Transcript [00:00] I want to react to something that Godad, [00:02] Professor Godsad said in a conversation [00:04] with Tom Billu on the impact theory [00:07] podcast. God made a point about [00:10] colonization [00:12] and Israel that I think is exactly [00:14] right. And I want to dig into the [00:15] history behind it because the historical [00:18] record is even more powerful than people [00:21] realize. Okay, here's the clip. Watch [00:22] carefully because what God says here is [00:26] going to set up everything that I'm [00:28] going to be talking about. Okay, so [00:29] let's take a look. Here we go. God sad. [00:34] >> Israel, they run a brilliant strategy [00:36] from where I'm sitting. And they say, [00:38] "Okay, we need somewhere. We're going to [00:41] bring a bunch of people in until we're [00:42] politically powerful and then ultimately [00:44] we're going to have so much political [00:46] power that we can form a country and [00:48] make it our own." They pull it off. It's [00:50] not easy to do. But then I look at Islam [00:53] and I'm like, they're running the same [00:54] strategy. And so now it's like, okay, [00:58] well, how do people point fingers at [01:01] them and be like, hey, you can't do it. [01:02] I know we did it, [01:03] >> but you can't do it. And so that becomes [01:06] this point of collision. And so one of [01:08] the things like going through the [01:09] feedback that people had on your tweet [01:11] about Tucker and a sentiment that I see [01:14] a lot is that idea of like, well, hold [01:17] on a second. Like how can you be against [01:20] that and for what Israel did? So, how do [01:24] you make that make sense? [01:26] >> So, let's throw some quick facts and [01:29] numbers. The Organization of Islamic [01:32] Cooperation, the OIC, is a body of 56 [01:36] Islamic countries. 56. [01:40] Israel is the size of New Jersey. Okay. [01:44] Let's let's suppose we use the [01:46] appellation, which is an unfair one of [01:48] colonizer. If Israel is a colonizer, [01:52] Islam is a super super elite [01:57] extraordinary [01:59] or giastic colonizer like none has ever [02:02] existed since the history of the world. [02:05] So if we're going to use falsely in my [02:08] view the the levy the attack of [02:11] colonizer on Israel then we don't want [02:14] to start with Islam because Islam [02:17] >> literally has the sword of Islam on it [02:20] as part of its flag. That sword [02:23] >> represents we put the sword to your neck [02:26] and we give you three choices. You [02:28] either convert as has been the case in [02:31] 56 countries that were once full of zero [02:34] Islam [02:36] or we chop chop off your head but [02:38] mercifully because Islam is a merciful [02:41] uh rel by the way they literally argue [02:42] that it's a very swift thing. You feel [02:45] no pain that demonstrates that we are [02:47] kind or you live under what's called the [02:50] demi status. Demi is the Arabic word for [02:53] uh it people say second classes isn't [02:55] it's not even second class it's it's [02:57] right up there with the lowest of [02:59] animals you know your place Jew know [03:02] your place Christian because you are [03:04] people of the book we will tolerate you [03:07] until we reserve the right to no longer [03:09] tolerate you when we no longer want to [03:11] tolerate you put on good running shoes [03:12] and run so there is this thing called oh [03:16] what is it called oh history so there is [03:18] this thing called history where we can [03:20] open these mysterious things called [03:22] books that allow us to know what the [03:24] reality is. To your earlier point about [03:27] Jews being exclusionary, [03:29] Judaism in its DNA is a nonprocilitizing [03:34] religion. That's why Jews suck at [03:38] marketing new customers into their [03:40] religion because they do exactly [03:42] >> birth rate perspective. You guys are for [03:43] real in trouble. By the way, [03:44] >> we're we're useless. We suck. But the [03:47] idea is that for better or worse, the [03:50] doctrine within the tenants of the [03:52] religion are even if Tom says I you you [03:56] said it exactly right. I want to become [03:58] Jewish. No, no, no, you don't. Okay, I'm [04:00] willing to do anything. No, you don't. [04:02] And we keep putting barriers to test [04:05] your uh you know desire to become Jewish [04:08] your [04:10] so that you uh so that you you are truly [04:14] demonstrating the costly signal of [04:16] wanting to belong and therefore once you [04:18] become Jewish you really are you're not [04:21] a convert. You're Jewish in your soul. [04:24] Well, if you have another religion that [04:26] says the number one canonical tenant of [04:31] my religion is to unify every millimeter [04:38] of earth under the unifying flag of [04:41] Allah. Do you need God to tell you which [04:44] of these? There's there's no [04:46] contradiction. [04:47] Israel just wants to have a small sliver [04:50] surrounded by 400 million all of whom [04:53] wish to see it eradicated and they're [04:55] saying we don't want any we we don't [04:57] even want to grow as a matter of fact [04:59] when Israel gave up the Sinai desert to [05:02] Egypt in order for Egypt with Anoir [05:04] Sadat to sign the peace treaty they g if [05:07] they were expansionist they would have [05:09] never given up a size of land that's [05:12] many times bigger than their existing [05:14] size but they're saying just f off we [05:16] live here. You live here. We both have a [05:18] right to exist. Islam doesn't want that. [05:22] And we're seeing it now in the United [05:24] States. Go to Texas. Are you familiar at [05:27] all what's happening in Texas? Okay. So, [05:29] >> the people who make those accusations or [05:33] how come God can do this but not either [05:35] they are dup duplicitus, [05:40] they're willfully duplicitous or they're [05:42] ignorant or they're a bit of both. But [05:44] there is no comparison between these two [05:46] ideological systems in terms of uh [05:50] serving as a threat to our personal [05:52] liberties and freedoms. None. So, [05:57] none. [06:00] None. [06:02] That's his answer. And I think he's [06:03] right. But let's not just take his word [06:05] for it. Let's actually look at the [06:07] history because there's a devastating [06:10] irony at the center of this whole [06:13] debate, you could call it, that most [06:15] people have never really thought [06:17] through. [06:19] So the charge leveled at Israel and at [06:22] Zionism is that it was a colonial [06:24] project, right? That Jews came from [06:26] somewhere else, moved into someone [06:27] else's land, displaced the native [06:29] population, set up a state, right? [06:32] That's the accusation. [06:34] And it gets repeated so often, so [06:36] confidently that most people just assume [06:38] that there must be something to it. So [06:40] let's actually check it. [06:43] So what is colonialism? Let's start with [06:45] that. Okay, let's define our terms. [06:48] Colonialism is when a country or an [06:50] empire imposes their control [06:53] over another people's territory, right, [06:56] their homeland through conquest. Right? [06:59] Colonizers don't just occupy the land. [07:02] They impose generally they impose their [07:04] religion not although not always. They [07:06] impose their language. They impose their [07:08] legal system on the people that they [07:09] conquer. They rule. They demographically [07:12] transform the region. That's what [07:13] colonialism [07:15] actually means. Now keep that definition [07:17] in mind because we're going to need it. [07:22] So Arabs [07:24] Arabs from Arabia Arabs arrived in the [07:27] Levant. The Levant is a geographical and [07:30] historical term referring to the uh to [07:33] the eastern Mediterranean coastal lands [07:35] in western Asia. Right? So that's modern [07:38] day Syria roughly. Uh so modern day [07:41] Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, the [07:44] adjacent areas of Turkey, right? That's [07:47] that's the Levant. So the Arabs arrive [07:49] in Lev in the Levant in the seventh [07:52] century. Now I want you to sit with that [07:53] for a second. Think about that. the [07:56] seventh century. That's over 600 years [07:59] after the birth of Jesus, who by the way [08:01] was a a Jewish rabbi from the Galilee, [08:04] right? The Jewish presence in that land [08:07] in the land of Israel predates the Arab [08:09] arrival by well over a thousand years. [08:12] When the Arabs arrive, the most of the [08:14] Levant is Christian. It's almost [08:16] entirely Christian. Okay? Before the [08:18] Arabs got there, the region had been [08:21] conquered by the Assyrians, by the [08:22] Babylonians, by the Persians, by the [08:24] Greeks, by the Romans, the Byzantines. [08:26] And through all of it, there was a [08:28] Jewish population in the land of Israel. [08:31] It was diminished. It was oppressed. It [08:33] was subjected to foreign rule, but it [08:35] was there. Then the Arab armies show up. [08:39] They burst out of the Arabian Peninsula [08:41] in the 630s, [08:43] okay? In the in the early 7th century, [08:45] city by city, the Levant fell. Jerusalem [08:50] was conquered in 637. And what did the [08:53] new rulers do? They built the Dome of [08:55] the Rock and later the Al Axa Mosque [08:58] directly on top of the ruins of the [09:01] destroyed Jewish temple. That's a [09:03] classic move of conquering civilizations [09:05] throughout history. You plant your [09:07] religious monument on the sacred site of [09:08] the people you just conquered. It's a [09:10] declaration, right? We own this now. [09:12] your history is over. Over the next two [09:15] centuries, through forced conversions [09:17] and heavy taxation of non-Muslims and [09:21] legal discrimination [09:23] and waves of Arab migration into the new [09:27] conquered territory. The demographics of [09:30] the region were transformed. [09:32] By the 9th century, Arabic had replaced [09:35] the local language, the local languages [09:39] of these of these countries. [09:41] and Islam became the majority religion [09:43] and the population became overwhelmingly [09:46] Arab because the Arabs migrated into the [09:50] area. Now let's go back to our [09:52] definition of colonialism. A foreign [09:54] power arrives militarily. It conquers [09:57] the indigenous population. It imposes [09:59] its religion. It imposes its language. [10:02] It builds its religious monuments on top [10:04] of the sacred sites it destroyed. [10:07] It sends its own people to settle in the [10:09] newly conquered territory. It transforms [10:12] the demography of the region [10:17] and here they did it over the course of [10:19] about two centuries. Now if that's not [10:21] colonialism I then I just genuinely [10:23] don't know what is. And for the Jews who [10:26] remained in the land of Israel and many [10:28] did remain. Life under Arab rule was [10:31] defined by an official legal framework [10:34] of secondass status. [10:37] This this is al this also applies to the [10:39] Christians in all the lands in the [10:40] Levant who were conquered. [10:42] There was this official legal framework [10:44] of secondass status for Jews and [10:47] Christians. Uh it was called the pact of [10:49] Omar. Now Jews could not build new [10:52] synagogues. Jewish homes could not be [10:54] taller than Muslim homes. Jewish [10:55] testimony was inadmissible in a court [10:58] against a Muslim. Jews could not hold [11:00] government positions or employ Muslims. [11:03] They had to wear identifying marks on [11:05] their clothing. [11:07] They were subject to a special tax [11:09] called the Jiza, which is basically a [11:11] tax on existing while not being a [11:14] Muslim. [11:15] Now, God mentioned the dei status in the [11:17] clip. He called it right up there with [11:19] the lowest of animals, right? That [11:20] sounds inflammatory, but he's describing [11:23] a documented codified legal reality. [11:28] This wasn't persecution by a mob, okay? [11:31] It was persecution by law. Now, here's [11:34] where the Jewish colonialism charge [11:36] completely falls apart. [11:38] When Jewish immigration to the land of [11:41] Israel began picking up in the in the [11:43] late 1800s [11:45] in the beginning, the early years of [11:47] what we call the Zionist movement. So, [11:49] what exactly were they were the Jews [11:50] arriving to? What type of place were [11:53] they showing up to when they came to [11:55] that land? They weren't arriving to a [11:58] sovereign Arab state. There were no [12:00] sovereign there was no sovereign Arab [12:02] state there. The land was a sparsely [12:04] populated, largely desolate province of [12:07] the Ottoman Empire. It had no borders. [12:10] It had no government of its own. There [12:12] were no Palestinian passports. There was [12:14] no Palestinian sovereignty to violate [12:17] because there was no Palestinian [12:18] political entity of any kind. Now, we're [12:21] not speculating about this. We have [12:22] eyewitness accounts. For example, famous [12:25] one is Mark Twain who visited the land [12:27] in 1867, 12 years before the first mass [12:32] wave of Zionist immigration. And he [12:34] described what he saw. He saw a vast [12:37] wasteland. He traveled through the [12:39] Galilee for an entire day without [12:41] encountering a single person. He [12:43] described Jerusalem as quote sitting in [12:46] sackcloth and ashes. This is Mark Twain. [12:49] He had no political stake in this [12:51] whatsoever. [12:52] He he was just reporting on what he saw. [12:56] Now, other visitors from the same period [12:58] said the same thing. The land was not [13:00] teeming with a thriving Palestinian [13:02] civilization that the Jews displaced. It [13:05] was empty. And that emptiness [13:08] was itself a product of the Arab [13:11] conquest, [13:13] right, of 1,200 years of neglect that [13:16] had reduced what had once been a [13:18] productive agricultural land to [13:20] something that was barely inhabited. [13:23] Now, this is the key distinction that [13:25] almost nobody makes explicitly. So, I'm [13:27] going to make it explicit. [13:31] When we talk about European colonialism, [13:33] the classic use of the term, the British [13:36] in India, the Spanish in Mexico, the [13:38] French in Algeria, [13:40] in every one of those cases, a foreign [13:43] power arrived in the territory of an [13:47] existing functioning civilization with [13:49] its own government, its own [13:51] institutions, its own sovereignty, and [13:53] they conquered it. That is colonialism. [13:57] When the Jews began returning to the [13:59] land of Israel in the late 1800s, they [14:02] weren't moving into a sovereign [14:03] territory of any nation. They were not [14:07] displacing a government. They were not [14:10] they were I mean in many cases they were [14:13] just legally purchasing land from [14:15] absentee landlords. And as they built [14:18] farms and factories and towns as they [14:21] created economic activity, [14:24] Arabs from from surrounding regions [14:26] actually migrated in. They were [14:29] attracted by the rising standard of [14:30] living and by jobs. Many of the Arabs [14:33] who later called themselves [14:34] Palestinians, who call themselves [14:36] Palestinians today, were relative [14:38] newcomers. There's a lot of evidence for [14:40] this because migration through the [14:42] Ottoman Empire was there was no borders. [14:45] you could just move around and these [14:46] nomadic peoples would move around and [14:49] they would move around to wherever there [14:50] were wherever there were jobs. So there [14:54] was this surge in the Arab population [14:58] in the late 1800s into the areas where [15:01] the Jews had started building all this [15:03] economic activity. [15:06] Now be right before all of this in 1864, [15:10] so three years before Mark Twain shows [15:12] up in 1864, the British consul in [15:15] Jerusalem [15:17] reported that the city's population was [15:19] only about 15,000 people. [15:22] Was that very small town, Jerusalem? [15:25] And he also reported that more than half [15:28] of them were Jewish. [15:31] So when people say the Jews came and [15:33] displaced the Palestinians, we need to [15:35] ask displaced them from what exactly? [15:39] From a sovereign state that never [15:40] existed? From a thriving civilization [15:43] that the evidence says wasn't there? [15:47] And here's the final point, and it's the [15:48] one I find most powerful. [15:51] The United Nations has a definition of [15:54] indigenous peoples. It includes things [15:56] like historical continuity with [15:59] pre-colonial societies, [16:02] uh, a strong link to the territory, a [16:04] distinct language and culture, [16:07] and a resolve to maintain and reproduce [16:09] ancestral identity across generations. [16:13] Right? This is how they define [16:15] indigenous [clears throat] people. By [16:17] every single one of those criteria, the [16:20] Jews are the indigenous people of the [16:22] land of Israel. the Hebrew language, the [16:25] language of the Bible, the language Jews [16:28] wrote in and prayed in and studied in [16:31] for 2,000 years of exile, the language [16:34] now spoken in the modern state of [16:36] Israel, is the only surviving [16:39] uh ancient Canaanite language, if you [16:41] will, in existence. Right? The Jewish [16:44] people have maintained a continuous [16:47] cultural, religious, and national [16:49] identity rooted in that specific land [16:52] for over 3,000 years. Jews in Poland, in [16:55] Yemen, in Morocco, in China, for 2,000 [16:59] years, they all prayed facing Jerusalem [17:01] and said, "Next year in Jerusalem." [17:04] This is not the behavior of a people [17:05] that has forgotten where it came from. [17:07] The Jews never gave up their claim to [17:09] that land. [17:11] The Arabs who conquered the Levant in [17:13] the 7th century came from Arabia. Their [17:16] language is Arabic. Their holy cities [17:20] are Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. [17:23] The Levant is not their ancestral [17:25] homeland. It's territory that they [17:27] conquered. [17:30] Now, that doesn't mean that Arab people [17:31] living in the land today have no rights. [17:33] Of course they do. But it does mean that [17:35] the historical and moral framework being [17:37] used against Israel is completely upside [17:39] down. [17:41] The colonizers were the Arabs. The [17:44] dispossessed indigenous people were the [17:47] Jews. The Jews came back. [17:53] No one no one expected that, but we did. [17:57] and the audacity [17:59] to then call the returning indigenous [18:01] people the colonizers [18:04] while the descendants of the actual [18:06] colonizers [18:08] wear the mantle of native victims. [18:10] They're the indigenous victims. [18:15] So as God says that's one of the [18:16] greatest propaganda achievements in [18:18] modern history. [18:22] So when someone says to you that Israel [18:24] is a colonial project, you hear that all [18:27] the time, right? When someone says that [18:29] to you, stop them right there and ask [18:30] them to define their terms. This is the [18:32] way to handle it. Okay? Someone says to [18:34] you, "Israel is a colonial project." [18:35] Say, "Okay, [18:38] tell them about the Arab conquest of the [18:41] Levant in the 7th century." Bring that [18:42] up and say, "Tell me, we all know that [18:44] the Arabs conquered the Levant in the [18:46] seventh century. who was living in this [18:49] in that land before the Arab conquest. [18:54] Ask them what sovereign state existed in [18:58] that land when Jewish immigration began [19:00] in large numbers in the late 1800s. [19:04] Ask them what language the Jews have [19:06] been praying in and studying in and [19:09] writing in for 3,000 years. [19:14] What direction were Jews praying towards [19:16] for 3,000 for last few thousand years? [19:20] History doesn't lie, [19:22] okay? It just gets buried. And our job [19:25] is to dig it up. Please drop a comment [19:28] and let me know what you thought of this [19:29] video. Please share and like and [19:31] subscribe and uh and thank you for [19:34] helping grow this channel. 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