Israel Analysis - East Jerusalem

A comparison of divided cities around the world

other videos in series:

I hate Israel - Racism
I hate Israel - Zionism
I hate Israel - Persecuting Christians
I hate Israel - Murderers
I hate Israel - Wars
I hate Israel - Right of Return
I hate Israel - Gaza Blockade
I hate Israel - Security Wall
I hate Israel - the UN told me so
I hate Israel - I don't hate Jews
I hate Israel - Displaced People
I hate Israel - Assassinations
I hate Israel - I wish it would go away
Syria Hypocrisy - Israel by Al-Assad
Turkey Hypocrisy- Israel, Cyprus, Armenia & the Kurds by Erdogan
Jordan Hypocrisy - Palestinians and UNRWA by Al-Hussein

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• xtranormal
• jerusalem
• israel
• palestine
• divided city
• beirut
• berlin
• jewish
• arab
• east jerusalem
• gospel

[palimpsestransparent]

This series of videos are are poor attempt at misleading the audience on what the true issues are.

For instance, in this video the whole debate is constantly pushed towards the artificial question of whether it is "normal" or not to have a divided city (indeed, as if normality was an intrinsic characteristic of Israeli society!). It then manipulatively reaches the conclusion that Jerusalem should be undivided, which translated into reality just means stealing more Palestinian land.

[firstonethrough]

@palimpsestransparent 1. It is not normal to have a divided city

2. the city was not divided by Israel but by the Jordanians that seized it in 1949

3. The 1947 plan was a single international city

4. the reason it is contested today is not the 1967 war, but the 1948 war in which it was split

5. The city was never Palestinian or contemplated to be Pali, but -1948 Ottoman; 1948-1967 Israel+Jordan; 1967-Israel

[palimpsestransparent]

@firstonethrough

1. Again, what do you mean by "normal"? Who decides what is normal? I prefer to focus on what is just.

2, 3, 4, 5: None of the land was Jewish, which means neither Jerusalem was Jewish. There was no Jewish state until 1948. Until 1948 there were villages that belonged to the Palestinian people which little by little were being taken over by radical settlers who were on a mission to create a Jewish state. To do that they ethnically cleansed the region.

[firstonethrough]

@palimpsestransparent The video reviews the inherent instability of major cities that are split (Berlin, Beirut, Nicosia). They do not last and should not be encouraged.

You are incorrect. Jerusalem has been majority jewish since the 1870s - before the Zionist movement; before the Ottomans lost the land; even during the time that the Jordanians annexed the city and expelled all of the jews from the Old City - it has been majority Jewish for 140 years

[palimpsestransparent]

@firstonethrough Stating that divided cities do not last and therefore should not be encouraged is a very weak argument to justify Israel's illegal attempt at taking over this city that has always had an arab population. Why doesn't your cartoon video mention the fact that Israel has stripped 70,000 Palestinian Jerusalemite residents of their ID cards, turning them into non-residents? Why don't you mention how Israel has isolated East Jerusalem from the West Bank? Or mention house demolitions?

[firstonethrough]

@palimpsestransparent Im glad youre reviewing all of the video! as you see, they each compare Israel to other countries on different points. no one video attempts to sum up the entire history or situation. This video is about divided cities and compares them to divided cities around the world. Minor border cities are sometimes divided and larger cities if a river runs thru it - watch the video again. The illegal split of Jlem happened in 1948 - not 1967.

[ConOBri]

East Jerusalem is Arab... the only part of East Jerusalem that is Jewish is the Jewish quarter of the Old City. And if Jerusalem must be united, why not united in the Palestinian State then? After all, Palestine is older than modern Israel is.

[ConOBri]

@firstonethrough There hadn't been also any independent country called "South Africa"... South Africa acquired the "independent country" status under the rule of the Apartheidist English and the Boers!... So, according to you, South Africa (like Israel) should have continued its Apartheid policy, right? Long live the discrimination! Shame on you.

[ConOBri]

@sandycheryl The country as such didn't exist but the people existed. I guess Croatia had never existed either before its independence from Yugoslavia. That wouldn't be a reason for the Turks, the Austrians, or all of the other people that governed that territory to expell the Croatians from Croatia, so that it could be Ottoman or Austrian again. It's not about historical borders, it's about people! If you want to go to the issue of historical borders, then consider giving Israel back to Egypt.

[sandycheryl]

@rally989 How can the Palestinians have something stolen that they never possessed???

The answer is --- it was never stolen!! The Balfour Declaration and UN resolution recognized that the Jews had a legitimate right to this land and there were very few residents and basically no other peoples who wanted it. It was desolate and mostly empty. Arabs only began showing up when the Jews began arriving in the 1800's and were developing the land and the economy.

[sandycheryl]

@ConOBri Palestine never existed. the only independent country ever in that area was ancient Israel. The Ottoman empire was not Palestine. As Newt Gingrich finally had the courage to point out, Palestine is an invention, a fiction that people have bought into, but has no substantive reality. If the refugees had all been settled post-1948, the 'palestinian people' would be Jordanians, Syrians, Lebanese, etc. Before Jews started settling the land, 'palestinian arabs' were just 'arabs'.