Comments by "Tiago" (@lapun47) on "Palestinians claim ceasefire reached with Israel" video.

@lowratehitman But don't ask why Gaza has been on lockdown for 40 years. That might lead you back to the first Hamas attack on Israel from Gaza and the many that followed. Gaza citizens elected a government that cares more about perpetual war against Israel until the last Jew is driven out that about prosperity for its own citizen.
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@lowratehitman To respond to your Rothschild comment, are you sure early European Jewish settlers pushed non-European Jewish people living on the land out of Israel? If you look at the post WWII history of North African and Middle Eastern Jews, you'll find a movement to Israel as anti-Jewish sentiment rises in the Arab countries. But I assume your main point is that it was unfair of Jews to move from Europe into Jordanian (as there was no country called Palestine at the time) lands displacing Arabs. How far back do you want to carry this type of injustice argument as it of course also applies to European and Asian settlement in the Americas? Did the first child born to European parents in Argentina have no right to be in the country? Do Jewish children born in Israel today have no right to be there? -- Let me put my cards on the table, I live in Finland--a country which resettled about a fifth of its population when the Soviet Union took Finnish territory during WWII. Of course those who had to leave their ancestral homes complained, as did those living in the parts of Finland which remained independent and had to share their farms and homes with the new arrivals and compete with the new businesses these arrivals brought as the country's second largest city fell into Soviet hands. But these refugees were made a part of the Finnish society that remained. In contrast, Arab countries encouraged Palestinians to leave Israel but to this day deny them citizenship in Arab countries as a way to keep the Palestinian refugee myth, hatred of Israel, and the hatred of Jews preached in the Koran and Hadithes alive. The tactic works as the world continually condemns Israeli response but never Palestinian aggression.
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Can you provide evidence to support your claim? How devious those Israelis must be to sneak into the Gaza Strip and fire 400 rockets into Israel so as to "keep the narrative going". Or maybe you're thinking of how Israelis pay Palestinians to protest and throw rocks across the Gaza border into Israel on a weekly basis?
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@lowratehitman Your other comments blame Israel. Do you want to claim that Israel has been rigging Gaza elections?
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@thormanus4952 It's polite of you to say "to reclaim regions lost" because as you probably know the Finnish aim was to extend farther east than the lost territories in order to "free" people ethnically/linguistically related to Finns (and were rather surprised to find that they were not always seen as welcome liberators). I'm not a military historian, but my impression is that during the Continuation War, German troops were concentrated in the north and Finnish troops in the south. So I'm not sure to what extent they were fighting alongside each other. Be that as it may, one of the peace agreement stipulations at the end of the Continuation War was that Finland had to drive remaining German troops, most of whom were congregated in Lapland, out of the country. Retreating German troops carried out a scorched earth policy so most buildings in that part of Finland, including Lapland's largest city Rovaniemi, had to be rebuilt from scratch. At the same time, those Finns who had returned to their former homes in the part of the country that had been lost had once again to be resettled in the part of the country that remained independent, so some of these people became displaced twice. In its short history, Israel has probably been attacked and targeted by rockets from neighboring states on all sides more than any other country. I believe it's fair to say that the Arab states neighboring Israel did try to "regain" territory in what is now Israel on several occasions after the Jewish state was founded, but so far unsuccessfully. And one might argue that like the Soviet Union, which took Finnish territory, Israel did the same when it annexed the Golan Heights after a brief war. But my point that Arab states have not opened citizenship to Palestinians remains. As what is now called Palestine was a part of Jordan when Israeli Jews declared independence, one might argue that Jordan ought to have resettled its displaced Arab citizens. You raise two interesting questions, one about anti-Semitism, the other about the Kurds. To consider whether Arab policy is Jew hatred, I think at the national/political level the answer is yes. The rhetoric is about removing Jews from the land, not about regaining the territory so that Arabs and Jews can live side-by-side peacefully. This is probably most clear in Hamas rhetoric and founding political documents. On the other hand, there are certainly individual Israeli Jews and Palestinians who are willing, able and anxious to live in peace as neighbors. I know this to be the case today, though I last socialized together with Isareli Jews and Palestinians in the 1980s when we were all studying in Germany. Turning to the Kurdish question, for a few years my neighbors were Iraqi Kurdish refugees. So I did a bit of reading but know very little about the Kurdish problem. I think you are correct to suspect that the states with Kurdish populations do not want to see the creation of an independent Kurdistan for political/economic reasons rather than due to a hatred of the Kurdish people. I believe most Kurds are (Sunni) Muslims. But a minority follow other religions, and I believe most Yazidis are Kurds. It was these non-Muslim Kurdish groups who were severely targeted by ISIS. These people were certainly the victims of hate, as were the Assyrian Christians, the refugee group I have most contact with at the moment.
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