Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Jerusalem deputy mayor calls Israeli authorities to close Unrwa’s Jerusalem compound" video.

  1. The Allied Powers defeated the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The Ottoman Turks CEDED their Middle East land to the British, French, etc., who were under NO legal obligation to give that land to the occupants. But they did. Arabs got 99% of the land that was liberated at great expense and sacrifice of life. A large number of Arabs who lived in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948 were "economic migrants". They only came to the area after the Zionists and the British created work opportunities.  Today one-fifth of Israeli citizens are from those Arab families which accepted life in the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. All belligerent Arabs who refuse to live in peace with the Israeli Jews, Arabs, and minorities such as Druze, Circassians, Bedouin, and Ba'hai, should be resettled elsewhere. Why do we keep pouring money into perpetuating their 'refugee status'? Have they ever shown signs of being competent to run their own state in peace with the neighbouring #indigenous Jewish people? Isn't it obvious that they want the whole land from the river to the sea?
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  2. ​ @adrianjoseph1267 : Both the Jews of the UK and the Hejazi Arabs supported the British in WWI. They were each promised the right to self-determination should the Allied Powers defeat the Germans and Ottoman Empire. Today the Arabs have self-determination in 99% of the land, in countries called Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, much of the land oil-rich. Israel is a tiny less than <1% of the Middle East Ottoman land, and the Jews share their country with 21% Arabs and other minorities who accepted life in the Jewish state of Israel. DNA is not a criteria for being #indigenous. You also need legal approval for DNA testing in many European countries, such as France, so please stop with this genetic nonsense. "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" is the World Bank definition. When Jewish slaves were taken to Europe by the Romans, they maintained their indigenous status even though they were #displaced. When Jews were dispersed around the world in order to survive economically, they maintained their indigenous status even when living in the #diaspora. Around 60% of Israeli Jews today were 'cleansed' from their multi-generational homes in Arab countries after the founding of Israel in 1948. Israeli Arabs have "equal rights" under the law. There are Israeli Arab Muslims in the Knesset, on the Supreme Court, as city Mayors, and in the highest echelons of business, education, health and technology. They also serve in the IDF and other security groups. I suggest you watch the five minute PragerU video called "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?" where international law professor Eugene Kontorovich outlines the precedent for international property law as it applies to Israel. The Arabs have no legal right to any of the land from the river to the sea. They rejected the partition offer of 1947. Now they forfeited any moral right to a state.
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  3. Jerusalem is the holiest place in the world for the #indigenous Jewish people. It amazes me that they keep on appeasing the belligerent and violent Arabs. Thankfully things are now changing.
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  4. UNRWA should be shut down solely on the basis that it perpetuates refugee status from 1948, instead of resettling people who don't want to live in the area in peace.
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