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

  1. The Ottoman Caliphate went to war against the British French & Allies and LOST in 1918. Out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the new nation states of Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia were formed on 99% of the Middle East land. Did the Arabs also steal land? If you don't think Israel is legitimate, then are those other countries also NOT legitimate? Why hold Israel to a different standard?
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  2. It's got nothing to do with the Holocaust. After the Ottoman Caliphate was DEFEATED in 1918, it ceded its Middle East land to the winners, the British, French, etc. They carved-up the Ottoman Middle East land and gave 99% of it to their allies, the Hejazi Arabs. Today those countries are Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. They also gave their other allies, the #indigenous Zionist Jews, the legal right to reconstitute their ancestral home in Palestine. It's a tiny 1% of land and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs and other minorities. The founding of the Jewish state of Israel is the beginning of the rollback of Arab Imperialism. I hope more countries will follow, such as a Kurdistan, a new Morocco for the indigenous Amazigh-Berbers, etc.
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  3.  SCBotanicals : I'm proud to be a Zionist who values the Holy Land, though I'm not a practising Christian. The Jews were promised their homeland in return for supporting the Allied Powers in WWI. The Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918, and in 1948 and subsequent wars the Arab militaries who attacked Israel were also defeated. There are consequences for going to war against another country. You don't get to choose who gets what land. This is a good video which explains how Israel and the surrounding Arab countries came into fruition. They were all founded as a result of the defeat and dismembering of the Ottoman Caliphate..... https://youtu.be/wu1rkvwzshE Israel isn't going anywhere. The Jews have returned to their ancestral homeland. The Arabs have self-determination over 99% of the collapsed Ottoman Empire. If 'Palestinian' Arabs are hostile towards Israel they should apply to be resettled in another country. They are what anywhere else in the world we would call 'displaced' peoples.
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  4. The Final Crusade has happened. Israel will soon extend sovereignty over all of its land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea...🇮🇱🙏💙
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  5. How do we know that this is not just a Pallywood produced video? If it's true, it is horrible. But I've seen this video dissected by people who point out the errors in production.
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  6. Don't talk nonsense!!! Diana died because she was in a bad car accident and wasn't wearing a seatbelt, which would have saved her. She should never have got into a car where the driver had been drinking. Maybe she was silly to expect that her Egyptian boyfriend would protect her from harm...🙄
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  7. Celebrities are not politicians so just leave them alone. I'd love to see proof that anyone who is 'cancelling' celebrities really cares about "Sudan, or Congo or beyond". It's only Gaza that you care about. NO JEWS, NO NEWS. Total #Hypocrisy
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  8. They've got Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
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  9.  @kashyhossein7298 : Or you accept Jesus and you have eternal life.
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  10.  @kashyhossein7298 : Fair enough that you don't accept the Christian Jesus. I could never be happy with the 7th century human rights that Allah gives to Muslims! But this topic is about the so-called Palestinian "refugees". If they are unlucky and do not have Israeli citizenship (like two million Palestinian Arabs have) then they should be resettled in one of the surrounding Arab nations. It's ridiculous to still have refugees 70+ years after a war, or a natural or manmade catastrophe. Israel is legitimate. It's not going anywhere. Jordan was granted more than 73% of the Mandate of Palestine land, and the Jews were acknowledged back in 1920 as the indigenous people of the land of Israel, which runs from the Jordan River to the Sea, and comprised the remainder of the Mandate of Palestine. Those Arabs who did NOT accept living under Jewish rule in 1948 should by now have been resettled in Jordan, Syria or Iraq or even be returned to Egypt. What is UNRWA doing with the millions of dollars that it has been given?
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  11. A fourth option proposed by people in Saudi Arabia and Jordan is for the Arabs of Palestinian to be given citizenship by an Arab nation, which could be done with "incentives". Then, if they want to live in Israel in their current cities, etc. they could apply for "residence status" in Israel. That would give them all the benefits of life as an Israeli citizen, like the two million Arab Israelis have today, but NOT national voting rights. They would be similar to the Arabs of East Jerusalem, except that if they commit a violent crime they can be deported to the country of their citizenship. Israel needs such an option as it is a big security risk to allow Islamic jihadi terrorists to remain in their country. Millions of people around the world live with "residence status" in other countries and they don't whine about it. They are grateful.
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  12.  @mmow004 : I'm proposing that the Arab countries be incentivised to give the 'Palestinians' citizenship after DENYING them this for the past 75 years. The Arab League did so in order to keep the 'displaced' peoples as "perpetual refugees" in an attempt to destroy Israel from the inside, after losing many wars waged against Israel.  Just because people have lived in a place for many generations it doesn't mean they are "indigenous" to that place. Examples of indigenous peoples of the Levant and Mesopotamia are Jews, Samaritans, Druze, Kurds, and Assyrians. Arabs and Bedouin are mostly indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula. In the last 110 years around 80-100 MILLION people were displaced when people didn't "fit" with the new countries being formed. 16 million South Asians changed countries in 1947 when Pakistan was formed. 1.5 million Greeks/Turks were forced to change countries in 1924 when Turkey was formed. Around 800,000 thousand Jews were persecuted and had to leave their ancestral homes in Arab countries after Israel was formed. Do these people still moan and whine today? Do they get billions in funding like the 'Palestinians'? Do they have their own special UNRWA that employs thousands of people? When the Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918 it ceded its land to the Allies who were under NO legal obligation to hand it over to the occupants. But they did. The Hejazi Arabs (who were the largest imperialist/colonising force in the known world at one time) got 99% of the land, much of it oil-rich. Today those countries are Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The #indigenous Jews want less than 1% to reconstitute their ancestral home. Land which they've had a 'continuous connection' to for 3,500+ years. It was promised to them in return for their support to the British in WWI, and they share it with one-fifth Arab Israeli citizens whose families accepted life in a Jewish state in 1948.
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  13. When slum dwellings and illegal structures are pulled down and masses of 'displaced' people relocated in cities like Cairo and Jeddah, no-one says a thing. Why is Israel so often held to a different standard?
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  14. DNA is not a criteria for being a member of an #indigenous peoples, and there are genetic testing clinics in Tel Aviv so stop talking nonsense. Jews who converted to Islam after the Muslim invasions are no longer indigenous to the region, because their connection is now to Arabia and Mecca. Whereas the descendants of Jews who were taken as slaves to Rome in the first century are indigenous, even though they've been 'displaced' for centuries. The Jewish people are back in control in their ancestral homeland... 🇮🇱🙏💙
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  15. I guess it's because of all the "love and respect" that Christians are leaving the Middle East and all Muslim countries? And why the Christian population of the Middle East is only growing in Israel, and nowhere else? Christians are always second-class 'dhimmi' citizens in Muslim lands.
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  16. Exactly what 'rights' do the so-called Palestinians have? They are the only group of displaced people in the world who've allowed themselves to be held as perpetual refugees to suit an agenda of hate for the #indigenous Jewish people. It's time they woke up and demanded a humane resolution which would involve resettlement in a third country. One fifth of Israeli citizens are those Arabs who accepted life under Jewish rule in 1948. They have equal rights and freedom of religion and participate in the highest levels of Israeli society.
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  17. The Jews and Christians lived as 'dhimmis' in the Islamic Caliphate. Of course they were peaceful. They had no choice because they were second-class citizens with few legal rights. But the #indigenous Jews are now back in control in their ancestral homeland, and they're not going to leave...🙏🇮🇱💙
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  18. ​ @JDforeveralone : It's better to go straight to the main source of Islamic doctrine, the Qur'an. The appropriate treatment for "people of the book" is set out in Qur'an At-Tawbah 29. The Dhimmis are to pay the Jizya and are to be humbled, subdued, brought low. Islamic Caliphates implemented this according to their own interpretation and circumstances but it always resulted in Jews and Christians having fewer legal rights when living in a Muslim-controlled area. There is no "equality under the law" in Islam. World Bank definition: "Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been #displaced." The thousands of Jews who were taken as slaves to Europe by the Romans have now returned. They are here to stay so I suggest you get used to that.
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  19. Why weren't the Jews granted ALL of historic Palestine at the same time the Hashemite Kingdom was granted 77% of the British Mandate of Palestine, today's Jordan? The Jews were acknowledged as the indigenous people of historic Palestine. This fact was legitimised in the San Remo Agreement of 1920. So why not return to the Jews ALL of their ancestral homeland? The Arabs were given self-determination in 99% of the defeated Ottoman Empire's Middle East land. Yet the Jews are still struggling to be secure in less than 1% of that land. Those Arab Israelis who comprise 20% of Israeli citizens are the lucky ones because their families recognised the State of Israel in 1948.
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  20.  @TheRockeyAllen  Over 50% of Israeli citizens are Jewish people of Middle Eastern or North African ancestry who were #displaced from their generational homes. And 20% of Israeli citizens are Arab Muslims.
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  21. It seems a little bit ironic to complain about censorship by private companies in the West, when in Islamic countries there is little freedom of speech and no freedom of religion.
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  22. This journalist is talented and photogenic, but his hands flying around distract from the tone of his message. Can the camera angle cut them out next time?
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  23. After the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1918, the Jews were recognised as the indigenous people of historic Palestine by the League of Nations in 1920. This legalised the return of the Jews to their ancestral homeland, with non-Jews having equal rights. This is the status today and it's time you accepted that. The State of Israel is not going anywhere. Nor are the two million Arab Israelis who live under Jewish rule.
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  24. ​ @Ishi79 : The British also helped liberate the Arabs from the Ottoman Turk rule: The Arab Revolt of 1916-18. The Arabs were granted 99% of the Middle East land of the dismembered Ottoman Caliphate. These Arab countries today are Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. The Jews were granted less than 1% of that land, and they still struggle to live in peace in their ancestral homeland today. One fifth of Israeli citizens are also Arabs. They have equal rights with Jews, and they participate in the highest levels of government, education, health, technology and science industries.
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  25. It's even more insane to see these 'Palestinians' continue to allow themselves to be used as #pawns while their corrupt leaders get richer and richer while they die as 'martyrs'. Is this how Islam is meant to work?
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  26. The current leaders were elected by the Palestinians...🙄
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  27. This is nonsense. Over HALF of the Jewish people in Israel are there because they were expelled from their multi-generational homes in Arab countries. They are persecuted in ALL Muslim-majority places. They are #indigenous to the Holy Land.
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  28. Al-Aqsa Mosque could be moved, or it could remain and the Temple be built to the side. What significance does Al-Aqsa Mosque have anyway, apart from being a symbol of Arab invasion and conquest?
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  29. Israel is an "indigenous rights" success story. The Arabs of Palestine should return to their countries of origin if they are hostile to the Jewish people.
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  30. It's inhumane that Egypt didn't allow for a humanitarian zone to be set up inside Sinai for babies, children, mothers of children, the elderly and the sick. I don't know any other time in the last 50 years that citizens have been forcibly trapped inside a war zone.
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  31. The 'Palestinians' are not a "nation of people". They are simply Arabs who happened to be in Palestine when Israel was founded. They were hostile to the Jews so joined the side of the attacking Arab armies. You make your choices then you have to deal with the consequences...🙄
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  32. He perpetuates the illusion that these people will one day return to where their parents and grandparents were living. Many of them were only "economic migrants" to the Mandate of Palestine after the British and Zionists made it economically viable. All the Arab countries shut their doors to them returning. That's the inhumane part.
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  33. ​ @abid6053 : Some Muslims commit acts of terrorism. The Islamic ideology obligates Muslims to struggle (practice jihad) until all of humanity submits to their god. We know that Islamic Sharia law is NOT compatible with the human rights that the Western world follows. Islam doesn't have any concept of separation of religion and state. So how can Muslims ever be expected to assimilate in a non-Muslim culture? And why would a Western nation permit a parallel legal system just to accommodate Muslims? The UK prisons have a disproportionately large number of Muslim inmates. Amongst the Muslim community there are often higher rates of unemployment and reliance on the UK's generous social welfare. Many Muslim immigrants just want to take advantage of the social welfare systems while they grow in numbers and power and can establish their own laws. Does that answer your question?
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  34. Are you serious??? Does the Likud Party really mean that “all of the land from the river to the sea should be Jewish. And there should be no Palestinians”. One-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs. Are Arab Israelis OK by Likud according to this professor? Is it because the so-called Palestinians are belligerent and REJECT the sovereignty of the Jewish state of Israel that they don’t belong? Is this man really a teacher responsible to young students?
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  35. It's inhumane that Egypt wouldn't open the border for a secure humanitarian zone to be set up in Sinai, just outside of the Rafah border crossing. A humanitarian zone for babies, children, pregnant women, mothers of small children, the elderly and the sick. Where else in the world have people been kept TRAPPED in a war zone? It's totally inhumane. The Muslim world seems to be happy that these innocent children are being USED as human shields by Hamas. High numbers of deaths of children and women creates bad publicity for Israel... 🙄
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  36. Did you think about the safety of your children when you sent your Hamas jihadi butchers out to rape, torture and massacre innocent Israeli civilians, including babies? Actions have consequences.
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  37. The majority of the world supports Israel. We don't want Islamic terrorist organisations like Hamas, Houthis and Hezbollah. Islam has a lot to answer for...🙄
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  38. Indoctrination of children in this way is child abuse.
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  39. Do Muslims ask why so many Islamic ☪ countries are close to being failed-states?
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  40. The Jewish people are #indigenous to that specific land🙄. They have returned and they're not going away again. The Ottoman Caliphate was DEFEATED in 1918. The Jews supported the British in WWI in return for the right to return to their ancestral homeland.
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  41. The IDF are fighting Hamas whose army has a "human sacrifice strategy". This is also a war zone where babies, children, mothers of small children, pregnant women, the sick and elderly have been kept TRAPPED inside Gaza by Egypt who refused to allow the international community to set up a safe zone just inside Sinai. It's sickening.
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  42. Nonsense. The Muslims have LOST all of the wars, beginning with the Ottoman Caliphate losing to the Allies in 1918. Then the Arab countries LOST all of their wars against Israel. LOSERS don't get to dictate who gets what land. You move on.
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  43.  @ahmeda.3198 : There is no "Palestinian culture". They are Arabs from many different places in the Middle East. They've lost their #indigenous culture and succumbed to the culture of the Hejazi Arabs of the 7th century. If they migrate to other cultures, they should expect the push-back which is what we are now seeing in Europe. I do object when people say the Gaza Muslims should go to Europe. If they are going to leave Gaza (and I advocate for them ALL having the choice to leave) it would be better for them to be resettled in Arab countries which have compatible belief systems. But I'm also fine with a relatively small number of Gazans going to the West, to my country Australia for example, so long as they pledge allegiance to the Judeo-Christian principles that we value. Is it possible for a Muslim to do so?
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  44.  @TheIsraeliHasbaraManual : I don't know enough about Irgun and Stern groups to be able to comment on them. I believe there were numerous attacks by Arabs on Jews and vice versa since the British Mandate period began in 1920. If Urgun and Stern "targeted civilians", these groups would be defined today as "terrorists" so, if I had any say, they would not have been rewarded. Hamas is an off-shoot of the Muslim Brotherhood which was founded in Cairo in 1928 after the Ottoman Caliphate fell in 1918. Most of the #jihadist groups which use violent methods are offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood, eg. Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas. They all have the ultimate goal of restoring the Islamic Caliphate.
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  45. ​ @TheIsraeliHasbaraManual : It's not MY definition. This is the World Bank definition: "Indigenous Peoples are distinct social and cultural groups that share collective ancestral ties to the lands and natural resources where they live, occupy or from which they have been #displaced. The land and natural resources on which they depend are inextricably linked to their identities, cultures, livelihoods, as well as their physical and spiritual well-being."  The Copts are the majority of the indigenous people of Egypt, but there are also Nubians (in the north), Siwans, a Berber ethnic group (in the west) and Tarabin Bedouin (in Sinai). The Assyrians are indigenous to areas of north-west Syria, the Kurds to northern Syria, and so on. The Arab culture has been superimposed on top of the indigenous cultures of Egypt, the Levant, and across North Africa. There are no ancient 'Palestinians'. It is a label invented in the 1960s to achieve a political purpose. I'm happy to call them Palestinian but to pretend they are "a people" in the sense of having a unique culture, with ancient history, a specific language, etc., is just ridiculous. The leaders of the West Bank and Gaza have yet to acknowledge the right of the #Jewish state of Israel to exist. There can be no peace until that happens.
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  46.  @aizac91 : I believe that all Palestinians should be given the CHOICE to apply for resettlement elsewhere, and resettlement in a country which has their same values would be best. For example they should be integrated into an Arab country. But if they can pledge loyalty to the values of a European society, then that should be fine too, however they would have to leave Islam at the door because it's not compatible with Western values. Israel should insist that UNRWA is scrapped. It just keeps Palestinians in the "false hope" that Israel will disappear one day and they can go back to their homes. No one should be kept trapped in a war zone. I tell all the Muslims who ask me about migrating to the West that we don't want them if they refuse to accept our values. I'm a pragmatist.
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  47.  @herooja : The 'Palestinians' are Arabs who were displaced when their families REJECTED the UN partition plan for the British Mandate of Palestine. They should have long ago been integrated into the Arab countries which attacked Israel in 1948. The country of Israel has got nothing to do with "white European Christian antisemitism". It's because the land BELONGS to the Jews, to the "children of Israel" as stated in the Quran. The Jewish people were granted the right to reconstitute their ancestral homeland because they are the #indigenous people of the land.  When the Allied Powers DEFEATED the Ottoman Empire in 1918, it handed over all of its Middle East land to the British, French, etc. They could have kept it but they didn't and Arabs got 99% of the land, today's Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Israel is less than 1% and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs!!! Who cares if you didn't ask for Israel to exist? Israel is not going anywhere so get used to it. Millions of people have been displaced over the last 110 years when they "didn't fit" with the new countries. But they moved on and today live rewarding lives. The only group that still complains and get billions of dollars in funding are the 'Palestinians'... 🙄
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  48.  @johnmcstabby2699 : Jews have the strongest connection to Jerusalem. The primary connection for Muslims is to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The Arabs who have been living in Palestine for centuries have an historic connection to the land, but it doesn't pre-date or trump the connection that the Jewish culture has. The Jews are the #indigenous people of that land. Today over two million Arabs are citizens of Israel. They have equal rights and freedom of worship. Being a Jewish nation doesn't mean that other people can't also live there. Just that they have to want to live in peace with the Jewish people.
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  49.  @herooja : When the Allied Powers defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1918, it handed over all of its Middle East land to the British, French, etc. They could have kept it but they didn't and Arabs got 99% of the land, today's Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Israel is less than 1% and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs!!! Who cares if you didn't ask for Israel to exist? Israel is not going anywhere so get used to it. Millions of people have been displaced over the last 110 years when they "didn't fit" with the new countries. But they moved on and today live rewarding lives. The only group that still complains and gets billions of dollars in funding are the 'Palestinians'.
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  50.  @herooja : When the Allied Powers defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1918, it handed over all of its Middle East land to the British, French, etc. They could have kept all the land, but they didn't. And Arabs got 99% of it, today's Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Israel is less than 1% and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs!
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