Summary The Biggest Lie in the Palestine vs. Israel Debate | With PM-Elect Benjamin Netanyahu (Youtube) www.youtube.com
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n/a I know that there's tremendous constant noise about issues as fundamentalist. Israel's right to exist even and you start by talking about in in in your book. You embark on explaining that at least in some part, by talking about hers. And his terror that semitism that the rise of antisemitism in Europe was going to cause a catastrophe fee which was obviously a justified terror. Would you be kind enough to walk me and my viewers and listeners through fee your rationale for the moral justification for Israel the political justification as well.
n/a And I'm gonna do what I can. To my limited ability, let's say to push back, I've heard the arguments of often young people who are more prone to give credence and sympathy, say to the Palestinian viewpoint. And I'd like to direct if I make ignorance and maybe help my viewers and listeners do the same thing. So would it be useful to start with Hers?
Benjamin Netanyahu Well, and actually I'd start Her was what I call our Modern Moses, but I'd actually start with the original Moses. The Jewish people have lived in the land of Israel, what is now the state of Israel have lived here and have been attached to this place for about 3500 years, 3.5 millennia. Now for the first 2 millennia roughly of that time, we were living in what is described in a text commonly known is the Bible. So the Bible describes how the Jewish people lived on this land. We're attached to this land, fought off conquer, sometimes we're conquered, but stayed on their land and that continued for a very long time until roughly the sixth seventh century actually after the birth of Christ, okay?
Benjamin Netanyahu For roughly for 2000 years. We were conquered by the Romans. We were conquered by the byzantines teams. They did a lot of bad things to us but they didn't really exile us contrary to what people think, okay? The ones the loss of our land actually occurred.
Benjamin Netanyahu When the Arab conquest took place in the seventh century. The arabs burst out from Arabia and they did something that no other conqueror, not the Romans, not the byzantine not the Greeks before, them not Alexander or the great, nobody did before. They actually started taking over the land of the Jewish farmer, means They brought in military colonies that took over the land. And gradually over the next 2 century, the Jews became a minority in our land. So it is Under the arab conquest, the Jews lost their homeland lead, the arabs were the colonial, the Jews were the natives dis.
Benjamin Netanyahu Well, that happens in history. The Jews were. We were flung to the far corners of the earth, suffered unimaginable suffering because we had no homeland, but we didn't disappear and we never gave up the dream of coming back to our ancestral homeland, So generation after generation, juice could be in warsaw, they could be in Yemen, they could be in they could be in China. And they said next year in Jerusalem will come back next year in Jerusalem. Well, that was made possible because the arabs who had conquered the land best basically left at barren.
Benjamin Netanyahu They never made it their own. It was a barren land. It really had practically it was an empty land. And in the nineteenth century, The idea of coming back next year in Jerusalem became a reality, by the way, in part because of Christian zion support, for the idea of the great return. The jews came back in the nineteenth century to the land of Israel, The result of this return was that we started building farms, factories, places of employment.
Benjamin Netanyahu Arabs for nearby countries started emi immigrated and they now became... They called themselves Palestinians. They reconstructed history and said, we've been here for centuries, no they haven't. They weren't there at all, and they didn't have a national consciousness. We came back, made it our land and we said, okay, we now we live together.
Benjamin Netanyahu We decided to establish a state in 19 48, that's 75 years ago. And we said everybody can live here. The arab said there can't be a Jewish state. You have no right to be here, It's Our land. It's not your land.
Benjamin Netanyahu It's been our land for 3500 years. If you took over your somebody's apartment. Knocked them out, dis them, and they never gave up the claim. And they said it's our claim. And you left this barren dump, Okay?
Benjamin Netanyahu And this the the the families, the Pro of the people you you kicked out, came back, we rebuilt a house. You cannot come back and tell them, you don't belong here, we're going to kick you out, especially since your late customers who come to live in in part of the house, which is what... The so called Palestinians are. Okay? We say to them you can live here, we can live here, but it's our land.
Benjamin Netanyahu It's our state. And the reason this conflict continues is because the Palestinians who represent the the the colonial powers, the arab conquest. Of the Middle East and beyond, they're saying, we you have no right for a Jewish state, well we do. If any people has any right to a state If any people never gave up their dreams of returning to their ancestral home. If any people rebuilt their home from nothing from Baron, wasted land.
Benjamin Netanyahu It's the Jewish people. To tell them, you have suffered more than anyone else. You have never lost your dream of coming back and rebuilding your national life in your ancestral homeland. You have no right to be there. But the arabs who are trying to destroy you, they have that right.
Benjamin Netanyahu That is a complete per version of history and also a complete per conversion of justice. The jews belong to this land, this land belongs to the Jews, the palestinians are free to live here next to us among us, but they're not free to demand the the dissolution of the Jewish state. That is not justice. That is injustice. That's the shortest lecture I can give you about Jewish history.
n/a So you... So why do you think the claim that the Palestinians were somehow there in Israel first, and have been displaced in a colonial occupation, let's say, by the Jews, why do you think that idea has gained such cache Not least in the West.
Benjamin Netanyahu Because of the ignorance? I mean, what do you mean that we're here first. Well you know you're familiar with the story of Jesus, Right? Jesus was a Jewish rabbi living 2000 years ago. He was a rabbi from the galilee.
Benjamin Netanyahu Okay? He came to Jerusalem and he turned the money tables. Of the the the the tables of the money changers on the temple mount. What did that happen? That it happened in Tibet?
Benjamin Netanyahu It happened here. Jerusalem was our capital. King David made it our capital 3000 years ago. So the jews are here to try to say that they weren't here and that the Palestinians were thousands of years ago is ridiculous. Anybody, anybody can you can actually Google this and find out how absurd this thing is.
Benjamin Netanyahu So as far as reinventing ancient history, that that is un unreasonable because anybody can find out and understand that the Jews were here for thousands of years. The Palestinians weren't here. As far as modern times are concerned, what the Palestinians have said is, oh, and I I write this in my book. And I showed it because it's so comic. What they say is we were here, Palestine was a virgin land in the nineteenth century teaming with the Palestinians until the jews came in, took it over and threw it out.
Benjamin Netanyahu Okay. Well, that's what Ara effects said and is infamous speech in the United Nations, blaming zion, equating zion. With racism. Well, there's only 1 problem with that. He said that the Jewish invasion of this burdened Palestinian homeland happened in 18 81 okay.
Benjamin Netanyahu The problem with that is that 12 years before, a famous visitor among hundreds of visitors, named Mark Twain, visited the Holy land. And he describes a totally different picture. He describes Palestine I'm quoting him, is a vast wasteland. He said, only imagination can grace this barren land with the pump of circumstance in life. It's just you said, we travel for a whole day.
Benjamin Netanyahu We didn't see in the galilee. We didn't see a human being 1 single human being. He said Jerusalem sits in Sack in Ashes. And as he was saying that, it's the Jewish return that began. The juice return that began building the land.
Benjamin Netanyahu Well, perhaps 1 could argue it's obvious that Mark Twain was not in the service of the Jewish state because it didn't exist. He wasn't in the service of the Jewish lobby because it was wasn't an any Jewish lobby. He was just reported what was there? Could there possibly have been a tremendous influx of Palestinians between 18 69 and 18 81, the year that that Ara says the Jewish invasion began and destroy the Palestinian paradise. Well, alas no, because in the year 18 81, another famous visitor visits as israel well in e writes, visits this land.
Benjamin Netanyahu And he writes also his memoirs. Okay? His name was Arthur Pen Stanley. He was a very famous very famous court chair of Queen Victoria's Court, okay? And he came here on a special visit.
Benjamin Netanyahu And he says, I looked south and I look north, he says I'm in J. And I see nothing. He says a barren expands and they both express both Twain and Arthur Pen Stanley, say the same thing. When when or when will the jews come back and bring this land to life. And the answer is right then, we came back, brought it back to life.
Benjamin Netanyahu There were arabs living here, but it was as I say, barren wasteland. But ours began to integrate naturally. Because we created a rise in the standard of living that attracted arabs for neighboring states. Those arabs are now those the descendants of those arabs who migrated as a result of the Jewish return, many of them now are considered Palestinians. So what I'm saying and I'm saying this to you, Jordan to your audience.
Benjamin Netanyahu There has been a complete fabrication of history. It's the biggest lie of the big lives that have perm the twentieth century in the 20 century is to say that the abs were here before, that is the Palestinians were here before the Jews. When we were here for thousands of years, that we are the colonial when in fact it was the arabs who were the colonial who the original natives and that is the Jews. That we came back to this land that was laid Barren by the Arab conquest, bought it back to life and allowed Arab immigration we call out Palestinian immigration to come back in. And now they say to us in unimaginable hot spot.
Benjamin Netanyahu You know, They say, you don't belong here. We They recreate ancient history, they recreate modern history, and this is a lot of hook come. It's ridiculous.