Comments by "Linda S Steckel" (@Linda43) on "Israelis: What do you think of the one state solution? (2021)" video.

@cinnaminson0653 Judea and Samaria were the home to ancient Jewish communities before Islam and Christianity. We were ethnically cleansed from Judea and Samaria 2000 years ago by Rome and again by illegal Jordan occupation between 1948-1967. We have returned to resettle our ancestral homeland. Hamas is in control of Gaza. It is responsible for all that occurs there.
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Get a life Moe 🤣
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There is no Apartheid in Israel. The term Apartheid has become just another antisemitic trope used to undermine the Jewish State. The Jewish People are endemic to the Southern Levant with a continuous presence of more than 4ooo years The Arabs are immigrants from Arabia who occupied and colonized Eretz Yisroel during the Arab Conquests 1400 years ago and again during WW2 when Jewish immigration was limited by the British at the behest of the Arab leadership ( White Papers) and massive Arab immigration from the region was encouraged
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@cinnaminson0653 "Separate towns and villages" Arabs and Jews have a different language and cultural/ religious identity. Preferring to live with others who share the same identity is not racist or Apartheid.
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It's Jewish Land ✡
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@cinnaminson0653 Everything is online. Apartheid means separation Jews and Arabs have lived together, worked together, gone to school together and served in the army and government together. No Apartheid Almost two million Arabs accepted Israeli citizenship for its political and social freedoms and the rest are permanent residents who have the same rights. Arabs are represented proportionally in the Knesset. There is one Arab party in the Coalition and a Arab minister. Israel just appointed six Arab judges and six Arab jurists to prominent positions.Half are women. No Apartheid.
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Written by KD: If the United Nations (UN) is going to hold an inquiry into the clashes between Israel and Hamas last May, surely the person heading the inquiry should be impartial? This is the point behind a 30-page complaint released by UN Watch this week, which called on retired South African jurist Navi Pillay to resign from heading up a new UN inquiry into the conflict. According to the complaint submitted to the UN on 14 February 2022 by UN Watch, Pillay, a retired South African judge and former UN human rights chief, violated UN rules by failing to disclose numerous prior statements that directly prejudge the matters before the inquiry. “Never throughout her UN tenure did Pillay use such dismissive language regarding any other country, not even against serial abusers such as China, Russia, Iran, Syria, or North Korea,” says Hillel Neuer, the executive director of UN Watch and an international human rights lawyer. “Her narrative of who is the villain is set in stone. Ms Pillay has long ago made up her mind. Asking Navi Pillay to head an inquiry examining Israel is like asking a vegetarian to review a steakhouse. When it comes to Israel, as our legal brief demonstrates, Pillay is the complete opposite of impartial.” UN Watch is an independent nongovernmental organisation that monitors the UN for bias and impartiality. “Many of the utterances in question occurred mere weeks before she was appointed by the UN, leaving little room to imagine how Pillay could envisage the issues any differently so soon afterwards,” says Neuer. “It’s astonishing that the United Nations appointed an individual as the supposedly impartial chair of an inquiry immediately after she declared one of the parties guilty in the very controversies that are at issue in the investigation. “By heading this inquiry in spite of having repeatedly declared Israel ‘guilty’, Pillay embodies the injustice of the UN and its Human Rights Council when it comes to the selective treatment of the Jewish state,” he says. In June 2020, Pillay signed a petition, organised by the South African Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions coalition, titled “Sanction Apartheid Israel!” In June 2021, she signed a joint letter to United States President Joe Biden against Israel’s “domination and oppression of the Palestinian people”. She wrote that the April 2021 clashes at Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem – also to be examined by the inquiry – constituted “aggressive actions by Israeli forces” against “peaceful protesters and worshippers”, which amounted to “forced dispossession of Palestinians”, the “latest evidence of a separate and unequal governing system”. In a May 2021 lecture, Pillay described Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians as “inhuman”. She compared Israel to apartheid South Africa, and defended the systematic singling-out of Israel under a targeted agenda item at the UN Human Rights Council. Her anti-Israel bias can be traced even further back. In 2009, Pillay headed the UN’s follow-up to the 2001 Durban conference on racism, an event tainted by unprecedented displays of antisemitism. When Jewish community activists around the world sounded the alarm, Pillay repeatedly demonised them at the UN and in the media as “lobby groups” that were “focused on single issues”. In May 2010, while serving as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Pillay declared that “the Israeli government treats international law with perpetual disdain”. In November 2017, she stated, “Apartheid is now being declared a crime against humanity in the Rome Statute, and it means the enforced segregation of people on racial lines, and that is what is happening in Israel.” Neuer says that in contrast to former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and her predecessor, High Commissioner Louise Arbour, who both criticised the UN Human Rights Commission for its notorious agenda item targeting Israel, Pillay repeatedly defended this discrimination.
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@rachelsamuel3328 He is a genuine hero of the Jewish People ✡
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@e.carroll6164 Very articulate 😆 Zionism is deeply rooted in Judaism. The first example of Zionism was Avraham Avenu speaking Hebrew as he crossed into Eretz Yisroel. The second was the Exodus from Egypt. The third was the return from the Babylonian exile.
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https://youtu.be/q8y3xKEE2h4
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@cinnaminson0653 Jewish history might mean nothing to you but it is important to us. Have some respect. Apparently you skipped the post about " Apartheid " Israel is the home to many ethnicities. The Arabs are just one such minority. The Israeli Declaration of Independence and its basic laws guarantee equality for all its minorities/ ethnicities in Israel. The majority of Arabs in Israel would rather live under Israeli control than Hamas and Fatah. In Israel they have civil rights and social rights.
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@cinnaminson0653 Freedom of association? Israel is a Middle Eastern country not a liberal Western country. The right to live with your ethnic group is also a fundamental human right.
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@cinnaminson0653 Ok. There is no legalized segregation in Israel. Each ethnicity/ minority chooses to live with its own people or not. Arabs and Jews live together in Jerusalem, Haifa, TA, and Jaffa, etc. Israel is not a war zone. It is actually safe because of the intense security.
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@e.carroll6164 Stalking you? Wishful thinking 😆 You are not that important. Research has shown that Ashkenasim and Mizrachim have DNA closest to that of Biblical Jews.
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Anti Zionism is the new Antisemitism BDS lost any political and strategic advantages that it had with the advent of the Abraham Accords
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@cinnaminson0653 Israel is unique in that sense. It is both the Jewish Homeland and a state for all its minorities/ethnicities. Israel is the home to many minorities/ ethnicities who have equal rights under the law and are free to practice their own religion, culture and language. Examples: Circassians live in their own villages and speak their own language and practice their own religion/ culture. They also enlist in the army. Druze also live in their own towns and practice their own unique religion and culture. They also enlist in the army and serve in government. Arab Christians are very successful in Israel.
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@marksimons8861 Do you deny that the Jews were ethnically cleansed from Judea 2000 years ago by Rome and sold into slavery? That was my point. As for the rest of your post everything is Online, so quibbling is unnecessary. Jews have been the endemic people of the Southern Levant with a continuous presence of more than 4ooo years. Our land is Eretz Yisroel.
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@marksimons8861 Just saying.....
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@cinnaminson0653 The Jewish People are endemic to the Southern Levant with a continuous presence of more than 4ooo years. Research has shown that Ashkenasim and Mizrachim have DNA closest to that of Biblical Jews.
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@cinnaminson0653 70.3 % of Jews in Israel were born there and the majority of Jews in Israel are descendants of Jews from Arab countries. Not Europe. During the Arab Conquests, European converts to Islam were brought to Eretz Yisroel to populate the land of Israel. Does that make their descendants European? What about the Circassians? Are they European? Jews didn't convert or intermarriage with other groups in Europe. They lived insular lives.
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@cinnaminson0653 DNA doesn't play any part in whether you are Jewish or not You are Jewishness if your mother is. Whether she is a convert or not. DNA also had nothing to do with the reestablishment of the modern state of Israel as a Jewish Homeland. Nor does it have anything to do with The Law of Return. Truthfully people who bring this up are usually trying to undermine our indegenous rights to Eretz Yisroel.
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@GlobetrotterBR 👍
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Rubbish 🗑
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Baruch HaShem
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Whose arguing? It's all Jewish Land ✡. FULL STOP ✋
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@shinichiosawa3913 Shabbat Shalom or Shavuah Tov...whatever works for you
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אמן
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There is a recent article in The Jewish Press on this subject
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It's all Jewish Land ✡
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Blah blah blah blah 🙄
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@halimanairalopeznayar9518 Yerushalayim, Including Har HaBayit, Is the eternal, holy and undivided capital of The Nation State of The Jewish People ✡, Israel 🇮🇱 May the Jewish People ✡ merit to see the reestablishment of the Beit HaMikdash in the very near future.
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@halimanairalopeznayar9518 So ignorant....you
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