Plaything of the gods said:
He is also, of course (no pun intended), Jewish. His basic premise in the video is that the Palestinians are the root cause of the problem because they didn't agree to Jews muscling into their land and setting up their own Jewish state there for their own people. In the wrong because the Israelis did agree to this.
I've contributed off and on to this thread. Mainly off because the protagonists have fixed and immovable positions and trying to "debate" is pointless. However, I must say this.
Sticks against swords
Stones against guns
Fireworks against mortars
Pickup trucks against tanks
Random-trajectory rockets against air-to-ground guided missiles
One has to admire the determination of the Palestinians to continue when at such a disadvantage.
If the roles were reversed, the Israelis would have capitulated long ago. ;o)
The roles were most definitely reversed in 1948. After the UN approved the partition plan, the standing Arab armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq (together with Palestinian paramilitary forces that had been attacking Jews for 20 years) moved to destroy the fledgling state. They had tanks, mortars, planes and limitless weaponry and ammunition. Yet the Israelis won pretty comprehensively, probably because they had nowhere else to go and knew what the outcome would most likely be if they lost.
You talk about "debate" yet say things like "...didn't agree to the Jews muscling in..." That in itself proves you have no grasp of the background and are just one of the 'sloganeers'. Have you ever wondered why so many Palestinians are still living in shit-heap refugee camps after 65 years? Particularly when the same number of Jews fled or were expelled from their own homes around the Middle East and North Africa at the same time yet aren't living in tents. Or when 15m people were displaced in India, when that country was similarly partitioned just months earlier yet aren't living in squalor dreaming of a land they had to abandon.
And did you realise that most Arab countries in the area (including Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia) are just as artificial as israel being created out of the post-Ottoman territory and given to their rulers by the French and British to repay favours done by the various tribes or clans or to create a bulwark against other colonial or local powers?
Have you ever been so vocal about the oppression of the Tibetan people by China? Or the war being fought against the Muslim Uighur people in the far west of China? I guess not and would be interested in why that is.
