Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Melanie Phillips: The case for Israel | The Brendan O’Neill Show" video.

  1. The Jewish people are #indigenous to the Holy Land. They've returned, and are there to stay. The Arabs invaded and conquered the Levant in the late 7th century. Most of the Arabs in Palestine TODAY arrived after 1920 when the British Mandate and the returning Jews created economic opportunities for them. During the 1948-1967occupation of Gaza by Egypt, large numbers of people moved to Gaza from families in Egypt. They still have Egyptian passports but Egypt refuses to let them return and is keeping them TRAPPED in a war zone. If the so-called Palestinians in Gaza wanted to live in peaceful coexistence with Israel, they could have built something amazing. But they don't want that. They want ALL of the land from the river to the sea with NO Jews.
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  2. Israel is an "indigenous rights" success story. The Jewish people aligned with the Allied Powers in WWI and were promised the right to reconstitute their ancestral homeland if the British, French, etc. DEFEATED the Germans and Ottomans. The Jewish state of Israel is also the beginning of the #rollback of Arab imperialism. I hope the Kurds, Assyrians, Persians, Copts, Amazigh-Berber, Yazidis, etc. can also rollback Arab Islamic imperialism in the coming decades and take control in THEIR ancestral homelands.
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