The only democracy in the Middle East by Aamer Rahman

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  • Опубліковано 10 вер 2024

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  • @padmaborrego
    @padmaborrego 3 місяці тому +51

    Brilliantly spoken and unfortunately painfully true.
    A little laughter makes stomaching it a little easier.

  • @spacetimevortex
    @spacetimevortex 2 місяці тому +11

    that silence. thank you

  • @NaderNabilart
    @NaderNabilart 2 місяці тому +26

    Amazing!! Putting everything into perspective. RIP Refat Alarer, Hind, Samar Anton, Dunia AbuMohsen, Waled Daqa, Rachel Corie, Tom Hurndal, and tens of thousands more we don't know about and we should.

  • @MrDrewlips
    @MrDrewlips 3 місяці тому +20

    exactly. word!

  • @MTKarthik
    @MTKarthik 3 місяці тому +17

    so good. so so good. thank you.

  • @hasibalfuad9652
    @hasibalfuad9652 2 місяці тому +2

    Brilliant Monologue. The voices should never be silenced. If human get silenced against crime the evil wins.

  • @JayToons
    @JayToons 2 місяці тому +13

    And it's even true. Israel is not the only democracy in the middle east. Lebanon, Iraq (after US invasion), Turkey

    • @Honest_Question
      @Honest_Question 2 місяці тому

      When they say "democracy" they just mean "white western American ally"

    • @AbdoMSG
      @AbdoMSG 2 місяці тому +6

      And dont forget the democracies that fell like Egypt

    • @Honest_Question
      @Honest_Question 2 місяці тому +7

      @@AbdoMSG *That israel toppled

    • @ravidlivne7317
      @ravidlivne7317 2 місяці тому

      Turkey's not a democracy at present day. Lebanon is, but not a very functioning one.

    • @JayToons
      @JayToons 2 місяці тому

      @@ravidlivne7317 turkey is a democracy like it or not, they have elections (just had municipal this year) and they are clean, no international org is questioning them .. yes, erdogan is in power for too long, but so is netanyahu,and even merkel was in power for too long
      And lebanon is a democracy, functioning of not functioning doesn't matter .. israel is considered a full democracy yet netanyahu changed media laws and diminished the judicial power, which goes against democratic values

  • @abdulrenishr
    @abdulrenishr 2 місяці тому +9

    Well said

  • @OPQRS328
    @OPQRS328 3 місяці тому +10

    so good!

  • @ahmedistiak
    @ahmedistiak 2 місяці тому +3

    This was brilliant!

  • @aftonair
    @aftonair 2 місяці тому +2

    Thank you. Well said.

  • @jackieroberts2625
    @jackieroberts2625 2 місяці тому

    Thank you for educating people, Aamer Rahman ❤

  • @yavuztezcan8684
    @yavuztezcan8684 2 місяці тому +2

    Amazing talk, thank you

  • @samerghelou
    @samerghelou 2 місяці тому +11

    The big truth

  • @zainabamadahy9918
    @zainabamadahy9918 2 місяці тому +2

    Truth.

  • @yads5678
    @yads5678 2 місяці тому +3

    Cathartic. Period. 💔🍉

  • @nywrep
    @nywrep 2 місяці тому +2

    John Brown !

  • @dixztube
    @dixztube 2 місяці тому

    Lmaooo this is so sad and true tho 😢

  • @aaddaamm1100
    @aaddaamm1100 2 місяці тому +6

    Israel elections is with letter vs. Palstinians elections hamas thorough Fatah out of the window.

  • @alucardbrahmstone6659
    @alucardbrahmstone6659 2 місяці тому +1

    You dont seem to understand that the military support their provided their paying for it. Sometimes when your a struggling comedian you will jump to anything just to gain momentum for your career. Dont ride the moral fallacy cause if you will say that its the only democracy in middle east then what does that say about the rest of the countries surrounding it?

    • @jackieroberts2625
      @jackieroberts2625 2 місяці тому

      This is dumb

    • @alucardbrahmstone6659
      @alucardbrahmstone6659 2 місяці тому

      @@jackieroberts2625 Define dumb

    • @saqlainalvi3333
      @saqlainalvi3333 2 місяці тому

      That's not even true. They are not the only democracy There. Lebanon, iraq, turkey, iran are other democracies. They might be flawed democracies but democracies nonetheless. And you can't tell me that the genoc!dal state of is-r@el is a perfect democracy by any metric. Also what do you mean they pay for the support? US provides 4bn dollars worth of military aid to them every year. How are they paying for this free aid?

    • @alucardbrahmstone6659
      @alucardbrahmstone6659 2 місяці тому

      @@saqlainalvi3333 HUWAT????Those are democracy? Are you mental?!!! Gays in those areas especially in Lebanon and Iran is thrown off the roofs or sentenced to death!! You know what IRAN do to gays having same sex relations?

  • @beniluv3250
    @beniluv3250 2 місяці тому

    Only country in the levant with 24hr electricity, including in the conquered land.
    Palestinian have a better life, underocvupation, than jordanian, lebanese, syrian and egyptian put togather.

  • @brianoswalt-it7le
    @brianoswalt-it7le 2 місяці тому +1

    Kinda forgetting about everything else

  • @KryCaNe
    @KryCaNe 2 місяці тому +3

    Correction Sir: “A vibrant democracy”.

  • @GongGong-zk8qs
    @GongGong-zk8qs 2 місяці тому +2

    This guy will get booed off stage if he came to Singapore.

    • @Honest_Question
      @Honest_Question 2 місяці тому +4

      lol who tf cares 😂😂

    • @Zyglindas007
      @Zyglindas007 2 місяці тому

      This guy will be arrested and banned for life in germany the biggest complicent of genocide 😊

    • @hassangingi7033
      @hassangingi7033 2 місяці тому +1

      What is Singapore???

    • @-MO22
      @-MO22 2 місяці тому

      No one gives af about Singapore lol

  • @yaaraamozig4862
    @yaaraamozig4862 2 місяці тому +4

    Israel is the only democracy that suffered the ladt 20 years of rocket fire at it.
    Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East that expelled 8000 of its residents from Gaza, and left, hoping that there would be peace and that the Palestinians in Gaza would concentrate on construction, this did not happen.
    Israel is the only democracy that faces existential wars.
    It is important to criticize Israel, but it is important understand in depth and it is important to be precise, otherwise it is just talk to fill in good and righteous

    • @Talel_kraiem
      @Talel_kraiem 2 місяці тому

      Where was Israel before 1948 ?
      Indeed there's a proof that some arab families live in Gaza before the establishment of Israel, so it's not expelling its citizens, it's like I took something from you and I give it back to make piece with you.. don't get fooled..
      I think if people want to establish a state in palestine they should seek to merge into Palestinians and be jews from there ..
      but man two states with same land , you will never cease war..
      Sympathy for Palestinian, I used to support Israel, I even wrote on the table in my college, support Israel, don't be fool for what they tell Israel is good,
      turns out there's a huge difference between a supremacy of God chosen people , and the kind jews that my mother used to tell me about. in context I'm arab imagine doing such a thing where I would be expelled for my beliefs?
      My view changed I love jews and I respect them , and I hate zionism

    • @yaaraamozig4862
      @yaaraamozig4862 2 місяці тому +3

      @@Talel_kraiem Hey,
      A. Thanks for your response
      B. There is no point in debating whether it was right to establish the State of Israel in 1948, 76 years have passed, as of today the state exists.
      C. One binational state is not practical, because the Jews will not be able to defend themselves, and the whole purpose of establishing the Jewish state was self-determination for the Jews and a state where they could defend themselves.
      d. I hope that in the end they will manage to establish two countries and live with mutual respect, but I think that it will take many decades,
      it's sad.

    • @corvacopia
      @corvacopia 2 місяці тому +4

      @@yaaraamozig4862all of the people of the levant deserve self determination, not just us Jews. It is the same land that is holy, it is the same land where people’s homes are, it cannot be simply divided up. Israel and the Political Zionist movement that proceeded it have made Jews far, far less safe. My family lived in Morocco for hundreds of years, we were safe there, we were Moroccans like everyone else, we were only treated like outsiders after Israel said that really Israel was our state and home, not the place we’d lived for hundreds of years, and even then we were treated far better in Morocco than many of our fellow Jews who went from Morocco to Israel.
      There are many countries where this was the case, too varying degrees and with differences in one area or the other. The Middle East and North Africa did not treat us the way our people were treated in Europe, Muslim and Christian Arabs in most of the Arab world saw the Jews there as other Arabs, or other nationals of those countries. This all could’ve been avoided.
      And as to the point of Israel being “the only democracy that faces existential wars,” the Palestinian Nationalist movement began as a movement for a secular democracy. The Yshiv waged an existential war on that movement, and Israel has spent its entire existence waging an existential war on the Palestinian people. Israel hid from us what it had done for years, and since had resealed the records with only limited access where specific dates have to be requested, because when Israeli Historians read what had been done in ‘48, what they wrote was anathema to the propaganda Israel relied on.
      Israel has allied itself with the far right in Europe and America, Netanyahu has close political ties to Donald Trump, who told self-avowed neo-Nazis to “stand back and stand by,” our people become less safe any time the far right grows, and Israel has been actively aiding and abetting that movement throughout the rest of the world, as they have been doing for Israel.
      The far right gaining power and influence is the greatest danger to us all

    • @yaaraamozig4862
      @yaaraamozig4862 2 місяці тому +2

      ​@@corvacopiaHey,
      1. Thank you for your reply
      2. indeed, the establishment of Israel led (indirectly and not intentionally) to the destruction of all Jewish communities in Arab countries and North Africa
      3. I do not know enough about the past situation of the aforementioned Jewish communities, so I cannot say anything about this issue
      4. Indeed, Israel is currently the most dangerous place for Jews in the world
      5. Indeed, the right has grown stronger in Israel, I personally protest against them for many years
      6. All I ask is to deeply understand the complexity of the situation in the region, and after understanding choose the right thing to fight for.
      Otherwise you do more harm than good

    • @nathanielmartins5930
      @nathanielmartins5930 2 місяці тому

      ​@@yaaraamozig4862
      Ben Gurian would disagree with your second point.
      He went on the record in the Knesset to say that his "Solution" to the "Demographic Question" was to have the over Million Mizrahim Jews of the Middle East immigrate to Israel one way or another.

  • @aaddaamm1100
    @aaddaamm1100 3 місяці тому +1

    Well Israel didn't get humenitrian aid october 7. And in the north hizbolla is not giving israel any humenutrian aid as well

    • @eduardoestebanmartinezdele2219
      @eduardoestebanmartinezdele2219 3 місяці тому +15

      OK Karen.

    • @oslolucho716
      @oslolucho716 3 місяці тому

      you are dumbb, read a boook😂

    • @DJ-nk1cm
      @DJ-nk1cm 2 місяці тому

      Billions of dollars from aipac controlled US government should help though.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 2 місяці тому +11

      It did get aid actually, from the us, in the form of weapons. Also, it's a rich country, meanwhile Lebanon isn't that stable, so israel wouldn't be in a place to be for aid

    • @aaddaamm1100
      @aaddaamm1100 2 місяці тому

      @@minestar2247 I mean aid from Lebanon, they are supposed to suply aid into Israel everything they bomb Israel. You now like Israel supply aid to gaza

  • @gregrapsp
    @gregrapsp 2 місяці тому +3

    Maybe if Palestinians didn't use genocidal rhetoric and act on that rhetoric, they wouldn't be treated so badly. You reap what you sow

    • @aurancrash4654
      @aurancrash4654 2 місяці тому +10

      Ok Karen.

    • @gregrapsp
      @gregrapsp 2 місяці тому

      @@aurancrash4654 good to see you agree

    • @asimomar7505
      @asimomar7505 2 місяці тому +9

      Maybe if Israel doesn't colonize the Palestinian lands they wouldn't be attacked in the first place....
      Looks like you never saw was Israel did before Oct 7
      Ƙƴṣ

    • @dftp
      @dftp 2 місяці тому +7

      I guess you also think the Germans in WW2 were justified in doing what they did because the Slavs resisted their conquest

    • @gregrapsp
      @gregrapsp 2 місяці тому

      @@asimomar7505 Why Should we have sympathy for people who want to un alive us?