Journalist and author Antony Lowenstein talks about why he considers Israel’s occupation of Palestine permanent.
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No we’re not. Many, many, many of us see Israel’s immortality and lack of integrity very clearly.
They’re not blind, they just have no morals at all
Laughing
Good statement Anthony!
I still have hope for a Palestinian State however!
The Palestinian political parties need to get their act together, however, for that to happen.
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Aotearoa
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Never going to happen. Palestinians chose Arafat, hated by most Arab leaders as he saw many Middle East countries as traitors for supporting British mandate and the creation of nation states .
Unfortunately Arabs much like all leaders like power.
Grow up
😂 So called Palestinian factions .
Abbas has not spoken to Hamas since 2007 when Hamas executed and dragged Palestinians chained to pickup trucks through the streets of Gaza . The power sharing government of Fatah and Hamas was democratically elected and then destroyed by Hamax who are Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
A banned terrorist group in several Arab countries 😂
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God is busy minding on His own business. Stop franchising God w/o permit.
True
Yep, Israel looks more unsafe to me as well
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yes, because basically a race believes their ancestors to be there. but the stories from the book and fairy tales are different so in return they can’t know whether it’s an illusion or reality. you can’t believe that’s where your ancestors are then do you have to live there just because historically? Israelis are prohibited from DNA testing, no wonder right?
Israel has much older documented history wise guy.
Not in Palestine,
Maybe in Poland
@@hugh1951Thomson “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” — Arab Princeton Professor, Philip Hitti, before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Jerusalem in 1946.
In 1937, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee to the British Peel Commission, Awni Abd al-Hadi stated: “There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented.”
“We [Palestinians] were never an independent state in history, we were part of an Arab state and an Islamic state.” — Palestinian Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar (quoted in The Economist, February 2, 2008)
“Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria.” Syrian President Hafez al-Assad [Addressing the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat during a meeting with leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1976]
Zahir Muhsein was a Palestinian leader of the pro-Syria As-Sa’iqa Ba’athist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization between 1971 and 1979.
In an interview with Trouw Magazine, 31. March 1977 he stated…..”The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity.
Better to be unsafe in my own state to cry for mercy in arab countries from where my parents fled. If not for the humiliation arabs did to jews in their lands, we would still have been there singing “next year in jerusalem”. They brought it to themselves
Knowledge can limit so badly. How can a people living on ancestral land be occupiers. Did patriarch Abraham live in Europe? Was King David’s capital of Jerusalem in SE Asia?
Please stop. The ancient Israelites only controlled that territory for a few hundred years. In all other years, there were other people living in that territory. And even dna shows that both Palestinians and the Lebanese, like Jews, have ancient Caanite dna. They have a connection to the area as well.
Jewish Europeans whose parents, grandparents and great grandparents never lived in Palestine are not on their “ancestral land”. That’s in Europe somewhere, Kyiv in the case of the late Golda Mabovitch “Meir” and Poland in the case of Benyamin Mileikowski “Netanyahu”.
@Tyiion The ancient Greeks, the ancient Romans, the Ottoman, the British, all had imperial rule over the land. But it does not take away the fact of the Jewish ancestral ownership of the land. Get the right information so you don’t hit the wall with reckless propaganda which intent is economic/political and temporal.
TEST DNA FOR PEOPLE OF ZIONIST ISRAELI??
PROPHETH ABRAHAM IS NOT A JEWS. SO TEST DNA WHO IS SATANYAHU(P.M ZIONIST ISRAELI).
OTTOMAN EMPIRE WAS IN AL QUDS OR JERUSALEM BEFORE IDE ZIONIST CAME.
@okorijames3798 first answer this question… who is considered a Jew. Someone who has a Judeo DNA or someone who practices Judaism. If you can differentiate these 2, then you would have your answer.
Well said.
Not true. I’m a Jew and can’t wait to move to Israel. If Jews felt unsafe they’d leave and they don’t.
@@divad1818 Over 1 million have left in the last year. If They can run 750,000 Palestinians out in 1948 then 750,000 israelis can move out of the West Bank now & it WILL happen.
@@divad1818 how can one be so heartless, it’s your forefathers who suffered so much in previous war must be so ashamed of what their next generation have become so cruel and inhumane society
@@divad1818beaucoup sont partis.
May Allah make this earth peaceful for all to live.
Allah needs to start with his own people. Islam is the ☪️ancer of the world
@@m.a.azmiazmi882 that is so right
Blind and truly horrible.
So much respect for decent jews
Israël has to go , they don’t know peace and equality
WE KNEW HISTORY OF OTTOMAN EMPIRE IN JERUSALEM, SO IDE OF ZIONISTS COME IN WW 2,AND WE KNEW WESTERN COUNTRIES LIKE BRITAIN IS COLONIAL TOO CAUSE WE KNEW BRITAIN HAS NO LARGE TERRITORY SO THEY WANTED TO STEAL ANOTHER NATION TERRITORY.THE COLONIAL IS CRIME& ILLEGAL.
THE CRIMINAL COLONIZE NEVER REALIZE WHAT THEY DID UNTILL THE RESISTANCE FIGHT MADE THE CRIMINAL PARALYZE AND REGRET.
Civilization is with Israel.
Good . After UN flagrant misuse of so called neutrality UNRWA has been exposed ( and has been evidenced for past 30 years ) a front for money laundering and educational Islamic fundamentist ideology.
Jordan and Lebanon Palistinians refugees who are now 4th generation have no citizenship, have restricted work and employment rights , no right to own property and businesses.
What other country would be allowed to prevent refugees from settling? Its against the Geneva convention.
Stop blaming Jews for Arabs inability to keep Islamic fundamentist ideology and Jihadist from basically hijacking the Palistinian cause .
The excuse that not one Arab country will take Gazans to safe guard their claim to a state is a lie .
Arab leaders do not want Palestinians because they have
along history of being extremists and causing civil war .
Jordan
Lebanon
Qwait
Libya
The best thing Isreal could do is take the West Bank ( purposely annexed by Jordan to avoid responsibility) and Gazs ( purposely annexed by Egypt to avoid responsibility).
The only part thats a ghetto is PA controlled who actually run West Bank. Unfortunately much like Hamas have had to pay off criminal gangs to keep Abbas in power for 25 years !!! .
Its not a ghetto you are lying .
Palistinians have well paid jobs health insurance and pensions in line with Isreali. The only problem is , it is Jewish owned businesses providing these jobs as PA is so corrupted they cannot provide basic services or even pay there own civil services
Get out!
Fake chews from the caucuses claiming to be chosen in the land of Palestine is laughable really
Nothing in this world is permanent . I am sure that people once thought the Roman Empire was here to stay, like people believing the US Empire is here to stay as it collapses before their eyes.
57 years now
israel will never have peace as long as they occupy Palestinian land… NEVER
So many people were used and destroyed in the creation of modern Israel. Britain wanted oil, they borrowed money from Rothschild to fund the war and gave a promise… It’s horrible… And now, many don’t support the government of Israel, or the violent racist comments and behaviors.
Well spoken …nd hats off to this guy who without any hesitation said the truth
PALESTINE will be free❤❤❤❤❤
In shaa Allaah.
When Omar & Salahudin took over in two separate incidents & time periods, all the soldiers and the government were given safe passage to leave and all the civilians where allowed to stay and live in peace.
….and in the face of the current reality, all the world, Muslim & non Muslim, long for a leadership like this.
Yet nott even ICJ and UN can make thier laws binding makes you wounder who owns them they are a joke not doing thier job discusts me
During biblical times, the religious bel8ef was polytheism. Worshipping gods, goddesses, nature spirits, Ancestral spirits. But after emergence of Islam, a violent nation emerged.
Such population is threat to Israel and its people.
So blind that it’s crumbling
all made up history of palistine by Israel
Well Said..👍
Yes people are blind
They are not blind but only looking at the other side
Media manipulations have another thing that it cuts a very true vision about the reality.
NO MORE WARS 😢😢😢😢
They are not blind you cannot beat a child and tell him not to cry.
It is the most dangerous place for Jews because of the Current Genocidal War Criminal Netanyahu Regime and the Zionist movement that originated in the region in 1948 by David Ben Gurion and his Cohorts including Golda Mier.
The fact is that America and the West, in general, occupied and populated a Middle Eastern country for one reason. To have a friendly state in the area to provide protection for their interests. Religion and 4000-year bible believers only fit the plan.
We hear very often that Americans are there to protect their interests.
Ask any American what interests it has in the region.
Therein lies the whole issue, and the Middle Eastern countries know very well. I would say that they know it better than the population of America, who are only now waking up to this fact.
…some are, but many are just as delusional as the population of isreal.
Brainwashed for a century and longer, lead to insanity, inhumanity and atrocities
@@sker6902 the american govt have no commitment towards israel… they are just selfish… they want some backup to loot the resources and money from middle east.. and teah like you said.. this bible and religion stuff are just a ploy!!!
Blind conveniently! Filling their pockets.
A true thing, of course. 😢😢😢😢
Soooooo true!
HURRA HURRA HURRA to you.
The most dangerous place in the world is Gaza…babies school children and their parents are being bombed on a daily/nightly basis and they are being starved to death… despite lorries carrying supplies being only a few miles away waiting in queues – being stopped by the Israelis from delivering food and water!
West Bank and Lebanon are now suffering a similar fate .
And now Iran is also being threatened! What for? For having dared to act in self defence ! And Iran is now being described in the west as the aggressor.
The western media seems to have been blind to the lunatic level of brutality and violence unleashed by Israel in the past 12 months.
And the western governments and media continue to be blind to the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank in past decades!!!
I disagree entirely with the sentiment that Israel is the most dangerous place to reside. The aggressor is Israel and not the Palestinians and their supporters 😮
God chosen evil
No peace on stolen land
It’s dangerous for Palestinians too 😢
Generation after generations Palestinians will fight for their right till their land will be free and live in peace without apartheid reign and occupation.
All those places are rightfully Israel’s , not others.
Who is racist God who promised someone land to Israel we don’t even recognize this God
Thanks for telling the truth
Blind and terrorists!! Unacceptable occupation
Bye bye ❤❤
It will be a safe haven for all Jews that respect others’ religion and lands and not act superior and Satanic
They are only deceiving themselves. For them, it’ll be sad in the end.
Immoral occupation? He thinks he himself is moral? Thats delusional, evil is worse when the evil person himself do not understand his evil doings or is too arrogant to view his behaviour as evil. Evil is ignorance of ones own evil because its the structure, his mindset which is the problem, where theres no cure for.
❤❤❤ where there is oil, there you will find American imperialism and its proxy regimes trying to keep a lid on the people using repression and terrorism. That’s the fact.
offshore GAZA oil reserves worth
$$$$ 30 Trillion is the end game.. meanwhile bottom feeders like Trump’s Z son-in-law Jared Kushner ‘n his racketeering buddies plan2 develop ‘n sell beachside real estate
People are not blind, politicians are! Politicians no longer work for people, they work for themselves.
It wnt last
I thought Israel won the 1967 and 1973 wars?
😂 no my friend. They are about to experience what the Palestinians have been…. In the same spot. Don’t you worry. Let them get comfy.
Get out!
“There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” — Arab Princeton Professor, Philip Hitti, before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Jerusalem in 1946.
In 1937, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee to the British Peel Commission, Awni Abd al-Hadi stated: “There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented.”
“We [Palestinians] were never an independent state in history, we were part of an Arab state and an Islamic state.” — Palestinian Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmoud Zahhar (quoted in The Economist, February 2, 2008)
“Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria.” Syrian President Hafez al-Assad [Addressing the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat during a meeting with leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1976]
Zahir Muhsein was a Palestinian leader of the pro-Syria As-Sa’iqa Ba’athist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization between 1971 and 1979.
In an interview with Trouw Magazine, 31. March 1977 he stated…..”The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity…..
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It’s not the eyes but the hearts
Agreed 💯
Zion1$m is an atheistic ideology and not even of Judaic theology.
As someone old enough to remember the,”rawness” of WW2, I remember the intense pity we felt for the Jews who were misplaced, murdered, or affected by the war, and a general sense of pity felt for Jews in general. But how short the memories are of Zionists and the state of Israel. No violence is ok on any side, but the retaliation of Israel is ALWAYS ten times any harm done to it. It is also blatantly clear that Israel wants a single state, and I would bet a lot of money that they envision Lebanon as part of that state. Is Netanyahu, ironically, the next Hitler?
Traitor
pick me kind of boy😂
Thanks for standing with your conscience
Shame on netanyaho.
Apart from being a war criminal, Netanyahu is a coward! He ran away and hid in a bunker cave. Meanwhile, its citizens are left to continue to be massacred by Iranian missiles.
How embarrassing!
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THEY are blinded , Mute and Deaf , you are CORRECT !
Not only settlers but even actual native Zionists will have to vacate. In case they choose to stay back, they will be dragged given their behaviour and treatment of Palestinians.
Thank you for telling the people sir.
Follow Jesus
This is colonialism by USA nothing else and isreal expansion
Blind and evil!
My respect to this guy, Anthony Lowenstein.🙏
Stolen land never you get peace it curse
Don’t call it permanent. Defeatism is bad, 750k settlers can be deported in a year.
They are trying to live like OSTRICH!!
No, they’re not blind to it at all. They ignore it & disregard it. All the while knowing it’s outright disrespect to humanity. It’s evil insanity.
They’re not blind, they ignore it and they do everything to not accept it
Wilfullly blind.
People are blind to Al Jazeeras anti Semitic leanings. Who is this fake turkey?
Free Free Palestine ❤🍉
If everyone had accepted their share of the UN partitioned territory in 1948 there would have been no occupation or settling. But instead the first person who went in to collect lsrael’s share is now complaining about occupation.
The existence of Isntreal itself is illegal. European colonisers in middle east.
@reese:it’s not easy to ask for help, but please don’t ever stop. we will always listen. this world has failed palestine but humanity will prevail. losing hope is not an option we must choose solidarity