Is that Mark Sikes of the Sikes/Picot accord?
Nice. It is also noted those colour’s match the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Summary would be nice. Not a fan of most videos posted with no background.
If he discovered Palestinians are fake as is the supposed Palestinian state then he’s years behind a well known reality.
Again, no summary?
bkmk
Good video
There are only two choices.
Either it is a separate state that just lost a war and is no longer a state
Or it was never a state and this is an internal police matter of another nation
either way, there is no state of palestine.
Great video and worth the watch, even for someone who lives on and off in Israel. Maybe we can get this guy interviewed on Israeli TV (maybe not but worth a try).
In sum:
The “Palestinian State” movement is the tiny, tiny leftover child of the Pan-Arab Nationalist movement, begun in the post-Ottoman Empire era, hoping to forge a single Pan-Arab nations. The “Palestinians” (Arabs residing at the time in Palestine) joined with leading Arab nations like Syria and Egypt, believing they were joining a Pan-Arab movement that would also kick the Jews out. But, all their big backers had a change of heart, became nationalists in favor of their own nations, as they were met with defeat after defeat in war against Israel.
The “Palestinians”, politically, are the abandoned step children of the now defunct “Pan-Arab” movement.
Former Ottoman Syria (Judea, Samaria, Palestine, Damascus, the Lebanon, Aleppo, etc) is just as complicated as the Balkans, maybe more so.
For example, if you try to understand why there is a border between "Romania" and "Moldova", or just what "Transnistria" is (and Bulgaria? Fuggedabout it) - if you want to know about those things, and you can't define Bey, Khedive, Vilayet and don't know who the Janissaries were - good luck figuring out the players in Ukraine - who is right, who is wrong, who "our guys" are, what is America's national interest in Odessa, and who was Catherine the Great anyway?
As far as states in what we call the "Middle East" go: Saying there is no such thing as "Palestine" is as true, and as false, as saying there is no such thing as "Lebanon", or "Syria", or "Israel" or (especially) "Iraq". We talk abut "Kurdistan" all the time, which is as real, and as unreal, as "Palestine".
There is a war going on in the former Ottoman territories south of present day Turkey, West of Persia, and East of Egypt among nations subjugated by the Ottomans until the 1920s and not at peace with each other. Superimposed on these conflicts is an attempt by the victorious powers of WW II to impose order involving a "United Nations", lines on maps, "international law", "rules", and above all the ability of the United States to act as referee, but a referee with tanks and aircraft carriers who is willing to use them. This US role, usually masquerading as the "international community" is coming to an end for a variety of reasons, and the tribes in the region will probably escalate intercommunal violence until one or the other is able to impose a brutal new regime and force peace for a few centuries.
That's how they do things over there. Here's how an ethno-religious conflict ended in 1809:
That's a tower of Serbian skulls built by the Turks the year Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky.
I don't know if Israel is able or willing to construct a tower of Palestinian skulls in Gaza to define victory - I kind of doubt it. Since as we see their enemies are more than willing to do that to the Jews, or worse, you do have to wonder who is going to win and who is going to lose here in the end.
The post-1945 American strategy of "declare victory, get out and go home" after losing another war can't really work for Israel, since they are already home. So they have to win, if they can.