The U.N. Should Admit Palestine as a Full Member State 

I really like this host's style of moderating, he's decisive and no nonsense, "with respect". I'd live to be an audience member. Dr. Bargutti made me cry at the end. It's very rare that I hear Palestinians speak and don't feel their sincerity. I totally understand that all they want is to be seen and have their humanity reaffirmed. I hardly ever hear hate or violence, mostly hurt. On the Israeli defender side, I hear a lot rigidity, arrogance, disrespect. I'm so glad no one was fooled by that woman's "sincere" question and the host had her explain herself and Bargutti called her put right away. I have some Israelis and Jews from the diaspora try to advance the position that Palestinians are non entities and it's truly disrespectful. This was 10 years ago now and what Levy was warning against is precisely where we are today where the Israeli government is further to the right and violence has taken over as the only solution. There's no peace because it was never part of the Zionist's plan. If they are to make space for all Jews to have a homeland, Palestinians have to either emigrate elsewhere or be killed off. It seems they've opted for the latter.

Mr.Mustafa, you are so eloquent. Your argument was beautifully put.

26:21 "It has no monopoly over the forces of violence in its society, in short it has no control over the guns, all of the guns, in its society! I would argue that critically important to statehood." Did he just state that the USA lacks the capacity to statehood? Since the USA does not control all the guns in its society and is in fact legislated against control over all guns

Thank you to Mr Bargouti and Mr Levy , you are simply human and realistic.

Every time I stumble upon debates about Palestine - Israel conflict, Israel supporters seem to be losing.

Daniel Levy seems like such a great guy, I wish there would be more people like him who actually care about long term Israel state and peace in Middle East.

Mustafa was absolutely brilliant in making his points. Insanity is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Love how they smacked down the silly woman who asked who the Palestinians are. Then she backtracks when an eloquent and beautiful answer was given.

May I please suggest that these four people argued their case very well & should form a team to find a way forward so that each team may come up critical issues for each team. This under UN sec. General after Palestine is admitted in UN

Great presentation by Mustafa Barguti!

Just because the Palestinian people did not in their past have a country on the land does not mean they have no right to their own nation. They have occupied that land for thousands of years, they should not be forced to move somewhere else if they want their own nation. They have every right to establish their own nation in their homeland, which is in the area they now occupy. More than that, the Israelis cannot use their past to violate international law and the rights of others, no one can.

A seldom considered fact...Resolution 273 granting Israel full UN membership states as follows...Recalling its resolutions of 29 November 1947 and 11 December 1948 and taking note of the declarations and explanations made by the representatives of the Government of Israel before the Ad Hoc Political Committee in respect of the implementation of the said resolutions. This did not mean to continue expropriating land and expand illegal settlements. Israel's membership is null and void!

The cheese metaphor that Mr. Abbas describes really struck home with me.

There's a typo in the description. For: Dore Gold ??? Against: Daniel Levy???

This was the most emotionally tense debate I have seen. When John Donovan can't even get the two to stop arguing you know its tense. After all of that we can never get the sides to compromise. This is the reason why we can never get anything done in the Middle East

To put it simple, new data requires us to rethink, and maybe even reject old data.

Palestine existed before Israel so of course it should be admitted to the UN. What makes Israel more entitiled?

Long time ago the UN should of gave PALESTINE full member rights like Israel 🇮🇱 HAVE nothing more nothing LESS FREE PALESTINE at LAST

Prayers for Palestine. Never give up. Americans are the last people who should be lecturing on gun control.

Viva Palestine!

Thanks for this report! 👍 FREE Palestine By A TWO-State Solution! 💞🙏🏼

Daniel Levy! You Sir. Show that SOME Israeli have a heart! You make me feel proud to be British! You made you points articulacy and with empathy! I salute you sir!

Out of the 20+ debates I have watched on this channel. This has been the most chaotic.

Very true. Or give aid to both sides for food, medicine, and infrastructure instead. Investing in one side's military alone is a sure way to perpetuate conflict...

Mistake in Description, Daniel Levy is For the motion, and Gold is against. Please review. Thanks.

And the name Palestine was used to refer to the entire region by Herodotus in the 5th century BCE, thus showing that name has too been used for over 2,000 years. And going back to the earliest point, texts at the Egyptian temple Medinet Habu dating to the 12thcentury BCE, use the term Peleset, although as you pointed out it was used to refer to the people of that region of Egypt who were part of the Sea Peoples. But nevertheless, the term Palestine is just as old as the term Israel.

This moderator did everything he could to prevent any discussion of Israel's behaviour.

The Mandate has ended. Get over it. What was Palestine is now called Jordan and Israel.

The un should only admit Palestine as a full member when peace is achieved.

He is one of the most respected debate moderators in the world...any debate about almost any Israeli-Palestinian conflict is challenging.

Genetic studies done on modern-day Palestinians do in fact show that they have ancestry in many of the different Semitic and even non-Semitic ethnic groups that have inhabited the Levant over those thousands of years. The truth is that discerning the native and rightful inhabitants of the Israel/Palestine area is incredibly difficult, owing to thousands of years of migration throughout the Middle East and intermingling of the various groups, mostly the Semitic ones.

Israël is the occupier and Is a member of state in the UN. That means to me you can steal some one's land and come before the UN and declared yourself as a Member of state and the UN accepts this.

Aaron David Miller is actually voicing all the same worries about the forming of the state of israel...how ironic

Speakers mixed up in the description, Illuminati confirmed.

The Palestinians aren't occupiers. They are native inhabitants who were converted to Arab culture and language during the conquests in the 7th century. Hence why they are now considered Arabs despite having ancestry in the Canaanites.

What does the online community think? Like if you're for the motion.

How can Gold claim that Palestine should not be allowed entry into the UN because Hamas does not adhere to the UN charter, when Israel itself has broken more UN resolutions than any other country in the world? That same argument should send Israel flying out of the UN, but I doubt he'd support that too... Double standard?

Mustafa Barghouthi thoroughly proved wrong that 'Palestinians don't want negotiations'.

Decent peace loving people are happy when they see a Jew & a Palestinian working together for peace. It makes those with evil intentions and racist, bigoted attitudes angry. How do you feel when you see a Palestinian & a Jew shaking hands and working together for peace? It will teach you a lot about yourself.

Shalom Aleichem Thanks for the message, but, remember, history is a result of now, and now future is apart of the now moment. The current situation, both positive and negative, is predicated upon inaccuracies in history, ethical approaches to the current situation, which would remedy the issue of undocumented migrants who have been in the land long before many of the descendants of early Jews who are there now. Does time abolish heritage or rights to land, not in this case, because, we are talking about a Kingdom, 2 Kingdoms, that have been illegally occupied by every Tyrant from the 2nd century until this day. The Persian anti Bedouin story is heartbreaking. the massacre in Syria by Assads father, all of this is due to the original sin of the invasion of Judah and Israel by Rome. For that breach is what became a stepping stone for everything post AD70. This you can not challenge, if this is the case, then, the entire notion of anyone other than Jews in Judea and Israeli Kingdoms, is based in the residue of an invasion or mix marriages. The fact there is animosity to the descendants for ancient Judeans, mean that individuals seek to destroy the first cause and create new causes that were born out of error. You can’t have a resistance and claim territory from what has been unlawfully stolen, and then in the future seek to claim and act as if your recent history predates ancient history . Daniel Moshe Johnson

Loved ❤the outcome of the vote after the debate. Palestinians should be an equal member with other nations at the UNITED NATIONS.

could you pls rectify your caption those For/Against . . . there seems to be a mised up . . . For: Mustafa Barghouthi For: Dore Gold ??? Against: Aaron David Miller Against: Daniel Levy ???

Absolutely the United Nations should admit and approve an independent& sovereign state of Palestine 🇵🇸 just like Israel

According to the bible - palestine belonged to the Jews before Islam was even created. islam has 58countries to itself - Israel has ONE

You can't just have an entirely new population immigrate into a region, have them breed with the locals and genetically dominate the locals. At most, the locals, their offspring at least will acquire a few genes from the foreigners. But by and large, they will still retain a strong lineage to the pre-migrant local ancestors, more so than with the migrant ancestors. Again, you're ignoring the entire science of genetics.

The point of bringing up the term 'Peleset' and Herodotus is to show that the name 'Palestine' or its root derivatives are just as old as the name 'Israel'. I wasn't arguing that the region has been known as Palestine just as long, but rather refuting your claim about the name Israel predating the name Palestine. The additional point of bringing up Herodotus was to show that the region, not the polity, has been referred to as Palestine for over 2,000 years.

Dore Gold said' These issues have to be negotiated'. No. International law is the means for arbitration. Israel conducted treaties with Egypt and Jordan and there was no basis for 'recognising' Israel. Also, Israel is still the occupying power in Gaza. This is the opinion of Israel's leading expert on International law, Yoram Dinstein.

Did Dore Gold call Israel 'Peace loving'?

Considering that Arabs created one of the largest empires in history it would have been impossible for them to outnumber the local populations they conquered, even in span of 1,500 years. The scientifically verified minor genetic overlap between Arabs and Palestinians does not mean Palestinians are FULL Arabs, especially when genetic studies show they are more closely related to Jews. You can repeat the census polls all you want, but they use categories that are based on out-dated data.

Begin the process of admitting Palestine as a full fledged UN member! Thank you!

Completely understandable statement...considering we average about 13,000 murders a year, ranging in reason from "someone looked at me the wrong way to jealous rage"! How many people do we imprison on an annual basis? How many women are raped every year? How many people are robbed? How many children are molested? How long has it been since slavery was abolished? How many wars have we been involved in? Yeah, we must be the most civil people in the world and have every right to criticize others!

You're right. You can't convert a race. But just as with the Egyptians the Palestinians were converted by the Arabs to Arab culture and language. That didn't change the fact Palestinians are NOT DESCENDED from Arabs. Palestinian ancestry ultimately traces back to the Canaanites despite them having lost their original culture and language.

they just cant pull the wool over ppls eyes anymore

Does it cost money to go? Cuz these debates are awesome :0

stop losing a time about Israel and Palestine.Keepe in minde a three wars against Israel with only one scope to throwe Israel to the see and caues a new Holocaust.Israel must think about his securiry.J.Baruhović

When the original Palestine is partitioned the state of Palestine was created. Not just Israel. It was an oversight that the two state solution had been put into Reality. Why would it be only Israel.

I was amused by the question of the young man which he asked 'trading one IDF prisoner for a 1000 terrorist' when in fact it was trading one terrorist for a 1000 freedom fighters.

I wonder how you (US and Australia ) gave full countryship to East Timor and how you divided Sudan, into South Sudan and North Sudan. You US, Australia and UN divided countries into parts as per your whims and fancies. I wonder how US, Australia, UN and US's allys have the right to impose their own decetions on the World.

Israeli became a state by taking Palestinian land by force and bloodshed. However want the Palestinians to obtain it by democratic means and full agreement to Israeli demands

why is Daniel Levy goes mad everytime we have a debate?!?!

Those Jews that occupied the land even after it was conquered by the Byzantines and Arabs (Byzantium was Christian), were the ones that mingled and bred with the Arab immigrants. Modern-day Palestinians, being descended from that mingling of Jews and Arabs, will as a consequence have ancestry in the ancient Jews. That is an undeniable biological fact. If you continue to deny it and instead persist with this idea Palestinians are full Arabs, then you prove your complete ignorance of genetics.

The Palestinians are descended from populations that inhabited the lands of Israel-Palestine prior to the Arab Conquests, populations that are Canaanite in origin, genetics, archaeology and history prove that. Just as the Egyptians were converted to Arab culture and language by the Conquests, so were the Palestinians, even though neither the Egyptians nor Palestinians are descended from Arabs.

There should be only two choices given either Israel implements the 1947 two state solution or have a complete Palestine restored to pre 1947 borders .

Yet, nine years later, no Palestinian state. Mustafa Barghouthi said there was a need to correct a historical mistake since 1947? The mistake was on the part of the Palestinians and the community of UN Arab nations. NOT Israel or the other state members of the UN who voted for partition -- which was effectively a vote for a Jewish & Arab state, side-by-side. Sorry Mr.Barghouthi, this was the fault of the Arab states, further exacerbated by waging civil war within Israel the day after the partition vote, November 29 1947. And then the full-scale war when Israel declared statehood in May of '48. It never ceases to amaze how the Arabs always play the victim when they were the ones who were the designers of their own downfall, as far as a Palestinian state was concerned.

So if by some twist of fate Mexico gets a hold of a weapon that could defeat the United States.... and decides to use it to take their land back.... that would be ok? If Mexico slowly started taking their land back and Americans were treated like Palestinians are treated now.. that would be ok because it was Mexicos land first... right? All land was once someone elses. The only way to prevent future wars is to stop the music in this game of musical chairs and everyone gets the seat they have.

The former Israeli UN ambassador does not focus on the issue and gives a lecture for ninety percent of his time. Ridiculous!!

Palestine should not accept négociation with United States of America over a peace plan, bring China and Russia to help Palestine if America is in the négociations with their best friend Israël.

I am not Palestinian but by gum if I were I would do everything to stop the Holocaust and brutalisation of the Palestinians.

statehood is a concept which is derived from sovereignty, not the other way around. if the tomorrow the UN recognises Victora as an Aborigine state, what do you think would happen?

I blame the US and UN for not following on, on the agreement agreed by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafaath.

i wanna smack that moderator...he interrupts everybody

And who were those Jews who had a continuous presence in Palestine? What language did they speak? What culture did they have? How did they dress? The fact is the Jews of Palestine were Palestinian Jews, as Palestinians are Christians & Muslim. Yes the Jews had a continuous presence but they were Palestinian & they shared Palestinian history, culture, music, food etc... Don't you have any shame trying to justify ethnic cleansing and colonialism? Honestly it is sickening.

This was 11 years ago. What do y’all think now? The only way is to make it one state with one law and one government with freedom of religion, children going to school together, hospitals, libraries, Health Departments, juvenile detention, jails, prisons, courts, parks, zoos, stores, jobs, volunteering, farming, import and export, tourism and freedom to travel. Border control. In America we have had civil wars. Now we live together in peace mostly. There’s always going to be criminals and racist crimes. But most crime is against people’s same race. There needs to be celebrations for all to attend. Opportunities for all to own their own business and homes. One state. One law. Or let the people move out if they don’t want it.

But they never exterminated the local populations. That's the important point. The Arab rulers, post-conquest did not eliminate the local populations. Instead they let them remain where they where, letting them continue their own way of living but bringing it all under Arab rule. That is how a significant Jewish population managed to survive under Arab then Ottoman rule right up until the formation of the modern state of Israel. It was the same with the Palestinians.

48:05 Israel has not recognized the rights of the Palestinians to be an independent state

I'm going to go with completely!

"I think that yes, Hamas is a terrorist group, but no, not everyone is a terrorist. You are stereotyping, and that is what is wrong with this world." A large majority of Palestinians voted what you call a terrorist group into power. *That* is what's wrong with this world. What you'd suggesting is essentially the same as arguing that Nazism isn't bad, most Nazis never killed a single Jew, demonizing Nazis is just a meaningless generalization.

& Pre-Roman England belonged to pagan tribes You seem incapable of understanding that the Palestinian people are the indigenous people of Palestine regardless of fact that Jews played a role in the history of Palestine The history of Palestine goes beyond just Jewish history You think illegal colonization of Palestine& the ethnic cleansing of Palestine is justified on the basis that Jews lived in Palestine 2000 years ago yet you call me delusional?That entire notion is what is really disturbing

Gold is so Obnoxious.

While it is true that Palestinians have never had their political independence, they and their ancestors have inhabited the region for at least 2,000. You cannot say they don't have the right to independence in a land they have inhabited for over 2,000 years. They have lived there for that long, it is their home; you cannot tell them to go anywhere else. You cannot tell them they don't have the right to be politically independent of a government, in their homeland, they don't agree with.

Actually you're wrong. History documents how many populations in the Middle East were converted to Arabs, making them in a cultural sense Arabs but not descended from them. The Palestinians are one of those people. It was almost the case with Persians as well, who the Umayyad Caliphs in the 7th century tried to convert into Arabs, with the intent of Islamizing them. You demonstrated quite clearly you don't know the histories of the Palestinian and Arabs.

It's not "For: Mustafa Barghouthi and Dore Gold, Against: Aaron David Miller and Daniel Levy BUT IT IS FOR: Mustafa Barghouthi and Daniel Levy, Against: Aaron David Miller and Dore Gold

Alex is a very semitic name. You must be from the mid east! Britain, Germany & other nations were named by the Romans. Who cares where Palestine got it's name from Your argument is like saying that a Briton who has German ancestry has the right to go to Germany & kick out the native population because their ancestors lived there 2000 years ago. That is actual insanity. The Jewish kingdoms of Palestine lasted little over 500 years COMBINED! It was part of Palestine's history & does not define it

i'm not a US citizen, dont care about the elections. "We live in the 21st century" - does that mean a bunch of non-democratic countries should participate in democratic processes (UN) that affect me?, or does it mean that whatever emperor obama wants he gets? why do you think that 21st century politics are so much different?

2-state solution has been tried repeatedly, Palestinians never agree to anything, it's never good enough. I don't understand the entire charade going on here from Mustafa and Dore.

I think you should not cut off one in the middle of delivering a valuable opinion. as a moderator you should give him three to 5 minutes to wrap up his speech.

It's not bull, it is the truth. Genetic studies of the various peoples of the Middle East places the Palestinians as being more closely related to Jews than to Arabs, with a common ancestry pre-dating the Judean era. The Palestinians are no more Arab than the Egyptians, who were only converted to the Arab culture and language but are not descended from Arabs. Considering I am relying on the most accurate up to date research, I'm not the one denying history, you are.

yay finally America is catching up

Mr levi. The palestenians wants a state instead of israel

Of course they were listed as Arabs because they are Arab! Just as Arab Jews are considered Arab & Arab Christians are considered Arab. You cannot get your head around the idea that Arab culture became the predominant culture of that region as Christian culture became the dominant culture of Europe. I can give you a list of Palestinian family names who trace their roots hundreds even thousands of years in Palestine. Give me ONE Jewish family name who immigrated to Palestine who can say the same

Look up Palestinian Jew. It is a very real term and has been used to describe real people up until the 20th century. The term Palestinian Jew is exactly the same as Ethiopian Jew.

Sure, UN should say that Palestine is a state. It can then be fully responsible for stopping attacks from it's land. Failing that, attacks on Israel will be considered acts of war and Israel should respond as such.

They will respect each other over the fact that they both hsve weapons

It wasn't the original homeland of the Jews, the Canaanites were there before them. And the region has been referred to as Palestine or other Semitic language variants for 3,000 years. Genetically modern-day Palestinians aren't Arabs, having roots with the ancient inhabitants that predate both Jewish and Arab control.

I'm going to state this only once, and if you don't understand and hopefully believe it then you're a lost cause. The following is what the best facts and data currently available, establish about the Palestinians. The modern Palestinian people are the descendants of pre-Judean inhabitants of the Levant who continued to reside there, even after the siege and destruction of Jerusalem by Emperor Titus in the 1st century caused the Jews to flee in to exile around the Mediterranean and Europe.

How did those who performed the censuses define Arab identity? What parameters did they use to establish whether someone was Arab? To what extent are those definitions challenged by more recent discoveries? To what extent does modern genetics require us to rethink what it means to be Arab? And Palestinian for that matter? In light of newly acquired knowledge in what ways MUST we rethink what it means to be Arab, Palestinian, Jew, etc.?

Arabization is real. If you don't believe me then where do you think the Egyptians went? You know, the people that inhabited Egypt for centuries under the Pharaohs, Greeks, Romans, and then Byzantines. They were converted to Arab culture and language, which is how Egyptians today are considered Arab. The same goes for Syria, Palestine, Iraq, and Sudan. The Arab Conquerors even tried it in Persia, but in that one case they failed.

I have an idea. What about if Palestine is given to Jordan and they can join and make federal government and sign peace with Israel?

And they massively outnumbered the Palestinian ancestors as well.

Everyone knows what is going on in Palestine. The moment the Palestinian gentleman was asked "what do your opponents not understand about your position (paraphrasing)", and he answered as though that were a legitimate question, it was over (around the 11 minute mark). Any intellectual who defends Israel is crooked, not ignorant.