I wish you would have highlighted that the Palestinian population is made up of not only Muslims but also Christians. Too many people see this conflict as "Judaism vs Islam" so it would have been good to add a layer of depth as this is a very complicated issue. Many if not most of the Palestinians are actually genetically related to the Hebrews and as such from a scientific point of view are already living in the land of their ancestors albeit whilst following different religions.
98%-99% Of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are Muslims It is very homogeneous. Israel however, has 74% Jews, 21% Arabs, 2% Druze and other small minorities. Palestinians are not genetically related to "Hebrews", Just like Lebanese are not genetically related to the Phoenicians. The Palestinians are Arabs.
That comment on the genetics of modern Palestinians is up for much and furious debate, there is plenty of well researched data that indicates that only a small minority of them are truly native to the region, that the vast majority of them are descendents of different colonial groups from throughout history.
a small thing that was bothering me while watching the video is on 8:40, when he says a little bit about Hamas, as a small reference to 'Israel attacking Gaza' which is a not true. Israel is attacking Hamas, protecting Israeli citizens from terrorists and missiles. he could've said a bit more about this situation (A full one or two sentences would be enough).
@@DIY-Mechanic in term of terrorisim.. idf has done actions far more terrorisic then hamas ... hamas in general is a resisitance movment labled as terrorist because of israel .. and he didint mention this coz he wants to keep nuetral
@@DIY-Mechanic That what he said is the truth we are not go by Israeli fairytales we go by the truth Israel is a terrorist country . There’s not denying the truth The world does not revolve by the Jews
i think the thing i would like most people to know most about this place, is that even if they pretend like it's not true, both israeli jews and palestinian arabs live in the same place and are affected by the same problems and will eventually have to think up of the same solutions, up until 2004-ish a good portion of buildings in israel were built by palestinian construction workers, the palestinian economy of course is also reliant on israel allowing imports and access to the huge fertile plains. i think it will only cause further misery if we fail to acknowledge this, that no matter how much neither sides dont want to admit it, it is the case. Ian Morris the british historian once said that geography is destiny, so it's only reasonable to conclude that if both societies share the same geographic location, they will share the same destiny no matter how much they may not want it.
The Galilee is divided into two: The northern Upper Galilee and the southern Lower Galilee. The two are quite different. The Upper Galilee is a very hilly region that is mostly forested and is intersected by a few fertile valleys. The Lower Galilee is flat, and dominated by agriculture. Despite being flat, Lower Galilee contains several mountains and Tells famous from the Bible, including Mount Tabor and Megiddo (from "Armageddon" fame) . Galilee as a whole is not "rocky", and the rocky terrain is concentrated around the east, where it forms a geographical continuum with the West Bank. Also, the Dome of the Rock is a shrine, not a mosque. It is technically separate from the Al-Aqsa mosque, but the two are often confused.
Paul, this was one of the best videos on this channel you've made and maybe the best video explaining Israel and Palestine on RUclips. You explained the basics of history, geography and the current political situation of a region with maybe the most complicated status in the world better than any resource I've ever watched or read before. Great job!
@@GEOfocusChannel הייתי שמח אם היית מוסיף את מהות הסכסוך בין השאר והסבר על ארגון הטרור חמאס ועל אלפי הפיגועים והאזרחים שנרצחו בישראל בידי מוסלמים זה היה יכול לעזור מאוד להרבה אנשים לראות שישראל היא לא הרעה בסיפור, ואולי גם להוסיף את הקשר העמוק של אלפי השנים בין היהודים לארץ ישראל ואיך היינו פה עוד לפני שהמציאו את האיסלם והערבים
@@GEOfocusChannel and remember how many millions Jewish the Arab countries had kick out,the "palastines"are not native,they better leave to jordan or Syria they are warlovers
You addressed a very complex and intense topic in a very sensitive and respectful manner, as well as describing the land in a very interesting and engaging way. There were some details that were slightly inaccurate and some stories that were lacking in context, but overall you did a great job. Well done 👍🏼
The problem is.. not giving the right context in such videos can be dangerous. For example.. saying Gazans are mainly refugees living a tough life, and that Israel blockaded and attacked Gaza.. with no mention of the reasons, might make you feel Israel was doing it all for the fun of it... The context here is of KEY importance.. it's like describing World War 2 as "British attacking Germans". Everyone seeing this video would think Israel is obviously the bad guy.. In a conflict for survival, there are no bad guys, and there are always reasons for actions.
@@Abilliph always looking justifications for war crimes. Good on you. A nuclear armed highly developed power colonising poor civilians under its total control but still claiming to be fighting for survival! 😂
Also a correction: Dome of the Rock is a separate structure from Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque is Islam's take on the "Third Temple," whereas Dome of the Rock marks a rock believed to have been stood on by Prophet Muhammad (SAAS).
@@samernattifi3883 No... tbe dome of the rock and Al-Aqsa mosque are two different temples. On the dome of the rock one stood 2 jewish temples. This is the one with the golden dome. Al-Aqsa mosque is the one with the grayish-black dome.
Thank you Paul for your (typically) level-headed and impartial description of one of the most contested places on the globe. Most of the comments below are also calm and instructive - proof that your description has set a sane tone that's sorely needed in an area all too familiar with extremists of all stripes. Your videos on language, culture and geography are a joy!
Israel does not blockade Gaza. Tons of commerce are traded daily & thousands of Gazans enter Israel daily for work. Only weapons & materials like cement which can be used to build terror tunnels are blocked. Also, Gaza shares a border with Egypt 8:40
@@Tamir-Barkahan And Palestinians say the exact opposite, that I amplified the Jewish point of view and glossed over theirs. The fact that I'm getting hit from both sides tells me that I did a pretty darn good job of being objective.
@@GEOfocusChannel The entire geography in this part of the world is closely intertwined with the history of the Jews, there's nothing "biased" in admitting this. The very notion of "Holy Land" is a 4th century Roman/Christian adaptation (Agioi Topoi/Terra Sancta) of the Jewish Eretz haQodesh. Skirting this issue doesn't make you sound neutral, to say the very least.
@@Tamir-Barkahan I very clearly pointed out the Jewish historical connection with the land., and have done nothing at all to deny it. You just want me to amplify it in great detail (in an 11 minute geography video) and frame it from your point of view. Obviously I'm not going to do that. If you want THAT video to exist, then you can make it yourself. I'd watch it. But that doesn't mean that *I* have to make exactly what you would make.
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice", Martin Luther King Jr, so we should talk about justicd for Palestenians before we talk about peace, we can start at a minimum by Israel admitting that Israel murdered a Palestenian Journalist ,Shireen Abu Akleh, and taking responsibility for it, or by stopping the " eviction", aka ethnic cleansing, of Palestenian families from their homes whethef in Shaykh Jarrah, Silwan, Masafir Yatta or anywhere for that matter, we need more than a few well meaning Israelis to change the real lived reality thaf a majority of Palestenians face every day under what is now deemed an apartheid state by the likes of the late bishop Desmond Tutu, himself an antiapartheid activist.
step back and look at the full picture, all conflects are 'benefits' for some, and they will keep fueling it whether directly or indirectly. i believe peace is never an option as long as politicians exist.
@@MrLegoBLACK and these politicians are voted in by regular people who like what these politicians say and will support their actions, and since Israel, according to it's own leaders, is a" democracy" then its government is representing it's own people's will through policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestenians.
People assume this is the most heated topic because it makes big headlines, but there are other topics that inspire much more vitriolic discussions. I've never had anyone threaten me over Israeli-Arab related content, but I have for lots of other topics. I won't say which countries/languages.
As an Israeli, what I want people to know about my country? It's not all desert, war, and Jesus. In your video, you mention Jesus, like, 10 times. Jesus lived here, Jesus spoke there... We get it! And trying to explain a century old conflict in 11 minutes is futile. Country videos about Israel always get muddled in history instead of talking about the present. Today Israel is a really unique place. Despite our small size and population, we managed to put ourselves on the world's center stage. Our high-tech sector, the Start-Up Nation. Agricultural innovations, and water-mangement technologies. Being an oasis of democracy and progressiveness in a land of religious theocracies... And so on.
@@GEOfocusChannel it'd be cool if you and a theology youtuber covered some of the lesser known religious sites in the region (such as the Tomb of Jethro, the Tomb of Rachel, the Bahai Shrine (which you showed off for Haifa) and other Bahai locations, any other important Islamic sites outside of Jerusalem, and lesser well known Christian sites, etc...).
Jews see the land of Israel not just because god promised them the land, but because Jews are the indigenous people of the land. And through Zionism, the most succesful libiration movement, they revived their culture, their language, and re-established what once was, Judea.
I am Palestinian, you forgot the Balfour Declaration from Britain to the Jews as their national home in Palestine in 1917 and the period was building a new state before 1948 and the terrorist militias that became the Israeli army
He also didn't mention the Arab irregulars, the terrorist that blockaded Jerusalem for 5 months, blew up buildings, had sniper attacks on Jews, the Arab revolt, or the massacres of Jews or Jewish villages!!
I wish you would say that before 1916 the Arabs in the region didn't refer to themselves as Palestinians, but as Syrian. In fact, until 1967 the word Palestine used to describe an old pagan people.
says who? “We are a nation threatened with disappearance by the Zionist tide in our Palestinian land” Falastin newspaper, 1914. Palestinians perceived themselves as a nation long before juuze did.
@@SebaX92 most?? Any evidence? Palestine did not take part in the Arab revolt, only Syria and Jordan, though no countries were called Syria and Jordan back then
@@samnatt9812 what? Are you stupid? Turks blamed the Arabs for the defeat against Egyptian and British forces punishing then severely. And those armies consisted also Palestinian ones. My great grandfather was a commander and he told his people it's enough, ordering them desertion joining the Jordanian rebellions. He himself saw two Turkish soldiers r*ping an Armenian woman near Jerusalem and he liked them both.
Jews who used to live in Palestina (the land before the creation of the state of Israel) were very similar to the Arabs living there: they spoke Arabic as their day-to-day language, wore clothes that Arabs wore, ate Arabic food, and looked Arab.
@@happydillpickle I'm not talking about Mizrahi Jews. I'm talking about Jews who lived in the region pre-migrations, and local Arabs, too. Mizrahi Jews' vultures got influenced by their local Arabs' culture, and a famous example is Arabic-styled music (AKA Mizrahi music) bring sung in modern day Israel, and some of the Mizrahi singers even singing in the language they spoke at home/of their ethnic origin, such as Yemenite. Hina, for example, is a cultural custom brought from Morocco, IIRC. I wasn't referring to any of these. Source: am an Israeli, ethnically Jewish, and half Mizrahi, myself.
@@galgrunfeld9954 Okay, I'm confused now because I thought pre 48 Jews who lived in the land were know as Mizrahi too as well as those from neighbouring Arab countries and Egypt, Lebanon etc? I just didn't understand why Igal would disagree with what you originally wrote is all...
I understand all the complicated politics and opinions on this conflict. It is certainly a complicated issue. One the one hand, I understand the need of a Jewish state. The Diaspora has not gone well for the Jewish people. They have an ancestral and a religious connection to the Holy Land, and so it is understandable for them to want it back. Ultimately, I think after the Holocaust, history was coming to a point where the Jews would either establish a state for themselves or they would cease to be a people. Even if they established a state for themselves in a less populated place like a town in the Midwest of America, then it wouldn't have had the significance of the Holy Land, -and thus they would have forever felt detached from their Jewish identity. Could they really be a people outside the land? On the flip side, I understand the Palestinian side as well. The Jews being exiled didn't leave the land uninhabited. The Palestinians living in the land have done so for nearly two thousand years, and many of them are genetically connected to those left of the exile. I understand the Palestinians feeling like their homes and lands were being taken away from them. Honestly, I don't see what is significant about the Holy Land in Islam, but it is an important land for Muslims too, so it is equally understandable that they would hold value to the Holy Land as well. One thing not mentioned, however, is the presence of different Christian groups living in the land. These have various sects, some being Messianics (Jews who believe in Jesus as the Messiah), some being Aramaics (Christians living in the land sense before the Caliphates), and some being Palestinian Christians (connected to the Palestinian people, but believing in Christianity instead of Islam). Something I noticed when I was in Israel about many of these Palestinian Christians who told their stories was that they were often abused by their Muslim neighbors for being Christian. I understand the dislike for the Jews coming in and taking their land, but they don't realize that they are marginalized under their own society. Jews aren't a fan of Christians, but at least the Israeli state respects all religions. Even though Christians and Muslims have persecuted Jews for hundreds of years, yet the Jews allow their citizens to honor their religious traditions. On the flip side, I also see Jewish apologists (or anti-missionaries) taking some pretty extreme measures against Messianics. The folks over at One For Israel have reported lawsuits, slander, death threats, and other oppressions from the more radical orthodox rabbis. Also Michael Brown has reported slanderous lies about him beating up a specific rabbi after a debate. The Jews give legal protection to the Christians and Muslims, but their actions can be quite opposite of religious tolerance. Then of course is the Muslim violence, generally against the state of Israel. Rockets that fly off on a regular basis against settlements of Jewish people, suicide bombers crossing the boarder, fireballs hurled into Israeli fields, -It is understandable that the Jews built walls around these regions. But then the Palestinians complain that some of them lost their jobs in Israel when the walls went up, because they could no longer go to work across the boarder, and the divide between quality of life on either side of the wall, and how the Palestinians don't have the same access to life as the Jews. But the question can be asked, "If the Israelis can build such a quality of life for their own people, why can't the Palestinians do the same for theirs?" But again on the flip side, it's understandable about the Palestinians being angry about loosing their homeland to the Jewish people. Really, what can we say except that it's all very complicated.
The Romans never heard of Palestinian Arabs, the League of Nations and the UN never heard of "Palestinians". The name of Palestine was a corruption of Phillistines by the Romans, and has no meaning in Arabic. They don't even have the letter "P". The Palestinians were those of the Mandate in 1920, and became a PLO invention so that people would think that they were indigenous to the land. Most Palestinians came from the surrounding Arab countries in the 1900s as laborers. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and others. This land had a population of 250,000 to 350,000 people for over 1000 years. Most were fellahins (tenant farmers) or Bedouins).
A facinating video. I learned a lot from it about this troubled place beyond the news media cliches. I admire how you take us to places that many travel RUclipsrs would avoid talking about. Look forward to more.
@Niro got back to Europe your true ancestral homeland, and leave Palestine to its native population, and the Palestenians, and if you don't the native description , well it was used by the wanted terrorist Vladimir Jabotinsky, hardly a friend of the Palestenians
A few things from me. 3:32 You failed to mention that these settlements are illegal under international law (4th Geneva Convention to be exact). 3:51 The erasure of border is exactly what israel wants, and what the world must prevent at all costs. 6:06 Jaffa has basically been absorbed by Tel Aviv and the Arab population of the city has been pretty much cleansed. 6:29 The Dome of the Rock is NOT Masjid Al-Aqsa! It is a separate shrine within the complex of Haram al-Sharif. 7:27 The "control" by Palestinian Authority is just a nominal control as israel controls "the border, trade, resources, water, electricity, the airspace, the electromagnetic spectrum, the population registry, and more" (AJ+, 2022). De facto, there are no two states in the region, "It is one regime (israel) between the river and the sea, and that regime is apartheid." (Hagai El-Ad, Director of B'tselem)
It is not apartheid you lying traitor, because the Jews are the vast majority of the people between the river and the sea. Jewish population 7.5 million, Arab population 3.5 million.
Thanks for presenting this in an objective and truthful manner so that people can actually see for themselves why there unfortunately has been conflict there since the 40s.
I'm Israeli, this has got to be one of the only actual objective videos I've ever seen on the topic, with no propaganda for either side. Still a very general overview, but a very good and objective one.
Overall very balanced and informative, not an easy thing to do! It may be going down a rabbit hole, but my only issue is that statements like "Israel seized Sinai, Gaza, and the West Bank in 1967" and "Israel began blockading Gaza" come without necessary context. In 1967, Israel's Arab neighbors amassed their armies along Israel's borders and declared that they would wipe Israel off the map. Israel launched a preemptive strike to prevent its own destruction and in doing so captured additional territory, having since given back the vast majority of it in the quest for peace. The story in Gaza is similar. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, giving Palestinians there complete control in the hope that they would establish a peaceful enclave. In 2007, Hamas violently dispelled the existing Palestinian government there and took control of the region. It then promptly began launching rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians. In response to this, Israel was forced to control the Gaza boarder more forcefully to prevent weapons shipments and retaliate with military force when needed.
Palestinian here and I liked your video very informative and correct … no politics or favouring one side over another …. It’s not easy … I subscribed and hope to watch more By the way the area is like two different people no way to connect …we use two different languages and have very different customs ……plus the conflict that is going on …
@@ThxGod_ItsOver so for you if in the Bible you don't have a mention of a nation called Croatia or Kosovo this means it doesn't exist? Stop living inside of religion.
I would love to make accuracy in some of the sentences * the Arabs whom lives her come as workers to help empires most of them doesn't come because of religion 1. 2:55 Israelis were in favor of the distribution plan but the arbs were against this plan and start attack the Israelis defends and gone to counter attack. 2. 8:50 Israel does not attack Gaza with out a reason.
No, it doesn’t. 😄 You want me to talk in detail about the things that support your point of view, but ignore the details that support the other point of view. When I talk about both equally, or leave both equally vague, you think I’m being biased. Sorry, that’s not how it works. I either speak in detail about both, or about neither.
@@Sd24 The two buildings were built after the Muslim conquest. The golden one is Dome of Rock and it's not a mosque, but rather it marks the location of Foundation Stone. The silver one is AlAqsa Mosque and it signs Muhammad's rising to heaven, according to a Muslim tradition.
One small correction: the Dome of the Rock and the el-Aksa Mosque are two different structures on the Temple Mount. Many people think they're one and the same, but they have a couple hundred meters between them. Also - you mentioned the fact that Israel sometimes attacks the Hamas in Gaza, but you neglected to mention the attacks of Hamas on Israel (rockets, terror tunnels, fire-igniting balloons, etc). Other than those two items - you're pretty accurate.
you are bombing gazza becauase israel is just an organized terrorism in form of "country" , israel establishment was based on killing and occuping palestine on the first place you have killed hundreds of thousands to occupy palestine , israel has been killing thousands of children until now , you have used all type of weapons like the white phosphorous and now you are talking about home made rockets ? stop acting like a victim while being the killer
Another one correction: in 2007 Israel didn’t just start blockading Gaza out of nowhere. It was Hamas who started to fire rockets and attack Israel the only reason the blockade began.
Correction: The holiest place in the world according to Judaism is the temple mount, not the western wall. That wall is just a wall however as you said it's the last relic of the hebrew temple. Fun fact: one of the Arab names of the city is "beit al maqdes" which is strikingly similar to the jewish name for the temple: " beit HaMikdash" (literally: house of sanctity) And as mentioned, the city itself is secondary in importance to the temple mount.
2 reasons for that similarity : the languages are close and there are many similar terms and words. Other one - the Arabs conquering this land in 7th century they saw the ruins of the temple, they knew it’s an important and holy place so they built a mosque. And those who destroyed the temple were Romans not Arabs. After all Muslims and Jews pray to the same God.
@@SebaX92 True, it's interesting to note though, that there are many names for the city in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and the arab Language preserved that specific one, I think it has to do with the importance of the temple like you said; the temple was destroyed by the Romans and a temple of Jupiter was bulit in It's place( which was later made into a church with the conversion of the empire) not that the faith of jupiter has any particular interest in the place, but it was part of the acts done to humiliate the judeans after their revolt.
Zuheir Mohsen, زهير محسن, Palestinian leader of (pro-Syria) As-Sa'iqa Ba'athist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) between 1971 and 1979: "There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. We are part of one people, the Arab nation. We are one people. Only for political reasons do we carefully subscribe to our Palestinian identity. Indeed, it is of national importance for the Arabs to encourage the existence of the Palestinians in the face of Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is only there for tactical reasons.
It doesn't matter, they are a nation in its own merit now, and just as Jews should have their independant country (which they thankfully do), so do the Arabs who subscribe to the Palestinian nationality. and most governments worldwide have long agreed that that should happen in what is known as the Palestinian territories beside Israel.
Thank you Paul. I have been watching both your country and language profiles for several months now and I always find them entertaining and insightful. You are a very erudite man and a very good 'RUclips performer'. I look forward to watching more to come.
You've done wonders in handling the topic. You sounded unbiased and objective. Personally I would have been even more extreme and I would have cut the first part entirely and referred to the area as Holy Land full stop, avoiding the historical part. One point that is seldom mentioned when quarrelling about the topic is how, right from the start, Jewish settlers bought land to farm and live on. They bought it from very rich Arab landowners who displaced their Arab tenants to make money from land that was hardly making any money for them, thus becoming even richer and leaving their fellow Arabs in a bad predicament. Most of the current surface of Israel was sold to Jews, not conquered.
where's your proof to this exaggeration: "Most of the current surface of Israel was sold to Jews, not conquered"...??? Jews didn't own more than 6% of the land when the Nakba started, buddy!!! The largely rural population then of Palestine was terrorized out of their homes from fear of being massacred and their women raped (like happend with other towns)!!! My own grandfather left everything in Jaffa, even the teapot boiling in the kitchen, thinking he'll come back in a few hours or couple of days, but it's been more than 70 years now!!! PLO leader, Arafat, said we still hold the documented proof that even the land on which the Israeli parliament and the US embassy are built on... are lands owned by Palestinians and stolen from them. By Allah, the day will come very soon when we restore it all.. and more.
@@MusculaRMinD people not wanting to be objective is part of the problem. People with such mindset are responsible for the lack of a peaceful solution. """By A***, the day will come very soon when we restore it all.. and more.""" are the words of a warmonger.
@@MusculaRMinD The same happened to the Egyptian Jews and the Iraqi Jews. The Egyptian government holds the land deeds of an enormous number of Jewish properties. One one hand, it seems absolutely outrageous that in these long years no reparations have been made by any of those responsible for displacing people in the post WW2, post Ottoman era. But on the other hand, if we don't move on, what do we have? Just a dream that's accompanied by deep continuous trauma, fear, hatred, bloodshed. I vote for moving on... people are a mess... the world is a mess... Only kindness to our fellow humans will help.
Wdym, you stole the land. Israelis lie about buying it but they only say that because once they bought a small land plot they invaded the whole shit. Get your own land
Thank you for the clarification. I should have been more clear that Al-Aksa and the Dome of the Rock are both on Al-Haram Al-Sharif (or The Temple Mount).
The correct thing to say is that the Jews declared independence while the Arabs refused to form their state because they believe all of "palestine' is theirs for some strange reason. Basically, if the Arabs really wanted a palestinian state, they would have had one. But forming a state will have made it more difficult for the world to feel sorry for them so they decided to remain eternal "refugees"
I'm sorry your comment seems stupid at maximum. How the F says in clear face that the palestinians refuse to form state while you occupied their land? Then in that logic Mr mustache give a certain group of people a right to live but they refuse then he offer them the holocaust and they agreed Happy ever after
@Hanan Albataineh Not true!! Nobody in the United Nations or League of Nations ever heard of Palestinians. The Quran that is 1400 years old never heard of or mentioned the Palestinians. The Bible and Torah don't mention the Palestinians there is no mention of the Palestinians by any of the occupiers of this land, not the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Ottomans, The different Caliphs. Nobody heard of Palestinians until the British Mandate and then the Jews were the Palestinians, and the others were Arabs. In 1964, with the KGB and their asset ,Yasser Arafat they tried to dupe the world as to thst the Arabs were Palestinians??
@Hanan Albataineh The name of your your prophet and his family are not mentioned where?? Don't pull that garbage. Peleset and Philistia are not Palestine and Herodotus specifically said that Palestine (the Greek for the land of the Phillistines) was located between Phoenicia (Canaan) and Egypt. That is exactly where Philllistia was, the 5 cities nearto Gaza.
Hello Paul, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and sincerely love your work! I just wanted to point out one thing you might find interesting. The Lord Jesus Himself, actually never performed any water baptisms in the Jordan, or anywhere else, according to scripture. Rather, he taught his disciples how to baptize in water. When you mentioned the Jordan, it’s referencing the gospel according to Matthew 3:5-11, describing how John the baptizer, the one who herolded the coming of the Messiah, baptized people in the Jordan unto repentance who came to him “from Jerusalem, all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan” (3:5 NIV). Later, in verse 11, we’re told that He who is mightier than John is yet to come and that He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire. Verses 13 through 17 of the same chapter (Matthew 3) relate the baptism of the Lord Jesus Himself whom John reluctantly baptized in order to fulfill all righteousness. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the only instance in the canon of scripture were Jesus had anything to do with water baptisms. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, however, is His sphere and His alone. I might be wrong. Just wanted to offer my Biblical insight to the best of my ability. God bless you and God bless Israel 🇮🇱🕊️🙏🏻
You said about Gaza that Israel is attacking Gaza and harming the lives of its residents without saying that Hamas is the one that always starts and adding that Israel brings money and labor to the Gazans
A couple of things that you forgot. One, Egypt has also closed their boarder with Gaza. Two. We do not attack them we defend ourselves when the send rockets into our city's. Otherwise you are mostly correct.
I was about to comment this myself. The conflict with Gaza is Hamas shooting rockets and Israel defends. Usually just blocking isn't enough so a targeted bombing is required. It's complicated because if Israel doesn't respond to rockets, Hamas takes it as "We can just continue and nothing will happen to us". If Israel do respond, Hamas says "Look at them bombing us!". Either lose the militaristic front or the diplomatic front. Egypt close the border the exact same way Israel does. before anyone jumps with "siege" then I will correct you: one of the definitions of a siege is "nothing goes in, nothing goes out". Gaza get electricity and water from Israel, medical personnel and treatments are going in and out, most importantly is that Gaza's citizens are allowed to go and work in Israel. Food and other goods are going in and out (I work for UPS and see packages to Gaza almost daily). Fishing, while limited sometimes, is allowed. The exact same things happen with Egypt. If you want to know why Gaza looks the way it looks, blame Hamas.
4:01 *No, not one Jewish and one Arab, but one Israeli and one Palestinian.* There are over a million Arab Israelis and believe ot or not, there are also Arab Israelis living in settlements.
@@victorpearce304 Palestinian is a national identity, it's a nation. Not an ethnic origin. And out of the 21% of the Arab Israelis (and it's actually not 18% like Paul said) Less than ~60% are identified also as Palestinians as well.
@@victorpearce304 And just as I said, the West Bank is not divided between Arabs and Jews, but between Israeli citizens and Palestinian citizens. Because of course, there are not only Jewish settlers, but also Arabs and Druze as well.
Great objective viewpoint. I live very close to the Mosque (Temple Mount to the Jews). It's 10 minutes walking; same to the Western wall. I shop at the Arab shuk right next to Solomon's temple. I have good friends on both sides. It's not what the media shows on either side. people In some ways it's better and some ways it is worse; esp for Palestinians. I want to say that just because some ppl are Palestinian and some are Jewish Israelis, it doesn't mean that Israelis don't care. It's a political and religious issue that has gone on for centuries, right on track with the Bible. The regular ppl on both sides get screwed. To the Palestinians, here is one Jew that really cares about the Palestinian pain. Idk how to stop it, just know that this Israeli cares deeply, esp for your kids and teenagers. Shalom and Salaam.
Great coverage of a heated topic. as an Israeli I feel the need to clarify about 8:45, the attacks on gaza were in response to terrorist attacks and hundreds of rocket launches towards civilians by a government that still openly swears by the complete destruction of Israel, not regime change for imperialistic purposes. (Not that I think you meant to insinuate that) Sadly life in Gaza is indeed horrible, I see no foreseeable reasonable solution and not much effort to come up with one from either side. Was surprised not to hear a mention of the Druze, and Haifa being multiethnic, among Israeli Arabs there are varying degrees of integration to a greater Israeli culture, though most do identify as Palestinian.
My original script for this video was much longer (3x as long), and cutting it down to fit my format was heartbreaking (because this is an important topic for me).
I am an Israeli . Thank you very much for the video, very nicely explained just one thing you had to explain more accurately - we do not bomb Gaza because we are bored or because we hate them we are Israel *Defense* Forces and every time Hamas fires missiles or digs tunnels or does terrorism in any form then we bomb Entering Gaza. And if as a result life there is difficult the finger should be pointed at their leadership (Hamas)
NO , you are bombing gazza becauase israel is just an organized terrorism in form of "country" , israel establishment was based on killing and occuping palestine on the first place you have killed hundreds of thousands to occupy palestine , if you live in isreal then your home was probably inhabited by palestinians , these palestinians were probably killed in the house or at least they run away to save their lives , my grandfather used to own a big house in yafa before he was displaced , now this house for sure is ocuupied by an israeli who probably came from far away, and just like you he start to talk as a victim . in the end isreal has been killing many many palestinians until now and on daily bases .
Good comment! And also, when he mentioned the 1947 war... He said the UN voted on partition (but never said why it didn't happen).. and immediately jumped to the "ensuing war" (doesn't matter who declared it and started it) in which Israel took 78% of the land (seemingly, just because it could). How you frame things is very important to how people would perceive this conflict..
You asked for opinions from Israelis and Palestinians at the end, so here's mine: Personally I don't like an overly objective tone when talking about Israel and in general making the Arab-Jewish conflict the center of every video about the country. It feels insincere to me and anyways the way people present the facts is always biased - fot example, you mentioned the UN partition plan as though it was a settled matter, but it was never truly agreed upon as the Arab side didn't accept it. The Tel Aviv-Jerusalem modern vs traditional rivalry is more stereotype than reality but you do have a lot of different sub-cultures for such a small country. And in general it would have been nice if you'd talked more about the cultural diversity of Israeli Jews, because there are so many different communities and each one has its own fascinating story.
Well, the conflict isn't supposed to be the center of this video. It's a geography video, and some background is necessary to understand the human geography of the country. Why are there different political entities in one land with unsettled boundaries? Why is Kefar Saba like a different world from Qalqilya? (Or West vs East Jerusalem, for that matter.) That was really what I was aiming to convey, because that's what stands out to me as a visitor, having spent about 10 months in Israel (about half on a kibbutz in the Carmel region and half in Jerusalem). Being impartial might seem insincere because everybody has a point of view, but I'm not *hiding* my point of view, I just don't share it in this kind of content. I don't do commentary. People on both sides seem to think they know what my opinions are and that they lean towards the OTHER side, usually based on omissions, but I omitted details across the board because it's simply a very short introductory video. My original script was at least three times as long, but 35 or 40 minute videos don't fit my format. Cutting it down was heartbreaking, but I had to give up my personal connection to the topic and treat it like every other video. Maybe I should have turned it into a series, but my experience with that as a RUclips creator has not been good. Only one of the videos will perform well and the others won't be seen by many people, and people still criticize omissions even though the omitted details actually appear in a different video in the series.
Extremely accurate except the Gaza part. Describing it as Israel attacks and blockades Gaza because "they don't like Hamas government" is like saying US attacked Japan in world war II because they didn't like the Japanese government back then.
@@judithszalavicz9270 That it's incorrect. Unfortunately that's the way he says it in the video. So I said that saying it is wrong as much as saying that US attacked Japan because they didn't like the Japanese government and not because of pearl harbor.
I said ONE sentence about the blockades, and included in that ONE sentence was a comment about Hamas being the government of Gaza, and Israel rejecting Hamas. I mentioned both without any detail. If you want me to describe Hamas’s rocket attacks explicitly, then I would also describe the effects of Israel’s blockades and bombardments explicitly. Then of course you would say that I was extremely biased for doing so. By the way, I didn’t say “They didn’t like Hamas”. I said “in rejection of its Hamas government”. That is very different. Saying “I don’t like” something sounds like a mere preference, while “rejecting” something sounds like you have a much more legitimate grievance. I chose those words very carefully, to say as much about in a very compact way as possible. You’re reframing my statement by changing “reject” to “don’t like”.
@@GEOfocusChannel But if you don't mention the context it sounds like Israel just attacks and blockades Gaza as a tool to fight their government, which is maybe true, but it's not the reason behind all that. The reason is the attacks that Hamas does. It's exactly the difference between saying "United States attacked Japan because of Pearl harbor" and "United States attacked Japan because the Japanese government was supporting the Nazis", I'm sure you would agree that the first one is much more accurate.
As a (leftist) Israeli, just wanted to say that some Jewish Israelis do believe that the settlements in the west bank are wrong and that the Palestinians deserve their own country. Unfortunately Israeli society has become extremely right-wing and militaristic and even some leftist politicians are reluctant to voice their opposition to the occupation.
@@judithszalavicz9270 Lol too much fantasy my dear. Imagine calling Jew as the "Gods People" and unjustly killing children of Palestine, beating the mourners of whom they killed Journalists. And don't believe in Jesus Christ. Wow.
@@judithszalavicz9270 If ypi haven't understood my first reply especially the first sentence then you need to study more to improve your reading comprehension!
As an Israeli, Well done explaining it and the difficulty which resides with it. I would have like to add something, but all I have to add is painful from both sides and is a complicated reality, so... I won't add anything.
@@r.s5472 It's written in the Bible in Hebrew. The Arabic name is an adaption - and there is nothing wrong with that. You are welcome to check it instead of making far fetched accusations.
It is important to talk about where does the name "Palestine" comes from. It comes from Emperor Hadrian of the Roman Empire in 135 AD in order to erase the roots of the Jewish people in Iudaea Province after the Bar Khokhba. Hence why the region will be called as "Palestine" until 1948. This is also why the British Mandate for Palestine actually means for Israel, not for this Palestine 🇵🇸. How can we know for sure? The Balfour Declaration 1917 declared a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. You can look historical picture, coins, stamps, etc. of British Mandate for Palestine, they will always include an initial "EY" which stands for Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel).
Lol no. So many bullshit in one comment. There are Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian records of the term "Peleset", which is a cognate of ancient Hebrew of "Pelesheth". The name is ancient, it can't be given from Roman Empire. And the Balfour Declaration... Who the f*** gave them the permission? Certainly not the people who have lived there for generations.
To some commenters: this is an informative channel that just talks about countries. You're not watching The Young Turks here. Arguments are unnecessary here.
As an Israeli I think you skipped about some of the details as to how / why Israel began occupying large areas of land. First of all you skipped completely over the Balfour declaration which is understandable yet a little misleading. You also forgot to mention that while the Arabs of 1940's felt bad, it did not stop them from committing pogrom's and the Aliyah to Israel to come to a halt (legally) in the second world war leading MILLIONS of Israelis to die in the holocaust. Also. the war of 1948 was caused by the Palestinian community (with the help of neighbouring countries) because they did not like the land arrangement, Israel (which barely had a government) only reacted to the acts of the Palestinian people and thousands of Jewish families were left broken. In the war of 1967 Israel's spies got information of a coordinated attack from all neighbouring countries and only attacked first the military preparing to attack in the Egyptian border. Lastly, throughout all the years later, Israel which was objectively the stronger country traded the occupied lands for peace (like the Sinai peninsula), something that never happened in the history- an act of peace. Every decade or so Israel offers a plan to build a palestinian state with new borders to live at peace here but the Palestinians reject it as an act of spite. That usually leads to terrorist attacks which are never reported outside of Israel sadge
@@thelaughingemoji-amwatchingyou if you mean the oslo accords then yes, israel had no need for the sinai Peninsula but to keep a buffer from Egypt in case of war, therefore was kind enough to give it back even if the means of taking it were not legitimate from your pov
Yeah, to a visitor like me it really feels like two countries. Not just the people, but everything including the architecture, etc. looks like a different country. I spent a summer on a kibbutz in the Carmel area and hitchhiked around there and the Galilee. The Arab towns around there were totally different from the kibbutz and my friends' town in the Sharon region. And if you cross the green line, it's even more different.
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It's true but I think it's problematic to call them Palestinian if it's the same word we use for citizens of Palestine/Falestine
@ The Israeli Arabs I've spoken to prefer to identify as Palestinian Israelis... Israel and Palestine are both names that people use to refer to the entire land (The West Bank is also known as Judea and Samaria, another massive bone of contention that's difficult to solve) and at the end of the day it would be better if people could learn to live as neighbours in peaceful coexistence on all of the land, but it's not easy to achieve this... sadly...
just clearing- the brits gave jews no land. till 1947 all the lands were jews lived were bought from legal owner(legal by ottoman land registry which continued into british era).jews didnt move any arabs by force(unlike the arabs who banished the jewish communities of silwan,pekiein,hebron,gaza,jenin,bab a zahara and temprary banishments from other areas.thats aside from the treatment of non muslims under the muslim empires who controlled the area).
The British gave no land to the Jews at all. The League of Nations transferred the land of the British Mandate to Israel, the country, not to the Jews.
I would like to point out that the Dome of the Rock is NOT the Aqsa mosque. The DOTR is a shrine while the Aqsa mosque is a separate building close by. You also need to point out that under Israeli law, non Jews are not allowed high government positions nor are they even allowed to vote for what matters. This is the main reason why a united country shall never work so long as neither side are willing to acknowledge true citizenship to each other.
You’re right about the first point. I was mistaken because the entire compound that contains both Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock is referred to as Al-Aqsa Compound. About the second point, I’m not sure what you mean by high government positions, but I don’t think that’s true. There have been Arabs who serve as cabinet ministers in Israeli governments. I’m not sure what “vote for what matters” means, but there are Arab members of knesset who vote on legislation, and Arab citizens of Israel can vote in elections. Palestinians in the Westbank and Gaza (and most in East Jerusalem because they aren’t citizens) can’t vote though.
@@GEOfocusChannel My comment is a bit misleading and that's my fault. I'm talking about the Palestinians who live in West Jerusalem who are over a million. They are practically Israeli citizens and are governed by the Israeli government but they are technically not citizens and thus are not allowed to vote. I did not mention Gaza or East Jerusalem as both are considered to be ruled by some form of Palestinian authority. Either way, its too much of a political issue for this channel so I will retract my words to avoid a comment war lol
I’m not sure how easy it is for them to become citizens. My understanding is that very few of them ask for citizenship because they don’t want to be seen as traitors. Israel says Jerusalem’s Arab residents can apply for citizenship, but I don’t know if they make the process really troublesome or not.
Well, for one thing, it should be said that the Kineret Lake - "Sea of Galilee" - is the world's lowest freshwater lake. Neveh-Zohar, close to the Dead Sea, is the world's lowest civilian town.
Hi Paul. Excellent video! The term "Palestine" is a Roman invention created after the Romans defeated Judea (who rebelled against the Roman Legions). The Romans wanted to erase the memory of Judea (it took them many bloody years to put down the rebellion) and renamed the area Palestine. When Islam invaded and took over the area, it was simply known to be part of Syria. This association of the area to Syria continued on until the end of the Ottoman Empire in WW1. When Britain took over the area under the League of Nations Mandate, the term "Palestine" was revived, and the Mandate for Palestine was created. Anyone living there, including a large number of Jews (around 600,00 by 1947) were now officially Palestinians. After Israel was created and the Palestine Mandate was ended, the term Palestinian fell out of use and the non-Jews in the area were simply "Arabs". The term Palestinian was revived (again) when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed by the USSR in 1964, as a way to get a foothold in the Arab world and stir up trouble in the area during the Cold War. Arafat took over control of the PLO in 1969 and started to actively cultivate a "Palestinian National Identity" that would unite and try to eradicate Israel.
The term Palestine existed before the Romans to refer to the Philistines and is found in Akkadian and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Herodotus also calls the area Palestine in the 5th century BCE
@@stevenv6463 Sorry Steve, but if you look at actual academic sources (i.e. not wikipedia), such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, you will find this excerpt "The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv-Yafo and Gaza. The name was revived by the Romans in the 2nd century CE in “Syria Palaestina,” designating the southern portion of the province of Syria, and made its way thence into Arabic, where it has been used to describe the region at least since the early Islamic era. After Roman times the name had no official status until after World War I and the end of rule by the Ottoman Empire, when it was adopted for one of the regions mandated to Great Britain; in addition to an area roughly comprising present-day Israel and the West Bank, the mandate included the territory east of the Jordan River now constituting the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan, which Britain placed under an administration separate from that of Palestine immediately after receiving the mandate for the territory." So your Early reference to Palestine was actually referring to the Philistines, who were invaders (sea peoples?) in the area.
@@banto1 utter false information. Philistine or فلسطين is written in many historical manuscripts way before Judaism. Even the Torah mentioned the term Philistine referring to the land that Abraham went to. Please don't twist the facts just to go with your agenda.
I would like to add that today there are about 6 million palestinians spreaded around the world who are the descendants of palestinian refugees from 1948 and 1967 conflicts who dream to return to the home land of their forefathers. I'm one of them. My grand father was forced to leave our hometown safad in the northern Galilee in 1948.
im israeli and you wanted us to write something we wanted you guys to know ::: once , israel /& palestine were united under the name of Cna'an, jews are cna'anite and palestinians are cna'anite, for the most part. but you probably know this already because of your study of hebrew israel and judaism .. have a good day ! :)) (i support palestine btw)
Just a little correction about the Samaritans , they are not really consider to be Jews as us. in the past the United kngdom of Israel divided to Juedea kingdom in the south and Israel kingdom in the north , they were part of the Northern kingdom - Israel. We, Jews or Judeans are from the sourthn kingdom - Judea.
It's all because the Ottoman decide to join WW1 and lost and worst of all the empire collapse and the former territory become owned by the British and France. The rest of the story is just history...
@@GEOfocusChannel That also is not exactly true. Those were always two territories, one called "Mandatory Palestine" and another called "Emirates of Trans Jordan" but they were governed by the same political framework called "British mandate for Palestine". Territories were never united into a single political unit. British made sure to specify that those are two territories but made sure not to specify exact borders so it would be easier to promise the same territory to many different sides, which is exactly what they did.
Jordan was Eastern Palestine under the British Mandate. The majority of the population is Palestinian Arab but the royal Jordanian family is Saudi Arabian originally. So in essence Jordan is a Palestinian Arab state.
One important fact to point out is that Jews date back to this ancient land for thousands of years whereas only some of the Arab inhabitants go back a few a couple of centuries. Plus, there has always been a Jewish presence in the land, despite the forced diaspora by the Romans. Archeological evidence proves this.
@Hanan Albataineh what ethnic cleansing? The Arab population has increased substantially since 1967. Their institutions and universities are still thriving. Those are not signs of ethnic cleansing. If fact, it is the opposite.
Actually the Romans came up with the name Palestine to mock the Israelites after 70 AD. Before it was the regions of Judea and Samaria, before that you had the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, and even earlier you had the tribes of the Israelites, canaanites, amorites, hettites, amalekites, moabites and other such tribes. In those days there wasn't anything called Palestine, although you had the Philistines, which are not the same as the Palestines since the Philistines originally came from Krete and landed around the Gaza region where they mostly were settled. Palestines however clearly share lineage with the Arab people.
I think it is important to add that the gaza strip and the west bank have two completely different authorities which are not very fond of eachother, in the gaza strip there are the hamas which are considered a terrorist group and in the west bank there is abu mazen which is more peaceful and was approved by the Israeli government. one if the reasons that the gaza strip is in such horrible state is the fact that the hamas spend all their money on weapons and military.
In “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” the autobiography of T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), (in 1918) he lists the religions and ethnic origins of all the communities from the Gulf of Aqaba going up to Damascus. There must have been about 25-30 such diverse groups back then before people started drawing national boundaries in the sand. The real delusion here is to imagine it could be appropriate to apply the western idea of a national identity on such a diverse group of peoples.
I don't get it. Is that an argument against having a Palestinian state? Because no matter how diverse these groups that you clearly don't know much about are, they're still closer in culture and tradition than the Jews traveling from all over the world to partake in the theft of Palestinian land. Almost every Arab country has diverse societies, and they've existed for decades, and lived together for centuries. Not sure what point you're trying to make.
All of them are Arabs, but more than 90% are Sunni Muslim, just as the came with the rest of the Arab and Muslim worlds. They all speak Arabic. Europeans are masters of 'divide and conquer'. Us, Sunni Muslims, tolerated differences to the point that you still have in Iraq to this day people who follow the religion of Noah!!! Meanwhile, no European country has 2 religions. One must prevail and slaughter the other, like Christian denominations did with each other, and like the Spaniards did to the Moors of Andalucia (Muslim Spain). So these 'differences' are richness, and a sign of our tolerance, not a REASON for you OUTSIDERS to DIVIDE us like you divided your little continent (Europe)!!! Look how many god-damn nation-states are there in that small pieces of a so-called "continent"!!!!
@@mayedalshamsi It's against having ANY state. Against the State of Israel, against the State of Palestine, Jorden and so on. In the days when there were no national boundaries, for example the Otterman Empire was ruling, they were all more-or-less at peace with each other (but NOT with the Ottermans). A supra-national organisation, like the EU where a central authority sets the framework for the whole area, would be the best solution in my opinion. Elsewhere I have opined that the best way to handle Jerusalem would be as a UN protectorate. Unpopular as that opinion is.
@@mayedalshamsi "Partaking in the theft of Arab land"- so long as people see it like this, there will be war, hatred, fear, resentment, malice... No one talks about the Middle Eastern Jews who were driven out of the other Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Egypt, for example. You wouldn't be able to tell who is "Arab" and who is "Jew" if you had a group of many in a room in matching clothing. Both are such diverse people. This hatred and fear is driven by warlords who profit immeasurably from the misery of many. Tell me how many Jews remain in Egypt? How many Jews remain in Iraq? The Christians are being persecuted in Egypt too, sadly. What's wrong with people that we humans can't get along with each other in peace?
The arabs didn't want independent western style states but a one united arab muslim empire to replace the turkish muslim ottoman empire. They wanted this but didn't have the power or ability to create it so they failed. Arabs can want what they want but no one is obligated to give it to them.
It is already a quasi-economic federation. A loose cooperative federation would be a far off dream, but could be possible. A joint defense federation would never happen.
Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Palli-Stan. The king of the juuze are Jesus time, Herod the Great, was Palestinian Arab himself…and so were his subjects.
Not arab. No. The person in this video refers to us as arabs because it is a linguistic identity. We are arabs because we speak arabic. But Baal was a canaanite god that our ancestors believed in
No, actually the term "Palestinian" was gave to the holy land by the greeks after they were defeated by the jews in their rebellion against them. Later on the name of Judea and Sumeria was later change as a derogatory name after the jews rebelled against them too.
@@GalTheGodOfKnowledge So how this correlates to what I said. I said arab is a linguistic identity to people outside of the Arabian peninsula that speak Arabic
Im from israel and i must say the i'm impressed from you , you describe the conflict in the best way . I hope that we will live in peach one day [ but i don't think that will happen because there are a lot of terrorists in the "gaza strip" that dosen't even look for peach they just want to kill us and take the Israel country ] I really really hope that we will find a solution for this conflict but i can say you as a citizen of israel that i have been sufferd from the rockets that HAMAS and all the terrorists of gaza was sending on us they trying to kill us [ the citizens ] . And you can be sure that if they will take our country they will try to kill all of us. But look , if we [israel] want to destroy gaza we will do it in a second we have a lot of planes and bombs and tanks and what not , but we don't do that becasue we keep trying to live in peach with you but you just keep sending missiles on us from nowhere and expect us to sit quietly ?? Look at all the wars that was between gaza and israel it all started from hamas but because we are a lot stronger than them the feds just shows how much people we have killed them because its a joke for us its like there will be a war between bangaladesh and the united states of america [[ its not fair right?! ]] . IF WE WAS THE BAD WE WOULD KILL ALL OF GAZA STRIP LIKE PUTIN DID TO UKRAINE . THATS IT AND DON'T JUDGE ISRAEL JUST BECAUSE WHAT YOU SEE ON THE INTERNET BECUASE ITS NOT HOW YOU THINK IT IS!!
I'm myself not isreali nor Arab but even I can see how delusional you people are. I'm sure 100% you people don't want any peace. Because you can't say in clear face that you want peace while occupied and Demolishing palestinian homes and make them homeless. What kind of peace is this? If that how you see peace then I can say that Mr mustache decided to give you peace by give u the holocaust which you people agreed. What a great peace right?
@@blackblood1122 First of all we are growing too second of all we can’t just give you the country without a fight because you will kill all of us because your leaders are terrorists and if we kill some citizens of yours its by mistake for example we throw a bomb 💣 and innocent people was near the bomb so they have killed . And the last thing i want to say about what you say that we kill innocent daily : You can’t say that because the Hamas and Jhiad are throwing thousands of rocket’s 🚀 on us ((on the citizens of israel)) in the past you killed our citizens in large numbers but we found a way to protect ourselves from your rockets and also we have iron dome The world must understand this conflict correctly and not just say “free palestine” I recommend you to watch this video and you will see that both sides are right Im right and you are right you can also see at the video that the British country made this conflict (something like that) : ruclips.net/video/IQcmfxO-to0/видео.html
Thanks for this awesome video, I think you fit as much information as you could’ve for a short video of a place with a lot of history. Quite ironic how the comments of both sides say that it’s biased against their own particular side.
It's even more impressive considering I can't see any bias towards Palestine or Israel, and I am from Israel. The video is genuinely the closest thing to neutral, which is really hard considering the way this topic is discussed.
Im an Israeli and a right wing supporter, though i must say this video is great because its shows exactly whats going on down here without spreading any propaganda, very well done - Every thing which have been sayed is true!
@@theangrychicken5026 bruh So you want to kick them out of the west Bank? Why can't the two identities live in two separate states based on the 67 border Why do you want to force your identity on them?
@@sadeksama5057 who sayed i wanna kick them out of Israel? Arabs who live in Israel can be integrated in to the Israeli sociaty, those who dont want to recognize it shouldn't get rights like other citizens and i dont think the state of Israel should give off its land to anyone else. This way or another - im not the one who's calling the shots so you cant blame me for whats going on down here, and no - i dont support the leftie government we have right now and for me they are a bigger enemies then Hamas or Hezbollah.
All I can say is that the world 'palestinian' didn't exist a minute before Israel was born, in fact the first time this word was born was around the mid 60s Until then arabs in Israel were just arabs, egyption and jordanian arabs. If those palestinians really want to be the 'philistines' that are mentioned in the bible or whatever then they're literally calling themself invaders, because this is what the word meant in old hebrew (Not to mention that these philistinains were greek and came from the sea, it translates to 'invaders' in old hebrew). So yeah, it's a lie that is clearly built on nothing, no history, no culture whatsoever
For the sake of understanding your point, let me ask this: If that’s the case, if there were no Palestinian people before and they were just Arabs, what does that change? Does that mean there shouldn’t be an Arab state in the Westbank and Gaza? Does that mean the Westbank and Gaza should be part of Israel and their Arab residents should become Israeli Arabs? What difference does it make if they are Palestinians or just Arabs?
Great reply!! I'm applauding here. Thanks for lending me words for my next conversation with an average right-winger - to just be sure that you know, their point IS indeed, as you could guess, persisting Israel's hold over the Palestinian territories regardless of what that holds in terms of having to include yet so many more Arabs under our dependency and likely seeing the vulnerable Jewish majority disappear one day soon after, all for the sake of securing as much imagined Judaeic land as you can!! When everybody warns us that Israel as a Western democracy and Jewish state will be lost if that happens, all they wish is to extend our armed grip literally just however far into the horizon it can reach, they feel very insecure in JUST the legal borders assigned to us Israelis & recognized by the international community. They'll retort with the automated 'Ahh.. that is all we get because... they're all Antisemitic out there of course!'
@@MrAllmightyCornholioz Respect you too bro ! Allah bless you. I hope things will be better in the future for the country/countries and the world doesn't fight over whose land it is , but how to take care of the current situation. Because if they don't , the economic situation in The Holy Land will get worse (Hope for the best😄). Anyways, take care . Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.
An added emphasis would be: in 1947 the United Nations granted the land to JEWS and ARABS (not to Palestinians who did not exist until they were invented by Arafat in 1964); and that it was the ARABS who rejected their homeland and chose to wage wars and intifadas against Israel.; which they have continuously lost. There has never, ever existed a sovereign Palestinian state, country, or nation in any recorded history. How come we find ancient Inca, Mesopotamia, Persian Greek, Chinese, Roman, Egyptian, Indian, Aboriginal, Jewish, and other ancient civilizations and cultures, and yet, nothing has ever been discovered of Palestinian ancient civilization before 1964. WHERE WAS PALESTINE? 1. Before Israel, there was the British Mandate (1934 - 1948) - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 2. Before the British Mandate there was the Ottoman Empire (1516-1927) - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic State of the Mamluks of EGYPT - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 4. Before the Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayyubid Arab-Kurdish Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 5. Before the Ayyubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 6. Before the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid Empires - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid Empires, there was the Byzantine Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Sassanids - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 10. Before the Byzantine Empire there was the Roman Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 11. Before the Roman Empire there was the Hasmonean dynasty - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 12. Before the Hasmonean dynasty there was the Seleucid Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 13. Before the Seleucid Empire there was the Empire of Alexander the Great - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 14. Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 15. Before the Persian Empire there was the Babylonian Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 16. Before the Babylonian Empire there was there were the kingdoms of Israel and Judah - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE. 18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes (of Israel) there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE REALITY CHECK: ALL THE ABOVE EMPIRES HAVE FADED INTO THE DUSTY PAGES OF HISTORY AND HAVE CONQUERED AND RULED THE LAND; BUT NEVER IN ANY RECORDED HISTORY HAS THE GEOGRAPHICAL REGION KNOWN AS PALESTINE, BEEN RULED, GOVERNED, OR EVEN OCCUPIED BY ARABS AKA 1964 PALESTINIANS. By: @shim_marom
That sort of debate, as fact-wise accurate as it is, won't promote peace, justice or security for Israel's children nor any brighter future for either of the two competing nations in the "Holy Land". So abandon it and rather say out loud that you're willing to sacrifice the Israeli democracy and the Zionist miracle for persisting the occupation of the West Bank, deemed illegal by all nations. The Palestinian Arabs deserve statehood just like Jews, no matter the prehistoric babble.
Dude their was a state called palestine. Before the British mandate and the land of judea (1045) it was called Palestine. Even explorers at the time said in books older than 1000 years ago stated "the name of this beautiful land was named i hear by state Fulestine" which is the arabic version of Palestine
@@theholyhabibi This is the usual narrative of desperate men; who cannot even define any SOVEREIGN (REPEAT, SOVEREIGN) STATE OF PALESTINE, RULED BY ANY PALESTINIAN LEADER, GOVERNMENT OR KING. Lies, fiction, false narrative, and mythology if told often enough by those with a far-reaching public profile and unconditionally supported by a willing and compliant media create the conditions whereby the uninformed and biased believe in fiction. Facts are stubborn and do not go away, just because you do not understand them.
I think that some people in America care more about this conflict than we actually do it's just a part of life and it's not really a big deal in our lives
one thing you forgot to mention: in 1973, Israel withdrew from the sainai peninsula and returned the land to the Egyptians. When was the last time the winner of a war voluntarily gave up land? Certainly not the Arab empires, definitely not Europeans. Only Israel gave land back to the country that attacked them. you also left out that the dome of the rock and al aqsa mosque are built on top of the ancient Jewish temples
There are many details I had to leave out in order to make this video fit into around 10 minutes and be digestible to people who don’t know anything about the topic.
I gave a like even though I didn't watch the whole video just because I saw people freaked out in the comments and that's I sign of you speaking the truth 😂
1. When we talk about Palestinians during the Mandate, we are talking about Jews and Arabs alike. The Arabs at that time called themselves "Arabs" and not Palestinians, the Jews were considered Palestinians. in the Ottoman period there were no borders and anyone who wanted to move from place to place could do so without problem, the British also allowed masses of Arabs to enter, and Jews had difficulty entering palestina. 5. Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria were never Palestinians they were occupied in 1948 by the Jordanians and the Jews who lived there were expelled 6. There was never a Palestinian people but there was an Arab people 7. Jews have full right to the land, when you see that the neighbor's house is empty, are you Go into it and say it's yours? The Jews were forcibly expelled by the Roman Empire and returned to their homeland. This is exactly the story without distorting lies and truths,PS The place was called Palestine because the Romans wanted to erase the memory of the Jews to the land, the Jews fought them and did not surrender, and the name Palestine was applied to the Kingdom of Judah because it was the Roman revenge on the Jews, and the revenge exists until this day only with other faces.
@@מאיראליסיאן he is a clown the Idea of the British favour the Arab is just absolutely banana, the were only 3% Jews in Palestine before Balfour Decoration, never mind the British appointed A Zionist Jew Herbert Samuel as high commission of British Palestine, Open the get to Jewish immigration, it's absolutely fact the Jews were in cahoots with the British
Your great grandpa lived there for like 80 years, died, and his grandchildren decided to move to Europe in some shit European country for thousands of years. They come back here claiming it's their land now because their great great great great great great great ancestors breathed there? What sense does that make?
Correction: Dome of the Rock is part of AL-Aqsa compound. Al-Aqsa Mosque refers to the entire esplanade plaza including the Dome of the Rock, Al-Qibli Chapel, Gates of the Temple Mount and the Four Minarets.
@@GEOfocusChannel Al-Haram AL-Shareef could refer to the Aqsa Mosque but it could also refer to the Prophet's Mosque (Al-Masjid an-Nabawi) in Medina and also to the Great Mosque of Mecca (Masjid al-Haram).. Those are all Haram Shreef :). Those three are the holiest Mosques in Islam. Yes, I can imagine that it's confusing but it's really important to many viewers so it's really worth some research. Something you're usually very good at :) Moreover, many believe it has a political background to always only show Dome of the Rock when talking about Al-Aqsa Mosque which I absolutely know that that was not your intention.
@@GEOfocusChannel It's also quite political for some. Some are trying to say only the qibli mosque is important for Muslims implying the dome of the rock could be demolished or repurposed while many Muslims call the whole area (as you called it the Haram alsharif) al Aqsa because the whole area is considered holy in Islam.
0:56 there is arab jew and arab Christians &arab muslim thy live in harmony and peace togather till now in the west bank .the problem is the invasion of Germany jew &Russian jew & ethiopian jew &Indian jew to arab lands So how can u divide it to 2 state one Jewish state and one arab state when there is arab jew !?
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I wish you would have highlighted that the Palestinian population is made up of not only Muslims but also Christians. Too many people see this conflict as "Judaism vs Islam" so it would have been good to add a layer of depth as this is a very complicated issue. Many if not most of the Palestinians are actually genetically related to the Hebrews and as such from a scientific point of view are already living in the land of their ancestors albeit whilst following different religions.
98%-99% Of the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza are Muslims
It is very homogeneous.
Israel however, has 74% Jews, 21% Arabs, 2% Druze and other small minorities.
Palestinians are not genetically related to "Hebrews", Just like Lebanese are not genetically related to the Phoenicians.
The Palestinians are Arabs.
The actual original hebrews and not the modern slavic “Jews” and North African “Jews”
That comment on the genetics of modern Palestinians is up for much and furious debate, there is plenty of well researched data that indicates that only a small minority of them are truly native to the region, that the vast majority of them are descendents of different colonial groups from throughout history.
@@Dragoncam13
The only thing that it "actual" in here is your racism.
@@מ.מ-ה9ד creating ‘dream land’ + forcing minorities + giving nationality to outsiders (jews) + refuge Plstnians to America = racism
This guy is so neutral in a way that he described the situation as it is without adding salt and pepper
I told you what is not he has advised I can see have a little bit of favor for them to Israel i mean
a small thing that was bothering me while watching the video is on 8:40, when he says a little bit about Hamas, as a small reference to 'Israel attacking Gaza' which is a not true.
Israel is attacking Hamas, protecting Israeli citizens from terrorists and missiles. he could've said a bit more about this situation (A full one or two sentences would be enough).
@@DIY-Mechanic in term of terrorisim.. idf has done actions far more terrorisic then hamas ... hamas in general is a resisitance movment labled as terrorist because of israel ..
and he didint mention this coz he wants to keep nuetral
@@DIY-Mechanic It is it true I don’t go by around Israeli fairytales I go by the truth
@@DIY-Mechanic That what he said is the truth we are not go by Israeli fairytales we go by the truth Israel is a terrorist country . There’s not denying the truth The world does not revolve by the Jews
One Correction: John the Baptist baptized people in the Jordan, not Jesus.
Gotcha. I haven't read the New Testament since I was in high school.
Although Jesus did baptise John the Baptist
@@Theo.1985 and didn’t john baptise jesus?
Didn't Jesus baptize John the Baptist in the Jordan so John the Baptist could baptize Jordanese people for Jesus?
Pretty big difference.
i think the thing i would like most people to know most about this place, is that even if they pretend like it's not true, both israeli jews and palestinian arabs live in the same place and are affected by the same problems and will eventually have to think up of the same solutions, up until 2004-ish a good portion of buildings in israel were built by palestinian construction workers, the palestinian economy of course is also reliant on israel allowing imports and access to the huge fertile plains.
i think it will only cause further misery if we fail to acknowledge this, that no matter how much neither sides dont want to admit it, it is the case.
Ian Morris the british historian once said that geography is destiny, so it's only reasonable to conclude that if both societies share the same geographic location, they will share the same destiny no matter how much they may not want it.
The Galilee is divided into two: The northern Upper Galilee and the southern Lower Galilee. The two are quite different. The Upper Galilee is a very hilly region that is mostly forested and is intersected by a few fertile valleys. The Lower Galilee is flat, and dominated by agriculture. Despite being flat, Lower Galilee contains several mountains and Tells famous from the Bible, including Mount Tabor and Megiddo (from "Armageddon" fame) . Galilee as a whole is not "rocky", and the rocky terrain is concentrated around the east, where it forms a geographical continuum with the West Bank.
Also, the Dome of the Rock is a shrine, not a mosque. It is technically separate from the Al-Aqsa mosque, but the two are often confused.
Thanks for adding that!
Paul, this was one of the best videos on this channel you've made and maybe the best video explaining Israel and Palestine on RUclips. You explained the basics of history, geography and the current political situation of a region with maybe the most complicated status in the world better than any resource I've ever watched or read before. Great job!
I'm sorry to tell that, but it is very oversimplified...
@@מ.מ-ה9ד It's 10 minutes long. Of course it's oversimplified. People write 600 page books about the Holy Land.
@@GEOfocusChannel הייתי שמח אם היית מוסיף את מהות הסכסוך בין השאר והסבר על ארגון הטרור חמאס ועל אלפי הפיגועים והאזרחים שנרצחו בישראל בידי מוסלמים זה היה יכול לעזור מאוד להרבה אנשים לראות שישראל היא לא הרעה בסיפור, ואולי גם להוסיף את הקשר העמוק של אלפי השנים בין היהודים לארץ ישראל ואיך היינו פה עוד לפני שהמציאו את האיסלם והערבים
@@GEOfocusChannel well said
@@GEOfocusChannel and remember how many millions Jewish the Arab countries had kick out,the "palastines"are not native,they better leave to jordan or Syria they are warlovers
You addressed a very complex and intense topic in a very sensitive and respectful manner, as well as describing the land in a very interesting and engaging way. There were some details that were slightly inaccurate and some stories that were lacking in context, but overall you did a great job. Well done 👍🏼
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Its not complex, Israel is agressor
The problem is.. not giving the right context in such videos can be dangerous.
For example.. saying Gazans are mainly refugees living a tough life, and that Israel blockaded and attacked Gaza.. with no mention of the reasons, might make you feel Israel was doing it all for the fun of it... The context here is of KEY importance.. it's like describing World War 2 as "British attacking Germans".
Everyone seeing this video would think Israel is obviously the bad guy.. In a conflict for survival, there are no bad guys, and there are always reasons for actions.
אני שמתי לב לזה שהוא אמר שאנחנו תקפנו את חמאס ולא להפך
@@Abilliph always looking justifications for war crimes. Good on you.
A nuclear armed highly developed power colonising poor civilians under its total control but still claiming to be fighting for survival! 😂
Also a correction: Dome of the Rock is a separate structure from Al-Aqsa Mosque. Al-Aqsa Mosque is Islam's take on the "Third Temple," whereas Dome of the Rock marks a rock believed to have been stood on by Prophet Muhammad (SAAS).
No, the dome of the rock is the Alaqsa Mosque/ english: Superlative Temple
@@samernattifi3883 No... tbe dome of the rock and Al-Aqsa mosque are two different temples.
On the dome of the rock one stood 2 jewish temples. This is the one with the golden dome.
Al-Aqsa mosque is the one with the grayish-black dome.
@@GalTheGodOfKnowledge no they are not. The Dome of the Rock is the AlAqsa. Aka David’s Temple/محراب داود
First rebuilt by caliph Omar
@@samernattifi3883 Do you are have stupid?
As a person who lives in israel and have been to BOTH temples I can personally say you are wrong.
@@samernattifi3883 , He's actually right.... Go do your homework! 🤦
You are so but so good doing this videos that even one with this pretty complicated topic is, at least for me, fully enjoyable. Kudos Paul!
not conflict >> its ouccupation> free palestine
Thank you Paul for your (typically) level-headed and impartial description of one of the most contested places on the globe. Most of the comments below are also calm and instructive - proof that your description has set a sane tone that's sorely needed in an area all too familiar with extremists of all stripes. Your videos on language, culture and geography are a joy!
Israel does not blockade Gaza. Tons of commerce are traded daily & thousands of Gazans enter Israel daily for work. Only weapons & materials like cement which can be used to build terror tunnels are blocked. Also, Gaza shares a border with Egypt 8:40
Dude they do blockade Gaza. I live there. I cannot leave Gaza wdym they arent blockading them.
Good job with a very difficult explainer topic
Oh hi Corey!
He did a great job completely glossing over the land's Jewish history, I agree.
@@Tamir-Barkahan And Palestinians say the exact opposite, that I amplified the Jewish point of view and glossed over theirs. The fact that I'm getting hit from both sides tells me that I did a pretty darn good job of being objective.
@@GEOfocusChannel The entire geography in this part of the world is closely intertwined with the history of the Jews, there's nothing "biased" in admitting this. The very notion of "Holy Land" is a 4th century Roman/Christian adaptation (Agioi Topoi/Terra Sancta) of the Jewish Eretz haQodesh. Skirting this issue doesn't make you sound neutral, to say the very least.
@@Tamir-Barkahan I very clearly pointed out the Jewish historical connection with the land., and have done nothing at all to deny it. You just want me to amplify it in great detail (in an 11 minute geography video) and frame it from your point of view. Obviously I'm not going to do that. If you want THAT video to exist, then you can make it yourself. I'd watch it. But that doesn't mean that *I* have to make exactly what you would make.
I’m from Israel and I want peace between these two nations!
I think we don’t need to hate each other, We all are humans ! ✡️🤝☪️
How do we make peace with ur useless government
we all wish it was that simple, but it's not
"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice", Martin Luther King Jr, so we should talk about justicd for Palestenians before we talk about peace, we can start at a minimum by Israel admitting that Israel murdered a Palestenian Journalist ,Shireen Abu Akleh, and taking responsibility for it, or by stopping the " eviction", aka ethnic cleansing, of Palestenian families from their homes whethef in Shaykh Jarrah, Silwan, Masafir Yatta or anywhere for that matter, we need more than a few well meaning Israelis to change the real lived reality thaf a majority of Palestenians face every day under what is now deemed an apartheid state by the likes of the late bishop Desmond Tutu, himself an antiapartheid activist.
step back and look at the full picture, all conflects are 'benefits' for some, and they will keep fueling it whether directly or indirectly. i believe peace is never an option as long as politicians exist.
@@MrLegoBLACK and these politicians are voted in by regular people who like what these politicians say and will support their actions, and since Israel, according to it's own leaders, is a" democracy" then its government is representing it's own people's will through policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestenians.
What a nice and chill topic. I'm sure there won't be any heated discussion about it whatsoever.
People assume this is the most heated topic because it makes big headlines, but there are other topics that inspire much more vitriolic discussions. I've never had anyone threaten me over Israeli-Arab related content, but I have for lots of other topics. I won't say which countries/languages.
Just a wild guess: does it involve Turkey?
@@igalpevsner8699 probably Macedonia
No comment, sir!
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Finally a video we can all agree on & not argue in the comment section about.....
lmao
Haha 😁🕊️
As an Israeli, what I want people to know about my country? It's not all desert, war, and Jesus. In your video, you mention Jesus, like, 10 times. Jesus lived here, Jesus spoke there... We get it! And trying to explain a century old conflict in 11 minutes is futile. Country videos about Israel always get muddled in history instead of talking about the present.
Today Israel is a really unique place. Despite our small size and population, we managed to put ourselves on the world's center stage. Our high-tech sector, the Start-Up Nation. Agricultural innovations, and water-mangement technologies. Being an oasis of democracy and progressiveness in a land of religious theocracies... And so on.
Fair point. I’m not terribly interested in the Jesus aspect myself, but ended up mentioning a lot sites of religious importance.
@@GEOfocusChannel it'd be cool if you and a theology youtuber covered some of the lesser known religious sites in the region (such as the Tomb of Jethro, the Tomb of Rachel, the Bahai Shrine (which you showed off for Haifa) and other Bahai locations, any other important Islamic sites outside of Jerusalem, and lesser well known Christian sites, etc...).
I hope police in your country not bring guns with them. Like a teyrorism movement in denial.
Yes, we know that you get it, Jesus this Jesus that but that Jesus brings more then 50% of all the tourists each year to Israel.
Also, progressiveness. 🙄 Bne Brak and Mea She'arim, Smortich and Ben Gvir are bastions of progressiveness. 🙄🙄
Jews see the land of Israel not just because god promised them the land, but because Jews are the indigenous people of the land. And through Zionism, the most succesful libiration movement, they revived their culture, their language, and re-established what once was, Judea.
I am Palestinian, you forgot the Balfour Declaration from Britain to the Jews as their national home in Palestine in 1917 and the period was building a new state before 1948 and the terrorist militias that became the Israeli army
You are also an Ultra-nationalist apparently that distorts history for your own narrative.
He also didn't mention the Arab irregulars, the terrorist that blockaded Jerusalem for 5 months, blew up buildings, had sniper attacks on Jews, the Arab revolt, or the massacres of Jews or Jewish villages!!
I wish you would say that before 1916 the Arabs in the region didn't refer to themselves as Palestinians, but as Syrian. In fact, until 1967 the word Palestine used to describe an old pagan people.
says who?
“We are a nation threatened with disappearance by the Zionist tide in our Palestinian land” Falastin newspaper, 1914.
Palestinians perceived themselves as a nation long before juuze did.
So what? Pakistan didn’t exist prior to 1947. And today, you have almost a quarter BILLION people who consider themselves as Pakistani.
@@samnatt9812 not so true. Maybe some. But most were having the Pan Arab goal. Especially before WW2.
@@SebaX92 most?? Any evidence? Palestine did not take part in the Arab revolt, only Syria and Jordan, though no countries were called Syria and Jordan back then
@@samnatt9812 what? Are you stupid? Turks blamed the Arabs for the defeat against Egyptian and British forces punishing then severely. And those armies consisted also Palestinian ones. My great grandfather was a commander and he told his people it's enough, ordering them desertion joining the Jordanian rebellions. He himself saw two Turkish soldiers r*ping an Armenian woman near Jerusalem and he liked them both.
Jews who used to live in Palestina (the land before the creation of the state of Israel) were very similar to the Arabs living there: they spoke Arabic as their day-to-day language, wore clothes that Arabs wore, ate Arabic food, and looked Arab.
False
@@igalpevsner8699 cope
@@igalpevsner8699 Funny thing is, they still do. They're called Mizrahi Jews. I bet you couldn't tell who's Jewish and who's Arab in a line up.
@@happydillpickle I'm not talking about Mizrahi Jews. I'm talking about Jews who lived in the region pre-migrations, and local Arabs, too.
Mizrahi Jews' vultures got influenced by their local Arabs' culture, and a famous example is Arabic-styled music (AKA Mizrahi music) bring sung in modern day Israel, and some of the Mizrahi singers even singing in the language they spoke at home/of their ethnic origin, such as Yemenite.
Hina, for example, is a cultural custom brought from Morocco, IIRC.
I wasn't referring to any of these.
Source: am an Israeli, ethnically Jewish, and half Mizrahi, myself.
@@galgrunfeld9954 Okay, I'm confused now because I thought pre 48 Jews who lived in the land were know as Mizrahi too as well as those from neighbouring Arab countries and Egypt, Lebanon etc? I just didn't understand why Igal would disagree with what you originally wrote is all...
I understand all the complicated politics and opinions on this conflict. It is certainly a complicated issue.
One the one hand, I understand the need of a Jewish state. The Diaspora has not gone well for the Jewish people. They have an ancestral and a religious connection to the Holy Land, and so it is understandable for them to want it back. Ultimately, I think after the Holocaust, history was coming to a point where the Jews would either establish a state for themselves or they would cease to be a people. Even if they established a state for themselves in a less populated place like a town in the Midwest of America, then it wouldn't have had the significance of the Holy Land, -and thus they would have forever felt detached from their Jewish identity. Could they really be a people outside the land?
On the flip side, I understand the Palestinian side as well. The Jews being exiled didn't leave the land uninhabited. The Palestinians living in the land have done so for nearly two thousand years, and many of them are genetically connected to those left of the exile. I understand the Palestinians feeling like their homes and lands were being taken away from them. Honestly, I don't see what is significant about the Holy Land in Islam, but it is an important land for Muslims too, so it is equally understandable that they would hold value to the Holy Land as well.
One thing not mentioned, however, is the presence of different Christian groups living in the land. These have various sects, some being Messianics (Jews who believe in Jesus as the Messiah), some being Aramaics (Christians living in the land sense before the Caliphates), and some being Palestinian Christians (connected to the Palestinian people, but believing in Christianity instead of Islam). Something I noticed when I was in Israel about many of these Palestinian Christians who told their stories was that they were often abused by their Muslim neighbors for being Christian. I understand the dislike for the Jews coming in and taking their land, but they don't realize that they are marginalized under their own society. Jews aren't a fan of Christians, but at least the Israeli state respects all religions. Even though Christians and Muslims have persecuted Jews for hundreds of years, yet the Jews allow their citizens to honor their religious traditions.
On the flip side, I also see Jewish apologists (or anti-missionaries) taking some pretty extreme measures against Messianics. The folks over at One For Israel have reported lawsuits, slander, death threats, and other oppressions from the more radical orthodox rabbis. Also Michael Brown has reported slanderous lies about him beating up a specific rabbi after a debate. The Jews give legal protection to the Christians and Muslims, but their actions can be quite opposite of religious tolerance.
Then of course is the Muslim violence, generally against the state of Israel. Rockets that fly off on a regular basis against settlements of Jewish people, suicide bombers crossing the boarder, fireballs hurled into Israeli fields, -It is understandable that the Jews built walls around these regions. But then the Palestinians complain that some of them lost their jobs in Israel when the walls went up, because they could no longer go to work across the boarder, and the divide between quality of life on either side of the wall, and how the Palestinians don't have the same access to life as the Jews. But the question can be asked, "If the Israelis can build such a quality of life for their own people, why can't the Palestinians do the same for theirs?"
But again on the flip side, it's understandable about the Palestinians being angry about loosing their homeland to the Jewish people. Really, what can we say except that it's all very complicated.
The Romans never heard of Palestinian Arabs, the League of Nations and the UN never heard of "Palestinians". The name of Palestine was a corruption of Phillistines by the Romans, and has no meaning in Arabic. They don't even have the letter "P". The Palestinians were those of the Mandate in 1920, and became a PLO invention so that people would think that they were indigenous to the land. Most Palestinians came from the surrounding Arab countries in the 1900s as laborers. Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and others. This land had a population of 250,000 to 350,000 people for over 1000 years. Most were fellahins (tenant farmers) or Bedouins).
A facinating video. I learned a lot from it about this troubled place beyond the news media cliches. I admire how you take us to places that many travel RUclipsrs would avoid talking about. Look forward to more.
Thank you for a highly informative and very unbiased view of the country.
It’s my pleasure 👍🏻🪬
@Niro got back to Europe your true ancestral homeland, and leave Palestine to its native population, and the Palestenians, and if you don't the native description , well it was used by the wanted terrorist Vladimir Jabotinsky, hardly a friend of the Palestenians
you stopped if you sink that
A few things from me.
3:32 You failed to mention that these settlements are illegal under international law (4th Geneva Convention to be exact).
3:51 The erasure of border is exactly what israel wants, and what the world must prevent at all costs.
6:06 Jaffa has basically been absorbed by Tel Aviv and the Arab population of the city has been pretty much cleansed.
6:29 The Dome of the Rock is NOT Masjid Al-Aqsa! It is a separate shrine within the complex of Haram al-Sharif.
7:27 The "control" by Palestinian Authority is just a nominal control as israel controls "the border, trade, resources, water, electricity, the airspace, the electromagnetic spectrum, the population registry, and more" (AJ+, 2022). De facto, there are no two states in the region, "It is one regime (israel) between the river and the sea, and that regime is apartheid." (Hagai El-Ad, Director of B'tselem)
Yes 🙌
It is not apartheid you lying traitor, because the Jews are the vast majority of the people between the river and the sea. Jewish population 7.5 million, Arab population 3.5 million.
Thanks for presenting this in an objective and truthful manner so that people can actually see for themselves why there unfortunately has been conflict there since the 40s.
I'm Israeli, this has got to be one of the only actual objective videos I've ever seen on the topic, with no propaganda for either side. Still a very general overview, but a very good and objective one.
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@@האגודההישראליתלהומאופתיהקלאסית בסדר מה נשמע
You must be person fair interesting 🤔 🤔
You must be person of fair and justice interesting 🤔
@@mm-iq5rx Sorry I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say
Gracias Paul. Muy informativo y ameno el vídeo. Llamarla Tierra Santa fue excelente para evitar las polarizaciones.
Thanks for handling such a very heated topic while still being informative at the same time, Paul
Overall very balanced and informative, not an easy thing to do! It may be going down a rabbit hole, but my only issue is that statements like "Israel seized Sinai, Gaza, and the West Bank in 1967" and "Israel began blockading Gaza" come without necessary context. In 1967, Israel's Arab neighbors amassed their armies along Israel's borders and declared that they would wipe Israel off the map. Israel launched a preemptive strike to prevent its own destruction and in doing so captured additional territory, having since given back the vast majority of it in the quest for peace. The story in Gaza is similar. Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005, giving Palestinians there complete control in the hope that they would establish a peaceful enclave. In 2007, Hamas violently dispelled the existing Palestinian government there and took control of the region. It then promptly began launching rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians. In response to this, Israel was forced to control the Gaza boarder more forcefully to prevent weapons shipments and retaliate with military force when needed.
I agree
Palestinian here and I liked your video very informative and correct … no politics or favouring one side over another …. It’s not easy … I subscribed and hope to watch more
By the way the area is like two different people no way to connect …we use two different languages and have very different customs ……plus the conflict that is going on …
I’m Israeli Arab and the language is not that far, it’s like comparing Polish and Ukrainian. We just have to be more open minded.
@@ThxGod_ItsOver dude too much religion is not healthy.
@@ThxGod_ItsOver so for you if in the Bible you don't have a mention of a nation called Croatia or Kosovo this means it doesn't exist? Stop living inside of religion.
Hello I'm Indonesian 🙋♂️. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 .
@@SebaX92 you mean you are Palestinian from 48 land.
I would love to make accuracy in some of the sentences
* the Arabs whom lives her come as workers to help empires most of them doesn't come because of religion
1. 2:55 Israelis were in favor of the distribution plan but the arbs were against this plan and start attack the Israelis defends and gone to counter attack.
2. 8:50 Israel does not attack Gaza with out a reason.
2. I gave a reason, just not in detail. I didn’t give any detail about the attacks either.
@@GEOfocusChannel but this represent mainly the arb side
No, it doesn’t. 😄 You want me to talk in detail about the things that support your point of view, but ignore the details that support the other point of view. When I talk
about both equally, or leave both equally vague, you think I’m being biased. Sorry, that’s not how it works. I either speak in detail about both, or about neither.
It is part of the history😅 aside that it is a good video
@@GEOfocusChannel What details support "the other point of view" already? Let's hear it.
I am so surprised that I found a not biased video. Your work is appreciated
Two corrections: 1) The holiest place for Jews is Mount Temple. 2) In the picture referring to AlAqsa, Dome of Rock is shown.
true!! The western wall is just the closest Jews can get to their actual holy site, without an Arab uprising.
@@Sd24 I referred to the picture shown in the video.
@@Sd24 The Golden one is not AlAqsa, but rather Dome of Rock.
@@Sd24 The two buildings were built after the Muslim conquest. The golden one is Dome of Rock and it's not a mosque, but rather it marks the location of Foundation Stone. The silver one is AlAqsa Mosque and it signs Muhammad's rising to heaven, according to a Muslim tradition.
Fun Fact: Palestine was created by the late Roman emperor Hadrian to remind the Jewish people of their old enemies, the Philistines.
Note; The philistines are Greek and are all gone, extinct.
The Palestinians are Egyptians and Arabs pretending to be the ancient Philistines.
One small correction: the Dome of the Rock and the el-Aksa Mosque are two different structures on the Temple Mount. Many people think they're one and the same, but they have a couple hundred meters between them.
Also - you mentioned the fact that Israel sometimes attacks the Hamas in Gaza, but you neglected to mention the attacks of Hamas on Israel (rockets, terror tunnels, fire-igniting balloons, etc). Other than those two items - you're pretty accurate.
you are bombing gazza becauase israel is just an organized terrorism in form of "country" , israel establishment was based on killing and occuping palestine on the first place you have killed hundreds of thousands to occupy palestine , israel has been killing thousands of children until now , you have used all type of weapons like the white phosphorous and now you are talking about home made rockets ? stop acting like a victim while being the killer
Another one correction: in 2007 Israel didn’t just start blockading Gaza out of nowhere. It was Hamas who started to fire rockets and attack Israel the only reason the blockade began.
Correction:
The holiest place in the world according to Judaism is the temple mount, not the western wall. That wall is just a wall however as you said it's the last relic of the hebrew temple.
Fun fact: one of the Arab names of the city is "beit al maqdes" which is strikingly similar to the jewish name for the temple: " beit HaMikdash" (literally: house of sanctity)
And as mentioned, the city itself is secondary in importance to the temple mount.
2 reasons for that similarity : the languages are close and there are many similar terms and words. Other one - the Arabs conquering this land in 7th century they saw the ruins of the temple, they knew it’s an important and holy place so they built a mosque. And those who destroyed the temple were Romans not Arabs.
After all Muslims and Jews pray to the same God.
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True, it's interesting to note though, that there are many names for the city in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and the arab Language preserved that specific one, I think it has to do with the importance of the temple like you said; the temple was destroyed by the Romans and a temple of Jupiter was bulit in It's place( which was later made into a church with the conversion of the empire) not that the faith of jupiter has any particular interest in the place, but it was part of the acts done to humiliate the judeans after their revolt.
Its not the hebrew temple. Its a bullshit thing you guys made up to destroy the Al aqsa mosque. But with the help of Allah its never going to happen
Zuheir Mohsen, زهير محسن, Palestinian leader of (pro-Syria) As-Sa'iqa Ba'athist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) between 1971 and 1979:
"There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese.
We are part of one people, the Arab nation.
We are one people. Only for political reasons do we carefully subscribe to our Palestinian identity.
Indeed, it is of national importance for the Arabs to encourage the existence of the Palestinians in the face of Zionism.
Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity is only there for tactical reasons.
It doesn't matter, they are a nation in its own merit now, and just as Jews should have their independant country (which they thankfully do), so do the Arabs who subscribe to the Palestinian nationality. and most governments worldwide have long agreed that that should happen in what is known as the Palestinian territories beside Israel.
I'm Israeli, not much to add except I'm sad about the whole thing
הסרטון הזה דפוק כי הוא לא התייחס לתמונה המלאהכשהוא נגיד אמר שישראל מפציצה לפעמיים את עזה ובכלל לא התייחס לארגון הטרור ששולט בעזה
שלום גם אני מישראל
רגע מזתאמרת? הוא היה מאוד רציונלי באיך שהוא דיבר, אלא אם כן אתה מתכוון לסיטואציה בארץ, שאם כך, אני מסכים אתך
@@thebob356כן בקשר למצב בארץ
Thank you Paul. I have been watching both your country and language profiles for several months now and I always find them entertaining and insightful. You are a very erudite man and a very good 'RUclips performer'. I look forward to watching more to come.
I definitely wouldn't describe myself as "erudite", but thanks for the compliment.
I absolutely love and enjoy your videos , so thorough and almost perfectly accurate , never missed a video of yours , keep it up john
Ok, I will, Faisal!
You've done wonders in handling the topic. You sounded unbiased and objective.
Personally I would have been even more extreme and I would have cut the first part entirely and referred to the area as Holy Land full stop, avoiding the historical part.
One point that is seldom mentioned when quarrelling about the topic is how, right from the start, Jewish settlers bought land to farm and live on. They bought it from very rich Arab landowners who displaced their Arab tenants to make money from land that was hardly making any money for them, thus becoming even richer and leaving their fellow Arabs in a bad predicament. Most of the current surface of Israel was sold to Jews, not conquered.
where's your proof to this exaggeration: "Most of the current surface of Israel was sold to Jews, not conquered"...??? Jews didn't own more than 6% of the land when the Nakba started, buddy!!! The largely rural population then of Palestine was terrorized out of their homes from fear of being massacred and their women raped (like happend with other towns)!!! My own grandfather left everything in Jaffa, even the teapot boiling in the kitchen, thinking he'll come back in a few hours or couple of days, but it's been more than 70 years now!!!
PLO leader, Arafat, said we still hold the documented proof that even the land on which the Israeli parliament and the US embassy are built on... are lands owned by Palestinians and stolen from them.
By Allah, the day will come very soon when we restore it all.. and more.
@@MusculaRMinD people not wanting to be objective is part of the problem.
People with such mindset are responsible for the lack of a peaceful solution.
"""By A***, the day will come very soon when we restore it all.. and more."""
are the words of a warmonger.
If i dont steal your house, someone else will
-- someone said this
@@MusculaRMinD The same happened to the Egyptian Jews and the Iraqi Jews. The Egyptian government holds the land deeds of an enormous number of Jewish properties. One one hand, it seems absolutely outrageous that in these long years no reparations have been made by any of those responsible for displacing people in the post WW2, post Ottoman era. But on the other hand, if we don't move on, what do we have? Just a dream that's accompanied by deep continuous trauma, fear, hatred, bloodshed. I vote for moving on... people are a mess... the world is a mess...
Only kindness to our fellow humans will help.
Wdym, you stole the land. Israelis lie about buying it but they only say that because once they bought a small land plot they invaded the whole shit. Get your own land
It should be said that the Dome of the Rock is one mosque and Al-Aksa another; they are not the same thing!
Thank you for the clarification. I should have been more clear that Al-Aksa and the Dome of the Rock are both on Al-Haram Al-Sharif (or The Temple Mount).
Al aqsa is the whole area that the Israelis and Jews call the temple mount. What is often known as Al aqsa is masjid Al qibli
The correct thing to say is that the Jews declared independence while the Arabs refused to form their state because they believe all of "palestine' is theirs for some strange reason. Basically, if the Arabs really wanted a palestinian state, they would have had one. But forming a state will have made it more difficult for the world to feel sorry for them so they decided to remain eternal "refugees"
I'm sorry your comment seems stupid at maximum. How the F says in clear face that the palestinians refuse to form state while you occupied their land? Then in that logic Mr mustache give a certain group of people a right to live but they refuse then he offer them the holocaust and they agreed Happy ever after
@Hanan Albataineh Not true!! Nobody in the United Nations or League of Nations ever heard of Palestinians. The Quran that is 1400 years old never heard of or mentioned the Palestinians. The Bible and Torah don't mention the Palestinians there is no mention of the Palestinians by any of the occupiers of this land, not the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Ottomans, The different Caliphs. Nobody heard of Palestinians until the British Mandate and then the Jews were the Palestinians, and the others were Arabs. In 1964, with the KGB and their asset ,Yasser Arafat they tried to dupe the world as to thst the Arabs were Palestinians??
@Hanan Albataineh Israel is mentioned in the Bible and the Torah. Israel is mentioned by the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Romans and others.
@Hanan Albataineh The name of your your prophet and his family are not mentioned where??
Don't pull that garbage. Peleset and Philistia are not Palestine and Herodotus specifically said that Palestine (the Greek for the land of the Phillistines) was located between Phoenicia (Canaan) and Egypt. That is exactly where Philllistia was, the 5 cities nearto Gaza.
Great video! It was respectful and objective and super informative which can sometimes be hard with such a heated subject.
Hello Paul, I thoroughly enjoy your videos and sincerely love your work! I just wanted to point out one thing you might find interesting. The Lord Jesus Himself, actually never performed any water baptisms in the Jordan, or anywhere else, according to scripture. Rather, he taught his disciples how to baptize in water.
When you mentioned the Jordan, it’s referencing the gospel according to Matthew 3:5-11, describing how John the baptizer, the one who herolded the coming of the Messiah, baptized people in the Jordan unto repentance who came to him “from Jerusalem, all Judea and the whole region of the Jordan” (3:5 NIV). Later, in verse 11, we’re told that He who is mightier than John is yet to come and that He will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Verses 13 through 17 of the same chapter (Matthew 3) relate the baptism of the Lord Jesus Himself whom John reluctantly baptized in order to fulfill all righteousness. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the only instance in the canon of scripture were Jesus had anything to do with water baptisms. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, however, is His sphere and His alone.
I might be wrong. Just wanted to offer my Biblical insight to the best of my ability. God bless you and God bless Israel 🇮🇱🕊️🙏🏻
Good job on this one. Much appreciated.
You said about Gaza that Israel is attacking Gaza and harming the lives of its residents without saying that Hamas is the one that always starts and adding that Israel brings money and labor to the Gazans
A couple of things that you forgot. One, Egypt has also closed their boarder with Gaza. Two. We do not attack them we defend ourselves when the send rockets into our city's. Otherwise you are mostly correct.
Gaza has the right to attack Israel, actually all Palestinians have that right because Israel is an occupation state
I was about to comment this myself.
The conflict with Gaza is Hamas shooting rockets and Israel defends. Usually just blocking isn't enough so a targeted bombing is required. It's complicated because if Israel doesn't respond to rockets, Hamas takes it as "We can just continue and nothing will happen to us". If Israel do respond, Hamas says "Look at them bombing us!". Either lose the militaristic front or the diplomatic front.
Egypt close the border the exact same way Israel does. before anyone jumps with "siege" then I will correct you: one of the definitions of a siege is "nothing goes in, nothing goes out". Gaza get electricity and water from Israel, medical personnel and treatments are going in and out, most importantly is that Gaza's citizens are allowed to go and work in Israel. Food and other goods are going in and out (I work for UPS and see packages to Gaza almost daily). Fishing, while limited sometimes, is allowed. The exact same things happen with Egypt.
If you want to know why Gaza looks the way it looks, blame Hamas.
@@FrostedMike as someone who has been to the Gaza boarder plenty of times. I couldn't agree with you more.
Nah i live in the borders of gaza. My house has been bombed in times of peace. How terroristic of israel. They dont defend but lie
4:01
*No, not one Jewish and one Arab, but one Israeli and one Palestinian.*
There are over a million Arab Israelis and believe ot or not, there are also Arab Israelis living in settlements.
Yeah so those arab Israelis are Palestinians lol. Just a way to divide and erase their name
@@victorpearce304
Palestinian is a national identity, it's a nation. Not an ethnic origin.
And out of the 21% of the Arab Israelis (and it's actually not 18% like Paul said)
Less than ~60% are identified also as Palestinians as well.
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And just as I said, the West Bank is not divided between Arabs and Jews, but between Israeli citizens and Palestinian citizens.
Because of course, there are not only Jewish settlers, but also Arabs and Druze as well.
Like 5 Arabs are living in settlements, like a cleaning crew. Most of them just come to study in Ariel and go back when they finish.
@@petarjovanovic1481
Closer to like 5,000
As an Israeli, I hope for a 2 state solution and to have good relationships one day
👍👍👍🙏
Sorry, 30 years too late for a 2- state solution.
and i not,you speak for yourself"israeli"
@@Eyawork don't be so negative about it, it is the only viable solution we have. I bet you don't wan't to absorb all Palestinians within Israel
כל הכבוד
You did a great and concise job talking about this delicate topic. Thanks a lot for this video, John
Great objective viewpoint. I live very close to the Mosque (Temple Mount to the Jews). It's 10 minutes walking; same to the Western wall. I shop at the Arab shuk right next to Solomon's temple. I have good friends on both sides. It's not what the media shows on either side. people In some ways it's better and some ways it is worse; esp for Palestinians. I want to say that just because some ppl are Palestinian and some are Jewish Israelis, it doesn't mean that Israelis don't care. It's a political and religious issue that has gone on for centuries, right on track with the Bible. The regular ppl on both sides get screwed. To the Palestinians, here is one Jew that really cares about the Palestinian pain. Idk how to stop it, just know that this Israeli cares deeply, esp for your kids and teenagers. Shalom and Salaam.
Great coverage of a heated topic.
as an Israeli I feel the need to clarify about 8:45, the attacks on gaza were in response to terrorist attacks and hundreds of rocket launches towards civilians by a government that still openly swears by the complete destruction of Israel, not regime change for imperialistic purposes. (Not that I think you meant to insinuate that)
Sadly life in Gaza is indeed horrible, I see no foreseeable reasonable solution and not much effort to come up with one from either side.
Was surprised not to hear a mention of the Druze, and Haifa being multiethnic, among Israeli Arabs there are varying degrees of integration to a greater Israeli culture, though most do identify as Palestinian.
My original script for this video was much longer (3x as long), and cutting it down to fit my format was heartbreaking (because this is an important topic for me).
@@GEOfocusChannel Makes sense, great video, love both your channels.
Zionizim propaganda
@@husadm sure! what else it can be if you don't agree
@@husadm you are not Israeli so you don’t know
I am an Israeli .
Thank you very much for the video, very nicely explained just one thing you had to explain more accurately - we do not bomb Gaza because we are bored or because we hate them we are Israel *Defense* Forces and every time Hamas fires missiles or digs tunnels or does terrorism in any form then we bomb Entering Gaza. And if as a result life there is difficult the finger should be pointed at their leadership (Hamas)
NO , you are bombing gazza becauase israel is just an organized terrorism in form of "country" , israel establishment was based on killing and occuping palestine on the first place you have killed hundreds of thousands to occupy palestine , if you live in isreal then your home was probably inhabited by palestinians , these palestinians were probably killed in the house or at least they run away to save their lives , my grandfather used to own a big house in yafa before he was displaced , now this house for sure is ocuupied by an israeli who probably came from far away, and just like you he start to talk as a victim . in the end isreal has been killing many many palestinians until now and on daily bases .
Good comment!
And also, when he mentioned the 1947 war... He said the UN voted on partition (but never said why it didn't happen).. and immediately jumped to the "ensuing war" (doesn't matter who declared it and started it) in which Israel took 78% of the land (seemingly, just because it could).
How you frame things is very important to how people would perceive this conflict..
Bro imma just laugh on the corner bc ur just a racist nigga who thinks he's right
You asked for opinions from Israelis and Palestinians at the end, so here's mine:
Personally I don't like an overly objective tone when talking about Israel and in general making the Arab-Jewish conflict the center of every video about the country. It feels insincere to me and anyways the way people present the facts is always biased - fot example, you mentioned the UN partition plan as though it was a settled matter, but it was never truly agreed upon as the Arab side didn't accept it.
The Tel Aviv-Jerusalem modern vs traditional rivalry is more stereotype than reality but you do have a lot of different sub-cultures for such a small country.
And in general it would have been nice if you'd talked more about the cultural diversity of Israeli Jews, because there are so many different communities and each one has its own fascinating story.
Well, the conflict isn't supposed to be the center of this video. It's a geography video, and some background is necessary to understand the human geography of the country. Why are there different political entities in one land with unsettled boundaries? Why is Kefar Saba like a different world from Qalqilya? (Or West vs East Jerusalem, for that matter.) That was really what I was aiming to convey, because that's what stands out to me as a visitor, having spent about 10 months in Israel (about half on a kibbutz in the Carmel region and half in Jerusalem).
Being impartial might seem insincere because everybody has a point of view, but I'm not *hiding* my point of view, I just don't share it in this kind of content. I don't do commentary. People on both sides seem to think they know what my opinions are and that they lean towards the OTHER side, usually based on omissions, but I omitted details across the board because it's simply a very short introductory video. My original script was at least three times as long, but 35 or 40 minute videos don't fit my format. Cutting it down was heartbreaking, but I had to give up my personal connection to the topic and treat it like every other video.
Maybe I should have turned it into a series, but my experience with that as a RUclips creator has not been good. Only one of the videos will perform well and the others won't be seen by many people, and people still criticize omissions even though the omitted details actually appear in a different video in the series.
Extremely accurate except the Gaza part.
Describing it as Israel attacks and blockades Gaza because "they don't like Hamas government" is like saying US attacked Japan in world war II because they didn't like the Japanese government back then.
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Exactly! I think you haven't understood what I tried to say haha (I'm pro Israeli)
@@judithszalavicz9270
That it's incorrect. Unfortunately that's the way he says it in the video.
So I said that saying it is wrong as much as saying that US attacked Japan because they didn't like the Japanese government and not because of pearl harbor.
I said ONE sentence about the blockades, and included in that ONE sentence was a comment about Hamas being the government of Gaza, and Israel rejecting Hamas. I mentioned both without any detail.
If you want me to describe Hamas’s rocket attacks explicitly, then I would also describe the effects of Israel’s blockades and bombardments explicitly. Then of course you would say that I was extremely biased for doing so.
By the way, I didn’t say “They didn’t like Hamas”. I said “in rejection of its Hamas government”. That is very different. Saying “I don’t like” something sounds like a mere preference, while “rejecting” something sounds like you have a much more legitimate grievance. I chose those words very carefully, to say as much about in a very compact way as possible. You’re reframing my statement by changing “reject” to “don’t like”.
@@GEOfocusChannel
But if you don't mention the context it sounds like Israel just attacks and blockades Gaza as a tool to fight their government, which is maybe true, but it's not the reason behind all that. The reason is the attacks that Hamas does.
It's exactly the difference between saying "United States attacked Japan because of Pearl harbor" and "United States attacked Japan because the Japanese government was supporting the Nazis", I'm sure you would agree that the first one is much more accurate.
As someone who misquoted me and twisted what I said right from the start, you’re not in a position to quibble over the exact words I should have used.
As a (leftist) Israeli, just wanted to say that some Jewish Israelis do believe that the settlements in the west bank are wrong and that the Palestinians deserve their own country. Unfortunately Israeli society has become extremely right-wing and militaristic and even some leftist politicians are reluctant to voice their opposition to the occupation.
@@judithszalavicz9270 Lol too much fantasy my dear. Imagine calling Jew as the "Gods People" and unjustly killing children of Palestine, beating the mourners of whom they killed Journalists. And don't believe in Jesus Christ. Wow.
@@judithszalavicz9270 If ypi haven't understood my first reply especially the first sentence then you need to study more to improve your reading comprehension!
lol it was Leftists that occupied the territory rather than sticking to old borders in the first place.
שמלאני מסריח
אתה לא יהודי
וזאת לא הארץ שלך
איך אתה לא מתבייש לרשום ישראלי לפני יהודי!!!!!!!!
As an Israeli, Well done explaining it and the difficulty which resides with it.
I would have like to add something, but all I have to add is painful from both sides and is a complicated reality, so... I won't add anything.
Oh yea 🤡 stealing land must be very hard for you right
The name of the temple of Solomon - Bait ul mukaddis in Arabic
beit Hamikhdash in Hebrew
It is only a small part of the robbery and usurpation of land and the merciless killing of a people
@@r.s5472 It's written in the Bible in Hebrew. The Arabic name is an adaption - and there is nothing wrong with that. You are welcome to check it instead of making far fetched accusations.
It is important to talk about where does the name "Palestine" comes from. It comes from Emperor Hadrian of the Roman Empire in 135 AD in order to erase the roots of the Jewish people in Iudaea Province after the Bar Khokhba. Hence why the region will be called as "Palestine" until 1948. This is also why the British Mandate for Palestine actually means for Israel, not for this Palestine 🇵🇸. How can we know for sure? The Balfour Declaration 1917 declared a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. You can look historical picture, coins, stamps, etc. of British Mandate for Palestine, they will always include an initial "EY" which stands for Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel).
Lol no. So many bullshit in one comment.
There are Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian records of the term "Peleset", which is a cognate of ancient Hebrew of "Pelesheth". The name is ancient, it can't be given from Roman Empire.
And the Balfour Declaration... Who the f*** gave them the permission? Certainly not the people who have lived there for generations.
To some commenters: this is an informative channel that just talks about countries. You're not watching The Young Turks here. Arguments are unnecessary here.
He made few mistakes
As an Israeli I think you skipped about some of the details as to how / why Israel began occupying large areas of land.
First of all you skipped completely over the Balfour declaration which is understandable yet a little misleading.
You also forgot to mention that while the Arabs of 1940's felt bad, it did not stop them from committing pogrom's and the Aliyah to Israel to come to a halt (legally) in the second world war leading MILLIONS of Israelis to die in the holocaust.
Also. the war of 1948 was caused by the Palestinian community (with the help of neighbouring countries) because they did not like the land arrangement, Israel (which barely had a government) only reacted to the acts of the Palestinian people and thousands of Jewish families were left broken.
In the war of 1967 Israel's spies got information of a coordinated attack from all neighbouring countries and only attacked first the military preparing to attack in the Egyptian border.
Lastly, throughout all the years later, Israel which was objectively the stronger country traded the occupied lands for peace (like the Sinai peninsula), something that never happened in the history- an act of peace. Every decade or so Israel offers a plan to build a palestinian state with new borders to live at peace here but the Palestinians reject it as an act of spite.
That usually leads to terrorist attacks which are never reported outside of Israel sadge
So ur saying that occupied lands for peace
@@thelaughingemoji-amwatchingyou if you mean the oslo accords then yes, israel had no need for the sinai Peninsula but to keep a buffer from Egypt in case of war, therefore was kind enough to give it back even if the means of taking it were not legitimate from your pov
Israeli here, going to the Palestinian areas, even inside of Israel is like going to a different civilization.
Yeah, to a visitor like me it really feels like two countries. Not just the people, but everything including the architecture, etc. looks like a different country. I spent a summer on a kibbutz in the Carmel area and hitchhiked around there and the Galilee. The Arab towns around there were totally different from the kibbutz and my friends' town in the Sharon region. And if you cross the green line, it's even more different.
It's true but I think it's problematic to call them Palestinian if it's the same word we use for citizens of Palestine/Falestine
@Richdragon Hebrew culture rather
@@GEOfocusChannel just out of curiosity, which Kibbutz where you on?
@ The Israeli Arabs I've spoken to prefer to identify as Palestinian Israelis...
Israel and Palestine are both names that people use to refer to the entire land (The West Bank is also known as Judea and Samaria, another massive bone of contention that's difficult to solve) and at the end of the day it would be better if people could learn to live as neighbours in peaceful coexistence on all of the land, but it's not easy to achieve this... sadly...
A correction- the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque aren't the same thing; they're situated at a considerable distance from each other
Let’s be clear about their proximity though. They are both located on Al-Haram Al-Sharif (The Temple Mount).
just clearing- the brits gave jews no land. till 1947 all the lands were jews lived were bought from legal owner(legal by ottoman land registry which continued into british era).jews didnt move any arabs by force(unlike the arabs who banished the jewish communities of silwan,pekiein,hebron,gaza,jenin,bab a zahara and temprary banishments from other areas.thats aside from the treatment of non muslims under the muslim empires who controlled the area).
The British gave no land to the Jews at all. The League of Nations transferred the land of the British Mandate to Israel, the country, not to the Jews.
isral did banish some palestinians villiges, most of them by tha hagana, but this is was just a bit
I would like to point out that the Dome of the Rock is NOT the Aqsa mosque. The DOTR is a shrine while the Aqsa mosque is a separate building close by. You also need to point out that under Israeli law, non Jews are not allowed high government positions nor are they even allowed to vote for what matters. This is the main reason why a united country shall never work so long as neither side are willing to acknowledge true citizenship to each other.
You’re right about the first point. I was mistaken because the entire compound that contains both Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock is referred to as Al-Aqsa Compound.
About the second point, I’m not sure what you mean by high government positions, but I don’t think that’s true. There have been Arabs who serve as cabinet ministers in Israeli governments.
I’m not sure what “vote for what matters” means, but there are Arab members of knesset who vote on legislation, and Arab citizens of Israel can vote in elections. Palestinians in the Westbank and Gaza (and most in East Jerusalem because they aren’t citizens) can’t vote though.
@@GEOfocusChannel My comment is a bit misleading and that's my fault. I'm talking about the Palestinians who live in West Jerusalem who are over a million. They are practically Israeli citizens and are governed by the Israeli government but they are technically not citizens and thus are not allowed to vote. I did not mention Gaza or East Jerusalem as both are considered to be ruled by some form of Palestinian authority.
Either way, its too much of a political issue for this channel so I will retract my words to avoid a comment war lol
I’m not sure how easy it is for them to become citizens. My understanding is that very few of them ask for citizenship because they don’t want to be seen as traitors. Israel says Jerusalem’s Arab residents can apply for citizenship, but I don’t know if they make the process really troublesome or not.
@@GEOfocusChannel I guess we will never know unless we get a viewer from there to comment their thoughts here.
Well, for one thing, it should be said that the Kineret Lake - "Sea of Galilee" - is the world's lowest freshwater lake. Neveh-Zohar, close to the Dead Sea, is the world's lowest civilian town.
Thanks for adding that!
Hi Paul. Excellent video! The term "Palestine" is a Roman invention created after the Romans defeated Judea (who rebelled against the Roman Legions). The Romans wanted to erase the memory of Judea (it took them many bloody years to put down the rebellion) and renamed the area Palestine. When Islam invaded and took over the area, it was simply known to be part of Syria. This association of the area to Syria continued on until the end of the Ottoman Empire in WW1. When Britain took over the area under the League of Nations Mandate, the term "Palestine" was revived, and the Mandate for Palestine was created. Anyone living there, including a large number of Jews (around 600,00 by 1947) were now officially Palestinians. After Israel was created and the Palestine Mandate was ended, the term Palestinian fell out of use and the non-Jews in the area were simply "Arabs". The term Palestinian was revived (again) when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed by the USSR in 1964, as a way to get a foothold in the Arab world and stir up trouble in the area during the Cold War. Arafat took over control of the PLO in 1969 and started to actively cultivate a "Palestinian National Identity" that would unite and try to eradicate Israel.
The term Palestine existed before the Romans to refer to the Philistines and is found in Akkadian and Egyptian hieroglyphs. Herodotus also calls the area Palestine in the 5th century BCE
@@stevenv6463 Sorry Steve, but if you look at actual academic sources (i.e. not wikipedia), such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, you will find this excerpt "The word Palestine derives from Philistia, the name given by Greek writers to the land of the Philistines, who in the 12th century BCE occupied a small pocket of land on the southern coast, between modern Tel Aviv-Yafo and Gaza. The name was revived by the Romans in the 2nd century CE in “Syria Palaestina,” designating the southern portion of the province of Syria, and made its way thence into Arabic, where it has been used to describe the region at least since the early Islamic era. After Roman times the name had no official status until after World War I and the end of rule by the Ottoman Empire, when it was adopted for one of the regions mandated to Great Britain; in addition to an area roughly comprising present-day Israel and the West Bank, the mandate included the territory east of the Jordan River now constituting the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan, which Britain placed under an administration separate from that of Palestine immediately after receiving the mandate for the territory." So your Early reference to Palestine was actually referring to the Philistines, who were invaders (sea peoples?) in the area.
@@stevenv6463 The Philistines only lived in Philllistia, a small area of 5 cities near the south by Gaza.
@@shainazion4073 And the Judeans were in one small area and the kingdom of Israel was in another small area.
@@banto1 utter false information. Philistine or فلسطين is written in many historical manuscripts way before Judaism. Even the Torah mentioned the term Philistine referring to the land that Abraham went to.
Please don't twist the facts just to go with your agenda.
I'm rebranding myself as someone who doesn't say 'the Holy Land' while not being a believer in any of what would make it "holy".
I would like to add that today there are about 6 million palestinians spreaded around the world who are the descendants of palestinian refugees from 1948 and 1967 conflicts who dream to return to the home land of their forefathers. I'm one of them. My grand father was forced to leave our hometown safad in the northern Galilee in 1948.
אתה זוכר שהשטח הוא של ישראל עוד לפני שהאיסלם והערבים הומצאו.
היהודים היו כאן הרבה לפניכם ולפני הטרור שלכם😁
נ.ב. אתם לא תזיזו אותנו מפה שוב
im israeli and you wanted us to write something we wanted you guys to know :::
once , israel /& palestine were united under the name of Cna'an, jews are cna'anite and palestinians are cna'anite, for the most part. but you probably know this already because of your study of hebrew israel and judaism .. have a good day ! :)) (i support palestine btw)
Just a little correction about the Samaritans , they are not really consider to be Jews as us.
in the past the United kngdom of Israel divided to Juedea kingdom in the south and Israel kingdom in the north , they were part of the Northern kingdom - Israel.
We, Jews or Judeans are from the sourthn kingdom - Judea.
Its ALL PALESTINE!!!
@@MarkSmith-yk7ig I think you ment to say Israel
It's all because the Ottoman decide to join WW1 and lost and worst of all the empire collapse and the former territory become owned by the British and France. The rest of the story is just history...
I thought Jordan (territory that later became a state in 1946) was also part of the British Mandate for Palestine.
It was temporarily for the first year. Then it was split off and given to the Hashemites.
@@GEOfocusChannel so, it sounds like the Palestinians' beef is with the Hashemites and whoever it was that "gave" it to the Hashemites.
Illegally.
@@GEOfocusChannel That also is not exactly true. Those were always two territories, one called "Mandatory Palestine" and another called "Emirates of Trans Jordan" but they were governed by the same political framework called "British mandate for Palestine". Territories were never united into a single political unit. British made sure to specify that those are two territories but made sure not to specify exact borders so it would be easier to promise the same territory to many different sides, which is exactly what they did.
Jordan was Eastern Palestine under the British Mandate. The majority of the population is Palestinian Arab but the royal Jordanian family is Saudi Arabian originally. So in essence Jordan is a Palestinian Arab state.
I am an Israeli living in Israel and what you said was correct
Palestine. FREE PALESTINE
@@majdataibi3230 israel. Free israel for allah sake
@@eliasfilipe1106 the zionist/Apartheid USURPATOR antity will NEVER be a state
WE WILL PREVAIL FREE FREE PALESTINE !!
@@eliasfilipe1106 u ain't Muslim nigga
@@majdataibi3230 From Hamas
One important fact to point out is that Jews date back to this ancient land for thousands of years whereas only some of the Arab inhabitants go back a few a couple of centuries.
Plus, there has always been a Jewish presence in the land, despite the forced diaspora by the Romans.
Archeological evidence proves this.
The real hebrews are black not white
@Hanan Albataineh what ethnic cleansing? The Arab population has increased substantially since 1967. Their institutions and universities are still thriving. Those are not signs of ethnic cleansing. If fact, it is the opposite.
Best solution is to make the whole land into one secular country, run by a liberal democracy.
After the 22 Arab Muslim states do it first.
its Palestine, it has always been Palestine and will always be so
Land of Canaan until 1047 BCE
Kingdom of Israel 1047 BCE - 720 BCE
Kingdom of Judah 930 BCE - 587 BCE
Actually the Romans came up with the name Palestine to mock the Israelites after 70 AD. Before it was the regions of Judea and Samaria, before that you had the kingdoms of Israel and Judea, and even earlier you had the tribes of the Israelites, canaanites, amorites, hettites, amalekites, moabites and other such tribes. In those days there wasn't anything called Palestine, although you had the Philistines, which are not the same as the Palestines since the Philistines originally came from Krete and landed around the Gaza region where they mostly were settled. Palestines however clearly share lineage with the Arab people.
@@tombuddy100 sorry to surprise you but canaan is an arabian tribe and the region was named after them
@@yastilltoyou Nobody in Canaan spoke Arabic until 8th century CE.
@@tombuddy100 yeah canaan speak thailand
Great vid though I would add about the golan, Druze, circassians and Bedouins a bit more as well a bit more about Jewish history
I think it is important to add that the gaza strip and the west bank have two completely different authorities which are not very fond of eachother, in the gaza strip there are the hamas which are considered a terrorist group and in the west bank there is abu mazen which is more peaceful and was approved by the Israeli government. one if the reasons that the gaza strip is in such horrible state is the fact that the hamas spend all their money on weapons and military.
says by a land thief,accusing others terrorist but still sneakin into peoples land (people know who you are oh thief)
They do not buy ordinary weapons ... they buy rockets to bomb areas inhabited by people
Tell me you are Israeli without telling me you are Israeli "tHe kHamAs"
Oh, so you're encouraging a terrorist authority? I think you will be happy to join Hamas, come and see and then pass criticism
This is not entirely true , and if he add this up , it will shows that he’s biased towards the Israelis
In “Seven Pillars of Wisdom” the autobiography of T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia), (in 1918) he lists the religions and ethnic origins of all the communities from the Gulf of Aqaba going up to Damascus. There must have been about 25-30 such diverse groups back then before people started drawing national boundaries in the sand. The real delusion here is to imagine it could be appropriate to apply the western idea of a national identity on such a diverse group of peoples.
I don't get it. Is that an argument against having a Palestinian state? Because no matter how diverse these groups that you clearly don't know much about are, they're still closer in culture and tradition than the Jews traveling from all over the world to partake in the theft of Palestinian land.
Almost every Arab country has diverse societies, and they've existed for decades, and lived together for centuries. Not sure what point you're trying to make.
All of them are Arabs, but more than 90% are Sunni Muslim, just as the came with the rest of the Arab and Muslim worlds. They all speak Arabic. Europeans are masters of 'divide and conquer'. Us, Sunni Muslims, tolerated differences to the point that you still have in Iraq to this day people who follow the religion of Noah!!! Meanwhile, no European country has 2 religions. One must prevail and slaughter the other, like Christian denominations did with each other, and like the Spaniards did to the Moors of Andalucia (Muslim Spain). So these 'differences' are richness, and a sign of our tolerance, not a REASON for you OUTSIDERS to DIVIDE us like you divided your little continent (Europe)!!! Look how many god-damn nation-states are there in that small pieces of a so-called "continent"!!!!
@@mayedalshamsi It's against having ANY state. Against the State of Israel, against the State of Palestine, Jorden and so on. In the days when there were no national boundaries, for example the Otterman Empire was ruling, they were all more-or-less at peace with each other (but NOT with the Ottermans). A supra-national organisation, like the EU where a central authority sets the framework for the whole area, would be the best solution in my opinion. Elsewhere I have opined that the best way to handle Jerusalem would be as a UN protectorate. Unpopular as that opinion is.
@@mayedalshamsi "Partaking in the theft of Arab land"- so long as people see it like this, there will be war, hatred, fear, resentment, malice...
No one talks about the Middle Eastern Jews who were driven out of the other Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Egypt, for example. You wouldn't be able to tell who is "Arab" and who is "Jew" if you had a group of many in a room in matching clothing. Both are such diverse people. This hatred and fear is driven by warlords who profit immeasurably from the misery of many.
Tell me how many Jews remain in Egypt? How many Jews remain in Iraq? The Christians are being persecuted in Egypt too, sadly. What's wrong with people that we humans can't get along with each other in peace?
The arabs didn't want independent western style states but a one united arab muslim empire to replace the turkish muslim ottoman empire. They wanted this but didn't have the power or ability to create it so they failed. Arabs can want what they want but no one is obligated to give it to them.
I wonder if a federation of states is even possible at this rate
a federation will be quite a headache with the settlements and minorities.
From political stand of view it's the only reasonable solution given the Arabs in West bank and Gaza do not agree between themselves.
It is already a quasi-economic federation. A loose cooperative federation would be a far off dream, but could be possible. A joint defense federation would never happen.
Thank you for this video, Paul. I'm chechen, now i know more about Jews and Arabs, you did a great job
Palestine was named after the Arab deity Baal, hence Palli-Stan. The king of the juuze are Jesus time, Herod the Great, was Palestinian Arab himself…and so were his subjects.
Not arab. No. The person in this video refers to us as arabs because it is a linguistic identity. We are arabs because we speak arabic. But Baal was a canaanite god that our ancestors believed in
No, actually the term "Palestinian" was gave to the holy land by the greeks after they were defeated by the jews in their rebellion against them.
Later on the name of Judea and Sumeria was later change as a derogatory name after the jews rebelled against them too.
@@GalTheGodOfKnowledge So how this correlates to what I said. I said arab is a linguistic identity to people outside of the Arabian peninsula that speak Arabic
@@jibaruz It does not. I was not replying to you I was replying to the other guy. You got a notification but you can see I did not @ you :/
@@GalTheGodOfKnowledge Oh sorry lol 😭 I was so confused
Palestinians in east Jerusalem, are stateless.
You are welcome
Im from east jerusalem and have israeli id, but I am palestinian and always have been, but i can claim to be from either side if i want
@@muzz444
You are mostly a resident, unless you have an Israeli passport as a citizen.
Im from israel and i must say the i'm impressed from you , you describe the conflict in the best way .
I hope that we will live in peach one day [ but i don't think that will happen because there are a lot of terrorists in the "gaza strip" that dosen't even look for peach they just want to kill us and take the Israel country ] I really really hope that we will find a solution for this conflict but i can say you as a citizen of israel that i have been sufferd from the rockets that HAMAS and all the terrorists of gaza was sending on us they trying to kill us [ the citizens ] .
And you can be sure that if they will take our country they will try to kill all of us.
But look , if we [israel] want to destroy gaza we will do it in a second we have a lot of planes and bombs and tanks and what not , but we don't do that becasue we keep trying to live in peach with you but you just keep sending missiles on us from nowhere and expect us to sit quietly ??
Look at all the wars that was between gaza and israel it all started from hamas but because we are a lot stronger than them the feds just shows how much people we have killed them because its a joke for us its like there will be a war between bangaladesh and the united states of america [[ its not fair right?! ]] .
IF WE WAS THE BAD WE WOULD KILL ALL OF GAZA STRIP LIKE PUTIN DID TO UKRAINE .
THATS IT AND DON'T JUDGE ISRAEL JUST BECAUSE WHAT YOU SEE ON THE INTERNET BECUASE ITS NOT HOW YOU THINK IT IS!!
I'm myself not isreali nor Arab but even I can see how delusional you people are. I'm sure 100% you people don't want any peace. Because you can't say in clear face that you want peace while occupied and Demolishing palestinian homes and make them homeless. What kind of peace is this? If that how you see peace then I can say that Mr mustache decided to give you peace by give u the holocaust which you people agreed. What a great peace right?
@@blackblood1122 First of all we are growing too second of all we can’t just give you the country without a fight because you will kill all of us because your leaders are terrorists and if we kill some citizens of yours its by mistake for example we throw a bomb 💣 and innocent people was near the bomb so they have killed .
And the last thing i want to say about what you say that we kill innocent daily : You can’t say that because the Hamas and Jhiad are throwing thousands of rocket’s 🚀 on us ((on the citizens of israel)) in the past you killed our citizens in large numbers but we found a way to protect ourselves from your rockets and also we have iron dome
The world must understand this conflict correctly and not just say “free palestine”
I recommend you to watch this video and you will see that both sides are right Im right and you are right you can also see at the video that the British country made this conflict (something like that) : ruclips.net/video/IQcmfxO-to0/видео.html
@@blackblood1122 Palestine is a false Roman name for the Land of Israel
@@blackblood1122 I will not give up the land of my ancestors to make up for your loss
Thanks for this awesome video, I think you fit as much information as you could’ve for a short video of a place with a lot of history. Quite ironic how the comments of both sides say that it’s biased against their own particular side.
It's even more impressive considering I can't see any bias towards Palestine or Israel, and I am from Israel. The video is genuinely the closest thing to neutral, which is really hard considering the way this topic is discussed.
Im an Israeli and a right wing supporter, though i must say this video is great because its shows exactly whats going on down here without spreading any propaganda, very well done - Every thing which have been sayed is true!
Do you support a 2 state solution? Or you want all the land to Israel?
@@sadeksama5057 i dont support any sign of palestinian identity.
@@theangrychicken5026 bruh
So you want to kick them out of the west Bank?
Why can't the two identities live in two separate states based on the 67 border
Why do you want to force your identity on them?
@@sadeksama5057 who sayed i wanna kick them out of Israel? Arabs who live in Israel can be integrated in to the Israeli sociaty, those who dont want to recognize it shouldn't get rights like other citizens and i dont think the state of Israel should give off its land to anyone else. This way or another - im not the one who's calling the shots so you cant blame me for whats going on down here, and no - i dont support the leftie government we have right now and for me they are a bigger enemies then Hamas or Hezbollah.
All I can say is that the world 'palestinian' didn't exist a minute before Israel was born, in fact the first time this word was born was around the mid 60s
Until then arabs in Israel were just arabs, egyption and jordanian arabs.
If those palestinians really want to be the 'philistines' that are mentioned in the bible or whatever then they're literally calling themself invaders, because this is what the word meant in old hebrew (Not to mention that these philistinains were greek and came from the sea, it translates to 'invaders' in old hebrew).
So yeah, it's a lie that is clearly built on nothing, no history, no culture whatsoever
For the sake of understanding your point, let me ask this: If that’s the case, if there were no Palestinian people before and they were just Arabs, what does that change? Does that mean there shouldn’t be an Arab state in the Westbank and Gaza? Does that mean the Westbank and Gaza should be part of Israel and their Arab residents should become Israeli Arabs? What difference does it make if they are Palestinians or just Arabs?
Great reply!! I'm applauding here. Thanks for lending me words for my next conversation with an average right-winger - to just be sure that you know, their point IS indeed, as you could guess, persisting Israel's hold over the Palestinian territories regardless of what that holds in terms of having to include yet so many more Arabs under our dependency and likely seeing the vulnerable Jewish majority disappear one day soon after, all for the sake of securing as much imagined Judaeic land as you can!! When everybody warns us that Israel as a Western democracy and Jewish state will be lost if that happens, all they wish is to extend our armed grip literally just however far into the horizon it can reach, they feel very insecure in JUST the legal borders assigned to us Israelis & recognized by the international community. They'll retort with the automated 'Ahh.. that is all we get because... they're all Antisemitic out there of course!'
Well, this is gonna be a civil comment section!
YHWH BLESS 🇮🇱 ✡️
ALLAH BLESS 🇵🇸 ☪️
Yahweh and Allah are the same as far as i know, it's just different name.
@@محمدالرويحي-ر2م Just giving my respects to the Kosher and Halal viewers
Now this is what I call peace✌️in the comment section!
@@MrAllmightyCornholioz Respect you too bro ! Allah bless you. I hope things will be better in the future for the country/countries and the world doesn't fight over whose land it is , but how to take care of the current situation.
Because if they don't , the economic situation in The Holy Land will get worse (Hope for the best😄).
Anyways, take care .
Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.
An added emphasis would be: in 1947 the United Nations granted the land to JEWS and ARABS (not to Palestinians who did not exist until they were invented by Arafat in 1964); and that it was the ARABS who rejected their homeland and chose to wage wars and intifadas against Israel.; which they have continuously lost.
There has never, ever existed a sovereign Palestinian state, country, or nation in any recorded history.
How come we find ancient Inca, Mesopotamia, Persian Greek, Chinese, Roman, Egyptian, Indian, Aboriginal, Jewish, and other ancient civilizations and cultures, and yet, nothing has ever been discovered of Palestinian ancient civilization before 1964.
WHERE WAS PALESTINE?
1. Before Israel, there was the British Mandate (1934 - 1948) - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
2. Before the British Mandate there was the Ottoman Empire (1516-1927) - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic State of the Mamluks of EGYPT - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
4. Before the Islamic State of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayyubid Arab-Kurdish Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
5. Before the Ayyubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
6. Before the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid Empires - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid Empires, there was the Byzantine Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Sassanids - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
10. Before the Byzantine Empire there was the Roman Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
11. Before the Roman Empire there was the Hasmonean dynasty - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
12. Before the Hasmonean dynasty there was the Seleucid Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
13. Before the Seleucid Empire there was the Empire of Alexander the Great - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
14. Before Alexander the Great, there was the Persian Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
15. Before the Persian Empire there was the Babylonian Empire - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
16. Before the Babylonian Empire there was there were the kingdoms of Israel and Judah - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
18. Before the Kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes (of Israel) there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms - NOT A PALESTINIAN STATE
REALITY CHECK: ALL THE ABOVE EMPIRES HAVE FADED INTO THE DUSTY PAGES OF HISTORY AND HAVE CONQUERED AND RULED THE LAND; BUT NEVER IN ANY RECORDED HISTORY HAS THE GEOGRAPHICAL REGION KNOWN AS PALESTINE, BEEN RULED, GOVERNED, OR EVEN OCCUPIED BY ARABS AKA 1964 PALESTINIANS.
By: @shim_marom
That sort of debate, as fact-wise accurate as it is, won't promote peace, justice or security for Israel's children nor any brighter future for either of the two competing nations in the "Holy Land". So abandon it and rather say out loud that you're willing to sacrifice the Israeli democracy and the Zionist miracle for persisting the occupation of the West Bank, deemed illegal by all nations. The Palestinian Arabs deserve statehood just like Jews, no matter the prehistoric babble.
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Dude their was a state called palestine. Before the British mandate and the land of judea (1045) it was called Palestine. Even explorers at the time said in books older than 1000 years ago stated "the name of this beautiful land was named i hear by state Fulestine" which is the arabic version of Palestine
@@theholyhabibi This is the usual narrative of desperate men; who cannot even define any SOVEREIGN (REPEAT, SOVEREIGN) STATE OF PALESTINE, RULED BY ANY PALESTINIAN LEADER, GOVERNMENT OR KING.
Lies, fiction, false narrative, and mythology if told often enough by those with a far-reaching public profile and unconditionally supported by a willing and compliant media create the conditions whereby the uninformed and biased believe in fiction.
Facts are stubborn and do not go away, just because you do not understand them.
I think that some people in America care more about this conflict than we actually do it's just a part of life and it's not really a big deal in our lives
Yeah, that's what's expected from the oppressor party
one thing you forgot to mention: in 1973, Israel withdrew from the sainai peninsula and returned the land to the Egyptians. When was the last time the winner of a war voluntarily gave up land? Certainly not the Arab empires, definitely not Europeans. Only Israel gave land back to the country that attacked them.
you also left out that the dome of the rock and al aqsa mosque are built on top of the ancient Jewish temples
There are many details I had to leave out in order to make this video fit into around 10 minutes and be digestible to people who don’t know anything about the topic.
so people need to thank to thieves to return land stolen by them? go back to europe oh thieves
“Gave....back”
@@adem1829 every land in israeli land is better developed, basically better everything.
I gave a like even though I didn't watch the whole video just because I saw people freaked out in the comments and that's I sign of you speaking the truth 😂
1. When we talk about Palestinians during the Mandate, we are talking about Jews and Arabs alike. The Arabs at that time called themselves "Arabs" and not Palestinians, the Jews were considered Palestinians. in the Ottoman period there were no borders and anyone who wanted to move from place to place could do so without problem, the British also allowed masses of Arabs to enter, and Jews had difficulty entering palestina. 5. Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria were never Palestinians they were occupied in 1948 by the Jordanians and the Jews who lived there were expelled 6. There was never a Palestinian people but there was an Arab people 7. Jews have full right to the land, when you see that the neighbor's house is empty, are you Go into it and say it's yours? The Jews were forcibly expelled by the Roman Empire and returned to their homeland. This is exactly the story without distorting lies and truths,PS The place was called Palestine because the Romans wanted to erase the memory of the Jews to the land, the Jews fought them and did not surrender, and the name Palestine was applied to the Kingdom of Judah because it was the Roman revenge on the Jews, and the revenge exists until this day only with other faces.
Arabs just want the whole Middle East for themselves lol
@@kelmanbeats You just can not accept the truth so you say clown
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@@מאיראליסיאן he is a clown the Idea of the British favour the Arab is just absolutely banana, the were only 3% Jews in Palestine before Balfour Decoration, never mind the British appointed A Zionist Jew Herbert Samuel as high commission of British Palestine, Open the get to Jewish immigration, it's absolutely fact the Jews were in cahoots with the British
Your great grandpa lived there for like 80 years, died, and his grandchildren decided to move to Europe in some shit European country for thousands of years. They come back here claiming it's their land now because their great great great great great great great ancestors breathed there? What sense does that make?
Thanks for another interesting video Paul. I enjoyed it and learned a lot of new info. 👍🌍
Correction: Dome of the Rock is part of AL-Aqsa compound. Al-Aqsa Mosque refers to the entire esplanade plaza including the Dome of the Rock, Al-Qibli Chapel, Gates of the Temple Mount and the Four Minarets.
Ok, but calling the entire compound Al Aksa Mosque rather than Al-Haram Al-Sharif is part of what causes the confusion.
@@GEOfocusChannel Al-Haram AL-Shareef could refer to the Aqsa Mosque but it could also refer to the Prophet's Mosque (Al-Masjid an-Nabawi) in Medina and also to the Great Mosque of Mecca (Masjid al-Haram).. Those are all Haram Shreef :). Those three are the holiest Mosques in Islam. Yes, I can imagine that it's confusing but it's really important to many viewers so it's really worth some research. Something you're usually very good at :) Moreover, many believe it has a political background to always only show Dome of the Rock when talking about Al-Aqsa Mosque which I absolutely know that that was not your intention.
@@GEOfocusChannel It's also quite political for some. Some are trying to say only the qibli mosque is important for Muslims implying the dome of the rock could be demolished or repurposed while many Muslims call the whole area (as you called it the Haram alsharif) al Aqsa because the whole area is considered holy in Islam.
0:56 there is arab jew and arab Christians &arab muslim thy live in harmony and peace togather till now in the west bank .the problem is the invasion of Germany jew &Russian jew & ethiopian jew &Indian jew to arab lands
So
how can u divide it to 2 state one Jewish state and one arab state when there is arab jew !?
Not true!!