A friend of mine has submitted the following pro-Israel videos (and a few articles). My comments.
Palestine 1900-1920 (Old camera footage makes everything look very backward...but NOT unpopulated! Though the camera itself may be the most dysfunctional thing of all.) Starts in Jaffa, though film is titled "Jerusalem." Perhaps they didn't want to use the name Palestine. They use the term Holy Land. I see Orientalism starting with the very title. I imagine Edward Said must have seen this film.
Palm Oil? Yes, it's evil also. But two evils does not make Israel right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgcfgTTuku0
Qu'ran's sweet sounding verse has some ugly parts removed. Yes...but the word "innocent" replaces the removed text. I don't care for either one. But people ought to be able to believe whatever they want to believe, and while I feel all religions make people less free (and therefore also less self-actualized and less universally-purposed), we cannot socially discriminate based on tribalistic beliefs but on actions. On that grounds, in view of still existing world "Christian" empire and rest-of-world subjugation, it is Christendom which still (and historically) has more to apologize for, despite all the "love" in the holy book (and it's not all that either, far from it). In fact, and more insidiously, what Christianity does is divorce "love" and such from their true meaning, leaving us all isolated and shaking with fear. Islam is just more like "old testament" jealous God without all the happy talk. The bigger evil in the world is empire, and religions are just the window treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqduwXVSgQ
About Mecca, will read later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTjNbT2-gmE&ab_channel=ApostateProphet
Description of Shekh Jarrah claims from Israeli perspective--critical missing information (dismisses international claims that East Jerusalem is Palestinian not Israeli, doesn't describe how current Palestinian residents were settled and that they had been promised Jordanian deeds prior to 1967, how these homes were replacement for their previous homes in West Jerusalem which was resettled by Israel in 1948, and that Jordan made their deeds official in 2021).
https://www.ngo-monitor.org/sheikh-jarrah-property-claims/?fbclid=IwAR21nRK93GkVCA6aA4mSk_k4OgTYoyg2HNZqlXBlz7eP-Oi-aoOXnHvCZsU
[article] I can't remember what my friend said about this, but it is a protest for "co-existence" and recognition of the Palestinians between Sea and River as equals. Organized by a communist party (Meretz) among others. This is one of the protests I think I would approve of.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/thousands-of-jews-and-arabs-march-in-tel-aviv-for-peace-coexistence-668852?draft=true.
Gaza-Sinai state??? Later...
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2017/7/24/is-gaza-sinai-state-a-possibility-for-palestinians
Antisemitism report on CBS news. All racism is deplorable, including antisemitism, and some may be occurring. However there is no mention of anti-arab racism. Yasha Levine, Max Blumenthal, and others have studied a number of recently alleged antisemitic incidents, including one of those shown in this segment (I think) and shown that they actually started with racism and violence from Zionists who were following the recent Free Palestine demonstrations all over USA and seeking confrontations to discredit it. But the "antisemitic incident" reports systematically removed this prior context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zapRkrD7R0&ab_channel=CBSEveningNews
Young women operating Israel's aeronautical spy system. Operating the apartheid state is a full time job for everyone, no?
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/rkH2Yb00D00?utm_source=Taboola_internal&utm_medium=organic
This is the exact incident which was deconstructed by Yasha Levine, who lives in Los Angeles. He shows that at a critical part before the violence started, the Israel supporter making the video put the phone down, suggesting that was when the Israel supporters started throwing more than insults at some men in the protest march. He's begging for more information. But it could not possibly be "premeditated antisemitism" as claimed in media. It grew out of a random incident between protestors and counter-protestors. If there was any premeditation, it had to have been on the counter-protestor side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNTfg3A6ME4&ab_channel=FoxNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ZsISE4eO4&ab_channel=TheView
Hamas official arguing on Egyptian TV that there are no Palestinians, only Arabs. Yes, but imagine in the alternative reality where Arabs are invading New York, New Yorkers pleading with other Americans for support on American TV, "We are all Americans, just like you, with names like Jones."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwBSWN4s9JU&ab_channel=hiroshimasamitsu
TravelingIsrael guy does 3 card monte with Left, Arab, and Israel.
American law Professor Kontorovich says the settlements are not illegal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7qCZHPcXYo&ab_channel=NYSofmind
Zionist media baron starts out claiming Iran never honored JPCOA. Actually, it was USA who never honored and then quickly broke JPCOA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_Sf8i-cz8&t=12s&ab_channel=HonestReportingVideos
Sky News claiming Hamas deliberately attacked humanitarian aid. However, the real story is that at least 8 or as many as 24 (different reports) aid trucks got through. One got hit by a "rocket" causing a fire and "light injuries" to the driver who was quickly transfered to hospital and treated. Sky News has not shown that aid truck was targeted, in fact it was not, and Hamas rockets may have had to do with Israel bombing Gaza, or not signing brokered peace deal yet, not trying to block aid trucks--context not included in broadcast. The idea that Hamas does not care about Gazan children or civilians is pure dehumanizing orientalism. On the other hand, it could be said that all Gazans are ever more united in one purpose: freedom from Israeli blockade and persecution. Shared suffering leads to unity. Israelis also share some suffering, but it is vastly smaller in incidence and/or magnitude, and many if not most Israelis have options to leave at relatively little personal cost to western countries. Finkelstein often points out that Israeli military and intelligence outposts are often near large public facilities in Israel, just as in Gaza, and Gaza is so compacted it has fewer choices to do otherwise. By the same standards that Hamas could be called a Terrorist Organization, so would Israel--if not moreso. I would call Hamas a militarized resistance organization, and Israel an apartheid state resulting from settler colonialism. The first is legitimate under international laws, principles, and intuitive rules of fair play, the second isn't.
Another one by the same TravelingIsrael guy about Israel itself. Each one of his "facts" isn't a fact at all.
Ask a Palestinian, Ask an Israeli. Sillier than Candid Camera. But who are they asking?
Check May 16 for conflict info
Much better than the Maher appearance, this interview with Maajid Nawaz with Ayaan Hirsi Ali is just flooring. It's dated too...Saudi Arabia has recognized Israel. It leaves out the most important context, that both Saudi Arabia and Israel are creations of Western Imperialism. Many Arabs wanted a Socialist or Communist state, but all such efforts were crushed by the west. As elite as Ali makes herself sound, she is not really a scholar on the middle east, she's a politician and think tank flak with a masters degree in political science (related to Netherlands government, not middle east). She lied on her Dutch asylum application and would have been deported except for political help. Her family denies she had been part of an arranged marriage she claims to have been escaping from too. Everything in this video is wrong too.
Anyway, once you understand that both Israel and Saudi Arabia are client states of the US everything else makes sense. It is ludicrous that Saudi Arabia would have ever attacked Israel or the US. That doesn't, of course, necessarily keep anyone from ranting and railing. But for western intervention, all of Arabia would have likely been ruled by Hashemites, not Saudis, and ultimately perhaps communists or socialists by now. The US, Israel, and Turkey have systematically supported extremist jihadis of various stripes to destroy the other (never mentioned) Democratic regime in the middle east, Syria. Al Qaeda and ISIS were western creations and largely manipulated by US and Israel with internal intelligence operatives towards US/Israeli objectives in Syria--replacing it's self-determined Democratic regime with another US client state--likely Wahabi because they are easiest to align with western objectives--mostly anti-Russia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6E0lTaZPrI&ab_channel=GiladLevi-kopelman
PALwatch video showing Hamas child indoctrination. Very hypocritical and out of context.
Talk about a culture glorifying violence, few can compare with US and Israel. As a child in the USA, I learned to hate Communists, Russians, and Chinese. These were all going to destroy us, therefore we must destroy them first. They could not be trusted (see for example, "Dishonest John" in cartoons). GI Joe was one of the most popular toys. Violence and Militarism were widely elevated in TV and Movies in particular through direct CIA involvement we now know. I believe Israelis and Zionist American jews are also indoctrinated with dehumanization of Palestinians and Arabs generally, in their religious schools.
Meanwhile, the function of US indoctrination system isn't really self defense, it's continuation of imperialism. In contrast, in Gaza, a society under existential blockade, a glorification of militarism might be considered socially and ethically justified.
Here's Aayan on Maher. The liar and the arrogant American "libertarian" exceptionalist blowhard.
A short list of websites
Honest Reporting
UN Watch
MEMRI
Ynet
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