I am a Palestinian. My family was displaced... in 1948... to Jordan. My grandmother walked from Palestine to Jordan on foot. Most of my family were killed, and those who survived left Palestine before being killed. I was born in Jordan, but I am Palestinian. They stole our homes and lands and killed our families.
I am Israeli, in 1948 my family fight against Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi, Jordan after the UN approve the land divide between israel/palestine. The war was forced on Israel by all the Arabs countries that surrounded us. Please tell me what was the purpose of the war? Why all the arabs attacks us together?
You forget to mention that the land was both owned by jewish and arabs during the british mandate, the UN decided to split the land and the palestinians refused to because they wanted the whole land of israel, then they started a war in which they lost.
@@MistaAlon Maybe you forgot to mention that before the war more than millions of Palestinians were first driven from their land after the British left. Which caused refugees and therefore war. You really thought they fought for nothing. Farmers were going to lose their jobs and their land to Jews who are mainly Europeans. And question, since the Zionist state was supposed to be a project to be forgiven for anti-Semitic massacres by Europeans, why not give them European lands? Besides, I'm sorry, who in the world would be happy to see a state created on land that belongs to you? It's as if I were asking the USA to create a country in the middle of Brazil for the Iraqis because they went to war on the basis of a lie. Do you think the Brazilians will agree?
I am from the Westbank exactly from Bethlehem where the Nativity church is and since I was a kid, I haven't felt safe I have always seen soldiers attacking Palestinian civilians and have always read the poets of Palestinian captives in the Israeli prison I just feel weak because they can do anything take our house take me to jail shoot me anytime. it is also not fair that I have to go to Jordan to use their airport because the old Palestinian airport was damaged by Israel. I deserve to feel safe in my own house and in my hometown streets. i deserve to travel using my country's airport! Why do we not have the right to move between cities like other countries?? Why do I have to feel stuck in my hometown? why do I need permission to enter Jerusalem and Haifa? Why do I not have the right to movement? it is hard to move from one city in the Westbank to another city also in the Westbank!
Thank you for sharing your experience of what life is like living in the West Bank. I’m so sorry this is reality for you. you deserve to feel safe and be free to travel outside your town.
Because your area is full of terrorists and we don't want terrorists in Israel. We already saw on 7th October what it is to let terrorists out of their wall and holocaust number two happened. We also know there are thousands of hamas supporters and jihadis living in the west bank, mainly in Jenin Ramallah and Naplouse. Security for Israeli people is more important than you wanting to be a tourist in tel aviv.
Hi, I'm from Tel Aviv, and I wish you'll have all your good desires in your life. For me, as an Israeli, I can't visit your city beitLehem, and If I would insist I would be easily killed. So this is a problem for both sides. If you'll have an airport, Iran could easily bring all their control and weapon to 3km from Israeli cities. Israel, unfortunately, cannot let that happen. I wish peace for both of us.
@@vcarter1365 i think you should first tell us why the jews created iran in the seventies iran was created by the jewsh in the east to stop islam which they hated because it was not what they expected they tought that a new jewish prophet will come but when they found out that it was a arab prophet your ancestors tryed everything to kill eve our prophets in the past so Almighty didn't let that happen to He's prophet..! So your ancestors started after he's death working toghether with the persians and created from them a shia leader to destroy something that called islam all that started from because of you f jewsh you are so hatefull and you want to destroy islam like your ancestors tryed before. So stop your lies idiote.
You do not have to be a Muslim to defend a Palestinian cause, and no matter how much you hate Arabs or any religion, we are all human beings and we have hearts. What we need is to see the truth and we all have humanity. We are human beings at the end, and there is a difference between right and wrong, the oppressor and the oppressed. Thank you, my brother, for this video.
I am a muslim, and saudi arabia, Quatar and other countries like that just make me wanna puke, i hate them. These are really shitholes. I life in germany and here if u say anything against israel u are anti-semitic. But what i am saying is Hamas is terrible, Israel is way worse, to be able to get peace (NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM) just for peace, you have to take out the Israel millitary and politic firat, because they are the bigger terrorist organisation, after that, you take out Hamas, and split the country half half, and have rules to provide attacking each other. Because if you take out hamas first, there is literally nothing which can fight against israel on a military lv, from the palestinian side, which would cause israel to massacre the leftover palestinians and just take over gaza. The issue why west world isnt seeing it that way is, because Israel is imposing as a Country, but they do terrorist acts for decades, and the west dosent care. While also israel is the only non muslim place down there, the west dosent want to lose any teritorial aspects in there and surrender all to muslims. Its such a disgrace as a human being to call israels actions self-defense. Same with china and the uygurs, also my ancestors, getting slaughtered... no one cares, i feel deep upsetness in my heart, with all these happening. ty for everyone who is supporting, and sorry for the rant
It's so clear that the rabid hatred for Palestinians by many western/European people has been conditioned from the mountain of propaganda we've been fed at least since 9/11. I had really hoped most people had snapped out of the fever dream that was the Iraq/Afghanistan war and realized the anti-muslim rhetoric was dangerous propaganda but now here we are again and I'm getting flashbacks to 2001.
I'm an atheist and I was at the Palestinian Solidarity March a couple of weeks ago. I wouldn't want to live under a Muslim, Christian or Jewish regime. However, this is about ordinary citizens undergoing a horrific assault. My great grandmother and grandfather survived the holocaust. My mother in 1967 was attacked by a group of French men and they carved a swastika into her back which covers her entire back, so I am fully aware of the assault on people for no good reason. And I find the use of the holocaust by Israelis repugnant- they seem to think that because something bad happened years ago they can keep using it as a justification for the atrocities they are committing. I have second cousins in Israel and they have this far right zionist views - which is why I haven't spoken to them in years.
Incredible! I hope one day, Palestine gets justice. They have been occupied so long brutally killed, taken from their land, controlled from the sea from the air and every where, and they have been resisting and they Cant even retaliate😢🥺😭
Fun fact: ancestorial DNA testing is illegal in Israel. Cause when they did it back then in controlled environment, the result came out that all those samples had the origin from France, Ukraine, Hungary, Germany etc. No Canaanites. While the sample from the current ppl of Palestine are all originated from Canaanites. Cause of this issue they made that type of DNA testing illegal.
@@funneverends1991 just Google it, 'Ancestorial DNA test illegal in Israel ' . You will even find some Wikipedia articles. Ofc you will need to do more research to find the reason why it's illegal, cause the Wikipedia just says something like 'it's so the people don't use it against the Israeli government'
I would just like to say that Israel having a religious right to Gaza is objective. And NOWHERE else in the world should we hold religious right to land as credible. AND even if we were to go along with the claim that Jews have a religious right to the land, Jews were living in Palestine for thousands of years many converted to Christianity, many converted to Islam, and many obviously preserved their Jewish faith. And right up until 1948 with the Declaration of the "State of Israel" where 1 million Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their land, with reports of thousands of massacres all throughout Palestine, there were STILL many Arab Jews living there which are the Jews that had been historically there for thousands of years. As Bassem pointed out the Zionist movement and the immigration of Jews from Europe, was just that, A European problem. And to somehow suggest that European Jews have a claim to Palestinan land is ludocrus.
I think you meant the right is subjective (not objective)? I am baffled by the number of abjectly false "statements" he made as the 3 pros and cons on both sides. It's like he listened to CNN, read some WP articles, threw in some US propaganda and claimed them as facts. His claim of skimming the surface is translation for staggering ignorance and a racist take (Israel didn't let the Palestinians flourish and Palestinians built a terror state....dude your bias is showing) So religion is a basis for a right to displace and kill a nation, but when an Arab mentions holy wars, it's all whooaa? Don't the Muslims and Christians then have the same right to the land since they all stem from the same Abrahamic faith? To claim that a group has a right to a land based on their religion and because they were there thousands of years ago is the height of hypocrisy for a bunch of Americans sitting in on land that Native Americans inhabited before them and had religious connections to. If he had actually done any research he would have learned that every effort at peace and two state solution has been sabotaged by Israel since the very beginning. There was never any good faith intention at peace or a two-state solution. Israeli far right assassinated their own PM when he tried the two state solution in the 90s. The mass exodus plans of the Palestinians that are now being leaked are apparently a copy paste of the same plans from the 1960s that they never gave up on. I feel like my brain will break in two when trying to take in the number of lies Israel has made since 1967. They have denied every attack they started, constructed elaborate lied and only admitted to them when evidence from investigations gave them no other options. Up until last year they killed a journalist and lied about it. He should have stuck to reacting to music.
this is a genuine question, i thought that muslims and christians have the same connection to that land anyway because they’re all abrahamic religions? please help
@@anneonymous9680 absolutely Muslims Christians and Jews had ties to the land and lived there together historically in relative peace under the custodianship of the Muslims for roughly a little over a thousand years in fact when the Muslims first took over Jerusalem the leader at the time (Caliph Omar) was shocked that there was no Jews and invited Jews back into Jerusalem after they were expelled by the Romans. Muslims also welcomed influxes of Jewish refugees during the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. These are all historical facts feel free to verify on your side as well.
I am an old fan to your channel, and as an Egyptian, I have to admit that Bassem used to employ his genius genuine sarcastic capabilities against the corruption and political failures conducted by local regimes till they kicked off his ass outside the country. This guy delivered what our arab leaders faild to do, you have to watch the second interview, literally it's a historical educational interview.
The second interview is literally what Bassem wanted it to be, a literal “historical reference” to the ppl that don’t know shit bout the conflict, and he did it in a perfect way, and as an Arab myself (Saudi) i agree, the Arab leaders definitely failed to do what Bassem did and that’s rly sad.
@@ik6wh As an Egyptian, I completely feels what you saying and I agree with it 90%.. the 10% disagree would come to "Arab leaders definitely failed to do what Bassem did." Leaders deal with these issues in a total different way, they don't need to explain the conflict and it's history because time won't allow that and time is important during a crisis. They did mention that it didn't start on Oct. 7th, but overall they are being too soft dealing with this issue and with NO EXCEPTION! In the sense of agreement, unfortunately our leaders are mentality weak since long time ago. Cutting relations temporary - at least - with Israel doesn't break their peace treatments.. Begging for a ceasefire over and over is useless.. Egypt should not close the boarders and send army members with the aids 24/7 and it won't be against Israel in any sense of a threat - It's Gaza, a Palestinian land, right?! This will corner Israel a bit to not drop bombs on them.. unless.. eh, a new conflict but this time is with Egypt?! 🤔 Arab leaders should has used the tone of anger a long time ago in their speeches.. The need to man up.. FFS just realizing that we're almost a month in this makes me so angry! Peace and love to all.
@@itsmidorabie and what i meant with my statement was that Bassem did more than they ever did to the conflict and to the Palestinians, u just didn’t understand my point correctly.
before I finish, I just want to point out some mistakes in the video, all the peace treaties did not offer the Palestinians a right to have their own government , and also they control the water and food supplies and electricity for Palestine, and lastly in 22 sept 2023 Bibi Netanyahu brought to the UN a map of the " new Middle East" without Palestine before the attack his aim was very clear.
exactly, israel never signed the oslo accords because it would stablish borders. israel's been stealing palestinian lands since 1948... all he has to do is google "nakba" and youre done. israel has no claim on that land other than religious matter, and if it is relevant, so do all monotheistic religions.
@@Dolphinator1999 tbf some of us are former pro Israeli. So we heard 2 sides of the argument. The propaganda runs deep so it's good that people are seeing through these Zionists' lies. I also used to believe the human shield talking point that propagandist like Shapiro uses, it's silly to think about it in retrospect. They bombed an Associated Press buildings claiming there were weapons there, then they continued to leveled schools, hospitals and has now graduated to bombing ambulances and shooting journalists. That's how bold face these Zionist Terrorist are.
Thank you for taking the time and watching this trying to learn more about the issue! Please also watch round 2 between Bassem and Piers, it’s a completely different energy and I guarantee you’d learn much more there.
Did Alex just missed Bassem's point? "Hamas did fucked up shit, Israel did fucked up shit."... There's no Hamas in West Bank, what's your excuse to do horror in West Bank. Piers Morgan couldn't answer that and apparently Alex complete ignored it.
There is lots of Hamas in the West Bank. In the Palestinian Legislative Council all 9 of the members for Hebron, 5 of the 6 for Shchem/Nablus, 4 of the 5 for Ramallah, 2 of the 3 for Tulkarm, 2 of the 4 for Bethlehem, 2 of the 4 for Jenin, the only member for Salfit and the only member for Tubas are all Hamas. The mayor of Al-Bireh is Hamas. 25 of the 51 representatives on the Birzeit University Student Council are Hamas, a plurality. Hamas member, Abed el-Qader Qawasmeh (the son of the former head of Hamas's military arm in Hebron), along with 2 other Hamas members from Hebron, killed an Israeli soldier and attempted to kill and injured 5 others (from a car containing two M16 rifles, two pistols, about 10 loaded magazines, hundreds of additional bullets, two axes and fake uniforms resembling those of the Israeli military), before being killed themselves on the way to attempt a mass shooting in Jerusalem in November. The "West Bank" military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Arin al-Usud operates entirely out of "the West Bank" and is funded by Hamas.
And who said there is no Hamas in the West Bank. It’s very possible that there is. Most Palestinians are disguised as Hamas officials and the Israeli intelligence knows where to find them which is probably why they attacked the West Bank. Listen war is war. What happens in war stays in war. It’s tragic and it’s fucked up but it is ultimately the only option. Israel has a right to defend itself because they engaged in the war. If Israel doesn’t defend themselves Hamas proves their point and wins. That they can manipulate a country to doing what they want. Yes there are issues with how Israel is leading this war and the decisions they are making. No war is good and on both sides there are bad decisions that are made. It is because it is critical. It is very easy to call out who is right and wrong when you are not even in the conflict watching the media drinking piña coladas at the beach. There is more to it than that. The truth is that the news want to manipulate your perspective and make you sympathize for Hamas which is ultimately the problem here. Again Israel as a country and as a nation of the Jewish people is not and it never was. There was a time when Arabs and Jews lived in peace. Then Hamas and isis and hezboullah came over and indoctrinated and manipulated new generations to believe in their sick ideology of destroying the state of Israel and the annihilation of the Jews. If there was no Hamas and government the people would be different and this is how they would have peace. But since Hamas has already manipulated a lot of innocent Palestinians, it is one of the hardest conflicts to fight. The problem is that people are not putting themselves in the shoes of the Palestinians and the Israeli’s.
I see hurt in his eyes then he talked about 6 year old getting stabbed. Its even worse then you hear details. That boy didnt know what was going on so he hugged the old man 😢. The boy looked up to him it was his safe nest. Imagine being betrayed like that. It stopped my heart and never left my mind
One thing that is important for people to remember is that it's possible to denounce the actions of the Israeli government without being antisemitic. The Israeli people and Jews everywhere are not to blame here. It's their government and their military.
First of all zionists are secular not religious. Second, they are not ethnic Jews. They are from the tribe of Amelek from the line of Edom/Esau. They are imposters.
obviously. the problem begins when zionists start weaponizing antisemitism into silencing anyone that doesn't agree with their policies. "you don't think what israel is doing is right? oh, so you want all jewish people to cease to exist!" which is something the state of israel and everyone who agrees with the genocide and ethnic cleansing its committing has been doing for years now and it's so deeply rooted into the western society and media. anything has become antisemitic in the last 3 weeks and it's making islamophobia run rampant in the western society (that's been demonizing muslims and arabs for over 2 decades now).
Yup truth. There's just as much Jews and Israeli that's against Zionism. So saying it's antisemitic is just not correct. Furthermore the Palestinians and Arabs are more semitic than these European Jews.
Good gods. I’m only 5 minutes in and yelling at my screen. Yes. You absolutely need to do loads of research to form a balanced opinion on this…Critical thinking skills are a must here though and a lot of people don’t have it. I have been doing so for several years now. Reading history books, articles, talking to Palestinians both here and in Gaza. So when you said “It’s not about colonialism” my head almost exploded. It ABSOLUTELY IS. It’s basically the same damn thing we did from the 15th century on when America was “discovered”. There were already millions of indigenous people here but because Europeans saw themselves as superior to the “savages” we just took what we felt we deserved. That was ethnic cleansing. That was genocide. And the very definition of colonialism. * sigh *
Colonized by whom? By the same indigenous Jewish people whom where colonized, murdered and expelled? My grandmother and her family were almost killed by the Arabs in 1929, way before the state of Israel was re-established.
@@GilTheCohen Dude…after WW2 Europe tried to figure out what to do with the surviving jews and picked Palestine to split up and give to them. It wasn’t necessary at all. Again, jews, christians and muslims had already been living there TOGETHER for thousands of years. There was no need for 750k Palestinians to be violently uprooted and forced into these ever shrinking bits of land. And there sure as hell wasn’t a need to massacre whole villages in the process. One group’s trauma does not give them the green light to do a similar thing to others. The Israeli government has been crystal fucking clear about their intentions. Especially Bibi. They don’t see the Palestinians as equal humans and they want them gone. They’ve been playing the long game and Oct. 7th was the excuse they were looking for to finish the job. Whether they flee to Sinai or die…they don’t care. And this entire thing has fostered this gross sense of superiority in part of the Israeli population too. For literal decades zionist extremists have been having watch parties to celebrate the bombs going off in Gaza. Calling them animals that need to be exterminated. This whole thing has never been about jews being persecuted. It’s just groups of men making power moves to assert dominance and comparing dick sizes…and opportunistic settlers taking advantage of the situation to go on their own little power trips.
So a population that keeps on growing from 1.2 mil in 1948 (700,000 of whom came between 1914-1948) to over 7.5 million is ethnic cleansing? Cus those are the numbers of the Arab population ”between the river and the sea”. If so, the Jews don’t know how to do it so well…. You see, when an actual genocide against the Jews happened in 1939-1945, the population went down from nearly 16.75 million people worldwide. You know how many Jews live goats, more than 80 years after? 16.1 million. That’s a genocide.
@@GilTheCohen You are so full of crap! Yes, the pathetic israelis are colonizers! They are NOT indigenous to the land contrary to what your book of fairy tales says.
I wonder how Piers asks the question about "PEACE" between the Oppressor and and Oppressed. Isn't that something that happens between two equally independent entities?
I would really recommend you to read scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Norman Finkelstein to get a more nuanced perspective. Also, you said this wasn't an issue about colonialism. I just want to point out that even Theodor Herzl, the father of modern zionism, himself described the idea of Israel as a colony. This was at the time when most people didn't really consider colonialism as something bad, though. I'd also recommend you to read more about the nakba. Have a great day 😊
I'd also like to thank you for being so open minded! And another thing. I would recommend you to google the Balfour Declaration (1917) to see how Britain gave away land that wasn't theirs to give to begin with. Also, the only Jewish member of the cabinet at the time (Edwin Samuel Montagu) opposed the declaration. The idea of the Balfour declaration was antisemitic. Arthur Balfour (who was the one pushing for the creation of a Jewish state) had described Jews as "an alien and hostile people" and he also sponsored legislation to keep Jewish refugees out of the UK.
Yeah, I agreed with a lot of his points, but starting off the conversation claiming this isn't about colonialism is willfully ignoring a giant portion of the issue.
I love how everyone that talks about "Israel has the right to defend itself" always making it sound like Hamas is the one who has all the power and military and Israel the one that is living in an open air-prison 😅 The math isn't mathing
He is extremely sarcastic because of the immense pain he is in . Violence perpetuates more violence period. we need to stop this madness 😢3700 children are way to much a price to pay for the political , religious or any other issue or conflict .
Just wanna point out, that Israel offered peace with taking the lands and never give back an inch of the land to palestanian. So how they can offer peace and taking the lands in the same time 😅
@@konstantinmuhin4813 How it is liberated and Israel controls the water, food, entry, exit? And It is obvious for any single person who have a quick search in history, he will know easily how Israel occupied Palestine. Imagine that happens to your country? What you will react?
Moral of the ongoing story is that there is an apartheid, racist state, that’s treating the same indigenous people of the land that welcomed them with warm hands during ww1 and ww2, as second class citizens. It’s like inviting someone to your house, then they over time they force you to live in the attic and then expect you not to reclaim your house back 😃
Just like when the fled to Jordan and assassinated the king or in Egypt causing all sorts of issues. You ever stop and think why ALL the surrounding areas WILL NOT ALLOW Palestinians to come across their border. They must be peaceful if that's the case.
Impressive analysis. Such a complex history all summed up into a few sentences. However, it seems that if your description were a fair representation, nearly everyone would with agree with you, and they don’t.
By that logic, the USA is a an apartheid state. And also... which warm hands were those? The ones that helped Nazis capture jews for their own benefit? Seems like there's some selective history choices thought by whatever school you've been to. Or i guess they simply forgot how most of Arabia (seemingly including your beloved "Palestine") supported Nazi germany. Are those the warm, blood covered hands that aided the result of the holocaust you speak of? Cause i DO believe they were quite warm. That's pretty much the extent of the truth here. I will remind you of a very funny quote from Hitler himself... "The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France".
And also you conveniently leave out the British involvement in all of this. It seems like every Muslim is scared of talking about them. But it's fairly obvious why. It would shift blame. Can't have that when all of your existence is revolved around hating a certain group of people :)
Israel has no claim on land, if you say that, native Americans have claim on America, Aboriginals have claim on Australia, Māori have claim on New Zealand, Portugal and Spain were one country, Pakistan and India should join back together, Russia could take back a lot of the eastern block of Europe, the only claim they have is what England gave them after the Second World War after giving money to Britain for the war effort, wealthy Jewish families have funded many English wars including the Napoleonic war
Everyone is encouraged to watch the latest video between the same Piers Morgan vs Bassem Youssef on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Watch those containing to have the clear idea on the issue
Can you imagine somebody coming to your door and saying that 2000 years ago their ancestors lived there and that therefore they now have a right to your house and land. International law at that time did not agree that that was legal and they still don't today.
Alex, I want you to put your attorney hat on. You say there is good and bad on both sides. Certainly there has been bad on both sides, but good, I don’t agree. If you meant good PEOPLE on both sides, I’m with you. However, the question is who has the power in the country? Israel. I don’t think anyone will dispute that. As far as accountability, when you are in a position of power, you’re responsible for your citizens and constituents. With that being said, in the beginning you said Israel has done good things: 1. Israel has a claim to the land. That is not considered a “good” thing. If that is your believe then that is simply historical fact. 2. The land which is held by the Palestinians is “the center of the Israeli religion”. When did this become about religion? The only time religion is mentioned is Orthodox Jews and you can see for yourself how they view the conflict. 3. They have a right to peace. I totally agree with you that all humans should have that right. Again, I don’t see any of these points as a “good” thing. My question is what “good” things has Israel done to/for the Palestinians to promote and maintain peace since 1948? I’m not asking as a “gotcha” question. I genuinely want to know what your findings are.
Just an important FYI - Israel isn't the governing body in Gaza since 2005, when Israel left Gaza in a one sided decision in order to gain peace. In 2006 and 2007 Hamas were elected by the over 65% of the people in Gaza and since then, they killed members of the PLO and PA in order to keep control of the land.
@@sagipisti123 From this perspective, you are still too zoomed in to see the problem. Israel is still in control of the region. Hamas was elected to be a representative for the people, not rule the land. If they were in control like you claim, they would be able to build ports, freely travel to establish relationships with other nations, have an embassy, etc. I think we can all agree that if you are an elected official without the basic governing principles such as attending summits with other countries, you are not in charge. Side note, in order to even be alive when the election was held you would have to be 17 years old. Not to mention an additional conservative 15 years to actually be old enough to vote. So we are looking at roughly anyone aged 32 or older potentially voted during the 2006 election. If 50% of the population is under 17, and let’s assume another 25% from 17-32 years old, we’re left with 25% of the people currently there voting in the election. That does not include anyone who has been killed in the 17 years since the election. To say they were elected would be the same as telling American teenagers “well you guys voted for George W Bush”.
Lets say you're correct, Hamas as the rulers of Gaza were given billions of dollars including from the UN, USA, Qatar and you guessed it... Israel - where did all of that money went? Answer - went building terror infrastructure. Why are the palestinians so poor? Answer - money went to the leaders pockets. Why are Hamas leaders not in Gaza? and are hiding in Qatar, Turkey and other muslim countries? Answer - They want to keep the palestinians oppresed, so they'd continue leeching money and living in luxury while their people suffer.
I congratulate you Alex for taking the time to discuss this situation in the way that you did. Respectfully, realistically, honestly and with actual concern.
@@GrumpX i googled and it writes that UN divide the land between israeli and palestine, then the arabs world not happy with so they attack the israel. So when israel stole the lands?
@@COLDASHELL_BEATS I think one has to go back in time much further, in order to understand why Nakbah was possible to take place at all. In my opinion, the Balfour Declaration was, and still is, one of the most controversial documents. By writing it, the British gave land to Jews that wasn`t theirs to give.
@@COLDASHELL_BEATS The beginning goes much further back than Nakba. But sure... let's focus on the evils of ONE side. Because, as we know... Arabs have NEVER done anything wrong. Right? They are so pure.
I absolutely love your reaction , I highly recommend watching round 2 of this interview, bassem youssef made a lot of good and interesting points in both interviews and I would love to hear your thoughts on it
Quote from UN special reporter: "Israel cannot claim the right of self-defense against a threat that emanates from the territory it occupies. From a territory that is kept under belligerent occupation."
@46:17 Did anyone catch Jeremy while he is nodding with his head refusing to take any questions from Bassem and based on it Piers finished the interview with Bassem
Occupied people have the right to resist by any means available to them, including armed struggle. No nation has the right to exist in a state of apartheid.
That comment about temporary tent cities immediately made me think about the film District 9 (worth a watch if you haven't reacted to it already Alex). I won't pretend to know what the solution is for conflicts like this. It's easy to think that one or both sides can take a moral high ground and negotiate or compromise but in reality these issues are so deep rooted. I hope some solution is found for the sake of the civilian population on both sides.
Dear Alex two simple key words and then it's up to you to do the research : Occupation vs resistance. * also Arab Canaanites lived 4 thousands years ago in Palestine which is way before the existence of Jews. I appreciate that you are tackling this issue bravely... but I believe you need to dig deeper and be open to another narrative. all the respect.
Wow! You have an interesting ancestry 😆 I really appreciate that you reacted to the whole interview. Also, I suggest you check the 1948 Plan Dalet, too. It explains a lot of things. Also, you have to check the second Piers Morgan and Bassem Yousef’s interview. Although it’s long, but it’s incredibly informative
KUDOS to you, Alex! RESPECT! I think that the current geopolitical situation is extremely demanding, weird, and nerve-wracking for most of us. The leaders of the Collective West are playing with our lives, our future like little children who haven`t got a clue what is actually going on. They are using heavily loaded words without understanding their meaning and the consequences they may provoke and bring. Those in power lack natural intelligence, true education, political and historical knowledge, rhetorical skills, negotiating skills, respect and empathy for others, humility, and wisdom. They brought us to the edge of WWIII. And here we are, looking into the darkest pit of our lifetime. They are killing innocent unarmed people, babies, and little children without any regrets or sorrow. Right in the open, in front of our very eyes, Mass Murder is being committed and the US is financing it and the rest of the Collective West is watching and supporting it. NOBODY IS STOPPING IT! That`s how Nazi Germany looked in the 1930s, and nobody said anything, did anything. In the middle of the streets, innocent Jews, Jippsies, and invalids had been ridiculed, belittled, tortured, and beaten. All that under the laughing faces of many (not all) Germans. When WWII finally ended, the whole world was asking how it could come to that. Sons, daughters, and grandchildren have been asking for decades, "What did you do to help those poor people?" Now it`s our turn to SAY SOMETHING, to DO SOMETHING! Now is not the time TO BE QUIET! At the very least, we should INFORM OURSELVES & LEARN MORE, just like you said! And then, we should start ASKING (THE RIGHT) QUESTIONS and ACT ACCORDINGLY! Thank you for addressing the big pink elephant in the room. Thank you, Alex!
U know sister that two days ago israel bombed the second oldest church in the world in palstine and before this church they bombed a hospital belongs to church and the two places are in fire And many palestinians Christians and muslims are dying It’s not a war between jews and Muslims it’s between jews and all non jews people U can see easily before 7 of October israelians fighting any Christian human they see and also muslims In the same time Christian countries are supporting Israel Fuck Europe fuck America
hello. im a palestinian guy who has lived in the west bank n i do indeed have some experience about it all n know what exactly been happening. and just to let you know about the peace in west Jerusalem u talked about. the west bank agreed to it. however, israelis kept on jailing kids and people and still controlled all jerusalem and never left palestinians alone. i lived that experience and actually lost alot of family members bc of it. another thing i dont see the media talking about which is an event that happened recently where israel told gaza civilians to evacuate to the borders and proceeded to bomb them on the way there. this happened before they cut the food n the water on gaza.
You know what, it seems so complicated because its Palestine and Israel. Try to truly imagine that its Russia and Ukraine or its the US that is experiencing what Palestine experienced in 1948. It is really not that complicated -the retaliation that happened on the 7th October. Its a tragedy, but you cannot expect people to be civil when they live in appalling oppressed condition for decades. How can you expect Palestinians to just accept living like this, because believe me, you wouldn't.
Mad respect for you on covering this sensitive issue. And also, welcome to the unsolved conflict since 1948. This is a quite a spiderweb of a topic you're dipping in here.
The "you are one of the good one" line was lowkey genius, especially delivered on the fly. That's the phrase white people would say about black people back in the day, it's like saying "you are an exception, but we both know these folks are savage, but I'm glad with you, look at you how you are different from those subhumans".
It also plays into the desperate need of every one of these despicable media personalities to want to appear as if they're on the "right side" of every controversial issue in history because they know they've always lacked basic morality when spewing "facts" on air. They know deep down the bs atrocities enabling "facts" they're broadcasting to millions of viewers in their massively influential positions are actually just biased opinions/interpretations of the wealthy people behind the camera signing these media personalities' paychecks, thus lining their pockets with millions of dollars in blood money. The networks/hosts so desperately wants to portray an image that makes the audience they're subliminaly trying to influence feel as if they've always been on the right side of every topic so even if they've said some terribly consequential things in the past, calling them out on it in front of their audiences will automatically trigger a defensive reaction from the interviewer along with the executives behind-the-scenes (who are sometimes yelling directly into their earpieces to rebuke the interviewee's comments) then spin their words into a narrative that make the network/channel look "morally good". Then they quickly pivot to another topic before the audience can realize they just glossed over a ton of the negative, but factual and correct, things the interviewee just said about them. In my opinion, the best way to breakthrough this is to do it exactly how Bassem did. Just agree with them and say "no, you're one of the good guys," to publicly ease their consciences in front of their audiences/viewers then let the audience stop and think for themselves whether or not the interviewer has been one of the "morally good" sources of information in the past before allowing them to half-heartedly counter your facts then pivot to a different topic, which seems to have become second-nature to some of the personalities including Piers. The look on their faces after you agree with them instead of trying to argue is my favorite cause you can visibly see they aren't prepared for this and now need to let the speaker continue the dialogue they just unsuccessfully tried to interrupt. They always look like they need a moment to process what just happened and regain their thoughts 😂
In 2022 the UN General Assembly passed 15 resolutions condemning Israel. In the same year there was one on Iran, one on Syria, one on North Korea. Every year there have been double digit resolutions condemning Israel. Over the years there have been hundreds. The Palestinian authority has never been Condemned by the UN.
Settlers have been killing Palestinian villagers even before 7/10. Israelis them selves noticing the increase of right wingers. Just look at who Netanyahu has placed in ministrial position. Ben Gvir was exempt from the IDF not because of injury but fear of his blood lust. Israeli had been protesting Netanyahu before 7/10. He was investigated for corruption... In regards to Palestinians experience, it's apartheid. Separate policing, Judiciary discipline, Checkpoints, Building Permit delays or denials. The only Palestinians with weapons are Hamas. While Israel have equipped Settlers. One of the reasons why IDF weren't able to respond, was they were busy keeping an eye on settlers. No Hamas in the WestBank, no weapons, yet Palestinians killed. The discrimination they experiencing is very much like South Africa and Jim Crow era. Btw children are in prison for throwing stones. Look into Tom Hurdall, Rachel Corrie death. Also your grandparents would be looked at with a side eye, they would be forced through different routes. The right wing want to stop such marriage. In Hebron, there are streets that have been cut off for Palestinians. Roads they had businesses in. Let's also remember the weapons being used in Gaza. Check what white Phosphorus is. The Israeli response was they didn't sign the agreement to not use it. If you want to watch an old documentary about the nakba, Tantura is a recording of Israeli veterans talking about what happened. Louis Theroux Ultra Zionist documentary. The shady way homes are taken..
According to Ilan Pappe, Israeli Historian who did Phd by studying Israel's declassified document in 1980, Palestine-Israel IS Settler- Colonialism issue akin to America, Canada, Australia treatment to respective natives. It also similar to what British done to many of its colonies.
My only criticism of you is you did not mention the issue in the West Bank. Israel illegally occupies the West Bank and years after year increased its force displacement of Palestinians to build illegal settlements. Both the occupation and settlements are against countless UN resolutions.
3:05 i wanted to say first that I appreciate that you are going through this logically, i regard to the area c issue, it's like that in order to protect Israelis, Jews and arabs alike from terrorists that often come in from the west bank or the Gaza strip
Sadly this conflict is truly Biblical. It goes back thousands of years and may never be truly settled. Jerusalem is home to three of the world's major religions, and that's an oversimplification in and of itself.
Actually its not. Jews and Muslims lived together peacefully for centuries before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This is a colonial issue.
@@samnabawy2731 "Our land" argument? you mean the overwhelming pile of rock that Israelis ACTUALLY turned into something instead of the nothing those that lived there for decades? As soon as that happened all those surrounding it were VERY interested in taking it over.
Okay, this may help: Saying the whole thing started when Hamas got up out of nowhere and attacked Israel is like saying when the black slaves rebelled against their masters the story started then. Like the poor masters were sitting quietly in their homes and then suddenly the slaves attacked them without provocation. No, that would be ludicrous because the slaves were owned and used as slaves. So attacking the masters was a rebellion. Many other stories of resistance can be applicable to this. So like the Palestinian although they are not slaves they are occupied by Israel. Which means they are in an open-air prison. They have no rights, no say or control of their own lives. They are not allowed to leave as Israel controls their movements too. Why do you think Israel is able to turn off water, power, and food to the Palestinians? Because they control Gaza. The Palestinians have no rights in their own land. Even Nelson Mandela called Israel an apartheid state. Please google it. The African Union are against Israel’s apartheid state. It is 2023 a country can not occupy a people and then complain that the people are rebelling against them. Please guys do some research.
It is colonialism and to try to deny that is extremely ignorant at best. It's not _only_ colonialism, but you cannot deny that it IS a part of the issue. You cannot compare both sides equally when: one side has the support of Western powers such as the U.S. and the U.K. while the other side does not; one side can control the water and electricity and fuel and agriculture and fishing of the other side; one side has an army while the other does not...i could go on. Justice is a prerequisite for peace.
It’s a sad time for both of these peoples. And it’s sad that it’s been going on for a thousands of years. The amount of violence and hurt that this conflict has caused. I do know that hamas is the main cause of the October 7th event, but this war has been going on for thousands of years, long before the 1940s. And the cause of this conflict isn’t just political. It is religious. Hamas is an extremist Islamic Palestinian organization. Israel is prominently Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Here’s the kicker. Abraham (a figure from ancient biblical times) is the patriarchal ancestor of the three groups. He fathered two children. One was Isaac, the father of Jacob who became the origin of the Israelite/Jewish people (with some later becoming Christian during the ancient New Testament times). The other son was Ishmael, who was the ancestor of a broad group of Arab people but he was also a direct ancestor of the founder of Islam, Muhammad. The Israelites and the Ishmaelites have always fought against each other, both in various biblical literature whether that is the Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible (including the New Testament with the old), Quran or other various literature originating to ancient times up to the present. Nowadays, it is Israel (aka Israelites) and the extreme Islamist groups (aka Hamas etc) who are “fighting” over the land and such. Yes, not all Arabs (including Palestine) are “bad” people. Not all Palestinians are “bad” people. And not all Israelites are “good” people. But the land of Canaan (that is, the land ancient Israel conquered thousands of years ago) always belonged to the Israelite people. Did the descendants of Ishmael live in that land? Quite possibly. But the land always belonged to Israel. Did it get taken away? Yes. They gotten taken away by Assyrians and Babylonians and other foreign nations. Did they get it back? Yes, they did, time and time again. The land has always been Israel’s. I do believe that Palestinians and Israelites can live there! By all means! But Israel and those who practice the Jewish faith have had a longer claim to govern the land for thousands of years whereas any other people can only testify a few centuries at least. And yes, I understand that there is so much more to this than meets the eye. These are just facts that everyone forgets about or doesn’t know. Of course, some who read this may not be religious or of these three faiths, but their scriptures shed light on so much more. All three faiths including non-practicing individuals who are ethnic Israel or Arab have the right to live there. However, ethnic Israel has the right to govern that land, and Hamas is a threat to that. The Palestinians who are not part of hamas are not the threat. Just Hamas. Regardless, I pray for all these people whether Arab or Israel.
Dam bro. I found you movie reacts channel a few days ago and I’ve been binging and just randomly saw this. I didn’t expect you’d address this as well. Respect to you
Bassem Youssef led us to your channel, and I've got to say, you are a curious mixture of Freddie Mercury, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dannie Richmond (Charles Mingus' drummer).
If you look into the issue more deeply, you will find that it is an issue of settler colonialism and an apartheid regime, not a conflict between two countries
i need to make you understand something alex. Israel has never engaged a peace offer without a fight they never gave a piece of a land without a fight. that's why the arab and Palestinian understand that this country will never see them as people and give them there land.
I like the fact that you are the only TH-camr who went to research before reacting to the interview 👏🏻 Which is not the case for 99.9% of western TH-camrs.
To those people who judge the whole conflict by what happened in October 7th... i just wanna tell you one thing and let it sink, when you get sick, you treat the root cause of the disease, you don't just treat the system, that how it gets worse.
What peace are you talking about? 74 years ago Israel didn't even exist. There was only Palestine. Well, how about I tell you, lend me the basement of your house, then demand that it's mine, then take over the whole house and make a peace treaty with you. I'll give you the basement? Freedom for Palestine
It’s really not that deep. Arabs and Jews lived peacefully together in Palestine until the formation of the state of Israel and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. This conflict is decades old but not thousands of years old.
@@nosmokejazwinski6297 This current conflict might be decades old, but the claims on the land are much older.. And as an outsider I feel like I can't make a fair judgement when both sides say "we're just defending ourselves" without trying to oversee the entire history and look into all the arguments both sides are making, which is a lot!
@@m.m.2310I would recommend you to google the Balfour Declaration (1917) to see how Britain gave away land that wasn't theirs to give to begin with. Also, the only Jewish member of the cabinet at the time (Edwin Samuel Montagu) opposed the declaration. The idea of the Balfour declaration was antisemitic. Arthur Balfour (who was the one pushing for the creation of a Jewish state) had described Jews as "an alien and hostile people" and he also sponsored legislation to keep Jewish refugees out of the UK. I would also recommend you to read about the nakba (very important) to get an actual understanding of how long Palestinians have suffered. I think it's absolutely necessary to understand what people mean when they call this an ethnic cleansing.
@@m.m.2310 Well, Jews didnt have any claim to Palestine for a long time up until relatively recently when the zionist movement started. even then, most religious jews opposed the idea because according to the Jewish faith they are not allowed to create a nation of their own. Ofc there were many different Empires and states claiming and conquering the area just like pretty much everywhere in th world. But the conflict between Arabs and Jews is a modern anomaly in the grand scheme of things. If one side is actively genociding the other while keeping it besieged in an open air concentration camp for decades, it is clear that this is not self defense.
Simply put the "entire history" doesn't matter. What matters currently is the conflict since the formation of the state of Israel. Israel has no claim to this land because it never previously existed as a state. Jewish people shouldn't need a state for themselves, they should be able to live among other religions just like other religions. They are capable of this as seen in so many countries around the world. The problem is the state of Israel and the fact it wants an ethnostate with nothing but Jewish people in it. It is not a muslims vs jews issue, it's the evil state of Israel vs people.@@m.m.2310
للأسف في كل التطور الذي نحن فيه، و بإمكان اي شخص في الحصول على المعلومات، ولكن للأسف الناس تنظر إلى يوم 7 أكتوبر فقط،. ولا احد يعلم ما يحصل لشعب الفلسطيني من عقود، و ماذا تفعل لو انك في مكان اي احد فلسطيني الا ان تقاوم للحرية و بأي وسيلة
If hamas are terrorists, Israel is a terrorist state. What they're doing is much worse than what hamas did. If Israel has the right to defend itself by killing innocent people, hamas also has the right to defend itself by killing innocent people. And this IS about colonialism, my friend. No matter how much you try to be neutral and please both parties, you can't deny that Israel colonized Palestine and have been oppressing Palestinians for decades now. So don't be shocked that what you get from 75 years of oppression is a resistance group like hamas.
I love your reactions man in Egyptian like bassem he did another interview with morgan and it's even better you should watch it it's explained A lot of miss constipation about Israel
I agree with the rights and wrongs that Alex mentioned coming from both sides, and both sides have not approached the conflict in peaceful and healthy ways, and instead choose violence from Palestine and retaliation from Israel that has many Israelian and Palestinian civilians suffering.
please Watch and reat the part 2 of the new interview with Piers Morgan and Bassem Youssef from 2 days ago, and you will discover a lot of things and information that may shock you.
i'm an old fan of this channel im from jordan which is next to palestine and i gotta thank you for making me feel that our voice do exist and also our opinion its not about taking a side in this but its about learning about this atleast because its been happening for a long time and this is first time seeing people from the west giving attention to it , it makes feel better that we have the same empathy for deaths of innocent people we are all humans at the very end thank you alex
Hey Alex, thank you for own knowledge of what happened in Israel and Palestine, just to add more information that in Palestine theirself, they had two parties that seem different in way of thought. Hamas and Fatah and civil. So, Hamas is not Palestine as a whole
That "If you live like palestinian, would you sympathize with your oppressor or would you sympathize with people that claim that they are a resistant even if they are a terrorist?" Brooooo there's no way you would sympathize with your oppressor ever!!! NO WAY 😂 It's not a complex issue, people just don't want to solve it.
Bassem was "surgical" in his use of dark humor to get to the "heart" of what matters to him. Couldn't resist, man. Seriously, though, I think what has been lost in this particular conflict is that some are pro-Israel, some are Pro-Palestine and many are pro-civilian.
I have been a fan to you since 2018. As a Palestinian living in israel (we the ones that they spared us and stayed inside) im glad you gave us a voice. Few things to clear out. Prime minister of israel actually funded Hamas organization in Israel and it was a regime to rise them into power so they cause the terror by being provoked intentionally by israeli army in order to have an excuse to attack them. I know i sound very biased but for who cares, a few deep researchers will lead you to the truth. Its not a coincidence one of top military in the world didn't have response till 6 hours invade of hamas (food for thought). The other reason why Gaza people dont just rebuild a happy state on their own because israel have control on them in the first place. They control their electricity, water, fuel, even food intake. Second reason, gaza people are not going to be satisfied by being independent on their current land, because basically israeli took our land in the first place so it's not fair to give up what's ours
I have some doubts about you being a Palestinian Israeli, because of the way talk sound a little ignorant about the situation. The development of Hamas formed because of the secular Palestinian government, when I asked around Palestinians what they think of Hamas they told me "it's a terrorist organization" I asked many. I ask if they go as Palestinians to the Gaza they said "never, I am afraid" I asked around in the West Bank. I got to say it spoke to Israeli settlers in the West Bank, my of them I'll say more then 20% are foreign Nationals, they said the Arabs should leave I asked them to where they said "they are poor let's give them money and send them to Jordan" I argue with them saying they have the same rights as you why should they leave. I believe they are the Israeli problem the same as Hamas is the Palestine problem, between me and you you know there are problems on both sides. The Israeli government is very aggressive towards minorities such as Arabs Hasidic Jews Ethiopians and so on Apartheid state is not the state of Israel I lived there for a year, I saw many things against minorities I was once in the police station in Jerusalem, if you know the area, the Russian compound, the police officer that was at reception was Arab Muslim, I asked him, the one upstairs was Christen, the one that helped me that was the most fluent in English was Jewish, I had to come back to her because she wasn't there a day later I was 3 Arabs and 1 Jew, and a argument between a husband and wife was settled by the Jew that didn't even speak Arabic, so it is not an apartheid state
@@Informy113 I am an arab Israeli you cannot make me doubt my identity lol. Secondly, arab israeli have way different mindset than west bank arabs. Lastly, you can't compare to what you saw in 1 year to what I saw in my whole life living here. As arab in israel, they're treating like second citizens. Ye they will claim we gave you the right to vote and work but all this bullshit just to justify themselves behind closed doors. Man as an engineer, i have to work 3 times harder than average jew to find a job in engineering because of discrimination and racism that they dont want to hire arabs. Heck, some arab doctos and teachers were jailed for supporting palestine on social media (not supporting hamas but supporting PALESTINE people). There are some jew locations that publicly don't allow arabs to enter. Man they treating us like black people in USA during 1960's. Yes they cancelled slavery but still treated black people in 60's like subhumans.
Couple of problems here. While Netanyahu is a scumbag and with the behavior of a terrorist himself. This whole "he made Hamas what it is" has as much merit as "Israel founded ISIS". It's a pattern, as Arabs like to put their own problems on others. They also claimed back in the early 2000's that the good ol' US of A helped create Al Qaeda. I really appreciate that one as a Pakistani born Muslim. Really sold that! I loved seeing my family suffer and a lot of it be killed because America made Al Qaeda. Amazing. Until there's concrete proof that Netanyahu DID in fact helped create them, i will treat all of them as i treated Al Qaeda being made by the US. There's plenty of reasons to hate the guy, no need to make stuff up there.
My grandfather was part of the 11th in the Philippines in WW2. Japan was going to invade America had it not been for the counter offensive. What Japan was doing to the captives and to their own people, my grandfather not only had to witness, but fight through to stay alive at the expense of his conscience and of men beside him. So many innocent people died in exchange for Japans glory and they had to be stopped. Otherwise, their glory would've continued and it was worse than most nightmares.
One thing about the mobility in Gaza. There is a border because if not - October 7th would've happen on daily basis. This is the reason Israel has evacuated all jewish villages outside of Gaza in 2006. And from then hamas dictates Gaza to death of isralis and Palestinians
As a Muslim Arab who has lived in Israel for 5 generations, I must say that most of those who talk about the issue and do not live here do not understand anything and only feed on the media and social networks which is sad. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, the only place that offers complete freedom to Arabs as well to be what they want! I myself am a lawyer and my sister is a doctor in a hospital. Israel is the only place where you will be accepted both if you are gay and if you are a woman who wants to study and not stay at home to raise children As a Muslim I would not want to live in any country in the Middle East under a Muslim government because the safest country for Muslims in the region is Israel! Anyone who spouts nonsense based on things they have heard or seen in the media simply does not know what they are talking about
I just stumbled into this after watching a music reaction but okay I'll take a shot. Alex at 4:40: "This is not an issue of colonialism." See, when you say stuff like this and then say that you've done "research" on the subject, it makes me wonder what the heck kind of research you think you've done. Let's look at some passages from historian Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years War on Palestine: On March 1, 1899, mayor of Jerusalem Yusuf Diya wrote the following in a letter to the French chief rabbi Zadoc Kahn and Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism. He understood the motivations for Zionism, just as he deplored the persecution to which Jews were subject in Europe. In light of this, he wrote, Zionism in principle was “natural, beautiful and just,” and, “who could contest the rights of the Jews in Palestine? My God, historically it is your country!” However, the former mayor and deputy of Jerusalem went on to warn of the dangers he foresaw as a consequence of the implementation of the Zionist project for a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine. The Zionist idea would sow dissension among Christians, Muslims, and Jews there. It would imperil the status and security that Jews had always enjoyed throughout the Ottoman domains. Coming to his main purpose, Yusuf Diya said soberly that whatever the merits of Zionism, the “brutal force of circumstances had to be taken into account.” The most important of them were that “Palestine is an integral part of the Ottoman Empire, and more gravely, it is inhabited by others.” Palestine already had an indigenous population that would never accept being superseded. Theodore Herzl co-drafted a 1901 charter for the Jewish-Ottoman Land Company includes the same principle of the removal of inhabitants of Palestine to “other provinces and territories of the Ottoman Empire.” Herzl had previously written in his diary in 1895 (3 years before his first visit to Palestine): "We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Herzl also founded the Jewish Colonial Trust within the Zionist movement. In 1917, Arthur James Balfour stated that in Palestine, the British government did not “propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country.” The great powers were committed to Zionism, he continued, “and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.” In 1923, the Zionist Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky wrote: "“Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of ‘Palestine’ into the ‘Land of Israel.’” Jabotinsky also said "Zionist colonisation . . . can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population-behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach.” In Lenni Brenner's The Iron Wall, he also quotes Jabotinsky saying: "Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot-or else I am through with playing at colonization." Now from Illan Papper's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: "Eretz Israel, the name for Palestine in the Jewish religion, had been revered throughout the centuries by generations of Jews as a place for holy pilgrimage, never as a future secular state. Jewish tradition and religion clearly instruct Jews to await the coming of the promised Messiah at ‘the end of times’ before they can return to Eretz Israel as a sovereign people in a Jewish theocracy, that is, as the obedient servants of God (this is why today several streams of Ultra-Orthodox Jews are either non or anti-Zionist). In other words, Zionism secularised and nationalised Judaism. To bring their project to fruition, the Zionist thinkers claimed the biblical territory and recreated, indeed reinvented, it as the cradle of their new nationalist movement." From Arie Bober, ed., The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism: Chaim Weissman, president of the World Zionist Organization wrote: "In general West European Jewry thinks that the majority of East European Jewish youth belongs to the Zionist camp. Unfortunately, the contrary is true. The lion’s share of the youth is anti-Zionist, not from an assimilationist point of view as in West Europe, but rather as a result of their revolutionary mood. It is impossible to describe how many became the victims of police oppression because of membership in the Jewish Social Democracy-they are sent to jail and left to rot in Siberia; 5,000 are under state surveillance… and I am not speaking only of the youth of the proletariat…. Almost the entire Jewish student body stands firmly behind the revolutionary camp … and all this is accompanied by a distaste for Jewish nationalism which borders on self-hatred." Winston Churchill in a 1920 article called Zionism versus Bolshevism also very explicitly states that he sees Zionism as a really good way to lead left wing "international Jews" away from socialist organizations. I could probably go on pulling quotes, but let's skip ahead to your last question: what should be done at this point? The answer is what we've been yelling in the streets for the last month, and for several decades now. Free Palestine! End the Western support to Israel which artificially props up their state and instead support the creation of a secular state that offers Palestinian refugees the right of return and gives equal rights to everyone in its borders. Without apartheid, organizations like Hamas would have no reason to exist.
Hamas has claimed 100k militants 50-60k active and another 30-40k in reserve. Palestine claims 2 million population in gaza with 1m being kids. If 1 million are adults that means about 1/10 adults are actual hamas militants..
I absolutely loved this video, I myself have jewish heritage but am also indigenous australian and so I see pain and evil in both sides. Palestinians have a right to live under conditions far batter than an apartheid state. Israelis have a right to live without blood shed also. The human cost of this war is a lot of people on both sides who just want peace. Because a lot of civilians on both sides just want peace and prosperity for both parties.
@@royghosn18 As long as Hamas exists, there can be no change. They are simply terrorists whose goal is to wipe the Jews from the earth, and all other religions too.
no you are absolutely right there, there is a clear power imbalance and sadly Palestine lacks the power to enact the kind of change needed.@@royghosn18
@@royghosn18 They do not. Why? Because they did NOT instill themselves there. It was a choice the Brits made. And now Israel is paying for it. It's not like Israel is innocent in the things they've done. But to put all of this on them, is silly. Not to mention that the Arabs (other than the Emirates) have shown no reason to BE reasonable with Israel. Any and every reach for peace has been turned down. But as i've pointed out here in the comments. Arabs cannot do anything wrong, they've NEVER done anything wrong. Israel however, IS TRUE EVIL. Allahu akbar, Allah al salam. Israel = Shar.
You cannot take somebody’s land and then offer a piece of it as a peace offering
They don't even leave them live in peace in that piece of land, they treat them like they own them
There have jever been Palestine in history of the world
@@natashka1982 lol.
👏🏼 you get it. Common sense is unfortunately rare these days.
@@maisounhasan7738 if there was such thing as Palestine. Which isn't
I am a Palestinian. My family was displaced... in 1948... to Jordan. My grandmother walked from Palestine to Jordan on foot. Most of my family were killed, and those who survived left Palestine before being killed. I was born in Jordan, but I am Palestinian. They stole our homes and lands and killed our families.
I am Israeli, in 1948 my family fight against Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi, Jordan after the UN approve the land divide between israel/palestine.
The war was forced on Israel by all the Arabs countries that surrounded us.
Please tell me what was the purpose of the war?
Why all the arabs attacks us together?
❤❤ palestine 🇵🇸will be free inchaallah soon❤❤❤
You forget to mention that the land was both owned by jewish and arabs during the british mandate, the UN decided to split the land and the palestinians refused to because they wanted the whole land of israel, then they started a war in which they lost.
@@MistaAlon Maybe you forgot to mention that before the war more than millions of Palestinians were first driven from their land after the British left. Which caused refugees and therefore war.
You really thought they fought for nothing. Farmers were going to lose their jobs and their land to Jews who are mainly Europeans.
And question, since the Zionist state was supposed to be a project to be forgiven for anti-Semitic massacres by Europeans, why not give them European lands?
Besides, I'm sorry, who in the world would be happy to see a state created on land that belongs to you? It's as if I were asking the USA to create a country in the middle of Brazil for the Iraqis because they went to war on the basis of a lie. Do you think the Brazilians will agree?
@@MistaAlonZionist shill
I am from the Westbank exactly from Bethlehem where the Nativity church is and since I was a kid, I haven't felt safe I have always seen soldiers attacking Palestinian civilians and have always read the poets of Palestinian captives in the Israeli prison I just feel weak because they can do anything take our house take me to jail shoot me anytime. it is also not fair that I have to go to Jordan to use their airport because the old Palestinian airport was damaged by Israel. I deserve to feel safe in my own house and in my hometown streets. i deserve to travel using my country's airport! Why do we not have the right to move between cities like other countries?? Why do I have to feel stuck in my hometown? why do I need permission to enter Jerusalem and Haifa? Why do I not have the right to movement? it is hard to move from one city in the Westbank to another city also in the Westbank!
Thank you for sharing your experience of what life is like living in the West Bank. I’m so sorry this is reality for you.
you deserve to feel safe and be free to travel outside your town.
Because your area is full of terrorists and we don't want terrorists in Israel.
We already saw on 7th October what it is to let terrorists out of their wall and holocaust number two happened.
We also know there are thousands of hamas supporters and jihadis living in the west bank, mainly in Jenin Ramallah and Naplouse.
Security for Israeli people is more important than you wanting to be a tourist in tel aviv.
Hi, I'm from Tel Aviv, and I wish you'll have all your good desires in your life. For me, as an Israeli, I can't visit your city beitLehem, and If I would insist I would be easily killed. So this is a problem for both sides. If you'll have an airport, Iran could easily bring all their control and weapon to 3km from Israeli cities. Israel, unfortunately, cannot let that happen. I wish peace for both of us.
@@vcarter1365 i think you should first tell us why the jews created iran in the seventies iran was created by the jewsh in the east to stop islam which they hated because it was not what they expected they tought that a new jewish prophet will come but when they found out that it was a arab prophet your ancestors tryed everything to kill eve our prophets in the past so Almighty didn't let that happen to He's prophet..!
So your ancestors started after he's death working toghether with the persians and created from them a shia leader to destroy something that called islam all that started from because of you f jewsh you are so hatefull and you want to destroy islam like your ancestors tryed before. So stop your lies idiote.
@@vcarter1365Tell me why you have an airport and America brings you weapons
You do not have to be a Muslim to defend a Palestinian cause, and no matter how much you hate Arabs or any religion, we are all human beings and we have hearts. What we need is to see the truth and we all have humanity. We are human beings at the end, and there is a difference between right and wrong, the oppressor and the oppressed. Thank you, my brother, for this video.
I am a muslim, and saudi arabia, Quatar and other countries like that just make me wanna puke, i hate them. These are really shitholes. I life in germany and here if u say anything against israel u are anti-semitic. But what i am saying is Hamas is terrible, Israel is way worse, to be able to get peace (NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM) just for peace, you have to take out the Israel millitary and politic firat, because they are the bigger terrorist organisation, after that, you take out Hamas, and split the country half half, and have rules to provide attacking each other.
Because if you take out hamas first, there is literally nothing which can fight against israel on a military lv, from the palestinian side, which would cause israel to massacre the leftover palestinians and just take over gaza.
The issue why west world isnt seeing it that way is, because Israel is imposing as a Country, but they do terrorist acts for decades, and the west dosent care. While also israel is the only non muslim place down there, the west dosent want to lose any teritorial aspects in there and surrender all to muslims. Its such a disgrace as a human being to call israels actions self-defense. Same with china and the uygurs, also my ancestors, getting slaughtered... no one cares, i feel deep upsetness in my heart, with all these happening. ty for everyone who is supporting, and sorry for the rant
It's so clear that the rabid hatred for Palestinians by many western/European people has been conditioned from the mountain of propaganda we've been fed at least since 9/11. I had really hoped most people had snapped out of the fever dream that was the Iraq/Afghanistan war and realized the anti-muslim rhetoric was dangerous propaganda but now here we are again and I'm getting flashbacks to 2001.
I'm an atheist and I was at the Palestinian Solidarity March a couple of weeks ago.
I wouldn't want to live under a Muslim, Christian or Jewish regime.
However, this is about ordinary citizens undergoing a horrific assault.
My great grandmother and grandfather survived the holocaust. My mother in 1967 was attacked by a group of French men and they carved a swastika into her back which covers her entire back, so I am fully aware of the assault on people for no good reason.
And I find the use of the holocaust by Israelis repugnant- they seem to think that because something bad happened years ago they can keep using it as a justification for the atrocities they are committing. I have second cousins in Israel and they have this far right zionist views - which is why I haven't spoken to them in years.
There's a reason why entire Arab world hates Palestinians
Incredible! I hope one day, Palestine gets justice. They have been occupied so long brutally killed, taken from their land, controlled from the sea from the air and every where, and they have been resisting and they Cant even retaliate😢🥺😭
Fun fact: ancestorial DNA testing is illegal in Israel. Cause when they did it back then in controlled environment, the result came out that all those samples had the origin from France, Ukraine, Hungary, Germany etc. No Canaanites. While the sample from the current ppl of Palestine are all originated from Canaanites. Cause of this issue they made that type of DNA testing illegal.
Wrong. It's illegal because such test can prove that a child was a product of an adultery, and thus cause lots of problems afterwards.
What BS there is enough lies flying around why add more
Where is your sources this is not true
@@funneverends1991 just Google it, 'Ancestorial DNA test illegal in Israel ' . You will even find some Wikipedia articles. Ofc you will need to do more research to find the reason why it's illegal, cause the Wikipedia just says something like 'it's so the people don't use it against the Israeli government'
@@nahaloz1816 read this on Wikipedia. It's a fact, not BS.
Legends say that Piers wakes up everyday in the middle of the night screaming “Do you condemn the terrorist attack by Hamas on October the 7th?”
Do you?
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Apparently, you don't. Or do you?
Boss: good morning, piers. How are you today?
Piers: Do you condemn the attack on the 7th of October?
While denying obvious atrocities happening to the Palestinians way before Oct 7th.
I would just like to say that Israel having a religious right to Gaza is objective. And NOWHERE else in the world should we hold religious right to land as credible. AND even if we were to go along with the claim that Jews have a religious right to the land, Jews were living in Palestine for thousands of years many converted to Christianity, many converted to Islam, and many obviously preserved their Jewish faith. And right up until 1948 with the Declaration of the "State of Israel" where 1 million Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their land, with reports of thousands of massacres all throughout Palestine, there were STILL many Arab Jews living there which are the Jews that had been historically there for thousands of years. As Bassem pointed out the Zionist movement and the immigration of Jews from Europe, was just that, A European problem. And to somehow suggest that European Jews have a claim to Palestinan land is ludocrus.
100%🔥
I think you meant the right is subjective (not objective)? I am baffled by the number of abjectly false "statements" he made as the 3 pros and cons on both sides. It's like he listened to CNN, read some WP articles, threw in some US propaganda and claimed them as facts. His claim of skimming the surface is translation for staggering ignorance and a racist take (Israel didn't let the Palestinians flourish and Palestinians built a terror state....dude your bias is showing)
So religion is a basis for a right to displace and kill a nation, but when an Arab mentions holy wars, it's all whooaa? Don't the Muslims and Christians then have the same right to the land since they all stem from the same Abrahamic faith?
To claim that a group has a right to a land based on their religion and because they were there thousands of years ago is the height of hypocrisy for a bunch of Americans sitting in on land that Native Americans inhabited before them and had religious connections to.
If he had actually done any research he would have learned that every effort at peace and two state solution has been sabotaged by Israel since the very beginning. There was never any good faith intention at peace or a two-state solution. Israeli far right assassinated their own PM when he tried the two state solution in the 90s. The mass exodus plans of the Palestinians that are now being leaked are apparently a copy paste of the same plans from the 1960s that they never gave up on. I feel like my brain will break in two when trying to take in the number of lies Israel has made since 1967. They have denied every attack they started, constructed elaborate lied and only admitted to them when evidence from investigations gave them no other options. Up until last year they killed a journalist and lied about it.
He should have stuck to reacting to music.
this is a genuine question, i thought that muslims and christians have the same connection to that land anyway because they’re all abrahamic religions? please help
Exactlyyy
@@anneonymous9680 absolutely Muslims Christians and Jews had ties to the land and lived there together historically in relative peace under the custodianship of the Muslims for roughly a little over a thousand years in fact when the Muslims first took over Jerusalem the leader at the time (Caliph Omar) was shocked that there was no Jews and invited Jews back into Jerusalem after they were expelled by the Romans. Muslims also welcomed influxes of Jewish refugees during the Spanish Inquisition and the Holocaust. These are all historical facts feel free to verify on your side as well.
I am an old fan to your channel, and as an Egyptian, I have to admit that Bassem used to employ his genius genuine sarcastic capabilities against the corruption and political failures conducted by local regimes till they kicked off his ass outside the country.
This guy delivered what our arab leaders faild to do, you have to watch the second interview, literally it's a historical educational interview.
The second interview was just perfect.
The second interview is literally what Bassem wanted it to be, a literal “historical reference” to the ppl that don’t know shit bout the conflict, and he did it in a perfect way, and as an Arab myself (Saudi) i agree, the Arab leaders definitely failed to do what Bassem did and that’s rly sad.
@@ik6wh As an Egyptian, I completely feels what you saying and I agree with it 90%.. the 10% disagree would come to "Arab leaders definitely failed to do what Bassem did."
Leaders deal with these issues in a total different way, they don't need to explain the conflict and it's history because time won't allow that and time is important during a crisis. They did mention that it didn't start on Oct. 7th, but overall they are being too soft dealing with this issue and with NO EXCEPTION!
In the sense of agreement, unfortunately our leaders are mentality weak since long time ago. Cutting relations temporary - at least - with Israel doesn't break their peace treatments.. Begging for a ceasefire over and over is useless.. Egypt should not close the boarders and send army members with the aids 24/7 and it won't be against Israel in any sense of a threat - It's Gaza, a Palestinian land, right?! This will corner Israel a bit to not drop bombs on them.. unless.. eh, a new conflict but this time is with Egypt?! 🤔 Arab leaders should has used the tone of anger a long time ago in their speeches.. The need to man up.. FFS just realizing that we're almost a month in this makes me so angry!
Peace and love to all.
@@itsmidorabie we’re literally not disagreeing on anything ur spitting facts actually, we’re on the same boat and may god free Palestine.
@@itsmidorabie and what i meant with my statement was that Bassem did more than they ever did to the conflict and to the Palestinians, u just didn’t understand my point correctly.
before I finish, I just want to point out some mistakes in the video, all the peace treaties did not offer the Palestinians a right to have their own government , and also they control the water and food supplies and electricity for Palestine, and lastly in 22 sept 2023 Bibi Netanyahu brought to the UN a map of the " new Middle East" without Palestine before the attack his aim was very clear.
Yes the claim that the Palestinian was "offered" a 2 state solution which they vehemently reject was never true. No such offers were made.
exactly, israel never signed the oslo accords because it would stablish borders. israel's been stealing palestinian lands since 1948... all he has to do is google "nakba" and youre done. israel has no claim on that land other than religious matter, and if it is relevant, so do all monotheistic religions.
glad to see comments calling out misinformation, i was concerned they would all be pro-zionist
@@Dolphinator1999 tbf some of us are former pro Israeli. So we heard 2 sides of the argument. The propaganda runs deep so it's good that people are seeing through these Zionists' lies. I also used to believe the human shield talking point that propagandist like Shapiro uses, it's silly to think about it in retrospect. They bombed an Associated Press buildings claiming there were weapons there, then they continued to leveled schools, hospitals and has now graduated to bombing ambulances and shooting journalists. That's how bold face these Zionist Terrorist are.
The Palestinians elected their own govt in 2005 I think and elected Hamas. Hamas hasn't allowed an election since.
Thank you for taking the time and watching this trying to learn more about the issue! Please also watch round 2 between Bassem and Piers, it’s a completely different energy and I guarantee you’d learn much more there.
I’m glad that you’re feeling so open and willing to stop and talk about things that seriously matter and need to be addressed! I admire you.
Did Alex just missed Bassem's point? "Hamas did fucked up shit, Israel did fucked up shit."... There's no Hamas in West Bank, what's your excuse to do horror in West Bank. Piers Morgan couldn't answer that and apparently Alex complete ignored it.
There is lots of Hamas in the West Bank. In the Palestinian Legislative Council all 9 of the members for Hebron, 5 of the 6 for Shchem/Nablus, 4 of the 5 for Ramallah, 2 of the 3 for Tulkarm, 2 of the 4 for Bethlehem, 2 of the 4 for Jenin, the only member for Salfit and the only member for Tubas are all Hamas. The mayor of Al-Bireh is Hamas. 25 of the 51 representatives on the Birzeit University Student Council are Hamas, a plurality. Hamas member, Abed el-Qader Qawasmeh (the son of the former head of Hamas's military arm in Hebron), along with 2 other Hamas members from Hebron, killed an Israeli soldier and attempted to kill and injured 5 others (from a car containing two M16 rifles, two pistols, about 10 loaded magazines, hundreds of additional bullets, two axes and fake uniforms resembling those of the Israeli military), before being killed themselves on the way to attempt a mass shooting in Jerusalem in November. The "West Bank" military wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. Arin al-Usud operates entirely out of "the West Bank" and is funded by Hamas.
And who said there is no Hamas in the West Bank. It’s very possible that there is. Most Palestinians are disguised as Hamas officials and the Israeli intelligence knows where to find them which is probably why they attacked the West Bank. Listen war is war. What happens in war stays in war. It’s tragic and it’s fucked up but it is ultimately the only option. Israel has a right to defend itself because they engaged in the war. If Israel doesn’t defend themselves Hamas proves their point and wins. That they can manipulate a country to doing what they want. Yes there are issues with how Israel is leading this war and the decisions they are making. No war is good and on both sides there are bad decisions that are made. It is because it is critical. It is very easy to call out who is right and wrong when you are not even in the conflict watching the media drinking piña coladas at the beach. There is more to it than that. The truth is that the news want to manipulate your perspective and make you sympathize for Hamas which is ultimately the problem here. Again Israel as a country and as a nation of the Jewish people is not and it never was. There was a time when Arabs and Jews lived in peace. Then Hamas and isis and hezboullah came over and indoctrinated and manipulated new generations to believe in their sick ideology of destroying the state of Israel and the annihilation of the Jews. If there was no Hamas and government the people would be different and this is how they would have peace. But since Hamas has already manipulated a lot of innocent Palestinians, it is one of the hardest conflicts to fight. The problem is that people are not putting themselves in the shoes of the Palestinians and the Israeli’s.
I completely agree with Bassem Youssef, He is honest and brave ❤
I see hurt in his eyes then he talked about 6 year old getting stabbed. Its even worse then you hear details. That boy didnt know what was going on so he hugged the old man 😢. The boy looked up to him it was his safe nest. Imagine being betrayed like that. It stopped my heart and never left my mind
Life will never be the same.
One thing that is important for people to remember is that it's possible to denounce the actions of the Israeli government without being antisemitic.
The Israeli people and Jews everywhere are not to blame here. It's their government and their military.
Blame - they were attacked. They are retaliated - it is war. It is all on Gaza for letting Hamas rule. This guy is a charlatan.
First of all zionists are secular not religious. Second, they are not ethnic Jews. They are from the tribe of Amelek from the line of Edom/Esau. They are imposters.
obviously. the problem begins when zionists start weaponizing antisemitism into silencing anyone that doesn't agree with their policies. "you don't think what israel is doing is right? oh, so you want all jewish people to cease to exist!" which is something the state of israel and everyone who agrees with the genocide and ethnic cleansing its committing has been doing for years now and it's so deeply rooted into the western society and media. anything has become antisemitic in the last 3 weeks and it's making islamophobia run rampant in the western society (that's been demonizing muslims and arabs for over 2 decades now).
Yup truth. There's just as much Jews and Israeli that's against Zionism. So saying it's antisemitic is just not correct. Furthermore the Palestinians and Arabs are more semitic than these European Jews.
Same thing with the Palestinians, But why killing one is justified and the other is not.
Good gods. I’m only 5 minutes in and yelling at my screen.
Yes. You absolutely need to do loads of research to form a balanced opinion on this…Critical thinking skills are a must here though and a lot of people don’t have it.
I have been doing so for several years now.
Reading history books, articles, talking to Palestinians both here and in Gaza.
So when you said “It’s not about colonialism” my head almost exploded.
It ABSOLUTELY IS.
It’s basically the same damn thing we did from the 15th century on when America was “discovered”. There were already millions of indigenous people here but because Europeans saw themselves as superior to the “savages” we just took what we felt we deserved.
That was ethnic cleansing. That was genocide. And the very definition of colonialism.
* sigh *
Colonized by whom? By the same indigenous Jewish people whom where colonized, murdered and expelled?
My grandmother and her family were almost killed by the Arabs in 1929, way before the state of Israel was re-established.
@@GilTheCohen Dude…after WW2 Europe tried to figure out what to do with the surviving jews and picked Palestine to split up and give to them. It wasn’t necessary at all. Again, jews, christians and muslims had already been living there TOGETHER for thousands of years. There was no need for 750k Palestinians to be violently uprooted and forced into these ever shrinking bits of land. And there sure as hell wasn’t a need to massacre whole villages in the process.
One group’s trauma does not give them the green light to do a similar thing to others.
The Israeli government has been crystal fucking clear about their intentions. Especially Bibi. They don’t see the Palestinians as equal humans and they want them gone. They’ve been playing the long game and Oct. 7th was the excuse they were looking for to finish the job. Whether they flee to Sinai or die…they don’t care.
And this entire thing has fostered this gross sense of superiority in part of the Israeli population too. For literal decades zionist extremists have been having watch parties to celebrate the bombs going off in Gaza. Calling them animals that need to be exterminated.
This whole thing has never been about jews being persecuted. It’s just groups of men making power moves to assert dominance and comparing dick sizes…and opportunistic settlers taking advantage of the situation to go on their own little power trips.
So a population that keeps on growing from 1.2 mil in 1948 (700,000 of whom came between 1914-1948) to over 7.5 million is ethnic cleansing? Cus those are the numbers of the Arab population ”between the river and the sea”.
If so, the Jews don’t know how to do it so well…. You see, when an actual genocide against the Jews happened in 1939-1945, the population went down from nearly 16.75 million people worldwide. You know how many Jews live goats, more than 80 years after? 16.1 million. That’s a genocide.
@@GilTheCohen You are so full of crap! Yes, the pathetic israelis are colonizers! They are NOT indigenous to the land contrary to what your book of fairy tales says.
Go check the part 2 of this interview with bassem you'll understand why this is happening
I wonder how Piers asks the question about "PEACE" between the Oppressor and and Oppressed. Isn't that something that happens between two equally independent entities?
There is a new basseem youssef interview, piers literally flew to do it. And basseem is AMAZING there
I would really recommend you to read scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappe and Norman Finkelstein to get a more nuanced perspective.
Also, you said this wasn't an issue about colonialism. I just want to point out that even Theodor Herzl, the father of modern zionism, himself described the idea of Israel as a colony. This was at the time when most people didn't really consider colonialism as something bad, though.
I'd also recommend you to read more about the nakba.
Have a great day 😊
I'd also like to thank you for being so open minded!
And another thing. I would recommend you to google the Balfour Declaration (1917) to see how Britain gave away land that wasn't theirs to give to begin with. Also, the only Jewish member of the cabinet at the time (Edwin Samuel Montagu) opposed the declaration. The idea of the Balfour declaration was antisemitic. Arthur Balfour (who was the one pushing for the creation of a Jewish state) had described Jews as "an alien and hostile people" and he also sponsored legislation to keep Jewish refugees out of the UK.
Ah yes... Noam Chomsky.
The billiant man who claims the Holocaust never existed...
Very good choice.
Yeah, I agreed with a lot of his points, but starting off the conversation claiming this isn't about colonialism is willfully ignoring a giant portion of the issue.
@@grasshopperye3593 i agree!
I love how everyone that talks about "Israel has the right to defend itself" always making it sound like Hamas is the one who has all the power and military and Israel the one that is living in an open air-prison 😅
The math isn't mathing
“History is the study of all the world’s crime.”
Voltaire, French writer and philosopher (1694-1778)
He is extremely sarcastic because of the immense pain he is in . Violence perpetuates more violence period. we need to stop this madness 😢3700 children are way to much a price to pay for the political , religious or any other issue or conflict .
Just wanna point out, that Israel offered peace with taking the lands and never give back an inch of the land to palestanian. So how they can offer peace and taking the lands in the same time 😅
Wrong. Since 2005 there was not a single Israeli in Gaza. The area was "liberated". Now we see what they did with this land.
@@konstantinmuhin4813 How it is liberated and Israel controls the water, food, entry, exit? And It is obvious for any single person who have a quick search in history, he will know easily how Israel occupied Palestine. Imagine that happens to your country? What you will react?
Moral of the ongoing story is that there is an apartheid, racist state, that’s treating the same indigenous people of the land that welcomed them with warm hands during ww1 and ww2, as second class citizens. It’s like inviting someone to your house, then they over time they force you to live in the attic and then expect you not to reclaim your house back 😃
Just like when the fled to Jordan and assassinated the king or in Egypt causing all sorts of issues. You ever stop and think why ALL the surrounding areas WILL NOT ALLOW Palestinians to come across their border. They must be peaceful if that's the case.
Impressive analysis. Such a complex history all summed up into a few sentences. However, it seems that if your description were a fair representation, nearly everyone would with agree with you, and they don’t.
By that logic, the USA is a an apartheid state.
And also... which warm hands were those?
The ones that helped Nazis capture jews for their own benefit?
Seems like there's some selective history choices thought by whatever school you've been to.
Or i guess they simply forgot how most of Arabia (seemingly including your beloved "Palestine") supported Nazi germany.
Are those the warm, blood covered hands that aided the result of the holocaust you speak of?
Cause i DO believe they were quite warm.
That's pretty much the extent of the truth here.
I will remind you of a very funny quote from Hitler himself...
"The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France".
And also you conveniently leave out the British involvement in all of this.
It seems like every Muslim is scared of talking about them.
But it's fairly obvious why.
It would shift blame.
Can't have that when all of your existence is revolved around hating a certain group of people :)
So do not use a word such as "moral" when pretty much your entire existence is to be "immoral".
Israel has no claim on land, if you say that, native Americans have claim on America, Aboriginals have claim on Australia, Māori have claim on New Zealand, Portugal and Spain were one country, Pakistan and India should join back together, Russia could take back a lot of the eastern block of Europe, the only claim they have is what England gave them after the Second World War after giving money to Britain for the war effort, wealthy Jewish families have funded many English wars including the Napoleonic war
Everyone is encouraged to watch the latest video between the same Piers Morgan vs Bassem Youssef on Piers Morgan Uncensored. Watch those containing to have the clear idea on the issue
Can you imagine somebody coming to your door and saying that 2000 years ago their ancestors lived there and that therefore they now have a right to your house and land. International law at that time did not agree that that was legal and they still don't today.
Alex, I want you to put your attorney hat on. You say there is good and bad on both sides. Certainly there has been bad on both sides, but good, I don’t agree. If you meant good PEOPLE on both sides, I’m with you. However, the question is who has the power in the country? Israel. I don’t think anyone will dispute that. As far as accountability, when you are in a position of power, you’re responsible for your citizens and constituents. With that being said, in the beginning you said Israel has done good things: 1. Israel has a claim to the land. That is not considered a “good” thing. If that is your believe then that is simply historical fact. 2. The land which is held by the Palestinians is “the center of the Israeli religion”. When did this become about religion? The only time religion is mentioned is Orthodox Jews and you can see for yourself how they view the conflict. 3. They have a right to peace. I totally agree with you that all humans should have that right. Again, I don’t see any of these points as a “good” thing. My question is what “good” things has Israel done to/for the Palestinians to promote and maintain peace since 1948? I’m not asking as a “gotcha” question. I genuinely want to know what your findings are.
Just an important FYI - Israel isn't the governing body in Gaza since 2005, when Israel left Gaza in a one sided decision in order to gain peace.
In 2006 and 2007 Hamas were elected by the over 65% of the people in Gaza and since then, they killed members of the PLO and PA in order to keep control of the land.
@@sagipisti123 From this perspective, you are still too zoomed in to see the problem. Israel is still in control of the region. Hamas was elected to be a representative for the people, not rule the land. If they were in control like you claim, they would be able to build ports, freely travel to establish relationships with other nations, have an embassy, etc. I think we can all agree that if you are an elected official without the basic governing principles such as attending summits with other countries, you are not in charge. Side note, in order to even be alive when the election was held you would have to be 17 years old. Not to mention an additional conservative 15 years to actually be old enough to vote. So we are looking at roughly anyone aged 32 or older potentially voted during the 2006 election. If 50% of the population is under 17, and let’s assume another 25% from 17-32 years old, we’re left with 25% of the people currently there voting in the election. That does not include anyone who has been killed in the 17 years since the election. To say they were elected would be the same as telling American teenagers “well you guys voted for George W Bush”.
Lets say you're correct, Hamas as the rulers of Gaza were given billions of dollars including from the UN, USA, Qatar and you guessed it... Israel - where did all of that money went? Answer - went building terror infrastructure. Why are the palestinians so poor? Answer - money went to the leaders pockets. Why are Hamas leaders not in Gaza? and are hiding in Qatar, Turkey and other muslim countries? Answer - They want to keep the palestinians oppresed, so they'd continue leeching money and living in luxury while their people suffer.
I congratulate you Alex for taking the time to discuss this situation in the way that you did. Respectfully, realistically, honestly and with actual concern.
Good to see you so passionate about this conflict. All people should know what is going on in the world.
Its not complicated. 1 side stole land from the other and oppressed them.
When exactly israel stole the land?
@@ilpsoldier8092 Google Nakhba and Deir Yassin 1948.
@@GrumpX i googled and it writes that UN divide the land between israeli and palestine, then the arabs world not happy with so they attack the israel.
So when israel stole the lands?
Its not complicated. You lose a war you yourself started, you get oppressed and have give land to the winner.
@@baronhelmut2701 You can't whitewash history in the internet age. Zionists started the violence first in 1948 and continue oppressing until today.
I haven't finished your video yet, but I already can say I appreciate your reaction stressing that people need to research.
everyone should start researching by the word "nakba". thats the begining of everything.
@@COLDASHELL_BEATS
I think one has to go back in time much further, in order to understand why Nakbah was possible to take place at all.
In my opinion, the Balfour Declaration was, and still is, one of the most controversial documents. By writing it, the British gave land to Jews that wasn`t theirs to give.
@@lechat8533 exactly
@@COLDASHELL_BEATS The beginning goes much further back than Nakba.
But sure... let's focus on the evils of ONE side.
Because, as we know... Arabs have NEVER done anything wrong. Right?
They are so pure.
The irony is that he also needs to do more research...very obvious when he said "this isn't about colonialism"
I absolutely love your reaction , I highly recommend watching round 2 of this interview, bassem youssef made a lot of good and interesting points in both interviews and I would love to hear your thoughts on it
Love people who stop and think and don't take whatever the media says.
The best humans
Quote from UN special reporter: "Israel cannot claim the right of self-defense against a threat that emanates from the territory it occupies. From a territory that is kept under belligerent occupation."
@46:17 Did anyone catch Jeremy while he is nodding with his head refusing to take any questions from Bassem and based on it Piers finished the interview with Bassem
I'm glad you reached to this, Dr Bassem is the GOAT!
Occupied people have the right to resist by any means available to them, including armed struggle.
No nation has the right to exist in a state of apartheid.
That comment about temporary tent cities immediately made me think about the film District 9 (worth a watch if you haven't reacted to it already Alex). I won't pretend to know what the solution is for conflicts like this. It's easy to think that one or both sides can take a moral high ground and negotiate or compromise but in reality these issues are so deep rooted. I hope some solution is found for the sake of the civilian population on both sides.
Thank you, Alex for bringing this message to us.
Didn’t know you did heavy shit like this and I really appreciate it.
Great reaction. Highly recommend you also watch the Round 2 interview between them. 2 hours long, but it goes in depth on a lot of issues.
Dear Alex two simple key words and then it's up to you to do the research : Occupation vs resistance.
* also Arab Canaanites lived 4 thousands years ago in Palestine which is way before the existence of Jews. I appreciate that you are tackling this issue bravely... but I believe you need to dig deeper and be open to another narrative. all the respect.
Wow! You have an interesting ancestry 😆 I really appreciate that you reacted to the whole interview. Also, I suggest you check the 1948 Plan Dalet, too. It explains a lot of things. Also, you have to check the second Piers Morgan and Bassem Yousef’s interview. Although it’s long, but it’s incredibly informative
yes that's true
KUDOS to you, Alex! RESPECT!
I think that the current geopolitical situation is extremely demanding, weird, and nerve-wracking for most of us.
The leaders of the Collective West are playing with our lives, our future like little children who haven`t got a clue what is actually going on. They are using heavily loaded words without understanding their meaning and the consequences they may provoke and bring.
Those in power lack natural intelligence, true education, political and historical knowledge, rhetorical skills, negotiating skills, respect and empathy for others, humility, and wisdom.
They brought us to the edge of WWIII. And here we are, looking into the darkest pit of our lifetime.
They are killing innocent unarmed people, babies, and little children without any regrets or sorrow.
Right in the open, in front of our very eyes, Mass Murder is being committed and the US is financing it and the rest of the Collective West is watching and supporting it.
NOBODY IS STOPPING IT!
That`s how Nazi Germany looked in the 1930s, and nobody said anything, did anything.
In the middle of the streets, innocent Jews, Jippsies, and invalids had been ridiculed, belittled, tortured, and beaten. All that under the laughing faces of many (not all) Germans.
When WWII finally ended, the whole world was asking how it could come to that.
Sons, daughters, and grandchildren have been asking for decades, "What did you do to help those poor people?"
Now it`s our turn to SAY SOMETHING, to DO SOMETHING!
Now is not the time TO BE QUIET!
At the very least, we should INFORM OURSELVES & LEARN MORE, just like you said!
And then, we should start ASKING (THE RIGHT) QUESTIONS and ACT ACCORDINGLY!
Thank you for addressing the big pink elephant in the room.
Thank you, Alex!
U know sister that two days ago israel bombed the second oldest church in the world in palstine and before this church they bombed a hospital belongs to church and the two places are in fire
And many palestinians Christians and muslims are dying
It’s not a war between jews and Muslims it’s between jews and all non jews people
U can see easily before 7 of October israelians fighting any Christian human they see and also muslims
In the same time Christian countries are supporting Israel
Fuck Europe fuck America
hello. im a palestinian guy who has lived in the west bank n i do indeed have some experience about it all n know what exactly been happening. and just to let you know about the peace in west Jerusalem u talked about. the west bank agreed to it. however, israelis kept on jailing kids and people and still controlled all jerusalem and never left palestinians alone. i lived that experience and actually lost alot of family members bc of it. another thing i dont see the media talking about which is an event that happened recently where israel told gaza civilians to evacuate to the borders and proceeded to bomb them on the way there. this happened before they cut the food n the water on gaza.
You know what, it seems so complicated because its Palestine and Israel. Try to truly imagine that its Russia and Ukraine or its the US that is experiencing what Palestine experienced in 1948. It is really not that complicated -the retaliation that happened on the 7th October. Its a tragedy, but you cannot expect people to be civil when they live in appalling oppressed condition for decades. How can you expect Palestinians to just accept living like this, because believe me, you wouldn't.
Mad respect for you on covering this sensitive issue. And also, welcome to the unsolved conflict since 1948. This is a quite a spiderweb of a topic you're dipping in here.
Oh wow haven’t come across your videos in a long while. So glad you did a reaction to this
4:17 it is colonialism - Ghaza and the West Bank are literally called the occupied territories
The "you are one of the good one" line was lowkey genius, especially delivered on the fly. That's the phrase white people would say about black people back in the day, it's like saying "you are an exception, but we both know these folks are savage, but I'm glad with you, look at you how you are different from those subhumans".
It also plays into the desperate need of every one of these despicable media personalities to want to appear as if they're on the "right side" of every controversial issue in history because they know they've always lacked basic morality when spewing "facts" on air. They know deep down the bs atrocities enabling "facts" they're broadcasting to millions of viewers in their massively influential positions are actually just biased opinions/interpretations of the wealthy people behind the camera signing these media personalities' paychecks, thus lining their pockets with millions of dollars in blood money.
The networks/hosts so desperately wants to portray an image that makes the audience they're subliminaly trying to influence feel as if they've always been on the right side of every topic so even if they've said some terribly consequential things in the past, calling them out on it in front of their audiences will automatically trigger a defensive reaction from the interviewer along with the executives behind-the-scenes (who are sometimes yelling directly into their earpieces to rebuke the interviewee's comments) then spin their words into a narrative that make the network/channel look "morally good". Then they quickly pivot to another topic before the audience can realize they just glossed over a ton of the negative, but factual and correct, things the interviewee just said about them.
In my opinion, the best way to breakthrough this is to do it exactly how Bassem did. Just agree with them and say "no, you're one of the good guys," to publicly ease their consciences in front of their audiences/viewers then let the audience stop and think for themselves whether or not the interviewer has been one of the "morally good" sources of information in the past before allowing them to half-heartedly counter your facts then pivot to a different topic, which seems to have become second-nature to some of the personalities including Piers.
The look on their faces after you agree with them instead of trying to argue is my favorite cause you can visibly see they aren't prepared for this and now need to let the speaker continue the dialogue they just unsuccessfully tried to interrupt. They always look like they need a moment to process what just happened and regain their thoughts 😂
In 2022 the UN General Assembly passed 15 resolutions condemning Israel. In the same year there was one on Iran, one on Syria, one on North Korea. Every year there have been double digit resolutions condemning Israel. Over the years there have been hundreds. The Palestinian authority has never been Condemned by the UN.
Bassem: Whats the gentleman's name ? Pierse: Jeremy BORING ( not an innocent question at all haha )
😂😂 yes
Settlers have been killing Palestinian villagers even before 7/10.
Israelis them selves noticing the increase of right wingers. Just look at who Netanyahu has placed in ministrial position. Ben Gvir was exempt from the IDF not because of injury but fear of his blood lust.
Israeli had been protesting Netanyahu before 7/10. He was investigated for corruption...
In regards to Palestinians experience, it's apartheid. Separate policing, Judiciary discipline, Checkpoints, Building Permit delays or denials. The only Palestinians with weapons are Hamas. While Israel have equipped Settlers. One of the reasons why IDF weren't able to respond, was they were busy keeping an eye on settlers.
No Hamas in the WestBank, no weapons, yet Palestinians killed.
The discrimination they experiencing is very much like South Africa and Jim Crow era.
Btw children are in prison for throwing stones.
Look into Tom Hurdall, Rachel Corrie death.
Also your grandparents would be looked at with a side eye, they would be forced through different routes. The right wing want to stop such marriage.
In Hebron, there are streets that have been cut off for Palestinians. Roads they had businesses in.
Let's also remember the weapons being used in Gaza. Check what white Phosphorus is. The Israeli response was they didn't sign the agreement to not use it.
If you want to watch an old documentary about the nakba, Tantura is a recording of Israeli veterans talking about what happened.
Louis Theroux Ultra Zionist documentary. The shady way homes are taken..
They just did an almost 2 hour interview expansion on this.
According to Ilan Pappe, Israeli Historian who did Phd by studying Israel's declassified document in 1980, Palestine-Israel IS Settler- Colonialism issue akin to America, Canada, Australia treatment to respective natives. It also similar to what British done to many of its colonies.
My only criticism of you is you did not mention the issue in the West Bank. Israel illegally occupies the West Bank and years after year increased its force displacement of Palestinians to build illegal settlements. Both the occupation and settlements are against countless UN resolutions.
3:05 i wanted to say first that I appreciate that you are going through this logically, i regard to the area c issue, it's like that in order to protect Israelis, Jews and arabs alike from terrorists that often come in from the west bank or the Gaza strip
Sadly this conflict is truly Biblical. It goes back thousands of years and may never be truly settled. Jerusalem is home to three of the world's major religions, and that's an oversimplification in and of itself.
Actually its not. Jews and Muslims lived together peacefully for centuries before the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This is a colonial issue.
Only diseases can rival
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@@samnabawy2731 I'm asking earnestly, are you serious?
@@ThirdFoot Beyond serious. I'm from that region and have studied this conflict for years.
@@samnabawy2731 "Our land" argument? you mean the overwhelming pile of rock that Israelis ACTUALLY turned into something instead of the nothing those that lived there for decades? As soon as that happened all those surrounding it were VERY interested in taking it over.
Okay, this may help:
Saying the whole thing started when Hamas got up out of nowhere and attacked Israel is like saying when the black slaves rebelled against their masters the story started then. Like the poor masters were sitting quietly in their homes and then suddenly the slaves attacked them without provocation. No, that would be ludicrous because the slaves were owned and used as slaves. So attacking the masters was a rebellion. Many other stories of resistance can be applicable to this. So like the Palestinian although they are not slaves they are occupied by Israel. Which means they are in an open-air prison. They have no rights, no say or control of their own lives. They are not allowed to leave as Israel controls their movements too. Why do you think Israel is able to turn off water, power, and food to the Palestinians? Because they control Gaza. The Palestinians have no rights in their own land. Even Nelson Mandela called Israel an apartheid state. Please google it. The African Union are against Israel’s apartheid state. It is 2023 a country can not occupy a people and then complain that the people are rebelling against them. Please guys do some research.
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“Groceries are dick high!” I fell out of my chair, f***ing hilarious 😂.
It is colonialism and to try to deny that is extremely ignorant at best. It's not _only_ colonialism, but you cannot deny that it IS a part of the issue. You cannot compare both sides equally when: one side has the support of Western powers such as the U.S. and the U.K. while the other side does not; one side can control the water and electricity and fuel and agriculture and fishing of the other side; one side has an army while the other does not...i could go on.
Justice is a prerequisite for peace.
You must see round 2
It will clear a lot to you
It’s a sad time for both of these peoples. And it’s sad that it’s been going on for a thousands of years. The amount of violence and hurt that this conflict has caused. I do know that hamas is the main cause of the October 7th event, but this war has been going on for thousands of years, long before the 1940s. And the cause of this conflict isn’t just political. It is religious. Hamas is an extremist Islamic Palestinian organization. Israel is prominently Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Here’s the kicker. Abraham (a figure from ancient biblical times) is the patriarchal ancestor of the three groups. He fathered two children. One was Isaac, the father of Jacob who became the origin of the Israelite/Jewish people (with some later becoming Christian during the ancient New Testament times). The other son was Ishmael, who was the ancestor of a broad group of Arab people but he was also a direct ancestor of the founder of Islam, Muhammad. The Israelites and the Ishmaelites have always fought against each other, both in various biblical literature whether that is the Hebrew Bible, Christian Bible (including the New Testament with the old), Quran or other various literature originating to ancient times up to the present. Nowadays, it is Israel (aka Israelites) and the extreme Islamist groups (aka Hamas etc) who are “fighting” over the land and such. Yes, not all Arabs (including Palestine) are “bad” people. Not all Palestinians are “bad” people. And not all Israelites are “good” people. But the land of Canaan (that is, the land ancient Israel conquered thousands of years ago) always belonged to the Israelite people. Did the descendants of Ishmael live in that land? Quite possibly. But the land always belonged to Israel. Did it get taken away? Yes. They gotten taken away by Assyrians and Babylonians and other foreign nations. Did they get it back? Yes, they did, time and time again. The land has always been Israel’s. I do believe that Palestinians and Israelites can live there! By all means! But Israel and those who practice the Jewish faith have had a longer claim to govern the land for thousands of years whereas any other people can only testify a few centuries at least. And yes, I understand that there is so much more to this than meets the eye. These are just facts that everyone forgets about or doesn’t know. Of course, some who read this may not be religious or of these three faiths, but their scriptures shed light on so much more. All three faiths including non-practicing individuals who are ethnic Israel or Arab have the right to live there. However, ethnic Israel has the right to govern that land, and Hamas is a threat to that. The Palestinians who are not part of hamas are not the threat. Just Hamas. Regardless, I pray for all these people whether Arab or Israel.
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Dam bro. I found you movie reacts channel a few days ago and I’ve been binging and just randomly saw this. I didn’t expect you’d address this as well. Respect to you
Bassem Youssef led us to your channel, and I've got to say, you are a curious mixture of Freddie Mercury, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dannie Richmond (Charles Mingus' drummer).
It's the SDJ glasses. lol
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2:11 return to 1948 borders. as determined by the UN
2:33 Israel committed genocide and seized the Palestinian territory
If you look into the issue more deeply, you will find that it is an issue of settler colonialism and an apartheid regime, not a conflict between two countries
i need to make you understand something alex.
Israel has never engaged a peace offer without a fight they never gave a piece of a land without a fight.
that's why the arab and Palestinian understand that this country will never see them as people and give them there land.
I like the fact that you are the only TH-camr who went to research before reacting to the interview 👏🏻
Which is not the case for 99.9% of western TH-camrs.
Alex, i love this video. Keep doing stuff like this from time to time. ❤
You should watch the newest interview with Piers and Bassem, its very informative in my opinion.
To those people who judge the whole conflict by what happened in October 7th... i just wanna tell you one thing and let it sink, when you get sick, you treat the root cause of the disease, you don't just treat the system, that how it gets worse.
What peace are you talking about? 74 years ago Israel didn't even exist. There was only Palestine. Well, how about I tell you, lend me the basement of your house, then demand that it's mine, then take over the whole house and make a peace treaty with you. I'll give you the basement? Freedom for Palestine
Please watch and comment on the 2nd interview between Piers and Bassem. It's Part 2.
The problem is yes it's a problem of colonialism
Take it up with the Brits and Turks then.
Thank you for this Alex. You're a real one.
Well done Alex.....My brain hurts trying to figure this thing out.... it is medieval. It goes back thousands of years.
It’s really not that deep. Arabs and Jews lived peacefully together in Palestine until the formation of the state of Israel and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians. This conflict is decades old but not thousands of years old.
@@nosmokejazwinski6297 This current conflict might be decades old, but the claims on the land are much older.. And as an outsider I feel like I can't make a fair judgement when both sides say "we're just defending ourselves" without trying to oversee the entire history and look into all the arguments both sides are making, which is a lot!
@@m.m.2310I would recommend you to google the Balfour Declaration (1917) to see how Britain gave away land that wasn't theirs to give to begin with. Also, the only Jewish member of the cabinet at the time (Edwin Samuel Montagu) opposed the declaration. The idea of the Balfour declaration was antisemitic. Arthur Balfour (who was the one pushing for the creation of a Jewish state) had described Jews as "an alien and hostile people" and he also sponsored legislation to keep Jewish refugees out of the UK.
I would also recommend you to read about the nakba (very important) to get an actual understanding of how long Palestinians have suffered. I think it's absolutely necessary to understand what people mean when they call this an ethnic cleansing.
@@m.m.2310 Well, Jews didnt have any claim to Palestine for a long time up until relatively recently when the zionist movement started. even then, most religious jews opposed the idea because according to the Jewish faith they are not allowed to create a nation of their own. Ofc there were many different Empires and states claiming and conquering the area just like pretty much everywhere in th world. But the conflict between Arabs and Jews is a modern anomaly in the grand scheme of things.
If one side is actively genociding the other while keeping it besieged in an open air concentration camp for decades, it is clear that this is not self defense.
Simply put the "entire history" doesn't matter. What matters currently is the conflict since the formation of the state of Israel. Israel has no claim to this land because it never previously existed as a state. Jewish people shouldn't need a state for themselves, they should be able to live among other religions just like other religions. They are capable of this as seen in so many countries around the world. The problem is the state of Israel and the fact it wants an ethnostate with nothing but Jewish people in it. It is not a muslims vs jews issue, it's the evil state of Israel vs people.@@m.m.2310
للأسف في كل التطور الذي نحن فيه، و بإمكان اي شخص في الحصول على المعلومات، ولكن للأسف الناس تنظر إلى يوم 7 أكتوبر فقط،. ولا احد يعلم ما يحصل لشعب الفلسطيني من عقود، و ماذا تفعل لو انك في مكان اي احد فلسطيني الا ان تقاوم للحرية و بأي وسيلة
If hamas are terrorists, Israel is a terrorist state. What they're doing is much worse than what hamas did. If Israel has the right to defend itself by killing innocent people, hamas also has the right to defend itself by killing innocent people. And this IS about colonialism, my friend. No matter how much you try to be neutral and please both parties, you can't deny that Israel colonized Palestine and have been oppressing Palestinians for decades now. So don't be shocked that what you get from 75 years of oppression is a resistance group like hamas.
I love your reactions man in Egyptian like bassem he did another interview with morgan and it's even better you should watch it it's explained A lot of miss constipation about Israel
watch the second interview it describes the whole history of it
I agree with the rights and wrongs that Alex mentioned coming from both sides, and both sides have not approached the conflict in peaceful and healthy ways, and instead choose violence from Palestine and retaliation from Israel that has many Israelian and Palestinian civilians suffering.
please Watch and reat the part 2 of the new interview with Piers Morgan and Bassem Youssef from 2 days ago, and you will discover a lot of things and information that may shock you.
i'm an old fan of this channel im from jordan which is next to palestine and i gotta thank you for making me feel that our voice do exist and also our opinion its not about taking a side in this but its about learning about this atleast because its been happening for a long time and this is first time seeing people from the west giving attention to it , it makes feel better that we have the same empathy for deaths of innocent people we are all humans at the very end thank you alex
I have a question for you. Why won't Jordan take Palestinian refugees?
Hey Alex, thank you for own knowledge of what happened in Israel and Palestine, just to add more information that in Palestine theirself, they had two parties that seem different in way of thought. Hamas and Fatah and civil. So, Hamas is not Palestine as a whole
I loved your Perspective very Nice Video Brother
That "If you live like palestinian, would you sympathize with your oppressor or would you sympathize with people that claim that they are a resistant even if they are a terrorist?"
Brooooo there's no way you would sympathize with your oppressor ever!!! NO WAY 😂
It's not a complex issue, people just don't want to solve it.
Bassem was "surgical" in his use of dark humor to get to the "heart" of what matters to him. Couldn't resist, man. Seriously, though, I think what has been lost in this particular conflict is that some are pro-Israel, some are Pro-Palestine and many are pro-civilian.
I have been a fan to you since 2018. As a Palestinian living in israel (we the ones that they spared us and stayed inside) im glad you gave us a voice.
Few things to clear out. Prime minister of israel actually funded Hamas organization in Israel and it was a regime to rise them into power so they cause the terror by being provoked intentionally by israeli army in order to have an excuse to attack them. I know i sound very biased but for who cares, a few deep researchers will lead you to the truth. Its not a coincidence one of top military in the world didn't have response till 6 hours invade of hamas (food for thought).
The other reason why Gaza people dont just rebuild a happy state on their own because israel have control on them in the first place. They control their electricity, water, fuel, even food intake. Second reason, gaza people are not going to be satisfied by being independent on their current land, because basically israeli took our land in the first place so it's not fair to give up what's ours
By the way i highly recommend to watch the very recent second interview with piers and bassam
I have some doubts about you being a Palestinian Israeli, because of the way talk sound a little ignorant about the situation. The development of Hamas formed because of the secular Palestinian government, when I asked around Palestinians what they think of Hamas they told me "it's a terrorist organization" I asked many. I ask if they go as Palestinians to the Gaza they said "never, I am afraid" I asked around in the West Bank.
I got to say it spoke to Israeli settlers in the West Bank, my of them I'll say more then 20% are foreign Nationals, they said the Arabs should leave I asked them to where they said "they are poor let's give them money and send them to Jordan" I argue with them saying they have the same rights as you why should they leave.
I believe they are the Israeli problem the same as Hamas is the Palestine problem, between me and you you know there are problems on both sides.
The Israeli government is very aggressive towards minorities such as Arabs Hasidic Jews Ethiopians and so on
Apartheid state is not the state of Israel I lived there for a year, I saw many things against minorities I was once in the police station in Jerusalem, if you know the area, the Russian compound, the police officer that was at reception was Arab Muslim, I asked him, the one upstairs was Christen, the one that helped me that was the most fluent in English was Jewish, I had to come back to her because she wasn't there a day later I was 3 Arabs and 1 Jew, and a argument between a husband and wife was settled by the Jew that didn't even speak Arabic, so it is not an apartheid state
@@Informy113 I am an arab Israeli you cannot make me doubt my identity lol.
Secondly, arab israeli have way different mindset than west bank arabs.
Lastly, you can't compare to what you saw in 1 year to what I saw in my whole life living here.
As arab in israel, they're treating like second citizens. Ye they will claim we gave you the right to vote and work but all this bullshit just to justify themselves behind closed doors. Man as an engineer, i have to work 3 times harder than average jew to find a job in engineering because of discrimination and racism that they dont want to hire arabs. Heck, some arab doctos and teachers were jailed for supporting palestine on social media (not supporting hamas but supporting PALESTINE people). There are some jew locations that publicly don't allow arabs to enter. Man they treating us like black people in USA during 1960's. Yes they cancelled slavery but still treated black people in 60's like subhumans.
Couple of problems here.
While Netanyahu is a scumbag and with the behavior of a terrorist himself.
This whole "he made Hamas what it is" has as much merit as "Israel founded ISIS".
It's a pattern, as Arabs like to put their own problems on others.
They also claimed back in the early 2000's that the good ol' US of A helped create Al Qaeda.
I really appreciate that one as a Pakistani born Muslim.
Really sold that!
I loved seeing my family suffer and a lot of it be killed because America made Al Qaeda.
Amazing.
Until there's concrete proof that Netanyahu DID in fact helped create them, i will treat all of them as i treated Al Qaeda being made by the US.
There's plenty of reasons to hate the guy, no need to make stuff up there.
My grandfather was part of the 11th in the Philippines in WW2. Japan was going to invade America had it not been for the counter offensive. What Japan was doing to the captives and to their own people, my grandfather not only had to witness, but fight through to stay alive at the expense of his conscience and of men beside him. So many innocent people died in exchange for Japans glory and they had to be stopped. Otherwise, their glory would've continued and it was worse than most nightmares.
Bassem is brilliant.
One thing about the mobility in Gaza. There is a border because if not - October 7th would've happen on daily basis. This is the reason Israel has evacuated all jewish villages outside of Gaza in 2006. And from then hamas dictates Gaza to death of isralis and Palestinians
As a Muslim Arab who has lived in Israel for 5 generations, I must say that most of those who talk about the issue and do not live here do not understand anything and only feed on the media and social networks which is sad.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, the only place that offers complete freedom to Arabs as well to be what they want! I myself am a lawyer and my sister is a doctor in a hospital. Israel is the only place where you will be accepted both if you are gay and if you are a woman who wants to study and not stay at home to raise children
As a Muslim I would not want to live in any country in the Middle East under a Muslim government because the safest country for Muslims in the region is Israel!
Anyone who spouts nonsense based on things they have heard or seen in the media simply does not know what they are talking about
I just stumbled into this after watching a music reaction but okay I'll take a shot. Alex at 4:40: "This is not an issue of colonialism." See, when you say stuff like this and then say that you've done "research" on the subject, it makes me wonder what the heck kind of research you think you've done.
Let's look at some passages from historian Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years War on Palestine:
On March 1, 1899, mayor of Jerusalem Yusuf Diya wrote the following in a letter to the French chief rabbi Zadoc Kahn and Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism. He understood the motivations for Zionism, just as he deplored the persecution to which Jews were subject in Europe. In light of this, he wrote, Zionism in principle was “natural, beautiful and just,” and, “who could contest the rights of the Jews in Palestine? My God, historically it is your country!” However, the former mayor and deputy of Jerusalem went on to warn of the dangers he foresaw as a consequence of the implementation of the Zionist project for a sovereign Jewish state in Palestine. The Zionist idea would sow dissension among Christians, Muslims, and Jews there. It would imperil the status and security that Jews had always enjoyed throughout the Ottoman domains. Coming to his main purpose, Yusuf Diya said soberly that whatever the merits of Zionism, the “brutal force of circumstances had to be taken into account.” The most important of them were that “Palestine is an integral part of the Ottoman Empire, and more gravely, it is inhabited by others.” Palestine already had an indigenous population that would never accept being superseded.
Theodore Herzl co-drafted a 1901 charter for the Jewish-Ottoman Land Company includes the same principle of the removal of inhabitants of Palestine to “other provinces and territories of the Ottoman Empire.” Herzl had previously written in his diary in 1895 (3 years before his first visit to Palestine): "We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our own country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly." Herzl also founded the Jewish Colonial Trust within the Zionist movement.
In 1917, Arthur James Balfour stated that in Palestine, the British government did not “propose even to go through the form of consulting the wishes of the present inhabitants of the country.” The great powers were committed to Zionism, he continued, “and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land.”
In 1923, the Zionist Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky wrote: "“Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of ‘Palestine’ into the ‘Land of Israel.’” Jabotinsky also said "Zionist colonisation . . . can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population-behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach.” In Lenni Brenner's The Iron Wall, he also quotes Jabotinsky saying: "Zionism is a colonizing adventure and therefore it stands or falls by the question of armed force. It is important to build, it is important to speak Hebrew, but, unfortunately, it is even more important to be able to shoot-or else I am through with playing at colonization."
Now from Illan Papper's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: "Eretz Israel, the name for Palestine in the Jewish religion, had been revered throughout the centuries by generations of Jews as a place for holy pilgrimage, never as a future secular state. Jewish tradition and religion clearly instruct Jews to await the coming of the promised Messiah at ‘the end of times’ before they can return to Eretz Israel as a sovereign people in a Jewish theocracy, that is, as the obedient servants of God (this is why today several streams of Ultra-Orthodox Jews are either non or anti-Zionist). In other words, Zionism secularised and nationalised Judaism. To bring their project to fruition, the Zionist thinkers claimed the biblical territory and recreated, indeed reinvented, it as the cradle of their new nationalist movement."
From Arie Bober, ed., The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism: Chaim Weissman, president of the World Zionist Organization wrote: "In general West European Jewry thinks that the majority of East European Jewish youth belongs to the Zionist camp. Unfortunately, the contrary is true. The lion’s share of the youth is anti-Zionist, not from an assimilationist point of view as in West Europe, but rather as a result of their revolutionary mood. It is impossible to describe how many became the victims of police oppression because of membership in the Jewish Social Democracy-they are sent to jail and left to rot in Siberia; 5,000 are under state surveillance… and I am not speaking only of the youth of the proletariat…. Almost the entire Jewish student body stands firmly behind the revolutionary camp … and all this is accompanied by a distaste for Jewish nationalism which borders on self-hatred." Winston Churchill in a 1920 article called Zionism versus Bolshevism also very explicitly states that he sees Zionism as a really good way to lead left wing "international Jews" away from socialist organizations.
I could probably go on pulling quotes, but let's skip ahead to your last question: what should be done at this point? The answer is what we've been yelling in the streets for the last month, and for several decades now. Free Palestine! End the Western support to Israel which artificially props up their state and instead support the creation of a secular state that offers Palestinian refugees the right of return and gives equal rights to everyone in its borders. Without apartheid, organizations like Hamas would have no reason to exist.
Please check out part 2! It’s brilliant.
Hamas has claimed 100k militants 50-60k active and another 30-40k in reserve. Palestine claims 2 million population in gaza with 1m being kids.
If 1 million are adults that means about 1/10 adults are actual hamas militants..
I absolutely loved this video, I myself have jewish heritage but am also indigenous australian and so I see pain and evil in both sides. Palestinians have a right to live under conditions far batter than an apartheid state. Israelis have a right to live without blood shed also. The human cost of this war is a lot of people on both sides who just want peace. Because a lot of civilians on both sides just want peace and prosperity for both parties.
It’s true, but in my opinion Israel has all the power to cause change
@@royghosn18 As long as Hamas exists, there can be no change. They are simply terrorists whose goal is to wipe the Jews from the earth, and all other religions too.
no you are absolutely right there, there is a clear power imbalance and sadly Palestine lacks the power to enact the kind of change needed.@@royghosn18
@@royghosn18 They do not.
Why?
Because they did NOT instill themselves there.
It was a choice the Brits made.
And now Israel is paying for it.
It's not like Israel is innocent in the things they've done.
But to put all of this on them, is silly.
Not to mention that the Arabs (other than the Emirates) have shown no reason to BE reasonable with Israel.
Any and every reach for peace has been turned down.
But as i've pointed out here in the comments.
Arabs cannot do anything wrong, they've NEVER done anything wrong.
Israel however, IS TRUE EVIL.
Allahu akbar, Allah al salam.
Israel = Shar.