Comments by "David Rubin" (@davidrubin5140) on "Candid with Lubna" channel.

  1. From living in Israel, I have considerable experience with Muslim Arab populations and culture both here, in Lebanon, Gaza, Jordan, Judea and Samaria, and Egypt. I concur with everything you said. Also, in recent years, it has finally come out that almost all Israeli POW in all the wars going back to independence, were raped in captivity. Even inside Israel, where women's rights are protected by a Western style democracy and rule of law, nevertheless there are recurring "honor" killings in Arab towns, always having to do with sex or gender "transgressions" or perceived transgressions, usually perpetuated by fathers, brothers, and uncles. Rape is so inculcated in the culture as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, that many Arab men who rape men would never consider themselves homosexual AND many men who rape women would never conceive of it as rape, since it is always the woman's "fault". Not that rape isn't a problem in all cultures and all countries.
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  2. Unfortunately, Trump's pronouncement is not a real plan, just a negotiating ploy, It's textbook Trump: propose something outrageous, scare the opponent, and then negotiate to something more acceptable. He wants to force the Arab countries to take more responsibility. I think it will fail, the Arabs really want no part of it or of the Gazans. The idea of a 2 state solution is dead. The Arabs never accepted it, the Israelis did accept it in the 80's and 90's but the constant attempt to exterminate them has pushed Israeli Jews public sentiment to the right. Also the demographics have changed, there are well over 500,000 Jews living in Samaria and Judea and they are never leaving, as it is the heartland of the Jews, where our name comes from (Judea or the southern West Bank) and well we need room to live like everyone else. The conflict is unsolvable. The future is one of increased killing and displacement. The only question is who will bear the brunt, and of course it is likely to be the Gaza , Judean, and Samarian Arabs.
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  3. I for one appreciate the burqa because it identifies the people who are most likely to hate me as a Jew, Israeli, and person of Western liberal values. Forewarned is forearmed. However, it only identifies women, and as we know, men are by far the greater threat. So I would like to see Muslim men also wear the burqa. As it stands now, I can't identify the male haters by how they are dressed. I myself wear a visible Star of David and IDF identity tag. It's not as loud and obnoxious as a full body curtain but it is still visible.
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  4. You can add to the list the ethnic cleansing of 1 million Jews from the whole Arab and Muslim world in the late 1940's and early 1950's, people who never attacked their home countries or neighbors, unlike the Palestinians in Israel who launched attacks from the late 1800's until today.
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  5. Egypt, Jordan, and Syria failed in at least 4 wars to eliminate Israel. Since then, they have, instead of frontal attacks, maintained the Gaza, Samaria, and Judea Arabs in a constant state of not belonging, not giving them citizenship, relative poverty and underdevelopment while making sure that weapons reach them. Every bullet and rocket that Hamas uses came through Egypt. Every weapon in the West Bank comes through Jordan. Their populations are overwhelmingly against the cold peace with Israel. I know this first hand after traveling to Egypt and Jordan various times. It is in their national, ideological, and popular interest to keep Israel in a constant state of terror attacks. The idea that they will support any part of Trump's plan is delusion. Nasty sick man that he is, he is still a rather stupid and ignorant American and the Arabs, masters for millenia of living in dangerous and complicated circumstances are imminently aware of this. They also take the long view, time is on their side, they believe and I tend to agree.
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  6. I have a Muslim friend from Nigeria. He is a good and kind man but one day in conversation, he said he didn't believe that women were actually raped ever, that they are always complicit.
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