Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Netanyahu is 'finishing the job' while the world watches | Op-ed video" video.

It was the League of Nations which granted the Jewish people the legal right to reconstitute their ancestral homeland in 1922. When the United Nations took over from the League of Nations in 1945 it ratified that agreement. Then the violent Arabs were given the chance to have a state alongside the Jewish one, and they rejected that chance. Now they've forfeited any right to a state of their own. #OneJewishState is the best chance now, where Arabs are given 'permanent residence status' in Israel, but not national voting rights.
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Nonsense. When the Jews were taken from to Europe as slaves of the Romans they were given names that related to the places they began to live in. That was the custom. When they returned to their ancestral homeland, they were free to return to their original family names. The #indigenous Jewish people were granted the right by the League of Nations in 1922 to reconstitute their ancestral home in the British Mandate for Palestine. The Ottoman Turks and Arabs of Palestine were DEFEATED in 1918, remember? Losers of a war that they started do not get to choose who ends up with what land.
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@23shan : Care to tell me where I got any historic facts wrong?
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@habsom1406 : This makes me sad because that grandmother was told LIES. She should have been told that wars have consequences. When people go to war against a sovereign country, and then they LOSE, the people who aligned with the attacking side will probably lose their homes. The Arabs of the Palestine region fought on the side of the Ottoman Turks, and they LOST in 1918. Then they ran away when the seven Arab countries attacked Israel in 1948, and they LOST. You don't get to go back to your homes when you are the enemy and remain hostile to the Jewish people. Two million Arabs are Israeli citizens today because they accepted life in the Jewish state of Israel. Of course that wasn't an easy decision but over 80 million people around the world were 'displaced' in the 20th century when new countries were founded after empires fell. These Arab Israeli citizens today have equal rights under the law and freedom of religion. They made a good choice in 1948. The checkpoints are only necessary because of the Intifadas and terror waves. Before that, both Israeli citizens and Arabs of the disputed territories could move freely. Actions have consequences!!! I'm also sad that the 700,000 Arabs who were displaced in 1948 have been kept under the delusion that they have "the right to return". They should have all been resettled in the Arab countries which attacked Israel and today they would have lives with citizenship rights and dignity. Please stop supporting the idea of UNRWA keeping them as "perpetual refugees" in order to put pressure on Israel, in an attempt to destroy it from within seeing as they can't destroy Israel militarily.
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@scarlettkhan9667 : Please see my other comment. Another point to remember is that the 1922 British Mandate for Palestine was a legal grant for the Jewish people to reconstitute their ancestral home in that land. This included ALL of the occupants who accepted life in that Jewish state. A few years after that grant, the British cut off 78% of the land and gave it to the Hashemite King for the Arabs. Today that country is called Jordan. Arabs who did not accept life in the Jewish state of Israel should have gone there. Over 1.5 million Turks and Greeks were forced to exchange countries when the new state of Turkiye was founded in 1924. Today it is unacceptable to force people to move, but please at least give the Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank the choice to leave if they hate Israel so much.
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@scarlettkhan9667 : South Asia has about 16 million "really sad stories" of people fleeing their homes when the Islamic State of Pakistan was created in 1947. Do those millions of 'displaced' peoples whine and beg for billions of funding today? No. They accepted their sad reality, and settled in the next door country. Or they let the UNHCR resettle them somewhere else. Today they live thriving lives as citizens of their new countries.
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@thinkbeforeyoutype7106 : Can you provide any evidence of this very unlikely percentage of Ashkenazi Jews? 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". Their ancient artefacts, archaeology, written history, and traditional practices, provide the evidence of being a "unique social group". Semites are just people who belong to a language group speaking either Hebrew, Arabic, or Aramaic. DNA is also not a criteria for being indigenous. It is the membership of a group which has UNIQUE practices such as a prayer like "next year in Jerusalem", and a book which documents their kings and other ancient practices tied to the specific land of Israel, that matters.
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They have accepted the reality of the existence of the Jewish state of Israel. The Arab leaders don't care about the Arabs of Palestine now.
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It's a war. Hamas caused this tragedy. Do not forget that.
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@chompythebeast : The 'Palestinian' identity is invented. And these Gazan people are being kept as perpetual refugees so they can be use as #pawns against Israel. I want a better life for their children. They should not become human sacrifices in this WAR.
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@ferozabismilla637 : I think you are forgetting that when countries go to war, there are consequences when they LOSE that war. The losers do not get to choose who gets what land. The British made alignments with both the Arabs of the Hejaz and the Zionist Jews in WWI. Wars are expensive in both material and sacrifice of lives, and promises were made to both groups that they would be given territory if the Allies were successful in winning the war. After the Ottoman Turks and Arabs of Palestine were DEFEATED in 1918, the Hejazi Arabs were granted self-determination in 99% of the carved-up Middle East Ottoman land. Those countries today are Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The indigenous Jews were granted the legal right to reconstitute their ancestral home in the Holy Land which is a tiny 1% of that Ottoman occupied land. And one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs whose families accepted life in the Jewish state of Israel. That's not enough for you?🙄
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Yes, those who converted to Islam no longer have the same connection to the ancestral Jewish land that the Jews have. The Jewish people are #indigenous to the Holy Land and they are back in control. DNA is not a criteria for being indigenous. It's the continuous connection to a specific land by a unique cultural group that counts.
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@Pale_Kingg : So what's your definition of #indigenous?
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@funTimesInTheSun : Seeing as it was the Arab Islamic forces which colonised the Middle East, how are the colonisers the #indigenous peoples? Arabs are indigenous to Saudi Arabia. Those Arab Muslims who live in the Holy Land have 'historic links' but they are no longer considered the 'indigenous peoples' of that land. Their focus is on Mecca and Medina, whereas the Jewish people have always been focused on Zion, or Jerusalem, regardless of where in the world they've been living after persecution. And a large number of the Arabs arrived in Palestine only AFTER the British and Jews had created economic opportunities when they took over after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. They have names that reflect their region of origin, ie. Kurdish, Egyptian, Iraq, Syrian, Moroccan, Algerian, etc. In 1922 the League of Nations unanimously acknowledged the connection of the Jewish people with that land and gave them the legal grant to reconstitute their ancestral home, so long as the current occupants were given equal civil rights and freedom of worship. Today over two million Arab Israeli citizens have equal rights and freedom of worship in Israel.
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Jews and Christians always lived as second or third-class #dhimmi citizens in an Islamic state, with few legal rights. Would you call that "living happily?" Thankfully the indigenous Jews are now back in control in their ancestral land which had been occupied for centuries by Islamic rulers.
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What a joke. The Egyptian politician who talked about "the children of the brotherly Palestinian people cannot find a drink of water ". Egypt is keeping vulnerable children TRAPPED in the war zone!!! 🙄Doesn't this bother anyone? Egypt has refused to allow for a humanitarian camp to be set up inside Sinai where children can eat and drink and sleep in safety. Israel should absolutely keep some of Gaza land, both for security purposes and to deter any future attempt to genocide the Jewish people. However, I am troubled that we don't know exactly what is happening to those who surrender in north Gaza. Why are they still in north Gaza anyway? We know that Hamas has regrouped there and the IDF are fighting these jih*dists.
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@23shan : Huh??? What is this nonsence...🙄
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What evidence has South Africa submitted? I don't think South Africa has actually gone ahead with anything at this point. It was due last month and they requested more time, I think. This is NOT a genocide. Israel is fighting a war against Islamic #jih*dist terrorists and there are always civilian casualties in war.
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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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