The only democracy in the Middle East by Aamer Rahman

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  • @padmaborrego
    @padmaborrego 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Brilliantly spoken and unfortunately painfully true.
    A little laughter makes stomaching it a little easier.

  • @spacetimevortex
    @spacetimevortex 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    that silence. thank you

  • @MrDrewlips
    @MrDrewlips 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    exactly. word!

  • @NaderNabilart
    @NaderNabilart 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    Amazing!! Putting everything into perspective. RIP Refat Alarer, Hind, Samar Anton, Dunia AbuMohsen, Waled Daqa, Rachel Corie, Tom Hurndal, and tens of thousands more we don't know about and we should.

  • @MTKarthik
    @MTKarthik 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    so good. so so good. thank you.

  • @abdulrenishr
    @abdulrenishr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Well said

  • @OPQRS328
    @OPQRS328 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    so good!

  • @zainabamadahy9918
    @zainabamadahy9918 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Truth.

  • @aftonair
    @aftonair 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you. Well said.

  • @ahmedistiak
    @ahmedistiak 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was brilliant!

  • @jackieroberts2625
    @jackieroberts2625 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for educating people, Aamer Rahman ❤

  • @samerghelou
    @samerghelou 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The big truth

  • @JayToons
    @JayToons 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    And it's even true. Israel is not the only democracy in the middle east. Lebanon, Iraq (after US invasion), Turkey

    • @Honest_Question
      @Honest_Question 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When they say "democracy" they just mean "white western American ally"

    • @AbdoMSG
      @AbdoMSG 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      And dont forget the democracies that fell like Egypt

    • @Honest_Question
      @Honest_Question 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@AbdoMSG *That israel toppled

    • @ravidlivne7317
      @ravidlivne7317 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Turkey's not a democracy at present day. Lebanon is, but not a very functioning one.

    • @JayToons
      @JayToons 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ravidlivne7317 turkey is a democracy like it or not, they have elections (just had municipal this year) and they are clean, no international org is questioning them .. yes, erdogan is in power for too long, but so is netanyahu,and even merkel was in power for too long
      And lebanon is a democracy, functioning of not functioning doesn't matter .. israel is considered a full democracy yet netanyahu changed media laws and diminished the judicial power, which goes against democratic values

  • @yads5678
    @yads5678 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Cathartic. Period. 💔🍉

  • @nywrep
    @nywrep 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    John Brown !

  • @dixztube
    @dixztube 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lmaooo this is so sad and true tho 😢

  • @aaddaamm1100
    @aaddaamm1100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Israel elections is with letter vs. Palstinians elections hamas thorough Fatah out of the window.

  • @alucardbrahmstone6659
    @alucardbrahmstone6659 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You dont seem to understand that the military support their provided their paying for it. Sometimes when your a struggling comedian you will jump to anything just to gain momentum for your career. Dont ride the moral fallacy cause if you will say that its the only democracy in middle east then what does that say about the rest of the countries surrounding it?

    • @jackieroberts2625
      @jackieroberts2625 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is dumb

    • @alucardbrahmstone6659
      @alucardbrahmstone6659 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jackieroberts2625 Define dumb

    • @saqlainalvi3333
      @saqlainalvi3333 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's not even true. They are not the only democracy There. Lebanon, iraq, turkey, iran are other democracies. They might be flawed democracies but democracies nonetheless. And you can't tell me that the genoc!dal state of is-r@el is a perfect democracy by any metric. Also what do you mean they pay for the support? US provides 4bn dollars worth of military aid to them every year. How are they paying for this free aid?

    • @alucardbrahmstone6659
      @alucardbrahmstone6659 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@saqlainalvi3333 HUWAT????Those are democracy? Are you mental?!!! Gays in those areas especially in Lebanon and Iran is thrown off the roofs or sentenced to death!! You know what IRAN do to gays having same sex relations?

  • @beniluv3250
    @beniluv3250 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Only country in the levant with 24hr electricity, including in the conquered land.
    Palestinian have a better life, underocvupation, than jordanian, lebanese, syrian and egyptian put togather.

  • @KryCaNe
    @KryCaNe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Correction Sir: “A vibrant democracy”.

  • @brianoswalt-it7le
    @brianoswalt-it7le 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Kinda forgetting about everything else

  • @yaaraamozig4862
    @yaaraamozig4862 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Israel is the only democracy that suffered the ladt 20 years of rocket fire at it.
    Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East that expelled 8000 of its residents from Gaza, and left, hoping that there would be peace and that the Palestinians in Gaza would concentrate on construction, this did not happen.
    Israel is the only democracy that faces existential wars.
    It is important to criticize Israel, but it is important understand in depth and it is important to be precise, otherwise it is just talk to fill in good and righteous

    • @Talel_kraiem
      @Talel_kraiem 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where was Israel before 1948 ?
      Indeed there's a proof that some arab families live in Gaza before the establishment of Israel, so it's not expelling its citizens, it's like I took something from you and I give it back to make piece with you.. don't get fooled..
      I think if people want to establish a state in palestine they should seek to merge into Palestinians and be jews from there ..
      but man two states with same land , you will never cease war..
      Sympathy for Palestinian, I used to support Israel, I even wrote on the table in my college, support Israel, don't be fool for what they tell Israel is good,
      turns out there's a huge difference between a supremacy of God chosen people , and the kind jews that my mother used to tell me about. in context I'm arab imagine doing such a thing where I would be expelled for my beliefs?
      My view changed I love jews and I respect them , and I hate zionism

    • @yaaraamozig4862
      @yaaraamozig4862 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Talel_kraiem Hey,
      A. Thanks for your response
      B. There is no point in debating whether it was right to establish the State of Israel in 1948, 76 years have passed, as of today the state exists.
      C. One binational state is not practical, because the Jews will not be able to defend themselves, and the whole purpose of establishing the Jewish state was self-determination for the Jews and a state where they could defend themselves.
      d. I hope that in the end they will manage to establish two countries and live with mutual respect, but I think that it will take many decades,
      it's sad.

    • @corvacopia
      @corvacopia 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@yaaraamozig4862all of the people of the levant deserve self determination, not just us Jews. It is the same land that is holy, it is the same land where people’s homes are, it cannot be simply divided up. Israel and the Political Zionist movement that proceeded it have made Jews far, far less safe. My family lived in Morocco for hundreds of years, we were safe there, we were Moroccans like everyone else, we were only treated like outsiders after Israel said that really Israel was our state and home, not the place we’d lived for hundreds of years, and even then we were treated far better in Morocco than many of our fellow Jews who went from Morocco to Israel.
      There are many countries where this was the case, too varying degrees and with differences in one area or the other. The Middle East and North Africa did not treat us the way our people were treated in Europe, Muslim and Christian Arabs in most of the Arab world saw the Jews there as other Arabs, or other nationals of those countries. This all could’ve been avoided.
      And as to the point of Israel being “the only democracy that faces existential wars,” the Palestinian Nationalist movement began as a movement for a secular democracy. The Yshiv waged an existential war on that movement, and Israel has spent its entire existence waging an existential war on the Palestinian people. Israel hid from us what it had done for years, and since had resealed the records with only limited access where specific dates have to be requested, because when Israeli Historians read what had been done in ‘48, what they wrote was anathema to the propaganda Israel relied on.
      Israel has allied itself with the far right in Europe and America, Netanyahu has close political ties to Donald Trump, who told self-avowed neo-Nazis to “stand back and stand by,” our people become less safe any time the far right grows, and Israel has been actively aiding and abetting that movement throughout the rest of the world, as they have been doing for Israel.
      The far right gaining power and influence is the greatest danger to us all

    • @yaaraamozig4862
      @yaaraamozig4862 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@corvacopiaHey,
      1. Thank you for your reply
      2. indeed, the establishment of Israel led (indirectly and not intentionally) to the destruction of all Jewish communities in Arab countries and North Africa
      3. I do not know enough about the past situation of the aforementioned Jewish communities, so I cannot say anything about this issue
      4. Indeed, Israel is currently the most dangerous place for Jews in the world
      5. Indeed, the right has grown stronger in Israel, I personally protest against them for many years
      6. All I ask is to deeply understand the complexity of the situation in the region, and after understanding choose the right thing to fight for.
      Otherwise you do more harm than good

    • @nathanielmartins5930
      @nathanielmartins5930 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@yaaraamozig4862
      Ben Gurian would disagree with your second point.
      He went on the record in the Knesset to say that his "Solution" to the "Demographic Question" was to have the over Million Mizrahim Jews of the Middle East immigrate to Israel one way or another.

  • @aaddaamm1100
    @aaddaamm1100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Well Israel didn't get humenitrian aid october 7. And in the north hizbolla is not giving israel any humenutrian aid as well

    • @eduardoestebanmartinezdele2219
      @eduardoestebanmartinezdele2219 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      OK Karen.

    • @oslolucho716
      @oslolucho716 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you are dumbb, read a boook😂

    • @DJ-nk1cm
      @DJ-nk1cm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Billions of dollars from aipac controlled US government should help though.

    • @minestar2247
      @minestar2247 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      It did get aid actually, from the us, in the form of weapons. Also, it's a rich country, meanwhile Lebanon isn't that stable, so israel wouldn't be in a place to be for aid

    • @aaddaamm1100
      @aaddaamm1100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@minestar2247 I mean aid from Lebanon, they are supposed to suply aid into Israel everything they bomb Israel. You now like Israel supply aid to gaza

  • @gregrapsp
    @gregrapsp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Maybe if Palestinians didn't use genocidal rhetoric and act on that rhetoric, they wouldn't be treated so badly. You reap what you sow

    • @aurancrash4654
      @aurancrash4654 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Ok Karen.

    • @gregrapsp
      @gregrapsp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@aurancrash4654 good to see you agree

    • @asimomar7505
      @asimomar7505 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Maybe if Israel doesn't colonize the Palestinian lands they wouldn't be attacked in the first place....
      Looks like you never saw was Israel did before Oct 7
      Ƙƴṣ

    • @dftp
      @dftp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I guess you also think the Germans in WW2 were justified in doing what they did because the Slavs resisted their conquest

    • @gregrapsp
      @gregrapsp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@asimomar7505 Why Should we have sympathy for people who want to un alive us?

  • @hasibalfuad9652
    @hasibalfuad9652 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Brilliant Monologue. The voices should never be silenced. If human get silenced against crime the evil wins.

  • @yavuztezcan8684
    @yavuztezcan8684 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Amazing talk, thank you