Juno News - Trudeau turns his back on Israel

00:00:00.000 So how can you tell if something at the United Nations is a bad idea? Well, you may want to look

00:00:09.820 at which other countries are involved. If countries like Syria or North Korea or Venezuela are

00:00:14.300 involved, you may want to second guess why it is that your country is getting involved.

00:00:17.600 Now, that apparently is not something that Justin Trudeau does, because he just had Canada vote in

00:00:21.820 support of a resolution sponsored by all three of those countries. Now, on the face of it,

00:00:25.740 that resolution seems innocuous, but I'll explain to you why it is problematic.

00:00:28.720 It called for the creation of a Palestinian state and the support for Palestinian self-determination,

00:00:33.940 but there are a couple of problems with this. Firstly, there have already been and there are

00:00:37.760 a number of resolutions supporting the right of self-determination for all peoples. So you have

00:00:41.720 to wonder why this one is specifically about the Palestinian people. Secondly, the resolution

00:00:46.120 itself makes absolutely no mention of Jews or even Israelis. It simply talks about the Palestinians.

00:00:51.740 But for Israelis, for Jews, the land of Israel is inseparable from their identity. If you are a Jew, 0.94

00:00:57.720 it is simply not possible to disassociate yourself, especially if you're again, if you're a practicing

00:01:01.520 Jew, to disassociate yourself from the land itself. And it's not about the political state. It's just 0.99

00:01:06.640 about the land, which in the Bible and Torah is called Israel. And so we'll just refer to it as

00:01:10.620 Israel. There are a number of commandments given to the Jewish people by God in the Bible, and a number

00:01:15.800 of them can only be performed in that land. All of the holy spaces, the holy sites, the ancient burial

00:01:22.360 grounds, all of these things are all in Israel. The fact that Jews pray towards Jerusalem three 0.85

00:01:28.080 times a day, the fact that we long to return as a Jewish people, you long to return to the state of 0.97

00:01:34.900 Israel to once again rebuild and self-govern in your own land. That is an integral part of Judaism,

00:01:40.360 and you cannot separate the two. As much as people want to try and say that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism,

00:01:45.240 I'm very sorry. If you support the right of every other people to have self-determination,

00:01:49.740 such as the Palestinian people, but you do not support the right of the Jewish people to have 0.86

00:01:53.500 self-determination in their own indigenous homeland, then you simply have a problem with Jews.

00:01:58.300 Now, two other things that I want to go over about the United Nations. Firstly, the United Nations is

00:02:03.360 going to have a number of resolutions this year in the General Assembly. They have resolutions,

00:02:06.740 they're non-binding, they're kind of like motions or statements. 17 will be about Israel,

00:02:10.620 and 7 will be on the rest of the world combined. So even if you think Israel is a terrible place,

00:02:14.900 and it does terrible things, are you really telling me that it is two-thirds more terrible

00:02:19.400 than the rest of the world combined? That's really not logically consistent, and you have a serious

00:02:23.660 problem, if that is what you think. Secondly, the United Nations Human Rights Council's agenda,

00:02:29.760 they have an agenda for every meeting. Agenda item 7 is to specifically discuss the human rights

00:02:34.060 situation in Palestine. So basically, in Israel, what Israel is doing bad. Now, again, you're telling me

00:02:39.380 that every meeting you have to talk about this, that there's absolutely nothing more pressing,

00:02:42.280 or maybe it is really pressing, and you should talk about it, but it's the only country that has

00:02:46.600 a permanent agenda item. There's nothing going on in, you know, Syria, China, somewhere in Africa,

00:02:51.880 there's nothing going on in, you know, Latin America, North America, there's nothing going on

00:02:55.740 anywhere in the rest of the world that is deserving of a permanent agenda item, or even a semi-permanent

00:03:00.840 agenda item. Nothing at all? Seriously problematic. Now, lastly, before we wrap up, I just want to go over

00:03:06.860 a bit of the history of the region and explain to you about why there is a conflict in the first

00:03:11.620 place. There is a conflict because in 1947, at the end of the British mandate, the British

00:03:16.320 controlled that region, and they were supposed to help it along until it was able to self-govern,

00:03:20.460 that's what a mandate was. When the British abandoned that region in 1947, the Jewish people

00:03:25.780 and Jews owned a percentage of the land. It was a relatively small percentage, granted, but they owned

00:03:30.560 and legally purchased, or had always lived there, on a percentage of the land. And yet, when the United

00:03:36.020 Nations and all the other countries got together to say, okay, let's divide up this land somehow,

00:03:39.940 the Arab leadership at the time said, absolutely no, they are not willing to divide it up in any

00:03:44.420 way, shape, or form. They do not accept any Jewish self-determination or any Jewish governance in that 0.98

00:03:50.060 land, regardless of the borders. So though, this is not about 1967, this is not about 1948, this is not

00:03:55.800 about any occupation of any sort. This is simply about the original refusal of Arab leadership to accept

00:04:01.040 any Jewish presence of self-determination in that region. That is where we started,

00:04:06.020 if they would have accepted such a thing, maybe there would have been a tiny state, maybe there

00:04:09.540 would have still been wars, maybe there would have still been conflict. But the entire issue started

00:04:14.400 from a refusal by Arab leadership at the time to accept the Jewish people's self-determination in

00:04:19.600 that land, and that is still going on as seen and evidenced by the text of this resolution.

00:04:23.940 So, I can make an entire video and talk for 10 hours about that, but in a nutshell, that is basically

00:04:29.700 the issue. The Jewish people's indigenous homeland is the land of Israel, it cannot be separated

00:04:34.260 from the Jewish people as a whole, it cannot be separated from Judaism as a whole, and the entire

00:04:39.780 issue is simply about delegitimizing the Jewish people's claim to that land, delegitimizing and

00:04:45.300 disconnecting their connection from that land, and that is simply not something that we can accept.

00:04:49.940 And as a Canadian, it is not something that I would like to see my country vote with Syria, 1.00

00:04:54.640 Venezuela, and North Korea on one-sided resolutions. I really think we all need to be more upset about this,

00:04:59.460 because this was a long-standing policy that the Prime Minister seems to have reversed.

00:05:03.460 Canada voted against a number of these resolutions, and he has decided to sort of reverse this stance,

00:05:07.860 and that is something that Canadians should be outraged about. But please let me know in the

00:05:10.760 comments if you'd like me to make a more in-depth video about the conflict, I'd be happy to cover

00:05:14.260 it in the most fair and balanced way that I know how. And other than that, I hope you learned

00:05:18.480 something about the United Nations and the history of Israel and the Middle East. But again,

00:05:22.740 for True North, I am Sam Ashkenazi. Thank you so, so much for watching. Have yourselves a great day.

00:05:29.460 Thank you.

Juno News - November 21, 2020

Trudeau turns his back on Israel

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