Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "travelingisrael.com" channel.

Yes, even a simple reading of history shows the aims of Pan-Arabism to eliminate Israel in order to join the "Sisters" together into one contiguous state. The 1921 Arab Congress stated that aim, and it was repeated by Arafat, who also said Solomon's Temple was figment of Zionist imagination.
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Armenians in East Jerusalem fought alongside Arabs against Jews in 1948 and still proud of it.
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@GardenerGeorge "Shallow"? "Converts"? you just through under the bus the cultural underpinnings of most of the planet for thousands of years. Regardless of modern identifications, which are many in a liberal democracy like Israel, which you call a failure, is their justification for any group to have recognized physical borders of a nation/state. Do you believe any nation/state has the justification to exist? I'm not hiding in the "bronze age" but living in the modern age of the Westphalian agreements from the 17th century, still with us in the form of the United Nations. If you mean justice requires the "right of return" to 1967 borders for displaced descendents, that's possible, with the caveat certain land must be retained for security reasons, like the Golan Heights. But the right of return to 1947 is not justice. Israel is a nation/state with a majority Jewish population, and that's no "Bronze Age" fantasy.
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@RoninDave Yemenite Mahras are the purest Yemenis with the least foreign admixture besides a few individuals having SE Asian ancestry.They also have the most Natufian DNA. The deserts of Arabia did not come into being until 6,000 years ago. The Natufian lived in rather lush surroundings, every different from what's there now. About 14,400 years ago in the Black Desert of northeastern Jordan, someone was tinkering with the recipe for the perfect pita. This auspicious moment in culinary history has been captured by researchers who sampled the contents of two stone fireplaces at the site of Shubayqa 1. The team, led by University of Copenhagen archaeobotanist Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, found that the people living at this small campsite, hunter-gatherers who belonged to a culture known as the Natufians, were making unleavened bread-like products at least 4,000 years before the dawn of agriculture. Canaanites were a mixture of Zagros/Caucasian migrants and ancient Levantine farmers. Quasi-Canaanite ancestry is a major genetic source for Jews and Palestinians alike, though Palestinians have had less European admixture over time. I'm not one to point to the bible for justification of a nation/state for one and not the other, nor DNA. The current framework for civilization is the Westphalian agreements from the 17th Century and the concept of nation/state sovereignty. That framework is under attack by some Arabs and some Western Europeans, but for different reasons. Live in peace, share the land, let each have sovereignty.
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@RoninDave Yemeni Jews have the deepest roots to the Natuian people. 50,000 refugees By the time Operation Magic Carpet ended in September 1950, 28 pilots had made some 380 flights and airlifted nearly 50,000 refugees to Israel- almost the entire Yemeni Jewish population.
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@mistergray9664 Did you check the dates? Do you remember anything from the first the year of your life? Does he say he remembers being in a camp? No, he uses his mother's suffering as his own. Something odd about that. I'm a Litvak Jew, some of my people got out in the 1880s and fought as American Soldiers in WW2. I can imagine how many cousins didn't survive the War. He's made a career as a "Holocaust Survivor", and often his "feelings" don't align with facts. If a Zionist is someone who supports a nation/state, then I am one. I also support the nation/state of my birth, America, something Mate doesn't even do for his place of birth, Canada, where he lives now. We live in a time when some people no longer believe in the Westphalian Peace of nation/state borders. I wish they would be more transparent about that. I wish humans will someday progress beyond requiring borders, but that day is not reality.
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@smalt0 "indigenous"? That part of the globe has been a human crossroad for more than 10,000 years, unlike the "indigenous" people of say Australia or the last wave that came into the Western Hemisphere. That word does not apply in this case. Even the word "Palestine" is not "indigenous", it is an Indo-European word, not Arabic, and first used by the Ancient Greeks. There isn't even a letter "P" or "P" sound in the Arabic language. After 1948 Arabs stayed in the new nation/state, they now number 21% of the Israeli population, serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court, and the IDF. Show me the comparable in neighboring a State? The Kurds are more "indigenous" to the region than the Egyptians who flowed into Gaza under the British Mandate.
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@freeto9139 Wow, the fantasy of the "native" living in a garden of Eden. The swamp lands in what is now Central California was full of pestilence and disease, the natives came only at certain times of the year, but still got sick and died. "Harmony" until you got a cut and died of septicemia. What do you think the pre-Columbian infant mortality rate was? Or your life span if a neighbor to the Aztec. Evil did not arrive with Columbus.
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