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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre site has been recognized since early in the 4th century as the place where Jesus was crucified, buried, and rose from the dead.
What Currency do they use in the West Bank and Gaza? Btw this video opened my eyes about how Palestinians people are. I didn't know there are good number of Christians there. The Western Media are liars. Ahsante Sana.
I was in London during the 2021 lockdown and standing at the Tower of London with absolutely no one around was surreal. It really felt like the opening scenes of 28 Days Later in the City of London area. Towering skyscrapers with no one around and ghost buses stopping to let no one off.
I randomly stumbled into where Jesus had the last supper and was walking around the roof of the Church of The Holy Sepulcher without knowing what it was lol. These places in Israel can be shockingly peaceful and also full of life. Just depends when you're there. What's also cool is the density of sites like these, literally everywhere has had people living there for thousands of years.
The exchange around 39:00 minutes when the man lets you stay in the hotel which is closed, very touching. Even in wartimes you can still see humans as we all are, just people hoping to live in peace. He opened his doors and fed you after seeing you had no allegiance to any enemies. Those of us who understand this (that people deserve to be fed, housed, and educated) should be ruling the world.
further proof it's one racist hole where you can't even get a hotel room if you're from a western country, Palestinians stuck in medieval times, 100 years behind normal, civilised humans
Itulah jiwa sosial Orang Palestina sperti mereka lakukan pada tahun 1933 ketika Orang Yahudi German Kabur dari Germany Ketika Nazi Ingin Membunuh Keluarga Mereka ,,Orang Paletina Yang Menerima Mereka dengan Tulus Hati dengan Memberi Mereka makan dan Tempat tinggal Layaknya keluarga sendiri, tetapi Apa daya Setelah Mereka Sudah Banyak di Palestina Dan ingin miliki semua Seluruh tanah palestina bahkan orang palestina Mereka usir,, itulah di istilahkan Yahudi German dan Amerika Adalah Zionisme
At minute 8:31 you can see a Jew talking to a soldier. He is not allowed to enter the Temple Mount site (which is also holy to Jews) and pray there, he asks the soldier: "What are you against the Jews". If the situation is explained, it should be explained to both parties. There are many Jewish sites that Jews are not allowed to enter in Jerusalem because this will cause tension between the Arabs and the Jews. Like the Temple Mount for example.
Israel itself took part in restricting access for non-Muslims, a bipartisan agreement to stop violent Zionists from sabotaging the mosque and other things. And yet how many times have we seen IDF siege the Temple Mount for no good reason at all?
A 2021 study by the New York Genome Center found that the predominant component of the DNA of modern Palestinians matches that of Bronze Age Palestinians (Canaanites) from around 2500-1700 BCE.[17]The original jews are the palestinian people, who were ethnically cleansed by invading zionists alien to the land. The third temple, Alaqsa, was built by the people of jerusalem, many jews who converted to islam during its construction upon the liberation of jerusalem from roman rule and the return of palestinian jews to jerusalem in 632-634 ad. The invading zionists, according to Israeli author Shlomo Sand in his book "The invention of the Jewish people are jewish converts alien to palestine. In the 8th century ad the Khazar kingdom in ukraine converted to judaism and would go on to make the ashkenazi jewish population in europe. Yemenis converted to judaism during the yemeni kindom o Himyar in the 5th century ad during the rule of Dul Nawas. There were jewish kingdoms in iraq and north africa as well. The palestinians are the eternal natives of the land. Free Palestine.
11:12 when the man is imploring you to pray for peace and for innocents to stop dying either side. You can hear in his voice how heartbroken he is and that really got me.
I know. My heart ached and I felt in my heart how I would have expressed a most sincere sentiment with him. He was pleading for a voice to hear. Idk if I could've moved on that fast. I also would've expressed a deep appreciation for the food and room offered by hotel owner. I just think that's an intimate thing, to invite a stranger for dinner. Then again, what do I know about the culture? It might've been inappropriate to express my gratitude to the host for all I know, lol. But it would've been my reaction, good or bad. 🤭
The true sons of Jacob are the Palestinians, whatever their religion. Whoever wants to refer to the heavenly books will see that. The Samaritans live, and they are the oldest sect in the world. They lived in Palestine when they fled from Pharaoh. Eastern European threat, they took over the Jewish religion in the 8th century. This does not give you the right to seize someone's land
The shop keeper has a wonderful sense of humor. His mother is Roman Catholic and his father is Palestinian Muslim- he says "I guess that makes me Jewish, idk." I got good vibes from him.
@@ori1676Aww c'mon man. Buddy was lols at himself & at his situation. If we even lose our sense of humor, what do have left. Dont let this 'woke' crap eat you up so go live & be happy. Most of all learn to respect other ppls views & opinions even if we disagree
I'm 65,living in Europe, you're the first one who showed me how life is over there. couldn't imagine it before. Love your approach and honest views on all the country's you visit. Thanks and thanks again, it opens my eyes, no biased docu but the real world. Merci beaucoup.
@@tonyprice2256 oh? I'M ignorant? Ik why do you think that? Why such a stupid reaction? Do you know how I live and who I Am? Do you know what i do, did, saw already? Did You See the whole world like he here did? Why do you judge other people .....
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) -------------
What a fascinating place this was a great video of the area. Most people say they're so confused by how they live there. Thank you so much for taking that amazing journey.
The hotel owner and his family are so lovely and welcoming. And it is so interesting to hear from them directly what life is like in these difficult times.
i noticed everyone in the hospitality business is very friendly in Israel. my wife and i stayed close to the old city, as well as Nazareth. October 7th was our check out date and they even offered to let us stay for free. We decided to check out anyway which turned out to be one of the best decisions we ever made but the people working in anything tourist related are the best people you will meet. This isn't meant to pick one side over the other. We dealt with both jews and arabs. top quality service on both sides.
I don’t think Americans appreciate this hospitality enough. Their tax dollars literally funds the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, yet Palestinians still able to navigate through this oppression and not hate back everyone from America.
Thanks for the unbiased vlog. I am Jewish and I really like seeing both sides and I pray for peace for everyone. I pray no more casualties. We’re all human and all deserve to be safe and live peacefully, God bless.❤
Thank you for the objective vlog. I am Jewish and Israeli. I served in the IDF and still serve in the reserves. My experience with the Palestinian population has always been as a soldier. I was surprised and happy to see the Palestinian side in an objective way, where I could sit safely on my couch without fear. I saw their human side, without hate in their eyes. We are all human beings, and I hope we will soon learn to live together. I still believe in Israel's path, even though Israel makes mistakes too. I hope for better days for everyone
You know why they hate idf right? Or are you that deluded? Y’all unalive their children and women. Y’all bomb their houses and displaced them since 1948. Tbh your delusional. You can’t run from God when you have to answer for your evil doings. Go back wherever you came from, stop the occupation and their will be peace. A human being will never ever join idf like the actual Jews inside Mae Sheriem - Naturei Karta.
Clicked by accident, never saw your channel or heard of it. Loved the content. You could almost smell the Middle-east. I loved the part when the Palestinian hotel owner accepted you inside and invited you to their late dinner. I genuinly got jealous and felt like i am not alive in the western world with all the (so called) comfort here… Thank you for this video
@@nty3929 No you dont understand it, it not a lie, its a polite manner of saying "i can’t accept you" (whatever the reason may be). If the man was a liar who was up to no good he would not have invited him to his table! And anno 2023 no one cares about being recorded or not!
I was watching this on my head on my phone and I had to stop after 15 minutes. I thought this is just a fantastic vlog that’s well put together. It’s got history, geography, current affairs and humanity etc without political agendas. So I have subscribed and liked and will watch on my big screen to give it full justice. Respect and appreciation.
Humanizing just one side in this video. - Sabbatical made it seem like Hamas atrocities of Oct 7th was justified by voicing Hamas' bogus reason for the attack at 8:52 - Palestinians gave their deluded version of history and events without an Israeli response. - He highlights how hard it is to get between Palestinian cities without explaining that it is a time of war and attacks on Israelis are happening, and that checkpoints on those roads were put into place to stop Palestinian suicide bombers which murdered 803 Israeli civilians over 15 years. - When referencing Jew's holiest site he said it was "so they say" the original spot of the Jew's temple which was destroyed. To be fair he did make another video in Israel, so he tries to be balanced.
Is the checkpoint issue a little overblown? From the way the Palestinians in the video described it I was cringing in expectation for the horrors you were going to endure on the way back from Jericho to Jerusalem, but turned out to be easy-peasy & totally reasonable given some very real security concerns.
People don’t understand the insidious Arab behavior. After 1967 the border was completely open, hundreds of thousands Arabs entered Israel for work, they could come and go as they pleased, until the terror starts, and that’s why there are check points
A lot overblown. That's way easier than crossing any other country border. I commute daily from Zone c to official Israel. But that's a part of the arab propganda unfortunately and westreners swallow this easily.
Thank you for your genuine and honest content. My boyfriend showed me ur vids and now we watch them together :3 Hello from Isabel and Albert across the world 👋 Stay safe friend ! 🙏
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) -------------
I was a child when there were no checkpoints and we could all freely walk around the entire territory of Israel and the West Bank. But then the intifada broke out, and terrorists started entering the Jewish cities from the West Bank, blowing up buses (over 10,000 buses, with dozens of children, women, and adults who died in each of them), restaurants, and shopping malls. so Israel decided to set up a checkpoint at every crossing and road between the different territories, to try to prevent this from happening as much as possible. Ultimately, it helped and the intifada was reduced until it disappeared. but the sad thing is that Israeli Jews can no longer enter the West Bank territories, and the residents of the West Bank live and are limited within their territories. A closed circle of pain, fear, and hatred from both sides without hope.
@@zxhDid you skip the part where anyone could walk around freely? I don't think that means that they can be shot for no reason by the Idf. And you can be anything a Palestinian a Jew a Christian all humans look the same. People don't get singled out in Israel it's a diverse place. The Apartheid is in the Muslim countries and Palestinian neighborhoods and in Mosques.
@@YittySteinmetz The problem is that you don't get to walk around freely. The term freely, is subjective. I have seem NUMEROUS documentaries online, where people that look "arab", get harassed by IDF soldiers for simply existing. I don't think this is freedom.
@@zxh The intifada broke out due to a lack of agreement that Israel would remain within the 67 borders, and Israel reached the borders of 67 because Arab countries did not agree to the existence of the State of Israel. So all the Arab countries fought Israel in 1948, and it didn't go well for them. Then they rose up and fought again in 1967 (even though the West Bank was under Jordan and Gaza was under Egypt!!!!) and again, it didn't go well for them (and also they lost the West Bank and Gaza). Since then they have never stopped fighting even when Israel gave them Gaza. And if you listen, they also say out loud, that they will not stop fighting until all of Israel is theirs. We here the 10,000,000 Jews are going to remain in the State of Israel, and the 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank are welcome to recognize the existence of the State of Israel, lay down their arms and the path of terrorism, and establish their own state in the west bank. and YES, we did offer them THAT in the past, several times! (including with the world presidents who witnessed this). Sadly the Palestinians have always refused because they refuse to have 2 states for 2 nations next to each other.
@@Tomsheethe only incorrect thing in that statement is that you said there are 10,000,000 Jews in Israel. There are actually 7.5 million Jews, 2 million Muslims and about a half million different ethnic groups (Hindu, Christians, etc). Muslims in Israel are integrated into Israeli society and hold political positions within Israeli government.
@Rachelforpeace1who cares 😂 Jews cry that while having hate for Muslims it is what it is. All religions are corrupt and are there for control and money
Hey Tommy, when I first saw your video about going to Israel i thought you were crazy. But you are giving a lot of insight to the outside world with your signature authenticity. Be safe there man, love the content as always.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) -------------
He told you to leave the mosque because it was time for prayer otherwise you are welcome to explore. Have in mind also that the mosque has ben subjected to alot of attempts of vandalism.
yeah the idf constantly would break stuff in there unexpectedly a lot of behavior seen that is negative from palestinians is because they are fearful and don’t get to live a normal life due to occupation
I was super excited to see this after your previous video. Really great job I think you've shown, whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Israeli, or Palestinian, people are just trying to survive in an insane world. People will blame whomever they want to blame, but I think everyone just want to be able to go home.
As a young man figuring out where I fit in the world, how to understand the present and the past, and how I can be a part of something larger than myself, these videos really inspire me to educate myself and seek knowledge authentically. The media is so overwhelming and biased. TH-camrs like Sabbatical and NickIndigo have shaped the way I view the world in many ways. Thank you for the unbiased work you do. Peace and prosperity to all innocent people around the globe.
Absolutely go and see things for yourself. In other countries and in different areas inside your own country. Don't let journalists define the world for you, go experience it yourself. You will change your opinions on many things and that is good!
Of course it takes a lot of time to really understand the historical contexts. One side and the other will omit history from one point to the other. For example, one thing I notice here is that Palestinians always talk of Jews coming from Europe after WWII. They never mention Jews living there before that but it is a fact that Jews were a majority living in Jerusalem during Ottoman rule and that was documented through an Ottoman census done on the region. Jews and Arabs have lived there for hundreds of years and some Jews never left and have been there since Roman times, Arab conquests, The Crusades, etc. History is more complex than to say it all started in 1948. Perhaps many Palestinians today are descendants of Jews forced into Islam as well. There are god people on both sides. And there are evil people. One more on one side than the other is my opinion. You work hard to figure that out on your own. Good luck.
@@TRYCLOPS1 with respect, the sephardic jews only made up about 5% of the population under Ottoman rule, didnt they ? It was 90% Arab, 5% Jewish, and other communities
Thanks for taking us on this journey with you. The humanity is truly felt throughout this video. Also I don't think I'd ever have gone to these places my self so I learned a lot and saw a lot and I sort of feel like in a way I was there along for the adventure. Looking forward to the next!
Thank You for sharing about the Chinese , when I was in the Hospital for three weeks, A Christian Chinese girl shared with me that she got Baptized in the Jordan river . That's a Blessing from Above .
You can see in the poster of the children who died in Gaza one picture of an 5 years old Israeli kid who got killed by Hamas from a missile. His name was Ido and he died in 2021. Who knows which photos are actually from Gaza.
Exactly, I said the same thing. When he showed the poster I stopped the video and looked to see who they were showing. They lie. It’s been told over and over that there is a Jewish child on the poster and they still use it for their propaganda lies. עם ישראל חי
Nice to see ordinary Palestinians denouncing killings of children on both sides then 😇 IOF on the other hand almost only kills children, and almost doesn't see Palestinians as humans - Just like we didn't see Jews as Humans some 100 years ago
@@AdissapointedSonic when a kid with a rock is a threat to a big guy. isnt that the story of David and Golliath? the same David whose star is on that flag?
Thanks man I'm saving this for a bed time video watch. Always enjoyed your videos and calm narratives in explaining controversial topics. Stay safe and may there be peace.
I wouldn't say the "atmosphere is very excessive," being that there are constant terror attacks not only in that area but across all of Israel and Palestine. They're simply being cautious.
It's so eye opening to see your experiences, how the people react to you, and just everything about this. Thanks for educating us a little on the way too
As an Israeli, this was the first time I've seen footage from Ramallah streets. Thank you for this. Unfortunately, no peace is coming here anytime soon, but at least you help some of us see the people on the other side.
@@sweetlan9319 Israel isn't going to just give up and cease to exist I'm afraid. The rage can continue for decades or there can be some kind of accommodation.
if it was not for the portugees and brits, you would have stayed in your land, and natives in their land "Canada." So, yeah, sad to break it to you, but you're objectively not a "Canadian," you are an Indian who's his father or grandfather decided to fly all the way to a land that was brutally stolen, occupied, and colonized. And the ones who did decided to give foreigners to the land the right to claim nationality and residenceship. Just like Israel (westerners from east and west claiming the right to own a land in a mediterranean land.@@2bitTank
Above all things Tommy your videos make me love humans more and more. We may have geographical, religious or political differences, but we are more the same than we are different. Big love.
We probably share a lot of the same dna ✌️ we look alike that's why it tears my heart to see us at war. 😢 we all lose, and the All mighty is also crying , may we find a peaceful solution for the future of the children .
@@daenerystargaryen500 I’m not sure what being upset at someone (American) who is purchasing socks from you is going to achieve, other than making them feel uncomfortable. It demonstrates a lack of understanding and emotional maturity. He’s not the president or a politician.
@@AC-wz9tx he is just making small talk, he is not complaining to the guy, he knows that Biden is fucking that guy too. Politics for Palestinians is a huge part of their life, and they are used to talk about it all the time, starting with breakfast and before bed watching the news together.
I would give you 10 thumbs up, if I could. There are good people everywhere, and the media is nothing but lies. The problem is too many good people listen to the media in the locations in which they live. Bravo on your confidence in humanity.
Exactly. The main stream media hasn’t covered this genocide for 75 years. The horrific atrocities that are only coming out to many of us because of social media. Many journalists privately say that they want to cover the stories that are happening to the Palestinians in Israel, the their bosses say no. I guess the bosses are tied to Zionist Israel somehow. Check out: “Britain Rises for Gaza: Lowkey exposes Israelis waning grip on politics” . He explains how Israel is tied to main stream media. Justice for Palestinians. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
19:48 absolutely what I was thinking 😭 as an Egyptian I was shocked when I watched your Israel vlog since it was very clean and organized for a middle eastern country, but the moment you entered the West Bank I was like here we go that’s the middle east I know with all the traffic problems and everything is messy. It’s kinda sad but that’s the reality we live in. I’m trying to learn more about everything regarding this conflict with an open mind, and your videos are for sure helping a lot!
Because Islam is like communism, everyone thinks it’s logical but in the hands of the wrong people it’s weaponized against them. Government needs to stay secular non religious entity. Middle eastern countries are hell holes to the fabric of the society. look at the cleanest and least dangerous countries in the world you cannot hear the call of prayer
@YaakovAltmann It's almost as if one is a priveleged, power-entrenched, despotic place while the other are mere people trying to make do of their everyday life with whatever scraps they can.
The gentleman at 11:15 touched a nerve and was a little goose-bump moment as he asked that you pray for peace and the way he said, 'everybody we are so much in need of peace', for all sides and the innocents. It was a global plea. I volunteer in Ukraine and have done for two years and the things you see are horrific and now Gazza, we have so much senseless killing going on and the world on the precipice of another global conflict with so many knife edge hot spots. That was a nice moment in the video, so I will join with him and pray for an end to all this conflict and the loss of innocent lives.
@@Erik3E Israel started the war by invading Palestine unrightfully and unruly, committing war crimes, creating an apartheid, and providing the formula for terrorism. Then recently a separate terrorist organisation that was exiled by the Palestinians government, not ‘Gaza’, killed Israelis (around 1400 are dead so far) causing the actual official Israel to kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians (around 37000 are dead so far) rather than attacking the terrorists. Let me ask you this, was there Hamas before the creation of Israel? So how is this the people of Gaza’s fault? Do you think they want terrorists? I can tell you first hand that the vast majority of them do not, because they are victims of terrorism more than Israel is, so they’re suffering from left right and centre and being blamed for starting it. Injure and oppress and destroy a group people, and they will revolt. Israel’s extreme oppression and murder has resulted in extreme terrorism, and the West has created the environment for terrorist organisations again and again. We saw it with al-Qaeda, with the Taliban, with ISIS. Was any of this created before Western involvement and their warcrimes in the middle east?
@@hana-ov1ju I am glad that we agree that Hamas who rules Gaza started this war on the 7th of October by slaughtering, torturing, raping and abducting 1400 people. I am also glad you know the conflicts between Israel and Hamas stretches before the 7th. However the 7th is when this current conflict started. About the numbers claimed dead by Hamas etc. Since they are a terrorist organization that also kills its own citizens as much as Israelis its safe to asume we cant trust their numbers. We also know hamas uses its own population as human shields. Maybe you dont know about the son of one of the founders of Hamas but he is quite outspoken on youtube social media and news about how Israel is the opnly solution for Gaza. The people of gaza are hostages not by Israel but by Hamas. Unfortunetly this war is claiming inocent palestinians but not becouse Israel but becouse of hamas who uses its own people as a sheild. If there is anything to not it is that Israel is not attacking the west bank, they are attacking gaza only. And we all know why. There is also something about israel that people rarely talk about. The fact that they have Palestinian Israelis living within their country with the same rights as anyone else. In palestine or Gaza there is 0 jewish people living becouse we all know they would get murdered. Islamic terrorism was a thing since the beginning of Islam. You must have missed the beginning of Islam spreading by conquest and murder. Let me ask you a simple question. You accidentally hitting someone with your car or you executing someone by shooting them in the head, raping them and abducting them is equal to you? How many Palestinians could be saved if Egypt opened its border? Why dont they do that? They talk a big game about the poor palestinians but they refuse to help them. Its an odd mathematical equation you can help solve right now.
Valuable history lesson... The mosque is built on top of the ruins of the Jewish Temple. It should be pretty easy to figure out which, and who, came first.
Dumb take. Who destroyed the temple and kicked out the Jews? Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC and then by Ttius and the Romans in 70 CE. Roman Emperor Claudis kicked out Jews from Jerusalem in 139 BC before Titus destroyed the temple during his reign. It was during the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem when Jews were allowed to return. Who "came first" doesn't matter when generations of people have been living in a place for centuries.
Depends on their mood once it took me from 2 PM - 10 PM from Jericho to a village near Jerusalem ( without the checkpoint is 30 min ride) a pregnant women had to use the bathroom, kids were hungry me personally I got my period and was in a shitty situation also my parents could not come pick me (thankfully my friend's family picked us up) bcs they were allowing people to leave Jericho (with humiliation and 8h delay ) but closing the checkpoint for people to enter it. all of this while not having enough sleep and coming back from the airport leaving from Italy to Jordan crossing 2 bridges then a checkpoint for 8 h then finally home.
I love watching your videos! My family visited Israel in 1999 and Israel, Egypt, and Jordan in November 2000. I remember that there were boulders everywhere and there was a conflict at that time. The roads into Bethlehem were closed and we had to take back roads. All these places that you visited, I remember visiting even though I was only 6 and 7 when we visited. But it had such an immense impact on me and my life. I remember the people in this region being SO kind. They gave me things everywhere I went. I also remember thinking how odd it was that it was such a militarized place. Our bus driver was Muslim and he gave me a stuffed ram. There was also security everywhere! Our hotels even had X-ray machines like the ones in the airport. Our tour guide was Jewish. Even though there is conflict with people, they got along. I think it’s so different being there than just reading about it or seeing it on the news. A (French? I think?) camera crew actually followed our tour group around for a bit, but I’ve never found the footage. It would be neat to see.
@@Rogue-7.62 Oh, and did you have a passport before 48 with the Palestinian state written on it, or did your ancestors live in Germany, Russia, or Britain? What is your origin?
"You will get shot at a checkpoint" - only if you act threateningly or refuse to follow IDF orders. Who gets shot? People smuggling weapons, or driving a car fast to run tge checkpoint, or the idiot that jumps out of their car and rushes the checkpoint with a knife. No different a response from police elsewhere in the world.
Pfftt keep yourself in your delusional bubble. There are tons of proof online of palestinians being killed for no reason, abducted and imprisoned illegaly, children as young as 12! So no, they will shoot palestinians at checkpoints because they can and have no compassion, they don’t need any reason and if they did, they could just fabricate a lie.
Just a correction at the 4:15 mark to say that Jerusalem isn't the most important place for Muslims - it's their third important place, Mecca being their first. Jerusalem is mentioned 626 times in the Tanakh and 141 times in the New Testament. Jerusalem is not mentioned by name in the Koran.
He very briefly clarifies this at 4:19, still a thumbs up though, I was unaware of the number of times the site was referred to in the different texts.
The city don’t belong to any religion. The city belongs to people who live there for religion. Stupid people always think of religious symbols and forget human beings
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) -------------
Your video proves what I believe from traveling to so many countries. People are people. At the end of the day, the nature of people are pure and kind. If more people can resist external factors (gov, media, politics), the kindness is the same everywhere you go if your intend is as kind as well. However, "now you know what it's like to be Palestinians".
@@eden5260You forgot the part where he said we go do protests everyday. The woman at mosque said they weren't allowed everyday. You forgot the part where the guy said most of the people were refugees cause they were displaced by Israelis. You forgot the part where the guy at the barbecue said it takes 3 to 5 hours in the checkpoint, and the checkpoint is in palestine. You forgot the Israeli checkpoints in Palestinian territory.
Your video gave some of us, like me, our first real experience with life in the West Bank. Amazing, thank you. I feel like you could spend months there teaching us about the place.
Jerusalem is not the holiest city in the world for Muslims - they place Mecca and Medina above Jerusalem. It is, however, the holiest city in the world for Jews. Also, the old city is not just Arab/Palestinian. The Jewish and Christian presence in the old city predates the muslim presence by far.
Israel has dictated that Palestinians cannot dig wells, cannot build even an airport. This is what happens when you completely and deliberately suffocate a region. Imagine someone cuts your electricity, internet and allows you to only eat bread and water. Then asks "why aren't you successful".
Thank you for REALLY showing what’s going on there right now. Very informative and obviously entertaining. Makes me want to visit the same areas one day.
These checkpoints didn't exist when I was a kid. I'm 33 years old. It's new. It's because they started two intifada's when they blew themselves up in kindergartens, buses, restaurants, schools. 100% self inflicted misery, and they don't seem to want to change anything.
Why do the Palestines complain about life in the West Bank. Looks beautiful and regular hustle n bustle. And Gaza was even nicer. The Hamas and Palestinians destroy their own economy. For a so called freedom that they don’t have. And complain about check points that every country has and even more so because terrorists try to come in daily to attack. While in israel the streets are mostly quiet because they have to deal with terrorist and war. FREE ISRAEL.
My respects man. I've been saying you've got iron balls. You keep outdoing yourself. This is quality content and you've risked your own life. Best youtuber and one of the best human beings I've ever seen.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) -------------
@moshco23 the denial of history is astonishing. Jews were always welcomed by the Arabs while they were getting killed in Europe, that's one. The scientific method, algebra, alchemy, improvements on surgery, mathematics, influence on Europe that led to the rennaisance, do I need to add more. Stop downplaying a civilization just because they're the so called enemy.
3-5 hours to get out of a checkpoint? Thats insane. Liked your videos and glad to see someone non biased filming. Love that the Palestinians showed you such hospitality. I went to Egypt in 2019 as a solo female traveller in my 50s. Everyone thought I was crazy but I was made to feel so welcome and felt so safe. My answer to everyone was I will make up my own mind about people and places. So happy I didnt listen to naysayers. If you dont take a chance and travel you will never know what you are missing. Bravo for being brave Tommy. Loved these videos.
Your proving that when people get to know each other barriers break down. Communication and language are essential. This video gives me a glimmer of hope that someday everyone can live as equal in the Holy Land
basically hoping we can go back to the ottoman empire of Palestine where everyone was living as equals the jews christians and muslims no issues at all
Except for when Jews and Christians were forced to pay the Jizya tax, if they paid it they were under muslim protection, and a sign of protection was getting the yellow star of David on their clothes (which is was Hitler reused) . If a Jew or Christian refused to pay the tax (as it was not allowed to practice your faith under Islamicrule with the Ottomans) then you were killed or enslaved.... so yes... theres alot of peace when you tell people if if they refuse to pay a tax to have freedom of faith they will be killed or ensalved. @broccoli726
@@broccoli726 Lol, that never happened. Jews and Christians were Dhimmis in the Ottoman empire, the only time all three religions were able to live freely as equals was under Israeli rule.
Never been this early to your videos man so wanna say love your content man one of the best travel vloggers on youtube for sure!!!! Also so crazy that you are there right now man.
Hey Tommy, big fan and a long time subscriber. I just wanna say that the mosque with the golden dome isn’t the “Aqsa Mosque” , it’s called “Qubet Al Sakhra”. The other mosque with the smaller green dome is “Al-Aqsa”. Keep doing what you’re doing, and stay safe 💪🏻
Why are you arguing, the brother was right technically, you are missing the point. The Dome Of The Rock is what Tommy pointed too, it is al Qubbat al Sakhra. The "furthest mosque" mentioned in the Quran is south of that. It is the Jami al Aqsa, the musalla al Qibli itself, the other building with the smaller dome as the brother said. He is doing good by making sure people know that, pointing out there are 2 holy sites in the compound of al Aqsa, so that violations/erasure can be noticed by more. And you 2 are on him trying to look smart? Lose the ego for God's sake
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time. Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them). Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI). Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy. Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful. Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI). Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad). Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning! Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures. Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement. It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them. (19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).. God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.” (2:136 / Translated by Community) Salam (Peace) -------------
I normally can't stand these travelers, but u are the most humble n educated person Ive come across. You have a good and empathetic heart and showed us an amazing representation of the Palestinian ppl. Not sure what the thing is about no Christians in Hebron was about. Thank you.
Tommy, this has to be one of the most fascinating films I’ve seen about Palestine/Israel in a long time. I can’t thank you enough. It was so interested to get a look into the everyday lives of people whilst this awful war rages on. I found it equally interesting because I too was there in 2005/06. What a strange feeling it was to see you walking along some of the same alley ways, and driving along some of the very same, roads that my dear late husband and I did all those years ago. That sense of tension that we experienced came back into my chest as you were experiencing the same. Whilst we were there things were very tense. The check point process was definitely something I recall with some intrepidation. Being ‘encouraged’ by Israeli soldiers not to go, or to go to certain places in some towns, like Jerusalem is also something that stays with me. I also remember the shock I felt at the explicit racism of some Israeli people, Particularly those in positions of authority, towards Palestinians. We found that so hard. Oddly we did not see that hate being displayed in reverse. To see how that situation appears to have deteriorated, due to recent events, is very sad, but to be expected. But overriding most of this, was the generosity and kindness shown to us when we were in Palestine. We too were met with curiosity, yet utter kindness. Nothing was too much trouble for those we needed help or advice from. Palestine was so starkly different in affluence and living conditions from Israel. But this never deterred anyone over the border in Palestine to remain friendly and kind. This was a very pleasant surprise as my husband was infact Jewush. The visual recordings of the tragedy that is continuing is vital for us to see, however hard it is to look at. But it’s also important that we are reminded that people in both Israel and Palestine are doing what they can to continue with their lives. They have no choice but to do this. But nevertheless it must be so very difficult. So again Tommy I thank you for showing us the complexity of living in this environment, whilst the most awful events are taking place within such a short distance away. It was really fascinating, but so very sad. Can I also offer my compliments to you for your courage. My guess is that there are few that would have travelled to the region at the moment, with so little formal ‘backup’, given the continuous bombing etc. You are really very brave to have done so, but I do hope That you will be very careful if you are still there, or if you are planning such trips in the future. My very best wishes to you, Teresa.
As a artist I always wanted to visit, paint and draw all of those ancient places and sketch portraits at all those fantastic faces…..looks like I’m going to wait a few decades for that to happen. Perhaps sooner….keep those video coming Tommy!!
Few decades ? You aren't aware how things work on this region Things get back to normal really quick This may be a long war but it will end in a couple of months or so by mid year at the latest things will be the new normal
Your channel is so real and refreshing. Please continue being a genuine person. You are our portal to the globe, and you can talk in any language. What a talent
Tommy, you've become my favorite travel vlogger since you traveled through Uganda anyway but these new videos are just outstanding. THANK YOU for your work & please always stay safe. Greetings from Germany!
48:04 It’s important to mention that the Jews didn’t force them out, they were told by their leaders to leave and that they’d be able to return after they rid the area of the Jews. The Palestinian families that didn’t leave and accepted the citizenship offered by Israel still live in Israel today with all the same freedoms and rights as any other Israeli. 20% of Israel is Palestinian, with many serving in the highest levels of government.
This claim is false and historically inaccurate. The forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 was well-documented. The notion that Palestinian leaders advised their people to leave voluntarily is a revisionist and deceptive narrative that seeks to absolve Israel of responsibility for the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians during the Nakba. This claim is not supported by any credible historical evidence and is a deceptive attempt to rewrite history.
You did ok. Like, i mean. didn't do anything questionable. Not that i thought you would. Cause you're always chill. You feel authentic. Glad you went to the west bank. Keep doing what you do, the way you do it man. Great video!
I was in Jericho in August. I guess I got a last glimpse of it "normal." The people there were so warm and generous. I ended up hiking from my BnB up the caves to where Jesus stayed for 40 days. An incredible view of the sunrise from there. On my way back down I was invited in for tea with an elderly Palestinian woman. Thank you for showing all sides of this conflict during this terrible time. I hope you continue to share the truth and keep safe.
@@JuniorJuni070no we dont. We do it because our culture and religion both promote being hospitable and kind which ull experience at nearly every other arab country. Stop being fox news mr trump. Now get out of your couch and get on a plane and travel.
@YaakovAltmann so can u explain why the IDF is always raiding there because they say Hamas doesn't control the west bank.Are Palestinians also terrorists?
@khaderlander2429 bro stop with yo bs.We have seen Not only in this videos but many good Palestinians and good jews.Who makes it bad for everyone is the terrorists. Man we outsiders love both nations and both should live in peace
Tommy - your videos are nothing that I've come across on TH-cam before, or really anywhere else on the internet for that matter. Unbiased, informative, entertaining, and truly showing each culture in it's most raw form. You really show how 99.5% of everybody in the world are just friendly, welcoming, and want to go about their daily lives. People are people at the end of the day. Maybe you get treated differently because you're American, who knows. But I respect your travels, your effort to learn the native language, and your effort to be as respectful as possible. Looking forward to more of your videos. Stay safe, and cheers from New York.
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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre site has been recognized since early in the 4th century as the place where Jesus was crucified, buried, and rose from the dead.
What Currency do they use in the West Bank and Gaza? Btw this video opened my eyes about how Palestinians people are. I didn't know there are good number of Christians there. The Western Media are liars. Ahsante Sana.
@@jenBaker707...but he was a very naughty boy.
Because of ppl like Tommy.. the truth comes! Thank you for sharing Tom and thank you for sheltering him ... Much love and peace for you
@JustinYiseverywhere I'm amazed that somebody so narrow minded is here watching Tommy.
Walking around epic historical sites by yourself without the big crowds has to be a one of a kind experience.
I traveled during COVID! It was spectacular 🎉🎉🎉
I was in London during the 2021 lockdown and standing at the Tower of London with absolutely no one around was surreal. It really felt like the opening scenes of 28 Days Later in the City of London area. Towering skyscrapers with no one around and ghost buses stopping to let no one off.
I randomly stumbled into where Jesus had the last supper and was walking around the roof of the Church of The Holy Sepulcher without knowing what it was lol. These places in Israel can be shockingly peaceful and also full of life. Just depends when you're there. What's also cool is the density of sites like these, literally everywhere has had people living there for thousands of years.
I agree must be an amazing feeling
...right, as a war rages on not so far away in case you havent heard
The gentleman that said...pray that the war will stop, tore my heart as there was much sadness in his voice...
The exchange around 39:00 minutes when the man lets you stay in the hotel which is closed, very touching. Even in wartimes you can still see humans as we all are, just people hoping to live in peace. He opened his doors and fed you after seeing you had no allegiance to any enemies. Those of us who understand this (that people deserve to be fed, housed, and educated) should be ruling the world.
I agree
Yeah very nice man. But it's not that simple to just feed the world like you say. It's too many factors involved.
further proof it's one racist hole where you can't even get a hotel room if you're from a western country, Palestinians stuck in medieval times, 100 years behind normal, civilised humans
Yes they should, but they never will. Because the only people who have the drive to get into power want all of the power and money for themselves.
Itulah jiwa sosial Orang Palestina sperti mereka lakukan pada tahun 1933 ketika Orang Yahudi German Kabur dari Germany Ketika Nazi Ingin Membunuh Keluarga Mereka ,,Orang Paletina Yang Menerima Mereka dengan Tulus Hati dengan Memberi Mereka makan dan Tempat tinggal Layaknya keluarga sendiri, tetapi Apa daya Setelah Mereka Sudah Banyak di Palestina Dan ingin miliki semua Seluruh tanah palestina bahkan orang palestina Mereka usir,, itulah di istilahkan Yahudi German dan Amerika Adalah Zionisme
At minute 8:31 you can see a Jew talking to a soldier. He is not allowed to enter the Temple Mount site (which is also holy to Jews) and pray there, he asks the soldier: "What are you against the Jews". If the situation is explained, it should be explained to both parties. There are many Jewish sites that Jews are not allowed to enter in Jerusalem because this will cause tension between the Arabs and the Jews. Like the Temple Mount for example.
Israel itself took part in restricting access for non-Muslims, a bipartisan agreement to stop violent Zionists from sabotaging the mosque and other things. And yet how many times have we seen IDF siege the Temple Mount for no good reason at all?
A 2021 study by the New York Genome Center found that the predominant component of the DNA of modern Palestinians matches that of Bronze Age Palestinians (Canaanites) from around 2500-1700 BCE.[17]The original jews are the palestinian people, who were ethnically cleansed by invading zionists alien to the land. The third temple, Alaqsa, was built by the people of jerusalem, many jews who converted to islam during its construction upon the liberation of jerusalem from roman rule and the return of palestinian jews to jerusalem in 632-634 ad. The invading zionists, according to Israeli author Shlomo Sand in his book "The invention of the Jewish people are jewish converts alien to palestine. In the 8th century ad the Khazar kingdom in ukraine converted to judaism and would go on to make the ashkenazi jewish population in europe. Yemenis converted to judaism during the yemeni kindom o Himyar in the 5th century ad during the rule of Dul Nawas. There were jewish kingdoms in iraq and north africa as well. The palestinians are the eternal natives of the land. Free Palestine.
Yeah because the extreme ones start rioting and breaking things when they get inside the premises.
Its sad that both sides are restricted from their holy sites lets pray this war ends.
Simple fix, remove all islamic influences.
11:12 when the man is imploring you to pray for peace and for innocents to stop dying either side. You can hear in his voice how heartbroken he is and that really got me.
I know. My heart ached and I felt in my heart how I would have expressed a most sincere sentiment with him. He was pleading for a voice to hear. Idk if I could've moved on that fast.
I also would've expressed a deep appreciation for the food and room offered by hotel owner. I just think that's an intimate thing, to invite a stranger for dinner. Then again, what do I know about the culture? It might've been inappropriate to express my gratitude to the host for all I know, lol. But it would've been my reaction, good or bad. 🤭
@@treesab yeah I mean he has to be careful with what he does and what he posts but I agree with you.
came here to say this. it's just so heartbreaking.
praying for the innocent always
The true sons of Jacob are the Palestinians, whatever their religion. Whoever wants to refer to the heavenly books will see that. The Samaritans live, and they are the oldest sect in the world. They lived in Palestine when they fled from Pharaoh.
Eastern European threat, they took over the Jewish religion in the 8th century. This does not give you the right to seize someone's land
The shop keeper has a wonderful sense of humor. His mother is Roman Catholic and his father is Palestinian Muslim- he says "I guess that makes me Jewish, idk." I got good vibes from him.
Noticeable American accent too. He probably has studied abroad
You are Woke lunitec just all, it wasnt even funny
@@ori1676womp womp
@@tusk4339 Sorry I dont speak Wokish
@@ori1676Aww c'mon man. Buddy was lols at himself & at his situation. If we even lose our sense of humor, what do have left. Dont let this 'woke' crap eat you up so go live & be happy. Most of all learn to respect other ppls views & opinions even if we disagree
I'm 65,living in Europe, you're the first one who showed me how life is over there. couldn't imagine it before. Love your approach and honest views on all the country's you visit. Thanks and thanks again, it opens my eyes, no biased docu but the real world. Merci beaucoup.
@@tonyprice2256 oh? I'M ignorant? Ik why do you think that? Why such a stupid reaction? Do you know how I live and who I Am? Do you know what i do, did, saw already? Did You See the whole world like he here did? Why do you judge other people .....
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -------------
What a fascinating place this was a great video of the area. Most people say they're so confused by how they live there. Thank you so much for taking that amazing journey.
I agree. Tommy looked at the situation the way I would, as an agnostic. People are people.
yeah freedom for palestine@@ffarmchicken
The hotel owner and his family are so lovely and welcoming. And it is so interesting to hear from them directly what life is like in these difficult times.
i noticed everyone in the hospitality business is very friendly in Israel. my wife and i stayed close to the old city, as well as Nazareth. October 7th was our check out date and they even offered to let us stay for free. We decided to check out anyway which turned out to be one of the best decisions we ever made but the people working in anything tourist related are the best people you will meet. This isn't meant to pick one side over the other. We dealt with both jews and arabs. top quality service on both sides.
"My moms Roman Catholic and my dad is Palestinian Muslim, so I guess that makes me Jewish, I dunno" - That was a line that had me in stitches 😅
Bro ur cant be a palstain and muslim palestain was a land who controled by greace in the 12 cuntery and thay hate muslims
Follow your dad
@@ulugbekvlogs6991 what
Nah follow your mom.
Or better yet, follow your heart
That hotel owner was a real g for letting you stay.
And feeding him. So wholesome
Hotel Jerifornia
I don’t think Americans appreciate this hospitality enough. Their tax dollars literally funds the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, yet Palestinians still able to navigate through this oppression and not hate back everyone from America.
The hospitality of those people was amazing. War is a racquet. We are humans and should care about each other.
They don't think like Westerners.
who started this war? oh yes it was hamas
A tennis racquet or a badminton racquet?
@@tuttlespeachtree3413
I guess auto correct got me again. I am not a rocket scientist or a grammar extraordinaire.
@@EDINTHEWIND I didn't mean to jump on you my friend, I just thought it was a funny turn of phrase!
Thanks for the unbiased vlog. I am Jewish and I really like seeing both sides and I pray for peace for everyone. I pray no more casualties. We’re all human and all deserve to be safe and live peacefully, God bless.❤
Not if they think peace is killing the Jews
Thank you my sister ❤
Geez! How many language you speak dude! Well done! I like how transparent you are with the information. Thank you!
The part with the hotel owner was very heart warming. It also made me sad seeings such decent folks like that caught up in all this mess.
Man, what a great documentary this is and what a open minded person you are. This is absolutely amazing.
Thank you for the objective vlog. I am Jewish and Israeli. I served in the IDF and still serve in the reserves. My experience with the Palestinian population has always been as a soldier. I was surprised and happy to see the Palestinian side in an objective way, where I could sit safely on my couch without fear. I saw their human side, without hate in their eyes.
We are all human beings, and I hope we will soon learn to live together. I still believe in Israel's path, even though Israel makes mistakes too. I hope for better days for everyone
You know why they hate idf right? Or are you that deluded? Y’all unalive their children and women. Y’all bomb their houses and displaced them since 1948. Tbh your delusional. You can’t run from God when you have to answer for your evil doings. Go back wherever you came from, stop the occupation and their will be peace. A human being will never ever join idf like the actual Jews inside Mae Sheriem - Naturei Karta.
Clicked by accident, never saw your channel or heard of it. Loved the content. You could almost smell the Middle-east. I loved the part when the Palestinian hotel owner accepted you inside and invited you to their late dinner. I genuinly got jealous and felt like i am not alive in the western world with all the (so called) comfort here… Thank you for this video
Me too, just seeing his channel. Honest and humane 😊
@@nty3929
No you dont understand it, it not a lie, its a polite manner of saying "i can’t accept you" (whatever the reason may be). If the man was a liar who was up to no good he would not have invited him to his table! And anno 2023 no one cares about being recorded or not!
I was watching this on my head on
my phone and I had to stop after 15 minutes. I thought this is just a fantastic vlog that’s well put together. It’s got history, geography, current affairs and humanity etc without political agendas. So I have subscribed and liked and will watch on my big screen to give it full justice. Respect and appreciation.
Its literally everything about politics is showing news websites wtf
❤
Stay safe ... thank you for your brave reporting! Your humanity is what is important
Humanizing just one side in this video.
- Sabbatical made it seem like Hamas atrocities of Oct 7th was justified by voicing Hamas' bogus reason for the attack at 8:52
- Palestinians gave their deluded version of history and events without an Israeli response.
- He highlights how hard it is to get between Palestinian cities without explaining that it is a time of war and attacks on Israelis are happening, and that checkpoints on those roads were put into place to stop Palestinian suicide bombers which murdered 803 Israeli civilians over 15 years.
- When referencing Jew's holiest site he said it was "so they say" the original spot of the Jew's temple which was destroyed.
To be fair he did make another video in Israel, so he tries to be balanced.
He said not a reporter 😉
@@Theouterrim77Which is good☺️
@@jamalsjamalse Yeh, because Taqqiyah is good right ?
@@Theouterrim77 have you read your talmud today boy?
Is the checkpoint issue a little overblown? From the way the Palestinians in the video described it I was cringing in expectation for the horrors you were going to endure on the way back from Jericho to Jerusalem, but turned out to be easy-peasy & totally reasonable given some very real security concerns.
People don’t understand the insidious Arab behavior. After 1967 the border was completely open, hundreds of thousands Arabs entered Israel for work, they could come and go as they pleased, until the terror starts, and that’s why there are check points
A lot overblown. That's way easier than crossing any other country border. I commute daily from Zone c to official Israel. But that's a part of the arab propganda unfortunately and westreners swallow this easily.
Thank you for your genuine and honest content. My boyfriend showed me ur vids and now we watch them together :3 Hello from Isabel and Albert across the world 👋 Stay safe friend ! 🙏
This is the most stressful video of yours that I had watch, be careful bro.
Agree! scared for your safety but grateful for your bravery ... love is stronger my friend ...believe in the goodness of humans around the world
Thank you for the reality you presented Tommy . Heartening to see the West Bank hospitality accorded you . I appreciate your many videos .
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -------------
The Chinese family was so sweet. Their little son was trying to listen so intensely, he was adorable.
Really nice family
were they Christians?
Yea i was melting over his cuteness! You can see its such a happy family
@Cowardlygrass no I’m a girl…. So nooooo.
@Sickopediais that you Ghislaine maxwell
I was a child when there were no checkpoints and we could all freely walk around the entire territory of Israel and the West Bank.
But then the intifada broke out, and terrorists started entering the Jewish cities from the West Bank, blowing up buses (over 10,000 buses, with dozens of children, women, and adults who died in each of them), restaurants, and shopping malls. so Israel decided to set up a checkpoint at every crossing and road between the different territories, to try to prevent this from happening as much as possible.
Ultimately, it helped and the intifada was reduced until it disappeared. but the sad thing is that Israeli Jews can no longer enter the West Bank territories, and the residents of the West Bank live and are limited within their territories.
A closed circle of pain, fear, and hatred from both sides without hope.
didn't the intifada start because of the IDF's gross negligence towards palestinians? they shot civilians for no apparent reason.
@@zxhDid you skip the part where anyone could walk around freely? I don't think that means that they can be shot for no reason by the Idf. And you can be anything a Palestinian a Jew a Christian all humans look the same. People don't get singled out in Israel it's a diverse place. The Apartheid is in the Muslim countries and Palestinian neighborhoods and in Mosques.
@@YittySteinmetz The problem is that you don't get to walk around freely.
The term freely, is subjective. I have seem NUMEROUS documentaries online, where people that look "arab", get harassed by IDF soldiers for simply existing. I don't think this is freedom.
@@zxh
The intifada broke out due to a lack of agreement that Israel would remain within the 67 borders, and Israel reached the borders of 67 because Arab countries did not agree to the existence of the State of Israel.
So all the Arab countries fought Israel in 1948, and it didn't go well for them.
Then they rose up and fought again in 1967 (even though the West Bank was under Jordan and Gaza was under Egypt!!!!) and again, it didn't go well for them (and also they lost the West Bank and Gaza).
Since then they have never stopped fighting even when Israel gave them Gaza.
And if you listen, they also say out loud, that they will not stop fighting until all of Israel is theirs.
We here the 10,000,000 Jews are going to remain in the State of Israel, and the 3 million Palestinians in the West Bank are welcome to recognize the existence of the State of Israel, lay down their arms and the path of terrorism, and establish their own state in the west bank. and YES, we did offer them THAT in the past, several times! (including with the world presidents who witnessed this). Sadly the Palestinians have always refused because they refuse to have 2 states for 2 nations next to each other.
@@Tomsheethe only incorrect thing in that statement is that you said there are 10,000,000 Jews in Israel. There are actually 7.5 million Jews, 2 million Muslims and about a half million different ethnic groups (Hindu, Christians, etc). Muslims in Israel are integrated into Israeli society and hold political positions within Israeli government.
The hotel owner in Jericho was very welcoming, they really looked after you.
You should be the role model for every American. You are always so respectful and kind to the people you come across with. :) you are a good man
Abi even with an economic crisis you are donating?
I agree with you.... Tommy is a gentleman here in this video. I've just subscribed to his channel. 👍
@Rachelforpeace1who cares 😂 Jews cry that while having hate for Muslims it is what it is. All religions are corrupt and are there for control and money
Idk about that. Where is he being antisemitic?
@Rachelforpeace1 at what point in this video is he being antisemtic?
Hey Tommy, when I first saw your video about going to Israel i thought you were crazy. But you are giving a lot of insight to the outside world with your signature authenticity. Be safe there man, love the content as always.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -------------
He told you to leave the mosque because it was time for prayer otherwise you are welcome to explore. Have in mind also that the mosque has ben subjected to alot of attempts of vandalism.
yeah the idf constantly would break stuff in there unexpectedly a lot of behavior seen that is negative from palestinians is because they are fearful and don’t get to live a normal life due to occupation
I was super excited to see this after your previous video. Really great job I think you've shown, whether Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Israeli, or Palestinian, people are just trying to survive in an insane world. People will blame whomever they want to blame, but I think everyone just want to be able to go home.
The Palestinians proved they are above all that murdering for profit nonsense.
Here here
Israeli here, the average Israeli has no problem with Palestinians who want to live peacefully.
But most Palestinians don't recognize us legitimate
Home where. They think that they are indigenous of the land. That's their problem and this will never happen. They need to get over it.
Israel soldiers are everywhere in Palestinian land
As a young man figuring out where I fit in the world, how to understand the present and the past, and how I can be a part of something larger than myself, these videos really inspire me to educate myself and seek knowledge authentically.
The media is so overwhelming and biased. TH-camrs like Sabbatical and NickIndigo have shaped the way I view the world in many ways.
Thank you for the unbiased work you do. Peace and prosperity to all innocent people around the globe.
You may be interested in reading the Bible, all the Best for you.
@@user-gk6rf8ls1dI have read it…. I prefer to form my own perspective… it has some good stuff though. Thank you, be well
Absolutely go and see things for yourself. In other countries and in different areas inside your own country. Don't let journalists define the world for you, go experience it yourself. You will change your opinions on many things and that is good!
Of course it takes a lot of time to really understand the historical contexts. One side and the other will omit history from one point to the other. For example, one thing I notice here is that Palestinians always talk of Jews coming from Europe after WWII. They never mention Jews living there before that but it is a fact that Jews were a majority living in Jerusalem during Ottoman rule and that was documented through an Ottoman census done on the region. Jews and Arabs have lived there for hundreds of years and some Jews never left and have been there since Roman times, Arab conquests, The Crusades, etc. History is more complex than to say it all started in 1948. Perhaps many Palestinians today are descendants of Jews forced into Islam as well. There are god people on both sides. And there are evil people. One more on one side than the other is my opinion. You work hard to figure that out on your own. Good luck.
@@TRYCLOPS1 with respect, the sephardic jews only made up about 5% of the population under Ottoman rule, didnt they ? It was 90% Arab, 5% Jewish, and other communities
Thanks for taking us on this journey with you. The humanity is truly felt throughout this video. Also I don't think I'd ever have gone to these places my self so I learned a lot and saw a lot and I sort of feel like in a way I was there along for the adventure. Looking forward to the next!
Thank You for sharing about the Chinese , when I was in the Hospital for three weeks, A Christian Chinese girl shared with me that she got Baptized in the Jordan river . That's a Blessing from Above .
You can see in the poster of the children who died in Gaza one picture of an 5 years old Israeli kid who got killed by Hamas from a missile. His name was Ido and he died in 2021. Who knows which photos are actually from Gaza.
Exactly, I said the same thing. When he showed the poster I stopped the video and looked to see who they were showing. They lie. It’s been told over and over that there is a Jewish child on the poster and they still use it for their propaganda lies. עם ישראל חי
There are 11000 other kids died in Gaza, don't worry, the evidence is clear enough
Nice to see ordinary Palestinians denouncing killings of children on both sides then 😇 IOF on the other hand almost only kills children, and almost doesn't see Palestinians as humans - Just like we didn't see Jews as Humans some 100 years ago
Must be a Hamas children.
Thanks Tommy, the hospitality shown to you by the Palestinians was a beautiful thing to see.
show him the pro palestinian protestors and see what he thinks of them then
@Imnotabot78 Shows how the media have corrupted your thoughts
@@AdissapointedSonic slow day at Hasbara mr bot?
the acting palis; they welcome Timmy today but tomorrow if Timmy is not converting to their version of Islam, things will get bad real fast.
@@AdissapointedSonic when a kid with a rock is a threat to a big guy. isnt that the story of David and Golliath? the same David whose star is on that flag?
Thanks man I'm saving this for a bed time video watch. Always enjoyed your videos and calm narratives in explaining controversial topics. Stay safe and may there be peace.
I wouldn't say the "atmosphere is very excessive," being that there are constant terror attacks not only in that area but across all of Israel and Palestine. They're simply being cautious.
And yet it took the IDF over eight hours to respond on Oct. 7th. 🤔
@@Sad_But_True17i dont think anybody doesnt believe that the IDF is abusing oct 7
Not true but okay. You can believe what fox says
@@SilentNine CNN, NBC, etc, they're all saying the same shid. Clearly the establishment stands with 🇮🇱, no matter what.
@@Sad_But_True17 Of course Israel bribes and blackmails like no other.
10:05 "My mom's catholic, my father's a muslim... I guess that makes me jewish." I laughed my ass off!! Golden!
Lol
Obviously they are both sick
@@josevasquez7772 sure thing buddy you're not delusional nor racist
The people in the area are all beautiful and that kind of humor is common
@@josevasquez7772 ...
It's so eye opening to see your experiences, how the people react to you, and just everything about this. Thanks for educating us a little on the way too
"Are you a political blogger?" wtf
As an Israeli, this was the first time I've seen footage from Ramallah streets. Thank you for this. Unfortunately, no peace is coming here anytime soon, but at least you help some of us see the people on the other side.
@@The_SIGMA_MUSLIM lol so am i canadian? or an indian settler?
@@The_SIGMA_MUSLIMThey are settlers who expelled us all, and we are refugees in another country. My heart is breaking 💔
@@sweetlan9319 Israel isn't going to just give up and cease to exist I'm afraid. The rage can continue for decades or there can be some kind of accommodation.
@@The_SIGMA_MUSLIMyou can keep saying that, that’s not going to change anything
if it was not for the portugees and brits, you would have stayed in your land, and natives in their land "Canada." So, yeah, sad to break it to you, but you're objectively not a "Canadian," you are an Indian who's his father or grandfather decided to fly all the way to a land that was brutally stolen, occupied, and colonized. And the ones who did decided to give foreigners to the land the right to claim nationality and residenceship. Just like Israel (westerners from east and west claiming the right to own a land in a mediterranean land.@@2bitTank
i can feel the tension through the screen I cannot imagine what it feels like to actually be there
Above all things Tommy your videos make me love humans more and more.
We may have geographical, religious or political differences, but we are more the same than we are different.
Big love.
Love what you said ...yes the human heart is full of love no matter what ... Stay HUMAN ❤
We probably share a lot of the same dna ✌️ we look alike that's why it tears my heart to see us at war. 😢 we all lose, and the All mighty is also crying , may we find a peaceful solution for the future of the children .
It sounds good, but the real world has never been true. Someone has to stand on the wall so others may sleep.
Your vlogs always hit different. Makes me feel like i'm actually there with you thanks man. Stay safe out there.
I been watching your videos for a couple weeks now and you just earned so much respect from me. Loved this!
You are such a kind person
Thanks for covering and keep safe ❤
Don’t sell yourself short man. You may be the most unbiased journalist I’ve seen in a very long time.
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HE'S NOT A JOURNALIST! he is a youtuber!
I just enjoy his travels and openness. I can vicariously travel with him.
@@donaldobrien9171 Yeah thats true as journalists are not honest
This is not journalism. Please learn proper terms.
the hotel owners are so kind, i hope they can withstand all this chaos...
“It used to be a militarized border. Now it’s a little more complicated.” My laugh of the day. 😊
@@udlrrldu621or youre just to stupid to understand what he is saying
@@udlrrldu621?
@@udlrrldu621 you are brainwashed;(
As you can see the amophere is very sensitive she was really pleasant to him man on a winge.
@@udlrrldu621 elaborate please
You can’t even buy some socks without it being political.
Because that’s their life! And Americans are contributing to their plight so they will tell. Stupidity knows no bounds right?
@@daenerystargaryen500 I’m not sure what being upset at someone (American) who is purchasing socks from you is going to achieve, other than making them feel uncomfortable. It demonstrates a lack of understanding and emotional maturity. He’s not the president or a politician.
How much for a barrel of red wine ? 😆
@@AC-wz9tx he is just making small talk, he is not complaining to the guy, he knows that Biden is fucking that guy too. Politics for Palestinians is a huge part of their life, and they are used to talk about it all the time, starting with breakfast and before bed watching the news together.
@@AC-wz9tx You know that Popular Front is Pro-Palestine right?
Thank you Tommy for being a great vlogger. I love how you deliver it, just facts and not sensationalised. Keep up the good work!
I would give you 10 thumbs up, if I could. There are good people everywhere, and the media is nothing but lies. The problem is too many good people listen to the media in the locations in which they live. Bravo on your confidence in humanity.
Exactly. The main stream media hasn’t covered this genocide for 75 years. The horrific atrocities that are only coming out to many of us because of social media. Many journalists privately say that they want to cover the stories that are happening to the Palestinians in Israel, the their bosses say no. I guess the bosses are tied to Zionist Israel somehow. Check out: “Britain Rises for Gaza: Lowkey exposes Israelis waning grip on politics” . He explains how Israel is tied to main stream media. Justice for Palestinians. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
Palestine was the most peaceful laconic place on earth until the Zionist Jews arrived from Europe in 1948.
Yes agree ..it’s good to see the good people and not just the bad ones that MSM shows us …..
That was so sad seeing the man pray for peace. It hurts beyond words.
Pray to lord Jesus Christ to save us all amen
@@conspiraciesexposed7760 pray to allah to save us all amen
pray to whatever god you believe in
19:48 absolutely what I was thinking 😭 as an Egyptian I was shocked when I watched your Israel vlog since it was very clean and organized for a middle eastern country, but the moment you entered the West Bank I was like here we go that’s the middle east I know with all the traffic problems and everything is messy. It’s kinda sad but that’s the reality we live in.
I’m trying to learn more about everything regarding this conflict with an open mind, and your videos are for sure helping a lot!
Because Islam is like communism, everyone thinks it’s logical but in the hands of the wrong people it’s weaponized against them.
Government needs to stay secular non religious entity.
Middle eastern countries are hell holes to the fabric of the society.
look at the cleanest and least dangerous countries in the world you cannot hear the call of prayer
تبا للسفهاء
Dude, Your channel is changing my whole perspective by adding so many new layers of awareness. Thank you.
nice try buddy@YaakovAltmann
@YaakovAltmann i know you're talking abt israel
@YaakovAltmann It's almost as if one is a priveleged, power-entrenched, despotic place while the other are mere people trying to make do of their everyday life with whatever scraps they can.
The gentleman at 11:15 touched a nerve and was a little goose-bump moment as he asked that you pray for peace and the way he said, 'everybody we are so much in need of peace', for all sides and the innocents. It was a global plea. I volunteer in Ukraine and have done for two years and the things you see are horrific and now Gazza, we have so much senseless killing going on and the world on the precipice of another global conflict with so many knife edge hot spots. That was a nice moment in the video, so I will join with him and pray for an end to all this conflict and the loss of innocent lives.
Yeah, really we need to have a war on violent Islam. It’s the most destabilizing force in the whole world. It’s nazism 2.0
He just wanted to get money
Well the difference is that Gaza started the war not Israel.
@@Erik3E Israel started the war by invading Palestine unrightfully and unruly, committing war crimes, creating an apartheid, and providing the formula for terrorism. Then recently a separate terrorist organisation that was exiled by the Palestinians government, not ‘Gaza’, killed Israelis (around 1400 are dead so far) causing the actual official Israel to kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians (around 37000 are dead so far) rather than attacking the terrorists.
Let me ask you this, was there Hamas before the creation of Israel? So how is this the people of Gaza’s fault? Do you think they want terrorists? I can tell you first hand that the vast majority of them do not, because they are victims of terrorism more than Israel is, so they’re suffering from left right and centre and being blamed for starting it. Injure and oppress and destroy a group people, and they will revolt. Israel’s extreme oppression and murder has resulted in extreme terrorism, and the West has created the environment for terrorist organisations again and again. We saw it with al-Qaeda, with the Taliban, with ISIS. Was any of this created before Western involvement and their warcrimes in the middle east?
@@hana-ov1ju I am glad that we agree that Hamas who rules Gaza started this war on the 7th of October by slaughtering, torturing, raping and abducting 1400 people.
I am also glad you know the conflicts between Israel and Hamas stretches before the 7th. However the 7th is when this current conflict started.
About the numbers claimed dead by Hamas etc. Since they are a terrorist organization that also kills its own citizens as much as Israelis its safe to asume we cant trust their numbers. We also know hamas uses its own population as human shields.
Maybe you dont know about the son of one of the founders of Hamas but he is quite outspoken on youtube social media and news about how Israel is the opnly solution for Gaza. The people of gaza are hostages not by Israel but by Hamas. Unfortunetly this war is claiming inocent palestinians but not becouse Israel but becouse of hamas who uses its own people as a sheild.
If there is anything to not it is that Israel is not attacking the west bank, they are attacking gaza only. And we all know why.
There is also something about israel that people rarely talk about. The fact that they have Palestinian Israelis living within their country with the same rights as anyone else. In palestine or Gaza there is 0 jewish people living becouse we all know they would get murdered.
Islamic terrorism was a thing since the beginning of Islam. You must have missed the beginning of Islam spreading by conquest and murder.
Let me ask you a simple question. You accidentally hitting someone with your car or you executing someone by shooting them in the head, raping them and abducting them is equal to you?
How many Palestinians could be saved if Egypt opened its border?
Why dont they do that? They talk a big game about the poor palestinians but they refuse to help them. Its an odd mathematical equation you can help solve right now.
The instant stress i could see set in when he learned he might not be able to get out was visible. Really helped to understand the situation
Valuable history lesson... The mosque is built on top of the ruins of the Jewish Temple. It should be pretty easy to figure out which, and who, came first.
Dumb take. Who destroyed the temple and kicked out the Jews? Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC and then by Ttius and the Romans in 70 CE. Roman Emperor Claudis kicked out Jews from Jerusalem in 139 BC before Titus destroyed the temple during his reign. It was during the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem when Jews were allowed to return. Who "came first" doesn't matter when generations of people have been living in a place for centuries.
it was never jjewish its a place of worshhip that we muslims believe that all prophets prayed there
"It will take 5 hours to pass the checkpint"... 5 mins later -> "It took 25 minutes from Jericho to Jerusalem"
Depends on their mood once it took me from 2 PM - 10 PM from Jericho to a village near Jerusalem ( without the checkpoint is 30 min ride) a pregnant women had to use the bathroom, kids were hungry me personally I got my period and was in a shitty situation also my parents could not come pick me (thankfully my friend's family picked us up) bcs they were allowing people to leave Jericho (with humiliation and 8h delay ) but closing the checkpoint for people to enter it. all of this while not having enough sleep and coming back from the airport leaving from Italy to Jordan crossing 2 bridges then a checkpoint for 8 h then finally home.
He is literally a white American dude 🤡
+ when he said 25min. He meant the time after the checkpoint.
I love watching your videos!
My family visited Israel in 1999 and Israel, Egypt, and Jordan in November 2000. I remember that there were boulders everywhere and there was a conflict at that time. The roads into Bethlehem were closed and we had to take back roads. All these places that you visited, I remember visiting even though I was only 6 and 7 when we visited. But it had such an immense impact on me and my life. I remember the people in this region being SO kind. They gave me things everywhere I went. I also remember thinking how odd it was that it was such a militarized place. Our bus driver was Muslim and he gave me a stuffed ram. There was also security everywhere! Our hotels even had X-ray machines like the ones in the airport. Our tour guide was Jewish. Even though there is conflict with people, they got along. I think it’s so different being there than just reading about it or seeing it on the news.
A (French? I think?) camera crew actually followed our tour group around for a bit, but I’ve never found the footage. It would be neat to see.
There is no israel, its palestine
You're ignorant@@Audioze-
@@Audioze-what does your currency say? your money? Oh wait....you have no Palestinian currency! Not a country!
@@Rogue-7.62 Oh, and did you have a passport before 48 with the Palestinian state written on it, or did your ancestors live in Germany, Russia, or Britain? What is your origin?
@@reremohamed7748 US, yes we had passports and currency, Palestine has neither.
"You will get shot at a checkpoint" - only if you act threateningly or refuse to follow IDF orders. Who gets shot? People smuggling weapons, or driving a car fast to run tge checkpoint, or the idiot that jumps out of their car and rushes the checkpoint with a knife. No different a response from police elsewhere in the world.
Exactly
Most police in the world do not indiscriminately shoot children.
Pfftt keep yourself in your delusional bubble. There are tons of proof online of palestinians being killed for no reason, abducted and imprisoned illegaly, children as young as 12! So no, they will shoot palestinians at checkpoints because they can and have no compassion, they don’t need any reason and if they did, they could just fabricate a lie.
Too scary
Cool, what do you think of the genocide
Just a correction at the 4:15 mark to say that Jerusalem isn't the most important place for Muslims - it's their third important place, Mecca being their first. Jerusalem is mentioned 626 times in the Tanakh and 141 times in the New Testament. Jerusalem is not mentioned by name in the Koran.
It only became “important” when Israel became a state.. go figure
He very briefly clarifies this at 4:19, still a thumbs up though, I was unaware of the number of times the site was referred to in the different texts.
626 times in the Old Testament or Tanakh, or just, the Bible. Just to clarify what a Tanach is to those unaware.
The city don’t belong to any religion. The city belongs to people who live there for religion. Stupid people always think of religious symbols and forget human beings
انت لا تفقه شيء
I absolutely love your channel. Thank you so much for being brave enough to visit these places and show us true humanity. ❤
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -------------
Your video proves what I believe from traveling to so many countries. People are people. At the end of the day, the nature of people are pure and kind. If more people can resist external factors (gov, media, politics), the kindness is the same everywhere you go if your intend is as kind as well. However, "now you know what it's like to be Palestinians".
Seems quite normal
@eden5260 You must be blind then.
@@samara6041 just not brainwashed
@@eden5260You forgot the part where he said we go do protests everyday.
The woman at mosque said they weren't allowed everyday.
You forgot the part where the guy said most of the people were refugees cause they were displaced by Israelis.
You forgot the part where the guy at the barbecue said it takes 3 to 5 hours in the checkpoint, and the checkpoint is in palestine. You forgot the Israeli checkpoints in Palestinian territory.
@@eden5260you also didn't watch the part where he said the Israelis as the checkpoint shoot the Palestinians in their own land.
Your video gave some of us, like me, our first real experience with life in the West Bank. Amazing, thank you. I feel like you could spend months there teaching us about the place.
Jerusalem is not the holiest city in the world for Muslims - they place Mecca and Medina above Jerusalem. It is, however, the holiest city in the world for Jews. Also, the old city is not just Arab/Palestinian. The Jewish and Christian presence in the old city predates the muslim presence by far.
They're all abrahamic religeons.
You said it well, the difference between Tel Aviv and Ramallah is insane, did not expect that
Israel has dictated that Palestinians cannot dig wells, cannot build even an airport. This is what happens when you completely and deliberately suffocate a region. Imagine someone cuts your electricity, internet and allows you to only eat bread and water. Then asks "why aren't you successful".
u know u can shoot someone with a camera or a communication device and its not a war crime this is very interesting i think be careful
Thank you for REALLY showing what’s going on there right now. Very informative and obviously entertaining. Makes me want to visit the same areas one day.
These checkpoints didn't exist when I was a kid. I'm 33 years old. It's new. It's because they started two intifada's when they blew themselves up in kindergartens, buses, restaurants, schools. 100% self inflicted misery, and they don't seem to want to change anything.
This guy is calm and authentic. He just makes u want to listen to him more and more.
When he talked to the shopkeeper who clearly doesn't like jews he seemed pretty scared
@@dors.sc1Probably scared he’d be misidentified as a Jew. I don’t blame him though, being misidentified as an Israeli Jew is the ultimate insult.
“Moms a Roman Catholic, dads a Palestinian Muslim. I guess that makes me Jewish, I dunno” hahahaha
lsteal: If you believe Jesus Christ is real then you're antisemitic. 😂
@@Anonymous------ alright.
@@673AWSF
J.e.vv.z: Jesus Christ was an antisemite.
Can you explain the joke
@@Bigdoglentil no
I love that people seem to be very hospitable...even though they are going through a tough time. This was a great vlog 👍🏽
Arabs are very welcoming! warm people. and i really dont like arabs much
cause he says he is USA, and they know USA are ignorant to facts- wanna see what the IDF says when he comes from somewhere else?
@@mainstreampropaganda7518 Tourists come from everywhere to Israel, what the fuck are you talking about?
He said it's 3-5 hours to cross the checkpoint no? It was instant. Also all the cars pretty much drive through. Good that you show the truth
He had to switch to crossing on foot and he is not Palestinian. I wouldn't discount the lived experience of the Palestinian hotel owner so quickly.
he had to switch cars because the car had palestinian ID and went on foot and was aprehended for filming
Why do the Palestines complain about life in the West Bank. Looks beautiful and regular hustle n bustle. And Gaza was even nicer. The Hamas and Palestinians destroy their own economy. For a so called freedom that they don’t have. And complain about check points that every country has and even more so because terrorists try to come in daily to attack. While in israel the streets are mostly quiet because they have to deal with terrorist and war. FREE ISRAEL.
My respects man. I've been saying you've got iron balls. You keep outdoing yourself. This is quality content and you've risked your own life. Best youtuber and one of the best human beings I've ever seen.
И чем он рискует?))Ходит кушает булочку и снимает улицу))
Definitely missed something ? Risked his life ? 😂😂😂😂😂
One of the best human beings? You don't even know him. What an incredibly baseless statement.
isn't he a cia agent?
Israel probably safer than America
Yours is the only travel channel I watch and you never disappoint. Great job on a very interesting video.
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -------------
arab is better and crazier
@@ImGlitcherTV
Crazier? Yea. Better? Well, I'd love to hear what you Arabs contributed to the world.
@moshco23 the denial of history is astonishing. Jews were always welcomed by the Arabs while they were getting killed in Europe, that's one. The scientific method, algebra, alchemy, improvements on surgery, mathematics, influence on Europe that led to the rennaisance, do I need to add more. Stop downplaying a civilization just because they're the so called enemy.
@@mooiamacow
It's a genuine question.
One of the most important videos that you've made to date. I hope people watch it and try to lend a little understanding. Awesome Job Tommy!
3-5 hours to get out of a checkpoint? Thats insane. Liked your videos and glad to see someone non biased filming. Love that the Palestinians showed you such hospitality. I went to Egypt in 2019 as a solo female traveller in my 50s. Everyone thought I was crazy but I was made to feel so welcome and felt so safe. My answer to everyone was I will make up my own mind about people and places. So happy I didnt listen to naysayers. If you dont take a chance and travel you will never know what you are missing. Bravo for being brave Tommy. Loved these videos.
Your proving that when people get to know each other barriers break down. Communication and language are essential. This video gives me a glimmer of hope that someday everyone can live as equal in the Holy Land
and on this planet.
basically hoping we can go back to the ottoman empire of Palestine where everyone was living as equals the jews christians and muslims no issues at all
Except for when Jews and Christians were forced to pay the Jizya tax, if they paid it they were under muslim protection, and a sign of protection was getting the yellow star of David on their clothes (which is was Hitler reused) . If a Jew or Christian refused to pay the tax (as it was not allowed to practice your faith under Islamicrule with the Ottomans) then you were killed or enslaved.... so yes... theres alot of peace when you tell people if if they refuse to pay a tax to have freedom of faith they will be killed or ensalved. @broccoli726
@@broccoli726 Lol, that never happened.
Jews and Christians were Dhimmis in the Ottoman empire, the only time all three religions were able to live freely as equals was under Israeli rule.
Never been this early to your videos man so wanna say love your content man one of the best travel vloggers on youtube for sure!!!! Also so crazy that you are there right now man.
Absolutely crazy he is out there right now!! I figured this footage was old
This seems pretty dangerous Sabbatical. Stay safe brother!
The West Bank is pretty damn safe, at least compared to Gaza
I’m curious about why you can understand so many different languages . Amazing and respectful ❤thanks for sharing
probably CIA xD
You were very brave to go there. Pray for peace for the whole region. Peace, healing, justice for all people.
Hey Tommy, big fan and a long time subscriber. I just wanna say that the mosque with the golden dome isn’t the “Aqsa Mosque” , it’s called “Qubet Al Sakhra”. The other mosque with the smaller green dome is “Al-Aqsa”.
Keep doing what you’re doing, and stay safe 💪🏻
Good reminder thank you, history gets erased/whitewashed real quick around those parts 👀👀👀
Actually that’s wrong
The green done is masjid al qible
Al Aqsa mosque refers to everything inside the walls
The whole complex is called Al-Aqsa. Don't spread misinformation please
Why are you arguing, the brother was right technically, you are missing the point. The Dome Of The Rock is what Tommy pointed too, it is al Qubbat al Sakhra.
The "furthest mosque" mentioned in the Quran is south of that. It is the Jami al Aqsa, the musalla al Qibli itself, the other building with the smaller dome as the brother said.
He is doing good by making sure people know that, pointing out there are 2 holy sites in the compound of al Aqsa, so that violations/erasure can be noticed by more. And you 2 are on him trying to look smart? Lose the ego for God's sake
Hello ! May Allah protect and guide you to his light and happiness in this life and the hereafter, God bless, Ameen. Excuse me for giving a little presentation of Islam, because it is very misunderstood nowadays, especially on those « Antichrist's » times, where media and politics are mixed to distort history and truth. Thank you very much for your time.
Islam is an arabic word that means the Surrender to the One and Only God, our Creator, Protector, Provider, who gives us life and all that we have, we are safe and sound by his will and grace, we are His and to Him we return, and we have to thank him in this trial life by submitting to him by our free will, or later in the Day of judgment when it's too late to save our own skin. Islam was the original Religion descended to earth from heaven with Adam and Eve (peace and blessing be upon them) in the beginning of humanity. and was passed to people with the succession of the 124 000 prophets and 315 messengers of God to all nations and civilizations since, passing by Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Ismaël, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David, Solomon and Jesus (Peace and blessing be upon them) during the history of mankind, the last replaces and completes the previous, until the succession of the last messenger of God fourteen centuries ago, Muhammad (Peace and blessing be upon him) to complete the noble morals of all mankind, to bring humans and jinns out of darkness into light, and to purify people's religion and belief from corruption and polytheism, and return it to purity and true monotheism, like it was in the times of the prophets (Peace and blessing be upon them).
Many Religions that we know nowadays, at their beginning were true and under Islam, initiated by one of the prophets of God, but their original teachings, history and scriptures have been corrupted over time with falsification and polytheism, or lost and replaced with false ones. That's why Islam is the only Religion accepted by God nowadays, which consists in bearing witness that there is no god besides Allah (God in Aramaic, the original language of Jesus and the Gospel), and that Muhammad is His servant and messenger, just like Jesus and Moses and others are His servants and messengers. Never a messenger of God said he was God or literally son of God, it was the people after him who changed the words of God and corrupted the Religion. God is unique and absolute, He does not need to have a family and sons or to associate anyone else with His kingdom, He can simply create whatever He wants, everything belongs to Him, and to Him everything will return. Allah said in Surah Al-Mu’minun : “God has never begotten a son, nor is there any god besides Him. Otherwise, each god would have taken away what it has created, and some of them would have gained supremacy over others. Glory be to God, far beyond what they describe. The Knower of the hidden and the manifest. He is exalted, far above what they associate. (91-92 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah means the one and only God, the God of all prophets and creatures, the creator of the universe and mankind, and the Master of the Day of judgment, where our destiny, Hell or Paradise, is decided based on our faith and deeds in this trial life, and above all, Allah's mercy.
Allah said in Surah Al-Ikhlas : In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
Say, “He is God, the One. God, the Absolute. He begets not, nor was He begotten. And there is none comparable to Him.” (1-4 / Translated by ITANI).
Allah said in Surah An-Nisa : O FOLLOWERS of the Gospel! Do not overstep the bounds [of truth] in your religious beliefs, and do not say of God anything but the truth. The Christ Jesus, son of Mary, was but God's Apostle - [the fulfilment of] His promise which He had conveyed unto Mary - and a soul created by Him. Believe, then, in God and His apostles, and do not say, "[God is] a trinity". Desist [from this assertion] for your own good. God is but One God; utterly remote is He, in His glory, from having a son: unto Him belongs all that is in the heavens and all that is on earth; and none is as worthy of trust as God. Never did the Christ feel too proud to be God's servant, nor do the angels who are near unto Him. And those who feel too proud to serve Him and glory in their arrogance [should know that on Judgment Day] He will gather them all unto Himself: (171-172 / Translated by Muhammad Asad).
Allah the Most Merciful said in Surah Ali-Imran : Behold, the only [true] religion in the sight of God is [man's] self-surrender unto Him; and those who were vouchsafed revelation aforetime took, out of mutual jealousy, to divergent views [on this point] only after knowledge [thereof] had come unto them. But as for him who denies the truth of God's messages - behold, God is swift in reckoning!
Thus, [O Prophet,] if they argue with thee, say, "I have surrendered my whole being unto God, and [so have] all who follow me!" - and ask those who have been vouchsafed revelation aforetime, as well as all unlettered people, "Have you [too] surrendered yourselves unto Him?" And if they surrender themselves unto Him, they are on the right path; but if they turn away - behold, thy duty is no more than to deliver the message: for God sees all that is in [the hearts of] His creatures.
Verily, as for those who deny the truth of God's messages, and slay the prophets against all right, and slay people who enjoin equity - announce unto them a grievous chastisement.
It is they whose works shall come to nought both in this world and in the life to come; and they shall have none to succour them.
(19-22 / Translated by Muhammad Asad)..
God said : Say, “We believe in Allah, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was revealed to Abraham, and Ishmael, and Isaac, and Jacob, and the Patriarchs, and in what was given to Moses and Jesus, and in what was given to the prophets from their Lord. We do not differentiate between any of them. And to Him, we surrender.”
(2:136 / Translated by Community)
Salam (Peace) -------------
I normally can't stand these travelers, but u are the most humble n educated person Ive come across. You have a good and empathetic heart and showed us an amazing representation of the Palestinian ppl. Not sure what the thing is about no Christians in Hebron was about. Thank you.
This was great to see. Thank you, for putting yourself out there for the rest of us to get a great understanding of other cultures
this was the best vlog i watched in a long time , i am really happy that you gave people an insight about what's really happening in there
Tommy, this has to be one of the most fascinating films I’ve seen about Palestine/Israel in a long time. I can’t thank you enough.
It was so interested to get a look into the everyday lives of people whilst this awful war rages on.
I found it equally interesting because I too was there in 2005/06. What a strange feeling it was to see you walking along some of the same alley ways, and driving along some of the very same, roads that my dear late husband and I did all those years ago. That sense of tension that we experienced came back into my chest as you were experiencing the same.
Whilst we were there things were very tense. The check point process was definitely something I recall with some intrepidation. Being ‘encouraged’ by Israeli soldiers not to go, or to go to certain places in some towns, like Jerusalem is also something that stays with me.
I also remember the shock I felt at the explicit racism of some Israeli people, Particularly those in positions of authority, towards Palestinians. We found that so hard. Oddly we did not see that hate being displayed in reverse. To see how that situation appears to have deteriorated, due to recent events, is very sad, but to be expected.
But overriding most of this, was the generosity and kindness shown to us when we were in Palestine. We too were met with curiosity, yet utter kindness. Nothing was too much trouble for those we needed help or advice from.
Palestine was so starkly different in affluence and living conditions from Israel. But this never deterred anyone over the border in Palestine to remain friendly and kind. This was a very pleasant surprise as my husband was infact Jewush.
The visual recordings of the tragedy that is continuing is vital for us to see, however hard it is to look at. But it’s also important that we are reminded that people in both Israel and Palestine are doing what they can to continue with their lives. They have no choice but to do this. But nevertheless it must be so very difficult.
So again Tommy I thank you for showing us the complexity of living in this environment, whilst the most awful events are taking place within such a short distance away. It was really fascinating, but so very sad.
Can I also offer my compliments to you for your courage. My guess is that there are few that would have travelled to the region at the moment, with so little formal ‘backup’, given the continuous bombing etc. You are really very brave to have done so, but I do hope
That you will be very careful if you are still there, or if you are planning such trips in the future.
My very best wishes to you,
Teresa.
As a artist I always wanted to visit, paint and draw all of those ancient places and sketch portraits at all those fantastic faces…..looks like I’m going to wait a few decades for that to happen. Perhaps sooner….keep those video coming Tommy!!
Few decades ?
You aren't aware how things work on this region
Things get back to normal really quick
This may be a long war but it will end in a couple of months or so by mid year at the latest things will be the new normal
Most places in Israel are still safe to be in
few centuries maybe, defenitely not under a western colonial occupation exists
Jerusalem is very safe. It is good to come now cause there are no tourist cand crowd. You will not enjoy it when the pilgrims comes back.
@@Aksarallahwrong.
Your channel is so real and refreshing. Please continue being a genuine person. You are our portal to the globe, and you can talk in any language. What a talent
Tommy, you've become my favorite travel vlogger since you traveled through Uganda anyway but these new videos are just outstanding. THANK YOU for your work & please always stay safe. Greetings from Germany!
An amazing journey - didn't expect to sit through an hour but couldnt look away. Thank you for the tour through humanity in a nutshell...
Brilliant documentary, thank you for your bravery! This is the best personal insight I have seen into the war.
Showing how similar they are ultimately striving for peace.
48:04 It’s important to mention that the Jews didn’t force them out, they were told by their leaders to leave and that they’d be able to return after they rid the area of the Jews. The Palestinian families that didn’t leave and accepted the citizenship offered by Israel still live in Israel today with all the same freedoms and rights as any other Israeli. 20% of Israel is Palestinian, with many serving in the highest levels of government.
Not true, on so many accounts.
No. Only Palestinian jews and some Palestinian christians were able to accept the citizenship the rest didn’t have the chance.
@@YousefAyman0 hoax
This claim is false and historically inaccurate. The forced expulsion of Palestinians from their homes during the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 was well-documented. The notion that Palestinian leaders advised their people to leave voluntarily is a revisionist and deceptive narrative that seeks to absolve Israel of responsibility for the displacement of over 700,000 Palestinians during the Nakba. This claim is not supported by any credible historical evidence and is a deceptive attempt to rewrite history.
@@msbluejay3exactly true, read the ufti letter
You did ok. Like, i mean. didn't do anything questionable. Not that i thought you would. Cause you're always chill. You feel authentic. Glad you went to the west bank. Keep doing what you do, the way you do it man. Great video!
I was in Jericho in August. I guess I got a last glimpse of it "normal." The people there were so warm and generous. I ended up hiking from my BnB up the caves to where Jesus stayed for 40 days. An incredible view of the sunrise from there. On my way back down I was invited in for tea with an elderly Palestinian woman.
Thank you for showing all sides of this conflict during this terrible time. I hope you continue to share the truth and keep safe.
they only warm and generous because you a tourist that brings them money. know the difference because you have no idea
@@JuniorJuni070 really? They didn’t make me pay for hardly anything… you look and sound like u have no clue wtf you’re talking about.
@@JuniorJuni070no we dont. We do it because our culture and religion both promote being hospitable and kind which ull experience at nearly every other arab country. Stop being fox news mr trump. Now get out of your couch and get on a plane and travel.
@@karkoorThey’re racist.
unless youre jewish@@karkoor
@11:14 what a beautiful, kind hearted and pure man to ask for peace and prayer for everyone 🩷
Truly lovely hospitality in Palestine. Glad you are safe and Jericho seems like it would be. cool. Safe Journeys.
@YaakovAltmann so can u explain why the IDF is always raiding there because they say Hamas doesn't control the west bank.Are Palestinians also terrorists?
@YaakovAltmann There has been no suicide bombings there, keep lying israeli.
That hospitality is why they took advantage of them. Time doesn't matter how long will not be with oppressors.
@@khaderlander2429 Very true.
@khaderlander2429 bro stop with yo bs.We have seen Not only in this videos but many good Palestinians and good jews.Who makes it bad for everyone is the terrorists. Man we outsiders love both nations and both should live in peace
Tommy - your videos are nothing that I've come across on TH-cam before, or really anywhere else on the internet for that matter. Unbiased, informative, entertaining, and truly showing each culture in it's most raw form. You really show how 99.5% of everybody in the world are just friendly, welcoming, and want to go about their daily lives. People are people at the end of the day. Maybe you get treated differently because you're American, who knows. But I respect your travels, your effort to learn the native language, and your effort to be as respectful as possible. Looking forward to more of your videos. Stay safe, and cheers from New York.
Ur contents are always educative,much ❤love brow