Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "BREAKING: IDF SOLDIER ADMITS TO KILLING AMERICAN; US OFFERS IDF FREE HEALTHCARE; ISRAEL BANS AP NEWS" video.

  1. Lets be crystal clear about this. It involves CERTAIN people who are neither representative of bulk of Israeli people or the bulk of Jewish society world wide and that's evident by the number of Jewish people speaking out AGAINST what the Netanyahu government is doing. I'm NOT Jewish, I'm Australian, but went to college in America in the LATE 80s and had several Jewish friends. After an incident at a party where I was accosted and threatened by a couple of Jewish students one of my Jewish friends explained it to me. Note - This was ~35 years ago and he referred to them as Ultra-Zionists. He did NOT call them Zionists but was very specific about the term Ultra, which these days we generally use with the term *Ultra-nationalist. Like we have with certain people in Russia and Ukraine. Back in the 90s we used similar terminology with certain elements within the Serb and Croat communities as well as in Rwanda. 35 Years ago that friend told me something very important. EVERY tribe, cultural group and nation has these people. We just don't like admitting it. They are most easily identified by their claims to be "protecting their culture" or "protecting their cultural heritage." We saw that with the Nazis and their claims of protecting Aryan culture. We see it with Putin and his claims of protecting Russian culture. We saw it during the late 90s with the Serbs, Croats and Albanians in the former Yugoslavia. We saw it with the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We have people here in Australia who claim time and time again they want to protect Australian Culture from immigration. Occasionally we even elect them to Parliament. What we are seeing right no in Gaza is what happens when Ultra-Nationalists get enough political power to unleash on who they blame or identify as the threat to their culture.
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  2. Lets be crystal clear about this. It involves CERTAIN people who are neither representative of bulk of Israeli people or the bulk of Jewish society world wide and that's evident by the number of Jewish people speaking out AGAINST what the Netanyahu government is doing. I'm NOT Jewish, I'm Australian, but went to college in America in the LATE 80s and had several Jewish friends. After an incident at a party where I was accosted and threatened by a couple of Jewish students one of my Jewish friends explained it to me. Note - This was ~35 years ago and he referred to them as Ultra-Zionists. He did NOT call them Zionists but was very specific about the term Ultra, which these days we generally use with the term *Ultra-nationalist. Like we have with certain people in Russia and Ukraine. Back in the 90s we used similar terminology with certain elements within the Serb and Croat communities as well as in Rwanda. 35 Years ago that friend told me something very important. EVERY tribe, cultural group and nation has these people. We just don't like admitting it. They are most easily identified by their claims to be "protecting their culture" or "protecting their cultural heritage." We saw that with the Nazis and their claims of protecting Aryan culture. We see it with Putin and his claims of protecting Russian culture. We saw it during the late 90s with the Serbs, Croats and Albanians in the former Yugoslavia. We saw it with the Hutu and Tutsi in Rwanda. We have people here in Australia who claim time and time again they want to protect Australian Culture from immigration. Occasionally we even elect them to Parliament. What we are seeing right no in Gaza is what happens when Ultra-Nationalists get enough political power to unleash on who they blame or identify as the threat to their culture.
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  3.  @john-yc8ud  You are absolutely right and its in almost EVERY Western Nation. I can also tell you the cause if you are interested, but it does take a bit of time and thought. The answer is fairly obvious when you have certain data explained. A number of months ago Kyle did a short vid on a piece he saw in politico regarding a 2022 report Bernie Sanders had commissioned by Congressional Budget Office on family wealth. Its an easy report to find just google "congressional budget office family wealth." Kyle only talked about the first graph and in a simplistic way because its pretty obvious that 1/2 the US population has gone nowhere for 30 years. Meanwhile the middle 40% have done Ok but the Top 10% have boomed. It gets even more interesting when you crunch the data and being an engineer I can crunch data. I checked Australia's data and its similar. I listen to people like the British economist Gary Stevenson and he says the same about Britain. BASICALLY we have thrown 50% of our populations under the economic bus and the data confirms it beyond all doubt. So when Trump and people like Trump started yelling MAGA (or similar) it tapped straight into what 1/2 the population felt. This is the great failure of the West. Our politicians have said again and again "All is well. GDP growth is good. Yee-ha." The fact is it might have been good for some but NOT EVERYONE and that failure to consider everyone is what has handed populists like Trump, Putin and Netanyahu political power. And from that we get Ukraine and Gaza.
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  4.  @akg7873  First my comment was a general statement on the reality that EVERY tribe and cultural group ahs bad people who claim to be the protectors of that groups historical identity AND THAT STILL HOLDS. SECOND what polls are you talking about, what question did they actually ask and what information did they base the questions on? Because I find it damn hard to accept that 95% of Israelis believe that killing 15,000 children who had NOTHING to do with the attacks on October 7th (10/7) as acceptable behavior. ALSO - What were those polls BEFORE October 7th looking like? Prof. Mark Blyth from Brown U. pointed out that the targets for the 10/7 attacks included many Jews (like those at the concert) more likely to support a 2 state solution and how the 10/7 attacks have switched that view. He said he'd seen a massive switch among liberal Jewish people he knew in response to 10/7. ALSO - Are you aware of the polls among Palestinians in Gaza BEFORE October 7th. Hamas was losing support at an incredibly rapid rate. Their management of Gaza was atrocious and rife with corruption. Most of Gaza was fed up with them and had there been elections they would have been tossed out. But with the insanity of the Israeli response Hamas's support has risen. The craziest part of this is that the 2 main protagonists and instigators of this catastrophe (Hamas and Netanyahu's Zionists) were BOTH losing support among their people AND NOW have MORE support. So I find your comment to be insanely ignorant.
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  5.  @firebyrd437  Yeah and go look at the reply I just got from another person in this thread. This is the insanity of our time. People are unable to discern reality despite the abundance of evidence right before their eyes. I just watched John Mearsheimer lecture/talk that was from 17 May at the Australian Center of Independent Studies here on YouTube. Let me be clear I do NOT support the CIS at all. Tom Switzer the host is a sleazy mutt on his best days. I also don't like Mearsheimer's ideology, BUT I do respect his political analysis. On that he's always worth watching. My main argument with Mearsheimer is that he never critiques his own ideology with the vigor he critiques others. That said the title of that video is "Why Israel is in deep trouble: John Mearsheimer with Tom Switzer" and its totally worth watching. He does make one massive technological mistake regarding Iran and nuclear weapons but then I'm an engineer and knew he was wrong the moment he said certain things. In that he's no different to many others when it comes to explaining technology. I did write a lengthy comment on that subject and simply wished non-technical people would leave technology discussions to STEM people or at least check with us first.
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  6.  @zenri5363  All those confessors who tortured 1,000s and burned people alive at the stake during the various inquisitions also believed in Jesus AND we can say many similar things for those who had other religious beliefs and those who didn't believe in any god at all. Pol Pot was a godless communist and he tried to kill off 2/3rds of his nation but only managed 1/3rd. Stalin was a godless socialist and he murdered, enslaved and imprisoned millions of his own people. Go and look into some of what happened in the America's before European settlement. No Christians or Muslims or Jews anywhere and many of them practised human sacrifice at industrial levels. They used to literally paint their temples in human blood. Human history is drenched in misery, blood and guts and almost always at the hands of a leader proudly standing out front telling everyone how much they cared. Often with the claim as the TRUE protector of their nations culture.
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  7.  @almostthere6098  NO I think the Netanyahu crowd THINKS its bigger than it is. They certainly have more money and more control of the political narrative.
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