 Hello friends and subscribers a very warm welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Rosal here bringing you this video today from Jerusalem in Israel from the lovely home office as usual, but Not in business as usual. I this YouTube channel is coming up on the 3000 subscriber Milestone, which is always I like these 1000 subscriber milestones because they take a while to accumulate a thousand subscribers and And and it's nice. It's nice to know that there's growth and hopefully I know it's going up at about kind of 10 20 Subscribers per day give or take so if it continues at the in this manner I might hopefully have an excuse to go out for some pints on Thursday to celebrate along of course with Thanksgiving aka turkey day, so I'll have to an extra extra fun weekend if we can get to 3k in time It's been a real adventure this YouTube channel that I'm now trying to focus on Israel and at the start was really just a jumbla videos Since I hit my first 1000 subscriber milestone I have and that was actually only this year, so I guess the growth is must be increasing I don't keep overly neurotic eye on the numbers, but I do look at general trends And I met a couple of subscribers this year in real life George in the summer. I really enjoyed our drinks And it's it's been fun. Some of my friends follow my YouTube channel and give me ideas and feedback I get out there and I let mostly most importantly it gives me an outlet for my creativity I'm always looking at exploring new formats And right now I'm getting a few graphics done up on Fiverr to hopefully jazz up the production value Just a little bit. So you have more to look at than my face and this rather bland Wall behind me so today as we're coming up on that milestone I thought I would do a comment mail bag by which I mean I'm going to go through some recent comments that came in here on the YouTube comment bucket and I'm going to talk through them This is just some of the more interesting comments that I thought really merited a kind of thoughtful response And I will link to the comment in the YouTube Comments by the way, how cool would it be if there was a video comments feature on YouTube? That would be I was just thinking that the last day if someone could leave a video comment Like if the comments thread was a thread of nested videos I hope YouTube brings that in at some point. All right, so this was on the is Ireland and anti-semitic country video and just to say at the outset I Strenuously disagree that Ireland is anti-semitic. However, I have as an Irish born Jew You know just kind of try to raise that there is anti-semitism there and we're seeing its surge around the world So that was sort of what that video was talking about and this comment from Mon Givlin, I might butcher some of these usernames. I Agree and I was saying that Richard Boyd Barrett even though he's just like you know kind of a Fringe politician I've been Highlighting his rhetoric because I think it's important to To raise it and challenge it and it doesn't get challenged in the Irish parliament and I think that's problematic So he says I agree the anti he or she I don't know these people's gender unless it's It's it's clear from the username. I agreed that anti-semitism can't go and challenge That's why I was hoping you could convince some of the Irish Jews to get together and report some of the hate speech That has happened to the Gardie That's the Irish police at least or maybe go to the papers to get their side of the story out Especially after what happened at the UCD debate to Jewish students So that's in reference to the Richard Boyd Barrett debate in UCD and it kind of went to shit Towards the end and some guys stood up and started shouting a la joe akbar la joe akbar and Said to a Jewish student that there'll be another October 7th It's a really nasty stuff People on Twitter have been trying to like identify this guy But VV the bigger point about you know, can I get the the Irish Jews on board? So regrettably We do not have a Irish Jewish WhatsApp group Or any kind of direct means of communication, but more seriously, I haven't really been in such close contact with the Irish Jews I live in Israel even though I have still got an Irish passport But I don't think it's my place as a non resident in Ireland to report stuff to the Irish police the Gardie But part of the reason I don't even think it's possible, but even if it was I don't think that's my That would be right, but I do agree that the Irish Jewish community should pursue stuff like this when there is clear hate speech and You know, even as I said some of the rhetoric of Richard Boyd Barrett I think it should there is hate speech legislation in Ireland. I've looked it up. It just doesn't seem to be applied Especially when it comes to to Jews. So yes, I agree that the Irish Jews should bandy together I am in contact with a couple of them And I encourage if other people feel similarly at give the Jewish representative Council of Ireland drop them an email and Tell them that you watch this video and you're on board Encourage them to get moving about reporting this stuff to the Gardie and now I don't I don't know that they're not doing it But if they're not doing it, just give them encouragement to you don't put your head down It's not the right approach. This stuff needs to be tackled And there can't be a climate in which anti-Semitism is just allowed to it is tolerated in society All right, so that's my response to that comment. Thank you, Mon. Give Lynn for Commenting and all the comments on my YouTube are now on review mode. So These are ones that 99% of the comments I'm approving but 1% of them are deranged and crazy and it's just easier for me to I don't easier to do it for me to do it this way So I did a video about Ireland tells Israel to be proportionate in response to the mass murder of its civilians This was obviously this was like just after the war broke out and Ireland's PM Leo Veradker said, you know You need to he was the first person really to kind of this was kind of before public opinion turned against Israel and You know the European Union was Ursula van der Leyen said We stand with Israel and the world was still very much on board with Israel And while that was happening Ireland This was a start of Ireland kind of booking the trend and its prime minister Leo Veradker said well You need to be proportionate proportionality has to be your top concern Israel if you're going into Gaza, so this I this and I just said in the video look proportionality, what does that mean when 1400 Israelis were butchered and babies were beheaded and all sorts of atrocities like how do you Calibrate a proportionate response to that. So I thought this was a very well-written comment from yeah, you're Bria You want proportionate what you want us Israelis to kidnap and behead Forty babies and post videos of that online. You want us to kidnap girls from music festivals It's all in tape a mass it made those claims decades and Who in Gaza help those hostages being scared and being complicit or indistinguishable from outside of the exact same result The evil prevailed. So yeah, look, I just I don't want to kind of say too much about that comment Just because I really agree with it and I guess saying I agree is is enough But that that was the point I was trying to Articulate in the video is that this concept of proportionality. I do It is something that I think about when I see these horrific images of Palestinian babies being pulled out from rubble and How does Israel be proportionate in its use of force and is it being as proportionate as it can be? See the thing is that from that's just such an unknowable question without having deep insight into the military Exercise going on but in general I find just kind of blanket statements are not blanket statements Just like open-ended things like well, you need to be proportionate. I find that to be very unhelpful because It's it seems to be an impossible standard and it's a standard that doesn't seem to be applied in have been applied to other countries Who are you know exercising self-defense? So back in memory lane, I plucked out this comment from when the elections were still some the local elections were still something anybody cared about in Israel and I was involved in firstly there was I was doing videos about that and I've gotten involved in Helping this local party called Hitora root or campaigning not campaigning because I'm not sort of you know, I'm not a Running for office, but I've been helping them with videos and stuff like that So I recorded this video of Adir Schwartz who is there the head of that Electoral faction and I like this comment from a guy called Daniel JV1 I'm just gonna call him Daniel. So I was happy to read to Toru to platform specifically the section on planning It goes in the right direction, but there are no references to architecture although textured construction is mentioned This is interesting to me because my wife is an architect and my wife talks Incessantly about urban planning and how poor urban planning is in Israeli cities and this is very much her Something she's very engaged in and she her passion has kind of sparked an interest in me Obviously is a non architect. I know far less than her, but I This really resonates with me. Jerusalem needs to be more beautiful Please focus on improving the public realm and engineering standards creating development policies regarding architectural design Reducing the amount of dilapidated buildings like that one is for sure. For instance There's this place called being on actually I was gonna say they're been young clouds I should just say the building I'm Standing in that I live in is a little bit dilapidated even though it's not really a bad You know, we don't live in a bad apartment, but there's just so much old Dilapidated stuff around the place that you'd really it really kind of isn't befitting of Jerusalem. That's so much of it You know in the build I was gonna say Binan Clal is the classic one Binan Paramon is pretty bad as well so it's the force of law and These are the issues I really want I want us to deal with to give Jerusalem the beauty that it deserves So Yeah, it talks about Amsterdam which is and the Netherlands which is really held out as a great example of urbanism Successful urbanism. It's about that. I love this sentence so much It's about time we stop treating Jerusalem like a provincial town on the outskirts of Israel it's about time we treat it as the eternal capital of the Jewish people and Is one of the most important cities in the world for billions of people? Please make Jerusalem more beautiful. Yeah 150% behind the beautifully articulated That's the thing about Jerusalem when I know people people can just people will disagree with me and say What are you talking about Jerusalem is very beautiful the old city of Jerusalem is magnificent and You know just totally historic But the rest of Jerusalem when I go to Tel Aviv and I go to Tel Aviv about once a week for business I feel like I've upgraded city not Talking about South Tel Aviv and Tel Aviv has its really dilapidated parts, but it just in terms of the the skyscraper is The feeling that this is a prosperous vibrant modern city and Jerusalem just kind of feels like it's really punching below its weight And it doesn't feel like the capital city. It feels like Tel Aviv is the capital and Jerusalem is this kind of Slightly backwaterish provincial place and I don't know how better to put it But that's exactly how I feel. I'm as much as I sort of sometimes despair about Jerusalem and The way it's going and the extremism here and the lack of jobs I do equally really want to see it go in a better direction and I really connected with that comment So thank you for writing in Okay, here is one from Doug Bevin Another interesting and slightly hilarious video. I was hoping Shim Shona is going to cover the Persian restaurant I've seen a mention on Facebook at the Klal Center. Is it still there? I'm not even sure of its name Is it a Limba Shook? My internet search has turned up nothing So this was from the Shim Shona Shinsky So I just want to say the Shim Shona Shinsky videos have been hilarious for me to to put together Shim Shona is a very intriguing character and very very funny to film because He's just like this bundle of energy and he just shoots off in all these directions at once So the last one we did was about Sabiq a Sabiq place on a gripper street and I'm always trying to Talk to Shim Shona. We chat periodically. I'm always trying to suggest ideas for funny videos because As much as Shim Shona does food reviews Shim Shona Shinsky The food reviewer as much as he does a lot of food reviews. I think is just general comments about Jerusalem and Israel are just so much so so much more funny and that that binyan Klal video I thought was kind of a classic. It's probably one of my favorite videos I put out because he was just shooting from the hip and it was ridiculous like he I think at one point pointed to this old Printer and said this guy's got to clean up his act and then there was like a corridor in the building that led to nothing There was nothing like this is the only corridor in the world that that leads nowhere So it was just such a funny video and that brings back fond memories for me And I really hope I can convince Shim Shona to create more content like that because we had a lot of fun producing it Oh and about the restaurant. I'm pretty sure it's still there and I actually Said to Shim Shona. We should do that place. So, uh, I will remind him So, um, okay Daniel and so now now let's go. Um, so the thing about these comments is I get comments from before I decided to make this youtube channel just about israel, uh, and I created some splinter youtube channels So this predates this so this comments mail bag is just a bunch of random ones Uh, so this is related to um, I did a video and canon came out with four new camcorders In the canon xa series, which I love Daniel. I'm planning on buying a canon xa 60 Please let me know if the canon xa xa 60 will get overheated If I record my kids playing outdoors for over an hour or so um, I basically I looked up the spec sheet for this for this guy and it says that it can record for 500 minutes and uh, I I never miss an opportunity to talk about how great camcorders are The beauty of camcorders is they're built for video and uh, someone on youtube once said that camcorders will keep recording as the apocalyptic apocalypse apocalypse hits and the world ends and I I I don't know. I mean, I live in israel obviously and it's very hot here and I've recorded um In the burning 30 40 degree sun with my camcorder lots with my xa 40 And it's just a tank. It's never given me like an overheating message It just keeps recording. Uh, so Yeah, um, I think I think I think you'll be pretty safe To record your kids playing outside for decent periods on the camcorder Um, this is an old comment now. It's a month old But uh, I just as I said picking out interesting ones. All right, change of pace back to arland israel So, uh, richard boy bar. This is when I was highlighting some of the stuff he says, um If I live in arland and I'm sickened by this odious anti-semitic runt constant rhetoric This is word for word the same bullshit that hitler spewed People before profit should be expelled from dull error and effective immediately and any multinational companies Um, will be similar don't seem to their Jewish communities. No, this is a this is a point that I wanted to highlight People before profit don't seem to realize that there are Jewish communities all over Ireland And his vile rhetoric has placed them in danger of attack And yeah, this is exactly I think I've already made this point here Why I'm doing these videos. I think there's not exactly Ireland isn't exactly overflowing with Jews. It is quite a small community. But yes, this rhetoric Is problematic not just because it goes totally unchallenged in the dull And the best you get is kind of a pretty weak response back from leo veradkar But there's no, uh, there's no advocate for Ireland in this in this entire parliament There's no one who really stands up and takes them to task on these Things and uh, yeah, it creates a real atmosphere of fear and it incites a patriot that absolutely I fear will be Can even if there are very few Jews will uh, will spur action Another one on Irish anti-Semitism from core core mcquinlan It's true that we don't to the kind of vicious all-out bear-faced anti-Semitism you get in European countries But part of that is because the Jewish pop here is negligible, but it is a growing community Um, I'm not sure that's correct, but I'll I'll take his word for it Now between three to four that I've been out of Ireland for so long. I don't know what the trends are So it's growing apparently the 27 2700 figure is from 2016 and it's been growing relatively well since then Um, so that's interesting And he echoes that, um, believe that Richard Boyd Barrett needs to be challenged because of their Climate of fear it's creating for all these people um Dos palamas cb, uh, who's been a great supporter of this channel and commented on many videos I appreciate the engagement I did a video a few days ago called how to rent property in israel a guy talking about my, uh War stories of renting in israel for nine years and basically how to do it Um, so he says we hope to help sort something out when we come over in april Um in spain this guy lives in spain. It's common practice to pay a state agents a month rent Commission and a security deposit of one or two months. So yeah, we have to do that too. There's also there's a security deposit There is the realtor fee plus vat So, um, the the point anyway that I wanted it to to reply back is just to say that yeah Like the rental market here sucks Although I've heard I think the fact that That renters tenants have to pay realtor fees is crazy, but I've heard it's like that in new york as well. So Yeah, it's always it's always interesting to know that stuff isn't uniquely bad here in certain respects. Um, just It's not a good time to be a renter. Uh, so yeah, we need to really step up our code That's anyway. That was interesting. So we've never lived in spain. All right. Oh beautiful I randomized this youtube comment section. So I didn't know which order they'd come in So I'm really happy to finish on the mdisk. Uh, this is the last comment that I'm going to be answering. Um before mdisk so the mdisk is um One of the greatest little random technologies I've stumbled upon. It's this, uh, Basically modified blu-ray People remember when blu-ray discs were on the or on the scene and it's supposed to be impervious to data Off so it's supposed to basically hold your data for like a thousand years or something, you know, uh Crazy like that. So I don't I can't you know, I can't teleport into the future to say hey, it works So right now I'm just going on trust. Um, but uh, it's uh reduced my anxiety about data because, um When I create video data like this, I do worry that it'll Uh, just disappear one day or the you know, my youtube account will be Hacked or vanish and all my videos will be gone So I back up back up all these videos onto two sets of mdisks and one of them gets posted out to the us It's a pretty pretty wacky system. I have going but uh, so this guy says france wa says before mdisks I use gold recordable dvds and cds I have some gold cdrs that are more than 25 years old and all the data reads perfectly The same for some gold dvdrs that are more than 15 years old. So there you go guys Just just goes to show that optical data is a beast and um, I Basically all the mdisks that I burned as are working, but that's only three years But I don't worry about them. I I think the data is going to be good And I love reading comments like that that in this in this era of um, every you know all It's so common for everyone to just offload everything to clad providers third-party clad providers, which we don't have control over And these I love when these really old school technologies like cds and dvds just kind of come to the rescue And they're still relevant The mdisk mdisk videos have received quite a bit of Interest and I've generated quite a bit of comments over their over their time up on youtube. All right So that's it. That is the comment mail bag. I will do another one Perhaps in a couple of months months when I have more comments to go to to talk back to and until then thank you for watching and until the next video