Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "How an Israeli war criminal turned Gaza into “the biggest refugee camp in the world”" video.

The Gaza Strip is still part of Israel. Israel should extend sovereignty over it and offer "residence status" to the occupants. That would give them all of the civil rights that Israelis get, ie. education, health, employment, business opportunities, and security, but NOT national voting rights until they've proved they can live in peace in the area. Keeping these Gazans in the false hope of returning to their homes is inhumane. UNRWA must be dissolved. The 'catastrophe' of 1948 was self-inflicted. It's time for Gazans to accept that, let go of the hate, and move on so that their children and grandchildren can live normal lives. Any Gazan Arab who rejects life in the Jewish state of Israel should be resettled in another country, with financial reparations to assist him/her.
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There was no Israel, nor Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon or Syria until the Ottoman Empire was DEFEATED in 1918 by the Allied Powers. The Jews allied with the British, as did the Hejazi Arabs who fought with Lawrence of Arabia. When the Ottoman Middle East land was carved up, 99% of it was given to the Hejazi Arabs for self-rule. Israel is less than 1% of that land, and one-fifth of Israeli citizens are Arabs who have "equal rights" with Jews. I guess you'd prefer no Jews at all?
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@JDforeveralone : Can you give me ONE specific Israeli law that discriminates on the basis of race if you are certain that inequality is "well reported"? I can think of one law, but it actually favours the Israeli Arabs. They are excused from compulsory military service, though a growing number of Israeli Arabs now choose to do it. Two million Israeli Arabs TODAY are citizens with equal rights to Jews and other minorities, such as the Druze, the Bedouins, Samaritans, Circassians, and Arab Christians. Their families ACCEPTED life in the Jewish state of Israel in 1948. The rest of the Arabs in Palestine rejected the UN partition plan and aligned with the attacking Arab armies. That was a very bad choice because they were #displaced, though they had expected to return when the Jews had been massacred or driven out. Actions have consequences...🙄 When India was partitioned in 1947, around 16 million people had to change countries because they didn't "fit" with the newly created Islamic nation of Pakistan. Do those #displaced people still whine and get LOTS of funding and appeasement today? No. They acknowledged the reality of their situation. They moved to their new country and got on with life.
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Israel is an "indigenous rights" success story... 🙏🇮🇱💙
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@michaelfalsia6062 : Good comment. As for this bit... "those willing to return in peace should have been given the right of return". I believe there WAS an offer made by Israel for 100,000 Arabs to return, but it was conditional upon the Arab countries also absorbing a certain number, which they refused to do. So the deal fell flat. I read about it in the Elder of Ziyon website.
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@gilabola4642 : What nonsense. ALL of the land from the river to the sea is Israel's land. When the Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918, it ceded the land to the British and French. The British Mandate for Palestine was a mandate for the Jewish homeland. This is legal, in the same way that Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon were given legal self-rule in those lands. It's only due to the belligerence of the Arab Muslim world that the Jews are not able to live in peace in their ancestral homeland. It's not about religion for them. They are the #indigenous people of that land.
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The 'Palestinian' Arabs rejected the UN partition plan so it no longer applies.
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Exactly... it was a self-inflicted 'nakba'. And the pain of that catastrophe is being perpetuated by UNRWA and others who keep these people in some illusion of returning.
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@ahmeda.3198 : The Palestinians do not have legal right to a state. They've rejected every offer since the UN partition plan in 1947. The Palestinians don't have an historical right to a state that pre-dates the #indigenous Jewish right. Now they've forfeited any moral right to a state. Gaza should be under Israeli sovereignty and the people offered "residence status" as I said above. They could have autonomous Arab cities with their own civil voting rights. But they'll self-inflict another catastrophe upon their children because we all know that what they really want is to restore the Islamic Caliphate and control all of historic Palestine. Why the world still appeases these 'Palestinian' people is probably due to the fear of losing access to the Arab world's oil. But that's all changing now, and I'm pretty sure we'll see a continued expansion of the #AbrahamAccords.
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The Jews and Christians lived as 'dhimmis' in the Islamic Caliphate. Of course they were peaceful. They had no choice because they were second-class citizens with few legal rights. But the #indigenous Jews are now back in control in their ancestral homeland, and they're not going to leave...🙏🇮🇱💙
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@JDforeveralone : It's better to go straight to the main source of Islamic doctrine, the Qur'an. The appropriate treatment for "people of the book" is set out in Qur'an At-Tawbah 29. The Dhimmis are to pay the Jizya and are to be humbled, subdued, brought low. Islamic Caliphates implemented this according to their own interpretation and circumstances but it always resulted in Jews and Christians having fewer legal rights when living in a Muslim-controlled area. There is no "equality under the law" in Islam. 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." The thousands of Jews who were taken as slaves to Europe by the Romans have now returned. They are here to stay so I suggest you get used to that.
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He perpetuates the illusion that these people will one day return to where their parents and grandparents were living. Many of them were only "economic migrants" to the Mandate of Palestine after the British and Zionists made it economically viable. All the Arab countries shut their doors to them returning. That's the inhumane part.
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