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

  1. "Houthi rebels ousted the internationally recognised government and seized the capital, Sana'a". Why would anyone be on the side of these Houthi REBELS? These rebels (aka Islamic fundamentalists, financed by Iran) are now attacking Saudi Arabia. They've also attacked UAE. It's great to protest against war, but first know who is doing what in this war.
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  2.  @fightingforce8498 : They are not 'hostages'. They are in custody because of suspected or convicted law-breaking. I would prefer that young children not be taken into custody, but Israel needs to keep control of a very volatile Islamic jihadist terror wave.
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  3. The Jewish people are not there because of the holocaust. In 1918 the Ottoman Caliphate was DEFEATED. The Jews supported the British in their war effort, and in return they were promised the chance to *reconstitute their ancestral homeland*. It has now happened and they will only grow stronger. Get used to it. Jews and Christians always live as second-class 'humiliated' citizens (dhimmis) in Muslim lands. The Jews will never go back to that status again. Thankfully Islam is losing power.
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  4. Please ask Egypt to allow for a secured area to be set up outside the Rafah border, in Sinai. A field hospital and humanitarian camp could be erected for pregnant women, babies, children, mothers of small children, the sick and the elderly. Food, water, medical supplies and fuel could easily be delivered where Hamas, UNRWA and the looters can't get their hands on it. It's inhumane of Egypt to TRAP vulnerable people in a war zone when they could easily give permission for a camp, with secure fence around it, to be set up. Foreign countries have offered the money to do so. Please open that border for this purpose alone...🙏
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  5. Not me. Israel is on the frontline fighting against Islamic jihadist terror... 🇮🇱🙏💙
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  6. Well said. Thank you for speaking out...🙏
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  7.  @User_123_URL : The Golan Heights is historically Jewish land. Over one hundred ancient synagogues have been discovered there. It is the ARABS who were the invaders and OCCUPIERS. Israel reclaimed the Golan after a defensive war.
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  8. How is it 'abusive' to quote from the scriptures of Islam? Now that we live in globally connected world, Muslims have to come to terms with #freedom of speech. I'm glad Nurpur Sharma put light on the horrible matter of girl child marriage which is permitted by the god of Islam [Qur'an 65:4] and which is Sunnah [Aisha]. I am no fan of Narendra Modi, but I support the right of a child to grow up without being under threat of marriage to an older man.
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  9. You need to hire a smart lawyer. If you have evidence that you own the title to the property, a lawyer should be able to get it sorted for you. If you don't have a secure title to the land, or if you didn't get approval to build the house, then it's clear that you have a big problem.
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  10. Maybe some Gazans now regret the attack on October 7 which created this wartime condition for them?🙄
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  11. How many of the 80 million people who were #displaced in the last 110 years, due to the founding of new countries, were "consulted" about the decision? Around 1.5 million Greeks and Turks were forced to change countries when Turkey was founded in 1924, for example. None of them were consulted. They accepted what life dished out to them, and moved on. It's only the Palestinian Arabs who still whine today and get enormous social welfare benefits...😕  Israel was founded out of the defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the Allied Powers. The Hejazi Arabs, who fought with the British in WWI, were granted self-determination in 99% of the carved-up Ottoman Middle East land. The #indigenous Jewish people also supported the British. They were granted the right to reconstitute their ancestral homeland. Israel is less than 1% of that Ottoman Middle East land and they share it with one-fifth Arabs and other minorities who all have equal rights and freedom of worship. But I guess you want no Jews at all?
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  12. Hamas = Evil
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  13. You seem to have forgotten that Hamas, a terrorist organisation funded and led by Iran, incited the Muslim men. They took rocks and fireworks into the mosque, barricading themselves and some unwitting worshipers inside. They broke the WAQF rules about staying overnight in order to harass Jewish worshippers on Temple Mount in the morning. Items with Hamas insignia were found inside the mosque. This happens every year.
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  14. Rubbish. Why do you think the Arab nations are keen to do business with Israel today, and they ignore the Palestinians? #AbrahamAccords
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  15.  @jesuispalestinien9108 : How can you have peace with people who call for your obliteration from the river to the sea? I'd put my money on the growing trend for Muslim-majority nations to want tourism and business relationships with Israel.
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  16.  @jesuispalestinien9108 : You say "2 billion Muslims are Palestinians". What do you say about the growing trend for people to walk away from their religion?
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  17. ​ @jesuispalestinien9108 : The fact that religion is losing its grip on people everywhere today is not usually considered a boring topic. I agree that things run in cycles, but we have never had access to information like we have had in the last 20 years, and evidence and facts are beginning to matter to young people more than ever before. If you believe that Muslims all have a choice in being believers or not, then I suspect you haven't lived in a country run on Sharia law where there are negative consequences to such a choice. But I guess it might feel nice to cherry-pick lines out of scripture. Israel is a legitimate nation state. It came about through the defeat and collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1918. All of the Arab countries which exist on liberated Ottoman Empire Middle East land, comprising 99%+ of the area, came out of the same origins as Israel. The Jews were acknowledged in 1920 by the League of Nations as the indigenous people of historic Palestine. They were granted less than 1% of the total Ottoman Caliphate ME land on which to form their new nation state, with non-Jewish occupants being accorded equality under the law. Today we see Arab Muslim Israeli citizens participating in the highest levels of Israeli society, including government, security, education, science and technology, and they comprise 21% of the total population. Those living in historic Palestine in 1948 who did NOT accept Jewish rule, and who fled when the five surrounding Arab nations attacked Israel, would be considered 'displaced peoples'. They should long ago have been resettled in adjacent Arab lands, or in other countries. Just as the 850,000 Jews who were 'displaced' from Arab nations have been resettled in Israel or other countries today and who got on with their lives without complaining. Millions and millions of people have been 'displaced' through wars and founding of new nation states in the last 100 years. Why are the so-called 'Palestinians' the only group that still receives huge funding and publicity today? Why do Jordan, Syria and Lebanon still hold such people in 'refugee' camps? Why are Palestinians punished for selling property to Jews? Why do Palestinian people allow themselves to be weaponised as political pawns in the game of Muslims vs Jews, which we see is running out of momentum?
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  18. So she’s advocating for rewarding Hamas, a jihadist terrorist regime, for killing Israeli babies, raping citizens, and taking hostages of all ages and nationalities. Actions have consequences. I don’t think this politician has thought things through. This sends the message that terrorism wins…🤮
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  19. When I was in Sana'a in 2009 I noticed they had constructed some wide roads with side barriers that doubled to carry floodwater at certain times of the year. I guess you are not meant to drive on them when they are flooded?
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  20. Israel is a sovereign nation and it is to be lauded for acting very severely against its attackers. Israelis have been living in a state of high security since 1948. Thankfully the Arab world is now normalising relations with Israel. #AbrahamAccords
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  21. ​ @MmaaachU : Yes Jews were being attacked before 1948 too, but it wasn't a country called Israel then.
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  22.  @jigsawphone6543 : You say "Before Jews, Christians and Muslims had equal rights" but that's a blatant lie. Nowhere in the Islamic world where Sharia is applied does an Islamic ruler allow Jews and Christians to have equal status with Muslims. They are always subjugated. They are always restricted in what they can do. Those people who call themselves 'Palestinians' should have been resettled in Jordan when they fled Israel in 1948. And Jordan should probably have been named Palestine, instead of the kingdom of an Arab King. The League of Nations (today's United Nations) granted The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 77% of the British Mandate of Palestine. The Jews were acknowledged by The League of Nations as the indigenous people of the land from the Jordan River to the sea, but they still struggle to live securely in their land. Arabs are free to live there too but only if they accept Jewish rule. Around two million Arabs have done so and the vast majority of them have said that they prefer living in Israel than in Gaza or the West Bank. I understand that Muslims are obligated to struggle (practice #jihad) to regain control of land that was once invaded and occupied by an Islamic Caliphate, but there is no way that the "world fights for Palestine". Sorry, but this is just silly.
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  23. There is a huge Pallywood propaganda industry. Millions of 'useful idiots' amplify their fake videos on social media.
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  24. Israel benefits by winning the war against Iran and its proxies, and thus protecting its citizens, including its two million Arab Israeli citizens and other minorities. Israel also benefits by winning because more Muslim-majority countries will want to ally with Israel against Iran. It's not always about the money...🙄
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  25. Jews and Christians NEVER have equal rights in a Muslim-majority country. You think they’re going to make that mistake again? No longer are the Jewish people the subjugated #dhimmis of the Muslims. More likely is the rollback of Arab Islamic imperialism. Israel is only the beginning….🙏🇮🇱💙
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  26.  @tarana9329 : The Jewish people are #indigenous to the Holy Land, not Germany. When the Allied Powers (British, French, etc) defeated the Ottomans in 1918 they were under no obligation to give the land to anyone, but "in a spirit of democracy" and in return for support in the war effort, they chose to offer it to the occupants for self-determination. The Arabs got 99% of the Ottoman Middle East land (today's Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia). The Jewish land forms only 1% of the former Ottoman Middle East land, and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs whose families accepted equality under the law with Jewish rule. Those Arabs who were hostile to Jewish rule should have moved to Arab lands, or accepted the 1947 partition plan and moved there. Millions of people around the world in the last century have been #displaced through the creation of new nation states. In 1924 around 1.5 million Greeks and Turks were forced into a population exchange when Turkey was created. In 1947 up to 18 million people in South Asia were forced to move to the newly created Pakistan or to India. After the creation of Israel in 1948, around 800,000 Jews were forced out or had to flee their multi-generational homes in Arab countries. Why are the Arabs who were living in Palestine in 1948, and who sided with the five Arab militaries which attacked the new state of Israel, a 'special cause' compared with all of the other refugees around the world? Why did they get their own refugee organisation UNRWA which was designed to perpetuate the limbo status of the Arabs from Palestine (some who were still relatively new arrivals to the area) instead of resettling them elsewhere like other displaced peoples? I suggest you watch the 5min video called "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank" where Professor Eugene Kontorovich explains the international precedents which led to the dividing up of the land after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in WWI.
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  27.  @NikoBellaKhouf2  : I understand that people might not be happy, but ever since humans existed they've moved around the globe, fought with each other, come to some resolution, and then got on with life. Over 750, 000 Jews were exiled or expelled from Arab countries over the last 100 years. Do they still WHINE about that today, or have they got on with their lives in their new countries?  I'm pleased that 'forced population exchanges' are a thing of the past thanks to international conventions. It seems that wherever Islam grows in power it forces its will on the minority populations, so your comment about it "not being necessary" is just nonsense. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, etc. are all fairly recent examples of the persecution and exile of minorities living under Islamic rule. Israel already shares the land with 21% Arab Israeli citizens, most of them being Muslims. They have #equal rights under the law with Jews and other minorities, and they have freedom to worship. The vast majority of these Arab Israelis say they prefer Jewish rule to that of the corrupt Arab Palestinian rule. Wars have consequences. When the Ottoman Caliphate was DEFEATED in 1918, they didn't get to choose who ended up with what land. However, the Arab occupants of the Middle East were granted self-rule over 99% of that broken-up Ottoman land!!! The #indigenous Jews of Israel want less than 1% and they SHARE it with Arabs. I suggest you watch the 5min video called "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank" where Professor Eugene Kontorovich explains the international precedents which led to the dividing up of the land after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in WWI.  As for your comment below that "we're only getting stronger", that's sadly delusional. It's Israel which is getting stronger. Arab countries are finally starting to openly normalise their relations with Israel via the #AbrahamAccords. I don't hate anyone. I encourage my Muslim friends to use better critical analysis and to stop believing the propaganda.
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  28. ​ @NikoBellaKhouf2  : I'm guessing that you live a secure life in a first world country and you are happy to #exploit the so-called Palestinians as weapons in your hate for Jews. You don't like the fact that the Jewish people have reconstituted their ancestral home in the Holy Land. They are no longer #dhimmis under Islam. Am I close?
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  29.  @NikoBellaKhouf2  : Huh??? My parents were English, likely a mix of Scandinavian, Celtic and Germanic heritage. But I'm not fixated at all on my ethnic origins. I certainly wouldn't give a thought to who my people might have been during the Bronze Age!!! And if your ancestors were LIVING in the region of historic Palestine at the time of the defeat of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1918, and the reconstitution of the nation of Israel 1948, is it safe for me to guess that your family REJECTED life under Jewish rule? Those Arabs who were hostile to the new country of Israel, and who fled when the seven Arab armies attacked, did far more harm to themselves than good. That harm is being perpetuated by those who use the 'Palestinians' as #pawns in the game of Muslim vs Arab.  The humane thing to do would be to lobby/shame the surrounding Arab countries to give citizenship to the remaining 'Palestinian refugees'. Then for Israel to grant them residence status, like the East Jerusalem Arabs, after they've extended sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. That way the Palestinian Arabs get #equal rights to all others who live in Israel, but NOT national voting rights. And if they continue with 'armed resistance' then they either get punished or deported to the Arab country which gave them citizenship.
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  30. She's ridiculous. Mossad wouldn't bother with her.
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  31.  @71aminah : The Islamic forces from the 7th century were the biggest invaders and conquerers in the known world at one point! Do you blame THEM for their conquests and oppression of the #indigenous cultures? France has a culture which is incompatible with Islam. There are 22 Arab Islamic countries for Arab Muslims to go to.
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  32.  SCBotanicals : Australia welcomes refugees from the Palestinian Territories who come through the legal channels to Australia. I am disgusted that UNRWA has no intention of helping Palestinians to be resettled in a third country. People in the refugee camps in Lebanon are not permitted to apply for resettlement in Australia (you can find that online). You are all being USED as a weapon against Israel. I hope you wake up to that soon.
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  33.  @abracadabra4800 : I was born in New Zealand and I have citizenship of both countries. Yes, when colonisation happened, there were negotiations with the indigenous people that today would not seem fair. But that unfair treatment has now been acknowledged. Reparations of some sort are happening, and I think overall things are pretty good for all people. The thing is that the world was a very different place 150-200 years ago. We have to look at how to make it equal and fair for all people today.
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  34.  SCBotanicals : I thought I recognised your name. I would like to see peace, but not for violent jihadists. That's not the way forward.
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  35.  SCBotanicals : I don't have anything in New Zealand except family, but you are always welcome to enjoy the kiwis and tree geckos, and native plants and animals...☺
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  36. Great comment. So many 'Palestinians' are not told the truth.
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  37. Food and water going in is essential, but definitely stop all the gas and fuel which Hamas use to power up the tunnels.  Return the hostages! Get the leaders to surrender! Then the war can end.
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  38. When the Ottoman Empire was DEFEATED by the Allied Powers, it ceded its land to Britain, France, etc. who were under no obligation to give the land to anyone in 1918, but they did. Today, Arabs have self-determination in 99% of that Ottoman Middle East land which was LIBERATED by the Allies. Israel is less than 1% of that land, and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs, who accepted life in the Jewish state of Israel. They have equal rights and freedom of worship. The Jewish people supported Britain in the war effort, as did the Hejazi Arabs, who fought with Lawrence of Arabia. The so-called 'Palestinian Arabs' fought on the side of the Ottoman Turks, or they stayed neutral. Do you complain that Kurds and Assyrians, and other unique cultural groups, didn't get self-determination in their homelands. Lands that had been invaded and conquered by Arabs centuries ago? Or do you only complain that the #indigenous Jewish people fought for, and were granted the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland? If so, that makes me feel a bit sick...😬
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  39.  @wanderlusterer442 : Exactly. Israel is an "indigenous rights" success story. When wars happen, most groups of people align with one side or the other. The global Jewry aligned with the Allied Powers, mostly Britain, in WWI (and again in WWII). They were promised the chance to reconstitute their ANCESTRAL homeland if the Allies won the war against the Germans-Ottomans. They won. End of story. Israel is a legitimate sovereign state and it should be given help by the Western world to defend itself against Islamic #jihadist terrorist groups like Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Al-Aqsar Brigades, ISIS, etc.
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  40. Nonsense. The Palestinian Arabs have now lost any legal or moral right to forming their own state. The violent #jihadist ‘resistance’ that they began in 1917 to the reconstitution of the Jewish state of Israel 🇮🇱 has gained them nothing. It just shows they are poor LOSERS. They’ve lost every war since the Ottoman Caliphate was defeated in 1918 when the Turks ceded their Middle East land to the victors, the Allied Powers. Israel is the “Final Crusade”.
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  41. The 'catastrophe' was an unfortunate own-goal by the 'Palestinians' and 74 years later they still cry #victimhood. Unlike the 850,000 Jews who were expelled from the Middle East and North African Muslim countries. They didn't start a war against anyone. They fled, leaving their property and possessions behind. Yet today they are prosperous and free. Why do these so-called 'Palestinians' allow themselves to be used as political weapons? Those Arab families who accepted Israeli rule in 1948, and who comprise 21% of Israel's citizens, are thriving.
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  42.  @Kamaldeen-kw2gy : The Jews were acknowledged by the League of Nations in 1920 as the indigenous peoples of the historic land of Judea (Israel), and that became formally binding in international law. All Israeli citizens are equal under the constitution, but do feel free to name some of those 'rights' that you say the Israeli Arab Muslims don't have. When the Ottoman Caliphate was defeated in 1918, its Middle East land was split up. 99% of that land was granted to Arabs. Less than 1% of that land was promised to the Jews, and they are still struggling to live securely and peacefully on their homeland surrounded by Arab nations which want to massacre them. Any 'Palestinian' Arab who is hostile to Israel should by now have been resettled in a third country. But the 'Palestinians' are useful as political weapons against the Jews, so UNRWA serves to perpetuate their refugee status.
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  43.  @Kamaldeen-kw2gy : You might also find it helpful to know that in a recent poll of East Jerusalem Arab residents, 93% said they preferred to live under Israeli rule than the Palestinian Authority.
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  44.  @djez07 : It is permitted in Islam to rape kaffir women, the non-Muslim females in Dar al-Harb, those whom your right hand possess.
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  45.  @sheena9904 : It is permitted in Islam to rape kaffir women, the non-Muslim females in Dar al-Harb, those whom your right hand possess.
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  46.  @aap9490 : These females would fall into the category of sex slaves, those whom your right hand posses, so it's not considered adultery. It's the "spoils of war"...🙄
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  47.  @igueh : I'm Australian, born in New Zealand, and currently living in Egypt. But I guess you are talking about Israel and Israeli citizens? The Allied Powers (Britain, France, etc) were under NO legal obligation to hand over the Ottoman Empire land to the current occupants for self-determination after 1918, but they did. And Arabs got 99% of that land. It's important to remember that the Holy Land has ideological and strategic value for the Judeo-Christian West, so are you surprised that their leaders wanted the #indigenous Jewish people to once again live in their ancestral homeland so that there would be freedom of religion for all faiths? Under Islamic control, there is never freedom of religion. The Ottoman Empire and the Arab countries lost all of their wars. They do NOT get to choose what happens to the Holy Land. Those Arab families who decided to accept life under Jewish rule are today 21% of the citizens of Israel. They have #equal rights under the law, with a better living standard than most Arabs in the surrounding countries. But you still complain? Do you want ALL of the Middle East to be under Islamic control, as it once was? Sorry, but that's not going to happen. Peace and blessings to you...🙏
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  48. @Saif Baksh: Palestinians militants were the aggressors. They killed civilians, religious leaders, an Arab Christian policeman, a Druze military guy, and two Ukrainian refugees. It's sickening.
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  49.  @mahdiaanni6125 : I'm happy to debate and be proven wrong. Am I wrong in saying "[Palestinian] Arabs still want more land. They want a Jew-free Middle East"? Is this a 'delusion' or something that people actually say or imply with the phrase 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free'? Do you live in Palestine? Or are you from somewhere safe and just want to perpetuate using Arabs in Palestine as #pawns in your hostility for the Jewish people?
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  50. Those butter cookies look like they were introduced by foreigners to Egypt.
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