Go to ground.news/ryanmcbeth to stay fully informed. Subscribe through my link and get 40% the Vantage plan for unlimited access this month only. All Video links and PDFs can be accessed from my substack at RyanMcBeth.Substack.com On November 16th, 2023, IDF forces destroyed a monument to fallen Turkish Aid workers of the IHH. This video covers a history of why that happened, why the monument was built, why someone might destroy a monument during wartime and the legal justifications for doing so. NOTE: A viewer pointed out that The Oslo Accords created 3 areas within the Occupied Territories. Area A is solely under Palestinian National Authority (PNA) jurisdiction, area B is under joint jurisdiction and Area C is solely under the jurisdiction of Israel. Therefore the enforcement of the 5758-1998 momuments law is limited to Israeli territory, and areas B and C of the Occupied Territories. In Area A, including Gaza, the PNA law applies. So Israel may be enforcing a law it has no right to enforce. For uncensored video, check out my substack at: ryanmcbeth.substack.com Like my shirts? Get your own at: www.bunkerbranding.com/pages/ryan-mcbeth Want a personalized greeting: www.cameo.com/ryanmcbeth Watch all of my long form videos: ruclips.net/p/PLt670_P7pOGmLWZG78JlM-rG2ZrpPziOy Twitter: @ryanmcbeth Instagram: @therealryanmcbeth BlueSky @ryanmcbeth Reddit: /r/ryanmcbeth Join the conversation: discord.gg/pKuGDHZHrz Want to send me something? Ryan McBeth Productions LLC 8705 Colesville Rd. Suite 249 Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA
@Ryan donating expired medicaments is common practice, not a "waste of...". Medicine is expensive. When NGOs with a limited budget get a list of urgently needed medicine, they can either try to purchase it anew. This makes it very expensive, especially to a region where you won't get donations from pharma firms (if they donate anything). However, there are some medicaments where the expiry date is just for liability of the pharma firm and in the worst-case scenario. Take a look into the first-aid kit of your car, most probably a lot of it expired some years ago; if you come to an accident, you won't not bandage somebody because the expiry date on the bandage is past. When I interned in a hospital (a major university one in Bavaria, not some horse doctor), I asked the lead medic about some products past expiry date; he told me to still use them, as they were stockpiled under ideal conditions and the expiry date is the guaranteed date until when a product is still usable, even if you have it in your ambulance and said ambulance parked 24/7 under the midsummer sun. It's better to deliver medicine with a guaranteed shelf-life still going, but if the medic and the hospital accept that the manufacturer is no longer liable for damages due to over-storage, you can still use it. NaCl is NaCl, Natrium and Chloride don't retire to Florida the day of the expiry date. If medicine is urgently needed and you can get a batch of expired, but still apparently good medicine, AND you will see if there is degradation when administering it, AND even in case of degradation it just means you need a higher dose because the medicine has become inert (not toxic), then bring it. It isn't "gold standard", but "if you can't get the cream cheese, go for the plain bagel". The Gaza blockade has been criticised internationally. If Israel had really not interfered with needed medical supplies, there'd have been no 7th octobre attack. Case in point: Were the medicaments delivered to Gaza afterwards according to Gaza medics' wishes, or were they destroyed because a date on a strip of cardboard said that the manufacturer no longer accepts liablility (which a Gaza medic couldn't get anyway)? From an OpInfo perspective, an overreaction and recruitment possibilities for one of Hamas' successor organisations was an operative goal of Hamas, and Israel is delivering. In all the courses becoming an officer, I have never heard that you should identify the enemie's goals and fulfill them, but to prevent them. Oh, and - if you want to tear down Arafat monuments because he was a "terrorist", start demolishing Menachem Begin signs as well, he also was involved in a terrorist organisation before becoming Israeli prime minister. Arafat led Palestine to the Oslo accords, which Amir and Netanyahu tore down. It's understandable that he's held in high regards in Palestine; and he is FAR from the only actor in Israel AND Palestine who started out violently and later in life learned that a treaty honoured by BOTH parties is the better way. It' not only "Purity of Arms", which IMO isn't enforced enough and used as a morale sedative too often. Wars are fought on the battlefield, but won in the enemies' hearts. Like an Israeli whose daughter was martyred by a terrorist who happened to come from Palestine pointedly put it: "We can either share the land. Or we can share the graveyards beneath it." Admittedly, I prefer my Israeli as well as Palestinian civilians happy, healthy, wealthy, and wise, not dead.
Ryan, I'm a medical professional, and I'd like to tell you that the medicine being expired or about to expire is a known strategy for supporting areas in need. Most medications, if held in ideal temperature ranges, will actually be okay past their stated expiration date. That expiration date is technically a date to guarantee 90% efficacy of the medicine, but in places where they can't get anything, that's more than enough. Hospitals here in the US are required to only give patients unexpired medicines, but if they end up with some that expire, they send that as humanitarian aid to countries in need.
@WhyThesePeople They are the the most aided people in the world, and have gotten no where because it's all spent on terror instead of teaching. Perfect example of when it's time to put down the "holy books" and pick up the "text books".
Another way to say that this is another tool the medical industry uses to see more costly pharmaceuticals in the west because they can’t charge that to the rest of the world, effectively subsidizing everyone else.
Beyond that, for many medical supplies, the expiry date is a legal requirement, though actual product expiry is fully dependent on events and not on time. The German Bundeswehr conducted tests on their expired but still available medical supplies from throughout the cold-war era in the 2010s and discovered, that for most types of supplies, they are as good as new, only some drugs turn bad.
@WhyThesePeople That one is common practice. If you have a drug where degradation only means that you have to administer a higher dose because some of it has become inert, and you have the patient's condition nevertheless so you see if you need another dose, go for it. For humanitarian aid, expired doses do almost no harm (what should a Gaza medic do if he wants to hold a manufacturer liable anyway?); they also are less interesting for black marketeers and cannot be sold in western countries. An overdue drug you can administer is better than a drog pre-expiry date that has been stolen and smuggled back to the west.
Ryan. Tree spikes were not aimed at chain saws. They were aimed at the giant saw blades in mills. When the high speed blade hit a spike it exploded. Extremely dangerous for nearby workers.
makes sense seeing that it looks like they were hammered in perpendicular to the tree -- much more likely to hit it on a saw mill when cutting dimensional lumber than when cutting down the tree
@@seldoon_nemardoesn't need to be a heavy industrial one either, shit shoots out of the dust nozzle and flies to the other side of the factory. It happens faster than ppl realize or could react critically. It happened to my boss, the blade only clipped his winter coat, it could have been deadly.
If im not mistaken no spike has ever caused an injury and it cost the logging industey millions trying to find non existant needles in log forest sized hay stack.
The fact that medicine is marked as expired or about to expire is not an issue for many medications. Antibiotics can be a problem but other medications are still fine 5 years after expiration. For example expired metformin keeps my blood sugar down just the same as brand spanking new metformin.
i have 10 yr old lortabs from when i broke my ankle. only a few left now but they still work . like when i had a root canal that hurt like an MF and they told me to just take some tylenol.
Having lived in Israel I don't often appreciate folks who aren't from the regions opinions. Ryan you continue to teach me shit about the country where my family lives. Your analysis is logical and well presented and you are very clear as to when you are reporting facts and what is your opinion. Been watching you since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and it never occurred to me that you would be only a few months later providing analysis of my former home. It has been difficult for me to be dispassionate about the war and I appreciate both your analysis and your POV.
I think an important note was left out (unless I missed it). Even if Israel was enforcing their own laws in this bulldozing of a monument, it would be illegal under The Hague Conventions. Article 43 requires that occupying powers maintain to the best of their capabilities the laws in place of the nation they occupy, unless those laws are in fundamental misalignment with the occupying power’s duties, are of military necessity to disregard, or prevent public safety. This also means that an occupying power cannot enforce its own laws on occupied territories; it must maintain the legal regime of the previous administration. If Israel is enforcing an Israeli law forbidding monuments to terrorists, that’s a violation of Hague Article 43. Even if the administering power of the Gaza Strip, Hamas, had a verbatim identical law, there is still an expectation that the occupying power also interprets the law as the previous administrators did, and the fact that the monument stood for years would be evidence that it should be interpreted to permit the monument. While Israel isn’t signatory to The Hague Conventions, its own High Court found in Suleiman Tawfiq Ayyub et al. v. Minister of Defense et al that The Hague Conventions are binding, customary international law.
It's hard to say that gaza has local laws... would you go by Hamas's (the defacto government) or the PA (which have no control of gaza since like 2007) the official government of the gaza strip
@@randomstuff7962 the point isn’t whether Gaza has local laws (of course they do), it’s that Israel’s laws, whatever they may be, aren’t legally enforceable in occupied land.
@@randomstuff7962 That argument as to whose laws to follow could be made, but if Israel believed the PA's laws are valid over Gaza they would have to find a Palestinian Authority law to justify the takedown. Either way, whatever Israel's laws say is irrelevant.
The 60's and 70's era USCG rescue helicopters (Sikorsky Sea Horse?) all had guillotine cutters on their rescue hoist lines. In case the hoist line was fouled, the chopper crew could literally chop off the steel hoist cable. AFAIK none of the newer helicopters have this feature any more.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Regardless, these were fast ropes, large ~1.5" diameter ropes dropped from the side of the helicopter. This was not a hoist rope. They're just attached with a basic hook system. Hell half the time, fast ropes are dropped ANYWAY, and not brought back up to the chopper.
I worked as a maintainer on MH-53J Pave Lows. The fast rope had a quick disconnect mechanism. Some crew chief had stenciled "RID A GRUNT" on the push latch
yeah the real issue was that the like tied just meant then had to deploy a new line so that a commando could go down it. I know the IDF are a bunch of soccer players, but the chopper was never in any danger.
Really? When I was working CIMIC as part of a UN Peacekeeping Operation, both the UN and civilian NGO medical support personnel refused to use any expired medications.
@@theancientartofmodernwarfa1850 Depends on when and where, and what its used for. Antibiotics that are expired are a bad idea as they may not work and increase drug resistance. But a more stable chemical like aspirin might be good for months or years after just weaker so need a slightly larger dose. Technically not the best practices by most western medical standards but when your poor and have few options you make do.
@@theancientartofmodernwarfa1850 yeah. But all i did was warehouse stuff.i assume you UN people wouldnt be using free handouts from medical companies. The ngo i worked for would collect all sorts of stock from stockpiles and relabel it and ship it off to far away.
From experience, the main effect of "spiking" a tree with a nail is the negative publicity it creates. Spiking or alleged spiking is a safety problem so safety professionals shut the site down based on the rumour. Protestors only care that it creates a "dilemma", as Ryan is fond of saying.
@@erikanders3343 Bought a small holiday home from a sort of French recluse who had to move out. Dude had used metal wire to shape the multi-trunked trees in the garden. Trees basically ended up growing around the wire and swallowing it. 😆
I don't really care what the IDF has in their mission statement or code of ethics. People can say one thing and do something completely different. I judge the IDF by what they actually DO. And what they DO isn't good. Not with these kids of casulty figures. And destroying a "terrorist monument" only applies where Israel has legal jurisdiction, and since Gaza is not internationally recognized as Israeli territory, that law doesn't apply. What the IDF did was completely illegal, and they did it just because they can get away with it. If Israel wants to drive more Gazans to join Hamas, they're going about it the right way. We were supposed to have learned that shit in the formation of ISIS, but apparently we don't learn.
I don't think this is what Ryan is saying. He'll call out Israel for occasional violations, which is cool, because Israel HAS a code of ethics. I don't see him calling out Hamas for "occasional violations" because their charter says they're there to exterminate Jews and the state of Israel. That's what they have INSTEAD OF a code of ethics. Any ethics violations on their part, such as targeting civilians, is baked into the cake. It's in their charter.
@@JenniferTziviaMacLeod so because Israel has stuff like murder being illegal that means it’s okay if they commit murder? The IDF has not only committed war crimes, but done what they accuse Hamas of doing but there’s actual evidence (using human shields, attacking heritage and medical sites, targeting aid relief). Hamas committed a terrorist attack in October and nobody is arguing against that, but starving hostages is not how you save them, and blowing up children does not reduce Hamas sympathy.
7:12 Then we have the Swedish air force that notices a russian plane without a transponder and decides to escort them for as long as they are over international waters. Just to supply transponder service to the poor russians, to void accidents of course.
well, generally when military planes are up to military things and don't want to be noticed, they turn their transponders off, so I don't think what you are saying is strictly true.
@@dvidrie So what does that have to do with the estimated height of the thing? I mean, he could just say that without making the boxes and making a gross estimation. It seems like it was an entirely pointless exercise. It was a waste of time as far as I can tell, not impressive.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 He not only explains stuff, he also showcases how you work out stuff like this. If you think this is a waste of time, then being on the internet watching videos itself is a waste of time
@5:11 tree spiking was really meant for the lumber mill. I think it's the reason a lot of lumber mills have metal detectors. Which isn't a bad idea because you never know if 80 years ago somebody put a nail in it, or shot something into it, that is now completely grown into the tree.
yeah, all mills the big news story of a spike death is from a mill that refused to buy a detector and the tree was no from old growth that protestors protect, it was a farmed tree. My guess is the mill blamed spiking to avoid paying the liability. The mill was sold and the new operator uses a detector.
Could be metal for a lot of reasons other than spiking.... probably the most common is barbed wire fencing and hooks. Most mills won't accept wood that was near a farm or residence, metal detector or not
Why leave up the 3rd tall landmark mortar sighting point? Shouldn't they take down the second minaret? Maybe that can be done carefully with respect for it being a religious building, ask/tell clerics. Humanitarian ship intercepted on high seas should have accepted free berthing offered. Gee, the sailors carried sheath knives, of course, and they had concrete for cargo, how dangerous.
The cool thing about trees is that they don't push up, they grow up. If you stick a spike in at 5 feet off the ground, in 20 years it'll still be at 5 feet. Trees grow up.
Tree spiking is less about trying to screw up a chainsaw as it is about the blade at the mill. Those blades are huge and expensive, and when they hit a metal spike they shatter and can easily kill someone... more so when they were circular blades and people stood near them, and less so now as they are more likely band saws and in enclosed rooms that are controlled from a protected room nearby. But the blades are probably even more expensive now, but they do go through a metal detecting procedure before they are milled.
Example of bad actors leading to unintended positive changes, I guess. Accidents like this likely happened but with jerks spiking trees it became a more immediate concern to make these changes.
I don't always agree with your position on things, but I will never accuse you of being entirely one-sided. This is a good thing. These are uncomfortable topics to say the least. You do a good job of presenting these difficult scenarios and thoroughly vetting the information, and you genuinely seem to pursue the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is or whether it goes against a widely held belief. You don't just go along to get along and I appreciate that.
I will. He is extremely one-sided. Pro-US, pro-Israel, both of whom are "the good guys" in his view. While any of their opponents are presented like evil terrorists an never get the benefit of the doubt like the US and Israel ALWAYS get. How is that not one-sided? Israel blows up hospitals and cultural heritage? Well....its complicated. An emotional muslim aid worker holds a speech just before they are about to be attacked and invokes the term shaheed? Proof this whole organization are terrorists!
I agree with this sentiment. In this age of "hot takes" nuance has been lost. Sometimes things we don't want to be true, are true, and acknowledging that and working on empathy and accountability being applied to all is the only way forward. I appreciate his search for facts.
@@dichroichameleon Exactly. I'm in Israel and following Ryan because I appreciate a nuanced take and will ALWAYS stand for truth, even when it doesn't paint some of my fellow citizens in the best light... 💙💙💙
Thank you for fostering the profession of Soldiering even after leaving uniformed service. Thank you also for being unbiased and thorough in your videos. Freedom and Justice for all!
I am retired from the US Military. I used to teach this stuff as part of the NCOES (Noncommissioned Officer Education System). I wish I had access to videos like yours back then. The stuff covering the rules & laws of war was pretty dry and textbook-driven.
Sherine Abu Okala (Al Jazeera correspondent, was killed last year by an Israeli sniper) monument in Jerusalem was destroyed, and the entire street where she was sniped was demolished by IDF She had nothing to do with any resistance groups or any terrorist attacks So what is the explanation for that
Sherine abu okala wasn't killed by a *sniper*, but by ordinary infantryman. Why is that matters? Because infantryman on combat typically firing suppression fire, and not firing on a target they specifically acquired. When you as a journalist covering an engagement between two sides, reporting and filming from a narrow street and it's corners, there's always a chance for being caught in between crossfire, or being misidentified. It's always not a good thing those incidents, but they are not the first or the last.
@@anubisegy2002 1. The investigation has been finished on October 2022 2. The round that killed her was a 5.56 round, which according to ballistic analysis has been fired from approx 200 meters. There are almost no militaries today who use 5.56 cartridge for accurate long ranged rifles. That is a standard cartridge for infantryman standard assult rifles. So again, not a "sniper".
Ryan did a great job of summarizing and contextualizing the Mavi Marmara incident but I would invite anyone interested to further read accounts of the incident such as the Gaza flotilla raid wiki article as well as watch the videos that Ryan is unable to share here. 50 of the activists on the ship where there explicitly to turn the ship into a violent trap for the IDF commandos and they did so without the knowledge or consent of the other activists.
Mmmh I'm guessing those people were the IHH? It's interesting to hear there were conflicting interests. I would still like to say that there needs to be some sympathy toward the groups motivations. Bosnia was a disaster in which NATO failed in its only purpose of stopping what happened. Many view it as having happened because it was a Muslim population so europe didn't care (not saying that they are correct) than at the same time the world ignores gaza, I can see why they would feel the need to take matters onto their own hands
i have no doubt that's true... but in this i think everyone keeps arguing about specific actions where it's kinda obvious the answer.... well they where trying to run a blocake they don't agree with, why is the blockaid there?... again will be more excuses from the zionists but it still misses the point... it's like why.. overall have they not been able to sort this... they get about 3.8billion/year from the US... and they still have this problem? there is only 2 million people there ...in theory you could give each of them 1 million dollars anually to stop the terrorism....... nope there's lots of people that rely on this conflict, not least of which is Israel and also very much Hamas to sure
That is their right actually. They were in international waters heading to a port controlled by another sovereign entity where Israel has no jurisdiction. Forcing them into your territorial waters and port is called piracy and you are allowed to respond with lethal force to piracy.
@@duxd1452 conflating piracy and a wartime blockade is a fale equiavalence. One can respond with lethal force to both piracy and a wartime blockade. But under a wartime blockade you don't get to play the victim when you intentionally set out in opposition to play the hero.
But they don't. Many hospital strikes are also blamed on Israel. Btw, terrorists hide inside of all those civilian areas so more civilians can die and they can blame it on Israel. The PIJ spokesman literally admitted they took control over all the hospitals in Gaza.
18:40 they also destroyed a memorial at the site where Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated by the IDF. The way the stone plaque was positioned it only had to be destroyed intentionally. So the IDF went out of their way to do it. Reprehensible, but thats how the IDF functions.
I don't often comment, but this is world class journalism. A breakdown that gives you those moments of instinctual empathy for your fellow humans on both sides of the issue. It's my boy Ryan's job to lay it bare with his usual alacrity, it's our jobs to SEE it and just do the fucking right thing.
@@SIACC-du6jv That is not a given job description. It is fair to call Ryan’s work investigative journalism as he on his own initiative presents his factual finds on a subject, even if they are aimed for educational purposes.
@@SIACC-du6jvI...respectfully disagree. Writing for a small local newspaper is journalism, and there's essentially zero risk involved there. I believe in professional distinctions and since Ryan has no professional training as a journalist I would personally categorize him as a citizen journalist. But, like, as the initial commenter here states, it's world class citizen journalism.
@@ros8737 ok I’ll take that with a grain of salt, however Ryan never gets intro’d as a journalist when he gets interviewed and most of his analysis explain war tactics which sometimes are at odds with humanitarian law, there’s a reason why Geneva convention was created it’s because the bombing of Dresden should never be repeated
@@ros8737 journalism is a specific profession, most people create content or report what they feel passionate about and eventually be inspired enough to become trained as journalists. But to call someone a journalist right off the bat does not do justice for those that have trained and dedicated there entire lives and have been killed exposing truth to power
You are getting a lot wrong in this video. 1. Expired medicine is routinely donated to conflict zones, it is fine - ask a red cross or UNHRW rep. 2. There were many monuments destroyed, including the one for Arafat which looked about 4 meters tall and was surrounded by buildings. Why are you reaching like this? You are undermining your reputation.
You obviously didnt watch the video He said that isreal has a law of destoying monumamts of terrorists. Idf is obey by that law. Also as a medic. Giving expired or pre expired medicine is very bad and should not be given. And i dont care about what red cross do. Unless they have no choice, better to give an expired medicine tham nothing at all at the battlfield. But the have no excuse
Ultimately it’s irrelevant to anyone claiming to be the good guys, as Ryan pointed out. Good guys have standards to live up to. They should try to live up to those standards and not use an adversary’s lack of standards as an excuse for failing to live up to standards.
It is not irrelevant if you are one of the teams of misled who think Hamas are fighting for some just cause with moral actors. Absolutely, the good guys should live up to their code... that was not my point. @@MarcosElMalo2
Baruch Goldstien was a lunatic, it wasnt in a make shift mosque, It was at the Cave of the Patriarchs's Muslim section "Ibrahimi Mosque". His m16 had a Stovepipe jam, it was then named after him: Baruch Jam
I haven't seen anyone comment on this yet, but I think it is important to note that both minarets are most likely destroyed based on the picture at 12:24 and the satellite images. At 12:36 in the left picture, it can be seen that the minarets, the tallest parts of the mosque, stick out a lot compared to the front section or the first step of the mosque. However, in the right picture with the destruction, a part of the right minaret can be seen fallen down to the right, and the left minaret is not as tall anymore. It doesn't stick out as much compared to the height of the first step of the mosque, and it is not significantly higher than the main dome of the mosque. Later, when comparing the two satellite images, at 13:16, the one from November 8th, we can see the shadow of both the monument and the two minarets. The shadows are pointed nearly directly north, meaning this image was taken around noon local time. Then at 13:58, we see the satellite image from November 30th where there are no shadows from the monument or both minarets, but we do see shadows being cast by some buildings to the east of the mosque. The direction of those shadows is similar compared to the first image, and the tall buildings do show long shadows. Since there is no long shadow from the minarets, I must conclude that both have been destroyed. But how come that the top of the left minaret is still visible in the picture of the destroyed monument at 12:24? I believe that the left minaret has collapsed on itself during the destruction of the mosque, but the top part remained as a whole and fell straight down. The left minaret also seems to be slightly tilted compared to the surrounding buildings and the remaining structure of the mosque, indicating that it may have collapsed straight down as a whole, but this slight tilt is not conclusive.
Ryan, I respect your opinion, but the mental gymnastics it takes to even attempt justify the destruction of these memorials as military necessity should get an Olympic medal. The IDF wants revenge and is trying to compensate for their failure to protect their citizens on October 7th by demonstrating that they are putting their boots on the necks of resistance in Gaza. Hamas is a vile organization and Israel shouldn’t have developed it in the 1980s. Israel has consistently promoted it to create divisions in the PLO and PA … which is primarily secular… just like when the US supported the Jihadists in Afghanistan (that became Al-Qaeda) to kill Soviets in the 80s. Sometimes the Frankenstein Monster that you create, turns on you.
Isreali MP on record in 2015 saying that Hamas is an asset. "Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the most extremist members of the most extremist Israeli government coalition to date, offered an unusually frank assessment of the government’s approach to Hamas in a 2015 interview. “The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an asset,” Smotrich said at the time. “It’s a terrorist organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the [International Criminal Court], no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.”" This is the opinion of the current administration of Israel.
I mean seriously, to whom is this supposed to be a mortar reference point, there’s no space to the east for mortars, and if they positioned them to the south they are nowhere near the tallest buildings anywhere near it, as well as what? Hamas the notably underequiped and untrained violent milita has a well trained mortar crew and spotters and are positioned in an open mortar position in the country that’s being bombed daily
@@noelkirkland I did, however I’m criticising even bringing up such a point because it’s entirely purpose is to poison debate and throw up unnecessary ideas, he could of definitely put a lot less focus on the mortar theory or put it at the end, it’s important to have a summary at the beginning of the video so people don’t take what you’re mainly focusing on and roll with it, because that’s what people do
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.” -Thomas Paine
Not sure if Nelson Mandela ever read this quote or studied Thomas Paine but he was very conciliatory towards his oppressors and seems to have a sense of the historical origins and drivers of White Nationalism. I think he understood the affect that the brutal imperial wars of acquisition by conquest had on ordinary people. The farm and village burning, concentration camps, mass deportations etc following the end of the conventional phase of the Anglo Boer War fueled Afrikaner Nationalism. The subsequent exploitation of a divided labor force set English and Afrikaans speaking whites, many returning from WW1, against blacks who were even more oppressed. White English speaking 2nd and 3rd generation became disillusioned and more drifted towards White nationalism than towards Black nationalism or a common ideology.
"The circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution. Furkan Doğan and İbrahim Bilgen were shot at near range while the victims were lying injured on the top deck. Cevdet Kiliçlar, Cengiz Akyüz, Cengiz Songür and Çetin Topçuoğlu were shot on the bridge deck while not participating in activities that represented a threat to any Israeli soldier. In these instances and possibly other killings on the Mavi Marmara, Israeli forces carried out extra- legal, arbitrary and summary executions prohibited by international human rights law, specifically article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights." Excerpt from the UN report on the MV Mavi Marmara
And I mean even the most recent one: It doesn't even mention Hamas and demands a ceasefire! But the most ridiculous thing I've seen was UN women blaming "prolonged Israeli occupation" for women and girls experiencing violence in Palestine. But it gets more sinister than that: UN-schools are pretty much breeding grounds for hate and terrorism.
Looking at photos of the mosque, I think both minarets have been toppled. The reason is the base of the minaret tower was level with the dome, in the aftermath photo the top third of the minaret is level with the dome - that suggests the minaret is propped against the building - or has lost two thirds of it's height between the two photos. I'm wondering if that's blast damage, and the bottom half has effectively been blown out and the top bit has ended up roughly aligned with the walls of the building?
Ryan, I disagree with your assessment of the second minaret. In the first picture, both minarets cast a long shadow all the way out to the road. In the second picture, neither minaret casts a long shadow. Shadow length can be used to determine the height of a feature on the ground when the sun angle is known. The Pleiades satellites are in a sun-synchronous orbit, so the sun angle should not have changed significantly in the space of 22 days. If the second minaret is not completely destroyed, it appears to have been cut down in height significantly. As usual, great job explaining the value of shifting from a known point and the history behind the monument.
18:00 "In 1999, following passage of a law designed to prohibit monuments to terrorists, and an associated Supreme Court ruling, the Israeli Army bulldozed the shrine and prayer area set up near Goldstein's grave.[32] As of 2014, a new tomb has been built, and still receives visits from Jewish pilgrims"
@@AclockworkPurple A tomb can be treated as a shrine or monument. See the various "tomb of the unkown soldier", war grave yards or Jim Morrison's grave.
@@lavrentivs9891 Yes. A tomb can be an official or unofficial shrine. It’s a private grave people go see just like people do celebrity graves or people of some significance. It’s not a national monument or an officially sanctioned monument or shrine though, is it?
@@AclockworkPurple No one claimed that it was officially sanctioned, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't a shrine or treated as a shrine by fellow extremists.
This is so strange. A whole video about the rules of destroying a monument with a bulldozer while calling the people who as of now has killed 8000 children “the good guys”. We are truly and utterly screwed.
8000 children's parents/guardians were given weeks of warnings to flee south to get out of the area of fighting. Anybody not leaving is in an active war zone at their own, or their parents choice.
Were the Allies in WWII the "bad guys" because they killed lots of "innocent" German and Japanese civilians? I mean the USA firebombed Tokyo killing ~100,000 and making ~1 million homeless in a 24hr period. Makes what is happening in the Gaza Strip look like a sideshow.
Hey serious Question; has anyone else noted that no Pro Israeli of any sort is actually saying how many Innocents the IDF have killed in the last 3 months.. not one source will give an estimate... They all say Hamas figures are wrong, or include Hamas fighters, but no number admitted to at all. (If anyone can point to one please comment I am really interested)... Do you think this is simply because if they do they will show that the IDF has killed more Innocents in 3 months than Hamas has in its entire existence and this puts them in a no win argument.. ie if they say it doesnt matter that the IDF killed more then they are admitting they value Palestinians lives less than others; OR by admitting the obvious truth the IDF has killed more innocents than Hamas its hard to argue that the IDF is not worse than Hamas. I would appreciate your comments
Because no one actually knows how many truly innocent gazans were killed. The gaza health ministry doesn't differentiate between combatants and civilians. And many "civilians" joined in on the hamas pogrom in Oct 7th. The line between civilian and combatant in Gaza is very blurry. Hamas wearing civilian clothing (which is a war crime) further adds to that murkiness.
@@ajvorob9117 no one knows ha ha yeah lets look at UN numbers shall we 25,000+ dead 64,000+ wounded, 15,000 Lost (probably under rubble dead)... IDF claims ~8000 Hamas Terrorist dead... CAN YOU COUNT. add 50% of Gazans are children... Every Pro Israeli I have posted to on Twitter is DENY DENY DENY all these numbers.. its criminal and ICJ are right, its GENOCIDAL.
@@ajvorob9117 This is also why I don't trust Israel's figures when they do share them: They consider everybody Hamas in Gaza. I've seen Israeli soldiers on video stating that there are NO innocents in Gaza; this is why it's a genocide.
The 7 Oct Massacre changes everything. The Marimarmara monument must go forever, together with all symbols used to rally support for killing Jews. When Germany was denazified, all Nazi symbols had to go. Ukraine demolished the Soviet symbols. The war will end when Hamas surrenders and is totally removed from any role in Gaza. In the same way that the Marshall Plan ran for 7 years in Germany after WW2, a Marshall Plan will be necessary to denazify Gaza. The narative created by Palestinian leaders, that they are the rightful owners of everything in Israel is the same as the Nazi narrative of Herrensvolk and Lebensraum, and actually has the same origins with Palestinian Hajj Amin al Husseini who led the Waffen SS Handschars. Consequently, all symbols of the narrative that caused the war must be removed and banned, in the same way that the Nazi symbols are banned. Education of Palestinian children and Islam in mosques free from radicalization is critically important and will take many years, but it will succeed and there will be a new Gaza with new hope, peace and prosperity. This is absolutely for the benefit of the Palestinians of Gaza. Who will lose? The Hamas leaders who have run Gaza as a brutal feudal caliphate for self enrichment will lose. They are billionaires so they have the resources to fight back, so expect to see a lot more terrorist attacks and dead baby propaganda all targeted at reinstating them on the throne in control of Gaza. Governments around the world have been submitting to their demands for decades, but will they stand up this time to free the people of Gaza from Hamas, or will they force Israel into submission and reinstate Hamas? If you care for the people in Gaza, you must call for backing of a Marshall Plan in Gaza that will free the people from the narrative that the entire purpose of their lives is to fight the Jews so that their leaders can govern Israel under sharia.
I get the feeling that maybe ISRAEL, a territorial enemy of Gaza who has no interest in the humanitarian conditions there, wasn't being entirely honest about wanting the aid to pass through. I think they knew that they would be turned down, which would cover their asses to board the ship. It's highly unfortunate that things such as these occur, really this event is a microcosm of Gaza; get the few terrorists at the cost of all the other civilians. What aid was on that boat, expired or otherwise, was still aid!
That monument also looks like it sat in the middle of a fire as well. If it was just bulldozed, why would the burn it as well? A metallic object, that is.
Ryan, I love your videos on Ukraine and general military topics since you're quite knowledgeable. But in regards to the Israel-Hamas conflict, it's a lot less black and white and you have an incentive to uphold US policy based on your work. You bring a lot of information to the table, however I get the impression you assume Israeli innocence and work from there to form a reasonable explanation.
yep, IDF destroyed cemeteries and killed protesters in 2018, today they killed 3 OF THEIR OWN HOSTAGES WAIVING WHITE FLAGS, these guys killed 20k civilians but Ryan is trying to tell us they're normal, it's like someone trying to justify what France was doing during the Algerian war, or what the US did in Vietnam, better yet, what the Nazis did in the USSR.
I was just reading the wiki page on the south Vietnamese police general who is in the famous photograph of him shooting a vietcong captive in the head. The photographer had a very similiar thing to say about the power of a photograph. The Vietnamese general ended up as a restaurant owner in virginia, when people realized who he was he was at risk of deportation, but Adams, the photographer, testified in his defense saying his photo does not capture the situation fully
What this video teaches me the most is that you shouldn't judge any event just by how its described in the news/online, too often key facts are just left out of the conversation completely.
The leftmost minaret is 50% it’s original height - concealed by the memorial debris in the subject picture. It’s a vertical collapse with standing debris. Standing yes, but not at its original height.
The whole point of the Mavi Marmara was that Israel's blockade is illegal, and that it hinders all kinds of supplies (it's a downright lie from the Israeli side that they don't restrict basic supplies like food, that's why Gaza is said to be "on a diet"). It makes sense that they were prepared to ward off Israeli attackers, because the whole point is that they WOULD be attacked - again, illegally. The martyrs didn't just "die" in the fighting - some of them were apparently shot in the back of the head, execution style. They´re all heroes. You might think they were foolhardy or that they shouldn't have resisted, but they knew resistance could be dangerous, and did it anyway, for a COMPLETELY just purpose. It's shameful to imply they might've been terrorists. The fact that they had kitchen knives is hardly proof they were supplying weapons to Hamas... Gaza already has plenty of kitchen knives. This was clearly for self-defense, defense of their rights to use international waters, defense of the rights of Gazans to import foodstuffs and medicine. Don't you dare call them terrorists because they say "Allahu Akbar." God almighty, indeed, watch over Gaza. ❤
Bullshit. They were anti israel agitators trying to disrupt a legal blockade against a hostile entity. They should have cooperated with the Israelis instead of trying to violate the blockade. The fact that they had knives proves that they intended to instigate a violent confrontation.
I am an Arabic Native Speaker and the video you showed at the end doesn't say they are going to terrorize anyone. The crew of the ship is saying the claims the israelis are saying about them … "They say we are holding soldiers in the ship and they will board us for this, We say to them we will push your soldiers into the sea if you did something like this" That sounds like crew defending themselves for me. Note: One point to mention also, The muslim world doesn't recognize Israel as a state. They recognize this land as palestiane and the palestinans are the only ones they should respond to, so not responding to the calls from Israel forces is not wrong from their point of view.
But it is not a smart thing to do, if a ship does staff like it means they mite try to atack or something, it does not matter what they say, they can't say nothing, saing nothing makes the other think you're doing something bad.
can a plastic bottle can be used as a recruitment tool? of course. can a towel bottle can be used as a recruitment tool? of course. basically everything can be used a recruitment tool. the idea of military necessity, is *necessity*. if there is another way, it is not necessary.
Breaking the spirit of civilians in a country you are at conflict with is intentionally left out of the definition of military necessity. For example if a nation invaded Washington DC would they justified in intentionally destroying the constition, Lincoln memorial, and Washington monument since they inspire Americans. No because the goal isn't to achieve a military victory but a social one that being the destruction of the American people and their culture. Is that what the idf is doing. Ehh maybe, the jenin horse in particular seems suspect. The whole concept of a just war is that it avoids as much civilian harm as possible and culture definitely falls into that.
@@macattack5863 I essentially agree with you, and personally, I do think that is what the IDF is doing - except. There is an argument to be made when particular cultural items glorify perpetual war against you, as with monuments to terrorists. I think about America and Japan after WW2. As a hypothetical, if Americans had encountered a sign that said "Let's go kill Americans" it would be ridiculous to leave that standing. That is part of the military machine you are trying to dismantle.
@@macattack5863I do not think that is what the IDF is trying to do. This is an attempt to discourage acts of terror in the future. Terrorism is deeply embedded in education system hamas built in gaza
Hi Ryan, Lt Calley's My Lai massacre might not known to younger audiences anymore - it would be good to elaborate on it. You made a very valid point, but the reference might be too obscure now.
I don't know if Americans cared at the time. When he was found guilty telegrams and letters supporting him and demanding his release outnumbered those who agreed with the sentence 100-1. Telephone surveys at the time found that 3/4's disagreed with the verdict. He got life in prison, but 3 days after the verdict, Nixon moved him to house arrest. This was reduced to 10 years and then 3 years. He essentially served 11-12 days for each person he was charged with killing
ryan does advocate for osint and finding out facts on your own. someone who watches this channel, and does not try to learn concepts that are unknown to them, really should start doing that.
American citizen here and I recognize the classroom worm that can't accomplish anything without getting into the teacher's ear... Nobody would like this guy if he didn't have state support, yeah money does alot
Hi Ryan, I really like your channel and how you are trying to provide an unbiased analysis of the conflict and how you show your work. There are two things that popped up in your analysis. First while using the mineret as a point of aim for indirect fire is a valid tactic normally, a minaret is not your typical tall structure. It's a religious building and has special status under IHL/LOAC that requires the attacker to take special measures to prevent its destruction. This includes using it as an aiming post. This protection can only be waived if the opposite side uses the building for a military purpose first. Secondly while the Knesset passed a law banning shrines to terrorists, does this law apply to the G Strip? Is that not a separate state and jurisdiction? With its own (technically)elected legislature and police force. How legal is it for a military force to enforce a law that didn't apply before the intervention and is not part of internationally accepted treaty. Forcing such compliance could mean the counterattack is actually an occupation and annexation. Which in of itself would violate international law. Its just food for thought as I know international law isn't your primary background. Keep up the good work.
@@thetruerift which is illegal under international law and we as American's should not hold governments that are "friendly" to us to a different standard, Israel commits war crimes on the regular, I like Ryan's views as he tries to break down videos, but he has never discussed the bombings of refugee camps, or other issues that put Israel in a negative light, we cant expect people who are occupied and under siege to be humanitarians of peace, most people in Gaza just want a better life but if you go through the pain that people of Gaza go through on a yearly basis I think your views on the situation would change, there are video's of Zionist's that are already planning on settling the Gaza strip. something I believe is that Israeli intelligence allowed the October 7th attack to happen, as Egypt and other countries had warned Israel of a imminent attack, and these ignored it, the only people it benefited was the Iranians and netanyahu
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@@BigDaddySal69 Exactly. I see tons of comments on these videos about the perceived "unbiasedness" of the channel, but it's simply by ommission.
Technically, the “Promised Land” in Exodus 23 establishes all the land from the Red Sea to the Euphrates River and the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River as the land belonging to Israel. That would mean that Israel would own all of Syria and Lebanon and Jordan, as well as the East bank of the Suez Canal. It would own territory to rival Saudi Arabia in that regard. However, Deuteronomy 23 established that anyone born of a prohibited marriage is cut off from Israel, even to the 10th generation. Therefore, when the Roman Army in 70 AD killed all the men of Israel and turned the surviving women into sex slaves, Israel was cut off from Israel, and the law of Moses died, at least with respect to the rules regarding sacrifices to the priests and the exclusivity of the law to the Jews.
Wish there'd be a similar type of outcry over russia recently destroying two museums of certain let's say... "divisive" WW2 Ukrainians in western Ukraine. As you've said, it's a slippery slope, but while Israel at least does care somewhat to protect its image, russia most certainly does not, and is more than happy to willfully break the 1954 convention.
Thanks for your insights Ryan, you've clearly put a lot of effort (+finances) looking at each isolated incident carefully and objectively observing the facts. As an Israeli, I also appreciate how you're providing clean, none-sensational/emotional analysis when observing the actions of both sides. With every video, you provide points of view I haven't thought of myself first time I looked at such images/videos from the battlefield.
I have nothing but respect for your work, but every time we talk about Israel, people bring up the code of conduct they are supposed to follow. I've never heard anyone mention that Hamas is not following any of those codes of conduct. It's like giving a DUI to a guy who had one beer, while a drunk driver slams into another car going 80 mph and just gets to walk home after.
That’s not how ethics and morals are supposed to work. You act ethically and morally because it’s the right thing to do. Whether your adversary acts ethically/morally or not does not justify your own failure to live up to your own code.
While I am 100% Team Israel, I have to point out that everything that has happened since 10/7 is the consequence of what Hamas did on that day. They are getting consequences for their actions.
To be fair, Israel is a democracy. If they don’t want to tarnish their nation’s image, they should do the very best that they can to maintain it regardless of how cumbersome the media/critics might be againts them. Hamas is the bad guys. No matter what you do, like screaming, torturing, pulling their ears like how your teacher would in school. The reality is Hamas is a part of a “fake democracy”/“democratically elected” in Gaza and the military wing of Hamas, Qassam is not a professional military. Israel signed multiples treaties, Hamas didn’t. That’s why they keep firing their unguided rudimentary rockets into civillians populations in Israel. Bad guys will always exist, they might not be evil forever, but most of them does.
@@MarcosElMalo2 Try acting ethically after a friend of yours was just murdered, another one's daughter raped and killed not necessarily in that particular order, and another friend's wife was abducted and is probably violently sexually assaulted in this very moment. I'm pretty sure you find it much easier to speak about ethics and morals when it's all "theoretical" and has nothing to do with you
Just like the denazification of germany after WW2 was imperative, so is the deradicalization of the palestinian arabs. This will invariably lead to the removal/destruction of most artefacts of "palestinian culture", because "palestinian culture" is centered around two things: -the genocide of jews -martyrdom I'm not exaggerating. Go and look for yourself. The identity of "palestinian" was inserted long after the fact when Arafat noticed that his jihadi-imperial-project (very akin to Isis) wasn't going to work now that nationalist movements had created various arab nations. It took another couple of decades and being yeeted out of and shunned by all their former muslim/arab friends that he just sat down to negotiate peace. It's really just that all the other muslim/arab nations hated jews even more than they hate the palestinians and that is why they championed their thinly veiled "cause" (making it out to be about autonomy, when it actually always was about genociding the jews) on the international stage.
I don’t understand how the IHH are considered terrorists. Israel says Gaza is independent, that they aren’t occupying it, and that they only enforce their border. If that’s true then it seems perfectly lawful (though maybe not smart) to resist bordering parties from a naval blockade. This seems like the relationship is whatever is convenient for Israel at the moment, and that it can change back and forth based on the conversation.
@@JohnDoe-hh7eo I’m not saying a navy can’t engage in a blockade. Are you saying that a ship has to comply with a blockade, and that refusing to do so can be considered terrorism?
7:20 You completely ignore the fact that Israel's blockade itself is illegal under international law because it constitutes collective punishment. This is according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Sources, ICRC: 'Gaza closure: not another year!' 14-06-2010 News Release 10/103 UNHRC: 'How can Israel’s blockade of Gaza be legal? - UN independent experts on the “Palmer Report”' 13 September 2011 OCHA: 'Farming without Land, Fishing without Water: Gaza Agriculture Sector Struggles to Survive With technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)' May 2010
You forgot a small detail. If Israeli law prohibits something, the prohibition must be enforced, inside Israel. Gaza is not part of Israel, thus international laws apply.
3 comments. 1 great video ! 2 I feel that using military necessity in that context could be a slippery slope if any tall structure could be destroyed because of the possibility of it being used to direct IDF then I feel like you can get to the point where you can justify the destruction of almost every structure eventually. 3 As to the destruction of terrorist monuments, justifying it with Israeli law seems unlawful to me considering that The UN and the Olso accords don’t consider Gaza as Israeli territory. Would love to hear what you or anyone reading this opinion on the issue
@brynmawrbeth318 still doesn't justify destroying cultural and historical monuments. Finding something 'near it' doesn't give any right to destroy history and art when it clearly has no significant value militarically. As per the ship that was attacked, so much for Israel "leaving Gaza" to be It's own state when they can't even have ships come in without Israel's permission.
@@hamzasami8362 you missed the point, they were looking for "terrorist" tunnels! A recent monument would certainly be considered the perfect location to find one!
@brynmawrbeth318 the monument is already years old, and clearly as you see from the picture, it's quite thin and maintained, and if there were any tunnel entrances, they would have been easy to find. They patterns of the bulldozers work does not fit that narrative either. Plus, the IDF has made their missions quite clear, flatten Gaza, take over it, and rebuild it for themselves at the cost of "Hamas" excuse
@@brynmawrbeth318 The tunnel entrance might be concealed under a very visible monument in an open area with little cover where any person or overhead drone could see people coming and going? I hate that at this point I can't tell if you're joking or not
I can only imagine all the hate mail you might get calling you an anti-semite simply for presenting unwashed information that we certainly won't get from the main stream.
As an Israeli Jew, I can say that with confidence he would get hate mail from a lot of pro Palestinians as well. As a Zionist I find Ryan's analysis pretty fair, because he is balanced and well researched.
I haven't seen anyone call him an antisemite. You're the first one to use that term in any of the comments I've read in all of his videos that I've watched.
Arafat was a terrorist. If you want to rebuild Gaza, you gotta tear down the past. You can't have them looking up to thugs. Also, this was a moral blow to Hamas.
That wasn’t a make shift mosque, that was the shrine of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the Holy City of Hebron which was built during the Herodian period. It was co-opted by the Muslim Caliphate as their Mosque and Israel allowed them to keep it as an act of appeasement after the 1967 Six-Day War. Although there is a small section used as a Synagogue.
As I seem to remember the toppling of that Saddam statue was a massive blow to the image of the coalition forces in their home nations and also in the Muslim world. Destroying monuments to people your side considers terrorists may seem justifiable (though it's pretty easy to argue that Israeli law doesn't apply in a place that isn't Israel) but if the point of fighting a war now is to prevent there being a war in the future then trying to bury the culture of the nation you are assaulting is not a great way to go about that. That footage of the IDF destroying monuments is undoubtedly going to make its way into the next round of Hamas and ISIL recruitment material.
Appreciate the context and references, but taking the israeli army at their word with a code of conduct they use to claim to be the most moral army in the world is a bit disingenuous, when it states that "The soldier will not use their weapon or power to harm uninvolved civilians and prisoners and will do everything in their power to prevent harm to their lives, bodies dignity and property" and it's pretty clear that israel currently think it's acceptable to pay a pretty heavy price in such lives to destroy the hamas, (and even when that price include israeli hostages of hamas), if they actually followed these rules, it would be a pretty different war.
He's an american Gen x'er he drank the israeli koolaid long ago during his education and even in the army. You wont change his mind. Israel is targeting civillians. theyre dropping bombs on apartments not inside tunnels. With their level of techonlogy they can sniff out hamas within a couple weeks. This is a no brainer, but they want to take over the entirety of whats left of palestine because the talmud says so. Ryan is just another guy who has to always give the benefit of the doubt to israel, thats how he was raised after all. He used to kill iraqis, so seeing dead palestinians for him.... its not really that hard to look at them and make him think "another terrorist dead". When in reality theyre prob just a random person with no connection to hamas.
I wonder how old was that list. Because there was plenty of iron, concrete, gravel and steel cables delivered to Gaza after Israel gave up blocking them. They were supposed to be used for building houses, schools, etc. Instead, they were used to build tunnels and underground facilities for Hamas. Which is why Israel tried to prohibit them in the first place.
Israel never "gave up' blockading them, there were small moments of relief but besides that most material you're wondering about comes from the smuggling tunnels, and help from Egypt and other countries who build housing, building monuments, and facilities for Gazans is something they deserve, IDF even destroyed the monument of a journalist they killed in the west bank, and desecrated hospitals, humiliated men and admitted they were civilians, killed thousands, but nobody wants to draw a line bc people enjoy this fake revenge scenario.
No, what Ryan missed is this monument also showcased the dog tags of dead Israeli soldiers. Its wrong to claim the Israelis destroyed this for shits and giggles. This monument clearly displayed the dog tags of their soldiers killed by Hamas. I hope Ryan corrects this in a later video.
I understood that the ban on importation of concrete and steel rods (rebar) into Gaza was not because the Israelis were being meanies, but because Hamas was using the concrete and steel, not to build hospitals and schools, but tunnels and fortifications under them. Ryan, I thought this was common knowledge, and I'm surprised you didn't clarify this.
It comes down to "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". It's comes down to context. In the video the phrase "throw them into the sea" sounds like intent to commit violence Zoom back a bit and that phrase has been used by both sides about what they'd like to do to the other, a rhetorical statement not a plan for violence. You're right about avoiding the destruction of cultural properties. Besides being illegal it's strategically suspect in that it can become a recruiting tool for your opponent. The dilemma for Israel, even if they terminate with prejudice every member of Hamas extant on 1 October, how many new members will their incursion create?
But likewise, if Iran boards a ship in international waters it makes world headlines as a "look at the evil bad guys" story even if its a routine anti-smuggling operation.
If Israel pulled out of Gaza as they claim, why can't Gaza control its waters? Why can't they have a ship come into Gaza without Israel's permission and interception? This isn't about Hamas and never will be.. the same is true for the West Bank where Hamas doesn't exist. That ship had all the right to defend its vessel against pirates who intercepted it outside of their jurisdiction according to international law and internationally recognized borders. Gaza doesn't belong to Israel, yet they control her waters.
isn't this the same international flotilla that Israel bordered in international waters? People of several nationalities died in what they described as an unprovoked attack from Israel...
No it doesn’t make absolute legal sense , Gaza isnt under Israeli law , they cannot enact a ban on any sort of monuments in Gaza . Israel is considered the occupier under international law and cannot impose its laws .
oh, so, basically, and incidentally, you admit that it is an occupation otherwise, why would a foreign country force foreign ship trying to bring aid to a country to go to the port of their choosing? In other words, if Palestine is a free country, not being occupied since 1967, how can Israel force international humanitarian aid to go through Israel first? Also Ryan, it's a 12 meter tall landmark. You can... google it?
I think your videos would benefit from you setting the overload clip on your microphone lower or putting more compression on your voice track, it is blowing the mic away and distorting at present. Addin a pop shield or as your voice is quite strong you could locate the mic further away
The left tower was destroyed too, you can tell by the shadows projected... There's no shadow there. And in the picture you can tell that was destroyed but it didn't collapsed totally, just the base of it.
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On November 16th, 2023, IDF forces destroyed a monument to fallen Turkish Aid workers of the IHH. This video covers a history of why that happened, why the monument was built, why someone might destroy a monument during wartime and the legal justifications for doing so.
NOTE: A viewer pointed out that The Oslo Accords created 3 areas within the Occupied Territories. Area A is solely under Palestinian National Authority (PNA) jurisdiction, area B is under joint jurisdiction and Area C is solely under the jurisdiction of Israel. Therefore the enforcement of the 5758-1998 momuments law is limited to Israeli territory, and areas B and C of the Occupied Territories. In Area A, including Gaza, the PNA law applies. So Israel may be enforcing a law it has no right to enforce.
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133 cm is almost a midget, I think that calculation is wrong
Isreal, like Turkey, is not even a member of UNCLOS
@Ryan donating expired medicaments is common practice, not a "waste of...".
Medicine is expensive. When NGOs with a limited budget get a list of urgently needed medicine, they can either try to purchase it anew. This makes it very expensive, especially to a region where you won't get donations from pharma firms (if they donate anything).
However, there are some medicaments where the expiry date is just for liability of the pharma firm and in the worst-case scenario. Take a look into the first-aid kit of your car, most probably a lot of it expired some years ago; if you come to an accident, you won't not bandage somebody because the expiry date on the bandage is past.
When I interned in a hospital (a major university one in Bavaria, not some horse doctor), I asked the lead medic about some products past expiry date; he told me to still use them, as they were stockpiled under ideal conditions and the expiry date is the guaranteed date until when a product is still usable, even if you have it in your ambulance and said ambulance parked 24/7 under the midsummer sun.
It's better to deliver medicine with a guaranteed shelf-life still going, but if the medic and the hospital accept that the manufacturer is no longer liable for damages due to over-storage, you can still use it. NaCl is NaCl, Natrium and Chloride don't retire to Florida the day of the expiry date. If medicine is urgently needed and you can get a batch of expired, but still apparently good medicine, AND you will see if there is degradation when administering it, AND even in case of degradation it just means you need a higher dose because the medicine has become inert (not toxic), then bring it. It isn't "gold standard", but "if you can't get the cream cheese, go for the plain bagel".
The Gaza blockade has been criticised internationally. If Israel had really not interfered with needed medical supplies, there'd have been no 7th octobre attack. Case in point: Were the medicaments delivered to Gaza afterwards according to Gaza medics' wishes, or were they destroyed because a date on a strip of cardboard said that the manufacturer no longer accepts liablility (which a Gaza medic couldn't get anyway)?
From an OpInfo perspective, an overreaction and recruitment possibilities for one of Hamas' successor organisations was an operative goal of Hamas, and Israel is delivering. In all the courses becoming an officer, I have never heard that you should identify the enemie's goals and fulfill them, but to prevent them.
Oh, and - if you want to tear down Arafat monuments because he was a "terrorist", start demolishing Menachem Begin signs as well, he also was involved in a terrorist organisation before becoming Israeli prime minister. Arafat led Palestine to the Oslo accords, which Amir and Netanyahu tore down. It's understandable that he's held in high regards in Palestine; and he is FAR from the only actor in Israel AND Palestine who started out violently and later in life learned that a treaty honoured by BOTH parties is the better way.
It' not only "Purity of Arms", which IMO isn't enforced enough and used as a morale sedative too often. Wars are fought on the battlefield, but won in the enemies' hearts. Like an Israeli whose daughter was martyred by a terrorist who happened to come from Palestine pointedly put it: "We can either share the land. Or we can share the graveyards beneath it." Admittedly, I prefer my Israeli as well as Palestinian civilians happy, healthy, wealthy, and wise, not dead.
Great message.
Ryan, I'm a medical professional, and I'd like to tell you that the medicine being expired or about to expire is a known strategy for supporting areas in need.
Most medications, if held in ideal temperature ranges, will actually be okay past their stated expiration date. That expiration date is technically a date to guarantee 90% efficacy of the medicine, but in places where they can't get anything, that's more than enough.
Hospitals here in the US are required to only give patients unexpired medicines, but if they end up with some that expire, they send that as humanitarian aid to countries in need.
@WhyThesePeople trust me bud, expired xanax will still fuck you up the same as unexpired xanax. thats all street pills almost
@WhyThesePeople They are the the most aided people in the world, and have gotten no where because it's all spent on terror instead of teaching. Perfect example of when it's time to put down the "holy books" and pick up the "text books".
Another way to say that this is another tool the medical industry uses to see more costly pharmaceuticals in the west because they can’t charge that to the rest of the world, effectively subsidizing everyone else.
Beyond that, for many medical supplies, the expiry date is a legal requirement, though actual product expiry is fully dependent on events and not on time.
The German Bundeswehr conducted tests on their expired but still available medical supplies from throughout the cold-war era in the 2010s and discovered, that for most types of supplies, they are as good as new, only some drugs turn bad.
@WhyThesePeople That one is common practice. If you have a drug where degradation only means that you have to administer a higher dose because some of it has become inert, and you have the patient's condition nevertheless so you see if you need another dose, go for it.
For humanitarian aid, expired doses do almost no harm (what should a Gaza medic do if he wants to hold a manufacturer liable anyway?); they also are less interesting for black marketeers and cannot be sold in western countries. An overdue drug you can administer is better than a drog pre-expiry date that has been stolen and smuggled back to the west.
Ryan. Tree spikes were not aimed at chain saws. They were aimed at the giant saw blades in mills. When the high speed blade hit a spike it exploded. Extremely dangerous for nearby workers.
Those mills have bandsaw blades that weigh hundreds of lbs. When the death noodle comes out of its home angry, no one is safe
makes sense seeing that it looks like they were hammered in perpendicular to the tree -- much more likely to hit it on a saw mill when cutting dimensional lumber than when cutting down the tree
@@seldoon_nemardoesn't need to be a heavy industrial one either, shit shoots out of the dust nozzle and flies to the other side of the factory. It happens faster than ppl realize or could react critically. It happened to my boss, the blade only clipped his winter coat, it could have been deadly.
If im not mistaken no spike has ever caused an injury and it cost the logging industey millions trying to find non existant needles in log forest sized hay stack.
After I made my post about spikes, I see I'm not the first
The fact that medicine is marked as expired or about to expire is not an issue for many medications. Antibiotics can be a problem but other medications are still fine 5 years after expiration.
For example expired metformin keeps my blood sugar down just the same as brand spanking new metformin.
i have 10 yr old lortabs from when i broke my ankle. only a few left now but they still work . like when i had a root canal that hurt like an MF and they told me to just take some tylenol.
Having lived in Israel I don't often appreciate folks who aren't from the regions opinions. Ryan you continue to teach me shit about the country where my family lives. Your analysis is logical and well presented and you are very clear as to when you are reporting facts and what is your opinion. Been watching you since the beginning of the war in Ukraine and it never occurred to me that you would be only a few months later providing analysis of my former home. It has been difficult for me to be dispassionate about the war and I appreciate both your analysis and your POV.
First thing I do on RUclips is check if he has uploaded
Like Moses said, "Let my people go," free Palestine from Israel funded Hamas group
@@bluedog101c Palestine can free themselves by accepting peace, but they choose to fight instead.
@@zaco-km3su, if properly stored leaves a butt load of slack in that assessment…..just saying
It's not hard to store most medicine properly. It's not frozen sperm.
I think an important note was left out (unless I missed it). Even if Israel was enforcing their own laws in this bulldozing of a monument, it would be illegal under The Hague Conventions.
Article 43 requires that occupying powers maintain to the best of their capabilities the laws in place of the nation they occupy, unless those laws are in fundamental misalignment with the occupying power’s duties, are of military necessity to disregard, or prevent public safety.
This also means that an occupying power cannot enforce its own laws on occupied territories; it must maintain the legal regime of the previous administration. If Israel is enforcing an Israeli law forbidding monuments to terrorists, that’s a violation of Hague Article 43. Even if the administering power of the Gaza Strip, Hamas, had a verbatim identical law, there is still an expectation that the occupying power also interprets the law as the previous administrators did, and the fact that the monument stood for years would be evidence that it should be interpreted to permit the monument.
While Israel isn’t signatory to The Hague Conventions, its own High Court found in Suleiman Tawfiq Ayyub et al. v. Minister of Defense et al that The Hague Conventions are binding, customary international law.
It's hard to say that gaza has local laws... would you go by Hamas's (the defacto government) or the PA (which have no control of gaza since like 2007) the official government of the gaza strip
@@randomstuff7962 the point isn’t whether Gaza has local laws (of course they do), it’s that Israel’s laws, whatever they may be, aren’t legally enforceable in occupied land.
There is no Palestinian state, it's all Israel
@@TheHuntermj literally insane takes.
@@randomstuff7962 That argument as to whose laws to follow could be made, but if Israel believed the PA's laws are valid over Gaza they would have to find a Palestinian Authority law to justify the takedown.
Either way, whatever Israel's laws say is irrelevant.
The 60's and 70's era USCG rescue helicopters (Sikorsky Sea Horse?) all had guillotine cutters on their rescue hoist lines. In case the hoist line was fouled, the chopper crew could literally chop off the steel hoist cable.
AFAIK none of the newer helicopters have this feature any more.
Do they have another mechanism for releasing a cable?
@@MarcosElMalo2 I believe they upgraded to Bluetooth
@@MarcosElMalo2 Regardless, these were fast ropes, large ~1.5" diameter ropes dropped from the side of the helicopter. This was not a hoist rope. They're just attached with a basic hook system. Hell half the time, fast ropes are dropped ANYWAY, and not brought back up to the chopper.
I worked as a maintainer on MH-53J Pave Lows. The fast rope had a quick disconnect mechanism. Some crew chief had stenciled "RID A GRUNT" on the push latch
yeah the real issue was that the like tied just meant then had to deploy a new line so that a commando could go down it. I know the IDF are a bunch of soccer players, but the chopper was never in any danger.
9:57 its normal for expired medicine to be used as aid, i used to work for a UK based NGO which did this.
Really? When I was working CIMIC as part of a UN Peacekeeping Operation, both the UN and civilian NGO medical support personnel refused to use any expired medications.
@@theancientartofmodernwarfa1850 Depends on when and where, and what its used for. Antibiotics that are expired are a bad idea as they may not work and increase drug resistance. But a more stable chemical like aspirin might be good for months or years after just weaker so need a slightly larger dose. Technically not the best practices by most western medical standards but when your poor and have few options you make do.
@@theancientartofmodernwarfa1850 yeah. But all i did was warehouse stuff.i assume you UN people wouldnt be using free handouts from medical companies. The ngo i worked for would collect all sorts of stock from stockpiles and relabel it and ship it off to far away.
@@Awrethien also nowdays its cheaper to just buy new drugs direct from manufacturers in india
I worked with an NGO in Canada, which had a similar practice aside from that great video as always from Ryan.
From experience, the main effect of "spiking" a tree with a nail is the negative publicity it creates. Spiking or alleged spiking is a safety problem so safety professionals shut the site down based on the rumour. Protestors only care that it creates a "dilemma", as Ryan is fond of saying.
Yep, problems have solutions dilemmas don't.
yup, as a logger yo always wand a tree before you cut and mills have detectors because trees get nails and wire in them all the time.
@@erikanders3343
Bought a small holiday home from a sort of French recluse who had to move out. Dude had used metal wire to shape the multi-trunked trees in the garden. Trees basically ended up growing around the wire and swallowing it. 😆
@@nvelsen1975 oof I have nightmares about things like that
@@nvelsen1975Is there such a thing as non-metal wire? 😂
You can just google the height of the monument, and it says its 12m tall.
That would cut the video length significantly and with it the perceived value of the time committed to watching it.
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I don't really care what the IDF has in their mission statement or code of ethics. People can say one thing and do something completely different. I judge the IDF by what they actually DO. And what they DO isn't good. Not with these kids of casulty figures. And destroying a "terrorist monument" only applies where Israel has legal jurisdiction, and since Gaza is not internationally recognized as Israeli territory, that law doesn't apply. What the IDF did was completely illegal, and they did it just because they can get away with it. If Israel wants to drive more Gazans to join Hamas, they're going about it the right way. We were supposed to have learned that shit in the formation of ISIS, but apparently we don't learn.
"I don't care what laws an organisation that follows them strictly has" :^)
I don't think this is what Ryan is saying. He'll call out Israel for occasional violations, which is cool, because Israel HAS a code of ethics. I don't see him calling out Hamas for "occasional violations" because their charter says they're there to exterminate Jews and the state of Israel. That's what they have INSTEAD OF a code of ethics. Any ethics violations on their part, such as targeting civilians, is baked into the cake. It's in their charter.
They don't follow their laws genius, that is like saying rape doesn't happen in the U.S because it's against the laws lmao@@diomarkov2794
@@JenniferTziviaMacLeod so because Israel has stuff like murder being illegal that means it’s okay if they commit murder? The IDF has not only committed war crimes, but done what they accuse Hamas of doing but there’s actual evidence (using human shields, attacking heritage and medical sites, targeting aid relief). Hamas committed a terrorist attack in October and nobody is arguing against that, but starving hostages is not how you save them, and blowing up children does not reduce Hamas sympathy.
7:12 Then we have the Swedish air force that notices a russian plane without a transponder and decides to escort them for as long as they are over international waters. Just to supply transponder service to the poor russians, to void accidents of course.
8:47 I know this is implied, but a terrorist never cares about anything except themelves.
@@57thornsonly a sith deala in absolutes
@@fuzzydunlop7928 THIS is reality... not your space fantasy. But your point is taken and noted.
@@phlogistanjones2722it’s a good point painting all Palestinian resistance as terrorism is not accurate
well, generally when military planes are up to military things and don't want to be noticed, they turn their transponders off, so I don't think what you are saying is strictly true.
The calculation from the man's height to the tower is unexpectedly funny but impressive.
Is it?
I failed to hear where the estimated height is relevant.
He explained that tall objects like it are usually used to calibrate mortars and artillery. (Used like as a target)
@@dvidrie So what does that have to do with the estimated height of the thing? I mean, he could just say that without making the boxes and making a gross estimation.
It seems like it was an entirely pointless exercise.
It was a waste of time as far as I can tell, not impressive.
@@ezekielbrockmann114 He not only explains stuff, he also showcases how you work out stuff like this. If you think this is a waste of time, then being on the internet watching videos itself is a waste of time
He could have googled it and learned it was 12 meters, >2 meters short of his calculations
@5:11 tree spiking was really meant for the lumber mill. I think it's the reason a lot of lumber mills have metal detectors.
Which isn't a bad idea because you never know if 80 years ago somebody put a nail in it, or shot something into it, that is now completely grown into the tree.
yeah, all mills the big news story of a spike death is from a mill that refused to buy a detector and the tree was no from old growth that protestors protect, it was a farmed tree. My guess is the mill blamed spiking to avoid paying the liability. The mill was sold and the new operator uses a detector.
Could be metal for a lot of reasons other than spiking.... probably the most common is barbed wire fencing and hooks. Most mills won't accept wood that was near a farm or residence, metal detector or not
Why leave up the 3rd tall landmark mortar sighting point? Shouldn't they take down the second minaret? Maybe that can be done carefully with respect for it being a religious building, ask/tell clerics. Humanitarian ship intercepted on high seas should have accepted free berthing offered. Gee, the sailors carried sheath knives, of course, and they had concrete for cargo, how dangerous.
@@budroberts5929 stop making excuses for suicide attacks.
The cool thing about trees is that they don't push up, they grow up. If you stick a spike in at 5 feet off the ground, in 20 years it'll still be at 5 feet. Trees grow up.
We also know why Israel forbade the importation of cement and steel into Gaza - we have seen what Gaza used those materials for.
Tree spiking is less about trying to screw up a chainsaw as it is about the blade at the mill. Those blades are huge and expensive, and when they hit a metal spike they shatter and can easily kill someone... more so when they were circular blades and people stood near them, and less so now as they are more likely band saws and in enclosed rooms that are controlled from a protected room nearby. But the blades are probably even more expensive now, but they do go through a metal detecting procedure before they are milled.
Example of bad actors leading to unintended positive changes, I guess. Accidents like this likely happened but with jerks spiking trees it became a more immediate concern to make these changes.
“One of those cases where one man’s hero is another man’s terrorist” I think you should re-consider this statement lol
I don't always agree with your position on things, but I will never accuse you of being entirely one-sided. This is a good thing. These are uncomfortable topics to say the least. You do a good job of presenting these difficult scenarios and thoroughly vetting the information, and you genuinely seem to pursue the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is or whether it goes against a widely held belief.
You don't just go along to get along and I appreciate that.
I will. He is extremely one-sided. Pro-US, pro-Israel, both of whom are "the good guys" in his view. While any of their opponents are presented like evil terrorists an never get the benefit of the doubt like the US and Israel ALWAYS get. How is that not one-sided? Israel blows up hospitals and cultural heritage? Well....its complicated. An emotional muslim aid worker holds a speech just before they are about to be attacked and invokes the term shaheed? Proof this whole organization are terrorists!
I agree with this sentiment. In this age of "hot takes" nuance has been lost. Sometimes things we don't want to be true, are true, and acknowledging that and working on empathy and accountability being applied to all is the only way forward. I appreciate his search for facts.
@@dichroichameleon Exactly. I'm in Israel and following Ryan because I appreciate a nuanced take and will ALWAYS stand for truth, even when it doesn't paint some of my fellow citizens in the best light... 💙💙💙
Thank you for fostering the profession of Soldiering even after leaving uniformed service. Thank you also for being unbiased and thorough in your videos.
Freedom and Justice for all!
I am retired from the US Military. I used to teach this stuff as part of the NCOES (Noncommissioned Officer Education System).
I wish I had access to videos like yours back then. The stuff covering the rules & laws of war was pretty dry and textbook-driven.
Yeah, that’s kind of why I do it now. This is the TokTok generation and they have different methods of learning.
That might be why no one follows them. Because learning them was too dry, so they didn't.
I've seen Ryan offer, numerous times, to make his videos available for military training purposes. I hope folks are taking him up on it.
Sherine Abu Okala (Al Jazeera correspondent, was killed last year by an Israeli sniper) monument in Jerusalem was destroyed, and the entire street where she was sniped was demolished by IDF
She had nothing to do with any resistance groups or any terrorist attacks
So what is the explanation for that
And degenerates also attacked her funeral procession
Sherine abu okala wasn't killed by a *sniper*, but by ordinary infantryman.
Why is that matters? Because infantryman on combat typically firing suppression fire, and not firing on a target they specifically acquired. When you as a journalist covering an engagement between two sides, reporting and filming from a narrow street and it's corners, there's always a chance for being caught in between crossfire, or being misidentified.
It's always not a good thing those incidents, but they are not the first or the last.
@thatdude-cc6ui Even IDF hasn't finished investigating her murder so how you bring all this 🤔🤔
@@anubisegy2002
1. The investigation has been finished on October 2022
2. The round that killed her was a 5.56 round, which according to ballistic analysis has been fired from approx 200 meters.
There are almost no militaries today who use 5.56 cartridge for accurate long ranged rifles. That is a standard cartridge for infantryman standard assult rifles. So again, not a "sniper".
@@thatdude-cc6ui so why did IDF attack her funeral and destroy her monument
Ryan did a great job of summarizing and contextualizing the Mavi Marmara incident but I would invite anyone interested to further read accounts of the incident such as the Gaza flotilla raid wiki article as well as watch the videos that Ryan is unable to share here. 50 of the activists on the ship where there explicitly to turn the ship into a violent trap for the IDF commandos and they did so without the knowledge or consent of the other activists.
Mmmh I'm guessing those people were the IHH? It's interesting to hear there were conflicting interests. I would still like to say that there needs to be some sympathy toward the groups motivations. Bosnia was a disaster in which NATO failed in its only purpose of stopping what happened. Many view it as having happened because it was a Muslim population so europe didn't care (not saying that they are correct) than at the same time the world ignores gaza, I can see why they would feel the need to take matters onto their own hands
i have no doubt that's true... but in this i think everyone keeps arguing about specific actions where it's kinda obvious the answer.... well they where trying to run a blocake they don't agree with, why is the blockaid there?... again will be more excuses from the zionists
but it still misses the point... it's like why.. overall have they not been able to sort this... they get about 3.8billion/year from the US... and they still have this problem? there is only 2 million people there ...in theory you could give each of them 1 million dollars anually to stop the terrorism....... nope there's lots of people that rely on this conflict, not least of which is Israel and also very much Hamas to sure
That is their right actually. They were in international waters heading to a port controlled by another sovereign entity where Israel has no jurisdiction. Forcing them into your territorial waters and port is called piracy and you are allowed to respond with lethal force to piracy.
@@duxd1452 conflating piracy and a wartime blockade is a fale equiavalence. One can respond with lethal force to both piracy and a wartime blockade. But under a wartime blockade you don't get to play the victim when you intentionally set out in opposition to play the hero.
'OK, we're doing this.' - I felt that.
No you didn't you didn't felt that
😂
If you intentionally destroy schools, hospitals, bakeries and apartment blocks why would you not intentionally destroy monuments?
But they don't. Many hospital strikes are also blamed on Israel. Btw, terrorists hide inside of all those civilian areas so more civilians can die and they can blame it on Israel. The PIJ spokesman literally admitted they took control over all the hospitals in Gaza.
18:40 they also destroyed a memorial at the site where Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated by the IDF. The way the stone plaque was positioned it only had to be destroyed intentionally. So the IDF went out of their way to do it.
Reprehensible, but thats how the IDF functions.
they also destroyed Gaza's cemeteries.
The idea of an IDF code of ethics is pretty sad.
Israel's ongoing genocide against Palestinians is utterly horrfying.
There is no genocide
What are saying is genocide
I don't often comment, but this is world class journalism. A breakdown that gives you those moments of instinctual empathy for your fellow humans on both sides of the issue. It's my boy Ryan's job to lay it bare with his usual alacrity, it's our jobs to SEE it and just do the fucking right thing.
This isn’t journalism It’s a war analysis journalism involves much more riskier endeavours then creating content.
@@SIACC-du6jv That is not a given job description. It is fair to call Ryan’s work investigative journalism as he on his own initiative presents his factual finds on a subject, even if they are aimed for educational purposes.
@@SIACC-du6jvI...respectfully disagree. Writing for a small local newspaper is journalism, and there's essentially zero risk involved there.
I believe in professional distinctions and since Ryan has no professional training as a journalist I would personally categorize him as a citizen journalist.
But, like, as the initial commenter here states, it's world class citizen journalism.
@@ros8737 ok I’ll take that with a grain of salt, however Ryan never gets intro’d as a journalist when he gets interviewed and most of his analysis explain war tactics which sometimes are at odds with humanitarian law, there’s a reason why Geneva convention was created it’s because the bombing of Dresden should never be repeated
@@ros8737 journalism is a specific profession, most people create content or report what they feel passionate about and eventually be inspired enough to become trained as journalists. But to call someone a journalist right off the bat does not do justice for those that have trained and dedicated there entire lives and have been killed exposing truth to power
"Not my circus, not my monkeys".
Absolute gold.
אז למה הוא מדבר כל כך הרבה .. ישראל היא המדינה הכי צודקת על הפלנטה הזאת , אני לא יודע למה הוא משקר על זה 😤😤
לא צריך להגזים ככה@@user-fn8hc8oy5h
except with all the aid the US sends we should have a say in how this clown show of a government conducts itself with our money.
You are getting a lot wrong in this video.
1. Expired medicine is routinely donated to conflict zones, it is fine - ask a red cross or UNHRW rep.
2. There were many monuments destroyed, including the one for Arafat which looked about 4 meters tall and was surrounded by buildings.
Why are you reaching like this? You are undermining your reputation.
You obviously didnt watch the video
He said that isreal has a law of destoying monumamts of terrorists.
Idf is obey by that law.
Also as a medic.
Giving expired or pre expired medicine is very bad and should not be given. And i dont care about what red cross do. Unless they have no choice, better to give an expired medicine tham nothing at all at the battlfield. But the have no excuse
I don’t condone destroying monuments….but, what does the Hamas code of conduct look like?
Ultimately it’s irrelevant to anyone claiming to be the good guys, as Ryan pointed out. Good guys have standards to live up to. They should try to live up to those standards and not use an adversary’s lack of standards as an excuse for failing to live up to standards.
It is not irrelevant if you are one of the teams of misled who think Hamas are fighting for some just cause with moral actors. Absolutely, the good guys should live up to their code... that was not my point.
@@MarcosElMalo2
Baruch Goldstien was a lunatic, it wasnt in a make shift mosque, It was at the Cave of the Patriarchs's Muslim section "Ibrahimi Mosque".
His m16 had a Stovepipe jam, it was then named after him: Baruch Jam
"you know when someone tells you who they are, you should probably believe them" does this also go for genocidal intent?
I haven't seen anyone comment on this yet, but I think it is important to note that both minarets are most likely destroyed based on the picture at 12:24 and the satellite images.
At 12:36 in the left picture, it can be seen that the minarets, the tallest parts of the mosque, stick out a lot compared to the front section or the first step of the mosque. However, in the right picture with the destruction, a part of the right minaret can be seen fallen down to the right, and the left minaret is not as tall anymore. It doesn't stick out as much compared to the height of the first step of the mosque, and it is not significantly higher than the main dome of the mosque.
Later, when comparing the two satellite images, at 13:16, the one from November 8th, we can see the shadow of both the monument and the two minarets. The shadows are pointed nearly directly north, meaning this image was taken around noon local time. Then at 13:58, we see the satellite image from November 30th where there are no shadows from the monument or both minarets, but we do see shadows being cast by some buildings to the east of the mosque. The direction of those shadows is similar compared to the first image, and the tall buildings do show long shadows. Since there is no long shadow from the minarets, I must conclude that both have been destroyed.
But how come that the top of the left minaret is still visible in the picture of the destroyed monument at 12:24? I believe that the left minaret has collapsed on itself during the destruction of the mosque, but the top part remained as a whole and fell straight down. The left minaret also seems to be slightly tilted compared to the surrounding buildings and the remaining structure of the mosque, indicating that it may have collapsed straight down as a whole, but this slight tilt is not conclusive.
I was thinking the same thing when I saw the pictures. The left is shorter by a lot.
This is a distance + focal length issue.
@@TheDonCheadlecan be. Still looks like it fell on itself :)
You just out Ryan Mcbeated Ryan McBeth at his own thing on his own video. I believe your comment deserves to be pinned. @ryanmcbeth
"Tree Spiking" sounds like the sort of "environmentalism" the USSR would do to sabotage the US's production capacity.
I swear journalists and media outlets all over the spectrum need to go back to journalism 101
God forbid they have some advanced military technology like concrete in gaza.
If my family sets me apart during family meals in a way that isn’t just adults and kids they arent someone I want to consider family
Ryan, I respect your opinion, but the mental gymnastics it takes to even attempt justify the destruction of these memorials as military necessity should get an Olympic medal. The IDF wants revenge and is trying to compensate for their failure to protect their citizens on October 7th by demonstrating that they are putting their boots on the necks of resistance in Gaza.
Hamas is a vile organization and Israel shouldn’t have developed it in the 1980s. Israel has consistently promoted it to create divisions in the PLO and PA … which is primarily secular… just like when the US supported the Jihadists in Afghanistan (that became Al-Qaeda) to kill Soviets in the 80s. Sometimes the Frankenstein Monster that you create, turns on you.
Isreali MP on record in 2015 saying that Hamas is an asset.
"Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, one of the most extremist members of the most extremist Israeli government coalition to date, offered an unusually frank assessment of the government’s approach to Hamas in a 2015 interview.
“The Palestinian Authority is a burden, and Hamas is an asset,” Smotrich said at the time. “It’s a terrorist organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the [International Criminal Court], no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.”"
This is the opinion of the current administration of Israel.
I mean seriously, to whom is this supposed to be a mortar reference point, there’s no space to the east for mortars, and if they positioned them to the south they are nowhere near the tallest buildings anywhere near it, as well as what? Hamas the notably underequiped and untrained violent milita has a well trained mortar crew and spotters and are positioned in an open mortar position in the country that’s being bombed daily
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Did you watch till the end?
@@noelkirkland I did, however I’m criticising even bringing up such a point because it’s entirely purpose is to poison debate and throw up unnecessary ideas, he could of definitely put a lot less focus on the mortar theory or put it at the end, it’s important to have a summary at the beginning of the video so people don’t take what you’re mainly focusing on and roll with it, because that’s what people do
I don't think Ryan is trying to justify anything here, merely to play devil's advocate so that all possibilities are on the table.
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
-Thomas Paine
Not sure if Nelson Mandela ever read this quote or studied Thomas Paine but he was very conciliatory towards his oppressors and seems to have a sense of the historical origins and drivers of White Nationalism. I think he understood the affect that the brutal imperial wars of acquisition by conquest had on ordinary people. The farm and village burning, concentration camps, mass deportations etc following the end of the conventional phase of the Anglo Boer War fueled Afrikaner Nationalism. The subsequent exploitation of a divided labor force set English and Afrikaans speaking whites, many returning from WW1, against blacks who were even more oppressed. White English speaking 2nd and 3rd generation became disillusioned and more drifted towards White nationalism than towards Black nationalism or a common ideology.
When saying “ STFU “ goes wrong
"The circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner
consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution. Furkan Doğan and İbrahim Bilgen were shot at near range while the victims were lying injured on the top deck. Cevdet Kiliçlar, Cengiz Akyüz, Cengiz Songür and Çetin Topçuoğlu were shot on the bridge deck while not participating in activities that represented a threat to any Israeli soldier. In these instances and possibly other killings on the Mavi Marmara, Israeli forces carried out extra-
legal, arbitrary and summary executions prohibited by international human rights law, specifically article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights."
Excerpt from the UN report on the MV Mavi Marmara
The UN is anti-Israel since quite some time. Israel is targeted by more resolutions than every other country combined!
And I mean even the most recent one: It doesn't even mention Hamas and demands a ceasefire! But the most ridiculous thing I've seen was UN women blaming "prolonged Israeli occupation" for women and girls experiencing violence in Palestine.
But it gets more sinister than that: UN-schools are pretty much breeding grounds for hate and terrorism.
Looking at photos of the mosque, I think both minarets have been toppled.
The reason is the base of the minaret tower was level with the dome, in the aftermath photo the top third of the minaret is level with the dome - that suggests the minaret is propped against the building - or has lost two thirds of it's height between the two photos. I'm wondering if that's blast damage, and the bottom half has effectively been blown out and the top bit has ended up roughly aligned with the walls of the building?
Ryan, I disagree with your assessment of the second minaret. In the first picture, both minarets cast a long shadow all the way out to the road. In the second picture, neither minaret casts a long shadow. Shadow length can be used to determine the height of a feature on the ground when the sun angle is known. The Pleiades satellites are in a sun-synchronous orbit, so the sun angle should not have changed significantly in the space of 22 days. If the second minaret is not completely destroyed, it appears to have been cut down in height significantly.
As usual, great job explaining the value of shifting from a known point and the history behind the monument.
18:00 "In 1999, following passage of a law designed to prohibit monuments to terrorists, and an associated Supreme Court ruling, the Israeli Army bulldozed the shrine and prayer area set up near Goldstein's grave.[32] As of 2014, a new tomb has been built, and still receives visits from Jewish pilgrims"
Not to mention that one of the current israeli ministers used to have a picture of him in his office.
Tomb.
Not shrine or monument.
@@AclockworkPurple A tomb can be treated as a shrine or monument. See the various "tomb of the unkown soldier", war grave yards or Jim Morrison's grave.
@@lavrentivs9891 Yes.
A tomb can be an official or unofficial shrine.
It’s a private grave people go see just like people do celebrity graves or people of some significance.
It’s not a national monument or an officially sanctioned monument or shrine though, is it?
@@AclockworkPurple No one claimed that it was officially sanctioned, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't a shrine or treated as a shrine by fellow extremists.
This is so strange. A whole video about the rules of destroying a monument with a bulldozer while calling the people who as of now has killed 8000 children “the good guys”. We are truly and utterly screwed.
8000 children's parents/guardians were given weeks of warnings to flee south to get out of the area of fighting. Anybody not leaving is in an active war zone at their own, or their parents choice.
@@shainazion4073 leaving where?
@@frankalexanderaar7624 Not leaving Gaza City for the South!
@@shainazion4073 They are bombing everywhere, even the areas that were supposed to be safe. Khan Yunis has been targeted for days by now.
Were the Allies in WWII the "bad guys" because they killed lots of "innocent" German and Japanese civilians? I mean the USA firebombed Tokyo killing ~100,000 and making ~1 million homeless in a 24hr period. Makes what is happening in the Gaza Strip look like a sideshow.
Hey serious Question; has anyone else noted that no Pro Israeli of any sort is actually saying how many Innocents the IDF have killed in the last 3 months.. not one source will give an estimate... They all say Hamas figures are wrong, or include Hamas fighters, but no number admitted to at all. (If anyone can point to one please comment I am really interested)... Do you think this is simply because if they do they will show that the IDF has killed more Innocents in 3 months than Hamas has in its entire existence and this puts them in a no win argument.. ie if they say it doesnt matter that the IDF killed more then they are admitting they value Palestinians lives less than others; OR by admitting the obvious truth the IDF has killed more innocents than Hamas its hard to argue that the IDF is not worse than Hamas. I would appreciate your comments
Shhhh that means they need to have a conscious and a little bit of empathy.
Because no one actually knows how many truly innocent gazans were killed. The gaza health ministry doesn't differentiate between combatants and civilians. And many "civilians" joined in on the hamas pogrom in Oct 7th. The line between civilian and combatant in Gaza is very blurry. Hamas wearing civilian clothing (which is a war crime) further adds to that murkiness.
@@ajvorob9117 no one knows ha ha yeah lets look at UN numbers shall we 25,000+ dead 64,000+ wounded, 15,000 Lost (probably under rubble dead)... IDF claims ~8000 Hamas Terrorist dead... CAN YOU COUNT. add 50% of Gazans are children...
Every Pro Israeli I have posted to on Twitter is DENY DENY DENY all these numbers.. its criminal and ICJ are right, its GENOCIDAL.
@@ajvorob9117 This is also why I don't trust Israel's figures when they do share them: They consider everybody Hamas in Gaza. I've seen Israeli soldiers on video stating that there are NO innocents in Gaza; this is why it's a genocide.
The 7 Oct Massacre changes everything. The Marimarmara monument must go forever, together with all symbols used to rally support for killing Jews. When Germany was denazified, all Nazi symbols had to go. Ukraine demolished the Soviet symbols. The war will end when Hamas surrenders and is totally removed from any role in Gaza. In the same way that the Marshall Plan ran for 7 years in Germany after WW2, a Marshall Plan will be necessary to denazify Gaza. The narative created by Palestinian leaders, that they are the rightful owners of everything in Israel is the same as the Nazi narrative of Herrensvolk and Lebensraum, and actually has the same origins with Palestinian Hajj Amin al Husseini who led the Waffen SS Handschars. Consequently, all symbols of the narrative that caused the war must be removed and banned, in the same way that the Nazi symbols are banned. Education of Palestinian children and Islam in mosques free from radicalization is critically important and will take many years, but it will succeed and there will be a new Gaza with new hope, peace and prosperity. This is absolutely for the benefit of the Palestinians of Gaza. Who will lose? The Hamas leaders who have run Gaza as a brutal feudal caliphate for self enrichment will lose. They are billionaires so they have the resources to fight back, so expect to see a lot more terrorist attacks and dead baby propaganda all targeted at reinstating them on the throne in control of Gaza. Governments around the world have been submitting to their demands for decades, but will they stand up this time to free the people of Gaza from Hamas, or will they force Israel into submission and reinstate Hamas? If you care for the people in Gaza, you must call for backing of a Marshall Plan in Gaza that will free the people from the narrative that the entire purpose of their lives is to fight the Jews so that their leaders can govern Israel under sharia.
How do you not have more upvotes. This is absolutely correct.
Sharp and true and to the point.
Sharp smart well informed i love your statements
Expired medicine is often effective and cheaply available for humanitarians. I wouldn't discount that contribution.
What these people are doing is disgusting they have gone way overboard in their actions towards humanity. This is not a war you know what it is……
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So.. not free then. Netflix is also free, for paid members.
I get the feeling that maybe ISRAEL, a territorial enemy of Gaza who has no interest in the humanitarian conditions there, wasn't being entirely honest about wanting the aid to pass through. I think they knew that they would be turned down, which would cover their asses to board the ship. It's highly unfortunate that things such as these occur, really this event is a microcosm of Gaza; get the few terrorists at the cost of all the other civilians. What aid was on that boat, expired or otherwise, was still aid!
That monument also looks like it sat in the middle of a fire as well. If it was just bulldozed, why would the burn it as well? A metallic object, that is.
Yeah, it doesn't really look like it was bulldozed, I don't know why he thinks that. Maybe because he thinks he saw tracks around the area its in.
Ryan, I love your videos on Ukraine and general military topics since you're quite knowledgeable. But in regards to the Israel-Hamas conflict, it's a lot less black and white and you have an incentive to uphold US policy based on your work. You bring a lot of information to the table, however I get the impression you assume Israeli innocence and work from there to form a reasonable explanation.
yep, IDF destroyed cemeteries and killed protesters in 2018, today they killed 3 OF THEIR OWN HOSTAGES WAIVING WHITE FLAGS, these guys killed 20k civilians but Ryan is trying to tell us they're normal, it's like someone trying to justify what France was doing during the Algerian war, or what the US did in Vietnam, better yet, what the Nazis did in the USSR.
I was just reading the wiki page on the south Vietnamese police general who is in the famous photograph of him shooting a vietcong captive in the head. The photographer had a very similiar thing to say about the power of a photograph. The Vietnamese general ended up as a restaurant owner in virginia, when people realized who he was he was at risk of deportation, but Adams, the photographer, testified in his defense saying his photo does not capture the situation fully
IDF has been showing us how seriously they take their "Purity Of Arms" with everything that soldiers have been posting.
What this video teaches me the most is that you shouldn't judge any event just by how its described in the news/online, too often key facts are just left out of the conversation completely.
SS does not mean "Steam Ship", it means "Screw Ship", as in propellers rather than paddles. Oh, and MV means "Merchant Vessel" not "Motor Vessel"
M.S. is an unofficial designation meaning Motor Ship.
M.V. is an unofficial designation meaning Motor Vessel.
Source: National Geographic Style Manual
The leftmost minaret is 50% it’s original height - concealed by the memorial debris in the subject picture.
It’s a vertical collapse with standing debris. Standing yes, but not at its original height.
That's what we mean when we say "freedom isn't free" the group who aren't terrorists are held to a higher standard.
Are you talking about Palestinians or Israeli citizens?
@@woodstream6137 its IDF vs Hamas. I'm not sure i understand the question.
The whole point of the Mavi Marmara was that Israel's blockade is illegal, and that it hinders all kinds of supplies (it's a downright lie from the Israeli side that they don't restrict basic supplies like food, that's why Gaza is said to be "on a diet"). It makes sense that they were prepared to ward off Israeli attackers, because the whole point is that they WOULD be attacked - again, illegally.
The martyrs didn't just "die" in the fighting - some of them were apparently shot in the back of the head, execution style. They´re all heroes. You might think they were foolhardy or that they shouldn't have resisted, but they knew resistance could be dangerous, and did it anyway, for a COMPLETELY just purpose. It's shameful to imply they might've been terrorists. The fact that they had kitchen knives is hardly proof they were supplying weapons to Hamas... Gaza already has plenty of kitchen knives. This was clearly for self-defense, defense of their rights to use international waters, defense of the rights of Gazans to import foodstuffs and medicine. Don't you dare call them terrorists because they say "Allahu Akbar." God almighty, indeed, watch over Gaza. ❤
Bullshit. They were anti israel agitators trying to disrupt a legal blockade against a hostile entity. They should have cooperated with the Israelis instead of trying to violate the blockade. The fact that they had knives proves that they intended to instigate a violent confrontation.
I am an Arabic Native Speaker and the video you showed at the end doesn't say they are going to terrorize anyone.
The crew of the ship is saying the claims the israelis are saying about them … "They say we are holding soldiers in the ship and they will board us for this, We say to them we will push your soldiers into the sea if you did something like this"
That sounds like crew defending themselves for me.
Note: One point to mention also, The muslim world doesn't recognize Israel as a state. They recognize this land as palestiane and the palestinans are the only ones they should respond to, so not responding to the calls from Israel forces is not wrong from their point of view.
But it is not a smart thing to do, if a ship does staff like it means they mite try to atack or something, it does not matter what they say, they can't say nothing, saing nothing makes the other think you're doing something bad.
Would military necessity include anything that might inspire your enemy or be used as a recruitment tool?
can a plastic bottle can be used as a recruitment tool? of course.
can a towel bottle can be used as a recruitment tool? of course.
basically everything can be used a recruitment tool.
the idea of military necessity, is *necessity*. if there is another way, it is not necessary.
Breaking the spirit of civilians in a country you are at conflict with is intentionally left out of the definition of military necessity. For example if a nation invaded Washington DC would they justified in intentionally destroying the constition, Lincoln memorial, and Washington monument since they inspire Americans. No because the goal isn't to achieve a military victory but a social one that being the destruction of the American people and their culture.
Is that what the idf is doing. Ehh maybe, the jenin horse in particular seems suspect. The whole concept of a just war is that it avoids as much civilian harm as possible and culture definitely falls into that.
@@macattack5863 I essentially agree with you, and personally, I do think that is what the IDF is doing - except. There is an argument to be made when particular cultural items glorify perpetual war against you, as with monuments to terrorists. I think about America and Japan after WW2. As a hypothetical, if Americans had encountered a sign that said "Let's go kill Americans" it would be ridiculous to leave that standing. That is part of the military machine you are trying to dismantle.
@@macattack5863 I mean it's a bad analogy because the Washington monument is not a Terrorist symbol.
@@macattack5863I do not think that is what the IDF is trying to do. This is an attempt to discourage acts of terror in the future. Terrorism is deeply embedded in education system hamas built in gaza
His "objectivist" commentary on Star Wars would certainly include blaming the Rebel Alliance for daring to resist the Empire.
Rebel base is located in Alderaan.
Hi Ryan, Lt Calley's My Lai massacre might not known to younger audiences anymore - it would be good to elaborate on it. You made a very valid point, but the reference might be too obscure now.
I don't know if Americans cared at the time.
When he was found guilty telegrams and letters supporting him and demanding his release outnumbered those who agreed with the sentence 100-1. Telephone surveys at the time found that 3/4's disagreed with the verdict.
He got life in prison, but 3 days after the verdict, Nixon moved him to house arrest.
This was reduced to 10 years and then 3 years.
He essentially served 11-12 days for each person he was charged with killing
ryan does advocate for osint and finding out facts on your own.
someone who watches this channel, and does not try to learn concepts that are unknown to them, really should start doing that.
It's taught at highschool history though, being a pivotal event and all.
I didn't know the guy's name or picture, googling it was the first thing I did after seeing it.
"Peace activists" who are not against Hamas in anyway...
American citizen here and I recognize the classroom worm that can't accomplish anything without getting into the teacher's ear... Nobody would like this guy if he didn't have state support, yeah money does alot
Excellent example of how a series of reasonable opinions combined continues the defense of indefensible actions
Hi Ryan, I really like your channel and how you are trying to provide an unbiased analysis of the conflict and how you show your work. There are two things that popped up in your analysis. First while using the mineret as a point of aim for indirect fire is a valid tactic normally, a minaret is not your typical tall structure. It's a religious building and has special status under IHL/LOAC that requires the attacker to take special measures to prevent its destruction. This includes using it as an aiming post. This protection can only be waived if the opposite side uses the building for a military purpose first. Secondly while the Knesset passed a law banning shrines to terrorists, does this law apply to the G Strip? Is that not a separate state and jurisdiction? With its own (technically)elected legislature and police force. How legal is it for a military force to enforce a law that didn't apply before the intervention and is not part of internationally accepted treaty. Forcing such compliance could mean the counterattack is actually an occupation and annexation. Which in of itself would violate international law. Its just food for thought as I know international law isn't your primary background. Keep up the good work.
If you ask the Israelis, gaza is *not* separate, because they feel all of that land is theirs by divine right.
@@thetruerift which is illegal under international law and we as American's should not hold governments that are "friendly" to us to a different standard, Israel commits war crimes on the regular, I like Ryan's views as he tries to break down videos, but he has never discussed the bombings of refugee camps, or other issues that put Israel in a negative light, we cant expect people who are occupied and under siege to be humanitarians of peace, most people in Gaza just want a better life but if you go through the pain that people of Gaza go through on a yearly basis I think your views on the situation would change, there are video's of Zionist's that are already planning on settling the Gaza strip. something I believe is that Israeli intelligence allowed the October 7th attack to happen, as Egypt and other countries had warned Israel of a imminent attack, and these ignored it, the only people it benefited was the Iranians and netanyahu
@@BigDaddySal69 Exactly. I see tons of comments on these videos about the perceived "unbiasedness" of the channel, but it's simply by ommission.
@@thetruerift NOT TRUE.
Technically, the “Promised Land” in Exodus 23 establishes all the land from the Red Sea to the Euphrates River and the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River as the land belonging to Israel.
That would mean that Israel would own all of Syria and Lebanon and Jordan, as well as the East bank of the Suez Canal.
It would own territory to rival Saudi Arabia in that regard.
However, Deuteronomy 23 established that anyone born of a prohibited marriage is cut off from Israel, even to the 10th generation. Therefore, when the Roman Army in 70 AD killed all the men of Israel and turned the surviving women into sex slaves, Israel was cut off from Israel, and the law of Moses died, at least with respect to the rules regarding sacrifices to the priests and the exclusivity of the law to the Jews.
Wish there'd be a similar type of outcry over russia recently destroying two museums of certain let's say... "divisive" WW2 Ukrainians in western Ukraine. As you've said, it's a slippery slope, but while Israel at least does care somewhat to protect its image, russia most certainly does not, and is more than happy to willfully break the 1954 convention.
My gods, all that shit they taught me in geometry actually works?!!!! HOLY F*CK
Thanks for your insights Ryan, you've clearly put a lot of effort (+finances) looking at each isolated incident carefully and objectively observing the facts.
As an Israeli, I also appreciate how you're providing clean, none-sensational/emotional analysis when observing the actions of both sides.
With every video, you provide points of view I haven't thought of myself first time I looked at such images/videos from the battlefield.
As always, great analysis! I very much appreciate your even handedness.
I have nothing but respect for your work, but every time we talk about Israel, people bring up the code of conduct they are supposed to follow. I've never heard anyone mention that Hamas is not following any of those codes of conduct. It's like giving a DUI to a guy who had one beer, while a drunk driver slams into another car going 80 mph and just gets to walk home after.
That’s not how ethics and morals are supposed to work. You act ethically and morally because it’s the right thing to do. Whether your adversary acts ethically/morally or not does not justify your own failure to live up to your own code.
While I am 100% Team Israel, I have to point out that everything that has happened since 10/7 is the consequence of what Hamas did on that day. They are getting consequences for their actions.
To be fair, Israel is a democracy. If they don’t want to tarnish their nation’s image, they should do the very best that they can to maintain it regardless of how cumbersome the media/critics might be againts them. Hamas is the bad guys. No matter what you do, like screaming, torturing, pulling their ears like how your teacher would in school. The reality is Hamas is a part of a “fake democracy”/“democratically elected” in Gaza and the military wing of Hamas, Qassam is not a professional military. Israel signed multiples treaties, Hamas didn’t. That’s why they keep firing their unguided rudimentary rockets into civillians populations in Israel. Bad guys will always exist, they might not be evil forever, but most of them does.
@@MarcosElMalo2By that logic we shouldn’t have bombed the Axis’ industry
@@MarcosElMalo2 Try acting ethically after a friend of yours was just murdered, another one's daughter raped and killed not necessarily in that particular order, and another friend's wife was abducted and is probably violently sexually assaulted in this very moment. I'm pretty sure you find it much easier to speak about ethics and morals when it's all "theoretical" and has nothing to do with you
Baruch HaShem & Shalom Shalom Israel!!! 🙏🇮🇱❤️🇮🇱🙏
Just like the denazification of germany after WW2 was imperative, so is the deradicalization of the palestinian arabs. This will invariably lead to the removal/destruction of most artefacts of "palestinian culture", because "palestinian culture" is centered around two things:
-the genocide of jews
-martyrdom
I'm not exaggerating. Go and look for yourself. The identity of "palestinian" was inserted long after the fact when Arafat noticed that his jihadi-imperial-project (very akin to Isis) wasn't going to work now that nationalist movements had created various arab nations. It took another couple of decades and being yeeted out of and shunned by all their former muslim/arab friends that he just sat down to negotiate peace.
It's really just that all the other muslim/arab nations hated jews even more than they hate the palestinians and that is why they championed their thinly veiled "cause" (making it out to be about autonomy, when it actually always was about genociding the jews) on the international stage.
I don’t understand how the IHH are considered terrorists. Israel says Gaza is independent, that they aren’t occupying it, and that they only enforce their border. If that’s true then it seems perfectly lawful (though maybe not smart) to resist bordering parties from a naval blockade.
This seems like the relationship is whatever is convenient for Israel at the moment, and that it can change back and forth based on the conversation.
@@JohnDoe-hh7eo I’m not saying a navy can’t engage in a blockade. Are you saying that a ship has to comply with a blockade, and that refusing to do so can be considered terrorism?
Ryan you have a talent for explaining the “Why” or possibilities of an event.
Have you seen the Hammas tunnels ? These are a clear explanation as to why concrete and steel reinforced bars are prohibited items.
What Israel is doing with the blockade is insane. They should be encouraging aid into Gaza. Not actively stopping it.
😂😂 maybe gaza shouldn't be as terrorist enclave . Look what they did with the aid they did get.
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You completely ignore the fact that Israel's blockade itself is illegal under international law because it constitutes collective punishment. This is according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
Sources,
ICRC: 'Gaza closure: not another year!' 14-06-2010 News Release 10/103
UNHRC: 'How can Israel’s blockade of Gaza be legal? - UN independent experts on the “Palmer Report”' 13 September 2011
OCHA: 'Farming without Land, Fishing without Water: Gaza Agriculture Sector Struggles to Survive With technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)' May 2010
You forgot a small detail. If Israeli law prohibits something, the prohibition must be enforced, inside Israel. Gaza is not part of Israel, thus international laws apply.
Apparently Israel considers Gaza as part of Israel
3 comments. 1 great video ! 2 I feel that using military necessity in that context could be a slippery slope if any tall structure could be destroyed because of the possibility of it being used to direct IDF then I feel like you can get to the point where you can justify the destruction of almost every structure eventually. 3 As to the destruction of terrorist monuments, justifying it with Israeli law seems unlawful to me considering that The UN and the Olso accords don’t consider Gaza as Israeli territory. Would love to hear what you or anyone reading this opinion on the issue
The IDF has been using the bulldozers to look for tunnel entrances. And it has already been widely reported that they did find some at the seaport!
@brynmawrbeth318 still doesn't justify destroying cultural and historical monuments. Finding something 'near it' doesn't give any right to destroy history and art when it clearly has no significant value militarically.
As per the ship that was attacked, so much for Israel "leaving Gaza" to be It's own state when they can't even have ships come in without Israel's permission.
@@hamzasami8362 you missed the point, they were looking for "terrorist" tunnels! A recent monument would certainly be considered the perfect location to find one!
@brynmawrbeth318 the monument is already years old, and clearly as you see from the picture, it's quite thin and maintained, and if there were any tunnel entrances, they would have been easy to find. They patterns of the bulldozers work does not fit that narrative either.
Plus, the IDF has made their missions quite clear, flatten Gaza, take over it, and rebuild it for themselves at the cost of "Hamas" excuse
@@brynmawrbeth318 The tunnel entrance might be concealed under a very visible monument in an open area with little cover where any person or overhead drone could see people coming and going?
I hate that at this point I can't tell if you're joking or not
I can only imagine all the hate mail you might get calling you an anti-semite simply for presenting unwashed information that we certainly won't get from the main stream.
Proud Zionist here. Ryan presents pretty fair information.
As an Israeli Jew, I can say that with confidence he would get hate mail from a lot of pro Palestinians as well. As a Zionist I find Ryan's analysis pretty fair, because he is balanced and well researched.
I haven't seen anyone call him an antisemite. You're the first one to use that term in any of the comments I've read in all of his videos that I've watched.
Arafat was a terrorist. If you want to rebuild Gaza, you gotta tear down the past. You can't have them looking up to thugs. Also, this was a moral blow to Hamas.
That wasn’t a make shift mosque, that was the shrine of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the Holy City of Hebron which was built during the Herodian period. It was co-opted by the Muslim Caliphate as their Mosque and Israel allowed them to keep it as an act of appeasement after the 1967 Six-Day War. Although there is a small section used as a Synagogue.
As I seem to remember the toppling of that Saddam statue was a massive blow to the image of the coalition forces in their home nations and also in the Muslim world. Destroying monuments to people your side considers terrorists may seem justifiable (though it's pretty easy to argue that Israeli law doesn't apply in a place that isn't Israel) but if the point of fighting a war now is to prevent there being a war in the future then trying to bury the culture of the nation you are assaulting is not a great way to go about that. That footage of the IDF destroying monuments is undoubtedly going to make its way into the next round of Hamas and ISIL recruitment material.
RE the Saddam statue it should also be noted that there is some conflicting reporting over exactly how spontaneous and genuine it all was.
Appreciate the context and references, but taking the israeli army at their word with a code of conduct they use to claim to be the most moral army in the world is a bit disingenuous, when it states that "The soldier will not use their weapon or power to harm uninvolved civilians and prisoners and will do everything in their power to prevent harm to their lives, bodies dignity and property" and it's pretty clear that israel currently think it's acceptable to pay a pretty heavy price in such lives to destroy the hamas, (and even when that price include israeli hostages of hamas), if they actually followed these rules, it would be a pretty different war.
He's an american Gen x'er he drank the israeli koolaid long ago during his education and even in the army. You wont change his mind.
Israel is targeting civillians. theyre dropping bombs on apartments not inside tunnels. With their level of techonlogy they can sniff out hamas within a couple weeks. This is a no brainer, but they want to take over the entirety of whats left of palestine because the talmud says so.
Ryan is just another guy who has to always give the benefit of the doubt to israel, thats how he was raised after all. He used to kill iraqis, so seeing dead palestinians for him.... its not really that hard to look at them and make him think "another terrorist dead". When in reality theyre prob just a random person with no connection to hamas.
Thank you for working hard to educate people on the propaganda and wrongdoings of both sides.
both sides ing a genocide is insane but I'm not surprised.
if the Reich exist today I'm sure some ppl will be both sides ing too.
Now we see where all that concrete and rebar that Hamas got through international aid went. It didn’t go into buildings. It went into tunnels.
I wonder how old was that list. Because there was plenty of iron, concrete, gravel and steel cables delivered to Gaza after Israel gave up blocking them. They were supposed to be used for building houses, schools, etc. Instead, they were used to build tunnels and underground facilities for Hamas. Which is why Israel tried to prohibit them in the first place.
Israel never "gave up' blockading them, there were small moments of relief but besides that most material you're wondering about comes from the smuggling tunnels, and help from Egypt and other countries who build housing, building monuments, and facilities for Gazans is something they deserve, IDF even destroyed the monument of a journalist they killed in the west bank, and desecrated hospitals, humiliated men and admitted they were civilians, killed thousands, but nobody wants to draw a line bc people enjoy this fake revenge scenario.
No, what Ryan missed is this monument also showcased the dog tags of dead Israeli soldiers.
Its wrong to claim the Israelis destroyed this for shits and giggles. This monument clearly displayed the dog tags of their soldiers killed by Hamas.
I hope Ryan corrects this in a later video.
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I understood that the ban on importation of concrete and steel rods (rebar) into Gaza was not because the Israelis were being meanies, but because Hamas was using the concrete and steel, not to build hospitals and schools, but tunnels and fortifications under them.
Ryan, I thought this was common knowledge, and I'm surprised you didn't clarify this.
You really believe this nonsense? Why does a foreign country get to decide what the palestinians can import to their own?
Ummm...lies
@@duckducks649 I mean, Hamas /did/ build tunnels with concrete and steel. So it is plausible it was used for both.
@@duckducks649so where's all the concert and rebar? Sure as hell wasn't used for shelters😂
@@duckducks649 The Hamas themselves published videos in and about those tunnels.
It comes down to "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". It's comes down to context. In the video the phrase "throw them into the sea" sounds like intent to commit violence
Zoom back a bit and that phrase has been used by both sides about what they'd like to do to the other, a rhetorical statement not a plan for violence.
You're right about avoiding the destruction of cultural properties. Besides being illegal it's strategically suspect in that it can become a recruiting tool for your opponent.
The dilemma for Israel, even if they terminate with prejudice every member of Hamas extant on 1 October, how many new members will their incursion create?
But likewise, if Iran boards a ship in international waters it makes world headlines as a "look at the evil bad guys" story even if its a routine anti-smuggling operation.
If Israel pulled out of Gaza as they claim, why can't Gaza control its waters? Why can't they have a ship come into Gaza without Israel's permission and interception? This isn't about Hamas and never will be.. the same is true for the West Bank where Hamas doesn't exist.
That ship had all the right to defend its vessel against pirates who intercepted it outside of their jurisdiction according to international law and internationally recognized borders. Gaza doesn't belong to Israel, yet they control her waters.
@@hamzasami8362Hamas does exist in the West Bank . In a large scale.
@@hagitaleinikov8643 really? Than provide us a single area or town that is controlled by Hamas in the West bank
@@hagitaleinikov8643 ^^
isn't this the same international flotilla that Israel bordered in international waters? People of several nationalities died in what they described as an unprovoked attack from Israel...
No it doesn’t make absolute legal sense , Gaza isnt under Israeli law , they cannot enact a ban on any sort of monuments in Gaza . Israel is considered the occupier under international law and cannot impose its laws .
Ryan .. you make great content ...I love hearing a unbiased opinion on these difficult topics .. well done and keep it up
oh, so, basically, and incidentally, you admit that it is an occupation otherwise, why would a foreign country force foreign ship trying to bring aid to a country to go to the port of their choosing?
In other words, if Palestine is a free country, not being occupied since 1967, how can Israel force international humanitarian aid to go through Israel first?
Also Ryan, it's a 12 meter tall landmark.
You can... google it?
Exactly what I was thinking. How did he not see this? This is an occupation. That's just plain obvious.
I think your videos would benefit from you setting the overload clip on your microphone lower or putting more compression on your voice track, it is blowing the mic away and distorting at present. Addin a pop shield or as your voice is quite strong you could locate the mic further away
The left tower was destroyed too, you can tell by the shadows projected... There's no shadow there. And in the picture you can tell that was destroyed but it didn't collapsed totally, just the base of it.
Monuments being destroyed in America didn’t garner such a reaction?