Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "The Israel Guys" channel.

  1.  @Amanda-nh1lj : So what? I am a supporter of Israel and I have complete faith in Israel's government being able to find solutions to problems, especially with publicity by The Israel Guys and organisations such as Regavim, which "monitors and pursues legal action in the Israeli court system against any construction lacking Israeli permits undertaken by Palestinians or Bedouins in Israel and in the West Bank". Regavim's mission is to ensure "responsible, legal, accountable and environmentally friendly use of Israel's national lands and the return of the rule of law to all areas and aspects of the land and its preservation". I'm sure they get God's help too, but the real action is up to them.
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  2.  @dianina972 : I'm a traveller and Dahab is one of my homes. I first came to Dahab in 1989, then 1999, and 2011. During the Covid years I spent months and months here, including being here for the 2021 Gaza war and the October 2023 attack. I'm back again and holding the light for everything that's happening just over the border to Israel...🇮🇱🙏💙
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  3. Luke is such a great speaker!!! Loved this... 🇮🇱🙏💙
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  4.  @Mark-fo3if : I agree with what Shaina Zion said to you. How can Israel interfere with The Palestinian Authority and Hamas who are the elected governments of the so-called 'Palestinians'? Israel does play an overall security role but the people should look to their own corrupt leaders for 'rights' which we know don't really exist in the Islamic world. The two million Arabs who are Israeli citizens know which government they prefer to live under.
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  5.  @Mark-fo3if : So what's your solution for the people who are trapped under the PA and Hamas when their rulers are hell-bent on obliterating Israel and the Jews who live there? I see the PA and Hamas as just another variation of the authoritarian regimes that Muslim countries have ruling over them. And remember that Egypt has also erected a security wall to keep the jihadists of Gaza from entering Sinai illegally. Is Egypt also the oppressor?
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  6.  @barneygimble8984 : In the last 100 years, more than 60 million people have been displaced through wars and the founding of new countries, the partition of India-Pakistan being the largest example. Many Arabs living in the British Mandate of Palestine in 1947 unfortunately found themselves in that position. Over 20% of Israeli citizens today are from Arab families who stayed in the newly founded country of Israel and accepted its legitimacy. Those who fled, or who were coerced to leave, should have been granted asylum and citizenship in the surrounding Arab countries such as Jordan, Syria, Lebanon or Egypt, those very same countries which attacked the new nation of Israel. However the Arab League BANNED the granting of citizenship to the displaced Palestinians. UNRWA also treats the displaced Arabs as PERPETUAL refugees. They are being used as geopolitical weapons against Israel. It's sad that they keep buying into the narrative of themselves as #victims. My country Australia has given asylum to many of those Palestinian Arabs but today they are often prevented from applying for resettlement in a third country due to their value as pawns against the Jews... https://www.arabnews.com/node/1553316/middle-east .
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  7. I just watched that today. It was excellent!
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  8.  @moosadiamond : It's a sad fact that MILLIONS of people have been displaced or suffered expulsion over the last 100 years, mostly due to new countries being formed. The biggest example is India-Pakistan, the forced population transfer in 1924 of 1.5 million Orthodox Greeks with Turkish Muslims is another, and the 800,000 Jews who fled or were expelled from Arab countries after the foundation of Israel. Do we hear from any of these people today? No. They've accepted their new countries and moved on with their lives. It's only the so-called 'Palestinians' who still get huge funding and publicity. A humane solution must be found, but not at the expense of the #indigenous Jewish people in their ancestral homeland of Israel.
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  9. Huge support to Israel from across the border in South Sinai…💙🇮🇱🙏
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  10. But if Israel declared sovereignty, wouldn't they have to give the Arab occupants full citizenship with voting rights? Better to extend legal jurisdiction over the area and bide their time, or the demographics could become very unfavourable.
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  11.  @JLMISR : The Arabs who comprise 20% of Israel's population do participate in all levels of society as they have equal rights with Jews, but the Arabs who live in in Judea and Samaria are governed by the Palestinian Authority.
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  12. I suggest you watch the PragerU 5min video "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?" where international law professor Eugene Kontorovich explains the international precedents for setting borders of new countries. UN 'resolutions' are not law. Just because people and countries want a Palestinian state, it doesn't mean it should happen. At best it would be another failed Arab state. At worst it would be an even bigger terror-base than they already have.
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  13. Why don't the Arab countries step up and take their fair share of refugees? Millions of refugees have been resettled all over the world in the last 100 years. What makes the 'Palestinian' refugees more special than other refugees?
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  14. The Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918. The Allied Powers were under no legal obligation to hand over the Ottoman land to anyone back then, but they did. The Arabs got 99% of it, today's Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. A tiny 1% had been promised to the #indigenous Jews in return for their support to the British in the war effort. Israel is also shared with one-fifth Arab (mostly Muslim) citizens whose families accepted life in a Jewish state in 1948. The Arabs and other minorities such as Druze, Christians, Circassians, all have equal rights with Jews and freedom of worship.  The so-called Palestinians don't want any Jews at all in the land. Anywhere else in the world, they would have been treated as 'displaced' people and resettled in the neighbouring Arab countries or elsewhere. But for 75 years they've been held in limbo as perpetual refugees. They are useful weapons for those who are anti-Israel and anti-Semitic.
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  15.  @faiqsabri5264 : So threats of more terror are your idea of solving this? You sound like a charming person 🙄. Let's be realistic. The two-state solution disappeared off the table many years ago. Israel should extend sovereignty over all of Judea and Samaria, and Jordan or other Arab countries should be incentivised to give citizenship to the 'Palestinians' who currently live there. They could then apply for residence status in Israel, with a pathway to full Israeli citizenship so long as they are not hostile. In the last 120 years, around 100 million people have been displaced or found themselves with different rulers. This includes the two million Arab Israeli citizens today who live in Jewish state and who have equal rights to Jews under the law. 850,000 Jews were exiled from Arab countries. More than 13 million Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Sikhs had to relocate when India was partitioned. One and a half million Greeks and Turks found themselves in a 'population exchange' which set a legal precedent for population management on the basis of religious or ethnic difference. And I've only set out a few of the major population displacements/exchanges that have happened in the past 120 years. But TODAY it's only the so-called 'Palestinians' who still cry #victim some 75 years after the UN partitioned the British Mandate of Palestine. The 'Palestinians' get millions of dollars in support, and they have their own #UNRWA which keeps them as perpetual 'refugees'. The European Union also funds illegal settlements for 'Palestinians'. Sadly, we know that this happens only because the Jews are involved. And because the Qur'an tells Muslims to "drive them out from where they drove you out" [Quran 2:191].
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  16.  @faiqsabri5264 : You don't seem to be clear on the definition of a 'terrorist organisation'. A terrorist targets people, often innocent civilians, with acts of violence, with a goal to bring about some larger ideological change. The IDF are not terrorists. They are practising self-defence and rule of law. If so-called 'Palestinians' have built homes without legal permission, then demolition is standard in ALL countries which enforce rule of law. If the home belongs to a convicted criminal, then some countries have laws which enable security forces to confiscate that property and do what they want with it, including demolishing it. If 'Palestinians' would agree to recognise that Israel is a legitimate nation, and agree to live with Israelis in peace, then the IDF would no longer be required to be involved inside Israel. They could focus on protecting the country from external enemies such as Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. Do you live in the Palestinian Territories? What's your personal stake in this conflict? Do you want peace in the area?
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  17.  @faiqsabri5264 : The IDF also demolishes buildings that Israelis have erected without permission. It's not terrorism. I don't think anyone gets permission to build in Area C easily while the violence is ongoing. Do you think there is a chance for 'Palestinians' to have their own state? Can they elect leaders who are not corrupt? Will the Arabs who live in the Palestinian Territories ever give up on their idea of a Jew-free state [Qur'an 2:191] from the river to the sea?
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  18.  @Rob-t2e : Of course Israeli society has racial and cultural discrimination, like all countries! But Arab Israeli citizens have the same rights under the law as Israeli Jewish citizens, and other minority citizens such as the Druze, Circassians, Samaritans, Bedouins, Christians, etc. With one exception: the Arabs are exempt from serving in the IDF, but the growing trend is for them to now do so. Israel has the strongest legal case for the 'disputed' land dating back to the 1922 League of Nations agreement for the British Mandate of Palestine which provided for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. The 'Palestinian' leaders have never acknowledged this right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist, and now they've #forfeited any ethical claim to forming a state of their own.
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  19.  @Rob-t2e : As for your comment about "a land grab", ALL of the British Mandate of Palestine was set aside by the League of Nations for an #indigenous Jewish homeland. The Jewish leaders then had to accept 78% being carved-off for the Arab state of Jordan. This is AFTER the Hejazi Arabs, who also fought alongside the British, were granted self-determination in oil-rich Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. Add Jordan to that list, and you can see that the Arabs were given 99% of the Middle East Ottoman land. Land that was ceded to the British and French, who won a war that they didn't start. Would you be happier with no Jews at all in the Middle East?
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  20. Two million Arabs are #equal citizens with Jews in Israel today. After the Ottoman Empire LOST the war in 1918, Arabs were granted self-determination in 99% of its carved-up Middle East land, much of it rich in oil and other resources, countries we know today as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. But I guess that's not enough for you? Would you prefer NO Jews at all in their ancestral homeland?
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  21.  @christopherdavidhughes8934 : Fair enough. I'll thank you now for what I've learned from you. Go in peace.
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  22. I love that all of the Israel Guys have different personalities and ways of presenting. Am I allowed to have a favourite? 💙🇮🇱🙏
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  23. I watched this twice as it was such a good video!!! Great information on what's happening in Judea and Samaria by people who are there right now. Thank you, The Israel Guys...🙏
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  24.  @everythingandmore5537  : Why would Israel let hostile people back in their country after they sided with the attacking Arab armies in 1948? Two million Arab Muslims are Israeli citizens TODAY because their families accepted life in a Jewish state. They were probably reluctant to do so, but you don't always get a choice in these things. The majority of Arab Israelis don't want to leave Israel.
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  25. Thanks Ben...🙏 That was a great overview of the Arab tribal culture.
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  26. A great day for the world and for Israel…🙏🇮🇱💙
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  27. ​ AlonsoMondaca-lt7nd  : So you hold people TODAY accountable for what might have happened 2000 years ago? The world has evolved considerably since then. What's wrong with applying rule of law, and the precedents set in international law?
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  28. They put: Same Youtube channel, different name! Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/theisraelguys
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  29. Three days is fairly normal for a DNA test. This is an #urgent case.
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  30. I love the idea of The Israel Guys conference. You have invited some great speakers too! 💙✨🙏🇮🇱
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  31. Amnesty made up their own version of apartheid just to demonise Israel. 15 years ago I went to Amnesty's offices in London hoping to get a job with them because I admired their organisation. Now I feel the opposite. #ProudZionist
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  32. It's time that Israel extended sovereignty over Judea and Samaria. The current occupants should be given citizenship by one of the surrounding Arab countries, especially if they have grandparents or great-grandparents who live there. A lot of the so-called 'Palestinians' are relatively recent migrants to historic Palestine. Then they should be given the opportunity to apply for long-term residence visas to live in Israel, which would give them pretty much everything except voting rights for the Knesset. Millions of people live in other countries on long-term residence visas so that's not controversial. Plus they get all the benefits of a citizen of a thriving Israel.
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  33.  @barneygimble8984 : How is my suggestion anything like "ethnic cleansing"? I propose that the surrounding Arab countries be incentivised to give citizenship to the so-called Palestinians. And then Israel give them long-term residence visas so that they do NOT have to leave their homes. And with the long-term residence visas they should also have a pathway to Israeli citizenship, if they or their children should ever want it. It's most likely Jordan and Egypt, and possibly Saudi Arabia, that could be incentivised to give them citizenship, but not Syria, Lebanon and Iraq because they are in a very bad state right now. A lot of the Palestinians came from those countries after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. The British Mandate and Jewish investment created better economic opportunities for Arabs in the surrounding areas of the Middle East.
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  34.  @barneygimble8984 : There were a few years after the 1948 war when around 100,000 (approx?) Arab Palestinians could return, but that right wasn't offered to everyone and the offer was dependent upon the Arab countries also giving citizenship to some of the Arabs who fled. But that rarely happened so Israel's offer lapsed. It was soon a policy of the Arab League that they keep the Arabs in limbo as geopolitical #weapons against the Jewish state of Israel. I don't believe Israel can afford to give citizenship to any more Arab Muslims than the 20% they already have living there. The vast majority are hostile to Israel's existence so it would be a huge security risk [Edit: that's why I said above that giving returnees a residence visa is the only viable solution because that wouldn't give them Knesset voting rights and thus be a threat to the Jewish values of Israel, and they would have their own country to be deported to if they broke the law.] We can see around the world that wherever the Muslim population reaches above 20%, things turn bad, eg. Lebanon. Every country has the right to accept only those people into their country who are not an obvious security risk. Jordan, Lebanon and Syria should by now have given full citizenship to all of those Arabs born in their refugee camps. And those Arabs who had arrived from Egypt some time between 1920-1948, taking advantage of the improved economic prospects due to British rule and Jewish investment, should have returned to Egypt by now instead of holding out hope that Israel would be destroyed.
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  35. I stand with Israel. Stay safe Israel Guys…🙏🇮🇱💙
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  36.  @capello85 : Why not look at Professor Eugene Kontorovich's articles on this topic if you don't trust PragerU? Or would you say that because he's an Israeli Jew he's automatically biased? It seems you put value on UN resolutions. Do you seriously think the United Nations is unbiased?🙄The important point the PragerU video makes is regarding *uti possidetis juris*. This is a principle of customary international law that serves to preserve the boundaries of colonies emerging as States.
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  37.  @swillysan : When the 'displaced' peoples were part of the aggressor group, either actively or passively, would you trust them and let them return? By their words and actions today they are still not to be trusted. The earlier generations of around 20% of Israel's Arab citizens today did accept Israeli rule in 1948. I'm sad for those who didn't, but that's how life goes for some people. Those so-called 'Palestinians' who were displaced are being used as pawns by the Arab nations and they should wake up and request to be processed in the same way as the rest of the world's millions of displaced peoples.
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  38.  @swillysan : Interesting examples, but your (now deleted) statement is key: "All of them have to accept the new countries government." The displaced Arab Palestinians do NOT recognise Israel as a legitimate country. That is the problem. Islam does NOT allow them to recognise a different ruler than an Islamic one. Note: my comments on the video seem to be blocked. I must have been reported by someone who was offended or hurt. But you can still see my email replies, so please feel free to respond.
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  39. Great video, Joshua!!! But I have one thing to note. Israel has an obligation to protect not only its Jewish citizens but also the two million Arab citizens and other minorities. I stand with Israel...🇮🇱🙏💙
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  40. Wasn't Egypt one of the main Arab countries which caused this #displacement in the first place? Egypt gets plenty of foreign funding, and many Gazans have extended families in Egypt and would want to return there.
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  41. ​ @faiqsabri5264 : That's terribly sad. I'm sorry for the people involved. But they must have known that the future of their buildings was uncertain, surely? And most Palestinians would know that violent terror acts against innocent people, including children, would bring harsh consequences, wouldn't they? It's almost as if the Palestinians don't realise they are being used as 'weapons' against the Jewish people by corrupt Arabs and fundamentalist Muslims all around the world. It's time Palestinians stopped playing the #victim and applied to be resettled in another country. My country, Australia, has granted asylum to many Palestinians.
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  42.  @faiqsabri5264 : Bullying and threats of more violence is not likely to work with this new government🙄. They are not "Jews with trembling knees". Israel gave up the Gaza Strip for peace, and look what happened there! I support Israel using all legal means possible against lawbreakers and terrorists. If the terror waves continue, along with Hamas launching bombs from Gaza, then I hope the IDF will take extreme measures against it and also revoke ALL work permits. No more appeasement of Islamic jihadis.
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  43. Exactly, and I worry that this relatively weak government has been forced into being too tolerant. This will only lead to more violence in future because appeasement never works. Everywhere else in the world it is the rioters and troublemakers who would have been banned from the site. #RuleOfLaw
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  44. Stay strong Israel…🙏🇮🇱💙✨
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  45. Stay strong Israel…🙏🇮🇱💙✨
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  46. What is being proposed is giving the people of Gaza the CHOICE to leave. At the moment they can leave by paying corrupt Egyptian border police a lot of money.
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  47.  @Rob-t2e : Ancient Jewish tribes did live in today's west Jordan, south Lebanon, and Sinai, but the new country of Israel was restricted to the remaining land area of the British Mandate of Palestine. I suggest you watch the 5min PragerU video called "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?" where international law professor Eugene Kontorovich outlines the legal precedents for establishing borders of new countries. I'm interested to know what you think of his explanation. The founding of the Jewish state of Israel has nothing to do with which ethnic group was a majority. Remember that the Arabs of Palestine fought AGAINST the Allied Powers (which included the Jews and Arabs of the Hejaz) in WWI? Why would 'enemies' get to choose who ends up with what land after they lost that war in 1918? Why wouldn't the victorious British put people they trust in control of lands which had religious and strategic value to both the British and the Jewish people? They set this out in the 1917 Balfour Agreement, which was incorporated into the League of Nations mandate legislation in 1922. The principle of "indigenous rights" was quite new back then but Israel is a success story, and it is the beginning of the rollback of Arab imperialism. I'm hopeful we will see more indigenous peoples such as the Kurds, Copts, Berbers-Amazigh, Assyrians, Nubians, Yazidis, etc. taking back control of their ancestral land... 🇮🇱🙏💙
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  48.  @Ihbramm : Maybe the 'international law' interpretation used is wrong, or they ignore precedents/principles which don't suit their narrative? I recommend watching the five minute video by PragerU called "Does Israel Occupy the West Bank?" where international law professor Eugene Kontorovich explains the concept of "Uti possidetis juris" (Latin for "as [you] possess under law"). It is a principle of international law which provides that newly formed sovereign states should retain the internal borders that their preceding dependent area had before their independence. Remember that the Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918. The Ottoman land was then carved-up in 1920, with 99% of it being granted to the Hejazi Arabs. The San Remo Conference in 1920 laid the political foundation for the creation of the 22 Arab League States and the one and only Jewish State of Israel.
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  49.  @Mark-fo3if : I agree that the PA and Hamas are destructive to a peaceful future, and I also see that Israel will eventually extend their sovereignty over Judea and Samaria, but probably not the Gaza Strip. Incentivising another Arab country to provide citizenship rights to the Arab occupants of Judea and Samaria is being talked about in back channels, I believe. You have to be realistic. Look at those countries founded on Judeo-Christian values which today have more than 15% of its citizens following Islamic values, eg. Sweden and France. The clash is obvious. This is not about skin colour. It's about *human rights values*, and a doctrine that states it is 'the best' and 'the final seal'. If human rights are so important to you, then please tell me what rights does Islam give women and girls?
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  50.  @Mark-fo3if : Why does Israel extending sovereignty over Judea and Samaria have to result in ethnic cleansing? Today 21% of Israeli citizens are Arabs. They sit in the Knesset (they are Muslim Brotherhood members, no less!!!), in the judiciary, security services, education, banking, health, science, technology, etc. and they have equal rights with Jews. Find me ONE neighbouring Arab country that hasn't 'ethnically cleansed' the Jews, and pretty much all of their Christians? Find me ONE Muslim country that doesn't persecute homosexuals and apostates, and have horrible rights for females? A practical solution can be found but it seems you'd like the so-called 'Palestinians' to be held in limbo with corrupt leadership and no chance of citizenship of a legitimate country. You'd prefer to keep using them as 'weapons' against the Jews? You don't like the idea of them being granted citizenship of an Arab country and then given long-term residence status in their homeland, with a path to full citizenship if they reject violence against the Jewish people? What's your personal stake in this?
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