Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "UsefulCharts" channel.

@danielbond9755 Yes, Israel is strategically and ideologically valuable to the Judeo-Christian world and no-one is hiding that fact. As for the so-called 'Palestinians', there was no invasion. There was the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, after being defeated in WWI. The Middle East land of the Ottoman Empire was split up between Arab tribes and a tiny portion was granted to the indigenous Jews. The Arabs got 99% of the dismembered Ottoman lands. Do you also fight for the Kurds to have their own country? What about the Lebanese Christians who were once in the majority but are now living in a hell-hole? And have you heard of the 13 million South Asians who were displaced, killed and raped, when new countries were formed in the Indian sub-continent in 1947? Do you also fight for the Greeks to have their own towns back when the Turks kicked them out? And for the 850,000 Jews who were ethnically cleansed from Arab lands, to you also lobby for them to be able to claim reparations for what they had to leave behind? Your arguments are superficial, like a child whining because they didn't get to keep their toy. The 'Palestinians' are being used as political weapons in the game of Muslim vs Jew, and that's abhorrent. UNRWA should be dismantled and all genuine Palestinian refugees resettled in other countries. Thankfully the Arab nations are now starting to see the Palestinian 'cause' as irrelevant, and the Abraham Accords is bringing about a huge change in the area. More than 20% of Israeli citizens are from Arab families who were lucky enough to choose to remain, and today they live good lives with equal rights. Being indigenous does count and Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jews. Please watch PragerU video "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?" to get a better grasp on the international law perspective.
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@saifty1st : The indigenous people are those who have a continuous connection to the land through their language, their traditions, and their religious practices. Most of the Jews were exiled from historic Palestine a long time ago, however in 1920 the international community acknowledged their claim to be the indigenous people of the area in the League of Nations San Remo Agreement. They were given the legal right to establish a homeland in today's Israel. All non-Jews who lived there at the time were to be accorded 'equality under the law'. Today Israel is made up of 21% Arab citizens who do live as equals under the law with Jews, and they serve in government, health, judiciary, technology, and even in the defence services. They chose to accept citizenship in the newly-founded Jewish nation, rather than going to war against the Jews when the five Arab nations launched their attack in 1948. The Allied Forces (British, French etc.) were NOT bound by any international agreement to hand over the defeated Ottoman Caliphate land in 1918. But they did. Today the Arabs have self-determination over 99% of that collapsed Ottoman Empire Middle East land. Their countries are Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. The Jews are still struggling to establish their safe and secure home on less than 1% of that land, which is their ancestral homeland. Any Arab-Palestinian who is hostile to Jews, or who are still living stateless and hopeless in a refugee camp in Lebanon, Jordan or Syria, should be given assistance to apply for resettlement in an Arab nation, or in a third country. They are what we call anywhere else in the world 'displaced peoples'. Millions of people have been 'displaced' in the last 100 years due to the forming of new countries. But it's only the Arabs who happened to live in the British Mandate of Palestine at the time of Israel's founding who continue decades later to be given huge funding and publicity. Please stop using the so-called 'Palestinians' as weapons in your activism against the Jews. Jerusalem and historic Palestine belong to the Jews.
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@pelinalwhitestrake3367 : If there is a god, he's clearly also on the side of the Jews who are the indigenous people of historic Palestine.
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@skysea5786 With Jerusalem under the control of a secular democracy like Israel, people of ALL faiths and beliefs CAN visit Jerusalem freely TODAY. Tourism is huge in Israel. However the Islamic WAQF rulers from Jordan will not allow free visitation and worship on Temple Mount. But that might change in the future. Jesus was a Jew, and Jerusalem belongs to the Jews. Islam is an ideology of invasion and conquest, and the Muslim claim to Jerusalem is primarily political. They already have Mecca and Medina as their primary holy sites.
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@mizrahiwithattitude2733 : The Jews are the indigenous people of the Holy Land. There can never be 'equality' where Sharia law is fully implemented. A Muslim man rates higher than a Muslim woman (eg. marriage and divorce laws are very unequal). Jews and Christians (dhimmis) rate lower again than Muslims, and they are never granted equality unless Sharia is rejected for some reason. Minorities are persecuted and have no legal status, including apostates from Islam. It's horrible.
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@danielbond9755 I'm sorry you didn't look at that PragerU video. I had hoped you would refute the lawyer's claims about international land rights, rather than ignoring it. You also seem to have a strange idea about indigenous people. It's not about 'control' or 'history'. It's about their continuous connection to the land. But I'm glad that you do support other indigenous and human rights causes, separate to the so-called 'Palestinian' one. The Palestinian refugees are being held in limbo to serve a political agenda and I find that abhorrent.
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The Islamic world is in crisis and the Arab nations are beginning to ignore the Palestinian 'claim' on Jerusalem. I am positive about peace coming to the area, with freedom of worship for all people, now that Jerusalem is back under Jewish control.
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It's pretty clear that Islam restricts religious worship by other faiths. No religion can challenge the superiority of Islam. Repairing places of worship, or building new ones to replace those that have been attacked and destroyed, is very difficult in most Muslim-majority countries. How intolerant Islam is depends on many factors but there will very likely be a ban on proselytising or conversion. This is how Islam has survived over the last 1400 years.
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@NTLuck Islam is primarily a political ideology which masquerades as a religion. I'm not so interested in what a regular Muslim finds to be endorsed in Islamic scriptures of Quran, Hadith, Sira or Tafsirs. It's much more helpful to look at what Islamic leaders do. The central message of Islam is 'supremacy' and 'subjugation' of those who don't accept the ideology [Quran 9:29: "Fight against those who do not believe in Allah or in the Last Day and who do not consider unlawful what Allah and His Messenger have made unlawful and who do not adopt the religion of truth [Islam] from those who were given the Scripture - [fight] until they give the jizyah willingly while they are humbled."] Put that together with Sharia and you have an environment which ensures that the non-Muslim is never on an equal footing with the Muslim. Wherever Jews and Christians live as a minority in a Muslim country they are persecuted, not able to practice their religion freely, always living in fear of attack or kidnapping of their daughters. I live mostly in Muslim-majority countries and I see this everywhere. It's dangerous to speak openly about this subject in many places. Where Jerusalem and 'historic Palestine' are concerned, many Muslims tell me that they are obligated to drive out the Jews because that land was once under Islamic rule. They quote Quran 2:191 for this: "Kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from where they drove you out, as Fitnah (to create disorder) is more severe than killing. However, do not fight them near Al-Masjid-ul-Harām (the Sacred Mosque in Makkah) unless they fight you there. However, if they fight you (there) you may kill them. Such is the reward of the disbelievers." They tell me that after they have won back Palestine, they will come for Andalusia.
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@mizrahiwithattitude2733 : The Jewish and Christian traditions both have a connection to the Holy Land because Jesus was a Jew, and both uphold the concept of "all humans are born equal and should be treated equally by the law". Is this controversial?
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Well said...🙏
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@theuncausedcause5780 : Yes we all saw the Muslim gangs with molotov cocktails, rocks, firecrackers, and other things that they had weaponised to throw down on people praying at the Temple's Western Wall. Even the older Muslims who came to pray were horrified at what those Muslim gangs were doing, having been spurred on by the terrorist group Hamas. Thank god for social media. We all saw the young guys with shoes on in Al-Aqsa mosque playing football, and their stockpiles of rocks, bricks and stones. It reminds me of what the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan once said "The mosques are our barracks, the minarets our bayonets, the domes our helmets and the faithful our soldiers. I'm super happy that the Jews are back in control of the Temple Mount, their holiest site.
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The Arabs stupidly have never accepted that option. It is now off the table.
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@weltfenos1021 It was a stupid and regrettable decision. Is that clearer? The Arabs have scored countless own goals where Israel-Palestine is concerned. You can decide if “they are all dumb” or not.
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Jerusalem and historic Palestine is the ancestral homeland of the Jews. In 1920 the international community, via the League of Nations, acknowledged the Jews as the indigenous people of the area. The Jews should remain in control of Jerusalem forever. They are known to practice freedom of religion and will allow others to access the holy sites, unlike the Jordanian Muslim Waqf which refused free worship. Israel is strategically and ideologically important to the Judeo-Christian world and I defend the right of Israel to exist and thrive. Thankfully the Arab world has begun to ignore the 'conflict' in the area and it is moving towards peace for all.
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Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, the indigenous people. Islam has Mecca and Medina. The Islamic conquest of Jerusalem was political. With Jerusalem under Israeli control, people of all faiths will be able to visit and worship there. Under Muslim control that was not possible.
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@abloodorange5233 : An 'own goal' was scored in 1948 by the attacking Arab nations who told the Palestinian Arabs to flee, then return after the Jews had been annihilated. A two-state solution is impossible. The Muslims are obligated by their god to "drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out" [Quran 2:191]. The winners are the 20% of Arabs whose families accepted equal rights under Jewish rule. They are thriving today compared with those Arabs who live in refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, or under corrupt and terrorist leadership in Gaza and the so-called West Bank.
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@abloodorange5233 The so-called 'Palestinians' are only hurting themselves. They will continue to be left behind while the approximately 40 million people who were 'displaced' over the last 100 years have settled in new countries and are mostly thriving. Those Arabs who accepted Israeli rule in 1948 are also thriving, relative to those who fled their homes in 1948 when the Arab armies attacked. Most of the Arabs in the Palestine region were also fairly new arrivals, immigrating when the British took control in 1918 and the Jews began investing in infrastructure and in economic improvement. Many have names such as-Kurd, Yemeni, al-Masri, etc. Arabs are not the 'indigenous' people of historic Palestine. The Jews are, and that counts.
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@danielbond9755 Well 'something' is clearly on the side of the Israelis. They have been attacked numerous times by the Arab nations yet they are still thriving. As to where the 'Palestinians' of today come from, we know that many have names such as El-Kurd, Al-Yemini, Al-Masri (Egyptian), Al-Turki, etc. indicating that their families immigrated to the area. Many came after the British took control and the Zionists invested money in infrastructure, and economic and agricultural projects. Today's Jordan is also around 70% 'Palestinian'. Of course many would have lived in the Palestine region for generations, even since the first Islamic invasion and conquest. Some Palestinian Muslims have even discovered that they have Jewish forbears who converted to Islam for safety. When the Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918, the Palestinian people included Jews, Christians, Druze, Bedouin, etc. The Arabs are indigenous to Arabia. The Jews are indigenous to 'historic Palestine'. And 21% of Israeli citizens today are Israeli Arabs, some who identify as 'Palestinian Israelis'. There never was a 'Palestinian' people as such. So what's your point?
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@achmad6962 : Mecca wasn't even on a map until the 9th century. It's all a made up story to suit someone's agenda. Abraham probably never went near that area of the Hijaz.
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It's sad for the Palestinian Arabs, but what you say has much truth...🙏
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Islamic leaders were offered that many times, and rejected it each time. It's now off the table. Israel is a secular democracy with strong rule of law. They will allow access by people of all faiths. Islam has Mecca and Medina. Jerusalem was just a political conquest for them with a 'story' written to back it up.
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