Thank you for letting your guest speak without interruption. Unless one can finish a thought, you'll never understand the issues. Whether you agree or disagree. ✌️
His points of what the violence is likely to perpetuate for Palestinianians in the future are valid. The problem is a lack of knowledge about history by leaders of the worlds Democracies. Democracies. This history that goes back to WW I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the allies and the subsequent "guardianship" given to Great Britain. The Zionist movement, born in the 1800s, was able to influence the British Mandates so that Israel could eventually become recognized as an independent country at the expense of the indigenous Palestinian people. The previous Land Law of the Ottoman Empire in 1859, expedited the ability of Israelis to move to Palestine from all over the world and buy Palestinian lands. The Zionist goal was for a worldwide population of "homeless" Jews to finally have a national identity. Hitlers Holocaust during WW II created significant guilt for the allied nations because they all hesitated to enter the war and then stop the murderous tragedy because of their own national politics. Israel, to this day, has benefited from this international guilt over their suffering during the Holocaust. Palestinians should not be satisfied with losing their lands and suffering under Israel's infliction of an apartheid like governance over them. Israel should strive to be better than this because they know what suffering and being disenfranchised as a people is all about! Until world leaders develop the moral and political courage to insist on a just solution for Palestinians, there will never be long term peace and the eradication of terrorism.
No Israel Existed in 1947 No Hamas until recently! Stop Lies. Its about 75+Years of Brutal Israeli OCCUPATION, WARCRIMES &Genocide of 200K+Palestinian Civilians Mostly Children ....
Yes, indeed! Excellent interview. The journalist was the devil's advocate asking all the questions that the majority of American politicians and the press are churning to the public , and the Palestinian American historian replied soundly and coherently; it was a cry from the depths of humanity, that keeps being ignored and silenced. By the way, fortunately what is hopeful, is that there are many Israelis that would agree to a significant degree with Rashid Khalidi.
He has failed to discuss Islamists and Jihadism. Failed to mention that the chief instigator of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1920-1960 was the supreme Islamic leader Mohamad Amin Al Husseini. Izz A Din A Qassam brigade of Hamas is called after a Jihadist born in Syria who moved to Haifa to preach Islam and organized Jihadist gang in the 1930. He skipped Islamic radicalization of the whole Arab world in recent decades. He spoke like an advocate lawyer not like a historian.
@ef2718 also forgot to mention the HAMAS COVENANT THAT SAYS THEIR GOAL IS TO KILL ALL THE JEWS AND DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL and there is no such people as ethnic Palestinians
@@Woosaidthatright THE grand Mufti who allied with Hitler and 20,000 Muslims made up regiments of the nazi SS His goal was to help Hitler exterminate the jews in Europe then planned with help of Hitler set up concentration camps in the mid east to exterminate the jews there Rashid lies
I am very weary of journalists asking, "How did you feel?," or "What did you think when it happened?" after a horrible tragedy, I want to hear someone say, "HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL? HOW WOULD ANYONE FEEL?"
yeah wat is the point of asking that? Although I think Michel was trying to be respectful but the way she askd seemed a little insincere but I think that was just the sound of her voice asking such a dire question. I think she may hav been uncomfortable bringing it up?
Excellent interview. I need more like this to understand the intricacies of the past to begin to grasp todays level of hate. Thank you. Hurt people, hurt people
Thank you for letting Mr Khalidi speak! All the mainstream news is being so insufferable and not allowing the Palestinian representatives speak freely, including the BBC and Piers Morgan.
As Michele says, the big issue in the Israel/Palestinian conflict is who gets to say when history starts. That said, the Hamas attack was outrageous and was designed to elicit the most extreme response from Israel, presumably for Hamas's political reasons. I have no idea what can be done. If a country had done this to the US, I am pretty sure that we would totally destroy it if we had the means. I am certain that Hamas would do the same. There is no morality anywhere.
How ironic that Ms. Martin says"don't you think we've already 'noted' the death toll of Palestinians?". Ms. Martin, only in the last sentence, you said "More than 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 3,000 Palestinians...died"
Why the journalist does like she doesn't understand what this conflict is about? So now the Palestinians should apologize for having systematically between 10 and 20 times more casualties than the Israeli side?! No justice, no peace.
"I can’t stand all those false excuses for the barbarity of Oct 7" Barbarity it was. That said.... Imagine, if you *can*, that the United States had been the recipient of that U.N resolution, and that *America* had been the relocation site for the long-oppressed Jews of Europe and elsewhere. In point of fact, like Britain, America had long been turning away Jewish refugees fleeing from the growing terror in pre-WW2 Europe. Nice of us, eh? Britain did, however, generously allow Jewish refugees to settle in... Palestine. But, continuing with the what-if scenario... (assuming you're an American, but whatever) America gets told that long-oppressed and horrifically-treated Jews from far away were now going to set up home here in America. Annnd that we'd be expected to relocate millions of Americans to someplace-else-but-who-cares-where, and that the incoming refugees would be given a majority of our fertile land and seaports. Putting your objectivity-hat on, how do you think Americans would've taken that? And afterwards (if Americans hadn't already successfully said "Hell, no"), how long would you say we would have tolerated living in an Apartheid state, inflicted on us by the long-oppressed refugees who decided to become oppressors? In short, this is soooo much more involved than your (purposely?) simplistic reference to a singe day on the calendar suggests.
REMEMBER - it's the US gov't position to offer support for israel's right wing gov't. People all over are NOT in favor of the situation that's been going on for decades. There are jews in israel who regularly protest their own gov'ts actions regarding Gaza. It's high time the world's leaders hold israel accountable for it's bad actions. History didn't start last week. Yep. Time for JUSTICE. Time for ACCOUNTIBILITY. Time to sort this all out on a permanent basis.
American interests is always at the forefront international policy. The support to Ukraine is predicated by impeding Russian expansion, the support to Israel is predicated in having a strong ally in the Middle East. The Palestinian catastrophe will only be relevant to American international policy once it becomes the trigger to regional instability where enormous oil reserves are. It’s a sad testimony that the altruistic American values are only offered when self interest is at play. 😞
@alexsf4248 absolutely correct! They're driven by fear and self interest. It's probably the only reason they joined WWII They didn't care about Jewish lives, which is why they were the last to join the allies.
We are at the lowest point. Opinions matter little to victims. Let's pray for our collective raising of conscience and that two leaders have a soul awakening. The world is pleading and holds for peace. Give Palestine rights, hope, ability to plan a future. Don't deny them the very freedoms we enjoy
OK..thanks but who ownds the land? why until now we can find only a few land deeds for the Jewish citizens of Palestine? Guys...Hamas resistance enter the land they we dispossessed from It is simple and stupid how will u react when you are replaced and dispossessed?
Professor Kahlidi is a savy historian and therfore objective, however the U S will never listen to his arguments due to the U S geopolitical and economic interests, and it will turn out to be a shame for the U S and the World as a long Middle Esat and expanded three country power struggle (U S, China, Russia) awaits us, and the Palestinian innocent population at the end of itall are the only victims. Were Begin, Sharon, Rabin and Shamir moral leaders or terrorists? Therefore violence begets violence. The U S expresses a double moral standard, does the U S value the lifes of palestinian children equivalent to the lifes of the Israeli children? I think not!!!
This was a defense of the Palestinian position. There was no discussion of what to do with the Israelis. It was an interesting one sided discussion. I have heard the other side from an equally informed and intellectual Israeli. Having them together in the same room to hear a point counter point would be interesting.
"This was a defense of the Palestinian position." Well, not as generically as you (seemingly) try to cast it. He argued for fair and equal treatment of Palestinians, as a necessary aspect of moving forward in peace. We need more people like Khalidi arguing for that righting of a decades-long wrong... a wrong inflicted on the region (and *especially* Palestine) by western nations which had their/our own underhanded motives over a hundred years ago, after the break-up of the Ottoman empire.
I was not responding generically. I was arguing that both sides should be heard (and preferably many voices on both sides) before drawing a conclusion. This is what is wrong with the academy. Students hear one professor who is passionate about a geopolitical situation and they take to the streets. Critical thinking is no longer required. Emotionally loaded words like "fair" and "equal" are used and the argument is assumed over. It has only just begun. First, two questions need to be answered. (1) What is fair and equal? and (2) Who gets to decide?@@patricksweeney6334
You Mr. Khalidi forgot to mention Israel left Gaza at 2005, but Palestinian immediately started to attack Israel from Gaza. Then Israel Surounded Gaza since 2007 because of violence against jews committed by people in Gaza.
An end to occupation of Israel over Gaza? Palestinians occupy Gaza. Palestinians formed a government and when Hamas won an elections, the democracy ended. The West Bank has been more successful. Is Gaza too small to have a successful sovereign state? Or would the people in Gaza want more space? For Gaza, is this an issue of self determination or an issue of not enough space?
"An end to occupation of Israel over Gaza? Palestinians occupy Gaza." I'll treat that as a sincere question... just because. It's not about space... unless one wants to view it as a quest for Israeli leadership to continually decrease the "space" available to Palestinians. So, yes. Although Palestinians live in Gaza, they have no meaningful control over it... over their comings and goings, over even so much as their electricity and water supply. And, yes... Israel is an occupying force with respect to all of Palestine, not just Gaza, which they renamed Israel when they declared themselves as a state in 1948. They're an occupying force in regard to not only international law, but of the Geneva Convention, to which Israel is a signatory.
This terrorrism was not instigated by nobodies. Hamas or at least a faction that runs Gaza instigated this, so it was a state run action. US and sympathetic Israeli supporters did very much try to reach a solution, but Gazans exist under Arafat/PLO. But yes Hamas supported by intelligence
I was enraged by it, just right after the bombing of the hospital and in front of the whole world. It looked like Biden was congratulating Netanyahu for a good job. This must have enraged a lot of ppl too.
@@elvirageronimo4604Until more evidence becomes available I'm leaning towards Hamas or PIJ being responsible for the hospital bombing. Biden & BB are politicians who have known each other for like 40+ years. Biden is a hugger. I don't like BB and I'm not a Biden lover (though I did vote for him over the pet rock) but a hug in this circumstance isn't something to get enraged over imo.
A lot is not making sense. And unlike the previous wars, "we will make sense after we win." Is no answer or policy. With proper security, the bloodbath & horrors circulating the world would not exist or at least would have been considerably limited. With the billions upon billions of US military aid, no security was set up along the border behind which, in under 7 miles, thousands of missiles were launched into Israel. If one 10th of the force used to seal Gaza and remove the necessities of life from the citizens of Gaza, would've been placed along that border, it's reasonable to say what occurred would not have happened or been severely limited. What military policy, allows a militia to rain their country with thousands of explosive rockets, while allowing unprotected music concerts and kibbutzim within walking distance of that attacking militia? With intervention seven hours away? The explanation would be worth listening to.
Yes there have been failures from both the Israelis and US. He emphasizes that over and over. He pushes the history of this. However, he only briefly talks about the Palestinian failures. And, when asked about the history of the Palestinian attacks on Israel, he says that’s water under the bridge. I have deep sympathy for the Palestinian people and their right to self determination and a viable land. I am Jewish and have family in Israel. However, that right cannot be fulfilled unless Israel feels safe. Yes, violence begets violence. That cuts both ways.
For Israel to feel safe must it not grant the Palestinians their own safety first off? They are being deprived of their legal right to a state, being a people made into powerless prisoners on their own land. This is the most basic lack of safety imaginable. The power is in Israel's hands to make this decision, to grant them freedom.. The Palestinians have no power, except to protest their enforced condition, which so long as you sustain it will continue to fester unrest. If you want to stop a wound from bleeding, stop clawing at it. This first step must be taken by dominant group, who hold all the cards of power. If you desire peace, you must grant peace for the other, to the pain you are inflicting which is what has kept peace also from your own grasp.
@@Startaster1 First off? Let's be realistic, not idealistic. Israel is not going to grant Palestinians such rights while they are repeatedly attacked by rockets and bombings.
@@adamfeerst2575maybe the gesture of establishing a Palestine state would be a starting off point and incentivize Palestinians to clean out their extremists.
@@tjk3430 Cleaning out their extremists would be a starting point too. Who is going to do that? Where is the credible Palestinian leadership? The PA is corrupt and doesn't have widespread credibility in the WB or Gaza. The rise and hardening of the Israeli right and Netenyahu is in response to repeated attacks from the Palestinians. I don't support their policies, but I understand where they came from. The Israelis need security before they will risk theirs. For them, it is literally existential.
So your point is the colonial settler aggressor occupier steals land kills murders ethnically cleanses and places the victims into concentration camps to live in open air prisons for 75 years and your asking what have the Palestinians done to appease their abusers 🤷🏾♂️. Make that make sense 🙈
Why can't the US divide the area fairly based on population and just stop all this killing? No illegal settlements, no controlling the other side's borders or water sources, everyone stays within their area. An UN peacekeeping force could enforce the arrangement. As Americans, we don't want to prop up any side, and we want save our billions.
On the 29th November, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel; the General Assembly required the inhabitants of Eretz-Israel to take such steps as were necessary on their part for the implementation of that resolution. This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their State is irrevocable.
In a one-on-one human fight, the one losing might say I have had enough and submit and, if they are lucky; the beating stops at some point, but the nature of group psychology doesn't track the same patterns of behaviour. the fight goes on and on and on and one suffers more than the other.
Great interview. She was a tough interviewer and pushed him on critical questions, while giving him time to answer without interruption. More of this please.
Unfortunately US made itself irrelevant in this situation. When you give unconditional support to one of the two parties, you are not neutral anymore. US was never neutral in this issue.
That is correct, US supports Israel and always has as well as the western world also Hamas is supported with Iran, and the rest of the Arab world so tell me what is your point. Israel is a country that has fought to stay alive because a terrorist group wants to wipe them out, and that was proven Oct 7th in fact most of the Arab world does, as they did not condemn what happened on Oct 7th.
Beautiful interview with Prof Rashid . It should help the Western world to really understand and do something concrete to solve the problem . For the first time , I commend CNN ,and C Amanpour for allowing Prof Rashid to speak his mind and giving us an unbiased interview.
All politicians ONLY think about the next election: now this is so evident, everywhere in the world! And this is a tragedy for every citizen of the world.
“Any civilian death is a moral tragedy”. Never a truer word was spoken. If you deliberately set out to kill civilians then that makes you either a murderer or a terrorist in my eyes.
👍🏽 Amos 3:10 “My people have forgotten how to do right,” says the Lord. “Their fortresses are filled with wealth taken by theft and violence. so you believe the air gliders and pickup trucks penetrated the second most guarded and watched airspace and “border” on the planet? Cool so you believe it’s okay for an anti-Arab, power-hungry, highly unpopular leader, (as of Oct. 6, 2023), to continue the authorization of the stealing of the land, dignity, lives, (including babies), & freedom of two million people for 75 years plus 17, for his own people’s advantage; you believe it’s okay for this unpopular leader to authorize his military to bomb civilian buildings, mosques, & hospitals, so as to put down the “evil government” of another people - whose houses & lands they’ve stolen, a people they’ve been bombing & gunning down - for 75 years plus 17 - for not being one of “them”, for shouting/ protesting for freedom, for throwing rocks at them, & for praying in their mosque? Cool so you believe it’s okay for the scarce & dirty water supply of a people; be cut off by another group of people, who is light years ahead of the rest of the globe in its 90% wastewater reuse and desalination for its potable water supply? Cool Now nobody dare call out this peoples’ godless & apartheid acts - lest they label us: “anti-Semites.” Nyah-yah-yah... Hypocrisy, Apartheid, and Violence against Orphans & Widows. Only a remnant shall remain
The professor speaks clearly and with knowledge of the facts. Things don't just happen... We have to know the historical background to understand where the problem comes from and, then, try to change the course towards the abyss. A very clarifying interview✨ Thank you 🙏🏽
But knowing history and learning from it is totally different to using it as an excuse for terrorism & islamic conquest over peace (Hamas goals). And does occupation breed violence, or violence breeds occupation? And Jews & Arabs both had their own state, it was arabs that rejected the UN deal, not the Jews. the Jews just kept on being attacked and they kept on winning defensive wars. Also, the only reason Palestinians can't be free today is because of security: Hamas is intermingled with them and a terrorist threat to Isrealis. I have heard old Palestinians report life was good in Israel before terrorism became the strategy. Every other country on earth was also occupied at some point, and without islamic inspiration + terrorism people learnt to share and get along. Muslim Arab Israelis don't have this problem, because they are not a terrorist threat to israelis. How can you expect Palestinians to have freedom of movement, when them getting close to Jews is a terrorist threat? That is why Palestinains used to be very free, before terrorism was used as a strategy.
I also don't feel owning my homeland is a right, esp not if i am a security threat. I myself don't live in my homeland and i am fine, but it would be nice. Not a reason for terrorism & islamic conquest.
Thanks for the interview. I appreciate the context around what happened in Gaza. I found that the interview tone and questions were a little slanted but Prof. Khalid I was successful in getting his point across in a measured and factual way.
He has failed to discuss Islamists and Jihadism. Failed to mention that the chief instigator of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1920-1960 was the supreme Islamic leader Mohamad Amin Al Husseini. Izz A Din A Qassam brigade of Hamas is called after a Jihadist born in Syria who moved to Haifa to preach Islam and organized Jihadist gang in the 1930. He skipped Islamic radicalization of the whole Arab world in recent decades. Spoke like an advocate lawyer not like a historian.
Wow! Thank you for this interview. It was excellent. No interruption from the interviewer allowing the interviewee, to speak FAIRLY, INFORMATIVELY, BALANCED and pointing out things that i never knew e.g Israel at one time recognised Hamas!!!! An eye opener. Let us pray for PEACE ON BOTH SIDES, AS FAR TOO MANY LIVES ARE INNOCENTLY BEING TAKEN. Let the 'SUPERPOWERS' work diligently to help free the hostages AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. LORD HELP US ALL TO BE BETTER HUMAN BEINGS.
@@pebblepod30how can you expect peace in a settler occupation reenforced with Apartheid and non conformity to the most mandane international laws. The brutality which Palestinian children face in Israeli prisions and Military courts is just a starter. Child killing is a condoned policy - look it up. Peace cannot be expected if there are no basic rights for Palestinians. The world is aghast at the genocide now conducted. By the way Hamas was ISRAEL'S INVENTION. SPONSORED , BACKED AND ADVOCATED BY BIBI.
This is how an interview should be conducted on such sensitive and controversial issues, pressing and probing yet maintaining respect for the interviewee by letting them do most of the talking.
Some journalists do not flow with the guest, listen to his answers and so on. All they want to do is to read out their prepared questions out to get them into the time slot. Others are worse they push their personal point of view.
thank you for this interview. Sadly, I wonder who in a position of power will listen to Mr. Khalidi since what he has said, has been said by so many before.
@@JohnDoe-hh7eopffft 😅- because the Zionists idea was trying to take root and the Arabs didn’t want a massive influx of aliens from Europe on their lands? The 1920 riot where 5 Jews and 4 Arabs died? What equivalence are you trying to draw?
👍🏽 Amos 3:10 “My people have forgotten how to do right,” says the Lord. “Their fortresses are filled with wealth taken by theft and violence. so you believe the air gliders and pickup trucks penetrated the second most guarded and watched airspace and “border” on the planet? Cool so you believe it’s okay for an anti-Arab, power-hungry, highly unpopular leader, (as of Oct. 6, 2023), to continue the authorization of the stealing of the land, dignity, lives, (including babies), & freedom of two million people for 75 years plus 17, for his own people’s advantage; you believe it’s okay for this unpopular leader to authorize his military to bomb civilian buildings, mosques, & hospitals, so as to put down the “evil government” of another people - whose houses & lands they’ve stolen, a people they’ve been bombing & gunning down - for 75 years plus 17 - for not being one of “them”, for shouting/ protesting for freedom, for throwing rocks at them, & for praying in their mosque? Cool so you believe it’s okay for the scarce & dirty water supply of a people; be cut off by another group of people, who is light years ahead of the rest of the globe in its 90% wastewater reuse and desalination for its potable water supply? Cool Now nobody dare call out this peoples’ godless & apartheid acts - lest they label us: “anti-Semites.” Nyah-yah-yah... Hypocrisy, Apartheid, and Violence against Orphans & Widows. Only a remnant shall remain
It’s surprising to see Amanpour give a platform to prof. Khalidi after seeing her explicit bias in her interview of Yuval Harari. It was so explicit that she helped him answer her own questions. The explicit bias by this interviewer was still obvious, but I was pleasantly surprised to see a mainstream media outlet allow the other perspective some airtime.
Yes I was wondering if the bias was related to donors, or if interviewer was pushing hard in order to get answers to valid questions people have. Great interview though.
Violence always bred violence. The lesson of that conflict is basic, that a kindergarten student can understand it... Israel needs to do things differently. Palestine needs to do things differently. Hamas needs to do things very differently. We see it in how it repeats itself.
I found this interview disappointing. He holds that Palestian terrorism is a reaction to Israeli terrorism and vice versa. in that case neither side has moral authority. Might makes right. Israel is clearly the stronger party and will therefore will always win. Sad for the Palestianians. He talks about how all previous peace proposals fell short of Palestinans' absolutist agenda. He never states what Palestians are willing to offer by way of compromise. People have to each take a step toward one another to make peace.
Joe Biden should meet and hear this man to get a broader understanding of what needs to happen before there can be lasting peace and justice in Israel/Palestine.
@@JohnDoe-hh7eoits not just one or the other. its a vicioius cycle that is hard to break but Israel with the push of the west bears the responsibility of that task. Palestinians have no power themselves to tackle it.
@JohnDoe-hh7eo Present time now, can you live with someone forcefully moving in your house and controlling when your light and water go on. Let's keep it simple, invassion and occupation is the root cause of every war.
Beautiful video. Beautiful interview. The wisdom and balance of professor Dr Khalidi is priceless. Thank you for the eloquent delivery and exchange. We need more of this and to be educated. 🙏🏻We study history in the hopes to fix and not repeat never repeat the horrid historical events. God speed peace.
Thank you prof Khalidi for emphasizing that the Palestinians value the life of every human being. Dehumanizing the Palestinians is the cause of these tragic events . It is time for the world to address the Palestinians’ tragedy with seriousness and recognition to the Palestinians’ rights.
The only ones dehumanizing Palestinians are the same palestinians applauding terrorists and praising Allah as they murder and kidnap unarmed civilians. That is not normal humane behavior!
And how do you explain hamas's ongoing use of civilians as human shields? The fact that they went in there in the first place basically turned all the civilians of Gaza into human Shields and they knew that going in
thank you so much Vermont is listening. I recommend a movie called, "Born in Gaza". I am deeply sad for us all, there are real consequences for killing civilians, for killing children and condemning them to a life without hope
Norman Finkelstein's convention with Chris Hedges was an eye opening, and very insightful on the topic. Sober and reflective, but realist, and correct in his analysis.
I think President Biden errored by giving impression he has this set in stone love for Israel AND Netenyahu. He exonerated himself, fortunately, God willed, by saying clearly that Gaza should be a place that belongs to Gazans and Israel should not be occupying there.
Thanks MR Rashid for an excellent submission. Your clarification about the situation is very compelling. Most of the Western Media is mostly biased in their reporting. I wish they could be fair and balanced in their reporting.
The past is prologue.The long shadows of both the Nakba and the Holocaust are very much a presence today. Long standing issues have been simmering for decade and by all accounts have been never adequately addressed . Trauma begets trauma, which often is expressed as violence. And until each side is able to acknowledge that they have done things that have harmed/wronged the other, and/or to acknowledge the negative impacts their actions have had on/for the other side, any efforts to create lasting peace will not get far.
When 1 side is coddled by a superpower regardless of their actions, there's hardly an incentive to seek peace or compromise. This conflict could have been put to rest decades ago if the US & UK had put extreme pressure on both sides to accept terms. It was they who imposed the creation of Israel onto the Arab population. Likewise, they could have forced a peace deal.
Nonsense. Only one side is physically, politically and socially divided into an undemocratic and endemically corrupt entity - and a genocidal, jihadist terror base. Israelis can and will vote Bibi out - they've done so before, as they've offered multiple peace deals, their proposals met with terror from Arafat, or rejection without counter from the PA. FY I it was the UN that ' imposed the creation of Israel onto the Arab population ' - and justifiably so - the same way they tried to impose a Palestinian on the Jewish population.
@@jacqdanieles The biggest superpower is the power of oil and gas held strong by Arab Islamic countries, Qatar the sponsor of Hamas controls 21% of global LNG and goes without shade of criticism, it also sponsors media channels that are marketing Islamism, and don't down play the power of 1.5 billion Muslims , 58 members of the organization of Islamic countries, league of Arab countries that funded and founded the first army to invade and engage in war in 1947, and 450 million Arabs, it is not a Palestinian Israeli conflict (No Arab called himself a Palestinian in 1948 BTW), It is a majority vs. minority conflict. The region's Arab Islamic majority cannot accept the existence of an independent state of a minority, be it of Maronites, Assyrians, Druze or others, especially of Jews. By Arab Islamic culture, if it is not dominated and controlled by an Arab Islamic regime then it is an occupation.
Thank you Dr.,Khalidi trying to get the reporter to understand how hard is for you having your family in Palestine, and you are explaining the reason this is getting worst because of the bad and ignoring the State of Palestine to live as HUMAN BEINGS AND NOT AS ANOTHER CATEGORI OF PEOPLE..GOD BLESS
@@zbaby82 isn’t that what people who abuse their spouses always say. “Why are you making me hurt you?” & “You’re ancestors hurt mine so I’m gonna hurt you!”
@@RobPires No matter how many times a lie is repeated, it never becomes true. Zionism (the national movement of the Jews to return to their homeland) was started as a political movement in 1881. Before then, Jews prayed for their return to Zion/The Promised Land (for the divine promise see Genesis 15:13-21 [esp. 18-21], 17:8, Exodus 13:5, Numbers 33:53-54, 34:2ff[borders]). Europe did NOT create a Jewish State in "Palestine". The Balfour Declaration (1917) only expressed British support for a "Jewish Homeland". It was only after WW1, was Palestine created--the name the British gave to the area of today's Jordan and Israel. In 1921, 80% of Palestine was given to Abdullah to establish the Emirate of Trans-Jordan. The other 20% became The British Mandate region (in which a Jewish and Arab Agency were established to prepare the respective groups to assume sovereignty). In 1947 the UN created a partition plan for "Palestine". The Jews accepted it, the Arabs rejected it and upon the declaration of the creation of Israel, the surrounding Arab countries launched a war. They weren't successful in completely destroying Israel and in the ensuing 75 wars have launched other wars. Lastly, please read the Charter of Hamas to see just how peace-loving they are. The PLO revised its Charter but they're also uninterested in coming to terms with (the State of) Israel. Prof Khalid can speak as softly as he wishes, he's still not truly interested in being honest.
@@dbcooper3088 8 million Jews in USA today proved me what you just said was nonsensical. They are Americans. Their homeland is America. They don't look like they have been praying to 'return' to Palestine all their life. Who are you kidding.
What is concerning is the war crimes against innocent civilians and in the macro lens the widening of the violence by other countries taking sides.☮️☮️☮️
Israel's war crimes go unpunished, until they are punished they just see that as more right to run death camps and intermittently bomb them. Israel has dehumanized Palestinians just like Germans dehumanized Jews. Jung calls this "mass psychoses" and there is seldom recovery, do you think Netanyahu cares he kills Palestinians? No, he sees it as an efficient way to steal more land. Biden has no problem sharing a stage with a genocidal maniac, what does that say?
He answered her remarks about Peace Proposals very clearly, exposing their intention to maintain the occupation of Palestinian land. Also, he responded very well to her excusing of US “attempts.” As well, he addressed her downplaying of disparity in the numbers of deaths. State terrorism is never mentioned in mainstream western. media
As a person who is not Palestinian, Arab, or Israeli, I have traditionally supported the Israeli side due to the deeply entrenched images of Islamic terrorism. However, my perspective has started to shift due to the recent brutal Hamas attack and the subsequent retaliation by Netanyahu, including the bombing of a Baptist hospital in Gaza yesterday that resulted in the deaths of over 500 people. It's difficult to lock up millions of people in a small area and, when they resist, label them as terrorists. If you want peace, you must also provide a path to peace.
Have you seen/read the news in the past 24 hours? It looks like the explosion at the hospital was not due to Israeli rockets, but rather a failed launch of Islamic Jihad.
You should also consider how aggressive Israel has been with a people who are substantially less protected, financed and resourced. They are bullies and have terrorized the Palestinian people with the backing of the U.S. It’s like the bully who has a big brother that was the OG bully & they do whatever they want to whom they want bc they know their brother has their back. The Palestinian people are sick of it and I don’t blame them! They have zero support, zero options, and are treated as subhumans. No one will endure that indefinitely. Lastly, it says a lot about a people (and a country) when you look at how they treat someone who poor and unable to defend themselves.
There were no 500 deaths and no bombing of a hospital, it was a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad not far from the hospital that failed and fell fulle of rocket fuel on middle of a car park in front of the hospital. The rocket fuel created the impressive blaze in night time combined with cars that elongated duration of fire. As a neutral spectator you should have understood that bombing a hospital is the most counterproductive action Israel could have done. Now you can understand how unreliable is the media. Khalidi has failed discussion of Islamists and Jihadism. Failed to mention that the chief instigator of the Arab-Israeli conflict 1920-1960 was the supreme Islamic leader Mohamad Amin Al Husseini. Izz A Din A Qassam brigade of Hamas is called after a Jihadist born in north Syria who moved to Haifa to preach Islam and organized Jihadist gang in the 1920's. He skipped Islamic radicalization of the whole Arab world in recent decades. Spoke like an advocate lawyer not like a historian.
The place which Israel is occupying now was given to them by the UN in 1948. Israel was more than willing for the 2-state solution but Palestine wasn't. Besides, Israel ended its occupation of Palestine in 2005 to the level of withdrawing the Jew inmates, including their dead. So what occupation theory is going around? The Palestenians are so good people, they tried to overthrow the Jordan king thru a coup in 1970. The same King who was kind enough to give them asylum. The Palestenians live in a trance currently in Palestine because they have the faintest idea of the Hamas building thousands of tunnels below schools, hospitals, govt hospitals!!
Though delivered with courtesy, and while the interviewer allowed Khalidi to speak and complete his thoughts, virtually every single question contained an inherent bias alligned to the State of Israel. It’s subtle, but always there, and this more than anything needs to be unpacked and explained.
I didn't take it as bias. I looked @ Michel's approach as getting his take on common preconceptions that r out in the public on this subject. By asking about the other perspective she gives Professor Khalidii a chance to rebut it & therefore a lot is covered & people won't say it is a one sided interview.
@@juliebraden If that were the case, why not establish from the beginning that the questions are explicitly about testing common preconceptions. No such qualification is given. Khalidi is experienced, and a serious scholar in the field. But it's not difficult to feel the weight placed upon him by the line of questioning, which I'm sure he faced a million times, because it's pretty much the base accepted reality in polite circles, because of power and vested interest, and the entire pyramid of meaning and supposed truth that permeates events on and around this issue. You can see it in his face. At any rate, if we cannot discern in detail the biases present here, there's no hope of getting out of the infinite regressive loop of tragedy we see play out again and again.
🙄 And "occupation" wouldn't happen if Muslims and Islam didn't keep attacking Israel from the start and denying their rights to live on land that was also historically theirs, much like trying to deny that Sophia Hagia was a church before it became a mosque.
