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David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
SHE FILMED THE TRUTH INSIDE BRITISH CLASSROOMS
In 2005 science teacher Alex Dolan strapped on a hidden camera and walked into 4 schools in Leeds and London.
What she filmed was not shocking to anyone who has ever set foot in a British secondary school. Pupils fighting on desks. Kids swearing in teachers faces.
Staff shuffling the worst behaved pupils out of the building the moment Ofsted @Ofstednews turned up to inspect.
@Channel4 aired the footage as Undercover Teacher, part of the Dispatches @C4Dispatches strand.
Leeds City Council went to the High Court to try to block it. A judge refused the injunction and ruled the programme served the public interest.
Watching a school fake its way through an inspection turns out to be exactly the kind of thing the public has an interest in.
So naturally the system did what it does best. It went after the person who filmed the problem instead of the problem itself.
The General Teaching Council spent 4 years building a case against Dolan. In March 2009 it found her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct for breaching the trust of the pupils she filmed.
Not the staff accused of hiding disruptive kids from inspectors. Not the school that burned through 26 supply teachers in a single year. Her.
She was suspended from teaching for 12 months.
Channel 4's own deputy head of news at the time said publicly it was wrong to punish a whistleblower for this kind of work and that the messenger should not be shot.
Press Gazette @pressgazette called the ruling a sad day for journalism. That was generous.
Dolan left teaching and became a weather presenter for BBC Look East, which is either the most British redemption arc going or proof that forecasting rain is safer than forecasting institutional failure.
No school she filmed faced a tribunal. No member of staff accused of gaming an Ofsted inspection faced a tribunal. The teacher who exposed it did.
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@pressgazette
@tes
@C4Dispatches
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
I said it before, and I’ll say it again.
Everyone is so obsessed with the topic of whether this thing that that person said is antisemitic, or if that thing is antisemitic, but we’re missing the point altogether.
The fact that anyone’s even talking about Israel, the fact that this topic dominates the media, the fact that there are lies being told about Israel in the first place, or that anyone spends all this time talking about this tiny little state, the only Jewish state in the world, that in and of itself is antisemitic.
How about you all just leave us the hell alone so we can continue to change the world and make your life better?
Just an idea.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
Piers Morgan is a normie. Here's how normie brain works:
"I've never been raped or stabbed by a Muslim, and I like Arabic food, therefore, Islam is not a problem. People who think it is, are racists. I'm not a racist. Racism is bad. I'm a good person."
And that's it. That's normie brain. Average 95 IQ thinking.
He doesn't see rape gangs or Islamist terrorist attacks or non-English speaking enclaves or clandestine FGM practices or cousin marriages or animal welfare concerns or no-go zones where you're not allowed to walk your dog, be outwardly gay or be female and show any skin. That's all just stuff that only racists see. And racism is bad didn't you know.
He doesn't understand the Islamic concept of conquest through immigration, through the womb, through the democratic process, through the manipulation of progressive Western ideals, through massive demographic shifts, or through brute militaristic force. He doesn't see any of it. He just goes about his merry way, eating his curry, thinking he's morally superior to anyone he labels racist because they recognise problems that he refuses to acknowledge.
And the struggle for us is that, in the culture war, it's bad enough that we're up against the legions of woke Marxists, the cancer of the mind virus, the captured institutions, the third world illegals, and the Islamists who openly reject Western values. But we also have to contend with the poxy normies too.
Sigh. It vexes me. I'm terribly vexed.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
She will not come, to Israel or elsewhere .
She is old and she is French and she has buried enough, and they're here.
We would arrive in a country where my diploma means almost nothing, where my husband’s skiĺls would need a whole redo.
We would be two middle-aged skil-less professionals, starting over with three children and a language we never needed outside the synagogue. until now.
I have done everything the Republic asked. I studied its law, I paid its taxes, I kept Shabbat even when it cost me the career I wanted withoutasking for accommodation
I ate the more expensive food, I sent the children to the only schools where they are not told their existence is a provocation, I made myself small so that no one could say we were difficult.
And still there is no place left that is both safe and mine.
I look at the street. Someone is sweeping glass. I think of the weapons looted and of my children who go to a school school that's a target.
My kids will have it harder than us if we stay, but if we go they'll have to support us.
I invested all in being a French Jew.
But perhaps it was a mistake. "
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
Sarah Helm (wife of Jonathan Powell) has done it again.
“So where do I sign the letter calling for such absurdity to halt and for Palestine Action to be unbanned under the Terrorism Act?”.
Powell is negotiating with Israel on behalf of the government.
Them saying Helm isn’t part of the government in any way is totally insufficient.
Powell has a conflict of interest, and must step down immediately.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
The chutzpah of the woman married to our Security Advisor Jonathan Powell is jaw-dropping.
While her terrorist-supporting tweets are raked over in the national press, she doubles down, presently celebrating the idea of the ‘Palestine poppy’.
That is, celebrating a movement which actively attacks UK war memorials now appropriating the Poppy which symbolises the men and women who gave their lives to fight for our freedoms. The same freedoms the people she adores would take from us.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
We will all soon know what it feels like to be Jewish. In France, they already do.
It will be our just deserts for having abandoned the Jews, ignored their warnings, turned against them, and even marched alongside their oppressors.
For three years, you useful idiots have been parading Palestinian flags, sporting keffiyehs, screaming “From the River to the Sea”, and recognizing a fictitious Palestinian state as a reward for Hamas’s October 7 massacre (looking at you, @EmmanuelMacron). You have boycotted the only Jewish state in the world, vilified the Jewish people’s right to self-determination (aka “Zionism”), and spread the “Gaza genocide” blood libel.
Did you really think that if you fed the crocodile enough Jewish flesh, it would eventually be satiated? All you have done is embolden the monster and whet its appetite.
So you were worried about “colonization”? Look around. The only thing being colonized here are our own Western cities. The Palestinian flag has become a victory banner, proudly waved amid the ruins of looted and vandalized historic buildings—a symbol of hatred for our civilization and everything it stands for.
It never ends with the Jews.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
Ed "Potty" Miliband obviously didn't have the slightest idea what he was doing when he introduced sanctions against Isreal, did he?
There was always going to be a response to this crazy act from Isreal. Of course there was.
But now, we have the Trump administration threatening sanctions against us, calling Miliband's stance "anti-semitic".
In the not distant past at all, Isreal also shared terrorist intelligence with us.
Where are we now?
A row with Potty throwing his toys out of the pram over the closure of the British consulate in Jerusalem. He says there are no legal grounds for it.
Maybe, maybe not. I'm not a lawyer.
But this should be irrelevant - as he should NEVER have been allowed to get us to this state of affairs.
He's now even warning Isreal their diplomats will be expelled from London if Isreal doesn't back down.
He is rapidly and irreparably destroying our relationship with Isreal.
He cannot be allowed to remain in post as Foreign Secretary, surely?
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
Golda Meir, 1970: before the First World War this was not a Palestinian state. It was southern Syria under the Ottomans.
Then a British Mandate. Jews and Arabs.
No Palestinian nation. No country taken from a people that did not exist.
She was right and my god what a leader and woman she was. There is no such thing as Palestine. Stand with Israel. 🇮🇱 🙏💪
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
I knew Gorton & Denton was rigged.
Hannah Spencer’s campaign manager today being revealed in The Times to have broken the law by forging deals with mosques just confirms what I said at the time.
When the BBC’s Chris Mason asked me immediately after the result what happened I said it in one word:
“sectarianism”.
People said I was a bad loser. But look at what they are literally telling us themselves.
They rigged the election with local mosques.
We were told early on that “deals had been made” with the mosques.
I saw the “community elders” in action myself.
Then we watched the Greens campaign in different languages.
Whip up tensions between Hindus and Muslims.
Obsess over Gaza.
Call anybody who disagreed with them “far-right” and “divisive”.
Hannah Spencer even downplayed Islamism, suggesting during one hustings that “right-wing politicians” were responsible for the Islamist bombing of Manchester, in 2017.
All journalists saw was the weird dress sense and thought “nice fluffy Greens” and they didn’t ask any more questions.
They failed to tell the real story of that campaign.
Then we got the independent report showing 68% of polling stations experienced illegal family voting, which is what happens when a Muslim father or husband tells their entire family how to vote.
Did the Greens call any of it out?
Of course not.
They denied it all.
So did Greater Manchester Police.
But then the election interference became so unavoidable they had to start arresting people two months after the by-election.
And then the Mail uncovered similar election interference in FIFTY polling stations in Birmingham.
I’m glad I got to run in that by-election because at least I got to tell the British people the TRUTH about what is happening in our country.
Wake up people.
The Greens are extremists.
They are antisemites.
They are unBritish.
And they are a Trojan Horse for Islamism and Muslim sectarianism.
Just look at their latest racist vote at conference, to deny Jews a homeland of their own.
And how did Hannah Spencer vote?
While some Green MPs opposed it, she’s not said anything about it.
No doubt the mosques pulling her strings have aired their view.
The Greens are a major threat to our democracy and country.
They must be stopped.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
There are no words that can truly capture how the world has changed for Jewish people since October 7th. And there is nothing I can say today that hasn't already been said, more powerfully, by others.
So I'll just share one of the many moments from that day, and the days that followed, that I will never forget.
On the morning of October 7th, I was in synagogue when the news began to reach us. My brother lives in Israel - and we knew he was in the Gaza Envelope in the south, celebrating the Jewish festival of Simchat Torah with friends from the area. But even as the news came in of what was happening there, it never crossed our minds that he might be in danger.
A few hours later, when we had returned home from synagogue, still hearing rumours of what was happening, a phone rang in our home.
We are religious Jews. On Shabbat and festivals, we don't use our phones. But my great-grandmother, Lily, a survivor of Auschwitz, was unwell, and the hospital had asked my mother to keep hers switched on. My brother knew that.
He was calling under instruction from the community's rabbi. He told us that terrorists had surrounded the area. Only a handful of local residents were armed, standing between the community and dozens of heavily armed terrorists. No one knew what would happen next, or whether Hamas would manage to break in and murder them.
He was, in essence, calling to say goodbye.
My sister took the phone and told him she was pregnant. None of us knew. She told him then because we didn't know if we would ever get the chance to speak to him again.
Then the call ended. And we carried on with Shabbat and Simchat Torah, not knowing what would happen where my brother was. Knowing that some of his friends, who had gone outside the gates to see what was happening, had been shot at. Some of them were murdered.
We didn't hear from him again until the next day.
I have never shared this before. Because our story ended with another phone call, the next day. So many families' stories ended so differently.
You will struggle to find a single Jewish person who doesn't have a friend, a friend of a friend, or a family member who was affected that day.
Three years on, I think about that phone call often. About what it means to call your family knowing that, on the road outside, there are terrorists trying to get into your community to murder, rape, pillage and destroy as much as they possibly can.
And about what these three years have meant for Jewish people and Israelis everywhere.
We will never forget. We could not, even if we tried. The trauma of that day runs too deep, through almost every Jewish family around the world.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
While @EmmanuelMacron remains silent and gallivanting on a French navy ship, and while France and the whole of Europe refuse to see it, say it and admit it, it didn’t escape the view of the Fox correspondents watching it all. She instantly noticed the Palestinian flag waving in the middle of the riots. Because if Europe were honest, they’d say exactly what’s really behind these riots. It isn’t schools. It’s an intifada.
Enjoy it Europe. You begged for it
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
Imagine every Eid, the Jewish community and dozens of Jewish organizations gathered outside mosques in countries that have nothing to do with the Palestinians.
Imagine Jews harassing Muslims on their way in to pray, cursing and spitting at them, sometimes beating them, calling them Nazis and baby killers.
Imagine Jewish students running bullying campaigns on campus, taking over buildings and quads, then banning Muslims from walking through them.
Imagine every Muslim who spoke at an event being asked by Jews for his "stance on Israel," and made to condemn the attempted genocide of Jews before anyone would let him finish.
Imagine Jews pushing Muslims out of political spaces and spending billions on a propaganda machine to convince the West that Muslims were disloyal fifth columnists who wanted to drag the country into war.
Every newspaper would call it bigotry, and they'd be right.
That has been Jewish life for the last three years. fromfrontline.com/p/dancing-…
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
“Nowhere has this moral confusion become more obvious than in a place called Gaza. A little strip of land that was not part of the original Israel, but which they won in a war launched against them, but then gave back as a peace gesture. Did they tell you that part on TikTok, kids?
And the people who run Gaza, Hamas, who you celebrate as a liberation movement but are really a terrorist mafia gang, just like the one that terrorizes Haiti, only ever used it to stage attacks on Israel.
I think Macklemore spoke for all clueless celebrities when he said: ‘I know enough to know this is a genocide.’ Actually, you don’t know sh*t. It’s not a genocide. It’s a counterattack in a war. A war that’s been waged on Israel since 1948 based on the ridiculous premise that Jews don’t belong in the one place on earth they are indigenous and indisputably their ancestral homeland. Hey geniuses, they’re the Indians in this scenario.
Any famine that happened in Gaza is because Hamas stole the food, just like the Haitian gangs do. Israel ran 94,000 trucks carrying over 1.8 million tons of aid into Gaza, and enabled over 36,000 patients to leave Gaza for treatment abroad.
‘Gaza equals genocide’ is a lie, and the fact that so many prominent Democrats go along with it is, to me, the party’s worst moment since they undid Reconstruction after the Civil War. Democrats are policing their candidates really hard on this issue. ‘Say it! Say it’s a genocide! Say it!’
You can’t just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people, including civilians, die. That’s every war. There have been about 73,000 deaths in Gaza, about 3% of the population. Tragic. Not genocide. Not close. There were 3 million Jews in Poland before WW2. After? 45,000. That’s genocide.
This explosion of antisemitism around the world that we see. This is where it’s coming from. Because if you really think someone is committing genocide, of course you have full permission to hate them, and history shows, for whatever reason, when it comes to hating the Jews, people don’t need a lot of permission.”
@billmaher , American comedian and political commentator.
Photo: Angela George / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0. Cropped.
The Nation of Israel Lives
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
The far left have been silencing people for years.
The far left have been blacking up and masking at protests for years.
The far left have been violent at protests for years.
YET THIS NEVER MAKES THE MSM FRONT PAGES…
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
There were two marches at Cable Street today.
One was made up of Jews, many of them descendants of the original people who fought fascists in Cable Street 90 years ago, and our allies.
The other one was made up of people who are the new Jew haters.
Even as they entered the park they were screaming ‘Zionism is fascism’.
This group had been rowing as an anti Zionist Jew among them asked them not to attack Jews from the first march.
So they started chanting ‘Zionism is fascism’.
As I tried to film them they turned on me. They said I had to stop filming and I explained I was a journalist and free to film them.
They looked at my Star of David and said, ‘You aren’t a journalist, you are a Zionist.’
When I explained I was both a journalist and a Zionist they turned on me. Screamed ‘Zionism is racism’. They surrounded me with their tarpaulin which said - the irony - ‘no Pasaran’ and they tried to shove me away.
One man tried to body push me away with his chest. A steward with a ‘stand up to racism’ high vis jacket poked me with her placard. When I remonstrated with her she told me, ‘if I wanted to hurt you, you wouldn’t get out of here alive.’
People there kept telling me I had to leave.
An event which was meant to be about a famous fight against antisemitism became a hostile place for Jews.
The keffiyeh-wearing idealogues are hateful Jew haters.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
Jesus, I've never seen an interview like this! 🤯
Watch the whole thing or at least read my notes:
1. Yaniv was sitting in Row 11, not Business Class. He heard a woman up front yelling “Stabbings!" (She didn't say who.) Yaniv immediately stands up to see what's going on.
2. Wife & daughters are sitting around him. Then the plane starts shaking. Plane rolls very sharply leftward and back to horizontal in a terrifying way.
3. It hits him that the commotion isn't a fight in Business Class, it's happening in the cockpit.
4. He yells “Buckle up!” and runs toward the cockpit. He's 6 feet away from the cockpit when the plane suddenly nosedives.
5. It felt like it nosedived for an eternity. (In reality about 30 seconds at 30,000ft/min, reaching speeds of about Mach 0.96. Those 30 seconds of nosediving cut the plane's altitude in half.)
6. “I was flying.” He was blown around upward, sideways, he was pressed against the floor extremely hard. (A 180lb man would effectively have 540lb of downward force on their body as the first nosedive leveled out.)
7. “I kept trying my hardest to get up off the ground. At some point, I was finally able to, when the plane leveled off a little.” He speculates that a system kicked in to automatically stabilize the plane.
8. He goes to the cockpit door and there's a crew member in a white shirt, who looks like he's also a pilot. He's grabbing the cockpit door with both hands, with his body leaning down. I didn't know if he was trying to open the door, or trying to hold the door closed!
9. “I get to him, I move him away, he doesn't resist. I open the cockpit door — it was a little difficult because the pilot was lying down on the floor behind it, the one who was attacked.”
10. “I went in. The terrorist was crouching with his knees on the instruments between the two pilots' seats. There was no one in the pilots' seats. He was hitting the instrument panel, trying to break the equipment.”
11. Yaniv yells “Come help!” to any other Israelis who are also in the aisle. He doesn't know how many there are because his back is to them.
12. Yaniv immediately grabs the terrorist by the throat and starts moving him away from the controls. The terrorist resisted, but Yaniv's struggle to get him out of the cockpit only took a few seconds.
13. A handful of men who'd already gotten up from their seats together with Yaniv were already standing in the aisle dividing up responsibilities among themselves. They take over subduing the terrorist.
14. Yaniv turns back to the cockpit controls. At this point, the plane isn't nosediving, but it's still angled downward. He looks out the windshield and sees ground in the distance.
14. He leans over the pilot's seat, grabs the yoke and pulls it upward. He feels the nose of the plane come up.
15. A few seconds later, a pilot (not an Israeli) comes up behind him and says “Release the controls, I'll take it.”
16. Yaniv wasn't sure whether the other pilot was trustworthy, but he said “ok” and let him sit down at the controls. He intended to supervise the new pilot.
17. Yaniv turns around and briefly helps the men who are dealing the terrorist blows to subdue him, since apparently the terrorist is still resisting. Eventually the terrorist stops resisting, he possibly gets knocked unconscious, and the men tie him up with headphone cables.
18. Yaniv also helps the men remove the wounded Indian pilot from the cockpit. Then he goes to close the cockpit door with himself and the replacement pilot inside.
19. At this point, a member of the flight crew arrives at the cockpit door and wants to come in. Yaniv asks the replacement pilot whether to let the crew member in. He says yes, he's with us.
20. The flight crew member comes in. He has a tablet with a map. Yaniv closes the cockpit door with the three of them inside. He latches it.
21. Now Yaniv is focused on checking that the replacement pilot and the crew member are acting properly to land the plane. He sees that the pilot is talking on the radio to ground control. It sounds good to Yaniv, even though he doesn't speak much English. Yaniv can tell he's reporting that there are injured people, that we're heading in a certain direction, and that he's requesting help.
22. Some of the other Israelis were assigned to guard the rest of the flight crew. At this point, they feared that the whole crew could be conspiring. This is why the entirety of the stressful incident was about 40 minutes long. They couldn't relax until they landed and the flight crew got off the plane.
23. When they landed, one of the Israelis on the plane bought eSIM cards with a data package for everyone. As soon as they get reception, he gets a bunch of messages with pictures of himself on international news.
24. The landing was an incredible celebration. Singing, what fun we were having.
25. Let's rewind. You wake up in the morning before getting on this flight. Did something prepare you for this engagement? Something in the army? Some instinct? “Well, in the army, I was working the closest to the fire in the kitchen. (I wasn't a cook, I'd, you know, get the food and divide it up.)”
26. Yaniv personally didn't feel scared to board the second FlyDubai flight they sent. What are the odds lightning would strike twice? “Even being in this situation once was like winning the lottery.”
27. Did FlyDubai offer some kind of compensation for the incident? Did they contact you at all? “Nothing.”
28. Will you fly again? “Fly again? Sure.”
29. When are you going back to work? “I want to on Sunday.”
What an interview. Makes me proud to be Israeli.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
2.17 million Arabs live in Israel.
*This figure does not include Palestinian populations living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Christian and Muslim Arab citizens of Israel are exempt from compulsory military service. Some serve by choice and hold positions of leadership in the IDF.
All Israeli citizens over 18 have the right to vote.
There are 4 Arab political parties in Israel. In June 2021, the United Arab List (Ra'am), an Arab political party led by Mansour Abbas, joined Israel's 36th governing coalition.
In 2016, an Arab Christian Supreme Court Justice, Salim Joubran, sat on the judicial panel in Israel that sent a former Jewish Prime Minister to prison.
Israel’s Declaration of Independence ensures “complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex."
Israeli Muslims worship freely in 450 mosques (across a country about the size of New Jersey that at its narrowest point is only 9.3 miles wide). Among these mosques is the third-holiest site in Islam, a 35-acre compound (known as Haram al-Sharif).
There are more Arabs in Israeli universities than there are Jews in all the Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). That’s because ~ 850,000 Jews were forced out of Arab lands between 1948 and the early 1970’s through persecution and violent pogroms.
The above facts do not - even remotely - equal “apartheid.”
Don’t believe me, go and see for yourself.
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
This is an essential read. And important to acknowledge that the Daily Mail - itself a much criticised news outlet - was one of the very few that continued to cover events unfolding inside Iran behind digital blackouts from January - May this year.
When the dust settles and people acknowledge the truth of what actually transpired inside Iran, there will be many discoveries as to why the world turned away from the Iranian people in their time of need. Even when the US and Israel acted, it was sadly way too late.
Those of us who were calling for “RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT”, a @UN norm to halt mass atrocity and crimes against humanity - in force when President Obama intervened in Libya in 2011 - we were then branded ‘war mongers’. With the evidence laid bare now, anyone who did, shame on you.
Many individuals and entities who dismissed the atrocities of the regime will be found out and exposed.
And to those who only showed an interest in Iran after the disaster of the school bombing on Feb 28th, a special mention for you:
Playing politics with millions of lives, ignoring the massacres by the Islamic regime whilst more than ready to lay blame on the US and Israel by focusing only on the Minab tragedy, turning attention away from the people inside Iran being slaughtered by the regime into a propaganda war between “imperialism” and “the resistance” is particularly despicable.
Siding with the Islamic Republic - which is neither Islamic nor a republic - is shameful. It is NOT, and never was ‘the resistance’. It is a radicalised, fanatical cult, hell bent on clinging to power. At any cost. Human or otherwise.
dailymail.com/news/article-1…
David Galman 🇮🇱 🎗️ retweeted
So people keep going back to “Israel invaded the land” and “Israel stole the land” and “Nakba-this” and “Nakba-that” and all sorts of other stories about why they justify Oct 7 and why Israel is in the wrong.
Let’s clear a few things up.
The land that is now Israel was lived in by both Muslims and Jews for a long time. If you want to get technical about who was there first, it was the Jews. How do we know this for a fact? Well, first of all, Jews have been around for about 2000 years longer than Muslims.
Not enough for you?
OK. How about the fact that the word “Israel” is mentioned in the Quran about 43 times. Palestine? Never once.
Jewish people have been around longer than Muslim people have – fact.
Jewish people were living in the place where Israel is much longer than Arabs have – also fact.
In about 1250 BCE, the Jewish people went to what was then called Canaan – where Israel sits today. This is when they escaped slavery in Egypt, and wandered the dessert for 40 years. 1250BCE. About 1860 years before the founding of Islam.
Fast forward to modern times. 1940s. Yes, there were both Arab-Muslims and Jews living on the land that is now called Israel. And yeah, there was fighting. On both sides.
After the Holocaust, the push for the Jewish people to have their own country intensified. During WWII, too many countries turned their backs on Jews. A Jewish homeland would ensure that Jews always had somewhere to go. There could never be another Holocaust, another ethnic cleansing of Jews.
Additionally, the UK was tired of dealing with all the fighting in the British Mandate of Palestine (what Israel was called before it was Israel), and wanted to wash their hands of it.
So what did they do?
They offered to split the land amongst the two groups living there. The Arab-Muslims and the Jews. Sounds fair, right? Each could have their own State, completely autonomous. Pretty good deal, wouldn’t you think?
I think it was a good deal. The Jews thought it was a good deal. Do you know who didn’t think it was a good deal? The Arab-Muslims. Do you know why? Because they didn’t want the Jews to have anything.
So the day after Israel became a nation, the Arabs attacked. 5 Arab nations attacked, in what would be known as the Arab-Israeli war.
Do you know what else it became known as? The Nakba. Nakba for catastrophe. Because they lost. The Arab world says it’s because Arabs were displaced. But they chose to be displaced. Because they chose not to accept their own nation. They left. They ran away. Because they thought the Jews would lose and they'd be able to go back.
The Arabs have been fighting ever since. At some point in time in the 1960s, the Arab-Muslims who were trying to claim Israel as theirs, started to refer to themselves as Palestinians.
Land has been offered. A Palestinian state has been offered. All that the Palestinians had to do, was accept Israel’s right to exist. To stop attacking and trying to destroy them.
Why don’t the Palestinians have their own State?
Because they refuse to. They refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.
Muslim nations in this world, take up 29.13 million square km.
Israel is 21,671 square km.
Jews have 0.1% of the land that Muslims have.
And according to the Radicalized Muslims, that’s too much.
This isn’t about the land.
This is about Radicalized Muslims not wanting Jews to exist.