Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Middle East Eye" channel.

  1. I'd be happy if the authorities are back in power to protect the culture of the German people. The world has gone crazy with people thinking they can get away with all kinds of behaviour.
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  2.  @ahmeda.3198 : Nothing is "exactly the same" as Germany in the 1930s. I get your point but Germany has now swung way too far in the other direction, letting 'political correctness' dictate how the authorities act. It's time Germany protected its traditional culture from collapse due to importing people with an incompatible ideology. And ,yes, I'm talking about Islam.
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  3. I don't think they would mind if there are fewer tourists from Egypt. They are not well-liked. Arabs in general are not popular with Turkish people.
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  4.  @ahmeda.3198 : I can't be sure what I would have done if I had lived in Germany in the 1930s. What I do know is that the West has evolved a lot since then, hard lessons have been learned, we now live in the Information Age, and people have better knowledge and wisdom on which to base their decisions. We are still being manipulated and/or controlled, and there are useful idiots everywhere, but we have far better knowledge today than in the 1930s.
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  5.  @TheIsraeliHasbaraManual : DNA is not a criteria for #indigeneity. It's the "continuous connection by a unique cultural group to a specific land" that matters, even when those indigenous people were displaced. When the Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918, Arabs were granted self-rule in 99% of the Ottoman Middle East land, and TWO MILLION Arabs are citizens of Israel today, where they have "equal rights" under the law and "freedom of religion". The Gaza war is tragic but it was started by Hamas. Hamas are to blame for the deaths and casualties. All Palestinians should be given the choice to apply for resettlement elsewhere, through UNHCR, if they don't want to live in peace within Israel or next to Israel.
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  6. Egypt🇪🇬 is complicit in this tragedy by refusing to permit a “secure” humanitarian camp to be set up just inside Sinai for babies, children, mothers of small children, pregnant women, the elderly and sick. Where else have #innocent people ever been kept TRAPPED in a war zone…🙄
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  7. Nice update, thank you. I would love to follow your live report but I'm in Sinai, Egypt, and that website is blocked. What exactly are the 'violations' regarding Al-Aqsa Mosque? Israel guarantees freedom of worship to ALL people, including Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc., so how can these so-called 'violations' be resolved?
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  8. I read that Dilan Yesilgoz-Zegerius is an Atheist married to a Jewish man. Just because she arrived in the Netherlands through the family reunification process herself, it doesn't mean that practice should continue. Everything changes over time. I'm happy if she wants to protect the culture of The Netherlands from those immigrants who refuse to assimilate.
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  9. Today one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arab Muslims who have #equal rights under the law with Jews. Their families chose to remain in Palestine in 1948 and live under Jewish rule. They didn’t flee when told by their leaders to go out when the five Arab militaries attacked the newly formed state of Israel. What country would allow the return of hostile people?
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  10. Israeli Arabs enjoy equal rights under the law with Jews, Christians, Atheists, Druze, and people of all races and ethnics groups. Please cite any laws that reduce Arabs to 'second-class citizens'. The Palestinians living in the Palestinian Territories are not included in the study for Israel because they are not Israeli citizens, though many do benefit from Israeli for medical treatments and employment.
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  11. It's nice to see the Temple Mount open to worshippers from all faiths. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan occupied East Jerusalem until 1967.
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  12. Describing the Nakba as "the mass expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians during the Arab-Israeli war" is not quite correct. Better would be to say "the permanent displacement of 700,000 Palestinians".
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  13. Asylum seekers who are not safe in their own countries should be assisted where possible, so long as they can provide strong evidence. But those who just want better jobs, or to go on social security benefits, should stay at home. In Australia, we stopped the boats as it was getting out of hand.
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  14. London is no longer British. I'm glad I lived there in the early 2000s.
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  15. The Jewish people were acknowledged as the #indigenous people of the Holy Land by the League of Nations in 1920. They've had a "continuous connection" with the land for over 3500 years!!! Why can't you accept that reality?
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  16.  @Therebelliousprince001 : Like the wars in Syria and Russia-Ukraine which Turkiye is involved in, and tension with Greece. The threat of Islamic or PKK terrorism, the economic crisis, and the ongoing refugee situation. A growing number of Turks are not keen on the millions of Syrian Arab refugees who now appear to be staying long-term. I wonder if this poor Egyptian tourist was initially thought to be from Syria? I've just been in Turkiye for five weeks and saw quite a lot of animosity towards Arabs.
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  17. President al-Sisi evicted lots of families from a poor housing area in Downtown Cairo, but they were all given plenty of warning and provided with alternative housing, quite a long way out. My friend wasn't happy to be told to move, but the process appeared to have been handled quite fairly. People who are renting, or who occupy illegally built homes, can never be certain of long-term situations.
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  18. Oh for God's sake. There are far more important thing happening right now in Turkey than an Arab guy getting roughed up for taking photos on a bus.
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  19. The hostile Arabs thought that the Jewish people wouldn’t survive their attempted #genocide. Today one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arab Muslims who have equal rights under the law with Jews and other minorities. The majority of ‘Palestinians’ want a land with NO Jews, so she will be waiting forever for her one state solution. Best to go to Jordan, Syria, Egypt or Iraq to be with her people...🙏
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  20. Sorry, but that's just rubbish. The Palestinians are responsible for their own predicament, their own disasters. One fifth of Israeli citizens today are Arabs who accepted the Jewish State of Israel. They are the lucky ones.
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  21. She says "it wasn't a civil war". But it was a civil uprising that turned into a deadly full-scale civil war, nonetheless. Is it possible for any Islamic country to have the type of government and human rights that we have in countries based on Judeo-Christian values?
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  22. Sending a message of #deterrence is a good thing. Humanitarian aid should be spent in those countries where asylum seekers come from to try to stem the flow of 'economic migrants' into western countries.
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  23. The law increases the penalty for ALL people who sexually assault someone if the assault can be shown to be motivated by racism or hostility towards certain groups. It's well-known that 'sexual terrorism' is a very real thing.
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  24. Over the last 100 years more than 100 MILLION people around the world have been displaced due to the founding of new countries, the Partition of India being the largest example. Today the only so-called refugees that we hear about every day, and who get billions in funding every year, are the Palestinians. One fifth of Israeli citizens are from Arab families who accepted life under Jewish rule. They have equality under the law and participate in all levels of society, including politics and security. In 1918 when the Ottoman Empire was defeated, a system was provided to give the all occupants of the Middle East land self-determination. The Jews were acknowledged as the indigenous peoples of historic Palestine and were granted the opportunity for a return to their ancestral homeland of less than 1%. The remaining 99% of the Middle East land was given to Arabs for self-determination.They blocked displaced Palestinians from being given citizenship in their new countries of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. The children of those displaced Arab refugees from 1948 are still being used as #geopolitical #weapons against the Jews. The two-state solution is dead. Please let any Arab who is still hostile to Israel apply for resettlement in a third country, like my country of Australia, if the surrounding Arab countries continue to refuse them citizenship.
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  25. Shimon Hatzaddik is a historically Jewish neighbourhood, whose residents were driven out and killed in Israel’s War of Independence. Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled the property belongs to the Jews. It's probably a good thing that this MP has re-opened his office there in order to lend support to the Jews living in the area.
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  26. Free Israel and the West from Islam...🇮🇱🙏💙
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  27. The 'Palestinians' are suffering because they refused to accept the legitimacy of the Jewish state for the #indigenous Jewish people. Out of the defeat and collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, six new countries were founded on the basis of self-determination by the occupants/indigenous people. Arabs got 99% of the land for Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Israel got less than 1% of that Ottoman Middle East land, and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs!!! But Arabs still want more land. They want a Jew-free Middle East...🙄
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  28. What nonsense! Actions have consequences. Some cultures prosper and other cultures fail because of their core beliefs. If one group is focused on violently destroying the other group, you think we should feel sad for the violent group?
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  29. She is very articulate and I feel very sorry for what has happened to her family. But I still don't understand why it is considered derogatory to repeat what is in the Islamic holy books. What has happened to free speech in India? I am against #child #marriage and I support anyone who can bring about social change in this respect.
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  30. What do Muslims say about those people who've investigated this tragedy and concluded that the Israelis could NOT have shot Muhammed? "That the physical evidence of the shooting was in all ways inconsistent with shots coming from the IDF outpost" (from The Atlantic article of June 2003). It causes me to ask why was Abu Akleh's body also buried so quickly without a full investigation?
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  31. No it's a totally different situation. Why didn't the Syrian refugees stay in Turkey or go to the Gulf countries and seek refuge there? They share the same Islamic ideology and have the same values about women.
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  32.  @purpleskittle94 : Are you really going to take the opinion of AH seriously? A strong religion, which wants to subjugate the world, can also be coming from a dark and evil place, no?
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  33.  @HashirVani : Allowing any parallel legal system to exist, especially one that has laws extending to non-Muslims, is problematic. Freedom of speech is a also big issue.
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  34.  @HashirVani : A Sharia Court sets a precedent for a parallel legal system, and it can violate human rights, especially if it discriminates on the basis of gender. You say "it's her choice" but choice is not always a simple matter for a female in a Muslim society. She may have limited access to institutions outside of her family, and intimidation by the family group is a very real thing in a culture which sees females as being under the guardianship of her father, husband, or some other male. Some areas of UK vs Sharia law that concern me: What about domestic violence? Hitting your wife is permitted in Islam. What about a man who wants more than one wife? Polygamy is permitted in Islam. What about marrying a child bride? Marrying a young girl is permitted in Islam. What about a woman who wants a divorce? Will she be guaranteed equality of divorce with the man? Is there a chance she might lose rights to her children if she remarries? What about a girl who chooses to leave Islam? Apostasy is strongly discouraged in Islam, whereas the UK honours freedom of conscience, freedom of religion. I hope I've explained some of the problems that I see why a parallel legal system is damaging to the cohesion of a country.
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  35. What a beautifully articulate girl. I'm so sorry that Aya and her family endured this tragedy, along with many others. This video is a credit to Middle East Eye and the interviewer. May Hussein's memory always be a blessing.
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  36. The new country of Israel was only possible because the Allied Powers defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1918. Out of that same defeat the Arabs in the Middle East gained self-determination in 99% of the dismembered Ottoman land, in countries today called Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The Jews were acknowledged as indigenous to the Holy Land and they were given the right to reconstitute their ancestral home, so long as the current occupants have equal rights and freedom of worship, which they have today. One fifth of Israeli citizens are Arab Muslims. How is this in any way comparable to the Irish situation? The co-called Palestinians sided with those Arab nations which attempted to annihilate Israel. You can't make peace with hostile people.
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  37. Kind of ironic when you see the MEE journalist with her wonderful hair and beauty on display...🙄
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  38. How pathetic...🙄
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  39. If that happened, you could say goodbye to a lot of your foreign tourist market. How an Islamic nation can make money from pagan structures has always baffled me too. Isn’t this hypocrisy?
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  40. @tileux: That's nonsense. Jewish men were overrepresented as fighters in Palestine in WWI for the Allied Powers, in addition to Jewish leaders providing financial support. Over HALF of the Jewish citizens of Israel are from Arab countries which persecuted Jews until they had to take refuge elsewhere, mostly in Israel, after the state of Israel was founded in 1948. And please give me one LAW that discriminates Israeli citizens on the basis of race or religion.  Arab Muslim Israelis today sit in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, they serve in security services including the IDF, as heads of some of the most lucrative businesses, banking organisations and universities, and as mayors of majority-Arab towns. Please do educate me.
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  41. You might want freedom but Pakistan and/or China would occupy the region as soon as India withdrew. It’s a difficult situation to be in. Semi-autonomy was the most pragmatic solution until this horrible BJP government came along.
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  42.  @snshull : Terrorism has a specific definition. It's when an ideological group targets civilians to promote their cause. It's disgusting. Resistance has its place, but leave innocent people out of it.
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  43. It's not apartheid. The new law increases the penalty for ALL people who sexually assault someone if the assault can be shown to be motivated by racism or hostility towards certain groups. It's well-known that 'sexual terrorism' is a very real thing.
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  44. This is an interesting perspective that I found written somewhere else: "There is no peace treaty with the Palestinian Arabs, therefore a state of war continues and the civilian standard does not apply." It makes sense to me. Things that Amnesty says are 'apartheid' are more like strict security measures against people who don't recognise your right to exist. There is no 'apartheid' within Israel. Israeli Arabs participate in society at the highest levels.
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  45.  @imwatchingyou954 : The Arabs of Palestine have never been able to accept defeat in war. In 1918, the Ottoman Empire ☪ was DEFEATED by the Allied Powers. The Arabs of the Palestine region fought with the Ottoman Turks and they LOST the war. Losers don't get to choose who gets what land, especially when they were on the side that started the war of aggression. Same situation in 1948 to which they now plead 'nakba'. The Jews accepted the UN partition plan and the Arabs rejected it. It was a catastrophe for the Arabs. There are consequences to all actions. The #displaced Arabs should long ago have been integrated into the surrounding Arab countries.
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  46. Wow, "no air conditioners...". Good video though. There are legal avenues to Australian citizenship for genuine asylum seekers, those seeking refuge from torture, certain death or persecution, but those escaping "economic turmoil" or "in search of a better life" should NOT be processed before them. In early 2001 I volunteered to help socialise and teach English to a large group of boat people who arrived in Perth via Christmas Island. After months of hard work I found that most of the asylum seekers had unrealistically high expectations of what they would be offered. They made lots of complaints about how they were treated, even though they had free and independent accommodation in a beautiful heritage house, and were given weekly payments to survive quite comfortably. They hardly showed me any gratitude at all, except for a young Hazara boy from Afghanistan (his life was in danger from the Taliban) and two doctors escaping from Iraq (they had been forced to perform horrific amputations and torture on prisoners). These three were all suffering from mild PSTD, but the rest seemed mentally fine. Without exception, they were all Muslim men and most seemed somewhat resentful that they were being helped by an independent female. I was a 'do gooder' at the beginning of my volunteering, but now I wholeheartedly agree with Australia's policy of stopping the boats. It's not in any way helpful to incentivise people seeking the illegal route to asylum in Australia, or to any country.
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  47. You can pressure Egypt to allow for a secured humanitarian camp to be set up in side Sinai where these children can be properly cared for in safety. It's despicable 🤮 that a Muslim country like Egypt keeps vulnerable children and their mothers TRAPPED in a war zone.
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  48.  @HashirVani : My comment was about how Sharia Courts in the UK violate the human rights that are practised there. If you and 1.9 billion other adherents to Islam want to follow Sharia, that's totally fine by me!!! There are a many countries where you can live which are governed by some level of Sharia. I strongly object to the setting up of a parallel legal system WITHIN a culture which upholds very different human rights values. Sharia councils are contributors to social #ghettoisation.
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  49. It would be helpful to have more information about the legal status of the home of the Al Jaabary family. I am very much against the violence that this family is facing.
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  50. Any reasonable person would have accepted help to move to a new house by now. But I imagine she's supported by groups who believe her display of emotional blackmail will be great publicity for the so-called "Palestinian cause". #RuleOfLaw should always win.
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