Comments by "Sandy Tatham" (@sandytatham3592) on "UN Votes to Commemorate Israel’s Independence a “Catastrophe”" video.

Nakba Day is disastrous for the Arabs, not for the Jews. It emphasises their sense of #victimhood, which keeps them stuck in shame. It doesn't allow them to thrive in the way that Israelis have thrived. It's yet another 'own goal'. Keep up your wonderful job of educating the public, Israel Guys...🙏
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Exactly!
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@maracohen5930 : Exactly! And they keep making bad decisions.
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@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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@barneygimble8984 : Which country today allows HOSTILE parties to return after they sided with their attackers? I'm not a Jew, nor an Israeli. I support the right of the indigenous Jews to have a homeland, as granted by the UN. After the Ottoman Empire was defeated in 1918, the Arabs were granted 99+% of the Middle East for their own self-determination, ie. Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Lebanon. They then BANNED the Arabs who were displaced from Palestine from being granted citizenship. The 'Palestinian' Arabs are being used as geopolitical weapons against the Jews. Do you not get that?
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@barneygimble8984 : Jesus was a Jew, and it's not just a racial characteristic but a religious one. You don't think Jesus would have wanted the Jews to be custodians of the Holy Land?
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@barneygimble8984 : I don't follow any organised religion. I believe that indigenous people should have the right to live and rule in their ancestral land, where it is pragmatic and so long as they grant equal rights to their non-indigenous citizens. The Jewish people have demonstrated that they uphold freedom of religion, and freedom for others to visit the sacred sites in their country. Compare that to Islam where Jews, Christians and minorities are heavily persecuted and limited as to their worship.
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@barneygimble8984 : Now you are sounding a bit crazy... I have light-skinned friends from all the countries surrounding Israel, ie. Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria. They are lighter-skinned than me, and I have Anglo-Saxon heritage! And it doesn't bother me that Judaism is an ethnicity and also a religion. Jews have had a continuous connection to Israel and Jerusalem for thousands of years and they are the indigenous people. As a legitimate nation-state they are entitled to admit any person that they choose into their country. I'm currently in Egypt where Christian persecution is at a very high level so please don't give me any more of your nonsense on this topic!
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