Comments by "zjeee" (@zjeee) on "How did Israel Become a Country? | Animated History" video.

Both sides can trace back land ownership, there are plenty of other peoples that can make claims too. That area has been owned by many different empires and peoples over the span of history. While land ownership and rights is interesting from a historical standpoint it's utterly irrelevant in the real world. Israel has the stronger army, stronger economy and more powerful friends. You can try and trace back 100000 years in history all you want, it won't change anything these factors are the only relevant ones. Besides claiming all Jews in Israel are European is just plainly false. 40% of the Israeli population are Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahi Jews are descended from Jews in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia and parts of the Caucasus, who had lived for many generations under Muslim rule during the Middle Ages.
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So it is not a hostile environment when your neighbors gang up to invade you multiple times 6 vs 1? I'd hate to see a "real" hostile environment then if this is a peaceful environment. Yeah I mean they only fired 300 rockets at us today, it's not like last week's 10000. Sure is peaceful today. Said no Israeli, ever. lol
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@anon-yd2gh Genetics? History? Israel is has the most powerful military in the area, they also have the world's most powerful nation as its ally. History and genetics matters little, if you want to hold on to land ownership you need military force to back your claims up. If those claims are strong, rooted in history, genetics, weak, non existent it doesn't matter. I am not trying to be mean that's just how it is.
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They are Arabs though lol.
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Borders can always be redrawn it's not like the British are the only ones capable of drawing lines on a map.
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@karlsendas8806 You mean the guy that died more than 40 years before the actual creation of the state of Israel which came about when the British gave the Jews the territory they took from the Ottoman empire? Doesn't sound like colonization to me it sounds like the landowners at that time (the British) gave them the land quite willingly. Who would the natives of that land be? The Ottomans? The Mamluks? Perhaps the Christian kingdoms? The Romans? The Ancient Egyptians? The Assyrians? The Kingdom of Judea? That piece of land changed ownership so frequent there are plenty that can claim to be natives.
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@stray8468 "your opinion is not allowed only my opinion is real, shut up".
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The same Gaza that they used to own and gave away to the Palestinians? That Gaza? Yes giving it away was probably a mistake one they have to pay for now, I don't think they will claim Gaza it's pretty much worthless, it's being held alive by billions in foreign aid money it cannot sustain itself. I think they are going to make it smaller and set up a no-mans land occupied by international UN peacekeepers between Israel and Gaza.
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@stray8468 Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, I don't agree with your take I think history shows otherwise but hey you are free to have that opinion.
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@Shehroze15 Technically it was part of the Ottoman Empire and was then taken over by the British before it was handed over to Israel.
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Probably.
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