Israelis: What do you think of countries that are against settlements?

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[derherrdirektor]

If living in a settlement is an economic question, it's actually worse than if it were an ideological question. If your country doesn't work for its people, building in a place that is ambiguous by your standards and foreign by international law just makes you a person without morals instead of corrupted morals.

[morgainebarkefors]

First guy really have a world-view waped to fit his narrative. The obstacle the settlements present is not that they wouldn't be allowed to be incorporated by the State of Palestine but that Israel and the settlements themselves would vehemently oppose it, thus making a lasting peace much more difficult to achieve. If the situation was reversed, with expanding arab settlements inside Israel living under Palestinian law I highly doubt he'd see it the same way.

[Balconetti]

I see lots of comments that the first guy made the best argument for why settlements are not an obstacle to peace ("there were no settlements in West Bank prior to '67 and there was still was no peace"). I don't see how anyone can buy that argument. If peace cannot be established under current conditions, that in no way justifies further settlement on land that would be claimed by Palestinians (within 67 borders). It clearly makes any future peace agreement even more difficult if not impossible to achieve. Furthermore, the logic behind settlement building is not "oh, you don't want peace? so we'll just keep building"; it's fait accompli --- French for, "oh golly gee, look at the map, there are settlements here, and here, and here; sorry bruh, what's done is done, we can't undo what's already been built, as that would mean displacing our own citizens; guess you're just going to have to accept to a smaller piece of the land".

[alexcarter]

I love the sign in the background at 3:49 - "We do not have wifi, talk to each other".

[TheNaomeister]

That first guy is an exceptional speaker. I don't agree with everything he says, but he is very good at getting his point across, making a reasoned argument, and understanding where he, at least, is coming from. I commend him.

[smsheard]

Yeah really complicated. Some one is taking someone's else's houses. Seems quite simple to me.

[wolfadanya]

Absolutely delusional. Like it's actually insane.

[irerfnf]

To the first man who said there was no settlements before 67, yes there were but on a smaller scale. That’s why the war started, but the Arabs were defeated in the first war and so the settlements flourished at a time when the Arabs were at their weakest.

[vlnow]

the cyclist at 7:52 vs the cyclist at 8:14

[moetama_]

Can the USA have cities within Canada?

[BowNow]

Does the word "violent" hold the same connotations in Hebrew than it does in English? Because as much as you may disagree/agree with boycotting as a political action or form of speech, I fail to see how it's violent. It's literally done as an alternative to violent protest.

[donald]

The Israel/Palestine conflict requires statism. It's a fight for political control of the region. People claiming rule based on ancestry and mythology yet no individual has any claim past their own yard

[ofrikalif]

It looks like many people think that Israel just randomly went into the west bank one day in 1967.
I don't believe in expelling innocent people from their homes but I don't understand what's wrong with building on a territory that was taken in a defensive war.

[andreshernandez]

The first guy is an exceptional speaker I don't agree with him in all the points, but he's good.

[Largo]

I don't understand why palestinian children need protection (by israeli soldiers) from the settlers when they go to school. The settlers clearly wants the palestinians to leave so why should the palestinians welcome the settlers?

[trinitybertinelli]

The Arabs of 48 stayed cuz their great great great great great grandfathers were born there where yours born in where the hell you came from probably Europe or Russia

[dragonlaughing]

Funny how that woman and man characterised a boycotted as violence. Here's what happened when a boycott was declared against the Nazis. This is from Wikipedia...
'The Nazis and some outside Germany portrayed the boycott as an act of aggression, with the British newspaper the Daily Expressusing the headline: "Judea Declares War on Germany" on March 24, 1933.[12] Nazi officials denounced the protests as slanders against the Nazis perpetrated by "Jews of German origin",  '

[sabrinamaroc]

In my eyes, there is no difference between Israelis or Palestinians no one is better then the other.
The world is a weird place

[fairplay]

The first guy: with flat lies, semi-truths or twisted facts represents all that is wrong in Israel.
The last lady: with her perfect english, she is most likely an American or a Canadian. That is a perfect example of a criminal irony of Zionism. Coming from either of the two countries (both very prosperous for Jewish people), she has more rights in the Palestine than people who lived there for centuries or millennia. All based on some convenient myths.
Yet, "it is IT IS NOT!

[marchonore]

“We took back the Golan after 400 years” Same logic Hitler used to expand Germany initially - the Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine. By the same logic, Denmark can take back the rest of Scandinavia and the Swedes can take large tracts of Russia.