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31. Great show,and to the knockers,get real.
JamesMcNamara ,   Gold Coast Ausrtalia   (07.10.10)
You will always get these whining and whinging people who never stop,their lives are consumed by this negativity. Ignore them,and keep these videos coming.
32. #29 Disturbed by Jewish soldiers in Hebron?
Howard   (07.10.10)
Hebron is one of the oldest Jewish cities. If Jews don't have the right to be in Hebron, they don't have the right to be anywhere, much less in Canada. Did you actually read what you wrote before you sent it? And you think that two states will make Jews welcome in Haifa, Galilee, or Jerusalem? The key sentence in your post is your fear that unless Jews gives up Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, Jews will continue to be hated. Is that what worries you? Let me enlighten you. Jews will always be hated. Jews' first and foremost concern should be securing the only piece of land they can call their own, and defend it with their lives, if necessary. Not cede it just because "they're hated".
33. The Street where
Stan ,   Johannesburg RSA   (07.10.10)
Is this the street were Jews were massacred before the creation of the State of Israel just because they were Jewish and had lived there since Avraham? Why should any Jew want to give up their right to the land of their ancestors in the name of modern democracy when in Iraq the liberated people are killing each other in the hundreds of thousands when presented with the oppertunity to live in a democracy? We are Jews not fools!!
34. I wanna give them a BIG HUG!
Martin ,   Johannebsurg, SA   (07.10.10)
If anyone who reads this and knows these soldiers, please give them a BIG HUG from me. It is good to see the IDF face life with joy, after all, SIMCHA is a blessing.
35. 9-Matt thinks NASA never went to the moon
(07.10.10)
36. Sima Kadmon,sorry you are a moron too,
Salma ,   Palestine   (07.10.10)
well, your soldiers are dancing well, however, get out of Hebron, there is no normal life under occupation. How would you feel if the Hezbollah men were able to "occupy " Kiryat Shmona, and dance to the people there, to tell the world that here there is a normal life ?!!! Exactly, this is what we feel.
37. Question to Matty 30
Shimon ,   Poleg   (07.10.10)
My father was driven from his home in Aden. My in-laws were expelled from Tripoli in the Pogroms there. 1000000 Jews were expelled from their homes more than you 'Palestinians' do you think they should return? Do you seek justice only for those that hate Jews?
38. :: Shimon - #37
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.10.10)
Arab Jews lived all across North Africa and the Middle East for centuries in harmony with Arab/Muslim people, this peaceful co-existence was overturned by Western Expansionism, the import of anti-Semitism and the Zionist conquest of the Palestine region. While the Jewish Nakba is quite comparable with the Palestinian Nakba two wrongs never make a right thus the Jews and Arabs that were expelled (some to never be allowed to return) should be either allowed to return or compensated for their losses.
39. No. 36 Salma
NYC Girl   (07.10.10)
What kind of "normal life" have Israelis been able to live thanks to Palestinian terrorists trying to turn their country into a slaughterhouse? How would you feel if any time you or someone in your family stepped foot into a restaurant, a bar or a shopping mall there was the possibility they'd come home in a body bag? Stop blaming the Israelis and own up to the culpability of your own people and the violence they've been perpetrating against innocent civilians.
40. #38
Mizrahi   (07.10.10)
I'm a Tunisian Jew, and you're full of bs. While we had it better than our European brothers, we also faced rough times. Read up on the almohads and that little nonsense of "Mohammed had given the Jews 500 years to convert willingly, thereafter forceable conversion was permissible" so harmonious (Sarcasim)... The Palestinians are non-stop compensated via an enormous amount of international aid, that I assure you is inflatted compared to African and Asian poor countries. What compensation have Mizrahis recieved? None. What international aid were my granparents given when dirt poor in Israel? None. Save your lies snake tongue. Bravo to our boys for dancing, and an eternal curse on those Masri's and Jordanians thrown into refugeedom by their "brethren", until they relinquish their vile ways.
41. :: Mizrahi - #40
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.10.10)
As did other minorities. Palestinians wouldn’t need international aid and assistance if only Israel would stop oppressing them and return their occupied land. Generally to receive compensation you have to be considered a refugee, how many Jewish refugee exist today? You mean besides receiving the assets from the former Palestinian inhabitants in what is now modern day Israel? Also if I remember correctly Palestinians were robbed and looted by the newly arrived Jews as they were forced out of such towns as Ramla and Lydda on death marches. Didn’t the Israeli army remove over 1,800 truckloads of Palestinian property from Lydda alone? Maybe you should ask your grandparents about this?
42. #38
(07.10.10)
but the arab nations refuse to compensate the jewish refugees or accept them back. what would you do??? should israel ocmpensate the palestinian refugees if arab nations refuse to compensate the jewish refugees?
43. #41 to the imbecile from fairport
(07.10.10)
i will attempt to answer your points with my own 1. which minorities are you talking about. it is only the jewish minority in arab muslim lands that were labeled DHIMI AND LIVED IN SQUALLOR IN GHETTOS CALLED MELLAS WHERE ARAB PERPETRATED CONSTANT POGROMS ON THEIR HOMES AND RAPED THEIR JEWISH WOMEN. so, do enlighten all of us...which other minority was treated this way? and give sources please. 2. while the jordanians and egyptians owned both gaza and the west bank with east jerusalem which they kept like a dump, there was constant foreign aid being pumped into those areas by both anrwa and the un. israel didn't occupy these areas before 1967. yet, with all the monies being thrown at the palestinians, not a single drop made them flourish or build an infrastructure. until israel got in, these palestinians didn't even have sewage, water infrastructure, well built homes and any rights at all under the regime of egypt and jordan. gaza and west bank were dumps of humanity. no schools, no universities, etc.. once israel captured these areas because of a war foisted on them by the arab nations, the west bank became one of the world fastest economy and one of its best. so was gaza...until the terror started on the part of the palestinians against the jews. having jews in west bank increase the livelihood of both gazans and west bank arabs tenfold, built them universities, schools, houses, infrastructure, etc... israel didn't opress them prior to 1967 and they lived like rats. once israel was in, they lived like kings and every palestinian you may ask will attest to this fact. the jews gave them what they never could get from their arab brothers, idiot! 3. the mizrahis were all absorbed by israel. israel didn't put them in refugee camps and took their rights away. they were absorbed and treated humanely compared to the vile abuse the arab nations did to the palestinians by imprisoning them in camps and not allowing them freedom, citizenship, education, civil rights, etc.. israel on the other hand didn't have an anrwa for their refugees nor european aid like the palestinians have. yet, it absorbed all their jews into its free society. most of israeli population today is a descendant from mizrahi refugees from arab land and yes, they did demands compensation but the arabs refused. there are no jewish refugees, dummy, because israel was humane in absorbing all of them and giving them a new life and hope. anrwa is the only kind of aid organization meant only for pals. no other refugees have their own such organization because they were all absorbed, except for the pals. 4. what palestinian assets????? they all lived in mud huts and were serfs working the land for absentee land lords. you cannot compare the fortunes left by jews in arab land, businesses, homes, banks, factories, etc.. to the mud hovels left by palestinians. the pals owned basically nothing in palestine. nothing of value. 5. death marches???/ you liar. provide ample sources as to these death marches and do not ever comflate the death marches pepetrated on the jews by nazis to prove a point. disgusting pig. what robbed? what looted??? the jews were the ones that had the infrastructure and the brains to do it all. the palestinians benefited from the jewish yeshuv with employment, medical care, etc... not the other way around. what looting? what could the jews possible find in a pal home? morrocan slippers? a habaya? idiot! know your facts before you babble nonsense. you are truly a sad case of absurd imagination. 6. sources please. sources ,matty. otherwise just imagination and babbling in the air. we did ask the grandparents about it. they were there. don't you think that what they told us is 100% the truth rather than you own imaginings? i would rather listen to them than to you on any given day. they were there. you were not even an idea back then. sit in your corner and take a history book and read.
44. 41 salam matty
(07.10.10)
is not so simpl . engleze is not so good so forgiv. israil not stel from us noting. we don have noting in 1948 naqba. jews help arab muslem do good and help prospeer 1948. we di less and more kid to be born from us in good helth arab army tel us to go. the army wan to kil the yahouds. then pet us in refege casmp to play us to israil. we don have noting wit us when go to egypt and tranjordan only clos and paks. we run becase arab army come. yahouds let us stae in philstine no kill us. yahouds take noting from us. noting. wed hav noting to hav. wat you tel death march? no . you not no noting wat hapen tere. habibi you mus teech histry for yeself then say stoped tings. taybe
45. :: #42
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.11.10)
What Jewish refugees? Show me a Jewish refugee?
46. :: #41 - You don’t seem to know much...
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.11.10)
...about your own history do you? Why can’t you simply answer the questions I posed? Are you really so ignorant that you will not recognize the Christians and Arab Pagans who were also minority groups in the Arab World over the centuries?! Thankfully both Jews and Christians fared better under dhimma than such other minorities as Pagans, Zoroastrians, Mandeans, etc. I am sure you will agree that both the Jews and Christians would have had a much worse lot if they had not have been protected people. Why on earth should I ‘give sources’ when you don’t? Do you think one rule applies to you and another to me? It’s not my fault that you are so ignorant about your own history. If there are no Jewish refugees then you can hardly claim compensation now can you? Anyway the property, goods and valuable that the newly arrived Jews took off the Palestinians should have made for a tidy sum. Earlier you said that Jews in Arab lands “lived in squallor in ghettos” how can you now claim that these same Jews owned banks, businesses, etc?! If that was true why did Israel appoint Dov Shafrir as Custodian of Abandoned Property? Why did Israel enact the Absentee Property Law if the Palestinians had nothing of worth? If the Palestinians had nothing why did they own 12 million dunams of land in 1945 compared to 1.5 million dunams of land owned by Jews? <5. death marches???/ you liar. provide ample sources as to these death marches> Why do you keep demanding ‘sources’ when you provide no sources to back up your claims? Do you not know that approx 30,000 Palestinian men, women and children were forced to leave Lydda by Israeli soldiers on the orders of Ben-Gurion? Meir Ya'ari had this to say about the forced exile of the civilians from Lydda & Ramla: "How easily they (Ben-Gurion et al) speak of how it is possible and permissible to take (Palestinian) women, children, and old men and to fill the road with them because such is the imperative of strategy. And this we say, the members of Hashomer Hatzair, who remember who used this means against our (Jewish) people during the (Second World) war - I am appalled." Oh about 50,000 homes, 7,000 shops, 500 factories and workshops, farmland, etc and all the assets contained within. I believe these figures are from the Custodian of Abandoned Property office, as a Jew/Israeli can you confirm this as you should know more about your history than I do? They were there eh? Then they might remember Ben-Gurion saying: "The only thing that surprised me, and surprised me bitterly, was the discovery of such moral failings among us (Jews), which I had never suspected. I mean the mass robbery (of Palestinian assets) in which all parts of (the Jewish) population participated." Or as Aharon Cizling put it: "When they (Jews) enter a town and forcibly remove rings from the fingers and jewelry from someone's (Palestinian) neck, that's a very grave matter. ... Many (Jews) are guilty of it" Well I don’t know, if your grandparents robbed and disenfranchised the Palestinians I’m sure they wouldn’t like to admit so would they?
47. :: #44 - wat?
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.11.10)
i don kno noting you hav sad.
48. :: #42, #43 & #44
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.11.10)
Note from now on I am ignoring any posts which are not signed.
49. 43 well said
avrom ,   bet shemesh   (07.11.10)
50. Humanity????
panoptikon ,   Jerusalem   (07.11.10)
In an occupied city? Where the residents are abused by the IDF and the settlers. This clip shows nothing but the lopsidedness of the occupation, the status of the IDF and settler masters as opposed to those of the residents. This clip is in very poor taste and shows only the hubris of the occupation.
51. #45 moron
(07.11.10)
there are no jewish refugees from arab lands because they were FULLY ABSORBED BY A YOUNG ISRAEL IN THE EARLY 50'S. THEY WERE ABSORBED, ALL OF THEM, 800,000 OF THEM INTO ISRAEL, GIVEN CIVILIAN RIGHTS, NATIONALITY, CITIZENSHIP, HELP IN ACCLIMATING AND INTEGRATING INTO THE SOCIETY. on the other hand, ALL ARAB MUSLIM NATIONS REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEES. DID NOT GIVE THEM CITIZENSHIP, DID NOT ALLOW THEM TO HOLD NATIONAL IDENTITY CARDS. PUT THEM IN REFUGEE CAMPS WHERE THEY WERE INDOCTRINATED TO HATE JEWS AND ISRAEL BECAUSE THE ARABS USED THESE POOR PALESTINIANS AS CANNON FODDER, KNOWING THEY CAN NEVER COLLECTIVELY BEAT ISRAEL MILITARILY. SO THEY ABUSED AND USED THE REFUGEES TO DO THE KILLING OF JEWS FOR THEM AND TERRORISE ISRAEL. THE ARAB NATIONS BUILT NO INFRASTRUCTURE IN ANY OF THE REFUGEE CONCENTRATION CAMPS. DID NOT LET THE REFUGEES WORK IN THESE COUNTRIES. INTERNED THEM INDEFINITELY IN THESE POVERTY STRICKEN VIOLENT CAMPS AND INDOCTRINATED THEM. ARAB NATIONS DID NOT GIVE CITIZENSHIP TO ALL THESE REFUGEES AND NEVER WILL. LOOK AR JORDAN, EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, LEBANON, SYRIA....THEY ARE ALL STILL IN REFUGEE CAMPS IN THESE COUNTRIES. EVER WONDER WHY?????????? show you a jewish refugee? who do you think is the descendant of 78% of israelis today. yes, the mizrahi refugees. israel had no reason to refuse to help their brothers and sisters. the arab nations refused and refuse till today. this is why there is no jewish refugee now and there are still palestinian refugees. got it?
52. #48
(07.11.10)
finally, you said something that makes sense. please pblige all of us since wev have been abused and tired of your lying and rantings for the past year now. it will be a relief to us all to be rid of you. what say you? i am all for it. disappear. you have nothing of import to add except the constant repetitive rants we are so very familiar with here. you'll do yourself a great service as you do so for us, finally, to not have to read the same garbage like a broken record palyer over and over again ad nauseum. it is amazing matty that you would like to ignore the unsigned posts. in my opinion they were the ones that ridiculed your reasoning and faulty information. semantic games and twisting of words on your part reveal much about you which is truly sad and disappointing. i have not had the luxury of reading a single post of yours that didn't fill way too many lines and too much space while saying nothing at all. do you work during the day? or do you secretly aspire to be a ynet op ed commentator? do you have a night job? it seems not because we see you here poppoing on the ynet pages at night as well. well, we can guess you are unemployed, frustrated with your life and able to hook into your fantasy of destroying the jewish state. won't wash, matty. we are way to strong for you and way above you. after all, the chosen people are indeed your superior. so, in light if the above, it will do us great honor if for just one day we do not have to put up with your shenanigans and fantasy tales. signed, the unsigned
53. @48 mr. groves
(07.11.10)
mr. matty. i once used to have a student with ADD in my special education class. you remind me so much of him. he kept repeating himself so much that after a while, his message lost all meaning and the students just started to ignore him. i didn't blame them a bit because i, as an adult teacher, often had the itch to just turn around myself and ignore the poor fellow. but i was supposed to be a role model so i just resorted to pitying rather than ignoring. the poor fellow couldn't take it. he constantly badgered everyone to pay attention to him, screaming over and over again the same verbiage all the time until the principal finally came to his senses, god love him, and placed the ADD child in another more suitable environment. i often wonder if it was you, sir. i am from your state as well and have been teaching for the past 26 years now and i have met many such students like yourself. they never ended on the right side of the fence. pity! antoinette basinger
54. To Matty 38
Shimon ,   Poleg   (07.11.10)
Trhanks for your reply. BTW we are not Arab Jews, we are simply Jews who live in this region for hundreds of years before Arabs or Arabic existed. Arabic is to all intense and purposes a dialect of Hebrew. I speak Arabic as do my wife's family. In effect there have been equal population exchanges as you agree in your post. In fact the number of Jews is larger than that of Arabs that lost their homes. Indeed the vast majority of the Arabs that did not run in 48 are still in their houses in Haifa, Jaffa etc. The Jews had no choice. How many Jews are in Tripoli or Aden today? In any case their has been an equal transfer of peoples and this is over. Jews will never return to Aden or Tripoli and the so called Palestinians will stay where they are forever!
55. Hebron
Lioness ,   Israel   (07.11.10)
Hebron is a Jewish city which at the moment is occupied by Arabs. Until 1929 there waw a huge Jewish population that were murdered by Arabs. In 1967 Jews came back to live in their city.
56. IDF in the West Bank
Sandy   (07.11.10)
Peter, Amsterdam #1 - the reason they're patrolling in the west Bank is to protect Israeli civilians. Otherwise the suicide bombers who are stopped very day would get through to Jerusalem, Haifa and Netanya, as they did in 2000-2005, or the rockets would come raining down on Tel Aviv and the international airport, as they did on Sderot when Israel left Gaza. That's what an army is for. Why don;t you comment on Arab sites about all the hatred an glorification of martyrdom that they teach their children? Why are you preaching suicide to Israelis?
57. Jewish properties in Aden
JEWISH Refugee from ,   ADEN   (07.11.10)
There was very rich Jewish family in Aden called BET BANIN.In fact the British Government stopped this family to buy any more properties.. They had lands,shops,houses,in their. They worth fortune in todays money.
58. :: #51
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.11.10)
The best part of ignoring unsigned posts is that I don’t have read long, badly constructed, mindless posts.
59. :: Unsigned - #52
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.11.10)
Oh I don’t know where on earth you got that idea, if anything I am more committed to Ynut than ever, heck I even made Ynet my default browser homepage last week. Anyway how could I ever leave after I have built up such a strong emotional bond with the Ynuts here? Such kinship cannot be easily dismissed or broken. Why Unsigned that is a fabulous idea! I had never consider that notion but you are right it would make prefect sense as that way everyone here could enjoy my shared thoughts and insights as full blown Op Ed’s. I must send an email to the Ynet Editor right away!
60. :: Antoinette - #53
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (07.11.10)
Thank you for your heartfelt concern, it is nice to know that so many people here care so deeply and have my best interests in mind however you can rest assured that I would have never attended any of your classes.
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