Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Palestinian family in Hebron traumatised after repeated Israeli settler attacks" video.

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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@mohammadfaisal6905 : Yes I would also be very interested to know the legal status of those who are are allegedly perpetrating injustice on this Arab family.
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@Brian Lucena : You have omitted to say that the Jews are the indigenous people of historic Palestine. They have had a continuous connection with the land, through their language, traditions, and religion. Some Jews have always lived there, though the majority were exiled for two thousand years. The League of Nations in 1920 recognised the Jews as the indigenous people and granted them the legal right to re-establish themselves in their ancestral homeland (San Remo Agreement). All non-Jews living in historic Palestine were to be accorded equal rights under the law, and Israel today includes 20% Arab-Palestinians who accepted to live in a Jewish State. Those Arab-Palestinians who fled when the five Arab nations attacked Israel when it was founded are 'displaced people' and should by now have been resettled in the Arab countries, mainly in Jordan where the majority of people are Arab-Palestinians. An equivalent number of Jews were ethnically cleansed from their generational homes in Arab countries. Those 'displaced' Jews are now resettled in Israel, or in the US, Canada or Australia, etc. and are thriving. Israel is legitimate and it's not going away. Thankfully we see some Arab nations now normalising relations with Israel through the #AbrahamAccords. Please stop using the so-called 'Palestinian' Arabs as political weapons in your hatred against the Jews. The Ottoman Caliphate was defeated in 1918 by the British, French & Allies. The dismembered lands were held in Mandate by British and French, and some years later, 99% of that Middle East land land was given to the Arabs for self-determination. Their countries today being Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The Jewish State of Israel comprises less than 1%. Sadly they are still struggling to live peacefully and securely, but time is on their side. Do you also complain about the way the Arabs were given their land, or is it only the Jews that you hold to a very different standard?
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@humblebee8334 : Maybe Hebron, the city of the patriarchs, is historically a Jewish city and should return to being that again? With equal rights under the law for the existing Arab residents?
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@asma-mushtaq : Here's another 'maybe' for you to consider. In answer to a poll by the Palestinian News Network in December 2021, 93% of Arabs in east Jerusalem say they prefer Israeli rule to that of the Palestinian Authority. So maybe the Arabs of Hebron would also be happier living as residents under Israeli rule? Thankfully the east Jerusalem Arabs are realistic enough to recognise that Israel is here to stay, and that life is actually quite good under a secular democratic government.
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@eg6308 : I absolutely do NOT support people taking the law into their own hands or being violent against others, as I said in my initial comment. I would have appreciated a sentence or two to describe the historic legal situation, particularly as it seems that another member of the Al Jaabary family recently sold a different Hebron property through a third party to a Jewish group.
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@mohammadfaisal6905 : You say "They used to live with communal harmony under ottoman empire..." That's kind of easy for a Muslim to say when everyone knows that Islam NEVER provides 'equality under the law' for the Jewish and Christian minority. They live with constant insecurity so they behave themselves. Is that what you call harmony? After Israel was established and the Jewish people were back in power in their ancestral homeland after centuries of being exiled, the Arabs armies attacked. I think there were 'extremists' on both the Arab and the Jewish side? How do you explain the 20% of Arab Muslims who live as Israeli citizens today, and who prefer that to living under Palestinian Authority rule? And how do you explain a poll last year of the Arab residents of East Jerusalem showing that 93% prefer living under Israeli rule? It seems as if it's only a minority that are hostile to the State of Israel. If you live outside the region, please stop using the so-called 'Palestinians' as weapons in your fight against the Jews. I believe that Israel should have been granted the full area of their ancestral homeland 'from the river to the sea' at the same time, in 1921, that the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan took control of 77% of the eastern part of the British Mandate of Palestine. The Arab Muslims scored an own-goal by attacking the new State of Israel and encouraging some 500,000 Arab Palestinians to flee the area, telling them they could return to their homes once the Jews had all been annihilated. If those Arab Palestinians had remained, a very different story would exist today. Many Arab leaders have expressed regret at the decisions that were made. But that's just history now that the Arab nations are normalising ties with Israel.
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@mohammadfaisal6905 : I would support indigenous people having a referendum on whether or not they want an independent state, and a broad discussion on whether an independent state for them would even be viable today. I would not support an armed insurrection. The founding of the new countries of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel arose out of the collapse of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1918. It had ruled over the area for some 600 years. Arab and Jewish national fervour assisted in the overthrow and defeat of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, hence these six new countries could be established. It's regrettable that some people were displaced but that always happens. Continuing to give the so-called 'Palestinians' the false hope of being able to return is unrealistic and cruel. I would have liked to see the Kurds also get their own country. I wonder if you also fight for the Kurdish right to self-determination?
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@oceanaoushn8803 : Not cynical or clever but REALISTIC. It's estimated that over 44 million people have been displaced by wars and/or the founding of new nation states in the last 120 years. The Indian sub-continent is probably the biggest example of this, where between 14-20 million people had to move countries overnight, or they suffered rape and killing. Where I am currently in Turkey there was also a massive displacement of Greeks which was settled through a population exchange between Turkey and Greece in 1923 where around 1.6 million people were made refugees. Same happened in Europe after WW2. Yet today it's only the so-called 'Palestinians' who are given massive funding and publicity. I wonder why?
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@abokareem7586 : Do you know what the definition of indigenous is? It doesn't matter where in the world you live, if you have had a continuous connection with the land of your ancestors, through language, traditions, and religious rituals, etc. then you are indigenous to that ancestral land. Please give up on the dream to 'go back home'. If you are hostile to Israel, you are not welcome. You should apply to be resettled in another country, just like all of the other 'displaced' people in the last 100 years. You can't have 'exchange between two neighbour countries' when the people on one side want to annihilate you. The Arabs were granted 99% of the collapsed Ottoman Caliphate land. The Jews were given legal right to their ancestral homeland which comprises less than 1% of the Ottoman Empire land. From this perspective, I support both Arabs and Jews to have self-determination over their own lands, particularly as 20% of Israeli citizens are Arabs who have equal rights with Jews. As for 'ethnic cleansing', how do you feel about the 850,000 Jews who were ethnically cleansed, or exiled, from the Arab countries after the Arabs lost the 1948 war?
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@abokareem7586 : You need more time to understand what indigenous means. With the rising trend for Arab Muslims to leave Islam, combined with Arab nations normalising relations with Israel, I don't see the 'Palestinian' dream remaining alive for too much longer. Please move on.
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@abokareem7586 : Yes I believe the Israel-Palestinian conflict has everything to do with religion. The Palestinian Muslims have been weaponised against the Jews. But times have changed and so have the economic circumstances. Maybe these are the prophesied #EndTimes? What is your stake in this? Are you a so-called 'Palestinian'? If so, I wish you every success in your dream but I also ask that you be realistic.
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@itsmoshalawi : I guess it depends on how you define 'thrived'? As for living in 'peace and harmony' please do check out the story of the 1066 Granada massacre of Jews where it is estimated that Muslim mobs killed more than 1400 Jewish families. As a minority in an Islamic rule, Jews always lived under the threat of persecution, though they were at times quite valuable to the Muslim rulers because of their skills. Jews are never guaranteed total protection no matter how much jizya they paid, or how humbled or subordinate they behaved, as required by their dhimmi status. If one Jew says the wrong thing, or does something a Muslim doesn't like, or appears to take a superior position to the Muslims, then the whole community could be in danger. Many Jewish families would pretend to convert to Islam and carry on their religious practices and traditions in secret in order to escape persecution. You can read more in this excellent book "The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain" by Dario Fernandez-Morera. If someone has told you that the Jews and Christians have usually lived in peace and harmony with Muslims then they've told you a blatant lie. I would also look into what you've been told about the early years of Islam, because much of this also appears to have been written by Arab rulers to suit their political narrative at the time.
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