This is a very nice interview. Not only because it comes from the few remnants of an ancient people but also because it is coming from a neutral point of view who lives on both sides.
+Chris Durias you didn't get the finer points or read between her words did you? She and he explained that they can NOT talk much about the real problems of the Arabo-Turk colonizers for fear..bc they live close to them. They would be murdered by the Arabo-Turks.
@@jacobk2 I suppose you're now aware that the Palis have also other origins, such as Caucasian, Bosnian, Sudanese... on top of Arab, Turkish and descent from converted Samaritans & Jews
@@YouAreUnimportant actually i share the same genes that had the guys who lived here 2000 years ago, but to me national states are kinda bullshit. It is very sad that we need Israel, and if there's no national states for Jews then they are persecuted and killed as it was hundreds of years. Very sad.
Do you want to listen to lies we treat people from other religones so good and then she talks bad about Muslims and idk if she is really samirtian but anyway if she, isn't this bad
@@ranitamimi4171 Your stellar treatment of Samaritans is exactly why your ancestors almost committed genocide on the Samaritans in 1841 -- something that's well documented. Take up residence in any delusion you wish and write whatever helps you cope better with your dismal existence.
Please can we hear more from this woman? This has been my favourite interview so far. I'm watching it again! Thank you Corey for running this project :)
She has some good points but to say the last things the Palestinians want is for their oppressors to leave is the insane propaganda from the Israelis that Palestinians cannot govern themselves. Every other nation in the world is afforded the right to govern themselves except this region.
one of the most bigoted when you ignore the trauma israel cause to the Palestenians through displacement and death and stealing and grabbing and continued apartheid she wants victims of trauma still living with ongoing misery to have logical thinking without any attempt to repair the trauma of the side of israel
I couldn't agree more. She was spot on about everything in the region. She called it as it actually is and not some sugarcoated version. She called Corey out on his naivete and refusal to see what's right in front of his face. Kol HaKavod....
@@dianalee1589 interviewing Samaritans is important as even though they are a tiny percentage of Palestine/Israel they are the most indigenous of all predating the Arab Islamic conquest and unlike most Jews they did not stay outside of the land of ancient Judah for 1,900 years. In any case most Israeli Jews I know have grandparents and great grandparents who were stripped of their wealth and professional jobs in Iraq and came to modern day Israel completely broke and their bank accounts in Baghdad were frozen and their last few years in Iraq they were kicked out of government jobs in Iraq. Iraq lost a cultural treasure when they treated their Jews that way. Even much of the traditional Iraqi music was largely a product of Iraqi Jews and after 1951 when most Iraqi Jews moved to newly independent Israel the Iraqi radio stations had far less music for the next few years. The first lithographic printer in Iraq in 1864 printed Iraq's first newspaper which was in Hebrew for the Baghdadi Jewish elite. The newspaper was called 'Ha Dover'. Iraq's Jews were brought down so low by the newly independent Iraq in the 1940s and they came to the newly independent Israel with little but were industrious and educated.
+rezak mohamed hadji Good, she will tell you more about how the Palestinians are racist haters and how Israel is the only sane place in the middle east.
Lantern/Savvas Solo Band Palestinian refugees are all against Israel and they have no one to control them. If these 5% are true then Palestinians would easily rebel and take over. Israel had blocked import of cement, most humanitarian goods and many other resources, including electricity. Fishermen cannot fish further than 6 km from the coast. Bombings of homes and buildings are almost daily. And in other parts of Palestine, IDF uproots their homes. They burn the olive gardens, they ban the from exiting their homes, except if they want to lose their property. If nothing functions then they come and litteraly push them out of their homes. Like they are doing in Eastern Al Quds now. These homes are then given to settlers. You can see Palestinians in Hebron being terrorised by Zionist population. Israel instead of punishing those Zionists, they build a fence around their house. And if they exit, whrn they go to work, or to buy something, they are awaited by the Israelis who harras them. Israelis fuel their children with hatred, sending them, but only in groups to beat up Palestinian children. But only on one child. So it 10 vs 1. Fair, according to Zionists. Why do you think there are so little Palestinians. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_towns_and_villages_depopulated_during_the_1948_Palestinian_exodus
@@FaisalHelwa so just like we lived under you as good citizens, why not live under us as good citizen in the same way? You can have full rights if you would just decide Israel is your country. Just like you took over Andalusia, the Jews took over Israel (but the Jews were a bit less violent). It doesn't matter why they gave us Israel, because we wanted a country to protect ourselves, and what better place than the only place we ever belonged to.
@@itaifiliba681 We didn't merely "take over" Israel as if it's some country that didn't mean anything to us. It's our ancestral historic national, religious, aboriginal homeland and in much of it we purchased the land in the late 19th century and former half of the 20th from absentee landlords, even though it's the country we had largely been expelled from or leaved under duress to begin with.
What the woman says in the end of the video exposes the problem with the entire "ask project" interviews. The arabs won't say what they think to the camera, most of them are living in fear. It's not only the immediate fear they live under in the West Bank - fear from the PA or the extremists, but also in Israel. When Corey asked Arab Israelis about Hamas it was obvious they didn't speak their mind out of fear. The Arab-muslim culture is based on fear, not on freedom of speech, therefore you can't really get honest answers on camera.
Well the PA IS BAD BUT IN THE WEST BANK THEIR ARE ISREAL I SPIES SO IF U SAY ANYTHING U CAN GET ARRESTED AND JAILED FOR GOD KNOWS HOW LONG SAME WITH THE PA THEY ARE BOTH WORKING TOGETHER THE PA IS ISREAL RIGHT HAND
+Pinus Monophylla statistics in the UK alone show that the highest rates of converts to Islam are white women, post graduate, and an average of 7 years of study in comparative religions......so your chatting out of your arse!! Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world in terms of converts.
Palestinians feel comfortable to call them 'real Jews' only because their size is meaningless and its gives them a pass for Jew hating. Interesting fact though: The Muslim Ottoman empire often didn't consider the Samaritans as Jews and for not being 'people of the book' they suffered a great deal of forced conversations, persecution and massacres until the end of the Muslim rule in 1918.
+nony non yup, that is why they are so few of them. it wasn't until Israel gave them their rights that their population started growing rather than shrinking. before 1948, there were less than 100 of them.
+hadji nadir they are not "real" jews. They are samaritans. They are bani israel. Jews are descendants from the Israelite kingdom of Yehuda, that is where the word jews come from. The samaritans are descendants from the northern Israelite kingdom of Israel. They are very close to jews but are not actually jews.
+jo7dan119 Yeah I know. They are bani Israel/Bnei Israel they did walk with Moses and they are extremely close to Jews. I am not saying that they are more or less legitimate then us, I am just saying that there is a distinction to be made. If you talk to Samaritans then they would also not categorize themselves as jews but as sons of israel.
Wow impressed with the lady critical thinking n knowledge ... She doesn't boast 'using critical thinking' like other lady on other video...but she is clearly use it!
The Samaritan Woman speaks the same as the forward thinking Arab intellectual on MEMRI here on TH-cam. Not PC thing to say, but it's the religion that's holding them back.
Here are the conclusions of Shen et all after comparing Samaritanian Israelites with 11 population group ''Table 3 presents the pair-wise genetic distances (Fst) between 11 populations from AMOVA applied to the Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial data. For the Y-chromosome, all Jewish groups, except for the Ethiopians, are closely related to each other. They do not differ significantly from Samaritans (0.041) and Druze (0.033), but are different from Palestinians (0.163), Africans (0.219), and Europeans (0.111) (Table 4). Nevertheless, the data in Tables 3 and 4 indicate that the Samaritan and Jewish Y-chromosomes have a much greater affinity than do those of the Samaritans and their longtime geographical neighbors, the Palestinians."
tristan slaughter No The Arabs are not "Palestinians" Muslim Arabs stole the name of Non Semitic Philistines only in 1960s and off course, they have no affinity to the Land of Israel to which they mostly came during mass Muslim and Arab immigration from 1800 to 1947
***** This is very small percentage of Arabs, today claimed to be "Palestinians" In 1800, the entire land, had only some 150 000 inhabitants, or less than 1,5% of today population and about 6% of I century Jewish population of the Land of Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim, Arab speaking people came from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Bedoiuns from neighboring areas, Kurds, Circasians, even Muslims from subsaharan Africa (who are still not all assimilated today) from 1800 to 1948. As for Samaritans, anyone objective knows that they unanimously identify themselves with the Israeli side, and off course, not without reason.
This is the most ignorant question somebody could ever ask! There are a thousand of evidences that would show you that so many of the Palestinians themselves are either with Samaritans or jewish ethnic backgrounds specifically inhabitants of Nablus. However apparently these people converted to another religions depending on the rulers of the time they ruled that region.
She’s right. The size of that palace is absolutely disgusting. Only a monarchy should live in such splendour. Yet these warlords are living life in luxury while the Palestinian people are living in slums with no money. And the world says poor Palestine israel is the enemy. Look closer to who is the enemy. Look how Hamas leaders live and how the people of Palestine live shouting free Palestine from your mighty palace. Hypocrites.
After three trips to Israel and reading about the issues and the region for years I realize now that I know very little. a few miniutes listening to this woman has changed my prespective. I think i will now be in a better postion to understand this conflict.
@@leratommutle6139 Leftist, self-deluded. It never changes. Jews like him have been instrumental this century in the election of two of the worst presidents the US has had. Not only do they care tiddley squat about Israel, but they don't want the best for the US either.
The Samaritans are a pious people who preserve one of the 4 living Israelite faiths. They show a true sense of humility, along with the likes of the Druze and Ethiopian/Armenian Christians they are the back bone of the modern society.
guys can we stop being dumb omg israelies palestinians and samaritans all belong in the land! they are all also blood brothers and its illogical to say Ashkenazi dont belong cause their "light" everyone is this region is the general same light olive complexion my lord
They were HEBREWS to begin with. Palestine was not a name of an ethnic group - it was a name of a Roman territory where ancient Hebrews settled. So, these "Palestinians" are descendants of ancient Hebrews/Israel and if they just accepted that like this Samaritan woman then this would be just a nothing burger.
They claim they are descendans of Philistinians/Plishtim/See Peoples who came to thgis land from Crete. Correct me if I'm wrong: doesn't Plishtim mean "invaders"?
@@aglayamajorem9546 But many Palis have no Jewish or Samaritan ancestry, or very little of it. These are mainly those who migrated to the Land of Israel in the 19th century and former half of the 20th.
@@fidenemini111 From what I gather, they've almost totally ceased making this Philistine origins claim -- when it became too obvious to them that they had been attempting to masquerade as the progeny of a non-Semitic people who spoke an ancient Greek dialect, ate pigs and drank alcohol.
What an intelligent woman with a sophisticated political outlook. I thought I understood the Middle East well, but it appears I have only scratched the surface.
Reminds me of a saying about lebanon, but can be said more broadly about the region, "if you feel like things are clear and you understand them, someone did a poor job explaining"
Jews are called Jews because they are from Tribe of Judah. Samaritans call Samaritans because they are from Samaria which ia the North of Israel. They are from Tribe of Ephraim and Manassah.
This is simplistic hooey. Jews may be comprised of Judeans more than any other Israelite tribe, but they consist of descendants of all Israelite tribes. The Samaritans, who still have Levites, included in the past members of other Israelite tribes as well.
This is an anthropological miracle - these people split with the other israelites 3000 years ago!!!!! They never left the region either - yet the lady at the end, looks speaks and thinks like an ashkenazic jew - this should show how primordial we Ashkenazim really are!!!!!...and the obvious lies being spread about us.....
@@YouAreUnimportant The properly conducted DNA tests and studies prove differently --- that the southern Levant is our largest liocalized component -- and also show that you (plural) have Arabian DNA. Go back to the Arabian peninsula you colonizing occupier. The only "claim" you have to the Land of Israel is theft and it's not valid.
This interview was really interesting. I have watched most of your videos, I will watch all of them and I will email you a few questions. Keep doing what you're doing it! :)
@@Gal_Flumin Most peaceful religions will be destroyed by others, that's what happened to Jainsim, Buddhism in India, Sufis, lots of suphisticated minority sects in every religion.
So exciting to see Samaritans! I did not know earlier that there were any left. I thought that they assimilated into surrounding nations. GOD BLESS YOU SAMARITANS! Very smart and beautiful lady at the end of the video!
fwb41 yeah, I remember, but I thought you meant something else, the way you were explaining it, I thought you were talking about some leftovers from the Pre-Israelite Canaanites (back then, I only knew the Hebrew name for the Samaritans) in reality, they are Israelites who split off from the rest of the Jews a few thousand years back, and are still our sister tribe.
Love the way this woman explains things....watched a whole bunch of your videos....but tis taught me more than most others.....Gracias....would it be that were thousands like her in that land....
Great documentary, it’s great to hear from set of individuals that don’t take sides in the Palestinians and Israel conflict. The Samaritan lady is truly political and socially awake.
no matter what, Israel has to keep the IDF in the west bank and full control of the airspace from the mediteranean sea to the jordan river, and thats it.
from a security standpont, yes... and the fact that they were invaded and won the land, yes... but biblical claims are invalid when it comes to this issue, and as a christian im disheartened when i see people make it a religious issue, of course im from the american south where backwoods pentecostalism is rampant and everything is made into a rligious issue... i wanna vomit every time i hear "youre going to hell for that" or "gods gonna git yew"... casue just like the jews... american christians lost their way long ago
kleevorp os1, Jews have their Biblical and historical claims you may consider invalid. But I wonder what kind of claims you have to justify your living in the Native American people's land, while they're been placed in reservations?
@@kleevorpos1838 What you label "Biblical claims" are also a matter of history, even if quite convoluted. Those who look past anti-Zionist and antisemitic agendas in Biblical scholarly acknowledge the historicity of much of theJewish Bible's narrative in the Joshua, Judges, B'Midbar and Devarim/Deut.
It's really surprising that the Samaritans still maintain their faith and identities, and more surprisingly, they also find the unique, distinct, and somehow neutral identities between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs. The video is much different from what I had expected-i.e. the Samaritan rituals or the historicity from the Northern Israeli kingdom of which they are children even today in this video-but it's really great glimpse into the the reality of the region, and how the modern Samaritans live like. And let's wish for their security and their own prosperity as well, Amen! I hope no interviewees would be threatened but wish for their own safety.
Tsipi is brilliant, her words are even more true 8 years later. Maybe because Samaritans are straddling both sides, with a lot of history in this region. They can understand both sides and put the situation in a historical context. Tsipi for prime minister!
The Palestinians are not poor, as the lady says. They receive aid and support from the United Nations, the Christian world, and UNRWA, and that is why they want the conflict to continue so that the money does not stop.
They are more similar to ashkenazim than they are to arabs or even Mizrachim. That should put things in perspective - their mindset is even more like Ashkenazim
The lady is brilliant. She is smart and direct to the point. She helped me realize that the arabs are truly a problem even if she was very diplomatic in explaining,
+Ofir Gal no she didnt say that she said that fucking isis and hamas are starting to takeover and that palestinians dont want it to happen its not that they love israel its just they hate isis
they cannot speak freely on camera as the Samaritan woman said . I d be honestly surprised if they tried bc they can change hands in a day and have before so they are walking a fine line between as best they can and trying to live in peace when they can . I don't blame them .
there is a problem with the translation. She says Arabs and its being translated as "Palestinian" and she never used the word "West Bank". But other than that its really nice to hear her
I loved Tsipi at the end! She should be the next Prime Minister! Nailed it with Obama being a wimp, and about every other thing she said. It was very interesting to hear that she says there are Palestinians who want Israel to be in the West Bank. I've never heard that before. It's also very telling that there were things she couldn't say because she was being recorded. That's the fear they live in over there. You should do more videos on the Samaritans because they're fascinating!
Obama was no wimp as a President. He just needed to balance internal impoverishment and lack of basic welfare and healthcare. US money is not endless. Whether it is right or wrong for US to mingle into other world areas conflicts, it doesn't matter, it's still a matter of available resources. You cannot keep a war machine going forever. When an Obama finishes his mission here comes a Trump or whoever uses taxes paid by citizens to reinforce military power and weapons. When the internal pressure gets too strong and the impoverishment takes larger parts of middle-class citizens and basic benefits, that's when you need a new Obama-like for the next 4 years. If things get any better for many US citizens, in 4 years we will see a new "Trump" putting his nose in some foreign conflict, but not too remote to the point of being useless.
I am pretty sure that Jesus of Nazarene would have really know the Samaritans closer ,no wonder the parable of Good Samaritan was more relatable to the Lady at last(real good friend of Jews and Arabs)
It amazes me that out of all these videos a drunk Samaritan woman has spoken the most sense. That's what brings me back to these videos - incredible insight. I also appreciate the interviews with Rabbi Brietowitz because of his objectivity and fairness.
Oh my good! Bible really comes to live in Israel. I had no knowledge at all, that Samaritans still are living there! Long live Israel for protecting all minorities 🙏
Do you think Israel is what protected the Samaritans? Israel did not exist before 1948, and Samaritans are there for 2800 years. THUS, anyone ruling there in last 2800 years has protected them. Plus, Samaritans are arch enemy of jews in old testament, and their position as per chief rabbinate is a complicated one. They hope to assimilate the small existing Samaritans and Karaites to get rid of them. Even the majority mizrahi and equally large sephardi are getting culturally assimilated by Ashkenazi despite being Talmudic/Rabbinic jews in Israel. Israel is hardly a pinnacle of religious freedom, their tolerance for Druze and Samaritans is mostly to divide the original inhabitants by religion as part of divide and conquer. The Jewish converts to karaite, Samarite, İslam and Christianity face all sorts of problems in the society. Especially converts to İslam are not safe with their lives, regularly getting life threats and even attacks.
@@bulentkulkuloglu Israel effectively existed as a politically independant state (ruled by the Hamoneans) from 142 BCE to 63 BCE and the Byzantines, for example, ruled the Land of Israel several centuries later, but didn't protect them, but rather massacred them to half extinction (relative to their initial demographic strength there, at the onset of Byzantine rule). A Qaraite IS a Jew no less than a Rabbanite is, so neither can convert to being the other. If you knew what the fook you were talking about, you'd know that Muslims "regularly" have their lives threatened and are attacked by fellow Muslims. Anti-Zionist crap aside, your IQ is no more than room temperature.
@@bulentkulkuloglu Samaritans are the Israelites who never left the ancient land of Israel which was named Palaestina by the Romans after they bannished most Jews from the region. The Romans killed many Samaritans when they rose up against Roman colonial rule. When Arab Muslims from Arabia took over some rulers allowed Samaritans to thrive and other Arab Muslim rulers pressured them to abandon their ancient Israelite traditions and under 700 years of Ottoman Turkish rule. To say that they were "protected" by previous rulers might be true in a sense but they were also pressured into 'shrinking' their population up until 1948. Since then they have grown once again. No one forcing them to abandon their ancient Hebrew traditions. They are respected by Palestinians in Nablus as Israelites who never left the region.
Did the Samaritans remain in the region during the time when the Jews were scattered and lost their country and the whole time before Israel became a nation again in 1948?
The samatrians are tge comunity of jews that after the bablonians expeld the most of the jews they keep some jews in the land and these comunity make herself a bit different from the other jews in babylon and become samatrians and after shivat zion the back of the jews to the land they become saparate poeple
id just like to mention that the samaritan's date of seperation from mainstream judaism is disputed. they claim it to be during the early israelite settlement times while scholars agree it was during the babylonian exile, where they believe the jewish faith was altered. it is also important to mention that mainstream judaism, along with some of the scholars believe they are not israelites but in fact mesopotamian peoples from the city of cutha, a city in modern day iraq (that doesnt exist anymore) that the assyrian king Sargon II moved into israel to quell rebellions in what was Israel (or prevent them). due to this, some jews dont see them as real jews but as foreign pagans that colonized this land after the first jewish diaspora, but that is unsure.
The Jewish religion was created entirely during the Persian era It is not possible for the Samaritans to split from Judaism during the captivity, because during the captivity there were neither Jews nor Judaism, there were only Canaanites
Dude, your videos are interesting but you have to figure out a way to leave the subtitles up longer. I'm a very efficient reader, and unless I'm constantly pausing it, I can rarely finish reading any statement if it has more than one line. I understand you have to keep up with the conversation but there are times where there is no text on the screen that could be used for catching up. Nobody reads that fast. Thanks for the videos. Really interesting.
Interesting so Samaritans descend from the Kingdom of Israel, and "Israeli" descend from the Kingdom of Judah.....so truly Samaritans are the real Israeli's
Oh sweety... you simply misunderstood this big time. Both peoples are of Israelite origin and both have assimilated foreigners into them. Genetic research has shown that the Samaritan women originate from Babylonian and Assyrian women imported to Israel by the Assyrians. And this is without even counting the dozens of foreign women who have joined the Samaritans since 1924.
"The mitochondrial DNA results, which show maternal history (i.e. your mother’s mother’s mother, etc.), reveal no major difference between the Samaritans, Jews, or Palestinians in the Levant who were also sampled. These three groups have relatively similar maternal genetic histories. However, the story of the Y-chromosome, which shows paternal history (i.e. your father’s father’s father) is quite different. Indeed, not only are the Y-chromosomes of the Jews and Samaritans more similar to each other than either is to the Palestinians’, the Y-chromosomes of the Samaritans show striking similarities to a very specific Y-chromosome most often associated with Jewish men. Although the Samaritan type is slightly different from the Jewish type, it is clear that the two share a common ancestor, probably within the last few thousand years. As a result, Shen and colleagues argue that the traditional hypothesis, that the Samaritans were transported into the Levant by the Assyrians and have no Jewish heritage, is largely incorrect. Rather, these Samaritan lineages are remnants of those few Jews who did not go into exile when the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom of Israel in 721 BC. Those who remained in the Levant may have take non-Jewish wives, which would account for the genetic admixture on the female side. But according to the authors the Y-chromosome clearly shows that the Samaritans and the Jews share common ancestry dating to at least 2,500 years ago."
the two jewish kingdoms calld judea and jerusalem is our capitial sameria is israel capitial we are brothers to hebrew the the 3 jowish kingdom of today calld israel becuse of non jews that live here and they cant be judeans
@@AboodCohen Many of the people who self identify today as Palestinians are actually Arabized Jews and Northern Israelites (Samaritans). The rest of them descend from foreigners who settled in Israel during the last 2000 years or have mixed Israelite and non-Israelite roots. Both Jews and Northern Israelites shared very similar beliefs but as the Israelites became politically divided after the reign of King Shlomo Ben Dawid), the biblical writtings were also adjusted on both sides in order to suit their interests. Northern Israelites (who remained the majority of Israel's population), kept Shomron as their capital city, whereas Jews made Jerusalem theirs (as intended by King Dawid Ben Yishai and Shlomo Ben Dawid according to the Jewish Bible). By the way, after Northern Israel was conquered by Assyrians in the 8th century BCE, many Northern Israel fled to Southern Israel (Kingdom of Judah) and were gradually absorbed by Jews. In other words, many modern Jews are actually partially descendants of Northern Israelites As for female ancestry, Northern Israelites (Samaritans) apparently had very little admixture. A relatively recent genetic study has shown however a significant genetic proximity between some Assyrians, Babylonians and Kurds, on one hand, and, on the other, Northern Israelites and Jews, but it's quite likely many of those Assyrians, Babylonians and Kurds are actually descendants of Northern Israelites who were deported into Assyria (although it's also well known that Northern Israelites and Jews also absorbed foreigners who were deported into Israel or migrated thereto). Moreover, we also known from History that even before the Israelites emerged as a tribal confederation in Israel there were people of North African, Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Caucasian origins living in Israel. In fact, all ethnic/national groups indigenous to the Levant (i.e. Israelites, Lebanese/Northern Canaanites and Syrians/Arameans) actually descend from people who migrated to Israel from these regions. What makes certain Jewish communities more different from Samaritans was their admixture with European female converts to Judaism, specially in Italy and to a lower extent, in Central and Eastern Europe. The frequency of European female lineages among Ashkenazic Jews ranges from 65% to 80% (depending on futther investigation on one specific Mitochondrial DNA group). This admixture occured mostly with Italqic Jews, the main ancestors of Ashkenazic Jews. Sephardic and Mizrahic Jews also had some admixture with non-Jews, but most of it also occured with women and at a lower frequency.
@@YehudaLion Correct me if I'm wrong -- initially the Northern KIngdom's capital city was Shekhem and then Tirtza... and ultimately got changed yet again to Shomron by King `Omri. The name "Jews" does not properly describe or denote the Southern Israelites, who consisted of 4 Israelite tribes (Yehudah, Shim`on, Binyamin, Lewy). This name was actually invented by the Hellenistic and Roman occupiers in the latter half of the Second Temple era, to denote all the Israelites who accepted the sanctity of Jslm. with its Temple Mount -- regardless of where such Israelites resided in the Promised Land -- whereas those Israelites who believed that Mt. Gerizim was the Chosen Place were labelled by them "Samaritans". The 65% to 80% range you referred to is based on an outdated study from 2013, that determined the percentage of Middle Eastern AJ female haplogroups at 8%. However, more recent findings that were unknown to the 2013 study authors (see Kevin Brook's peer-reviewed book, The Maternal Genetic Lineages of Ashkenazic Jews), reveal that at least 25% of AJ mtDNA haplogroups are of Jewish Middle Eastern origins -- notably Levantine. Accordingly, the frequency of European mtDNA haplogroups among AJs is somewhat lower than 65%. What I find even more interesting is that a greater number of Germanic and Slavic lineages combined joined the AJs through converted women than lineages of converted Italic and Greek women, while autosomally the southern European ancestry among AJs is far greater than Slavic and Germanic ancestry.
It's sad that this commic book level of nonsense is so pervasive. The Samaritans aren't Jewish because they don't have the beliefs required for it. Some Jews actually descend from the Ehpraim and Menashe tribes.
It's because Samaritans have actually lived there consistently since ancient times. The majority of Israeli Jews are recent newcomers to the land, most coming around the 20th century
@@i_likemen5614 Well now I'll burst that ignorant bubble: all the credible historians accept that there's been a *continuous* demographic Jewish presence in the Land of Israel since AD70 -- popular perceptions notwithstanding
@@i_likemen5614 And judging by how you describe yourself on your channel, the best is to conclude this thread with this comment so that nobody will seem here like a clown.
@Batya Seguin While many Muslims like to spout in TH-cam comments the lie that everybody got along excellently in the Land of Israael until the Zionist Jews arrived and messed everything up, the local Muslims actually intended to commit genocide on the Samaritans in 1841 (40 years before the 1st wave of modern Zionist Jews arrived from Europe), but they were saved thanks to a humanitarian gesture of a Jerusalem rabbi, who gave the Samaritans a certificate to show the Muslims, where he had written that they're a branch of the Children of Israel who accepts the Torah's veracity.
Love watching your videos keep up the good work...My suggestion is the palestinians/israelis need to take this in their own hands, with solidarity. Th propaganda/governments are terrible on both sides..Praying that one day I can come and visit Palestine/Israeli.....
I really found this video interesting and insightful, but I do think the beginning text is not really accurate. It's not clear if the Israelite-Samaritans "broke off" from Judaism or if the kingdom of Judah (future Judeans, ie Jews) broke off from Israel. The Samaritans have their own version of the Torah (with a different 10th Commandment that locates Mt. Gerizim as the holy place of all Israel) and do not accept the entire Tanach as canon. Also, according to archaeological and anthropological research and findings, there is not a consensus that there was ever really a united "Israel" under king David (there is evidence that David was an historical personage, but not that he necessarily ruled a united kingdom). In fact, a growing number of historians believe the two kingdoms developed independently from what was a loose confederation of the Israelite tribes and territory (possibly the period of Judges). Also, if you think about the history as it is relayed in the Tanach, it is also is a little strange. The Tanach posits that David and Shlomo ruled over a united Israel and then there was a break and the rebellious leaders took over the north as the Kingdom of Israel, and the true and legitimate heirs to David and Shlomo held the south as the Kingdom of Judah. However, think about that for a minute in terms of historical conflicts and civi wars or rebellions or revolutions. When a rebel breaks from an established kingdom they never keep the name of the established kingdom (except in this one case), think about the American Revolution, the rebelling colonists didn't claim their new country was Britain or the United Kingdom, the called it the Unites States of America. Or think about American history, when the South seceded from the Union they didn't call themselves the United State of America, they became the Confederate State of America. Or look at Mexico or pretty much any other colonial descendant state, including those in the Middle East and North Africa. SO...why is it that the rebels from David and Shlomo's united Israel were able to keep the name Israel when they separated and the true, established rulers changed the name of their kingdom to Judah? It doesn't make any sense. A much more logical analysis (as well as archaeological, anthropological, and historical review), indicates that in all likelihood, the two kingdoms were established from the broader Israelite tribal territory independently, or that the kingdom of Judah actually broke off from the Israelites (perhaps this was first a spiritual and cultural break that led to a new political entity). This is also the story according to the Israelite-Samaritans who have a high priest descended from Zadok (of the book of Shmuel and Eli), and they suggest that Eli broke with Zadok on certain aspects of our indigenous tribal spiritual practice and belief and Eli took his people south (from Mount Gerizim and Samaria) to Shiloh and this community or polity eventually became the Kingdom of Judah (in which case, it is the other way around, the Jews broke off from the Samaritans). As a proud Judean, I have no problem honoring our possibly big sister tribe of the Israelite-Samaritans and recognizing that it is possible our ancestors broke off from their version of Israelite belief and not the other way around. Or at least settling on the idea that maybe we developed our communities independently out of the tribal confederacy of Israel. Either way we are all the people of Israel and Am Yisrael Chai!
It's more like different Canaanite tribes united by one nationality - Israel, but failed to unite under one same religious and political rules so one group settled in Judea and the other in Samaria(or, perhaps, they were originally living there). I guess the thing that kept the two groups separate is the nationality issue cause religion were = nationality in the past.
Samaritans didn't split from Judaism, both Samaritans and Jews are derived from the the Kingdom of Israel. Jews are the ones that split from the Kingdom of Israel, and formed their own Kingdom, the Kingdom of Judah. The kingdom of Israel is named after Jacob and the capital named Samaria hence Samaritanism /Samaritans. The Kingdom of Judah was obviously named after Judah and its capital named Jerusalem hence Judaism /Jews.The Kingdom of Israel (Samaritan) predate the Kingdom of Judah(Jews). If anything Judaism split from Samaritanism.
Not true. After king Solomon died his son became the king but because of his politic movements(bad) most of the tribes refused to follow him so they split into another kingdom. The Judah kingdom is the one who had the capital(Jerusalem) and the royalty blood(king's Solomon descendents as king). So it's the Samaritants who split from the united Israel Kingdom.
Notwithstanding the traditional Samaritan narrative, Judaism couldn't split from Samaritanism since too much is already known to hisotrians and archeaologists to bear this out. Samaritanism and Judaism seems to have split from Israelitism. That no proto-Samaritan cultic artifacts have been found on Mt. Gerizim earlier than 538 BCE seems to prove that Samaritanism cannot be dated earlier than the Second Temple era.
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This is a very nice interview. Not only because it comes from the few remnants of an ancient people but also because it is coming from a neutral point of view who lives on both sides.
I feel so bad...because I forgot about the Samaritans:( I'm ashamed... but happy to see this vid and the Good Samaritan people.
+Chris Durias you didn't get the finer points or read between her words did you? She and he explained that they can NOT talk much about the real problems of the Arabo-Turk colonizers for fear..bc they live close to them. They would be murdered by the Arabo-Turks.
@@jacobk2 I suppose you're now aware that the Palis have also other origins, such as Caucasian, Bosnian, Sudanese... on top of Arab, Turkish and descent from converted Samaritans & Jews
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@@jacobk2 What in the hell is a Arab Turk? I never heard that word or people before?
I learnt more from the Samaritan woman than from a month of research on the TH-cam
Bare in mind guys, this woman's ancestry in the region goes back THOUSANDS of years
That of many Palestinians also. Only that of Zionist jewish settlers Not that much.
@@YouAreUnimportant hundreds of thousands of Philistinians from Acre, Haifa and Jaffa.
@@YouAreUnimportant actually i share the same genes that had the guys who lived here 2000 years ago, but to me national states are kinda bullshit. It is very sad that we need Israel, and if there's no national states for Jews then they are persecuted and killed as it was hundreds of years. Very sad.
She probably came here two months ago.
@@YouAreUnimportant not true
Ah I always enjoy hearing interviews from these small ancient religious communities.
wow!
the truth she says is just so clean from politically correctness.
That woman was very incredible to listen to. I wish I could sit down and have a conversation with her.
Do you want to listen to lies we treat people from other religones so good and then she talks bad about Muslims and idk if she is really samirtian but anyway if she, isn't this bad
@@ranitamimi4171 Haha nice joke. You n your cult invade, pillage, destroy other's land.
@@ranitamimi4171 Your stellar treatment of Samaritans is exactly why your ancestors almost committed genocide on the Samaritans in 1841 -- something that's well documented. Take up residence in any delusion you wish and write whatever helps you cope better with your dismal existence.
Please can we hear more from this woman? This has been my favourite interview so far. I'm watching it again! Thank you Corey for running this project :)
She has some good points but to say the last things the Palestinians want is for their oppressors to leave is the insane propaganda from the Israelis that Palestinians cannot govern themselves. Every other nation in the world is afforded the right to govern themselves except this region.
They had the opportunity but it became a dictatorship once they elected hamas.
Yes but they didn't expect this as a result@@meisievannancy
6:53 I think this is one of the most (if not The most!) important footage Corey has ever done in this project, by far.
this is by far the most wicked one till now
Yeah nice map without the word Israel or Palestine 😊
one of the most bigoted when you ignore the trauma israel cause to the Palestenians through displacement and death and stealing and grabbing and continued apartheid
she wants victims of trauma still living with ongoing misery to have logical thinking
without any attempt to repair the trauma of the side of israel
I couldn't agree more. She was spot on about everything in the region. She called it as it actually is and not some sugarcoated version. She called Corey out on his naivete and refusal to see what's right in front of his face. Kol HaKavod....
@@dianalee1589 interviewing Samaritans is important as even though they are a tiny percentage of Palestine/Israel they are the most indigenous of all predating the Arab Islamic conquest and unlike most Jews they did not stay outside of the land of ancient Judah for 1,900 years.
In any case most Israeli Jews I know have grandparents and great grandparents who were stripped of their wealth and professional jobs in Iraq and came to modern day Israel completely broke and their bank accounts in Baghdad were frozen and their last few years in Iraq they were kicked out of government jobs in Iraq.
Iraq lost a cultural treasure when they treated their Jews that way. Even much of the traditional Iraqi music was largely a product of Iraqi Jews and after 1951 when most Iraqi Jews moved to newly independent Israel the Iraqi radio stations had far less music for the next few years.
The first lithographic printer in Iraq in 1864 printed Iraq's first newspaper which was in Hebrew for the Baghdadi Jewish elite. The newspaper was called 'Ha Dover'.
Iraq's Jews were brought down so low by the newly independent Iraq in the 1940s and they came to the newly independent Israel with little but were industrious and educated.
The woman at the end is brilliantly minded and extremely politically conscious. She has some great ideas
+Lantern/Savvas Solo Band I pray for her safety
+Lantern/Savvas Solo Band i agree. She said everything what is the total truth.
i like her
i would love to hear more
+rezak mohamed hadji Good, she will tell you more about how the Palestinians are racist haters and how Israel is the only sane place in the middle east.
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Palestinian refugees are all against Israel and they have no one to control them. If these 5% are true then Palestinians would easily rebel and take over. Israel had blocked import of cement, most humanitarian goods and many other resources, including electricity.
Fishermen cannot fish further than 6 km from the coast. Bombings of homes and buildings are almost daily. And in other parts of Palestine, IDF uproots their homes. They burn the olive gardens, they ban the from exiting their homes, except if they want to lose their property. If nothing functions then they come and litteraly push them out of their homes. Like they are doing in Eastern Al Quds now. These homes are then given to settlers. You can see Palestinians in Hebron being terrorised by Zionist population. Israel instead of punishing those Zionists, they build a fence around their house. And if they exit, whrn they go to work, or to buy something, they are awaited by the Israelis who harras them. Israelis fuel their children with hatred, sending them, but only in groups to beat up Palestinian children. But only on one child. So it 10 vs 1. Fair, according to Zionists.
Why do you think there are so little Palestinians.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arab_towns_and_villages_depopulated_during_the_1948_Palestinian_exodus
She is so smart that she deserves to be a descendant of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Listen to this lady she lives amongst both societies and she knows what she's talking about. She speaks the truth!
The Samaritans seem very philosophical.
that's why they are Good Samaritans, lol
The lady gave the best arguments and answers to that questions.
bless on her!
Actually the Lady talked complete bullshit
Muhamed you say that because it doesn't fit your stupid ideology
@@FaisalHelwa so just like we lived under you as good citizens, why not live under us as good citizen in the same way? You can have full rights if you would just decide Israel is your country. Just like you took over Andalusia, the Jews took over Israel (but the Jews were a bit less violent).
It doesn't matter why they gave us Israel, because we wanted a country to protect ourselves, and what better place than the only place we ever belonged to.
@@YouAreUnimportant how is what she said wrong
@@itaifiliba681 We didn't merely "take over" Israel as if it's some country that didn't mean anything to us. It's our ancestral historic national, religious, aboriginal homeland and in much of it we purchased the land in the late 19th century and former half of the 20th from absentee landlords, even though it's the country we had largely been expelled from or leaved under duress to begin with.
The part with the Samaritan woman was amazing. It felt like listing to a sociology scholar. Can you do an interview with her? :)
to cut a long story short, 2/3 of people of nablus are ethnically samaritan, they were 3million before islam, what do you think happened !
+nuttcase1uk so you are my brother
+HaparakuU in some. villages in the Galily you can steal find mezuza under the table
there never was more than milion people here before the 1900s.
there was only 100K people here in the 1800s so stop lie
Christians were the majority in 6th century with the Roman Province of Syria Palestina
Roman territory doesn't equal Palestinian identity.
What the woman says in the end of the video exposes the problem with the entire "ask project" interviews. The arabs won't say what they think to the camera, most of them are living in fear. It's not only the immediate fear they live under in the West Bank - fear from the PA or the extremists, but also in Israel. When Corey asked Arab Israelis about Hamas it was obvious they didn't speak their mind out of fear.
The Arab-muslim culture is based on fear, not on freedom of speech, therefore you can't really get honest answers on camera.
Well the PA IS BAD BUT IN THE WEST BANK THEIR ARE ISREAL I SPIES SO IF U SAY ANYTHING U CAN GET ARRESTED AND JAILED FOR GOD KNOWS HOW LONG SAME WITH THE PA THEY ARE BOTH WORKING TOGETHER THE PA IS ISREAL RIGHT HAND
+Pinus Monophylla U ARE OVUSLY AN UNEDUCATED BICH U DIDN'T READ THE QURAN OR HADITH OR ARAB BOOKS UR JUST TALKING FROM UR ISREAL I ASS
YA I BET U READ U MAKING THIS SHIT UP BECAUSE ISLAM IS A RELIGON OF PEACE AND THERE ARE 1.7 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD
What do u say to that
+Pinus Monophylla statistics in the UK alone show that the highest rates of converts to Islam are white women, post graduate, and an average of 7 years of study in comparative religions......so your chatting out of your arse!! Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world in terms of converts.
This woman is so great.She sees both words and explains so simple the outcomes.
Palestinians feel comfortable to call them 'real Jews' only because their size is meaningless and its gives them a pass for Jew hating.
Interesting fact though: The Muslim Ottoman empire often didn't consider the Samaritans as Jews and for not being 'people of the book' they suffered a great deal of forced conversations, persecution and massacres until the end of the Muslim rule in 1918.
well they are real jews because they follow the torrah
+nony non yup, that is why they are so few of them. it wasn't until Israel gave them their rights that their population started growing rather than shrinking. before 1948, there were less than 100 of them.
+hadji nadir they are not "real" jews. They are samaritans. They are bani israel. Jews are descendants from the Israelite kingdom of Yehuda, that is where the word jews come from. The samaritans are descendants from the northern Israelite kingdom of Israel. They are very close to jews but are not actually jews.
+jo7dan119 Yeah I know. They are bani Israel/Bnei Israel they did walk with Moses and they are extremely close to Jews. I am not saying that they are more or less legitimate then us, I am just saying that there is a distinction to be made. If you talk to Samaritans then they would also not categorize themselves as jews but as sons of israel.
Where is the proof of claimed massacres done toward Samaritans ?
Wow impressed with the lady critical thinking n knowledge ... She doesn't boast 'using critical thinking' like other lady on other video...but she is clearly use it!
The Samaritan Woman speaks the same as the forward thinking Arab intellectual on MEMRI here on TH-cam. Not PC thing to say, but it's the religion that's holding them back.
Here are the conclusions of Shen et all after comparing Samaritanian Israelites with 11 population group
''Table 3 presents the pair-wise genetic distances (Fst)
between 11 populations from AMOVA applied to the
Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial data. For the
Y-chromosome, all Jewish groups, except for the Ethiopians,
are closely related to each other. They do not differ
significantly from Samaritans (0.041) and Druze (0.033),
but are different from Palestinians (0.163), Africans
(0.219), and Europeans (0.111) (Table 4).
Nevertheless, the data in Tables 3 and 4
indicate that the Samaritan and Jewish Y-chromosomes
have a much greater affinity than do those of the
Samaritans and their longtime geographical neighbors,
the Palestinians."
wow the Samaritans have a closer affinity with europeans than the Palestinians?
tristan slaughter
No The Arabs are not "Palestinians" Muslim Arabs stole the name of Non Semitic Philistines only in 1960s and off course, they have no affinity to the Land of Israel to which they mostly came during mass Muslim and Arab immigration from 1800 to 1947
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This is very small percentage of Arabs, today claimed to be "Palestinians" In 1800, the entire land, had only some 150 000 inhabitants, or less than 1,5% of today population and about 6% of I century Jewish population of the Land of Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Muslim, Arab speaking people came from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Morocco, Bedoiuns from neighboring areas, Kurds, Circasians, even Muslims from subsaharan Africa (who are still not all assimilated today) from 1800 to 1948.
As for Samaritans, anyone objective knows that they unanimously identify themselves with the Israeli side, and off course, not without reason.
Samaritans are natives people of that land. It will be great if you ask them : "do you consider arab (palestinians) as occupiers?".
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Why you put Palestinians in bracket after Arabs ?you know that Palestinians are anyone who are inhabitants of the Palestine region .
This is the most ignorant question somebody could ever ask! There are a thousand of evidences that would show you that so many of the Palestinians themselves are either with Samaritans or jewish ethnic backgrounds specifically inhabitants of Nablus. However apparently these people converted to another religions depending on the rulers of the time they ruled that region.
@@iyasya602 sorry dna evidence proves that the Palestinians are arabs pretty much identical to Bedouins of the arabian peninsula
@@edgargarred4319 your DNA show you are a clown 🤡🤡🤡
@@edgargarred4319 check out tsvi misinai
Wow, the woman in the end absolutely killed it. So insightful and outspoken. That's a perspective I'm willing to lean on to and take a closer look at.
She’s right. The size of that palace is absolutely disgusting. Only a monarchy should live in such splendour. Yet these warlords are living life in luxury while the Palestinian people are living in slums with no money. And the world says poor Palestine israel is the enemy. Look closer to who is the enemy. Look how Hamas leaders live and how the people of Palestine live shouting free Palestine from your mighty palace. Hypocrites.
It's almost like I can hear her speaking with Jesus about Jacob's Well.
Amazing, they need to be preserved, their Culture and Religion protected.
After three trips to Israel and reading about the issues and the region for years I realize now that I know very little. a few miniutes listening to this woman has changed my prespective. I think i will now be in a better postion to understand this conflict.
I like how the Samaritan woman from Holon put you in your place. She speaks with so much honesty, and she is definitely not stupid.
She talks so much bullshit like Israel is preventing Isis from attacking druze people in Syria or that Amman is a horrible place.
@@YouAreUnimportant they was back in 2015
Yeah ,Cory is a self-hating Jew.
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@@leratommutle6139 Leftist, self-deluded. It never changes. Jews like him have been instrumental this century in the election of two of the worst presidents the US has had. Not only do they care tiddley squat about Israel, but they don't want the best for the US either.
The Samaritans are a pious people who preserve one of the 4 living Israelite faiths.
They show a true sense of humility, along with the likes of the Druze and Ethiopian/Armenian Christians they are the back bone of the modern society.
The woman is spitting straight facts. What a fantastic interview!
guys can we stop being dumb omg israelies palestinians and samaritans all belong in the land!
they are all also blood brothers
and its illogical to say Ashkenazi dont belong cause their "light"
everyone is this region is the general same light olive complexion
my lord
They were HEBREWS to begin with. Palestine was not a name of an ethnic group - it was a name of a Roman territory where ancient Hebrews settled. So, these "Palestinians" are descendants of ancient Hebrews/Israel and if they just accepted that like this Samaritan woman then this would be just a nothing burger.
They claim they are descendans of Philistinians/Plishtim/See Peoples who came to thgis land from Crete. Correct me if I'm wrong: doesn't Plishtim mean "invaders"?
@@fidenemini111 they are not. The philistine went extinct and they were European pirates
@@aglayamajorem9546 But many Palis have no Jewish or Samaritan ancestry, or very little of it. These are mainly those who migrated to the Land of Israel in the 19th century and former half of the 20th.
@@fidenemini111 From what I gather, they've almost totally ceased making this Philistine origins claim -- when it became too obvious to them that they had been attempting to masquerade as the progeny of a non-Semitic people who spoke an ancient Greek dialect, ate pigs and drank alcohol.
What an intelligent woman with a sophisticated political outlook. I thought I understood the Middle East well, but it appears I have only scratched the surface.
how are you now ?
Reminds me of a saying about lebanon, but can be said more broadly about the region, "if you feel like things are clear and you understand them, someone did a poor job explaining"
Jews are called Jews because they are from Tribe of Judah. Samaritans call Samaritans because they are from Samaria which ia the North of Israel. They are from Tribe of Ephraim and Manassah.
This is simplistic hooey. Jews may be comprised of Judeans more than any other Israelite tribe, but they consist of descendants of all Israelite tribes. The Samaritans, who still have Levites, included in the past members of other Israelite tribes as well.
This is an anthropological miracle - these people split with the other israelites 3000 years ago!!!!! They never left the region either - yet the lady at the end, looks speaks and thinks like an ashkenazic jew - this should show how primordial we Ashkenazim really are!!!!!...and the obvious lies being spread about us.....
You are fake semites. Go Back to Europe colonizer.
@@kh2375.2, true, none can go toe to toe with Spinoza.
Classic huckstering snake oil pulpit talk
They threw him out of the community because they were too afraid of him
@@YouAreUnimportant The properly conducted DNA tests and studies prove differently --- that the southern Levant is our largest liocalized component -- and also show that you (plural) have Arabian DNA. Go back to the Arabian peninsula you colonizing occupier. The only "claim" you have to the Land of Israel is theft and it's not valid.
wow this woman's perspective after October the 7th is WILD to listen to. She's so smart
Don’t show the black Hebrew Israelites what the samaritans look like. You wouldn’t want to make them angry
The woman is PHENOMENAL!
Just wow. This interview is impressive. Thank you.
Tsipi from Holon is amazing. She speaks plainly and directly. @7:15 Her honesty and frankness is refreshing.
This interview was really interesting. I have watched most of your videos, I will watch all of them and I will email you a few questions. Keep doing what you're doing it! :)
Religion is holding back everybody.
You know in the 4th century there was more than a million samaritans in the world but now just 800 and they live only in Israel
most of them converted to either Christianity or Islam! They still live in that region
@@Cocologs yea but most of them massacred by the byzantine and the arab empires
@@Gal_Flumin Most peaceful religions will be destroyed by others, that's what happened to Jainsim, Buddhism in India, Sufis, lots of suphisticated minority sects in every religion.
@@ff-ti7nj how is that related?
@@Gal_Flumin It shows how vulnerable those peaceful philosophies are. we should protect and promote them for a better world
So exciting to see Samaritans! I did not know earlier that there were any left. I thought that they assimilated into surrounding nations. GOD BLESS YOU SAMARITANS! Very smart and beautiful lady at the end of the video!
the way I see it, they are our fellow Jews.
+Beni Habibi they are our fellow bnei israel, not jews. They do not descend from the kingdom of yehuda.
Avishay Zelmanovich that is true, but their religion is still closer to Judaism than anything else.
+Beni Habibi agreed.
+Beni Habibi Sure Beni...but not too long ago, you were adamant that they didn't exist anymore, remember? Lol.
fwb41 yeah, I remember, but I thought you meant something else, the way you were explaining it, I thought you were talking about some leftovers from the Pre-Israelite Canaanites (back then, I only knew the Hebrew name for the Samaritans)
in reality, they are Israelites who split off from the rest of the Jews a few thousand years back, and are still our sister tribe.
God bless them - our long lost brothers
Love the way this woman explains things....watched a whole bunch of your videos....but tis taught me more than most others.....Gracias....would it be that were thousands like her in that land....
Great documentary, it’s great to hear from set of individuals that don’t take sides in the Palestinians and Israel conflict. The Samaritan lady is truly political and socially awake.
no matter what, Israel has to keep the IDF in the west bank and full control of the airspace from the mediteranean sea to the jordan river, and thats it.
from a security standpont, yes... and the fact that they were invaded and won the land, yes... but biblical claims are invalid when it comes to this issue, and as a christian im disheartened when i see people make it a religious issue, of course im from the american south where backwoods pentecostalism is rampant and everything is made into a rligious issue... i wanna vomit every time i hear "youre going to hell for that" or "gods gonna git yew"... casue just like the jews... american christians lost their way long ago
kleevorp os1, Jews have their Biblical and historical claims you may consider invalid. But I wonder what kind of claims you have to justify your living in the Native American people's land, while they're been placed in reservations?
@@kleevorpos1838 What you label "Biblical claims" are also a matter of history, even if quite convoluted. Those who look past anti-Zionist and antisemitic agendas in Biblical scholarly acknowledge the historicity of much of theJewish Bible's narrative in the Joshua, Judges, B'Midbar and Devarim/Deut.
Hi Corey! Any chance you can revisit this woman? It was a great interview, reached a more informative depth than usual.
It's really surprising that the Samaritans still maintain their faith and identities, and more surprisingly, they also find the unique, distinct, and somehow neutral identities between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs.
The video is much different from what I had expected-i.e. the Samaritan rituals or the historicity from the Northern Israeli kingdom of which they are children even today in this video-but it's really great glimpse into the the reality of the region, and how the modern Samaritans live like. And let's wish for their security and their own prosperity as well, Amen! I hope no interviewees would be threatened but wish for their own safety.
@@seekingonlytruth4620 they are Brethren of Jews, cousins to other Semitic speaking groups, such as Arabs.
@@seekingonlytruth4620 they are safe as possible going given they are Israeli.
What a brilliant woman. She tells the truth.
The best Video of all. Good job.
Gee what a brave and truthful lady. As long as we have this archaic islam we re screwed. I hope she s still alive and safe.
This woman needs to be the next Prime Minister of Israel
Id vote for her
Tsipi is brilliant, her words are even more true 8 years later. Maybe because Samaritans are straddling both sides, with a lot of history in this region. They can understand both sides and put the situation in a historical context. Tsipi for prime minister!
Great interview with the Samaritan lady, she should have her own political show.
The Palestinians are not poor, as the lady says. They receive aid and support from the United Nations, the Christian world, and UNRWA, and that is why they want the conflict to continue so that the money does not stop.
They are more similar to ashkenazim than they are to arabs or even Mizrachim. That should put things in perspective - their mindset is even more like Ashkenazim
Michael Cohen looks like the sepharadim to me
The lady is brilliant. She is smart and direct to the point. She helped me realize that the arabs are truly a problem even if she was very diplomatic in explaining,
Okay Junaid
what a smart woman!!
i like her she understand the reality of how crazy the middel east is and how it gonna get worst
+hadji nadir Maybe you are starting to learn something. She says Palestinians are better off under Isreali control.
+Ofir Gal no she didnt say that she said that fucking isis and hamas are starting to takeover and that palestinians dont want it to happen its not that they love israel its just they hate isis
+Ofir Gal and no muslim want to live under israel goverment
hadji nadir She did say that Palestinians are better off under Israel. Watch the video.
they cannot speak freely on camera as the Samaritan woman said . I d be honestly surprised if they tried bc they can change hands in a day and have before so they are walking a fine line between as best they can and trying to live in peace when they can . I don't blame them .
Oh! My ,..she speaks... I learn a lot from her. Thank you you loading this video.
Memorable interview, Congratulations, from here in São Paulo, Brazil
wow. what a woman. she convinced me haha
She was great to listen to at the end!
Lady at the end, Mind=Blown. I never thought of it like that.
She is liying
there is a problem with the translation. She says Arabs and its being translated as "Palestinian" and she never used the word "West Bank". But other than that its really nice to hear her
I never knew the smaritas came from judaism, just thought its an organisation you can phone if u have a problem in your life
I loved Tsipi at the end! She should be the next Prime Minister! Nailed it with Obama being a wimp, and about every other thing she said. It was very interesting to hear that she says there are Palestinians who want Israel to be in the West Bank. I've never heard that before. It's also very telling that there were things she couldn't say because she was being recorded. That's the fear they live in over there. You should do more videos on the Samaritans because they're fascinating!
Obama was no wimp as a President. He just needed to balance internal impoverishment and lack of basic welfare and healthcare.
US money is not endless. Whether it is right or wrong for US to mingle into other world areas conflicts, it doesn't matter, it's still a matter of available resources.
You cannot keep a war machine going forever.
When an Obama finishes his mission here comes a Trump or whoever uses taxes paid by citizens to reinforce military power and weapons.
When the internal pressure gets too strong and the impoverishment takes larger parts of middle-class citizens and basic benefits, that's when you need a new Obama-like for the next 4 years. If things get any better for many US citizens, in 4 years we will see a new "Trump" putting his nose in some foreign conflict, but not too remote to the point of being useless.
I agree with the lady... she is is a like sociologist :)
She pretty much foretold the Ukraine-Russia war way back in 2015.
Samaritans are the Swiss of the middle East.😀
Defensor
Except that France ans Italy aren't in a state of war :)
Guillaume Gorce not currently,by they've been in the past.
@samyajyoti de Italy invaded France in WWII. France probably invaded Italy at least a dozen times in history.
Switzerland have French , Italian , German and Romansh people living in a direct federal democracy.
I am pretty sure that Jesus of Nazarene would have really know the Samaritans closer ,no wonder the parable of Good Samaritan was more relatable to the Lady at last(real good friend of Jews and Arabs)
It amazes me that out of all these videos a drunk Samaritan woman has spoken the most sense. That's what brings me back to these videos - incredible insight. I also appreciate the interviews with Rabbi Brietowitz because of his objectivity and fairness.
+Mike Bottorff
with both hands tied behind her back
dangling upside down
in a shark tank
that woman can still out-think you
Show some respect
Why would you think she's drunk? She's drinking coffee
Tsipi the good (the amazing, actually) Samaritan :-) Tsipi, you rule!!!
Oh my good! Bible really comes to live in Israel. I had no knowledge at all, that Samaritans still are living there! Long live Israel for protecting all minorities 🙏
Do you think Israel is what protected the Samaritans? Israel did not exist before 1948, and Samaritans are there for 2800 years. THUS, anyone ruling there in last 2800 years has protected them. Plus, Samaritans are arch enemy of jews in old testament, and their position as per chief rabbinate is a complicated one. They hope to assimilate the small existing Samaritans and Karaites to get rid of them.
Even the majority mizrahi and equally large sephardi are getting culturally assimilated by Ashkenazi despite being Talmudic/Rabbinic jews in Israel. Israel is hardly a pinnacle of religious freedom, their tolerance for Druze and Samaritans is mostly to divide the original inhabitants by religion as part of divide and conquer.
The Jewish converts to karaite, Samarite, İslam and Christianity face all sorts of problems in the society. Especially converts to İslam are not safe with their lives, regularly getting life threats and even attacks.
@@bulentkulkuloglu Israel effectively existed as a politically independant state (ruled by the Hamoneans) from 142 BCE to 63 BCE and the Byzantines, for example, ruled the Land of Israel several centuries later, but didn't protect them, but rather massacred them to half extinction (relative to their initial demographic strength there, at the onset of Byzantine rule).
A Qaraite IS a Jew no less than a Rabbanite is, so neither can convert to being the other.
If you knew what the fook you were talking about, you'd know that Muslims "regularly" have their lives threatened and are attacked by fellow Muslims.
Anti-Zionist crap aside, your IQ is no more than room temperature.
@@bulentkulkuloglu Samaritans are the Israelites who never left the ancient land of Israel which was named Palaestina by the Romans after they bannished most Jews from the region. The Romans killed many Samaritans when they rose up against Roman colonial rule. When Arab Muslims from Arabia took over some rulers allowed Samaritans to thrive and other Arab Muslim rulers pressured them to abandon their ancient Israelite traditions and under 700 years of Ottoman Turkish rule.
To say that they were "protected" by previous rulers might be true in a sense but they were also pressured into 'shrinking' their population up until 1948. Since then they have grown once again. No one forcing them to abandon their ancient Hebrew traditions. They are respected by Palestinians in Nablus as Israelites who never left the region.
The Good Samaritan.
Jesus Corey why dont you make a video where you ask Israelis about Samaritans, I would LOVE TO SEE what they say about them, please.
You can email him
Did the Samaritans remain in the region during the time when the Jews were scattered and lost their country and the whole time before Israel became a nation again in 1948?
The samatrians are tge comunity of jews that after the bablonians expeld the most of the jews they keep some jews in the land and these comunity make herself a bit different from the other jews in babylon and become samatrians and after shivat zion the back of the jews to the land they become saparate poeple
8 years later… wow that last interview
Fascinating isnt it?
She is commonsense no-bullshit in a way only old ladies are.
8:21 - הם יודעים טוב מאוד ש*המספרים הצהובים* היחידים
She's talking about yellow license plates (Israeli plates are yellow, Palestinians are white)
Very insightful! Thanks for sharing
Baha she probably didn't want to mention Obama's name.
The translation is wrong.. She actually used a slang that would mean something like small or unworthy, not useful, when she spoke about the president
id just like to mention that the samaritan's date of seperation from mainstream judaism is disputed. they claim it to be during the early israelite settlement times while scholars agree it was during the babylonian exile, where they believe the jewish faith was altered. it is also important to mention that mainstream judaism, along with some of the scholars believe they are not israelites but in fact mesopotamian peoples from the city of cutha, a city in modern day iraq (that doesnt exist anymore) that the assyrian king Sargon II moved into israel to quell rebellions in what was Israel (or prevent them). due to this, some jews dont see them as real jews but as foreign pagans that colonized this land after the first jewish diaspora, but that is unsure.
The Jewish religion was created entirely during the Persian era
It is not possible for the Samaritans to split from Judaism during the captivity, because during the captivity there were neither Jews nor Judaism, there were only Canaanites
@@adamjunior54 That Documentary Hypothesis baloney was refuted ages ago.
Can you make an interview with the woman in the end?
מכל הכתבה הזאת, ריגשה אותי הכי הרבה הגברת שהתראיינה. אשת אשכולות, אינטלגנטית ומקסימה.❤
very smart and wise words
She was great. Told the truth. Brave woman
Dude, your videos are interesting but you have to figure out a way to leave the subtitles up longer. I'm a very efficient reader, and unless I'm constantly pausing it, I can rarely finish reading any statement if it has more than one line. I understand you have to keep up with the conversation but there are times where there is no text on the screen that could be used for catching up. Nobody reads that fast. Thanks for the videos. Really interesting.
Interesting so Samaritans descend from the Kingdom of Israel, and "Israeli" descend from the Kingdom of Judah.....so truly Samaritans are the real Israeli's
Oh sweety... you simply misunderstood this big time.
Both peoples are of Israelite origin and both have assimilated foreigners into them. Genetic research has shown that the Samaritan women originate from Babylonian and Assyrian women imported to Israel by the Assyrians. And this is without even counting the dozens of foreign women who have joined the Samaritans since 1924.
"The mitochondrial DNA results, which show maternal history (i.e. your mother’s mother’s mother, etc.), reveal no major difference between the Samaritans, Jews, or Palestinians in the Levant who were also sampled. These three groups have relatively similar maternal genetic histories. However, the story of the Y-chromosome, which shows paternal history (i.e. your father’s father’s father) is quite different. Indeed, not only are the Y-chromosomes of the Jews and Samaritans more similar to each other than either is to the Palestinians’, the Y-chromosomes of the Samaritans show striking similarities to a very specific Y-chromosome most often associated with Jewish men. Although the Samaritan type is slightly different from the Jewish type, it is clear that the two share a common ancestor, probably within the last few thousand years.
As a result, Shen and colleagues argue that the traditional hypothesis, that the Samaritans were transported into the Levant by the Assyrians and have no Jewish heritage, is largely incorrect. Rather, these Samaritan lineages are remnants of those few Jews who did not go into exile when the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom of Israel in 721 BC. Those who remained in the Levant may have take non-Jewish wives, which would account for the genetic admixture on the female side. But according to the authors the Y-chromosome clearly shows that the Samaritans and the Jews share common ancestry dating to at least 2,500 years ago."
the two jewish kingdoms calld judea and jerusalem is our capitial sameria is israel capitial we are brothers to hebrew the the 3 jowish kingdom of today calld israel becuse of non jews that live here and they cant be judeans
@@AboodCohen Many of the people who self identify today as Palestinians are actually Arabized Jews and Northern Israelites (Samaritans). The rest of them descend from foreigners who settled in Israel during the last 2000 years or have mixed Israelite and non-Israelite roots.
Both Jews and Northern Israelites shared very similar beliefs but as the Israelites became politically divided after the reign of King Shlomo Ben Dawid), the biblical writtings were also adjusted on both sides in order to suit their interests. Northern Israelites (who remained the majority of Israel's population), kept Shomron as their capital city, whereas Jews made Jerusalem theirs (as intended by King Dawid Ben Yishai and Shlomo Ben Dawid according to the Jewish Bible).
By the way, after Northern Israel was conquered by Assyrians in the 8th century BCE, many Northern Israel fled to Southern Israel (Kingdom of Judah) and were gradually absorbed by Jews. In other words, many modern Jews are actually partially descendants of Northern Israelites
As for female ancestry, Northern Israelites (Samaritans) apparently had very little admixture. A relatively recent genetic study has shown however a significant genetic proximity between some Assyrians, Babylonians and Kurds, on one hand, and, on the other, Northern Israelites and Jews, but it's quite likely many of those Assyrians, Babylonians and Kurds are actually descendants of Northern Israelites who were deported into Assyria (although it's also well known that Northern Israelites and Jews also absorbed foreigners who were deported into Israel or migrated thereto). Moreover, we also known from History that even before the Israelites emerged as a tribal confederation in Israel there were people of North African, Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Caucasian origins living in Israel. In fact, all ethnic/national groups indigenous to the Levant (i.e. Israelites, Lebanese/Northern Canaanites and Syrians/Arameans) actually descend from people who migrated to Israel from these regions.
What makes certain Jewish communities more different from Samaritans was their admixture with European female converts to Judaism, specially in Italy and to a lower extent, in Central and Eastern Europe. The frequency of European female lineages among Ashkenazic Jews ranges from 65% to 80% (depending on futther investigation on one specific Mitochondrial DNA group). This admixture occured mostly with Italqic Jews, the main ancestors of Ashkenazic Jews. Sephardic and Mizrahic Jews also had some admixture with non-Jews, but most of it also occured with women and at a lower frequency.
@@YehudaLion Correct me if I'm wrong -- initially the Northern KIngdom's capital city was Shekhem and then Tirtza... and ultimately got changed yet again to Shomron by King `Omri.
The name "Jews" does not properly describe or denote the Southern Israelites, who consisted of 4 Israelite tribes (Yehudah, Shim`on, Binyamin, Lewy). This name was actually invented by the Hellenistic and Roman occupiers in the latter half of the Second Temple era, to denote all the Israelites who accepted the sanctity of Jslm. with its Temple Mount -- regardless of where such Israelites resided in the Promised Land -- whereas those Israelites who believed that Mt. Gerizim was the Chosen Place were labelled by them "Samaritans".
The 65% to 80% range you referred to is based on an outdated study from 2013, that determined the percentage of Middle Eastern AJ female haplogroups at 8%. However, more recent findings that were unknown to the 2013 study authors (see Kevin Brook's peer-reviewed book, The Maternal Genetic Lineages of Ashkenazic Jews), reveal that at least 25% of AJ mtDNA haplogroups are of Jewish Middle Eastern origins -- notably Levantine. Accordingly, the frequency of European mtDNA haplogroups among AJs is somewhat lower than 65%. What I find even more interesting is that a greater number of Germanic and Slavic lineages combined joined the AJs through converted women than lineages of converted Italic and Greek women, while autosomally the southern European ancestry among AJs is far greater than Slavic and Germanic ancestry.
That woman set off truth bombs. Wow.
Nope.
The Samaritans are from a different tribe so therefore are not “Jews” but we are both part of ‘Am Yisra’el
We are all Hebrews sons/daughters of Israel.
It's sad that this commic book level of nonsense is so pervasive. The Samaritans aren't Jewish because they don't have the beliefs required for it. Some Jews actually descend from the Ehpraim and Menashe tribes.
I don't understand why the Palestinians accept the Samaritians and their history in the land and leave them alone but not we Jews.
Their main conflict is with the Jews. Had all the jws annihilated, they'd come for samaritans next.
It's because Samaritans have actually lived there consistently since ancient times.
The majority of Israeli Jews are recent newcomers to the land, most coming around the 20th century
@@i_likemen5614 Well now I'll burst that ignorant bubble: all the credible historians accept that there's been a *continuous* demographic Jewish presence in the Land of Israel since AD70 -- popular perceptions notwithstanding
@@i_likemen5614 And judging by how you describe yourself on your channel, the best is to conclude this thread with this comment so that nobody will seem here like a clown.
@Batya Seguin While many Muslims like to spout in TH-cam comments the lie that everybody got along excellently in the Land of Israael until the Zionist Jews arrived and messed everything up, the local Muslims actually intended to commit genocide on the Samaritans in 1841 (40 years before the 1st wave of modern Zionist Jews arrived from Europe), but they were saved thanks to a humanitarian gesture of a Jerusalem rabbi, who gave the Samaritans a certificate to show the Muslims, where he had written that they're a branch of the Children of Israel who accepts the Torah's veracity.
the lady has some brain inside her skull, and then some..
but where are the samaritans in all of that???
Love watching your videos keep up the good work...My suggestion is the palestinians/israelis need to take this in their own hands, with solidarity. Th propaganda/governments are terrible on both sides..Praying that one day I can come and visit Palestine/Israeli.....
I really found this video interesting and insightful, but I do think the beginning text is not really accurate. It's not clear if the Israelite-Samaritans "broke off" from Judaism or if the kingdom of Judah (future Judeans, ie Jews) broke off from Israel. The Samaritans have their own version of the Torah (with a different 10th Commandment that locates Mt. Gerizim as the holy place of all Israel) and do not accept the entire Tanach as canon. Also, according to archaeological and anthropological research and findings, there is not a consensus that there was ever really a united "Israel" under king David (there is evidence that David was an historical personage, but not that he necessarily ruled a united kingdom). In fact, a growing number of historians believe the two kingdoms developed independently from what was a loose confederation of the Israelite tribes and territory (possibly the period of Judges). Also, if you think about the history as it is relayed in the Tanach, it is also is a little strange. The Tanach posits that David and Shlomo ruled over a united Israel and then there was a break and the rebellious leaders took over the north as the Kingdom of Israel, and the true and legitimate heirs to David and Shlomo held the south as the Kingdom of Judah. However, think about that for a minute in terms of historical conflicts and civi wars or rebellions or revolutions. When a rebel breaks from an established kingdom they never keep the name of the established kingdom (except in this one case), think about the American Revolution, the rebelling colonists didn't claim their new country was Britain or the United Kingdom, the called it the Unites States of America. Or think about American history, when the South seceded from the Union they didn't call themselves the United State of America, they became the Confederate State of America. Or look at Mexico or pretty much any other colonial descendant state, including those in the Middle East and North Africa. SO...why is it that the rebels from David and Shlomo's united Israel were able to keep the name Israel when they separated and the true, established rulers changed the name of their kingdom to Judah? It doesn't make any sense. A much more logical analysis (as well as archaeological, anthropological, and historical review), indicates that in all likelihood, the two kingdoms were established from the broader Israelite tribal territory independently, or that the kingdom of Judah actually broke off from the Israelites (perhaps this was first a spiritual and cultural break that led to a new political entity). This is also the story according to the Israelite-Samaritans who have a high priest descended from Zadok (of the book of Shmuel and Eli), and they suggest that Eli broke with Zadok on certain aspects of our indigenous tribal spiritual practice and belief and Eli took his people south (from Mount Gerizim and Samaria) to Shiloh and this community or polity eventually became the Kingdom of Judah (in which case, it is the other way around, the Jews broke off from the Samaritans). As a proud Judean, I have no problem honoring our possibly big sister tribe of the Israelite-Samaritans and recognizing that it is possible our ancestors broke off from their version of Israelite belief and not the other way around. Or at least settling on the idea that maybe we developed our communities independently out of the tribal confederacy of Israel. Either way we are all the people of Israel and Am Yisrael Chai!
It's more like different Canaanite tribes united by one nationality - Israel, but failed to unite under one same religious and political rules so one group settled in Judea and the other in Samaria(or, perhaps, they were originally living there). I guess the thing that kept the two groups separate is the nationality issue cause religion were = nationality in the past.
כיהודי, ישראלי שממש מתעניין בעברו, בהיסטוריה ובתרבות השומרונים ממש מעניינים אותי. הייתי רוצה לדבר עם אחד..
לך לסיור מודרך בהר גריזים
@@talknight2 הייתי אומר שזה די מסוכן שם שילך לחולון יותר בטוח
@@Gal_Flumin אין שום דבר מסוכן בהר גריזים
@@Gal_Flumin מה לעזאזל מחבל מתאבד יעשה בהר גריזים? אין שם יהודים, זה כמו לתקוף כפר ערבי...
She comes across as so wise.....no hatred w/her....
Samaritans didn't split from Judaism, both Samaritans and Jews are derived from the the Kingdom of Israel. Jews are the ones that split from the Kingdom of Israel, and formed their own Kingdom, the Kingdom of Judah. The kingdom of Israel is named after Jacob and the capital named Samaria hence Samaritanism /Samaritans. The Kingdom of Judah was obviously named after Judah and its capital named Jerusalem hence Judaism /Jews.The Kingdom of Israel (Samaritan) predate the Kingdom of Judah(Jews). If anything Judaism split from Samaritanism.
interesting. tq.
Not true. After king Solomon died his son became the king but because of his politic movements(bad) most of the tribes refused to follow him so they split into another kingdom. The Judah kingdom is the one who had the capital(Jerusalem) and the royalty blood(king's Solomon descendents as king). So it's the Samaritants who split from the united Israel Kingdom.
Notwithstanding the traditional Samaritan narrative, Judaism couldn't split from Samaritanism since too much is already known to hisotrians and archeaologists to bear this out.
Samaritanism and Judaism seems to have split from Israelitism. That no proto-Samaritan cultic artifacts have been found on Mt. Gerizim earlier than 538 BCE seems to prove that Samaritanism cannot be dated earlier than the Second Temple era.
What's what the intermittent bell sounds?
Most interesting person in all of these videos. I wish we could hear more from her
The sons of Joseph & Levi.