Father John Sheehan: “Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can’t help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East.”
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i aske this alot but still i received no answer to this question.. from whom or what do we really want to free the "P"??? how can we free it if it doesnt exist in the first place.. maybe you are now the one who can provide and explanation to that..
@@marvelstark3797 ziofascists are so fucking uncreative. no one answers your stupid questions because they are stupid. And its not worth explaining things to religious fundamentalists who won't/can't listen or comprehend.
@@marvelstark3797I don't know why I'm bothering to answer someone who is so clearly arguing in bad faith. Palestine verifiably exists. Maybe not as a country by your definition, but it certainly does exist and you're simply denying reality if you think it doesn't. So, since it exists, we can free it. Free it from what? Free it from oppression. Israeli oppression. Over 37000 Palestinians killed since October 7th 2023. This of course excludes the hundreds of thousands of people expelled during the nakba. If you refuse to accept that Palestinians are oppressed, that's on you.
@@marvelstark3797 we want to free palestine from israeli terror and occupation that has been going on since 1948. palestine exists, but i'm afraid your ability to think does not
Isn't Israel made up? A gift from Britain eventho Britain didn't own it but as usual classic Britain feeling generous so they gave something that was not theirs to someone else.
Not quite. Quite established long before anyone else: An agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms (3000 - 1200 BC) Judaism (1200 - 1100 BC) The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah (1047 - 930 BC) - Jerusalem is the Capital .... Islam (622 AD) .... Jews were there first and Palestine was made up to pretend to have right to have land there and take if from Israel.
@makesnosense6304 not really the Palestinians are arab jews they were originally jews who somehow got left behind after most were kicked out by the romans
Not in the slightest. I’m the sense that in the Bronze Age a civilisation grew called Israel/Judea etc for sure but not in the sense you’re describing. Israel existed as a Jewish state, it was conquered a tonne of times and then they were expelled by colonisers- it was owned by different colonising powers - franks, ottomans, Brit’s and then given back. Arabs never had political ownership- some lived their under different empires and many arrived in the 1940/50/60s from Egypt as part of a call to stop the Jews taking it back. They have a religious objection to Jews coming back- I’m a child of Muslims and have been taught this from birth. when the Jews came back they bought the land from landlords and it was all confirmed as legal by UN. It’s not a settler community- that’s like saying if the native Americans took America back that they are settler colonialists. Complete nonsense. Israel is mentioned back in Egypt archeology. Palestine was first used by Greek historians to describe the entire area including Syria - it’s a European name and comes from an ancient people group that do no exist anymore. The word in Hebrew in fact means invader. The laughable thing is the Arabs did in fact colonise the land in the 7th century and in subsequent centuries. While I in no way blame the modern people who use the name Palestinian- they are genetically Egyptian as proven by multiple studies and by Egyptians themselves. They weren’t the indigenous people. Also many Palestinians live in Israel as full citizens just like the rest of the Israeli Arab population which is 20% of the entire population. There’s hundreds of Arab countries in the world and literally one country for Jews and that’s the one that is blamed for everything. Sudan is massachering its people 200/300 every single day, iran is killing its people and torturing dissidents, Egypt treats its Coptic people like shit, Kuwait and Yemen and Lebanon have governments and terrorists making their lives hell and yet a democratic country is the most evil in the world? I have Palestinian friends from Gaza who have moved and now live peacefully in Israel and they think people are insane to believe the whole Hamas narrative which seems to be seeping through society. It’s not and never was their land. Not once in history. Jews are recognised by the Māori and aboriginal and native people groups as indigenous peoples and they are right. This doesn’t excuse certain governmental actions but rather I’m talking about the right which Israel has to exist- political, historical and legal.
Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister, had a Palestinian Passport and admitted it. That should be proof enough. As of today 143 countries have recognized the existence of Palestine as a State (Country).
They said that to South Africans, Native Americans, Algerians, and so on. Oppressors often deny the existence of a place or its people when the oppressed fight back, or they falsely claim to be indigenous instead of the actual indigenous people.
The US did that to my little island of Puerto Rico. For those that wonder why we are so nuts about our identity and flag… Because we were not allowed to fly our own flag on our island, speak our language, or express anything that could be considered betrayal to our occupying force. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷
When was Spanish not allowed to be spoken in Puerto Rico? As far as I know all Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico are fluent in Spanish and have always been
@@RiseAndShine144 I shouldn’t answer if you’re actually Puertorrican, as you should know for yourself. But, just in case you’re not from Borikén. Indeed, from 1948-1957 we were not allowed to do as such.
@@RiseAndShine144 it’s also why generations before mine (genX) were bilingual and tend to speak English so well. GenX reaped the benefit as well, as we all had cable by my generation. But, Millennials not so much. Growing up, all the adults in my family were bilingual.
@@philliplabuschagne the Jordan River, which I visited the Jordan side of in 2019, and the Mediterranean Sea if that was your next dumbass question. Are you done, or are you going to try to turn this into a penis measuring contest with a woman while exuding micro penis energy? 🤔
@@deforetime3094 don’t you dare talk to me about hamas taking hostages when Netanyahu has taken the entire city as a hostage ALL the civilians WAY before October for YEARS the torture has been going on. The Palestinians are being carpet bombed. It’s an open air prison. Don’t you get it? They have NO ESCAPE. If you STILL think this is all because of hamas, I IMPLORE you, if you have any flicker of humanity left, I IMPLORE you again to please go educate yourself. You will know then, that whatever netnyahu has done was never just a “mistake”, he helped CREATE hamss in the first place and it backfired on him.
@@deforetime3094 The hostages would be free by now if Netanyahu wouldn’t be rejecting negotiations with Hamas. For him it’s more important to use the attack on Israel to try to get all Palestinians thrown out of Gaza. That was the goal of the Israeli part of this war. Because reaching the goal of throwing almost every Palestinian out of Greater Israel would have been the way to reach the goal of defeating Hamas and getting the accusations of being an Apartheid state off the table. And the West was totally complicit with this goal. And up to now they’re only asking from Israel to hurry up because they can’t resist the resistance of their populations forever. And now it seems as if Israel has failed.
@@raibilrei the claim of some pepole in Israel about Netanyahu is thet he Delays the war to continue in order to remain in power. But lets not get into political stuff. The only one to blame it Hamas. Yes. Some pepole didnt help so much to the situation.... But they not to blame about the Hostages. Hamas toke them. Hamas use Gaza pepole as human shields. Hamas take their aid and hide in tunnels. Hamas is to blame.
The "B*mb Pop" joke truly does write itself! Tbh I had no idea what they were called, but they're ubiquitous and look like rockets/missiles. A metaphor for this country on so many levels.... My heart goes out to every Palestinian, especially those suffering in Rafah right now. Big hugs to you, Sammy! ❤️✊🍉🇮🇪
i aske this alot but still i received no answer to this question.. from whom or what do we really want to free the "P"??? how can we free it if it doesnt exist in the first place.. maybe you are now the one who can provide and explanation to that.. 😂😂
@@StephenRoss-po1rp thank you so much for acknowledging the fact that wearing shower curtain is my choice and i consider that as my freedom rather roaming wearing semi naked clothes..so much 💕💕
Such an honest and hilarious comedy riff! I love how you cut through this incredibly hard topic for some to digest, with deep and insightful comedy. You're so good at your craft, Sammy. I just wish it wasn't so hard for so many to just be decent human beings.
Yes...people like you are the reason Israel and Palestine is at endless war... Each side thinks the other is fake so never will there be peace between Jews/Israelis and Arabs/Palestinians... Keep on your militant ways and let's hope that one day you will open up your eyes to the realization that neither Arab nor Jew is leaving this region
Israel is in the Quran and the Bible. The only reference to Palestine is Gaza and the Philistines. The Roman colonizers named it “Palestina” to insult the Jews. If you think the Bible is fake talk to the Smithsonian. Free Palestinians and Israelis of their leaders. They are the real culprits.
Ive been peacefully protesting for Palestine for 2 decade now. We nevergot press. Back in October we got negative press and were called that name. People have either mysteriously shut up or have joined us.
I see a lot of confusion between Gaza, not occupied on Oct 7, and the West Bank, which was. From an economic standpoint, occupation is preferred because someone else pays for the cops.
@@theBear89451Both are occupied, neither place had freedom or control over their own land. And obviously there is no benefit. That's like saying the Jews in concentration camps benefited because the Jewish police no longer needed to go to work because the nazis were "policing" the area and kindly controlling the people.
@@theBear89451- Who told you it wasn't occupied? You don't need to have boots on the ground to qualify it as an occupation. Occupation can exist remotely. There's the border control, also the territorial control over land, sea, & air (which restricts travel, fishing, building construction, even rainwater collection), blockades (permits required for travel, student, medical services, holy pilgrimage, building of sanitation or farms or energy projects, etc.), trade restrictions (allowing only certain food items, but banning arbitrary items that were unreasonably restricted like chocolate, coriander, jam, dried fruit, fried potatoes, notebooks, fabrics, flower pots, etc - and high export taxes of local goods & low import taxes of I5ræli goods, which led to a higher consumption of non-local products), utility restrictions of electricity for up to 4 hrs a day, an avg caloric threshold (which was the minimum calculated before malnutrition set in, and for which the avg included the caloric needs of children who made up 50% of the population, meaning the avg was much lower than it should've been for adults), water restriction of 80 liters per household a day or 26 liters per person (97% of which was undrinkable to begin with) compared to 247 liters for settlers, etc. You get the gist, an outside govt was in control, hence that would qualify as an occupation.
@@theBear89451- Who told you it wasn't? You don't need to have boots on the ground to qualify it as an o%ccupation. O%ccupation can exist remotely. There's the b%order control, also the territorial control over land, sea, & air (which restricts travel, fishing, building construction, even rainwater collection), block%ades (permits required for travel, student, medical services, holy pilgrimage, building of sanitation or farms or energy projects, etc.), trade restrictions (allowing only certain food items, but banning arbitrary items that were unreasonably restricted like chocolate, coriander, jam, dried fruit, fried potatoes, notebooks, fabrics, flower pots, etc - and high export taxes of local goods & low import taxes of Izrli goods, which led to a higher consumption of cheaper non-local products), utility restrictions of electricity for up to 4 hrs a day, an avg caloric threshold (which was the minimum calculated before malnutrition set in, and for which the avg included the caloric needs of children who made up 50% of the population, meaning the avg was much lower than it should've been for adults), water restriction of 80 liters per household a day or 26 liters per person (97% of which was undrinkable to begin with) compared to 247 liters for s%ettlers, etc. You get the gist, an outside govt was in control, hence that would qualify as an o%ccupation.
When I was in Georgetown University (35 years ago) we were groups of students from Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Italy. We always sit together and chat, doing project and homework together and we had no hatred toward each other at all. I don’t understand the mentality of new generation or even my generation which is 50+, what has changed so dramatically. I believe politics and power have their own agenda of destruction destroying the world and humanity.
●''Such a creature as Palestine does not exist at all''. (Ahmad Shukan , Saudi Ambassador to the UN, 1956) ●"There are no differences between Jordanians , Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese . We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully exploit and underline our Palestinian identity.....yes , the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian State is a new tool against Israel '' (Zuhair Mushin , military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council, March 1977) ● "There were no Palestinians before 1967, these were Jordanians and Egyptian refugees. This fake name was created to give them an identity separate from the Jews" ●''There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs indistinguishable from Jordanians (another recent invention), Syrians, Iraqis etc. Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9 per cent of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one tenth of one per cent. But that is too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today...no matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough''. (Arab writer and historian Joseph Farah in his book Myths of the Middle East October 2000.) ●''Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian? We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of a sudden we were Palestinian - they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag. When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out ''. (Former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat) The name Palestine is the Latin word for Philistine and was given to the land by the Romans 1900 years ago.
Love the Palestine USA comparison, as both former British colonies, brilliant! Britain needs to be reminded of our historic role betraying Palestinians...
@@_S_I_ all religions are peacefully living together in Israel. And in no other country in the Middle East. Lebanon was another good example, but “palestinians” ruined it.
@@someoneelse8412 Muslims do _not_ have the same de facto rights as Jews in Israel. Over half the Muslim population of Israel is below the poverty line. Muslims have a disproportionately higher infant mortality rate, as well as disproportionately less access to education. Many forms of discrimination go unchecked by the government Employers, landowners, Police, judiciary authorities and lawmakers are known to favour Jews over Muslims in almost all circumstances. In fact, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) owns 13% of the _entire_ landmass of Israel - a huge proportion of the developable land in the country. The majority of land within the green line is off limits to Muslims. 80% of the country is off limits for Muslims. Quasi-government entities like the JNF have a near-complete monopoly over land ownership. The JNF stipulates that only Jews can buy, mortgage or lease their land. The Israeli Land Administration compensates the JNF with an equal amount of land, otherwise, in order to maintain this unequal access to land. Regional councils regularly deny Arabs residency in order to preserve the “Jewishness” of their areas. They actively work against the freedom of religious expression for Muslims and Christians. The mayor of Upper Nazareth went as far as saying, “I would rather cut off my right arm than build an Arabic school.” The Absentees’ Property Laws restrict refugees from the use and disposal of properties they owned prior to displacement. These properties were confiscated and given to the Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property, amounting to 70% of all Israeli land. These are all Issues that Muslim citizens of Israel face. Those who were born in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, having no Israeli citizenship, are met with even worse discrimination. They aren't given any representation in Israeli law. The state refuses to give them citizenship, stating they are "aimed at ensuring Israel's Jewish majority" while rejecting a two-state solution. This isn't equal rights - it's apartheid.
We all palestinians because palestine is not real. Its what the romans called Israel to desmis the Jews connaction with the land. Jews are technically palestinians
❤#freePalestine love your work 🎉thank you for many lol since I found you over a year ago x (I have friend in the westbank it means alot the truth you're helping spread)
I'm from Israel and at least we both agree that it's funny when we tell other people about where we are from (btw: I don't support Israel like most Israelis)
قال الزعيم الجمهوري الأمريكي سام باركر إن العديد من الجنود والمدنيين الإسرائيليين قتلوا من قبل جيش الدفاع الإسرائيلي نفسه وسط الفوضى ونقص المعلومات الاستخبارية في 7 أكتوبر
The Autonomous Jewish Republic of Birobidjan, with Yiddish as it's official language was created 14 years before Israel and still exists to this day in the Russian Federation, in Siberia. Israelis can go relocate over there and let Palestinians live freely in their motherland!
@@MetatronsRevenge613 You should leave because your state was formed by illegally occupying territories and to this day it continues to target innocent civilians and children.
Here in Canada those have been branded "rocket pops" my entire elder millenial life. I was "today years old" when I learned you guys call 'em "bomb pops." Come to think of it they do have a vague resemblance to some WWI rifle grenades. . .
Of what..that there was a British Mandate of a bordered region that the Europeans called Palestine? Maybe for people who have such little understanding of geopolitics would not know the difference between a geographic region, a geopolitical region and a country. Palestine was a geographic region, the synonymous name for it in Hebrew was Israel. Jews adopted Israel and Arabs adopted the European name "Palestine" as their political entity. Each name has roots in the land. But Palestine country is an Arab Muslim-majority geopolity and has nothing to do with the British Mandate Palestine, which was a European Mandate given by the League of Nation of a territory and it's name could have been Spaghetti Monster if the Brits chose so... Palestine is not a country because it doesn't yet function as one..that doesn't mean that Palestinians are not people, wo will one day have a country
@@LEsL564 Palestine was the name used for the area as early as 12th century B.C. by the ancient Egyptians. The Assyrians called it Phalastu in the 8th and 7th centuries B.C., and Herodotus and other Hellenistic philosophers called it Palestine, after the Philistines. “Writing in the 5th century B.C., Herodotus was the first historian to describe vividly a multifaith country located naturally (geographically) between Phoenicia and Egypt, and to denote a geographical region he called Palaistinê,” observes Nur Masalha in his 2018 book, “Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History.” What was Israel called before it was named Israel during the U.N Partition? Judea and Sumeria kingdoms? How long ago? Who were the kingdoms subjects, or citizens? Was it just Jewish people living there only during that time? Maybe looking into Biblical or historical “Israel” which never existed as a country, I can only think of Judea and Sumeria existing back then, and what geographical and geopolitical areas it encompassed… learning history, helps understand the present situation…
@@SsecicKG My dear. I am an archaeologist, I don't need to be lectured on learning history, especially not when you are quoting anti-Israel Palestinian scholars who are more in tune with modern geopolitics than historical ones. I know very well the root and usage of the name Palestine. Yes, Paleshtu was the name given to the Philistine people, not the entire Southern Levant and later the southern coast of the Levant was referred to as Phillistia, because the Philistines lived there, specifically from Gaza to Ashdod and from the Sea until the western Shefelah. The Philistines were seafarers of Greek origin and had contact with the Greeks, hence their ethnic name was adopted to the entire region and Herodotus and later Greek and Roman scholars called the region Palestine because for them, the Philistines were the "main" ethnic people of the region but in reality, archaeological evidence proves they inhabited the coast and NOT the inland. Another theory is that Palestine is a literal Greek translation of the name "Israel", both of which are a form of "to wrestle" or "wrestler". Isra-el (Hebrew- wrestles with God) and Palaistis (Greek- wrestler). (I suppose Masalha never wrote that in his book). The land was called Israel, for the people of Israel. You have proof of the Israelites in the Mernaptah Stela, and of the Kingdom of Israel in Kurk Stela mentioning King Ahab the Israelite. You have Assyrians texts mentioning the House of Omri and yes, later the texts mention the northern Kingdom of Israel as Samaria. This is all paralleled in the Biblical texts as well. Regarding Judah, I won't even start to list the textual evidence as there are plenty (like you wrote). Samaria was a city, first and foremost, and only later began being used as a name for the kingdom after it became its capital. Israel and Judah are the accepted names of Iron Age kingdoms that ruled modern Israel/Palestine, whether you like it or not. What was Israel called before it was named Israel during the U.N Partition?- The British Mandate of Palestine was called in Hebrew המנדט הבריטי על פלשתינה ארץ ישראל (The British Mandate of Palestina Eretz Israel" and all the coins of the Mandate have the א"י to prove it. Judea and Sumeria kingdoms? How long ago? Judah from around 930-587 BCE. Israel (Samaria) 930-700. Easy and so much textual proof from Assyria and Babylonia. Who were the kingdoms subjects, or citizens? Israelites Shomronists and Judahits. I mean, these are Iron Age kingdoms, they didn't have passports. It was ethnicites before it was subjects of a Kingdom. Was it just Jewish people living there only during that time? The term Jewish derives from Judah. So the people of Judah were definitely יהודים, but not Jewish in the religious way. this came after the Babylonian conquests of the Judah and the Jewish return during the Persian conquest. Maybe looking into Biblical or historical “Israel” which never existed as a country, I can only think of Judea and Sumeria existing back then, and what geographical and geopolitical areas it encompassed. Israel as a geopolitical entity, was synonymous with Samaria, as already written. regarding the geography: Israel roughly Jezrael Valley until Shechem. Judah: Shechem until Beer Shava...but this was always changing of course. Archaeological proof is abundant
I forgot the Mesha Stela, found in Jordan, which clearly mentions Omri, King of Israel: "Now as for Omri, King of Israel, he oppressed Moab for many days because Kemosh was angry with his land. And his son succeeded him, and he also said: "I will oppress Moab." It was during my days that he said th(is)..."
@@SsecicKG I forgot the Mesha Stela, found in Jordan, which clearly mentions Omri, King of Israel: "Now as for Omri, King of Israel, he oppressed Moab for many days because Kemosh was angry with his land. And his son succeeded him, and he also said: "I will oppress Moab." It was during my days that he said th(is)..."
Considering the immense harm and lasting damage that conflicts cause-disrupting lives, families, and communities-couldn't we, as a global community, aim for a higher state of harmony by resolving international disagreements through virtual platforms like Counterstrike or Call of Duty? By adopting these virtual competitions as the official method for settling disputes between nations, we could replace the negative impacts of real-world conflicts with a safe and positive alternative. If countries find themselves at odds, they would turn to the virtual battlefield, fostering a culture of peace while enriching our minds and spirits. Elevating these competitions to the status of global events like the FIFA World Championship or the Olympics, we would create a new model of conflict resolution, one that encourages the growth and flourishing of humanity as a whole, ultimately ensuring lasting peace for all.
However, this would still be bad for many poorer countries where this may be harder to access, so somebody should focus on giving access to all the things they'd need for training like housing, food, water, electricity, and Internet access around the world
It's a nice try, but I have to say these boomers don't play video games. The thought likely wouldn't occur to them, and if it did, they'd come up with ways to cheat. "Oops, the power just happened to go out just as you were winning...." Personally, I think that them that wants war, such as Netanyahu, should have to go hand-to-hand in a cage match. Why should these "leaders" be allowed to sacrifice others' lives? It would be interesting to see if Putin would be down......
You heard them said: "This is "biblical". God has chosen us, and God has promised us the land. So, if you don't like it, I dare you to go and change the bible" They are not only the enemy of humanity. They are putting their words in God's name. And some people still don't understand why God creates The Eternal Hellfire... God is not cruel, but some people are
