Israel and Palestine: Greg Krasovsky's appeal to stop terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity...

Greg Krasovsky's appeal to stop terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon and Syria.

Monday, October 23, 2023

All of us must take every necessary step to protect non-combatant civilians, especially innocent children and women, from these crimes, including during lawful anti-terrorist operations, even at the expense of higher injury and death rates (casualties) among military, security and law enforcement personnel conducting such operations and/or defending their homeland.

Terrorism, war crimes and crimes against humanity cannot and must not be justified by religion (faith) or supported by religious & political leaders. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7r_Cg0-CQ4
 
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today is October 23rd Monday and this little video segment is
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about what has happened in Israel on October 7th and subsequent to
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that uh first of all U disclaimer uh I'm a
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Jew guess Jewish American Ukrainian Russian Nigerian Heritage whatever that
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tells you uh second of all as you know I'm a lawyer also political scientist and uh
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consider myself a human rights Defender also done a lot of nonprofit work and a
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former police officer with all that in mind uh my
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sympathy my condolences go out to the victims and their relatives in
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Israel of the Terrorist acts the war crimes and the crimes against humanity
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that were committed by Hamas militants and terrorists on October
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7th the heinous horrific crimes that they committed cannot be justified and
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do not have an excuse period when you are a Hamas militant and
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you believe your at war with Israel because you consider Israel an occupying power uh who might argue with
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you but if you've decided to uh conduct a military incursion on Israeli
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soil and you've confronted Israeli soldiers well you're at war with Israel
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then you're going to fight with Israeli soldiers but that does not relieve you of your obligations not commit war
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crimes against those soldiers if they decide to surrender to you or if you've captured them where they've run out of
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ammunition or they're unarmed you you have to be Humane you have to take people prisoner it's
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prisoner of war you can't execute people on a spot you can't beat them you can't kill them and I don't care whether the
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Palestinian Authority or Hamas or whoever else has signed the Geneva Convention or not this is
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2023 and anyone who has internet access and any moral theological Compass
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including being a normal Muslim understands these
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obligations these obligations also extend not just to male soldiers but to female
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soldiers and law enforcement Israeli police officers male or female right if
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you've decided to engage people militarily well you better hope that the law is on your side both international
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law and domestic law because if it's not then what you're doing is you're committing
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crimes but what we saw unfortunately were Hamas terrorists
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and the reason why I call them terrorists is when you start assaulting civilians during any sort of a
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military activity uh regardless of what do you think they're occupants or they're in
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cahoots with some regime uh once you start assaulting people killing people torturing them
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beating them decapitating whatever else happened burning people alive you are
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not just a war criminal you haven't just committed crimes against humanity you you've committed acts of terrorism and
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should be dealt with as such no excuse I don't care whether you think uh Israelis
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Israeli citizens Jews or Israeli settlers have violated your rights to
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live freely and peacefully in Palestine if they've unlawfully evicted you from your land if they' have persecuted your
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people uh this is not the point two wrongs never make a right once you have
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lowered yourself to the point of committing this is in Revenge in retaliation these heinous
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crimes then you have no moral standing and you deserve to be dealt with
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accordingly when we deal with terrorists regardless whether these are Hamas
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terrorists Al-Qaeda terrorists Isis terrorists any terrorist organization in
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the world who have caused injury or death to civilian population as well as damage to
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critical civil infrastructure number one goal is to neutralize them to make sure they can't
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continue committing crimes or commit additional crimes number two we try to capture them right arrest them detain
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them if it can be done safely if not then we use deadly force all the way up
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to killing someone right if they offer resistance that's how terrorists are dealt with if you've decided to go on a
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Jihad and consider yourself a Marty Shahid and you're willing to do all this
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well I think you're going to have a revelation once you get to the other side because uh since we all have the
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same God the god of Abraham right U you're well all of us on this planet
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have one God as far as I'm concerned regardless of our faith or how we believe him or how we Define him once
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you get to the other side you're going to realize that there's no excuse for killing women and children there is no
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excuse for beating torturing and killing unarmed or help or wounded soldiers period
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now unfortunately this took place and like I've said my condolences to Israel and Israel has my full support in
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bringing these terrorists war criminals and people who have committed crimes
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against humanity to Justice to neutralize them to make sure they're not able to commit these crimes
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again right uh hopefully bring them to court
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prosecute them if necessary and if it's available give them the death penalty or life in prison
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with or without the possibility of parole that's up to the Israeli justice system or some other International
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tribunal if one is to be established
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now but subsequent to October 7th we've seen retaliation from the Israeli
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side obviously the first thing that the Israelis had to do both law enforcement
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internal security shimad and and sahal the Armed Forces of Israel was to
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neutralize the militants that were still in Israeli soil to make sure that the border with
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Gaza was Secure to make sure that anyone on Israeli territory who had been
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captured taken hostage was freed and militants did not remain on Israeli
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soil uh then the next step that the Israeli Armed Forces took was to
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neutralize the threat of missile launches from Gaza I'm not going to I'm not going to
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go into a discussion of who's right and wrong about launching missiles but
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things are also very simple if you have missiles with limited accuracy and
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you've decided that your country or your state recognized or not is at war with
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Israel again you're subject to the rules of War which means you cannot just
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launch uh unguided unaccurate missiles into civilian areas because you're going
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to be committing war crimes and crimes against humanity and whatever the Israelis have done to your people before
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that does not excuse or justify your actions period so the Israelis do have
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the right to protect not just their military facilities from missile attacks
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because that's War right each side protects their own military facilities and weapons and infrastructure and
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soldiers but Israel has a full right to protect its civilian population and
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infrastructure from these attacks it protects them by intercepting missiles and it also protects them by destroying
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uh the missile launch sites and the missiles and the people who launch them
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and the infrastructure where they're stored or manufactured that's simple no one's going to argue with
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that but that does not give the Israeli Armed Forces the right to commit war
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crimes crimes against humanity uh how do you commit war crimes
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if you know that terrorists are hiding in civilian areas in areas with uh very
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thick dense civilian populations and as we know the Gaza Strip the majority of
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its residents are below 18 they're women and children then you have an obligation
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to protect those women and children even if they happen to be family members of
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the terrorist that you're seeking to neutralize or capture uh so if we like it or not if
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Hamas terrorists are hiding missiles under a residential
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building which houses which contains women and children you can't just launch a missile at it
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and destroy it because you're going to kill innocent women and children and the argument well they're
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not innocent because they're you know the wives of terrorists or they're the children of terrorists number one
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um since the beginning of time there's been a precept among many cultures that
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you should not kill your enemies women uh women are unless they're
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combatants unless they have weapons in their hands and they're fighting against you like Amazon what you have to do is you have
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to neutralize them and capture them right and even the Torah had of what how
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you could deal humanely with female captives right read the appropriate sections of the five books of Moses on
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that with children children do not get to select to whom they're born a child
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does not get to select whether he's born to Orthodox Jewish parents Israeli
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parents Palestinian parents or whatever other race or nationality or when where
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and when he was born that child needs to be protected because he or she is an
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innocent life that child is a hostage of circumstances right and he or she did
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not choose those circumstances if we start to wanly
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disregard the health and safety of women and children including our enemies then
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not only are we know better than our enemies but we have started to dis
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regard traditional human rules of war and I'm talking about rules of War of
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insane regimes whether it's the Nazis or someone else right we're talking about
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honorable civilizations honorable armies and honorable rules of War although
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throughout history we've had plenty of examples where armies have massacred women and children out of Vengeance out
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of hate retaliation and also to scare others into submission
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I've never approved of that and trust me neither does God when you shed innocent
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blood like this you will have to pay for it so my heart and my support goes out to
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Israeli army soldiers and security Personnel whose job it is to neutralize
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the Hamas terrorists and the militants that committed terrorist acts war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israel on
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October 7th on the following few few days while they were still in Israeli soil or while they were launching
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missiles at Israeli cities you have the right to deal with those people because
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Israel is your country and that is your job to protect your citizens in your country but that right does not give you
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right that responsibility that Authority does not give you the right to commit war crimes against Palestinians living
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in the Gaza Strip crimes against humanity or heaven forbid even terrorist
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acts so indiscriminate shelling bombing is not a morally defensible or a legally
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defensible option as far as traditional or International you know laws of war are
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concerned as I've said I know a number of countries have not signed All or some
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of the relevant conventions that govern how you you conduct Warfare Geneva
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conventions and other treaties including against cluster Munitions mines and everything else
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regardless if we right or if the is if we as Jews uh I'm not an Israeli citizen
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but if we as Jews support retaliatory Commission of war crimes
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against innocent Palestinians then we're no better than the terrorists
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that we're fighting against because we're starting to commit crimes of a different nature or Crimes of the same
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nature two wrongs do not make a right so Israeli soldiers and armed forces have
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my full support to do the right job that is bring people to Justice to neutralize
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them and to and defend Israel from further attacks but you can't try to wipe Gaza
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off the map you can't pulverize destroy level city blocks buildings entire
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neighborhoods but what we've heard recently uh after October 7th are Israeli
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politicians spokesman for the prime minister's office for the Israeli Defense Forces announced that uh we're
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going to number one they've said uh and I don't want to quote things like this
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but but you have to because they were said um
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the responsibility of civilians in Gaza is entirely in the hands of Hamas I'm sorry but that's morly legally
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not true okay if a people have a what you
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consider an authoritarian or an evil government that's committing crimes
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abroad does not give you the right to kill those people even if they democratically elected that government
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before because when they Dem rally elected it they didn't sign uh by
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electing you we authorize you to commit terrorist acts in Israel to commit war crimes in Israel crimes against humanity
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that's very certain and that's very clear second
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thing uh the Gaza Strip is not an independent state that neither Israel or
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other countries have recognized what does that mean it's very clear what this
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means is is that you're not allowed to engage in particular conduct uh you have a responsibility for
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individuals who live in that soil it's that simple it's that
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simple uh if you have that responsibility you also have the responsibility to evacuate any civilians
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properly and safely evacuate them before embarking in serious military action
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that's going to cause basically Devastation of Civilian
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infrastructure so you can't say uh especially since Gaza has been pretty
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much under Israeli military and legal blockade since 2005 you can't say well um where these
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people go is going to be their problem the problem of Hamas or the problem of the Gaza Palestinians
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themselves uh where are they going to go uh you can't forcefully evict these
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people to uh Egypt what legal Authority do you have to take a local population of an enclave
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that's formally informally occupied by the Israeli military right or blockaded
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or surrounded Under Siege and force these individuals to travel to another country what if Egypt
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doesn't want to accept them for whatever reasons it's Egypt's right to say no we're not going to allow the a million
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or two million Gaza residents to come into our soil because know we know full well that once they come into our soil
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they're also going to bring Hamas with them radical Islam elements of the
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Muslim Brotherhood or similar ideology or even members of the Muslim Brotherhood and we've already been through that in
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Egypt plus we're not going to facilitate or participate even tacitly in the
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unlawful eviction of Palestinians from lands where they've lived for hundreds and thousands of
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years um that's that same thing with Jordan same thing with
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Lebanon safely evacuating people uh what you're going to make women and
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children walk for tens of or hundreds of miles somewhere no they can't do that
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you have to provide transportation right if you're going to conduct a lawful anti-terrorist
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operation to neutralize detain destroy terrorists their infrastructure uh then
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you have to do it lawfully even if it's not terrorist but militants of an opposing Force because Hamas in the very
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least is a force that's opposed to the current Israeli government and the and
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the state of Israel and questions the right of the state of Israel to exist and if Hamas is launching
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indiscriminate missile attacks on Israel which also had civilian targets then you
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have the right to protect your soil and even even if these were accurate milit military missile attacks against
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legitimate military targets you still have the right to protect your military installations but now you have to
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organize the evacuation of those civilians what does that mean buses food
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Transportation what if you and let's not forget about the evacuation of the Wounded right uh I've worked in amon's
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rescue squads enough to understand how important that is and here we have uh
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war injuries right Trauma from shrapnel from missile fragments from
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bullets uh crushing injuries from collapsed buildings and everything
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else these patients require a lot of care during medical evacuations we know
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how complicated that is if you say I don't care it's the problem of Hamas
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then you're committing war crimes and crimes against humanity because the vast majority of those women and children
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became injured from uh Israeli bombs and Israeli missiles right maybe some of
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them were injured by an errand missile that Hamas launched and it didn't launch
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right and landed on the Gaza Strip I'm sure that happened considering how many missiles were launch at Israel that's
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the responsibility of Hamas but the vast majority of the wind children who were injured and killed since October 7th in
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a Gaza Strip were from Israeli weaponry and were not not given the opportunity
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to safely evacuate and we're not provided with an organized evacuation
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question is where are you going to evacuate them to well if you've designated a particular area of the Gaza Strip you're going to evacuate them to
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then you need to set up temporary housing with water with food with medical care with sewage with
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Communications right because otherwise you're going to have a health disaster and people will die from lack of food
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lack of Clean Water lack of Medical Care lack of sewage in other facilities right
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these are basic hygiene issues so unless you've set up
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safe acceptable and livable temporary camps and providing Safe Transportation
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to those facilities you haven't done your job to be able to properly and humanely conduct an anti-terrorist or uh
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operation okay if you don't have the space to do in the Gaza Strip for
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instance the South part part or wherever else then where would you have to evacuate these gazans well then you're
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going to have to evacuate them to Israeli soil that borders Gaza set up camps with proper security with proper
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facilities and if you're not willing to take that chance well guess what boys and girls we're going to have to
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evacuate these gsin to the West Bank to the territory that's controlled by the Palestinian Authority so you'd have to
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set up hundreds of not thousands of buses to trans transport people to
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facilities that are waiting to receive them properly with food with water with
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heat with shelter with sewes as I've said Medical
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Care and and psychological care right and if you don't think that the children
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of Gaza deserve it then you've lost your moral theological Compass because I'll
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repeat this again and I'll repeat it 20 times if I have to children are innocent
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by definition children do not get to pick where they were born if you're a
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racist a xenophobe or other discriminatory [ __ ] and you think that
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children of another ethnicity children of another religion children of another
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race have less rights than your kids deserve less protection than your
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own children are somehow inferior to your children that I'm sorry you're an
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[ __ ] and I apologize for the profanity you have no moral
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defense we've been through this and when I say we I'm not even talking about Humanity in general I'm also talking
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about Jews we've been through this where Jews were in evicted from
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their land after the unsuccessful uprisings against the Roman Empire right
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in the first and second centuries where Jews in countries where they lived subsequently faced
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eviction often for political reasons including financial reasons when wealthy
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Jewish Merchants funded local Kings nobility and sovereigns and those
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because they did not want to pay chose to evict their uh creditors right why pay your creditor you can evict them and
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you don't have to repay the debt anymore plus you can also confiscate whatever they owned uh and the pograms that the Jews
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faced from other religious groups programs from
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Christians who blame Jews for Killing Jesus right let think through this
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Christians who who adopted Christianity right which was Progressive Judaism
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headed by a Jew Jesus the Nazarene with his apostles who were all Jews right the
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Jews were blamed for killing Jesus even though in the New Testament in the
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Christian New Testament it states that Jesus was executed by crucifixion which
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is a punishment that was conducted exclusively in those times by the Roman
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Empire against those who committed crimes against the Roman Empire right including political crimes of leading
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insurrections or other groups that were considered a national security threat right to Roman
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occupation Jews who committed heresy right against
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Judaism were or blasphemy were stoned to death at the decision of Jewish courts
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Jewish religious courts right whether it was the Sanhedrin or someone else Jesus
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wasn't stoned to death so that means he wasn't executed for blasphemy or for
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heresy Jesus was crucified as it states in the New Testament
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and we're not going to argue about historical accuracy of the old or the New Testament because this is Faith this
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is belief these are historical texts you either believe in them or you do not
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okay uh because none of us were there who were here today none of us were there to know how accurate those written
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things are whether they reflect Revelation whether they reflect historical fact whether they reflect
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also political realities of the time this is irrelevant right but let's get
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back we as Jews already know we have felt it on us what it's like to be
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victims of pilgrims because we belong to an alternative religious group that was blamed for something we also know how
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Muslims were targeted in countries that uh were
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persecuting Muslims or were at war with their Muslim neighbors or were evicting Muslims from their soil war crimes were
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committed against Muslim men and women and crimes against humanity the same
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thing happened when Islam was spreading to new lands after the death of Muhammad the prophet in
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632 ad none of these things can serve as a
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proper example or as an excuse for a commission of war crimes crimes against humanity persecution and discrimination
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including evicting people from lands that they live on live on right I mean think of it someone comes to and says
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we're going to evict you why well because before these were Muslim lands and we want to get back to our Muslim
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lands we're going to evict you we don't believe Christians should be living in those lands or we're going to evict you
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because you're a Muslim and we consider this as a Jewish land now so we're going to evct you who says so or God says so
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and everyone has a different version of God and everyone has a different version of what they're faith and people of
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their faith are entitled to so let's not get into those religious arguments cuz because it's all about faith and we know
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what Holy Wars lead to lots of Bloodshed look look at what Europe went through uh or other
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places so getting back to Israel if you're Israelis today and you have any
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influence on the Israeli government it is absolutely imperative for us to
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explain to the Israeli government including its military that number one we support your
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right to self-defense we support your right to find detain
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neutralize arrest if necessarily kill terrorists because you have that
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obligation before your people to protect them from terrorists from war criminals number two we have to get the
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same message across to Palestinians and other
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Arabs look the Muslim faith just like in my
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opinion the Jewish faith and the Christian faith and one of my big Hobbies is comparative Theology and
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history of religion so hopefully I know what I'm talking about do not
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justify killing innocent people of a different faith I don't care whether you
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consider them idolators whether you consider them
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pagans whether you consider them apostates or members of some heresy who
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rejected your God or who rejected your Prophet faith is an individual Choice
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human being deserve protection right unless a particular
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faith has core tenants of evil acts in other words if you're a member of a
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faith whose core tenant is for instance sacrifice that your faith says it's okay
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to sacrifice human beings women children men my opinion that's an evil Faith Like
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Satanism right if your faith has a core tenant that you can cause harm to other
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people you can injure kill M steal from other faiths or other
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individuals that committing evil acts is something that your God or your deity welcomes then as far as I'm concerned
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that's an evil faith and people have the right to protect themselves from that Faith right
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because as we know it's Faith leads to conduct leads to actions leads to
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consequences and you have the right to protect yourself just if you live next door to a witch whose you know core
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beliefs are that it's okay to you know poison your water poison your flock poison your kids things like that
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obviously you're going to protect yourself against that witch or you know Wizard or whatever
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else because these people then are insane they're evil
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um as the Palestinian people uh look I feel bad for you because many of you
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were displaced when Israel was founded I'll be honest uh you were displaced for
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a number of reasons some of you were fled because some of you your ancestors fled because they were afraid of what
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Israel would do uh others fled under pressure under
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promises from neighboring Arab states uh let's you know come to us and then
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afterwards you'll be able to come back once we win our war against Israel and unfortunately those
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Palestinians do not have the right to return to where they lived in Israel under current Israeli law I think is
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that that's tragic because uh if you were a
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civilian who has the right to vict you from where you've lived that that's my humanitarian or
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liberal opinion uh also if you live in a country you
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deserve the right to equal treatment under the law right other countries have
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gone through this where we've had different rights for different people
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remember South Africa and the apari that it had we remember the United States where it had the discrimination against
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African-Americans and a number of other countries right all sorts of famous
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examples where certain people were treated the second class citizens due to
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their faith uh due to their nationality their ethnicity or their race
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unacceptable so I feel bad for Palestinians who have been discriminated on the basis that they're
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simply Palestinian both on isra in Israel and the West Bank in the Gaza
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Strip but dear Palestinian people if you
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support number one politicians or groups political groups
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that Advocate violence against Israeli
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civilians this is a moral spiritual dead end it's a moral spiritual dead end to
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Advocate violence against Israeli women Israeli children the elderly just
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civilians in general if your political leaders or your groups that you support or you
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yourself do not recognize the right of the Jews to have their own state right
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in the land of their historical religious ancestors I think that's a Moral Moral
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spiritual dead end especially since Islam is the religion of Abraham right
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ibraim it is the religion of Musa Moses
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Islam also recognizes Jesus right a as a prophet
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but the number one prophet in Islam obviously is Muhammad Muhammad is not a Jewish
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Prophet because he was not a Jew he didn't speak Hebrew he didn't read Hebrew he couldn't read the Torah so
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obviously he couldn't become a Jewish rabbi Gifted Man uh probably you know
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the greatest last prophet that has existed uh that I know of uh and who but who
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knows how many other prophets have been around in another face that we don't know about we don't
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know uh but that person deserves respect what never deserves respect is the right
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to kill people is the right to commit violence against people because they have different religious views than
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yours right unless these religious views like I've said are violent in themselves and present a threat to cuity in general
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these are insane views like Satanist views so so that's what we have so
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please if you're Palestinian put whatever pressure you
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can exercise whatever influence you can uh when you're political leaders to make
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sure that they're on the right track and the right track is this it's not endless
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violence it's not fantasies of we're going to wipe Israel off the map we're
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going to drive them into the sea yeah good luck with that uh especially since
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Israel has a strong fully functioning Army and also nuclear weapons that's not
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happening regardless of who comes to your Aid and it and it's the wrong thing to do anyway the proper thing to do is
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to have a normal peaceful two-state solution obviously people are narring
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about the borders of those two states uh many Israelis want Jerusalem
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all to themselves uh many Palestinians also would like Jerusalem all to themselves
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Jerusalem is a holy city for three abrahamic faiths Judaism Christianity
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and then Islam I believe
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that Jerusalem deserves some sort of a neutral status with equal equal
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unfettered unobstructed access to the holy places in Israel for all faiths as
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long as the visitors treat those sites with equal respect in other words if
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you're a Muslim you don't have the right to destroy the you know the Wailing Wall because that's the foundation of the old
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Jewish temple in Jerusalem if you're a Jew you don't have the right to vandalize damage or impede
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access to the aamas that's on top of you know the remains of the Holy Temple still a holy
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sight and and we've seen this throughout human history where religions have changed but the same sites remained holy
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even to subsequent civilizations to subsequent religions right the sites are holy for certain
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reasons but that's a different lecture so if you are a Christian that
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doesn't give you a right to desecrate any Jewish or any Muslim s so if all of
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us Jews Christians Muslims treat each other's holy sites with
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respect respect them protect them don't vandalize don't imped access to them
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especially during holidays during holy festivals during holy periods like
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Ramadan or lent or whatever else uh sood for instance in Jewish
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tradition uh then we're going to be okay right we can be arguing about borders
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some people say well the borders between Israel and Palestine should be from 1947
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you know from when Israel was set up and uh there was a plan on on on how to
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protti uh Palestine into Israel and the Palestinian State British Palestine as they called it right some people say no
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we've had subsequent Wars and therefore the borders should be the 1967 borders
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they recognize the Gaza Strip as a Palestinian territory they recognize that West Bank as a pal inan
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territory uh but we also have to remember that For Better or For
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Worse Jerusalem is a holy city to Jews Jews want to be able to live in it want
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to be able to Worship in it and they have as much right to live in and worship in it as
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Palestinians so special status has to be afforded to Jerusalem if any faith claims
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exclusive ownership domain control of Jerusalem I'm not sure whether that's a
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good idea just just out of fairness and respect all religions so if you know very Orthodox
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fundamentalist Jews disagree with me and start saying you're Greg you're wrong you're this you're that uh I'm going to
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say guys I'm sorry but I have the right to disagree with you uh I believe in the
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same God I I'm a Jew but I also believe that you know given the years that have
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passed uh since our people were evicted from Israel by the
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Romans uh Islam appeared and many semites started to
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live in lands where mostly Jews lived right and not just Jews who practiced
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Orthodox Judaism but let's also remember the Samaritans
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right so different type of I guess Judaism or abrahamic religion close but
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not identical so for all those reasons we have to live in peace but today time is
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running out and I'm sorry it took me 39 minutes to explain all this um why
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because every day today would we have we have Israeli civilians
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continuing getting hurt by missiles launched from the Gaza Strip
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by missiles now being launched from Lebanon and who knows how this conflict
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will further develop who else gets dragged into it because it may not just be Hezbollah
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right hisbah is supported by Iran hisb is also supported by certain
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elements in Syria we also have an issue of the Goan Heights which were formerly Syrian soil but have been controlled and
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occupied by Israel now for a number of years as a strategic location given its altitude also strategic location given
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uh the Water Resources that it has right any ability to control surrounding
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terrain that's from a military point of view but how do you justify the annexation or
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the occupation of neighboring land for military strategic reasons well
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throughout history states have Justified it and have used
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so we we have to make sure that we can reach a reasonable solution there going
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to have to be mediated that recognizes the right of people to have their land
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to be able to control their land to have their own governments but also respect the right
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of other ethnicities other religious group and other especially minorities
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who live there because nobody wants to be a persecuted minority uh Jews do not want to end up
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living uh as a hated minority on Palestinian land where they're going to
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be persecuted beaten robbed killed M taken hostage or whatever else and
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Palestinians don't want the same feed either right people want equal rights people want respect and people want
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safety right and the ability to earn a decent livelihood without economic
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sanctions economic blockades and everything else and and I fully respect
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that so every day people are dying in Israel but right now every day more
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people an order of magnitude more people are being needlessly and wrongfully
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killed in the Gaza Strip from bombing from
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shelling um look I understand military consideration just pure coldblooded
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rational utilit military considerations where you say Okay Hamas has underground
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infrastructure tunnel systems where they're storing hiding soldiers weapons
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Munitions missiles and in order for us to try to destroy that
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infrastructure we have to destroy the buildings that are above it hopefully
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our missiles our bombs will penetrate deep enough to make their tunnels collap
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s to destroy underground shelters bunkers whatever
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else I guess that's a military objective but guess what if trying to do that is
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going to involve bombing buildings uh or neighboring bu or
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bombing buildings in which women children and the elderly civilians live or these civilians live in neighboring
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buildings and we know that once you destroy a building the neighboring buildings will also get damaged could
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collapse the civilians in them could be injured okay so saying well we send
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everyone an SMS message we dropped leaflets it's hamas's problem that's not
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enough and that's not correct the only appropriate solution is as I've said to
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it's your responsibility right as the governing military
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presence to organize safe evacuation if you have to recruit
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volunteers from other Arab countries who will help allow them entry into the Gaza
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Strip to safely evacuate uh Palestinians but guess what
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the Palestinians are not going to say Well we'd like to safely evacuate and and then you're not going to give us
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guarantees that will be led back in or once you make AA leave you'll have
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car blanch to destroy everything that we've ever had then you level everything and where we going to get the money or
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the resources to rebuild these are legitimate arguments
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uh these are legitimate considerations unfortunately when you conduct law
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enforcement operations to capture or neutralize criminals including terrorists or you
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conduct military operations for the same reasons you have to be able to accept
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the risks that you're going to lose Manpower you're going to lose
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soldiers you're going to lose police officers or security Personnel that are in the right that are doing the right
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thing they're doing their legal job uh they have the obligation to protect
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their governments to protect their countries to protect their populations and but those guys are going
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to die and obviously you want to minimize your
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losses cuz people say look you know as far as we're concerned the life of one soldier or the
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life of one police officer security agent who is as far as the law concerned
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innocent and doing the right job in protecting his population his life is worth aund lives
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of criminals or terrorists and who might argue with that
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that's an absolutely correct premise right remember there's in an that says
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uh you know we'd rather have a thousand criminals Go free than one innocent person be mistakenly uh
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executed and sure enough right the life of one innocent person is definitely worth the life of a thousand criminals
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but that also extends the civilians so while Israel has every right to mitigate the loss of life among
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its Defenders Israeli soldiers security Personnel police officers you can't use that to
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justify needlessly killing women and children if necessary you're going to
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have to wait it out but waiting you know this whole philosophy of waiting things
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out does not allow you to conduct The Siege that's going to cause war crimes
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and crimes against humanity right look what happened with the Russian city of Leningrad during World
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War II the Germans surrounded it they kept on pounding it with
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artillery the German air force the L Nazi Air Force the LOF TR kept on bombing it but they weren't able to take
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the city because it was protected by the Bay by the river by its
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Defenders and it only had a small Lifeline of trucks being able to cross
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the neighboring Lake on Ice to deliver food as a
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result I think what a million or close to two million people dying during the siege of Leningrad from
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Hunger from the cold they couldn't get food in they couldn't get stuff to to
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warm their homes wood charcoal things like that so anyone who says let's do a Siege
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let's cut off water let's cut off electricity let's cut off the delivery of food supply supplies medical supplies
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and will force them into submission is insane and no better than the war
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criminals during World War II because what you're doing is you're enacting
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Collective punishment against the civilian population right and that goes for any
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side of the Israeli Palestinian or the Israeli neighboring Arab
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conflict if people in Lebanon whether it's the Lebanese military whether it's
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Hezbollah militants if people in Syria whether it's the Syrian military or
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whether militant groups believe it's okay to collectively punish Jews around
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the world or Israelis
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civilians for wrongs that their government committed or wrongs that the
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Israeli Defense Forces or the security Force es or Israeli foreign intelligence
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the Mad have committed then you're wrong and you're insane okay Collective
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punishment against civilians is not acceptable in 2023 and if you say it is because my God
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tells me so well then I suggest remedial religious training and do a lot of
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comparative and historical analysis of religions to try to figure out why this
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approach is wrong right it is not a proper approach from a
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universal point of view okay even animals don't do that sort of stuff okay
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and hopefully we're better than animals right speaking of animals uh if you're
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political leaders if you're religious leaders start calling your opponents
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animals or subhuman uh then you better reconsider your support of those leaders
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because those people have embarked on a path of false superiority
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racism uh ethnocentrism religious centrism in discrimination or whatever else or
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xenophobia as we call it okay we've already seen what was done to the World
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by Nazi Germany because Nazi Germany ideology uh committed to an ideology
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that that considered the Aryan race Superior to other races and allowed the Aryan race to rule
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and govern over other races even if it took wiping them off the
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map pushing them from their lands look where it got them but we lost
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millions in Europe the Soviet Union lost like 30 million people because not say
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union wanted to have the living space leban Ram as they called it wanted to seize uh
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natural resources in the Soviet Union especially in the oil and gas that they needed for the Nazi war machine and the
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coal and the metals and everything else and their job was we're going to
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exterminate people that we consider unwelcome we'll exterminate the Jews we'll exterminate
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Gypsies and on those territories we're going to settle them with German farmers and we'll only leave enough of those the
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local population to support Personnel everyone else will either push out starve out or
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kill this will be our new living space you know this is what we call Plantation
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mentality we come in we seize land so we can have great plantations the local
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population will be enslaved or will become serves they'll they'll serve us and it'll be all good this is evil stuff
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doesn't get you anywhere okay so if you're religious or political leaders start talking [ __ ] pardon my French
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about we're Superior to other people and that gives us the right to rule over them govern them have preferential
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treatment or displace them from them lands their lands this is bad news and
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regardless of what faith you practice okay uh as I've always said
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fundamentalists people have fundamental religious views are dangerous because
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once you have radical fundamental religious views those views can be justified to
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commit acts that we otherwise would call crimes right a crime cannot be cannot
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magically turn into a rightful thing just because we've done it under the color of religion
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right I mean think of it remember how in the old days all these witch hunts they would go after
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women they didn't understand because these women were versed in healing and this was passed on to by tradition from
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mother to daughter and so on and so forth and Men didn't really understand how they did all these things and
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they're like oh they're evil witches not only can they not heal us but they could also poison US influence us you know
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let's burn them let's drown them let's kill them Stone them so crimes against women who were
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never proven to be guilty right like they say beyond the reason ISL bad on the court of law were approved by uh
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being done under the color of authority of religion and religious ideology hey
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guys it's 2023 uh I hope we're Beyond this right
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because this is now we're already 1,400 years 1500 years past the lifetime of
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Muhammad the great Muslim Prophet the father of Islam we're 2,000 years
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path you know the life of the historical Jesus the father of Christianity right
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the Messiah of Christianity how many years have passed since uh Jews have gone
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through being slaves in Egypt being persecuted in Egypt or being taken as
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slaves to Babylon Babylonian captivity displaced from their lands so
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hopefully all of us have learned these lessons how many years has it been since Christians were slaughtered by uh
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invading Muslims in Spain Christians were slaughtered by
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invading Muslims in European countries that came under Islam rule including
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under Ottoman Empire rule all faiths have experienced on
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their backs what it's like to be persecuted discriminated killed enslaved driven
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from their lands expelled exiled by opposing religious groups have
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we not had enough okay I'm not saying that atheistic democracy is a Panacea it
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never is because you need to have a moral theological uh basically
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foundation for a legal system uh to be stable for
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centuries if you have any legal or political system that's simply based on
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human philosophy regardless of how great that philosopher, political philosopher is
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worshiped or considered guess what 50 years people say ah he was wrong she was
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wrong let's let's enact a different philosophy good example is what happened with Marxism or Leninism or things like
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that so let's hold on to our moral theological
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Foundation but let's also learn the right lessons from history and reject
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any doctrine of violence that allows us to discriminate other people to persecute persecute people of other
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faiths to expel them from their lands to kill them to enslave them or whatever
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else and to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity against
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them um in these last couple of minutes of this video I would simply like to
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appeal to people who are in positions of influence and positions of
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power businessmen politicians also I'd like to appeal to
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lawyers to military personnel to law enforcement personnel and people in the
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criminal justice system such as prosecutors and judges all of us especially those in
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these fields that I've just mentioned have the obligation to protect
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civilians to protect women and children this goes both for Israeli civilians and
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for Palestinian civilians and for civilians in other neighboring countries
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whether it's Syria Lebanon Jordan or even Persian countries like
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Iran we cannot continue to commit war crimes
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crimes against humanity and think that this will lead to peace it does not lead
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to peace okay sooner or later I believe in the laws of karma
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this is going to come back and bite you there will be
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blow-back we've seen the type of crimes that the Allies committed against Nazi
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Germany against the access powers including also Japan during World War II
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the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor legitimate military Target in
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response US Army Air Forces firebomb
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Tokyo killed hundreds of thousands of Japanese okay civilians who happen to
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live in this uh capital city that had lots of wooden structures and they Ed special
57:59
incendiary bombs let's not forget about Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombs dropped when
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Japan was pretty much contained it wasn't going anywhere it was out of fuel was out of other things we dropped
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nuclear bombs when I say we the United States against civilian cities by the
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way those cities had the highest percentage of Christian population in Japan coincidental huh
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and some people suspect this was done not just to punish the Japanese but to test the bomb and also serve as a return
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to the Soviet Union right uh this is a war crime as far as I'm concerned not to
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mention the firebombings of Dresden. Dresden was firebombed if I'm not mistaken
58:46
mostly by the British right um three days before the Soviet forces entered
58:55
the city what was if if I'm not mistaken what was the need to fire bomb
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juson and burn alive people who couldn't who boiled in rivers if they try to
59:06
escape the heat in rivers who burned alive in bomb shelters the firebombing of Hamburg same
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thing these are war crimes and those crimes cannot be justified by prior Nazi
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crimes even concentration camps can't say the Nazi burned Jews and other
59:26
people and prison were in a concentration camp so that gives us the right to that Collective punishment against Nazi Germany by destroying
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civilians so let's defend civilians let's put an end to war crimes crimes
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against humanity and terrorist acts in the Middle East Israel the West Bank
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Gaza and near countries let's not defend it let's put it to an end and let's
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reject this type type of philosophy thank you for being with me and I hope you believe me and support me.

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