Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "Israel/Palestine: An Honest Conversation" video.
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There is no Israeli in Israel living on land which was expropriated from it's private owner by Israel. They are living on land they BOUGHT. Israel upholds private property rights and the rule of law, just the same as other nations in the Western civilizational tradition. For centuries in Islamic ruled lands, property "rights" of "dhimis" (Jews and Christians) were subject to arbitrary abbrogation. Muslims think this is their right. That is part of the program, to seize the purchased property of non-Muslims along with improvements without compensation.
In the US and most Western nations the fount of sovereign legitimacy is the "consent of the governed". Unlike any other polity in the region, the government of Israel is democratically elected. Arab, Muslim, Christian, and atheist citizens in Israel have full rights including the vote, which is unique in the region. Foreigners traveling in Israel have full protection of Israeli law which is not afforded to natives in neighboring nations.
The "Palestinian problem" is an artifact of a colonial power trying to hold on to control. The Mandate administration brought in and cultivated a criminal element to serve their private interest and subvert the Mandate. The Jews aren't squatters, the Palestinians are. There is no consistent standard whereby the Palestinians are entitled to sovereignty, and the Israelis are not, and the Palestinians won't negotiate to form a compromise which allows for the existence of Israel.
At the end of WW2, disputed and other territories part of Germany and Japan before the war. were transferred to other polities. It is an established principle that the aggressor who tries to seize territory can be punished by losing territory instead when he loses.
In every sense and category, the anti-Israel zealots apply an unequal standard against her. By priority, by international law, by natural law principle, by conquest, by democratic vote, by every standard which has ever historically been recognized to convey title, Israel's current borders are legitimate. The counter-narrative is a construct of leftist enmity for the West which entails an alliance with the enemies of the West. The left has been an enemy of Israel ever since the 1960s when the Soviet Union sided with Israel's enemies. Israel's sovereignty is legitimate, Israel's survival is legitimate, and there cannot be a two state solution until Palestinians are willing to accept a two-state solution.
The current libel has two buzzwords, "apartheid" and "genocide". In the defining example of the first term, blacks in South Africa during apartheid did not have the right to vote or equal protection under the law. Therefore, the term is slander. The Palestinians have been completely in Israel's power at least since the 1960s. If genocide were Israel's policy, the Palestinians would be extinct, instead of more populous than ever. If genocide where the current war policy, Israel wouldn't be issuing warnings to the Palestinian populace about future targets, granting safe corridors for flight, or committing ground troops early accepting increased casualties in their military to minimized civilian casualties. The genocide charge is also slander.
In the current conflict Israel is conducting total war by the same rules the Anglophone Allies played by in the Second World War. Those rules did not preclude civilian casualties then, and they don't now. Fortunately, at that time the adults were in charge else those very rules would by now be a relic from a banned history book.
Leftists have fondly imagined themselves using Islamic jihad as a tool to destroy the West, then taking over and stealing the revolution. Events unfolding in Europe are beginning to awaken them to the fact that they don't have what it takes to prevail against their erstwhile allies. Conservatives tolerate extreme opposing views. Islam does not. The left have systematically banished martial virtues and values deemed worth fighting for. They don't have the dynamism to stand against the threat they have unleashed. Only conservatives and holdouts for western values retain the dynamism to hold the line and resist Islam as they did in the past.
Israel stands as a front line outpost of Western values against the most autocratic major hegemonic imperialist power the world has ever known. The Communists and Nazis are pikers by comparison. A second Holocaust in the form of the "river to the sea" extirpation of Israel wouldn't obviate jihad, it would reward, empower, and encourage it and move the front toward us, as the jihadists affirm themselves. Enemies of Israel are the enemies of the very same liberal values they contort to slander Israel, as their founding and defining literature affirms. Leftists have sown and continue to sow the wind and if they get their way will reap the tornado.
PERSONAL freedom is the only meaningful sort. "Group freedom" is invariably a smoke screen for tyranny. Taiwan votes to maintain its democracy, group freedom says mainland China owns them because they're Chinese. Northern Ireland votes to remain in the UK, group freedom says Ireland owns them because they're Irish. Many Blacks in the US vote Republican, Joe Biden and many other Democrats say the Democrat Party owns them because they're Black. (My! That sounds familiar!) Hitler says the destiny of Germany is important and Germans are being oppressed, he proceeds to steal other countries and murder racial minorities.
Legitimate political organizations group to protect personal freedom from threats. That is the lone and essential purpose of government: to FORCE people to mind their own business. Because left to themselves, THEY WILL NOT.
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