Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "How Israel's far-right seized control, and their dangerous plan | Daniel Levy | The Big Picture EP2" video.

  1. This man is delusional. Around 21% of Israeli citizens are Arab Muslims and 5% are other non-Jews, ALL who have equal rights to Jews. Israel was founded on the basis of the Jewish people reconstituting their national homeland. They have been acknowledged by the international community as the indigenous people of historic Palestine. This idea is not supremacist. Japan has Japanese values, the French have secular values, Pakistan has Islamic values, so why can't the Jews have a nation with Jewish values? From the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 by the Allied Powers, the Arabs today have self-determination over more than 99% of the Middle East. The Jews want LESS than 1% of that ME land. Anyone living in Gaza or Judea and Samaria (West Bank) who is still hostile to the Jewish state of Israel should apply for resettlement in another country. But it's not possible because UNRWA, like Hamas and Fatah, are corrupt and want to milk the perpetuation of this tragedy for their own gain, and the Arab League forbade giving citizenship to the displaced Palestinians. They are sadly being used as geopolitical pawns against the Jews.
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  2. ​ @mojo5517 : How can you be an occupier if you are the indigenous people of that land? The international community in 1920 (at the San Remo Conference) recognised the Jewish people as indigenous to their ancestral homeland. They were granted the right to self-determination in that land which comprises less than 1% of the defeated Ottoman Caliphate. All Arabs and others who were living there at the time were given equal rights under the law, and TODAY Arabs sit in the Knesset, they serve in the judiciary and security services, etc. Arabs who live in the Palestinian Territories have their own laws and their own corrupt violent leaders. They should realise they are being used as geopolitical #weapons against the Jews. This situation will never end until UNRWA is dismantled and the Arab 'refugees' are treated in the same way as all other refugees in the world. The Arabs were granted self-determination over 99% of the defeated Ottoman Caliphate land. Those countries today are Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. The Arab League refused to give citizenship to those Arabs who were 'displaced' from the Palestinian Territories, keeping them in limbo, even though the majority are from families which migrated to the British Mandate of Palestine after 1920 from the surrounding Arab countries, plus Yemen, Bosnia, etc. The suffering of the Jewish people under the Nazi regime has little to do with this. It was the fact that the Ottoman Empire joined the side of the Germans in WWI and were DEFEATED that the Jews were promised their ancestral homeland if the Allied Powers won, which they did in 1918. Then at least five Arab nations went to war multiple times against the legitimate sovereign state of Israel in 1948 and they were DEFEATED each time. The land of Israel has strategic and ideological value to the western nations, so the west will always support the Jewish people of Israel. Get used to it. Around 18 million South Asians were displaced in 1947 when Pakistan was created. Around 1.5 million Greeks and Turks were forced to shift countries in 1924 when Turkiye was created. About 800,000 Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab countries after the creation of the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. That's just a few examples of other refugee movements, which we hardly hear about today. Those people assimilated into their new lands and got on with their lives. Why should we treat those Arabs who were displaced from the British Mandate of Palestine any differently to other refugees? Why do they still get BILLIONS of dollars of funding? Why are they held as PERPETUAL refugees, generation after generation? Tell me one other refugee group that gets this 'special' treatment? #Discrimination
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  3. ​ @tjmirez7556 : Do you even know what indigenous means? "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". - World Bank. Arabs are indigenous to Arabia. The term 'Palestinian' was invented for a political agenda. You have access to the internet so I suggest that you study the facts, not follow propaganda.
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