PART 1 - The ONLY 3 Facts You Need to Know About Israel, Palestine, and the Jews

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If you only watch one video about Israel, Palestine and the Jews, it should be this.

The Iron Dome is the world's greatest missile defense system.

It keeps destruction, violence, and hate paid for by the international community.

Thanks for that out of Israel, keeping the people inside of its safe.

The dissemination of anti Jew ideas functions very much the same way.

We are under a relentless barrage of anti Jew, anti-Israel messaging all

day every day from all around us.

But unlike Hamas Rockets, this weaponry is invisible and we don't get an alert on

our phones to warn us when it's coming.

Even one of these mental missiles getting through can cause extreme damage.

In order to stop them, we need to break their cloaking abilities.

Build up your own internal warning system and safeguard your mind

where truth and clarity reside.

Today, I'm here to help you build your own mental iron Dome to provide you

with the three essential unassailable missile proof ideas that comprise the

foundation upon which your impenetrable fortress of moral clarity is to be built.

As western liberal societies, we naively, arrogantly, ignorantly continue

to believe that the entire world, even the universe, operates on our

same fixed set of moral values that everyone plays by the same rules we do.

Well, guess what?

Hotshot they don't.

That's not reality.

Global Actors and Mass Manipulation

We have enemies as Westerners, as Americans, as Jews, as people who

value free and equal societies.

And our enemies, Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran, supported by proxy

militias and other opportunistic states like Turkey and Qatar are united in

destabilizing western power, liberal norms, and Israeli sovereignty.

This is not a conspiracy theory.

Qatar invests billions of dollars in American education.

Russia interferes in our presidential elections.

China uses TikTok to sow discord.

This is common knowledge, like it or not.

We are living in an age of mass manipulation.

Our institutions, media, education and culture are being subverted through the

deliberate use of emotional triggers, identity framing, narrative control,

and incentive structures to steer our perceptions and actions while preserving

the illusion of independent judgment.

We are living in the matrix.

Our minds hooked into an illusory world.

We think we have freely chosen, but is in fact the creation of

our enemies who in reality are harvesting our bodies for energy.

Not that last part, but you get the idea to protect ourselves

from mass manipulation.

The Tactics of Demoralization

We need to recognize and deconstruct it.

And for that, we turn to former KGB propaganda specialist Yuri Beov.

I can do a whole video on Bess ovs, four stages of mass manipulation.

But for our purposes, I'm gonna focus on just the first one, demoralization

whereby a society's ability to recognize truth defend itself or

believe in its own institutions, is eroded by nefarious actors.

The hidden engine of demoralization is repetition.

Simply put, what is repeated becomes familiar.

What is familiar becomes credible, and what becomes credible no

longer needs to be defended.

Repetition doesn't require proof only presence and the slow wearing

down of any potential resistance.

Repetition works as a result of what cognitive psychologists

call the illusory truth effect.

Repeated statements feel more true even if they are known to be false.

This is one of the strongest, most replicated findings in behavioral science.

It works on experts, it works on people who have been lied to before.

It works without argument.

Repetition also leads to narrative entrenchment.

Once a narrative has been embraced to challenge, it feels disruptive, annoying,

or easily dismissed as partisan.

This is why propaganda thrives on slogans, binaries, memes, buzzwords.

The aim is not nuance or depth or truth, just stuff that's easy to repeat.

Finally repetition leads to pluralistic ignorance.

When an idea appears ubiquitous, we assume everyone else believes it.

So silence is interpreted as agreement and public dissent feels risky and lonely.

So even if many people privately know something isn't true, they don't

speak up about it because they think they're alone, and the pervasiveness

of the lie feels inevitable.

We're gonna get into the specifics of repetition as it pertains to the Israeli

Palestine conflict a little later.

The Real Reason Peace Fails

But now that we've named what we're up against, we are ready to start

building our mental iron dome.

The first pillar we have to lock in is the understanding without a shred of doubt.

If the Arabs wanted a Palestinian state more than they wanted to

destroy the Jewish one, there would be a Palestinian state period.

This simple notion is what the entire Israeli Arab conflict is

about, and not because I said so, but because the Palestinians have

said so literally and openly for decades supported by every action they

have taken for the past 100 years.

Again, I could make an entire video just about this history, but I don't

want to get too deep in the weeds.

So let's just look at the very first partition plan.

The Arabs were offered in 1936 under the Peel Commission, Britain's initial

attempt to deal with the mandate they had over the territory known as Palestine.

The British plan offered Jews who were already in the land through both

continuous presence and legal land, purchase about 18% of the territory

with all of the rest going to the Arabs.

Minus a British controlled corridor through Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

Of course, the Jews said yes, and the Arabs said, no.

No Jewish sovereignty, no Jewish immigration.

And they in fact, violently revolted against the British for the next

several years leading the Brits to close down immigration with

catastrophic results for European Jews attempting to flee the Holocaust.

Moreover, nearly every time peace has seemingly been on the table.

The Palestinian response has been to initiate violence against the Jews.

The War of Independence, the second ada, the disengagement from Gaza, et cetera.

Ask yourself, are these the actions of people who just won a state?

If only they'd be granted one.

Or the actions of people who want to eradicate Jews first state later.

Israel was created the same way Nearly every other country on Earth was created

by a nationalist, religious, or ethnic group in the Jews case, both building

the foundations of statehood in the geographic location they're connected to,

and then having their new state recognized by other nations around the world.

Somali land, which has been much in the news lately, has done the

former, but lacks the latter, which is why it's not a state.

This is how the world works.

Israel is a country, not an experiment, not an ideology, not a project, a

country like all the others, and it is not getting reversed anymore

than any other country on earth is.

The existence of Israel is not the reason.

There's no Palestinian state.

Lack of financial or public support is not the reason.

There's no Palestinian state.

The occupation in the area known as the West Bank is not the reason.

There's no Palestinian state.

BB Netanyahu is not the reason.

There's no Palestinian state, and the only reason you consider any

of these as legitimate explanations is because you've been distracted

into doing so by mass manipulation.

You have been conned into embracing repetition as reasoning.

We can debate these things until we're blue in the face, but

in terms of solving the actual conflict, engaging with anything.

But the core idea is like shuffling chairs on the deck of the Titanic and

the iceberg to use the term coined by next week's being Jewish guest, Dr.

Anot Wealth is Palestinian, and until Palestinian society is either

convinced or strong armed into accepting the presence of Jews in

some part of the land to which we are indigenous, there will be no two states.

Reclaiming Truth and Moral Clarity

Ideas like from the river to the sea, or one state for two people,

or right of return support for unah, the generational inheritance of

refugee status communities in Gaza itself, being called refugee camps.

The narrative of the Naba.

These are the lifelines of Palestinian, and our focus has to be on destroying

these ideas, not just for the safety and security of the Jewish people,

but for the Palestinians as well, who will never live in a state of their

own as long as the western world keeps their leaders doped up on billions

in welfare and long held dreams of Jewish extinction on life support.

Also, and this is an unconscious behavior.

I see a lot from folks on the left.

You do not need to say you hate Israel's government or Bibi Netanyahu

in order to buy yourself the ability to say you support Israel hate Bibi.

If you want to.

I don't care, but I bet a lot of you haven't even critically examined if your

feelings are the result of well-researched and hard won conclusions, or because

you've simply submitted to repetition.

Let me remind you, it has never mattered what Israeli government

is in power, right, left center.

The Palestinians said no to all of them.

There are, of course, if you very brave, moderate Palestinians speaking

with great clarity on the subject like Ahmed John Aziz, or Mosab Hassan Yusef.

But what do they all have in common?

They live in the West where they can safely espouse these ideas that

are in no way embraced or considered by actual Palestinian leadership.

And any supposed moderation on the part of the Palestinian authority is

pragmatic rather than principled real, where regime survival and international

legitimacy are at stake, but undermined by internal incentives that reward violence

and discourage genuine reconciliation.

So there we have it.

Mental Iron dome pillar number one, when the Palestinians as a collective

and through their leadership decide they want a state more than

they want Jews to not have one.

The conflict will end.

Everything else is noise.

This concludes part one of my three part series.

The only three things you need to know about Israel, Palestine and

the Jews to learn about the next pillar of our mental Iron Dome.

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