Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Lex Fridman speaks to Palestinians in the West Bank" video.

  1. Muslims follow an ideology that obligates them to struggle (practice jihad) until ALL humanity submits or is subjugated to its god, Allah. The Islamic scriptures teach that Muslims will only have peace when they fight against the Jews. This is especially important in a land that was invaded and occupied by Islam for hundreds of years. Islam is not just a religion. It is primarily an ideology of politics-law that seeks to dominate. When these nice men say that Jews, Christians and Muslims lived in peace together in past times, did they also tell you that the Muslims were in power and the other two groups were in positions of subjugation, with fewer rights under the law than Muslims? Why are Christian Palestinians leaving all of the Arab Muslim countries today? Why are Christians still being persecuted in Muslim-majority Egypt? Why has the percentage of Christians in Bethlehem dropped from 85% in 1948 to as low as around 10-15% today?
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  2. That's rubbish. The Holy Land has ideological, religious, and strategic value for the West so support for Israel will never disappear. The Allied Powers DEFEATED the Ottoman Caliphate in 1918, and the Ottoman Muslims did not get to choose who got what out of their dismembered Middle East empire. However Arabs WERE granted self-rule over 99% of it. I'm very happy that the #indigenous Jewish people are back in control in their ancestral homeland. And they share it with 21% Arabs who have #equal rights under the law with Jews. But you're still not happy?
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  3.  @scrotocles5208  : Israel will continue to thrive and grow. With peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt, the Abraham Accords, numerous back-channel dealings with Muslim-majority countries, and the new alignments between Israel and the African nations, things are moving in an extremely positive direction. Israel is an #IndigenousRights success story...🕎 It's worth noting that a far greater number of Jews lost their ancestral homes in the Arab countries since 1948 than the number of Arabs who were 'displaced' from historic Palestine because the Arab world refused to accept the legitimacy of Israel. But it's only the so-called Arab 'Palestinians' who still get huge funding today for their role as #pawns in the game of hate for the Jewish people. They should wake up and see that they are being used.
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  4. Lex Fridman is of Jewish descent. Jews are threatened with DEATH in many places in the Palestinian Territories or Gaza. How could your idea could even get off to a start?
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  5. They are terrorists when they deliberately target civilians in order to achieve their ideological goal of taking back ALL of historic Palestine from the indigenous Jewish people.
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  6. Please look at the wider perspective. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 by the Allied Powers, the Arab occupants of the Middle East Ottoman land were given self-rule over 99% of that land. These countries today are Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The #indigenous Jewish people were given the chance to reconstitute their ancestral home of Palestine, which is LESS than 1% of the Ottoman land. And they share it with 21% Arabs who have #equal rights with Jews.  In 1948 the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel intending to massacre all of the Jews, but they were defeated. They then refused to grant citizenship to the displaced Arabs from Palestine, and a UN organisation was specifically set up to hold these displaced Arabs as *perpetual refugees*, which has not been done anywhere else in the world. They are being held as geopolitical weapons against the Jews. Thankfully, with the Abraham Accords, the cold peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt, and various other back-channel agreements, it is all changing. If the Arabs of Palestine could be given citizenship of an Arab League country, then Israel may be able to give them long-term residence visas in Israel so they can have equal rights, access to education, health, employment, etc., but not national voting rights. If they continue to be hostile towards the Jewish state of Israel, as citizens of another country they could also be deported. Wars have consequences, especially when you are on the side of the party which started the war and was then defeated, like the Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent wars that the Arab countries started against Israel, and lost. The Palestinian Arabs do not want peace with Israel. They want ALL of Palestine for themselves. They tell you this very clearly. A greater number of Jews were exiled or expelled from their generational homes in the Arab countries than Arabs from historic Palestine, but today those Jews have been resettled on they are getting on with their lives. Why, out of all the MILLIONS of displaced peoples over the last 100 years, is it only the so-called Palestinians that still get so much support, publicity and funding?
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  7. The concept of god in Islam is VERY different to that of the Judaism and Christianity. Islam's goal is to have all humanity submit to its god, or be subjugated to those who follow its god. Plus Islam is not compatible with the human rights values that the majority of the world upholds.
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  8. Please look at the wider perspective. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918 by the Allied Powers, the Arab occupants of the Middle East Ottoman land were given self-rule over 99% of that land. These countries today are Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The #indigenous Jewish people were given the chance to reconstitute their ancestral home of Palestine, which is LESS than 1% of the Ottoman land. And they share it with 21% Arabs who have #equal rights with Jews. In 1948 the surrounding Arab countries attacked Israel intending to massacre all of the Jews, but they were defeated. They then refused to grant citizenship to the displaced Arabs from Palestine, and a UN organisation was specifically set up to hold these displaced Arabs as *perpetual refugees*, which has not been done anywhere else in the world. They are being held as geopolitical weapons against the Jews. Thankfully, with the Abraham Accords, the cold peace agreements with Jordan and Egypt, and various other back-channel agreements, it is all changing. If the Arabs of Palestine could be given citizenship of an Arab League country, then Israel may be able to give them long-term residence visas in Israel so they can have equal rights, access to education, health, employment, etc., but not national voting rights. If they continue to be hostile towards the Jewish state of Israel, as citizens of another country they could also be deported. Wars have consequences, especially when you are on the side of the party which started the war and was then defeated, like the Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent wars that the Arab countries started against Israel, and lost. The Palestinian Arabs do not want peace with Israel. They want ALL of Palestine for themselves. They tell you this very clearly. A greater number of Jews were exiled or expelled from their generational homes in the Arab countries than Arabs from historic Palestine, but today those Jews have been resettled on they are getting on with their lives. Why, out of all the MILLIONS of displaced peoples over the last 100 years, is it only the so-called Palestinians that still get so much support, publicity and funding?
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