Sharon didn't resign from being PM, he had a stroke on the 4th of January 2006 and went into a coma from which he never awoke, until his death on the 11th of January 2014
Slight correction: cornell university is not in philadelphia. His father did teach at cornell at one point, but the reason the family was in the Philly area is that his father was teaching at Dropsie college at the time
Not soon enough. Sharon's responsible for HAMAS having an unsupervised Gaza to take over and thus for 10/7/23. Did this bio mention that BiBi resigned from government over Sharon doing that? Maybe I just missed it...
@@sOnIcBo0mBoY LOL! Your ignorance is showing. HAMAS is an acronym. Acronyms (e.g., NATO) are capitalized. And "the problem" is that the Arab desire to genocide the Jews is unremitting. And THEIR problem is that the Jews weon't let them. Never again!
BIG DIFFERENCE: The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is Lebanon's Army. The Lebanese Forces (LF) were a Christian milita during the civil war. Now they're a political party
@@vultureTX001 Yes, some them split to form the Lebanese Forces headed by Samir Geagea. They're both political parties represented in the parliament today.
Its a small matter now. Both the government and the militias are too weak to put up even simple opposition to Hezbollah. Lebanon is on the cusp of being a terrorist nation, unfortunately.
I thought he was talking about a baby who did magic tricks. Infant..tadaaaa! Edit to add: Oh god, and and he just pronounced Yitzhak Rabin as something like "Itchy Robin"
@@hiroshi138 There are hundreds of channels doing that. No need to return to a format with a limited lifetime, especially as pretty much every single one of those battles has been covered in immense depth by more knowledgeable writers already.
@@hiroshi138 There is a limit to how many of those episodes you can make, as much as I enjoy them. These deep-dives on contemporary issues are excellent though
@@benjamingrunbaum3601 Doesn't help when at one point he first gets it wrong and then right in the span of a couple of seconds. All part of Simon being Simon though.
A lot of details wrong here. Among them, Israeli Labor Party provided the PM not only in the 1980s but also in the 1990s and 2000s. Ehud Barak was the last one AFAIK. Likud is not predominantly supported by ultra-orthodox Jews, who have their own parties. Its roots are secular nationalist, but it has long also had support of Mizrahi and 'national-religious' groups. It is not a religious party. In any case it was Sharon and Likud who pulled out of Gaza.
@@BenWeiss-f9p probably so, it's obviously been in coalition many times with religious parties, but it's roots in revisionist Zionism, with Begin et al, were basically secular. Fair? (I by no means claim to be an expert in Israeli poltiics).
@@johndorney7812 they have always claimed to be secular, but that doesn't make it true. Their goals is and has always been to have a Jewish controlled Israel, making them about as unescular as possible. Bibi's cabinet is a reflection of this, with the only other parties represented being orthodox and extremely unescular.
Term limits are definitely a good idea, and if I remember correctly there were plans to pass a law for that a couple of years ago but they were thwarted. It is somewhat different from US presidential elections though because the prime minister is usually just the head of the largest party, they're not voted for personally.
It is not compatible with a Westminster system where there is no direct election of their top office and parties/coalitions can choose whoever they want, and even force them out and pick a new leader without even having new elections.
You had a mistake when talking about Netanyahu's first defeat. He was defeated by the Labour's leader Ehud Barack, the lost the Likud leadership to Sharon. Also, the hostage exchange of Gilad Shalit was due to mounting domestic pressure over cost of living in Israel, so he had to calm the productive more center-left public somehow, that's why he signed the deal.
Indeed. Party politics in the Westminster system (which Israel uses) is particularly nasty. The US thinks our politics are ugly, but it's simple by comparison.
1. In-tah-fah-da 2. Pro Israeli and pro Arab commentors both seem to be pissed at Simon for leaving stuff out. This indicates that the producers at least tried to be even-handed.
@@BenWeiss-f9p Of which it objectively isn't a genocide. Maybe on Reddit that's the consensus, but in reality Israel has done the most out of almost any state in history to limit casualties.
Small correction, though the mission is sometimes colloquially known as 'Operation Entebbe', since it *was* in Entebbe Uganda, but it's official name was 'Operation Thunderbolt', though as you said it was later changed to 'Operation Yonatan'
The Sabra and Shatila Massacre is covered in "A Waltz with Bashir", a film made by one of the IDF veterans who took part in it. Not first hand, but on the outskirts. It used to be free on TH-cam.
There is a mistake about the "iron wall" its not term as iron barrier, but idea in an essay written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923 as an idea that arabs will never accept jews, so the jews need strong defense (as military capability and power in general) that the arabs will give up and pursuit peace.
The Likud party is the party with the largest sectoral representation in Israel and is composed not only of Yemenite Jews but also Jews from Arab and Asian countries including countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Kurdistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya (Tripoli), Algeria, Morocco (the largest group) , Ethiopia, the Caucasus, Bukhara, India, Turkey, Tunisia and Afghanistan which together as a group are called - Mizrachi Jews and Spharadic jews, this sector is seen as more conservative and in a lower socio-economic condition that suffered from racism and discrimination and therefore Netanyahu is seen as a hero in Likud because he contributed a lot through economic reforms to balance the economic and socio-economic condition of His Likud voters. Also, he always took peaceful means and almost always preferred diplomacy and economic strength over security and war, unlike his predecessor Ariel Sharon, which caused a lot of criticism from the right and the left towards the policy of containment he took. The Labor Party represents the second largest sector in Israel, which is Ashkenazi Judaism, which largely came from Europe in America
A long while I’ve been advising a lot of people that in this conflict, it is important to get in the head of Benjamin Netanyahu and Simon Whistler you have provided of the best videos to be useful for that. Thank you!
Israeli society is surely very complex, but I must note that you got the term "ultra orthodox" completely wrong. 08:54 Igal Amir was not an ultra-orthodox 21:58 Otzma Yehudit are ultranationalist fundamentalists, not ultra -orthodox, or Haredi, which is something completely different. Most of the Haredim are not even Zionist - an even more important term that you misused. By saying that Haredim are generally not Zionist I mean that they don't care about left or right, but only about the religious aspects of running the country. This follows from their general held belief that a sovereign Jewish state should not be established before the arrival of the Messiah. Haredi parties were part of Rabin's government of 1992. They traditionally sat in whichever government that served their interests and supporting the benefits for their ever growing communities, notably being completely exempt from military service. Haredim are not a monolithic group, so that was far from a full depth description. (Notably the Shas Haredi party has changed its course over the years). Anyway - I hope I made a few points clearer.
You completely misunderstood what "the iron wall" doctrine is It means that peace with local arabs and nearby arab nations can only come through the establishment of an "iron wall" - military might that would make it's destruction impossible and make them lose faith. In other words, it is a doctrine that says that the most important thing in the relationship is resilience and deterrence, and that as long as there is hope for Israel's destruction, no amount of placating or fruitful cooperation would help. Notably, the ultimate goal is peace and cooperation. It has nothing to do with civil relations between arabs and jews - the revisionists supported full legal equality, cultural and religious freedom, and political cooperation.
Well, that’s awfully nice to think about. But a political faction like BBs requires that such a state of dominance is never perceived to be achieved even if it is in reality. Far right factions require that their citizens be afraid of their neighbors. If they aren’t, far right politics disintegrate and the brand giving them power collapses. Therefore, Israel needs events like IO/seven to happen, and indeed DID allow it so.
It’s clear the “Iron Wall” is a fallacy. The most powerful nation in the Middle East brought to its knees by paragliders from its tiny fourth world prison state - when we know they knew of the attack far in advance? Please. Israel will never be powerful enough to not need to be perceived as a maiden in distress.
Jews in Poland often had Hebrew names to begin with, but used Polish sounding names in order to FIT IN with their Polish surroundings. When Polish Jews came to British Palestine, there was no need to "hide" behind Polish sounding names anymore. Its not that they had Polish surnames at birth, and then changed it to Hebrew to sound more "Jewish". They HAD Jewish names, which they replaced with POLISH names to assimilate-they changed it BACK to Hebrew once they immigrated to Israel. Huge misunderstanding regarding WHY the names were changed.
@@sebbvell3426 that's a problem. He's got a herd of actual idiots here in Israel, extremists amongst them, and he uses them to stay in power. I doubt he'll be reelected again.
"Been in power" He is democratically elected. And there was about a one-two year term where his party was not in the coalition. Furthermore, elections in Israel are for political parties and there members. Not for a president, such as in the USA. Therefor, the population votes for his party, and not necessarily for him. But the party has inner votes to decide on the one who will serve as the Prime Minister.
@@greatmentalHow many Arab-Israelis, using the definition I assume you prefer, in occupied territories are unable to vote in elections that very much affect them? Israeli democracy is a bigger joke than American democracy. Your other points are meaningless. You do not refute the OP in any way.
@@zbrojarçek Non-citizen residents cannot vote in elections in any sovereign state. The first step to gaining citizenship is to stop blowing yourselves up at bus stops.
Good informative video - a contentious subject, but I think you did a good job with the balance. Watching stuff across all of your channels really is a good mix of informative and hilarious - I enjoy both equally.
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8:48 I like how you are presenting the suicide attacks as a "respond" for a one incident of Jewish shooter.... some people may think that the Arabs were completely peaceful and unprovoked.... You forgot to mention the terror attacks before and after that incident....
It absolutely astounds me what people can forget, or lie to themselves about. I saw an argument where someone said "Ukraine signed a deal to give up nuclear weapons in trade for russia not invading", to which the arguer said "They never signed that deal". After looking it up, they had in fact signed that deal. It sounds simple, but the guy absolutely made it up on the spot in order to win. It was then that I knew.. and could not unknow... that a large percentage of the population have decided what to believe, and facts do not matter. They will run headlong off a cliff if a cliff appears in front of them, pretending they didnt see it. These people can never be in power.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, you might actually be on to something, but you are saying that sample size of one person confirms that a large percentage of the population make up facts to support their argument just to win an argument… just an odd conclusion after reading a comment. Instead I respect that the person admitted being wrong after they were fact checked. Idk just don’t lose hope bud
@@nakairoberts9448 their is a thing called a "narrative", it Is a way you interpret the facts you are given with, a "large percentage of the population" hase a narrative that is false (their are too many examples in history for this). I'm exposing that here the false narrative is "Israel and the arabs are morally equal". Or "the Arabs have the same set of morals like the west has".
I’m surprised you didn’t mention his economic reforms, he made some significant structural reforms as finance minister which were extremely unpopular at the time but are now wildly revered. A lot of mizrahi, Sephardi and USSR Jews entered the middle class under his rule from generational poverty under labor, so he earned a lot of loyalty from people in middle to lower middle class areas.
@@relaxedleisure4766 lol it was the end of the second intifada, not his damaging economic reforms that fixed things. Had they stuck with labor, the recovery would have been faster and Israel would have less poverty today. To claim you're not biased, is again, laughable with right wing posts like this.
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Benjamin netanyahu; the kid from philly 3:05 - Chapter 2 - Operation Entebbe 6:35 - Chapter 3 - Early political career & political strife 11:05 - Chapter 4 - 2nd term & shift right 20:05 - Chapter 5 - Domestic controversy & litigation 21:25 - Chapter 6 - Return to power & the israel hamas war 24:00 - Chapter 7 - A future without netanyahu ?
The amount of context missing amongst Israeli actions is so wild. One example is why they aided the Lebanese government against Shia Muslims…. He just says they aided in a massacre against Muslims without providing any context as to what led to that situation in the first place.
@@eliradinsky7088 there’s a settlement now completely in ruins- metulla, safed, etc were targeted yesterday. Haifa was hit. Ramat David airbase was hit with heavy rockets that did significant damage. Israel’s economy is on the verge of collapse. Turn off the tv.
When I was active duty, I asked a fellow shipmate why he wasn't going ashore when we were anchored in Haifa, Israel. He explained that if he did, they would conscript him immediately as he held dual citizenship. I guess even being a US military member wouldn't have saved him from the same fate that Mr. Netanyahu's son was able to avoid.
You missed the part where after the signing of Oslo the Arabs sent waves of suicide bombers. You also forgot to mention that it was Ehud Barak that beat Netanyahu.
1) The reason clause is unique to the Israeli judicial system, no other court in the world can cancel a governmental decision just because a judge thinks it's "unreasonable", that means a judge can substitute the government with a totally subjective explanation. 2)the court dealing with Netanyahu's case has told the prosecution that the bribery accusation has no sufficient proof without even hearing Netanyahu's defence, the court has also asked the prosecution to withdraw the accusation but they refused for obvious reasons of prestige and not wanting to be humiliated.
Yet it has only ruled out government decisions in a select few cases, perhaps the most 'political' among them was the government decision to give west bank palestinians on whose property Israeli settlers built things on financial compensation on the ground that they haven't consented to the sale of the land and thus it's a violation of their right to property, so it only matters if you're a Kahanist. There was also the time in the 90's when the education minister, member of the Mafdal party, which represented national religious jews, prevented an episode on HaTelevizia HaKhinukhit (an educational TV channel) that featured discussion of LGBT, the producers appealed, and the supreme court struck down the decision as unlawful and this fight got dragged out for over a year and the education minister was forced to back down and the episode was aired. Besides that, there was only like 18 other cases of this happening, mostly covering non-controversial, non-political stuff like government transparency. Yes, historically there are examples of the supreme court acting on behalf of a promotion of a liberal democratic set of values that may not be strictly specified in Israeli constitutional documents, and may not always be in line with the government's agenda, but are we really to complain I mean we benefit from more democracy Anyways the judicial reform of 2023 was struck down as unlawful and blocked by the supreme court so it's not happening.
@@תומרלייזגולד I don't care what the court did with this unusual power, I only know that its the only court on the planet, in western democratic countries, that can strike down government decision without a legal explanation, nobody can decide that something is reasonable or not because it's completely subjective. The court did not struck the law down because it's a basic law and a part of the Israeli constitution which the court uses to strike down laws, so it either the case that basic laws are at the same normative level as regular laws untill the Knesset announces that the project of the Israeli constitution is done or Israel has a constitution from the mid nineties with the legislation if the human honour and liberty and Freedom of occupation laws. The court must decide but either way the striking down of the law is impossible because if the basic laws are a constitution then the only body with authority over legislation is the Knesset and if the basic laws aren't the constitution then the court has no normative basis for the cancelling of any legislation. The court could choose thr path of insisting that it do whatever it chooses without good explanation but that wouldn't help because in the long run it only looses the little trust it has.
The reason were the only western democratic county whose judiciary can do something like this is because we’re the only western democratic country with effectively no enshrined checks and balances on the powers of government. The reasonableness clause is the only check on government power, and a clause rarely used at that. What could possibly be the reason for a government to want to remove such a clause if they do not plan to do things that they know would otherwise be struck down?
עילת סבירות קיימת במערכות של מדינות אחרות, כגון בריטניה וגרמניה. בנוגע לעניין השוחד: אכן הרשאה בשוחד כנראה לא תהיה, אבל למה אתה לא מציין שבשאר העבירות ההרשאה נראית יותר מסבירה? למה הסנגורים פנו לגישור פלילי כבר פעמיים, אבל המדינה סירבה? באיזה מצב סנגור פונה לגישור פלילי, אתה יודע?
@@JaguarBST The analogy (and the reference to the events in the book is absolutely an analogy, even if your ignorance makes you think a reference to a book somehow can't be one) is as I said both silly and meaningless. Go back to school and learn something this time.
@@gandydancer9710 Please go and read the difference between a quote, analogy and reference and how to use them before lecturing someone else. As someone who grades academic papers for a living, I give your use of those terms a disappointing F grade.
Eh, Simon always calls Hamas "terrorists" in every other video and you'll see plenty of Palestine-adjacent folk calling him a Zionist plant or whatever. I think he does a good job if he's getting called X by both sides
@@roggy179 You can always find someone even more extreme than you are. But HAMAS #IS# terrorist rather than "militant" and Netanyahu IS the majority-backed Israeli PM, not "notorious", so a spurious "evenhandedness" doesn't mean you're not unbiased.
1:45 why are you presenting this like he just thinks this out of the blue? Why don't you explane the reason that is reasonable to think that you need a separation between those two people? Why aren't you presenting the conflict that is between the two Nations? I say this because the main core of Zionism is not to separate between Jews and other people, the main objections of Zionism is to protect the Jewish people.... so when you have a nation that tries to kill Jews then you need to separate them or fight them, if the Arabs were peaceful Zionism would not want to separate them from the jews.
You are the embodiment of ingnorance in it's primal form. You cleary do not want a factual explanation of the conflict between te two nations. No. You want the whole wide world to believe that the Arabs including the Palestinians have waged war against the jewish people. It is precisely the opposite. The whole world has waged this war against Arabs that began in 1948, with it's intention to murder them all. And it's core is Zionism. The mother of all evil. Modern Jews have sided with their opressors, imitated their behavior and became the opressors. It is a sad story, a people against a people, of which both lived under muslim rule that came with relative peace that lasted thousands of years. All under muslim rule, and now largely forgotten.
Strong response risking international backlash, or make peace and risk end up like Rabin. Who ever planned the October 7 incident really understands who they are dealing with, and what he would choose.
@@gandydancer9710 actually it would? If done right a diplomatic settlement would significantly weaken terrorism. Idk if you’ve noticed but modern militaries have been fighting insurgent/terrorist armies for over 60 years and not once has one been destroyed purely by military force. Also it’s ironic this guy brought up rabin because he wasn’t murdered by a Palestinian…
Whatever you think of him, we can agree that Kanye using a butterfly net and bottle of Yoohoo to sign(???) his name was the best moment of 2022. That guy doesn't need lithium salts, he needs the entire goddamn Congo
There's often no picking though. Hamas took power by murdering the people they ran against and maintain power by murdering anyone who calls for an election. Israel is a democracy, sure, but the system we have is so f*cked that the fash already in the government will not allow a progressive candidate to take power regardless of how much popular support they get - parliament govt has this downside and it sucks ass to defend the system itself. Hezbollah took power by bombing folk and pointing guns at Lebanese politicians till they were given access to land and resources. In neither of these cases the major actor in the region has the overwhelming support of the civilian population that's directly behind the fronts they fight in
Blaming Bibi for not making a deal with Syria in the 90's? WTF Syria has had zero diplomatic relations with Israel since 1948. That's is why Syria can't ask for the golan heights back, first they would have to acknowledge Israel.
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Sharon didn't resign from being PM, he had a stroke on the 4th of January 2006 and went into a coma from which he never awoke, until his death on the 11th of January 2014
Can't wait for the pager video!
Patience. He has to do a whole series on Oct 7 first
Real
That story is wild
James Bond has been real quiet since the pager bombs dropped 😎
@@Trump.is.a.nazzii He's probably stunned into silence at all the kids Israel k*lled
Slight correction: cornell university is not in philadelphia. His father did teach at cornell at one point, but the reason the family was in the Philly area is that his father was teaching at Dropsie college at the time
I've never gone to an Ivy league school, but I'm pretty sure Penn is in Philadelphia and Cornell is in Ithaca NY. Which is 4 hours from Philly.
He’s American
Ariel Sharon had a stroke. he didn't resigned.
Not soon enough.
Sharon's responsible for HAMAS having an unsupervised Gaza to take over and thus for 10/7/23.
Did this bio mention that BiBi resigned from government over Sharon doing that?
Maybe I just missed it...
Well in a way he did
@@Krazy6ixhe did not resign
And following him Olmert was in power
Plus he was was previously elected
@@gandydancer9710 The way you capitalise HAMAS is in desperation to blame the cause of this problem on something that is not ZIONISM.
@@sOnIcBo0mBoY LOL! Your ignorance is showing. HAMAS is an acronym. Acronyms (e.g., NATO) are capitalized. And "the problem" is that the Arab desire to genocide the Jews is unremitting. And THEIR problem is that the Jews weon't let them. Never again!
BIG DIFFERENCE: The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is Lebanon's Army. The Lebanese Forces (LF) were a Christian milita during the civil war. Now they're a political party
there were a lebanese political party back in the 1930's . Phalangists
@@vultureTX001 Yes, some them split to form the Lebanese Forces headed by Samir Geagea. They're both political parties represented in the parliament today.
Genocidal maniac, wasting money on this criminal.
Yup you're right. It was the LF not the Kataeb, who didn't have much influence in the 80s @@alexisdm17
Its a small matter now. Both the government and the militias are too weak to put up even simple opposition to Hezbollah. Lebanon is on the cusp of being a terrorist nation, unfortunately.
You say Intifada, I say Infitada. You say dyslexic, I say lysdexic.
I usually also infer that its all about tatas - even if its inferior tatas
You say dyslexia, i say daily sex
I thought he was talking about a baby who did magic tricks. Infant..tadaaaa!
Edit to add: Oh god, and and he just pronounced Yitzhak Rabin as something like "Itchy Robin"
So glad be has moved to butcher other pronunciations. Not only the german ones.😅😅😅
Physically cringed when I heard that (not blaming)
Honestly I really like when he only focus on ONE topic and really goes in depth on it !!
I'd prefer to return to how this channel started...episodes focused on famous battles
@@hiroshi138 There are hundreds of channels doing that. No need to return to a format with a limited lifetime, especially as pretty much every single one of those battles has been covered in immense depth by more knowledgeable writers already.
@@dektarey4024be quiet bot.
@@hiroshi138 There is a limit to how many of those episodes you can make, as much as I enjoy them. These deep-dives on contemporary issues are excellent though
@@Aus200 Pipe down yourself, bot.
Mispronunciation of Intifada is hilarious😂🖤
Nails on a blackboard!
Infitada 😍😍😍
Infitada sounds like spanish 😂
Yeah, sometimes I can't tell if he's using a British pronunciation or if he's just confused. lol
@@benjamingrunbaum3601 Doesn't help when at one point he first gets it wrong and then right in the span of a couple of seconds. All part of Simon being Simon though.
A lot of details wrong here. Among them, Israeli Labor Party provided the PM not only in the 1980s but also in the 1990s and 2000s. Ehud Barak was the last one AFAIK. Likud is not predominantly supported by ultra-orthodox Jews, who have their own parties. Its roots are secular nationalist, but it has long also had support of Mizrahi and 'national-religious' groups. It is not a religious party. In any case it was Sharon and Likud who pulled out of Gaza.
@@johndorney7812 calling likud secular is incorrect.
@@BenWeiss-f9p probably so, it's obviously been in coalition many times with religious parties, but it's roots in revisionist Zionism, with Begin et al, were basically secular. Fair? (I by no means claim to be an expert in Israeli poltiics).
@@johndorney7812 they have always claimed to be secular, but that doesn't make it true. Their goals is and has always been to have a Jewish controlled Israel, making them about as unescular as possible. Bibi's cabinet is a reflection of this, with the only other parties represented being orthodox and extremely unescular.
@@BenWeiss-f9p Calling the party that decriminalised pot and prostitution “religious” is beyond hilarious.
@@relaxedleisure4766 lol religious ppl do both of those things, that's a comically bad argument.
It amazes me how seemingly few nations have term limits for their top office.
It amazes me how few people know what they're talking about, especially WRT Israel.
Term limits are definitely a good idea, and if I remember correctly there were plans to pass a law for that a couple of years ago but they were thwarted.
It is somewhat different from US presidential elections though because the prime minister is usually just the head of the largest party, they're not voted for personally.
It is not compatible with a Westminster system where there is no direct election of their top office and parties/coalitions can choose whoever they want, and even force them out and pick a new leader without even having new elections.
@AG3n3ricHuman Why do you hate democracy?
@@gandydancer9710democracy can have term limits
You had a mistake when talking about Netanyahu's first defeat. He was defeated by the Labour's leader Ehud Barack, the lost the Likud leadership to Sharon.
Also, the hostage exchange of Gilad Shalit was due to mounting domestic pressure over cost of living in Israel, so he had to calm the productive more center-left public somehow, that's why he signed the deal.
Yeah Sharon resigned from the Likud party because he founded a new party with moderates from the Likud and Labor, not resigned the premiership
@@תומרלייזגולד התגובה שלי הייתה לטעות שלו על הבחירות ב-1999. ביבי לא הפסיד לשרון, הוא הפסיד לאהוד ברק ואז הפסיד את ראשות הליכוד.
“Productive” - this is why the left is never going to win again. Respect your fellow citizens.
Indeed. Party politics in the Westminster system (which Israel uses) is particularly nasty. The US thinks our politics are ugly, but it's simple by comparison.
Netanyahu's been at the top for a long time. Do Israeli's blame him for Oct 7? Will he loose his job because of it?
1. In-tah-fah-da
2. Pro Israeli and pro Arab commentors both seem to be pissed at Simon for leaving stuff out. This indicates that the producers at least tried to be even-handed.
His channel is on the netrual specterm
@@AvarageYoututbeUser it sure is chief
Nah this is clearly pro Israel, being even would be talking about the genocide, as objective fact isnt left or right.
@@BenWeiss-f9p Of which it objectively isn't a genocide. Maybe on Reddit that's the consensus, but in reality Israel has done the most out of almost any state in history to limit casualties.
No, This means he knows nothing, but speaks in confidence so ppl take it as true like in all subjects nowdays...
God i miss the channel biographies with Simon in them
I’m craving empanadas.
I hope they're not bad empanadas
I had an empanada with my fada as we sat by the wada.
Correction: Ehud Barak became PM after Netanyahu in 1999. You also failed to mention his indictments at the time, which is very crucial information.
I love Frittada's! 😂
Small correction, though the mission is sometimes colloquially known as 'Operation Entebbe', since it *was* in Entebbe Uganda, but it's official name was 'Operation Thunderbolt', though as you said it was later changed to 'Operation Yonatan'
Uganda is in East Africa
Uganda wanna do better research, @warographics.
I'm surprised a British guy didn't know that considering it's a former colony
@@l-kin3480Considering the amount of colonies the UK had, it is not at all surprising lol
@@Eroil Uganda was a big deal for them since it was their access to finding the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria
@l-kin3480 50% of the World's land surface at one point, I think. Like someone's supposed to remember all of that.
The Sabra and Shatila Massacre is covered in "A Waltz with Bashir", a film made by one of the IDF veterans who took part in it. Not first hand, but on the outskirts. It used to be free on TH-cam.
Why are you promoting Nazi propaganda?
Why ain’t anyone Proving it
@@vikingdrengenspiders7875 Proving what? 😂
@@BubblewrapHighway that the video is real and he was there
@@vikingdrengenspiders7875 Maybe google it yourself.
There is a mistake about the "iron wall" its not term as iron barrier, but idea in an essay written by Ze'ev Jabotinsky in 1923 as an idea that arabs will never accept jews, so the jews need strong defense (as military capability and power in general) that the arabs will give up and pursuit peace.
This episode is a F mess . There is so much misinformation.
@canaanite23 i noticed, but at least he tried 😅
@@canaanite23 Yes, it is never ending.
Except they built a giant iron wall around Gaza.
@@tomlinsona0704 Yeah, because Gaza is full of militant Arabs that thirst for the blood of Israeli children as amply evidenced Oct 7.
What a remarkable Infitada and Middle Yeast expert😂
The Likud party is the party with the largest sectoral representation in Israel and is composed not only of Yemenite Jews but also Jews from Arab and Asian countries including countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Kurdistan, Iran, Iraq, Libya (Tripoli), Algeria, Morocco (the largest group) , Ethiopia, the Caucasus, Bukhara, India, Turkey, Tunisia and Afghanistan which together as a group are called - Mizrachi Jews and Spharadic jews, this sector is seen as more conservative and in a lower socio-economic condition that suffered from racism and discrimination and therefore Netanyahu is seen as a hero in Likud because he contributed a lot through economic reforms to balance the economic and socio-economic condition of His Likud voters. Also, he always took peaceful means and almost always preferred diplomacy and economic strength over security and war, unlike his predecessor Ariel Sharon, which caused a lot of criticism from the right and the left towards the policy of containment he took. The Labor Party represents the second largest sector in Israel, which is Ashkenazi Judaism, which largely came from Europe in America
A long while I’ve been advising a lot of people that in this conflict, it is important to get in the head of Benjamin Netanyahu and Simon Whistler you have provided of the best videos to be useful for that. Thank you!
Israeli society is surely very complex, but I must note that you got the term "ultra orthodox" completely wrong. 08:54 Igal Amir was not an ultra-orthodox 21:58 Otzma Yehudit are ultranationalist fundamentalists, not ultra -orthodox, or Haredi, which is something completely different.
Most of the Haredim are not even Zionist - an even more important term that you misused.
By saying that Haredim are generally not Zionist I mean that they don't care about left or right, but only about the religious aspects of running the country. This follows from their general held belief that a sovereign Jewish state should not be established before the arrival of the Messiah. Haredi parties were part of Rabin's government of 1992. They traditionally sat in whichever government that served their interests and supporting the benefits for their ever growing communities, notably being completely exempt from military service.
Haredim are not a monolithic group, so that was far from a full depth description. (Notably the Shas Haredi party has changed its course over the years). Anyway - I hope I made a few points clearer.
You completely misunderstood what "the iron wall" doctrine is
It means that peace with local arabs and nearby arab nations can only come through the establishment of an "iron wall" - military might that would make it's destruction impossible and make them lose faith.
In other words, it is a doctrine that says that the most important thing in the relationship is resilience and deterrence, and that as long as there is hope for Israel's destruction, no amount of placating or fruitful cooperation would help.
Notably, the ultimate goal is peace and cooperation.
It has nothing to do with civil relations between arabs and jews - the revisionists supported full legal equality, cultural and religious freedom, and political cooperation.
Thing is this will not work , It will only make Israel A nuclear wasteland at the end of the day
Well, that’s awfully nice to think about. But a political faction like BBs requires that such a state of dominance is never perceived to be achieved even if it is in reality. Far right factions require that their citizens be afraid of their neighbors. If they aren’t, far right politics disintegrate and the brand giving them power collapses. Therefore, Israel needs events like IO/seven to happen, and indeed DID allow it so.
It’s clear the “Iron Wall” is a fallacy. The most powerful nation in the Middle East brought to its knees by paragliders from its tiny fourth world prison state - when we know they knew of the attack far in advance? Please. Israel will never be powerful enough to not need to be perceived as a maiden in distress.
Bullshit 🤣
@@KJRM816 no it’s not, unfortunately. Would you like receipts?
TH-cam has deleted 1,000 comments 😂😂
JOUTUBE 🥵!
How do you know?
@@MovieRiotHD they delete mine
@@cheryllines4106 👃
That's more than half the comments, so how?
I’m never this early. Thanks for the crisp news content
why is gol d Roger in the comments?
You should do video talking about Ayatollah Khamanei Ali
Jews in Poland often had Hebrew names to begin with, but used Polish sounding names in order to FIT IN with their Polish surroundings. When Polish Jews came to British Palestine, there was no need to "hide" behind Polish sounding names anymore. Its not that they had Polish surnames at birth, and then changed it to Hebrew to sound more "Jewish". They HAD Jewish names, which they replaced with POLISH names to assimilate-they changed it BACK to Hebrew once they immigrated to Israel. Huge misunderstanding regarding WHY the names were changed.
Benjamin Natanyahu has been in power longer than I have been alive
@@sebbvell3426 that's a problem. He's got a herd of actual idiots here in Israel, extremists amongst them, and he uses them to stay in power. I doubt he'll be reelected again.
So as kim jong un and xi jinping that dictators for you most israelis hate him he not a true leader
"Been in power"
He is democratically elected. And there was about a one-two year term where his party was not in the coalition.
Furthermore, elections in Israel are for political parties and there members. Not for a president, such as in the USA.
Therefor, the population votes for his party, and not necessarily for him. But the party has inner votes to decide on the one who will serve as the Prime Minister.
@@greatmentalHow many Arab-Israelis, using the definition I assume you prefer, in occupied territories are unable to vote in elections that very much affect them?
Israeli democracy is a bigger joke than American democracy. Your other points are meaningless.
You do not refute the OP in any way.
@@zbrojarçek Non-citizen residents cannot vote in elections in any sovereign state. The first step to gaining citizenship is to stop blowing yourselves up at bus stops.
this is very insightful, good job.
Reckless abandon hardly, great restraint is a more accurate term.
Good informative video - a contentious subject, but I think you did a good job with the balance. Watching stuff across all of your channels really is a good mix of informative and hilarious - I enjoy both equally.
Such a great channel been viewing Simon’s content for as long as I can remember 👊🏻
That's Great! When will you turn 11?
Thank you for making this video. It is informative, which I think is important now more than ever.
0 views in 0 seconds, Warographics really fell off
Because he's anti semitic
SUHT UP!!!!!!!!!!!
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HAHAHA ORIGINAL AND HILARIOUS 😂😂😂😂😂
Bb proven to be a good powerful leader in jews society
It sounds too much like the excuse Erdogan makes.
8:48 I like how you are presenting the suicide attacks as a "respond" for a one incident of Jewish shooter.... some people may think that the Arabs were completely peaceful and unprovoked.... You forgot to mention the terror attacks before and after that incident....
It absolutely astounds me what people can forget, or lie to themselves about.
I saw an argument where someone said "Ukraine signed a deal to give up nuclear weapons in trade for russia not invading", to which the arguer said "They never signed that deal". After looking it up, they had in fact signed that deal. It sounds simple, but the guy absolutely made it up on the spot in order to win.
It was then that I knew.. and could not unknow... that a large percentage of the population have decided what to believe, and facts do not matter. They will run headlong off a cliff if a cliff appears in front of them, pretending they didnt see it. These people can never be in power.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, you might actually be on to something, but you are saying that sample size of one person confirms that a large percentage of the population make up facts to support their argument just to win an argument… just an odd conclusion after reading a comment.
Instead I respect that the person admitted being wrong after they were fact checked. Idk just don’t lose hope bud
@@nakairoberts9448 their is a thing called a "narrative", it Is a way you interpret the facts you are given with, a "large percentage of the population" hase a narrative that is false (their are too many examples in history for this).
I'm exposing that here the false narrative is "Israel and the arabs are morally equal".
Or "the Arabs have the same set of morals like the west has".
I’m surprised you didn’t mention his economic reforms, he made some significant structural reforms as finance minister which were extremely unpopular at the time but are now wildly revered. A lot of mizrahi, Sephardi and USSR Jews entered the middle class under his rule from generational poverty under labor, so he earned a lot of loyalty from people in middle to lower middle class areas.
Lol that's due to bigotry and genocide, his economic reforms harmed the lower class.
😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤡🤡
They got to the middle class off my tax money. Israel is the biggest welfare queen in the world 🤣
@@thesinaclwon you're a Nazi, have you ever considered that playing Russian roulette with a glock might be fun?
@@relaxedleisure4766 lol it was the end of the second intifada, not his damaging economic reforms that fixed things. Had they stuck with labor, the recovery would have been faster and Israel would have less poverty today. To claim you're not biased, is again, laughable with right wing posts like this.
Tom Cruise knows where Shelly Miscavige is.
She is probably dead
@@horseman217 No shit Sherlock.
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Benjamin netanyahu; the kid from philly
3:05 - Chapter 2 - Operation Entebbe
6:35 - Chapter 3 - Early political career & political strife
11:05 - Chapter 4 - 2nd term & shift right
20:05 - Chapter 5 - Domestic controversy & litigation
21:25 - Chapter 6 - Return to power & the israel hamas war
24:00 - Chapter 7 - A future without netanyahu ?
Cornell University is in Ithica, NY- nowhere near Philly.
He grew up in Cheltenham, basically Philly.
Sharon did not retire. He had a stroke and went into coma, from which he never recovered.
Infitada, intifada, enchilada
Empanada
Lakers in 5
Lots of info... ty. Helps fill in the blanks
The amount of context missing amongst Israeli actions is so wild. One example is why they aided the Lebanese government against Shia Muslims…. He just says they aided in a massacre against Muslims without providing any context as to what led to that situation in the first place.
Do a video on the pager attacks
Already a billion videos on this topic
And about how they literally accomplished nothing lol it was just a terror attack
@@davidibrahim5175lol delusional
@davidibrahim5175 sure bud, 10% of Hezbollahs military wing lost it's ability to fight, huge operational success
@@eliradinsky7088 there’s a settlement now completely in ruins- metulla, safed, etc were targeted yesterday. Haifa was hit. Ramat David airbase was hit with heavy rockets that did significant damage. Israel’s economy is on the verge of collapse. Turn off the tv.
A Warographics & Biographics mashup? Hell yes!
Thanks for sticking with this topic I hope you can keep the ad rev from this one
never thought I would be 10 mins early, great work simon❤
Wow❤....
But where is iran?
Great chronological breakdown Simon. Thanks for this.
You just going to skip the Jordon/PLO civil war that killed 10,000 and booted the PLO out of Jordan?
20,000.
I know that Hebrew presents many challenges to pronunciation, but the Knesset( the Israeli legislative body) is pronounced K' nesset
Thanks for this.
Its Meliekovsky
I'm guessing you did the research for this video on google.
Because he's not on yahoo.
Uganda is not south of Africa, Its east
Actually it's not.
When I was active duty, I asked a fellow shipmate why he wasn't going ashore when we were anchored in Haifa, Israel. He explained that if he did, they would conscript him immediately as he held dual citizenship. I guess even being a US military member wouldn't have saved him from the same fate that Mr. Netanyahu's son was able to avoid.
The thumbnail is so unintentionally funny
You missed the part where after the signing of Oslo the Arabs sent waves of suicide bombers. You also forgot to mention that it was Ehud Barak that beat Netanyahu.
Yeah, those were two major omissions
Lol fun fact ehud was seen often with epstein
Ok and ? You were seen in the streets where pedos walk what of it ?
Well this explains why his English is PERFECT
Intifada not infitada
Infinite empanadas
@@nrsrymj incomparable enchiladas
Very informative and accurate
1) The reason clause is unique to the Israeli judicial system, no other court in the world can cancel a governmental decision just because a judge thinks it's "unreasonable", that means a judge can substitute the government with a totally subjective explanation.
2)the court dealing with Netanyahu's case has told the prosecution that the bribery accusation has no sufficient proof without even hearing Netanyahu's defence, the court has also asked the prosecution to withdraw the accusation but they refused for obvious reasons of prestige and not wanting to be humiliated.
Yet it has only ruled out government decisions in a select few cases, perhaps the most 'political' among them was the government decision to give west bank palestinians on whose property Israeli settlers built things on financial compensation on the ground that they haven't consented to the sale of the land and thus it's a violation of their right to property, so it only matters if you're a Kahanist. There was also the time in the 90's when the education minister, member of the Mafdal party, which represented national religious jews, prevented an episode on HaTelevizia HaKhinukhit (an educational TV channel) that featured discussion of LGBT, the producers appealed, and the supreme court struck down the decision as unlawful and this fight got dragged out for over a year and the education minister was forced to back down and the episode was aired. Besides that, there was only like 18 other cases of this happening, mostly covering non-controversial, non-political stuff like government transparency. Yes, historically there are examples of the supreme court acting on behalf of a promotion of a liberal democratic set of values that may not be strictly specified in Israeli constitutional documents, and may not always be in line with the government's agenda, but are we really to complain I mean we benefit from more democracy
Anyways the judicial reform of 2023 was struck down as unlawful and blocked by the supreme court so it's not happening.
@@תומרלייזגולד
I don't care what the court did with this unusual power, I only know that its the only court on the planet, in western democratic countries, that can strike down government decision without a legal explanation, nobody can decide that something is reasonable or not because it's completely subjective.
The court did not struck the law down because it's a basic law and a part of the Israeli constitution which the court uses to strike down laws, so it either the case that basic laws are at the same normative level as regular laws untill the Knesset announces that the project of the Israeli constitution is done or Israel has a constitution from the mid nineties with the legislation if the human honour and liberty and Freedom of occupation laws.
The court must decide but either way the striking down of the law is impossible because if the basic laws are a constitution then the only body with authority over legislation is the Knesset and if the basic laws aren't the constitution then the court has no normative basis for the cancelling of any legislation.
The court could choose thr path of insisting that it do whatever it chooses without good explanation but that wouldn't help because in the long run it only looses the little trust it has.
The reason were the only western democratic county whose judiciary can do something like this is because we’re the only western democratic country with effectively no enshrined checks and balances on the powers of government. The reasonableness clause is the only check on government power, and a clause rarely used at that. What could possibly be the reason for a government to want to remove such a clause if they do not plan to do things that they know would otherwise be struck down?
@@orhutubeli5332Btw practically every judiciary in the western world has this power, the only difference is that they have constitutions and we don’t.
עילת סבירות קיימת במערכות של מדינות אחרות, כגון בריטניה וגרמניה.
בנוגע לעניין השוחד: אכן הרשאה בשוחד כנראה לא תהיה, אבל למה אתה לא מציין שבשאר העבירות ההרשאה נראית יותר מסבירה? למה הסנגורים פנו לגישור פלילי כבר פעמיים, אבל המדינה סירבה? באיזה מצב סנגור פונה לגישור פלילי, אתה יודע?
Uganda is East Africa
Go Uganda!! 🎉
Nooo, Uganda je SRPSKA
Come on, we should know by now that Warographics doesn't have a proof-reader.
Well done on the "CH" sound in Menachem Begin
Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤ Israel 🇮🇱
Neither forgive nor forget.
*"The war is not meant to be won. The war is meant to be continuous."*
-George Orwell
Your analogy is both silly and meaningless.
@@gandydancer9710it wasn’t an analogy, it was a direct quote from the book 1984 by George Orwell. You comment is incorrect, silly and meaningless.
@@JaguarBST The analogy (and the reference to the events in the book is absolutely an analogy, even if your ignorance makes you think a reference to a book somehow can't be one) is as I said both silly and meaningless. Go back to school and learn something this time.
@@gandydancer9710 Please go and read the difference between a quote, analogy and reference and how to use them before lecturing someone else. As someone who grades academic papers for a living, I give your use of those terms a disappointing F grade.
I love seeing both sides being pissed off. Shows that u guys are true to the facts👏🏻🤝🏻
Actually, they made many basic factual mistakes, e.g. saying that Sharon resigned from office where in fact he went into a coma 🙄
You haven't made any video about the happenings in Lebanon
awsome content
We accuse you of bribery for accepting cigars and champagne.
Biden enters the chat and laughs.
the Big Guy !!
All you had to say was “believed in the idea of separation..” and I got the idea
I order Infantadas at Mexican restaurants all the time :D
Bro you’re killing me with these “infatata intifata” which one is it? Make up your mind
Any one noticed how he only mentions Ultra orthodox "extremist" far right "extremist" but Hamas & PLO " Palestinian militant group"
Yes, I did. And the first words out of his mouth were about how "notorious" Bibi is.
Yup bias af.
Eh, Simon always calls Hamas "terrorists" in every other video and you'll see plenty of Palestine-adjacent folk calling him a Zionist plant or whatever. I think he does a good job if he's getting called X by both sides
@@roggy179 You can always find someone even more extreme than you are. But HAMAS #IS# terrorist rather than "militant" and Netanyahu IS the majority-backed Israeli PM, not "notorious", so a spurious "evenhandedness" doesn't mean you're not unbiased.
Only here to increase Simon on algorithms
The wall works very well. Some were inconvenienced so that others would not be murdered.
I like my infinite tostada with sour cream and large Baja Blast
I feel the most sorry for the innocent people who are dying. This needs to stop
Well if Muslims well start make thier brain work maybe incconet people will stop die
Not mentioning Benzion Netanyahu's tenure as Vladimir Jabotinsky's personal secretary is a serious omission.
1:45 why are you presenting this like he just thinks this out of the blue?
Why don't you explane the reason that is reasonable to think that you need a separation between those two people?
Why aren't you presenting the conflict that is between the two Nations?
I say this because the main core of Zionism is not to separate between Jews and other people, the main objections of Zionism is to protect the Jewish people.... so when you have a nation that tries to kill Jews then you need to separate them or fight them, if the Arabs were peaceful Zionism would not want to separate them from the jews.
You are the embodiment of ingnorance in it's primal form. You cleary do not want a factual explanation of the conflict between te two nations. No. You want the whole wide world to believe that the Arabs including the Palestinians have waged war against the jewish people. It is precisely the opposite. The whole world has waged this war against Arabs that began in 1948, with it's intention to murder them all. And it's core is Zionism. The mother of all evil. Modern Jews have sided with their opressors, imitated their behavior and became the opressors. It is a sad story, a people against a people, of which both lived under muslim rule that came with relative peace that lasted thousands of years. All under muslim rule, and now largely forgotten.
Cornell is in NY not Philadelphia. He did go to high school in Philadelphia.
Strong response risking international backlash, or make peace and risk end up like Rabin.
Who ever planned the October 7 incident really understands who they are dealing with, and what he would choose.
Rabin was murdered by a far right extremist…
"incident" Yes, that was it: An "incident". And in loony-tunes land it could have been avoided by "making peace".
@@anotherbacklog you know it’s really weird comparing a ceasefire in Gaza to rabins murder, because he wasn’t murdered by a Palestinian…
@@gandydancer9710 actually it would? If done right a diplomatic settlement would significantly weaken terrorism. Idk if you’ve noticed but modern militaries have been fighting insurgent/terrorist armies for over 60 years and not once has one been destroyed purely by military force. Also it’s ironic this guy brought up rabin because he wasn’t murdered by a Palestinian…
@@tomerschubert2095 Plenty of "insurgencies" have been smashed over the course of time.
Your ignorance is showing.
The 1rd and 2th Infitada were a hard time for Israel and the region
Political Kamikaze. He knows he's going down but not before he causes as much destruction as he can.
The most low IQ take ever ... but ok
Whatever you think of him, we can agree that Kanye using a butterfly net and bottle of Yoohoo to sign(???) his name was the best moment of 2022. That guy doesn't need lithium salts, he needs the entire goddamn Congo
lol 😅
@@randomwarehouse4702 what?
This is probably the most retarded take
Doesn’t anyone look over at each other and say- “if you let these guys lead you, we are gonna have a fight. So make a better pick.” Anymore?
If only it were that simple.
Tell that to the Arabs.
Lebanon Seem to be doing that right now
There's often no picking though. Hamas took power by murdering the people they ran against and maintain power by murdering anyone who calls for an election. Israel is a democracy, sure, but the system we have is so f*cked that the fash already in the government will not allow a progressive candidate to take power regardless of how much popular support they get - parliament govt has this downside and it sucks ass to defend the system itself. Hezbollah took power by bombing folk and pointing guns at Lebanese politicians till they were given access to land and resources. In neither of these cases the major actor in the region has the overwhelming support of the civilian population that's directly behind the fronts they fight in
I like the part where Simon pretends to be an expert and then mispronounces most names
well having alot of knowledge over things that happend and are happening, and knowing a language are very different things he tries atleast. .
Don’t watch if you’re just gonna whine lol
Vast majority of his videos are scripts.
Why are you pretending to be a teenage girl in your profile pic?
Oooooh sheet! Simon's stepping on some toes!!!!
As an Israeli I can tell you we have no fucking idea
למה אין לך מושג?
No idea? Of...? About...?
Gonna vote for him :)))
And then one day for no reason at all everyone voted for Adolf.
"Benjamin Mileikowsky: A Profile of the Israeli Genocidal Maniac" - there, I fixed the title for you!
I hope he gets his.
I forget who said it, but someone said that he's basically "smart Trump" in terms of who he is.
@@Onora619 Stubborn and senile?
Lol yall always bring up Trump. Obsessed with him frfr.
He’s so much worse than a smart Trump. If anything Trump is a dumbed down wannabe Netanyahu
You are alive!!!!
Blaming Bibi for not making a deal with Syria in the 90's? WTF Syria has had zero diplomatic relations with Israel since 1948. That's is why Syria can't ask for the golan heights back, first they would have to acknowledge Israel.
Wrong
@@anno41 How?
The music drop at 26:41 is crazy sinister, man 😂 lol
He's doing what any good man would do if his country was attacked by terrorists.
This channel is basically running propaganda for hamas and hezbollah now. Vile.
Simon is looking super buff.
One infatada with extra cheese please.
🤣
Thank you