end this conflict peacefully and to possibly bring up a long term solution to end this decades or centuries long conflict.
The conflict is only about 100 years old.
The problem is that a lot of people are calling for the death of isreal. They cheer for it. Its sickening.
@@patrickparker7430 They went there and did everything that was done to them. They don't deserve it. But I get why someone would say that.
@gotgrainslikerice5311 not all chose to be there. Many came because they got kicked out surrounding Muslim countries.
@patrickparker7430 that doesn't change the fact they instantly started committing such acts on the locals when given the slightest bit of power. Its a fact they are an occupation. It's makes perfect sense why someone would want death for their occupiers.
This is heavily biased forwards the Palestinian side the Jew from the Middle East didn’t choose to go to Israel they where expelled. The present day Palestinians don’t descend from the ancient plistine. It’s the Jews ancestoral land nobody else’s so they didn’t colonize they decolonized it
Standing with peace 🇺🇸🇵🇸
It's amazing that in a video claiming to give the "Whole story", I still feel a narrative is being spun with things omitted. I'm already seeing many comments claiming and detailing some misleading things about how the 20'th century of Arab-Israeli relations was framed in this video specifically. This truly in the worst time to learn about this conflict, when everyone has already backed a horse, no offense and with all due respect.
Yes this is a hilariously biased video. I actually laughed out loud at 27:00, the silly goose forgot to call that what it was, the ethnic cleansing of jews from the arab states and instead it was just israel, casually convincing thousands to move to israel from their homes that they spent their whole lives at.
Yeah, this guy is blatantly biased in most of his modern videos.
It's a shame how far people can fall.
@@kingofcards9 I'm fine with people having a bias, but if you're a historian, you have to put them aside, even if it seems callous to do so. Have the same problem with Cynical Historian. They let their biases win to the point where "Historian" is just a LARP.
@@ryanpercival9823 amen.
The reason why Jews migrated to Israel was because they had been persecuted for centuries and just got out of the holocaust. The arab nations also persecuted them, so they all believed they had no choice. Would you stay in a home where you are forever a persecuted minority? What would make the settlers think that another holocaust was going to happen in Europe after they just barely escaped Nazi persecution with their lives? It's easy to say "Why can't we all just get along" when you aren't at the receiving end on over 2000 years worth of persecution.
So if the Jews took a chunk of a European country can we still defend them? Also was America anti-semetic, if not why didn’t they take them in.
Past persecution doesn’t mean you get to walk into someone else’s home, rape their wife and murder them and then live in their house. Before the founding of Israel, Jews came peacefully for the most part, buying land. Then the colonial powers created Israel, giving them tons of land that already had Arabs living on it, so the Israelis raped and pillaged until they had successfully forced most of the Arabs out of their homes.
Also because it’s kinda where the Jews come from. It’s said in the video about the kingdom of Judea or the king of Jews. About 3000-4000 years ago. And they’ve been living their ALONGSIDE the Palestinians for thousands of years continuously.
Palestinians shouldn't pay for 2000 years of European anti-semitism.
@@de_plum123Hungarians come from Central Asia as did the Turks, the residents of Madagascar can trace their lineage to Malaysia and almost nobody living in America today is native
This is the same argument as “give all the Roman Empire territory back to Italy”
Every human being in immigrant, a refugee, a conquerer or a transplant, there is no such as “we come from this place” unless that place is the Kenyan rainforest where all humans evolved
I thank you for making this video ❤
John - tough topic, with no way to present it so that wouldn't upset someone. I think you did a very admirable job. Thank you.
At 8:29 you stated that when Muhammad *_"was in Jerusalem"_* Muhammad was never in Jerusalem in his lifetime. It Nowhere states in the Quran that Muhammad was EVER in Jerusalem. In fact, Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran even once!
The Quran makes the claim that God's messenger went to the al Aqsa mosque, this means, _"the farthest mosque",_ There was no al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem until over 60 years after the death of Muhammad. The Umayyads had named the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem so that when they were not allowed to hajj to Mecca, they considered Jerusalem as an alternative hajj site. They named the mosque after the Quran passage. The Quran was not written with Muhammad ever in Jerusalem.
The Real al Aqsa mosque is in Ji'rrana, Saudi Arabia near Taif, and is written about by many Arabic sources during his lifetime. The village of Ji'rrana had 2 mosques, al Adna (the closest), and al Aqsa (the farthest).
This idea that Muhammad was ever in Israel, or Jerusalem is fantasy. There is NO record in the life of Muhammad that he was ever in the land of Israel/Palestine.
“Many Muslims believed that Muhammad, while in Jerusalem…”
There is NOT one Arab source that EVER has Muhammad in Jerusalem!!! Please present this source(s). There is one piece of the Quran that speaks about the al Aqsa mosque, doesn't say in Jerusalem, as there was NO al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem at the time of Muhammad!!
Dude, this is history. People aren’t always right and sometimes people make claims that are advantageous to them at the time. Maybe it’s as you claim and Muhammad never actually went to Israel (maybe Muhammad never really existed or wasnt only one person, but that’s besides the point). But the point is, some people believed it, and that spurred them on to certain action that led us to where we are today. Making these pedantic claims and squabbling over specifics isn’t helping anyone and certainly isn’t saving lives. You’re just being an asshole defending atrocity. Fucking stop it.
@@shainazion4073bradda he means that many Muslims believe that the prophet went to Jeruzalem but he doesn’t say that he actually was there. Leave the man alone
@@Cle_Torres Hey, just because Muslims think something??? There is not one place in any Arabic literature that Muhammad was ever in Israel/Palestine.
its because those in charge know we are easier to control divided, if we stood together we could topple the unjust regimes that run our lives, but if they keep us radicalized and angry at each other, they can keep us controlled, and that is what is happening
The funny part is the Palestinians have the Judah gene that lived there thousands of years ago, they never left they had to convert
This is painfully biased and cherry-picked... I'm not an Israeli apologist or someone who thinks they are free from criticism, but your characterization of the conflict leaves so much out that it effectively absolves the Palestinians of any blame. No mention of the pogroms committed by the Palestinians in the 1920s and 1930s, no mention of Palestinian nationalist roots having ties with the Nazis, no mention of the "3 No's", no mention of what lead to/instigated the 1967 War (it wasn't because of blocking the Suez Canal), no mention of the wave of suicide bombing that prompted the blockade of Gaza, no mention of the Palestinians REPEATEDLY (several times since the 1930s) being offered their own state and THEM rejecting it... I could probably go on, but this is just off the top of my head.
Didnt Isreal agree to all the different UN two state solutions? Because the Palestinians attacked them so Isreal defended themselfs. Didnt Palestinian/Arab leaders tell their people to leave Isreal to fight another day. Isnt that the reason for many people leaving Isreal in 1948 / the Nakba?
This video is quite heavily biased in favor of the Palestinians. It’s a shame, since he’s usually pretty good at explaining history.
@@capncake8837 Yeah i figured, i mean im neutral in this conflict because there is no real winner here. Even if you are agianst how Isreal have fared their war in Gaza you should still provide valid facts and history and still try to find a solution for a better future. Theese people saying isreal should be ereased just create more conflict...
I found it odd how you mention that Israeli youth have been “radicalized” when what we see the PLO and Hamas have done in radicalizing their youth. Saying that Israel youth have been radicalized and not mentioning the much greater radicalization that happened in Palestinian Territories seems dishonest.
That’s kinda fair. A lifetime of occupation will radicalise young people.
Israel’s radicalisation of the youth is much more institutionalised in what I’ve seen in my research.
Nobody needs to radicalize you when most of your family was killed by the same government
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManyou do realise that the Palestinians have political institutions too?
People often talk about “the Palestinians” as if they’re some sort of monolith without any political leadership, organisation, etc. when in reality, Palestinian propaganda has been inciting unnecessary violence against Israeli civilians since the Second Intifada, all for the purpose of enriching their billionaire leaders in Qatar who profit off of the conflict. And it’s not just the Palestinians either. Ever since Mein Kampf was translated into Arabic, the entire Islamic world has been EXTREMELY unsafe for virtually all Jews of all backgrounds. Every day, Jews in the Islamic world are demonised, being compared to apes and pigs, and holocaust denial is rampant there. And all of this began long before the so-called “occubation” began
@@JohnDRuddyMannyManyou do realise that the Palestinians have political institutions too?
People often talk about “the Palestinians” as if they’re some sort of monolith without any political leadership, organisation, etc. when in reality, Palestinian propaganda has been inciting unnecessary violence against Israeli civilians since the Second Intifada, all for the purpose of enriching their billionaire leaders in Qatar who profit off of the conflict. And it’s not just the Palestinians either. Ever since Mein Kampf was translated into Arabic, the entire Islamic world has been EXTREMELY unsafe for virtually all Jews of all backgrounds. Every day, Jews in the Islamic world are demonised, being compared to apes and pigs, and holocaust denial is rampant there. And all of this began long before the so-called “occubation” began
@@Pangloss6413I don’t see many Vietnamese coming to America and butchering random American civilians, do I?
so well put. i’m so thankful to have this information at my fingertips
In this result caused Israel to be kicked out of the AFC Aisan Football Confederation and also the Olympic committee of Asia 30:06
I agree with the general message of this video, in that violence against anyone is never justified and a peaceful solution is always to be sought.
But there are sadly so many (minor, but all too more important, regarding this topic) historical mistakes and missing of nuance, that it makes me question if they were just accidents or deliberate. All in all, really not a good video, even though you got your heart in the right place.
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This videos off to a bad start 💯 firstly he clearly shows his political bodies when he says Israel invaded Gaza for the second time 🤨 since he considers the IDF going after its hostages then invading I won't even try to touch bases on what he considers the first time 🤔
But let's just set that aside and pay attention to where he claims the name Palestine came from 😬 the real historical legacy of the name Palestine is what the Romans named the land after attempting to ethnically cleanse the Jewish population that live there at the time the name Palestine was a direct flight in the face of the Jewish people that remain 💯
All of this is in the first 5 minutes are you serious what kind of historian is this 🤯
You are the death of all human articulation
@@Pangloss6413 play the Palestinians attacked trans Jordan and Egypt after they did nothing but give them land and allow them to remain on their land right up until they try to cool the government of the countries that were actually trying to help them Israel had absolutely nothing to do with the Palestinians attacking and trying to cool the government of transjordan which had allowed them to remain on the West Bank at the time or Egypt that allowed them to stay at the Gaza Strip at the time only after the Palestinian refugee staying in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip try to cool the government of trans Jordan and Egypt did they get blockaded out that's why Egypt doesn't allow them to come into their land it's not only Israel that has a blockade on the Gaza Strip
How come muslim countries that share borders with Palestine, dosen't want to take refugees from Palestine?
Two major reason: they don’t have the resources to support the refugees and they fear that if they do except the refugees Israel will then take the land that the refugees fled from and refuse to allow them to return.
Native lands belong to native people, this includes Jews, does this mean being cruel to Arabs? No, but Judaea/belongs to the Jews just as Hawaii belongs to Hawaiians, Puerto Rico belongs to Puerto Ricans, etc etc Jewish people being kicked out for years doesn’t mean they are no longer entitled to their land.
Puerto Rico’s population is predominantly Hispanic ie. It’s a product of colonialism…
We are so much stronger together... Thank you for that phrase. It really means so much more than just words. Merci
The conflict is so old that multiple generations of families have forgotten the actual history. I know this because of friends in both sides of all this.
Even if you tell it to their faces as an external party, they won’t believe you. What’s more baffling is that people outside of the conflict are actually picking sides without a full understanding of how it even started in the first place.
OMG THIS. I can't stand it when people pick a side without understanding how we got to this point in the first place.
Couldn't have said it better myself, people who don't know any of the history should really just stay out of it all together instead of picking sides based on personal bias or misinformation
I think it might be important to talk about why Israel was taken over by Babylon and Assyria, but of course you can only go to the Bible for those answers
Oh because God was jealous and decided to punish his Chosen People for worshipping the wrong gods by having the babylonians destroy their temple and enslave them?
@@JohnDRuddyMannyMan yep basically. He had a two side covenant with them, and through reading the Old Testament we see we cannot keep God's laws no matter how hard we try, which is why we now have a one side covenant covered by the blood of Jesus.
God was not evil for sending the Israelites into exile, he gave them a thousand years to change. But like the gracious God He is, they returned.
26:07 No this was not the Naqba, the Naqba (catastrophe) was that 5 Arab armies could not win against a ragtag group of Holocaust survivors all speaking different languages, with one weapon for every 3 people fighting. The Naqba was that Arabs sold Jews waste lands, malarial swamps and rocky deserts and the Jews were able to make those lands flourish.
Only later propaganda changed the meaning of Naqba to a false narrative that said that the Jews forced the Arabs from the land.
The Israelis had pre-established militias well before the war, such as Haganah and Irgun which were instrumental in Israeli victory while the Arab nations had a major lack of any military cohesion or logistics given many of these states are newly independent and don’t have the same pre-established advantages of Israel. Also, The statement of Jews purchasing and developing "waste lands, malarial swamps, and rocky deserts," implying that Palestinians did not make productive use of the land. However, many Palestinian communities had long-standing agricultural and cultural ties to the land. Establishing very sustainable and sufficient communities in these so called ‘waste lands’
No arab countries were independent at that time by the way
@@ibrahimmohammedibrahim9273 Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq all independent by 1948!! In fact the British trained the Jordanians and Egyptians and many of their officers were British!
@@shainazion4073 at that time thry were British protectorate and Puppets
Israel killed 14.000 children. You rationalize infanticide
In the context of the coordinated attack by Hamas and other armed groups against civilian and military targets throughout the Gaza periphery, the mission team found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred in multiple locations during the 7 October attacks, including rape and gang-rape in at least three locations, namely: the Nova music festival site and its surroundings, Road 232, and Kibbutz Re’im. In most of these incidents, victims first subjected to rape were then killed, and at least two incidents relate to the rape of women’s corpses
Destiny's historical reading of the situation is much better than this. Israel wasn't a colonial state
The names and purposes of the early colonization instruments read as follows: "The Jewish Colonial Trust" (1898), the "Colonization Commission" (1898), the "Palestine Land Development Company.”
Mr. Cecil Rhodes:
For some months mutual friends have been trying on my behalf to arrange a meeting between us. At the moment, however, I am so inordinately busy that it would hardly be possible for me to come to London, unless I knew in advance that you took a serious interest in the matter. This, to be sure, would be a sufficiently strong reason to travel, for I need you. In fact, all things considered, you are the only man who can help me now. Of course, I am not concealing from myself the fact that you are not likely to do so. The probability is perhaps one in a million, if this can be expressed in figures at all.
But it is a big-some say, too big-thing. To me it does not seem too big for Cecil Rhodes. This sounds like flattery; however, it does not reside in the words, but in the offer. If you participate, then you are the man. If you don't, then I have simply made a mis take.
You are being invited to help make history. That cannot frighten you, nor will you laugh at it. It is not in your accustomed line; it doesn't involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor, not Eng- lishmen, but Jews.
But had this been on your path, you would have done it yourself by now.
How, then, do I happen to turn to you, since this is an out-of-the- way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something *Colonial* .
[11] The Complete Diaries Of *Theodor* *Herzl* , Volume 3, p. 1194.
"It is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting Palestine from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority. My readers have a general idea of the history of colonisation in other countries. I suggest they consider all the precedents with which they are acquainted, and see whether there is one solitary instance of any colonisation being carried on with the consent of the native population. There is no such precedent. [...] This is equally true of the Arabs. They feel at least the same instinctive, jealous love of Palestine as the old Aztecs felt for ancient Mexico, and the Sioux for their rolling prairies. [...] Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs of Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of Palestine the Land of Israel."
-[12] The Iron Wall, Vladimir Jabotinsky (leader of Zionism)
Destiny? Are you a clown 🤡?
My only criticism is that it feels like the jewish people being expelled from israel/ palestine .. how many times? Was glossed over with a mention of it once for like 5 seconds. - But this seems like a great video.
Oh the Irish….
You are trying to present this as an objective read on history, But this is a mere interpretation of yours and also an highly inaccurate one. What genocide are you talking about? What mass starvation? No numbers support your claims. What kind of “historian” are you? Do you know what genocide really looks like? Try covering what Bassar El Assad did it his people on Syria, or the war in Yemen, or what the Turks did and still doing to The Armanians and Kurds.
I don’t mind you being a hypocrite and ignorant, But all in all this is pretty amateur work if I’ll be honest. Considered subscribing when I saw the title, but hard pass for me.
It's SO biased.
@Very_Silly_Individual Of course he's biased. He's biased against the oppressors and in favour of the oppressed. And so am I. I remain confident that the Israeli Apartheid regime will finally be overthrown. The Palestinians may be face terrific odds, but they're a tough people, and they know what they're fighting for. Intifada until victory!
@@Very_Silly_Individualyou mean it doesnt ride the zionists meat.
youre either a hasbara bot. or willfully ignorant
Man, this seems suspiciously similar to holocaust denial, doesn’t it?
I'm 47yrs old and your the only person that has taught me this.
1: After witnessing Jewish people harrassed by Palestine supports. That ruined any sympathy, I have for Palestine.
2: Bold of you to assume that Palestine will let the Jews, Queer people, and other religious minorities keep their rights when they commit jihad.
Bold of you to assume the contrary either
I grew up watching your videos and have always enjoyed them. Going into this video, I was very hopeful to get as you claimed "an unbiased" video. I think you started the video off like that. Half way through, the video became extremely one sided and just blatantly incorrect. Israel was under an arms embargo from the U.S. until after the six day war, yet you completely disregard that. You don't mention that Egypt and Jordan occupied Gaza and the West Bank after the '48 war. You say that Mizrahi and Sephardi jews left arab countries because Israel convinced them to do so. While there were communities who left because they thought they would have a better life, you completely ignore the confiscations of citizenships, massacres, and forced deportation experienced by Jews in the arab world. I am not denying Israel's actions, you seem to be at best ignoring the Arab world's actions. You mention the Sabra and Shatila massacre (a tragedy) but you don't mention the massacres committed by the PLO against Lebanese Christians. In fact, Sabra and Shatila was in response to an earlier massacre. I am not defending the actions of the Christian militias. War crime is a war crime, but don't pretend like one side is an innocent; history is complicated. When you simplify history to an audience who is unfamiliar with historical context, you spread misinformation. I stopped watching the video around the 30 min mark. I can't comment about the last 20 or so min, but this was a sad attempt at an unbiased video.
He definitely pointed out the rabid anti-semitism in the Middle East more than once in the video. The treatment of Jews in Arab countries was indeed horrible. However, that does not give Jews the right to kill innocent people and set up an Apartheid regime in Palestine. Not at all.
@@FilthyTrot I agree it doesn't give Israel the right. I simply disagree at what an apartheid state looks like (having spent time in both Israel and the Palestinian territories). By your logic, the Palestinians do not have the right to form a terrorist regime so the sword cuts both ways. Neither side is innocent.
@davidsokolovhill3902 I think the term Apartheid should absolutely be used to characterise a state that repeatedly drives members of one group off their land and then gives their homes to members of another group. Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu also visited the region, and they regarded the Israeli state as just like the Apartheid state they had fought against in their own country. And I think they would recognise Apartheid more easily than you and I. Not to mention Amnesty International recognising Israel as an Apartheid state. I oppose the killing of all innocent people, whether they be Jewish or Arab. However, I support the oppressed, and I oppose the oppressor. In this situation, I do not think the oppressed is the nuclear power supplied by the US, which controls the borders, and the land, sea and air around Gaza. I'd say the oppressed are the defenceless population without a military who are currently being bombed to kingdom come. I certainly oppose terrorism, but I still recognise that subjecting a region to Apartheid and illegal occupation for decades inevitably creates fertile soil for such groups to develop.
This has got to be the cleanest Israel/Palestine related comment section I've ever seen
its important to state that The ancient and Biblical Philistines no longer exist today.
Read the Bible story about king David the 200 foreskins sometime
This video feels like it has a very pro palestinian agenda.
failing to mentioning how many people have died in palestinian terror attcacks, and the reason wars have started, for example 2014 war, you made it seem like Israel was just bored and attacked.
I challenge you to have a one to one debate with me as you have made so many inaccurate claims in this video and have conveniently missed out a lot of important points that would have given this video a more balanced perspective instead of an inherently biased one.
I’d be interested in a conversation. Debates, particularly online debates are rarely constructive and say nothing about certain perspectives, and more about someone’s ability to debate.
Wait, who is playing victim and who is radicalised?
Why does it have to be one or the other?? History is not black and white, real life is not black and white, and yet everyone looks for the simple “these people good, those people bad” explanation. Both sides are certainly radicalised in different ways. Both sides are victims in different ways, but it’s where equivalences are drawn. The 1000+ people who were murdered in October are being used to casually justify 30 times that and more in Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza. None of these deaths are justified. Blatantly demonstrating how little value Palestinian lives are is horrendous, not to mention the huge power imbalance between Israel and Palestine, Israel and Hamas.
@JohnDRuddyMannyMan I get that. Both sides have done horrible things believing they are right. But it is a feeble attempt on the Gazan side to recover their wounded pride. If the Gazans could, in your own keywords, "colonise," they would, and have. That's how they got there in the first place. They just aren't very good at it anymore. So if I had to choose between two evils.. well, I know which side I'd choose. And don't ignore the millions of Arab Muslims live successfully in Israel. The same cannot be said in Gaza.