Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank? | 5 Minute Video" video.

Just watched it and it's full of emotional rhetoric. No facts that I could see.
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Who LOST WW1 in 1918? The Ottoman Empire. Losers back then did NOT get to choose who gets what land, especially if they are on the side of the people who started the war. From the defeat and dismembering of the Ottoman Caliphate, the Arabs were granted self-determination over 99% of the Middle East land. Countries today known as Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. And Israel shares its tiny 1% with 21% Arabs. But you still complain? Did you even bother to watch the video?
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@ConorJB1 : The British & French were in charge of administering the territories which were surrendered when the Ottoman Empire LOST the war in 1918. What do you think would have happened if the German & Ottoman Alliance had WON their aggressive war?
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So you agree that the ethnic cleansing of around 850,000 Jews from Arab lands was also "immoral, unethical, and wrong"?
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Israel should have been given sovereignty over all of 'historic' Palestine, their ancestral homeland, at the same time as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was granted 77% of the British Mandate of Palestine. But Israel obviously cannot afford to give full citizenship to hostile people. I guess it's a waiting game. More Arab nations are beginning to normalise relations with Israel...🙏
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@isecretlyvotedemocratbut2426 : The Qur'an is dualistic and contradictory. For every debate you can find the opposing side in the Islamic scriptures, Qur'an, Hadiths, Sira, Tafsirs, etc. Most of the peaceful 'revelations' came when the founder of Islam was not in a position of power. The later 'revelations' abrogate those earlier peaceful ones. Chapter 17 is believed to be an earlier Mecca 'revelation'.
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Did you even watch the video? Demographics are not taken into account. The Jews are the indigenous people of the land.
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@ConorJB1 : What's to stop the Arab countries from renegotiating their borders today? No-one one was ever going to get it exactly right for all parties. This was at the conclusion of a MAJOR world war, so it should be viewed from that perspective. The Arabs achieved their desired independence from the oppressive Ottoman Empire, and they have self-determination today on 99% of the liberated Middle East land, ie. Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. I would have loved to see the addition of a country called Kurdistan, and am still hopeful of that one day.
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@davissae : After the dismembering of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Arabs ended up with 99% of the defunct caliphate's Middle East land. The Jews want less than 1% of that land, and it happens to be their original ancestral homeland. And this is not acceptable to you? Sounds like #antiSemitism to me. Those Arabs who refused to live under Jewish leadership in 1948, and who fled when the Arab nations attacked, should have long ago been resettled in one of the Arab countries. Millions of 'displaced' peoples over the last 100 years have been resettled but it's only the Palestinians who still get huge funding and publicity today.
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It makes sense that the Allied Forces supported the founding of a democratic Jewish state on 1% of the the Middle East land, particularly as it has strategic and ideological value to the west. Wars have consequences. The losers, the collapsed Ottoman Caliphate and Arab Muslims, didn't get to call all the shots.
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@ricksolari9570 : This 5 min video "Why Are There Still Palestinian Refugees?" explains the complex refugee situation that occurred after the founding of Israel in 1948. It includes the 'ethnic cleansing' of Jews from Arab nations. Let me know what other explanation you need... https://youtu.be/sY0FOPa-j-E
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'Daily counter-terrorism actions' describes them more correctly. And the majority killed are #jihadi militants who are then hailed as martyrs by the Islamist groups. Their families get monthly payouts from the Palestinian Authority.
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