Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Should the UK continue selling arms to Israel?" video.

  1. 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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  2.  @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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