Israelis: What do you think of the Jewish Settlements in the West Bank? 

+rotem shaull Maybe the Israelis should stop squatting on the Arabs' land first.

+Imran Khan Please explain to me why the Jews were forced to leave Israel in the past ?Why do some Jews were forced to convert to Islam ? Why Israel which historically belongs to Jews should be ruled by Muslims who don't define themselves as Palestinians and most of them came ( originaly) from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia ? and if Israel did not exist, it is most likely that the territory you like to name Palestine was a part of the invented Jordanian kingdom or a part of Egypt, or in the worst case was controlled by ISIS

+rotem shaull You seem to imply that the Muslims kicked the Jews out of thr Middle East. That is patently false. The actions of others shouldn't cause Israel to war against Muslims.

Imran Khan​ it's not false man. Most of the jews who lived in the arab countries, about 800,000 people, being expelled from their countries. My grandparents are part of them.

Please explain why the jews invaded the land of Canaan, killed them, and stole their land? Why did they force the Canaanites to leave their land?

In some tribal societies peace is what one's tribe attains by eliminating rival tribes. Do you hold to "Let it be achieved in whatever which way is good"?

Your bias is so strong. We get it, you're a "liberal" Jewish Israeli. You don't examine the raw facts that Palestinians were displaced by the creation of your country. Just put yourself in their shoes: in 1947 Palestinian Arabs were 70% of the population and owned 95% of the land, and the UN, with zero consultation, determined that the 70% Palestinian Arabs should get 45% of the land and the 30% Jews should get 55% of the land. You'd also be upset and you'd also fight that.

It's just myself, so it is. Ummmmm haganah weren’t terrorists.

His job is medic, so he's only saving people's lives nit taking them. Millitary medics saved many palestinians's lives as well.

Yes, a stupid response but plenty of others didn't share it.

+blackdice1001 As a puppet state to the greatest military in the world, they will do it anyway.

+Bud Masta Agreed - but who in reality is the puppet, and who really holds the strings? Americans are brainwashed by their TVs that Israelis are our friends. Israel has NEVER said or even inferred they are the US' allies. There are more Israeli spies in the US than in all other countries combined. Our phone billing goes through Comverse. Our country sends Israel 3bn a year. Netanyahu himself says Israel can take care of itself. Orthodox Jews in their enclaves cannot stand Christians.

+Bud Masta I wish the World Court in Den Hague wasn't neutered by abject fear. Spain arrested Allende I think it was. - Why has no one nabbed DICK cheney, or worse (if that's possible), Heinz Kissinger? Same reason Canada didn't assassinate shrub, that's why.

Well, that is how it goes in war... Nations capture land. With regard to the West Bank, first Jordan took it, then Israel. Besides, as the so-called Palestinians declined the area, it was up for grabs. And it is strategically and historically an important place for the Israelis. It's tragic for the Palestinians, of course, but they could have had it, and they said no.

Are any of you fuckin nutters advocating land theft aware of international law? It is illegal in the modern age to just take someones land, especially through war. Territories are to be handed back, not kept.

Actually, under the "Fourth Geneva Convention" in 1949: "Articles 47-78: impose substantial obligations on occupying powers. As well as numerous provisions for the general welfare of the inhabitants of an occupied territory, an occupier may not forcibly deport protected persons, or deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into occupied territory (Art.49)". The West Bank is Palestinian occupied territories. This treaty has been and is still recognized by the international community. Only Israel doesn't agree to it right now even though it has signed the treaty. Therefore, those settlements are indeed illegal.

The RightStuff There is a Palestinian territory. Why do you think the ENTIRE world calls those settlements illegal?

So you call it antisemitism? Just because people don't agree with what you're doing you say that we hate Jews? It's like saying your parents don't want you to drink alcohol so they hate you. What a childish way of thinking. Just like the Jewish Prime Minister.

And all Middle East countries agreed to not follow that, and the Arab countries started the 6 day war under direct knowledge and attempt to take Israel by force but lost! Imagine after all the tongue lashing the same Arabs who are now upset are the same ones who tried to use those same rules but lost. Sounds like the Democratic Party

Eraser They are in deed and in fact. The problem is there is no internal enforcement (by Israel). And no international enforcement (by the US & EU). So it's a theoretical point. Furthermore, it makes for a bad partnership when one side is aggressively settling while land negotiation is a key point. So all this bullshit talk about let's have a two state solution. And We don't want to take all the land. And The Arabs don't want to deal. Total nonsense. Illegal Land grabbing has killed Hope.

You wouldn't find that in the US...but then that's probably because most Americans are ignorant about any subject other than sports or entertainment.

@@Commmotion watch the video where Corey goes around streets in his native Canada. It's on his yt channel. He asks people's opinions on what is happening in the Middle East. It is embarrassing. There is such a difference between asking Westerners in their native language about politics as compared with asking people in Israel / Palestine. It is the reason why I keep watching these videos. The Vox Pop demonstrates how many are able to articulate a clear, concise and informed opinion; some in the English language.

@@phelimridley6727 Yeah, I live in the West (and used to live in the East), and people here in the U.S. only care about sports, social media apps or reality TV shows.

@@waedjradi people have been distracted with bread and circuses as described by Herbert Marcuse

The Ultra Orthadox Jew parties never win Israeli elections, but they always win enough seats to play king maker. So they will only form a collation with a party that agrees to make more settlements.

Because israel wouldve been destroyed if they do

Lay dath kha

They did back in the 50's, darkest times in israeli politics

Yes the way Islam spread through the World,

When i read your comment people who believe in sionism It's always the same thing Speaking about the land Not the country or the people living there as if it is an empty land where there is no one It is funny when you said freed from jordanian occupation Jordan after 1948 took care of the refugees there with the help of the un and donations of peope who fleed their villages and lost their properties ,their life ,their jobs ..... So in the west bank after 1948 many of the people in refugee camps or in houses built by donations Israel invaded them again in 1967 with military with killing and expelling and deplacement again and every thing Then you say freed from jordan occupation This is the sickness of the idiology that made you blind unable to see the souffrances of people All that you care about is taking the land and throwing the people It wil end in a bi-national country you don't have any choice because the situation can not continue in the 21 century this way it is shamfull But your gouvernment had special calculations to keep a jewish majority You can not expect what they will do

You talk about a binational state as if it is going to happen. The Israeli government will never share power with Palestinians as equals. The current government is talking about actually EXPELLING Palestinians to the Congo. This isn't fantasy, it's a reality.

nice good man need more jews defending the innocent

so? it was plan in 1947 and palestinians didnt want state, they want you dead and to go from israel

Serbian Conspiracy Was that before or after the Zionist militants were violating the truce and pushing tens of thousands of Arabs out of Jaffa and Haifa, threatening to kill those who remained? Like in Deir Yassin? That kind of "want you dead" attitude?

It's just myself, so it is. that was after the Arabs declared a war against Israel and did the same to the jews in the west bank, and did the same to most of the jews in tbe arab countries.

Serbian Conspiracy 1948 it was massacres of Arabs in what now is Israel. That's how it all started. Look into a Primeminister of norway in the 80 ties for the Right party Kåre Willoch. It's in here. RU-vid. He knows so much. Same with the Norwegian professor Galtun.

According to a recent poll, 44% of Israelis are now supportive of reestablishing Jewish settlements in Gaza. You think this small sampling he pulls of mostly liberal Israelis is representative? It's not. The Washington-based Pew Research centre, a non-partisan think-tank which carried out face-to-face interviews with 5,601 adults from October 2014 through May 2015, asked whether “Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel”. Half of the Jewish respondents strongly agreed or agreed with that statement, with approximately the same numbers opposing the notion.

+Imran Khan Why? It is in fact true. And they are mostly not European. most Jews in Israel came from middle eastern countries (including myself)

+The Observer Most of the Israelis I've seen are blonde-haired, blue-eyed Ashkenazis. They are NOT from the Middle East. Though from what I've heard, they're not the majority of Israel though.

+The Observer Most of the Israelis I've seen are blonde-haired, blue-eyed Ashkenazis. They are NOT from the Middle East. Though from what I've heard, they're not the majority of Israel though.

Imran Khan Well if you must know most Ashkenazi Jews are not blonde or have blue eyes. They mostly have brown or black hair and brown eyes. Most Jews in Israel are in fact from Arab countries like Algeria, Tunisian, Morocco, Iraq and other non-Arab middle countries.

+The Observer so if all the palestinians convert or are from jewish ascendent you will stop killing them?

I think Corey says that he needs help with travel expenses to go to other places. If we send him a little money, maybe he will ask people from other areas?

And she has an adorable little girl!

becouse in Israel there is a lot of actions all the time!not like in small European country's! so you can't care about the every day Arabs from west bank stabbing in all Israel and the rockets and tunnels from Gaza, threads from Isis in Egypt and Hezbollah in Lebanon that plan something serious and Iranian nuclear weapon and all the hate from all of the world, and the feeling that you endlessly watched by the world for every step you take! so why people will care if some religious stupid Jews settled in occupied Jordanian territory? Jordan tried to destroy Israel and lost, so now it's Israel! what so bad in that? Why you shouldn't settle in your land! Jordan don't even want this cursed west bank becouse it's population really aggressive and made lots of conflicts in Jordan in the past!

yep, He said it would be good because everyone is missing some screws...lol

I loved his comments too! An Ace could be broadly described as a place where everybody comes/visits, or comes together, to improve the things around them. People who come to an Ace, are looking to make things better, and basically everybody goes there at one time or another. At an Ace hardware store, there is achieved, a meeting of the minds.

Damn we do need an ACE hardware store there lol too much drama

A real Nazi.

+Tony Bert There is no hatred of arabs from the Israeli side. All Israelis I know (I am Israeli myself) don't hate arabs. Of course there are things we feel strongly about but we don't have an inherent hatred towards Arabs.

***** There might be a dislike sure but that's as far as it goes. There is no incitement or any active anti arab behaviour. There might be some fear of violence but hatred certainly there isn't

The Observer people were calling for the death of the Arabs after the 2014 kidnappings. Plenty of Israelis hate Arabs stop being stupid

@@meirtt Arab jews?

@@ahmedkhalid6026 I don’t remember Israel starting a genocidal war against the Arabs like the Arabs did in 1948

We have a jewish Community in Germany! Young jewish come from Israel ,Most Go to Berlin. One piece of my Family is surived the Holocaust! But they stayed in Germany .Why ? They Said Germany is my Homeland! My english is Not very Well I would like all written but Idont know the right Word in english. LG from Germany I m a messian Jew A Question Hate the israelian Jews that young israelian Jews Go to live in Germany and many jewish Family too?

The gov bro..

@@t.mzulfadli7985 how?

Ok. Because we won it in a defensive war as per international law

One magical fairytale book over another magic book. Now we get to pick and choose which magic book it "really" belongs to. God, if he exists, does not GIVE A SHIT about national borders. What a joke!

Keep dreaming is free

Cornelius Vasi free palestine

Free Palestine as u dream .. keep dreaming because will happen .. free of Palestinians

Stop insultimg me .. prome me wrong if u can ..

If u say so .. :P

+835Jamie Is that supposed to be an analogy for 1948 or 1967? Either way, you do know that there was no state here before Israel, right?

I'm not talking about the actual state of Isreal, I believe they have every right to be there. I'm talking about the Israelis that live in settlements, under isreali law and military peotection, in agreed upon Palestinian land. The settlers are the ones that I don't agree with.

Lizzie87 Sorry, I forgot to tag you in my previous post.

835Jamie That's a legitimate position.

Alan Velez Even if they were bought as you claim, it doesn't mean that Israeli laws should apply to them but Palestinian law as the settlements are in Palestine.

This labd is ours by its history and out blood.sweat and tears.

I think any honest and reasonable person would have to say that neither side is without sin. I don't agree with everything Israeli does, but I do at least understand why they do what they do, and at any rate, do see Israel as having a legitimate right to exist, and defend it.

+Michael Kofman why not? its not just the goverment, its leagal by the international law.

Netanyahu needs settler vote for his majority in Knesset (Jewish Home party supports Likud)

+Michael Kofman Religious Jews? My car will get stoned if I drive through a West Bank (Syria's West Bank) settlement during Shabbot? Really? I didn't know the settlements had any conspiracy theorists for or against them. Pushing buttons isn't a way to make friends.

+Michael Kofman Well my reasonable replay is that the Israelis are controlling the banks to finance the illuminati to aid the Lizardmen take over Murica and invite aliens to inspect our rear end!

+Michael Kofman But now for real. To start with you need to understand that the main problem is that the west bank in in a weird limbo statusץ One the one hand, after 1948 it was annexed by Jordan, but they gave up rights when they made peace with Israel. On the other hand, Israel took the west bank at 1967, but never annexed it so even under local laws it's a bit of building outside of official "Israel". On the third hand, while the Palestinians claim the west bank as part of Palestine, for now there is no coherent control over it, and the lack of centralized power and clearly defined borders makes them much less of a "State". (Not saying if there should or should not be one, that's politics. What I speak about are more objective terms on the current situations) Now for the reasons, I can think of three main ones: 1. Before 1948 there were Jewish villages in the west bank, which fled to the newly born Israel once the territory became part of Jordan. However when Israel took it in 1967 some of those villages "rebuilt" themselves. In their eyes they were the one who got expelled (again, making it clear, in THIER eyes, I'm trying to be objective here RU-vid don't start a useless flame war) 2. Strategy. Israel is located in the Middle East, a lovely place if civil unrest and wars are your thing. If they continue to control the west bank they gain a strategic advantage due to the terrain of the West Bank. 3. While Israel is by far a secular nation, it's not as if there are no religion people. And in Israel (Just as any other country I know) Conservatives will sit in a coalition with religious parties if it'll secure the elections. So by turning a blind eye they do increase their public support among certain sectors. However it's important to note this trend is going down extremely fast. How fast? The current Israeli government coalition holds 61/120 sits of their legislative body (the Knesset). That's an extremely thin coalition and it does show a trend in shifting public opinion. I hope I answered your question, I tried to present the fact as objectively as possible

This comment is underrated, whenever someone says 2000 years ago I cringe ! How come you decided this century's politics based on ancient myths !

The mythology of the prophet Mohamad flying on a winged mule with human face to Al-aksa mosque.

The Palestinians are the real Judeans

The difference is that New Brunswick and Ontario are not sending terrorist raiders across the border into Quebec (and vice versa). The way the mindset is in Israel/Palestine, there could not be one state with two peoples unless border crossings were tightly controlled. Maybe one day in the future, but not now.

MickTheQuickk Oh but they did back before confederation.

+SlightlyVisible Same thing with poor France. Israelis and French citizens are pretty much atheists.

+SlightlyVisible Too much damage done by the Israel and the U.S it can never happen. Canada was organized (territories and colonies) federated against American Expansion..see 54-40 or Fight they wanted the whole continent....see American Mexican war...yes they call it the Mexican American War...guess who the perpetrators were? Definitely not the same thing. We dont know real reason reason by the UK gave such a hot contested area to a religious cult Zionism There was never much bloodshed between Quebec and English Canada. They realized they were abandoned by France and did the best they could but still had a deep distrust for the British colonies/English. Try Northern Ireland/ Ireland...even that dosnt work...with the fuck up called Israel

Zoch Buppet Actually, the UK didn't "give" anything to the Jews. They just said that they would support a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Also, the early Zionists were not a "religious cult". They were mostly atheists who were looking for a solution to centuries of antisemitism in Europe which had gotten particularly bad in the late 1800s.

You can only dream of My Land!! Non Muslim not allowed in Mecca. Islamic people don't want any settlement in the land they control. They don't want no Jews in the land of Israel. They don't want no non Muslim anywhere that they have power. Dearborn Michigan is no go zone. Must submit to Sharia everywhere you go in Islam country. No Bible and no Free speech and no free nothing. They don't want to be happy with a Jew. They want all Jew out of middle East. So insane.

Most of them are in Israel lol

+Borat Erali Nazarbayev so true. the people of gaza also agree. they suffer by the actions of the psychopathic israeli leaders on a daily basis.. but thats life eh?

+apm1 Yeah, Living under Hamas and their backward approach must be hell for them

+Borat Erali Nazarbayev Hamas was voted in. George Bush (DICK cheney really) wasn't.

+Borat Erali Nazarbayev so the palestinians who suffers from IDF bombs are not people for you?

***** u can't "fuck" a country and i don't think it's joyfull

The exact reason of why Israel should never stop this occupation, and should always be stronger than the Arabs. Please tell us, if they would never stop, what's Israel's motivation to help them?