Comments by "Ralph Bernhard" (@ralphbernhard1757) on "travelingisrael.com" channel.

  1.  @shdw.206  There is a fine line between "ally" and "tool." Zoom in, you'll see the "ally." Zoom out, you'll see the "tool."
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  2. ​ @Anna-mj9cs  That was back in 2006 and there hasn't been an election since. Hamas ran on the platform of "anti-corruption".
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  3. People who tend indulge in the own "invented stories" are usually very quick to accuse others of "inventing stories." It's called psychological projection. I suggest searching the term, using your favorite search engine...
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  4. You would have looked at "violent stone-throwing blacks" (sic.) in SA in 1985, and said the same thing...
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  5. You are 100% correct, but ideologues do not "reason", they follow their emotions.
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  6.  @youtubeuser1993  Why not?
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  7. The people of the Levant (most of whom are Semites, and the followers of Abrahamic religions) have been "divided and ruled" over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. Strategically ambiguous rulers make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople, then during WW1 the seat of POWER playing these games changed to London/Paris, then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, the role of "divider" was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire ME was the "playground" during the Cold War). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the ME, in order to "rule" over the dissent which is classical "divide and rule". Today, they are ALL tools. Endless wars, constant dissent. Insert "levers" of lies, mistrust... Create favorites: favoratism... Divide and Rule. Oldest trick in the book... Who wields the POWER? Who has had (in all historical cases) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to "reach" all the other little "buck catchers" (tools, and other Roma era instruments of POWER), but cannot be "reached" itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organisational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline?
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  8.  @MartinU4179  Everything that fits the definition, is ethnic cleansing.
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  9.  @MartinU4179  That's kinda a long way of saying that you cheer for "tools". Right from the start, despite efforts to claim to be "neutral," GB favored the side of the immigrants they enabled entering the Levant, steering the process with "quotas." Their "favorites" (immigrants) were a "divide and rule"-technique, practiced all over the Empire. Create a "favorite" as a "proxy" (strategy) to implement own goals. The own goal of the British Empire was purely selfish: to create an ingroup which would protect the Suez Canal, from the potential attack via the landbridge of Palestine/Sanai Dessert, towards Suez by any potential rival northern Empire... [see Mackinder/Heartland Theory/Pivot of History/1904]
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  10.  @mercer1995  Divide and rule over the Levant, using pathetic weak little tools, started waaaay before 1800. It started with the Roman Empire, more than 2,000 years ago.
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  11.  @bloodgout  What came first?
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  12.  @sophroniel  Keep on cheering for your "team" in the divide and rule"-setup of the ME, your government is imposing on the region, because they are control freaks and you have the imperialist mindset. Your government needs "tools," so keep on cheering...
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  13.  @JuliaTrisler  Thank you. Education is not important. Some of the most "educated" people on the planet, are also the most easily deceived because they can't figure out how they are being used as tools by other human beings. This comments section is an example of that: filled to the brim with "slogan chanters/banner wavers."
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  14.  @mercer1995  Is "two wrongs make a right" really your strongest argument? "In rhetoric and ethics, "two wrongs don't make a right" and "two wrongs make a right" are phrases that denote philosophical norms. "Two wrongs make a right" has been considered as a fallacy of relevance, in which an allegation of wrongdoing is countered with a similar allegation. Its antithesis, "two wrongs don't make a right", is a proverb used to rebuke or renounce wrongful conduct as a response to another's transgression. "Two wrongs make a right" is considered "one of the most common fallacies in Western philosophy".[1]" [wiki]
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  15.  @mercer1995  I'm pointing out how the strategy of "divide and rule" works. Nothing else. I do not take sides. For the strategy of "divide and rule" to persist, it needs people like you. Not saying you are "good" or "bad," but that you are a human "banner waver." For imperialism to persist indefinitely, it needs people who are willing to deny reality. It is said that if somebody cannot explain something in a few minutes, that they are most likely trying to deceive you. I can explain what happened in the Levant after WW1 in 30 seconds: After WW1, the peoples of the Levant were "divided" into camps, by foreign empires, by drawing lines on the map, and with top-down "rulings" = divide and rule/conquer. It is the top-down szrategy of POWER. The 650,000 locals who lived within these "drawn borders" (Palestine) neither drew these borders, nor were they consulted.
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  16.  @aosigal8704  Historians can hardly agree on what happened last week. Why should anybody read a 2,000 year old book for historical "truth"?
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  17.  @hannahgoodman7088  The IDF is not a credible source. OK, if you say so 😂🤣
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  18.  @hannahgoodman7088  The first comment is literally taken from an IDF intelligence report. You can easily confirm it, if you copy the first 2-3 lines from my first comment in the above thread, and pasting it into your favorite browser. To avoid the allegation of "bias" which usually follows in the wake of the typical yt debate [😅] I suggest choosing one of the Israeli sites elaborating the data, or how the conclusion was reached by Israelis, that it was mainly Israeli actions leading to the Naqba.
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  19. Dutch Ministry of General Affairs asked the Legal Affairs Directorate at Foreign Affairs: “What can we say so that it appears as if Israel is not committing war crimes.”
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  20. ​ @i.sc.7460  The OP is about Israel.
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  21.  @hannahgoodman7088  I also have a credible source that you upvoted your own comment. Do you know how I know that?
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  22. Spot the landgrabber...
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  23. 8:40 Why should Egypt aid Israel in carrying out ethnic cleansing?
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  24. Israel is not a democracy. It will always do its best to ensure Palestinians don't get to vote in "Israel," the borders of which they have determined themselves.
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  25. Ever since the Balfour Declaration it has always been about CONTROL of the land.
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  26. Imperialists, and imperialist apologists always think the entire world hates them. In reality, it is they themselves who have kickstarted every single problem we face today, incl. the ME. Because the prevailing current displeasure with "Islam" is an effect of the actions of our leaders, with their past geopolitical policies. Cause: Imperialism. Effect: Opposition to imperialism. Fun fact? A hundred years ago, around the 1900s or even later, Westerners did not hate/fear/dispise the Islamic religion, or the peoples who lived in the Levant/Middle East. What changed after that? Did this region, geopolitically abbreviated as the MENA region (Middle East/North Africa) start meddling in our US/collective West affairs? Or was it our governments, in conjunction with interest groups, in other words our western empires which entered and started meddling in their affairs? It isn't difficult to grasp. We (USA/collective West) must get out of their world.
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