Shocking Facts on Israel & Palestine

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down the Salon.com piece 'Palestine's losing battle for land'.

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[NIGHTmayr23]

@lucamansan Muslims never criticize their own countries? Really? Have you been living under a rock for most of the year, almost all of the Arab nations have been going through uprisings and rebellions against their governments and gradually those governments are being toppled, so I'm sure that the word freedom is in their vocab. It's clear by your choice of words that you're uneducated and believe whatever you're told....pathetic and your choice of words...disgusting.

[sexyabe]

@PoliticalKnowsItAll you think theres no justifications but israels has its reasons? do you know thats a contradiction? or are you admitting israels reasons are unjustified?

[therealjakespitz]

The west bank was part of a large area of the middle east given to israel in 1948, in fact the current state of israel is 26% of that area so talking of eating cookies!! the area called the west bank was, before WWI, ruled by Jordan in a controvertial occupation rejectd even by the other arab nations. Technically legally, the west bank is Israel's to build on and the settlements are 100% legal. Your blatant and spiteful bias is disgusting from a news channel. there are 2 sides to every argument.

[Snakepliskinist]

Will people grow up and stop fighting over whose superstious nonsense gets to reign supreme on the "magical" land?

[airwalkairwalk]

@davek381 yeah well atleast the turks didnt fuck the middle east and give birth to a demon. Why did usa go to iraq and afghanistan? Why is iran the terrorist if they havnt declared war on a country in the past 300 years? Why does Israel want to attack iran? Because iran dosnt agree with the regime just like israelis dont like theirs?

[davek381]

how about the young turks do a video on the kurds? oh wait, fair journalism is only against Israel. turkey committed a genocide on the kurds and everyone wants to talk about some palestinians. if you think israeli treatment of palestinians is bad, look at Jordans treatment. they are in refugee camps there, too. in israel, they have full rights.

[marcot64]

Looking at the numbers reminds me of the the U.S. settling the country and what they did to the native americans. Now, it's viewed as the darkest period of U.S. history.

[tmpq1lzy]

Cenk is radical-Islamists, he will do everything to turn you against the west, just

remember that when you hear his crap

[JuniMajnoony]

@TheNewsCriticOnline I think you're an absolute idiot - this myth that there is no Palestinians needs to die. Palestine has been referred to in history by everyone from Aristotle to Jesus, Napolean and the Zionists before Israel. You think that NO ONE who lived there in the past 2,000 years called themselves Palestinians?? Including Jews who have Palestine clearly written on their birth certificates? This is BS, seriously, give it up already. You look like an idiot.

[FoolishOrc]

Its the obvious truth, well done TYT.

Yes, one side is poor and the other is evil. Occupier and occupied, oppressor and oppressed. It's a military against a civil population. No matter what Israel's reasons are, they have been constantly breaching human rights and international law for decades:

The illegal house demolishing, annexation of lands and settling, blockade, arrests, collective punishments, assassinations, restriction/prevention of movement and the breach of basic human rights.