Excellent lecture thank you! God bless Israel! Greetings from polish lady in Australia

@paulheydarian1281

2 ай бұрын

So what was your takeaway from watching this lecture? 🤔

Brilliant lecturer who is highly interesting! And all without notes!

Brilliant overview of a time we've lived through but never quite managed to put together the pieces.

These lectures are very informative. Thank you for making them available.

What a tour de force by Dr. Lerman.

Fantastic , comprehensive yet thourough exposé of recent history in the MENA region! THANKS

Oct 7th 2023 never forget

@augen8819

Ай бұрын

Back to eastern Europe Israhrlli

@evamurray2564

Ай бұрын

​@@augen8819what about the 2 million Arab muslims living in Israel, the Druze, Bedouins, middle eastern Mizrahi jews, who also live in Israel. Polish jews are not the majority, numpty.

@lisaschuster686

Ай бұрын

In the Gazan rubble we have a vivid picture of what “never again” looks like. Israelis are born into living history, one hand holding his chariot of fire.

@runnerfromjupiter

Ай бұрын

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Excellent informative lecture about the complicated politics of the Middle East.

Thanks heaps for sharing your thoughts

I wish I could be as clever as this man.

Thanks, I am enjoying the lecture

Is there any good lecture online on Qatar's curious foreign policy?

@paulheydarian1281

2 ай бұрын

Good Question. 😅 Let know if you find something decent. 😉

@serpentines6356

Ай бұрын

That would be interesting. He doesn't talk about Qatar specifically, but I like Ben-Dor Yemini, and there is a pro-Israel group that investigates where Qatar money goes into Western educational institutions. It's interesting to hear how these institutions will hide where all that (Qatar) money is coming from.

@sj6986

Ай бұрын

I am also very curious about Qatar’s policy play here. Is it Qatar choosing to play both sides or is Qatar being the middleman at behest of US and Israel? Hard to tell without any credible expert insight. Remember, Qatar transferred dollars to Hamas with Israel’s assent (specifically Netanyahu). Similarly, the US has repeatedly praised Qatar’s mediation for both Hamas and Taliban. Now Qatar does want to rival Saudi influence in the region in both - politics and energy spheres but I find it hard to believe they would stick their neck out especially on something as sensitive as Afghanistan of their own volition.

@runnerfromjupiter

Ай бұрын

Ah yes! Qatar : The nation with a usa base 😉

Brilliant

There is a difference between a country being governed by a dynasty/heredity, by power/who's the biggest and most powerful, and a country being governed by principles/laws. For the latter to work, these need to be good principles and laws, or at least fairly good ones. Whoever leads the government is still expected to follow and uphold these principles and laws. If the leadership changes these principles and laws remain in place. This is what Israel seems to have in common with Western governments and the US. Principles can sometimes be equated with a Higher Power/God. They are part of God's identity or something like that. At the same time, principles can stand alone as something in themselves, and can light the way for the secular as well as people of faith.

@serpentines6356

Ай бұрын

It's interesting though that the more secular our society is getting the more unhappy, and nutty it's getting too.

@liteenergy4843

Ай бұрын

@@serpentines6356 I myself went through a change from just believing in principles and ideas to seeing them as part of God's Spirit and inner nature. This took me like 20 years or something. From my own experience, I can say that secularism can be a route and a road to something good.

👍 Very good

When the many new nations were constructed from the crumbling Ottoman Empire between 1918-1948 to create independent nation states in the Near & Middle East , have today’s disintegrating and fractions split along the ancient Ottoman Empire lines?

Related issues on football world Cup. Argentina won the Cup despite the qataries and France and other shed.

"Sphere of Influence" and "Clash of Civilizations" struggle, wars, are as ancient as mankind's civilizations. Iran's contemporary regional designs could be viewed as similar to the Persian-Greeks wars of the early 480 B.C., when an empire ruled by an absolute king, the Persian Achaemenid Empire, tried to subjugate the Greeks, nominally Democratic. Then, it was Authoritarianism V. Democracy. Today is Islam's Totalitarianism V. Western Democratic Liberalism. In the 'vernacular', Israel's is, geographically, the metaphorical "bone stuck in the throat" of Iran's regional ambitions.

Who destroyed these countries? That's the question

@paulheydarian1281

2 ай бұрын

Look to the US State Department during the first and part of the second Obama Terms. Folks like Hillary Clinton in particular. Keep in mind that Obama US Dep't was focused on the JCPOA from 2012 to 2015.

@kiswindsidaguigma9261

2 ай бұрын

@paulheydarian1281 when Trump canceled the JCPOA, how did that work out? Iran is close to having nuclear weapons. I'm an American, and I watch the Israelis I24. Many past political, military, and intelligence leaders say interesting things over there. I learned from there that the Syrian war was set by the Isrealis intelligence services

@SeverusAlexanderAugustus

2 ай бұрын

Their own kleptocratic rulers. That's the answer.

@kiswindsidaguigma9261

2 ай бұрын

@@SeverusAlexanderAugustus you should watch I24 sometimes.

@Deen41

2 ай бұрын

@@kiswindsidaguigma9261Iraq and Syria were destabilized by the evil Zionist regime.

Interesting lecture but I am always uncomfortable when so-called smart people resort to calling other people from another culture ‘flies’ or make jokes about someone as widely esteemed as Nader dying at a young age and the audience chuckles. This is your story and perhaps the Israeli/Jewish story that has lots of validity. But other people’s have their stories that have validity as well…and dehumanizing people by calling them flies and delegitimating their concerns and aspirations to me seems like part of the problem on all sides. Maybe it’s the human condition that we all suffer from…but God, no matter what we call Him/Her, I hope not!

@lamoitte1

Ай бұрын

It is a "clash of civilization" between the Democratic Liberalism and the Islamic Authoritarianism. YOU, yes, you, have to decide which narrative you adopt as yours.

Interesting that there is a need to clarify he is a 3rd generation (Sabra) born in Israel/Palestine

This guy is way to apologetic towards islam. Ive read the koran, no other holy text encourages violence as much or as vociferously.

It's not your home

What about the current Israeli genocide in Gaza?!

@JoJoBoOzK.O.

Ай бұрын

what about it?

@TheBabasaly

Ай бұрын

Fiction tale catered to those who want to believe in fiction. Obviously, there isn't a genocide in Gaza, but a war.

@user-nx3bm5mf1n

Ай бұрын

@@TheBabasaly Yes, as occupying power, Israel has no right to employ violence against any of the inhabitants of Gaza. The whole world sees the genocide for what it is. If the government of Israel cared about protecting its citizens, it would not have helped create Hamas and would have ended the occupation long ago. I learned all about the Zionist project when I was in Yeshiva. Eventually I realized it was contrary to Halachah and terrible for Jewish people.

@augen8819

Ай бұрын

​@@TheBabasalyGas xx season 2 now totally justified

@gurbevanbelle

Ай бұрын

@@augen8819i have no idea what you are talking about

The last time I was watching I24 and one Israelis stated that Isrealis created the conflict in Syria to distract the Iranians force. The problem is that you have human beings living there.

The competetion between the Zionists and the Iranians is tactical but not strategical. The existence of both depend on the other and if either fall, the other fall. Each existence depends on the other!

@tamaritiel9909

2 ай бұрын

um.. How exactly?

@TheBabasaly

Ай бұрын

@@tamaritiel9909 Yeah, not at all... This guy probably does not know that Israel and Iran were at peace before the takeover by the Islamic republic party.

@alex-7578

Ай бұрын

As mentioned in the lecture, Iran and Israel were trading partners until the Shia revolution. Neither country need to be in antagonism - unless the Ayatollah revolution is still in command. You should have paid better attention to this lecture