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Arab, Israeli, and Proud
Yoseph Haddad has served in the Israeli Defense Forces. He’s also an Arab. Why would an Arab volunteer to join the Israeli military? If Israel really is an apartheid state, why would Haddad be proud to defend it? He explains.
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Script:
The mission was straightforward: Rescue comrades coming under heavy anti-tank fire.
But now the sun was up.
And our cover was blown.
We were totally exposed.
I felt a heavy whoosh of air.
Then I felt nothing. Just a ringing in my ears.
I was on the ground. I could see through my thigh. Even worse, I couldn’t see my foot.
It was gone.
When I awoke in the hospital, it took every ounce of courage I had to look down my leg.
Somehow. Some way. My foot was there.
The doctors had managed to re-attach it.
We have the best surgeons.
Unfortunately, they get a lot of practice at this sort of thing.
That’s life in Israel.
That’s life as an Israeli soldier.
And that’s what I am.
I’m also an Arab.
Sometimes people say to me, “Yoseph, how could you fight for the IDF?” I say, it’s simple. It’s not the Jewish Defense Forces. It’s the Israeli Defense Forces. And I’m an Israeli.
Are you surprised?
If so, I don’t blame you. You probably get your news about Israel from… well, the media. They amplify extremists and sell conflict because conflict sells; conciliation doesn’t.
Stereotypes make for simple stories. Too simple. So, let’s examine some.
Let’s take the simplest: That there are Israelis. And there are Palestinians. And that each side defines itself against the other.
Turns out that fundamental division is false. According to a poll in 2020, only seven percent of Arabs living in Israel self-identify as “Palestinian.” By contrast, 74 percent consider themselves either Israeli-Arab—or just plain Israeli.
This is typical.
So, here are a few.
In America, given their numbers, Jews are disproportionately represented in the medical profession. No surprise.
But did you know this?
In Israel, Arabs are disproportionately represented in the medical profession. Arabs comprise 20 percent of Israel’s population—but 30 percent of its physicians and 35 percent of its pharmacists.
You’ve probably heard the stereotype that Jews are bankers. This suggests that they control things behind the scenes. So, you may be surprised to learn that the head of the biggest bank in Israel is an Arab.
Worse than the stereotypes are the lies. The worst lie is this: Israel is an “apartheid state.”
In an apartheid state, some can vote, and some can’t. But in Israel, Arabs don’t just vote—they sometimes call the shots. In 2021, as an article in Al-Monitor put it, “for the first time in Israel’s 73-year history, Arab [Parliament] members will likely have final say on whether a government is formed and even who will head such a government.”
In an apartheid state, some get an education, and some don’t. But in Israel, Arab enrollment in higher education is exploding—more than doubling between 2008 and 2018. And Israeli Arab Christians actually outpace Israeli Jews in higher education degrees relative to population.
You probably don’t know these facts because the media prefers to demonize Israel rather than report about it fairly.
That may never change, but whether or not they report it, Israel is experiencing an important generational shift.
Our parents’ and grandparents’ generations witnessed major wars—in 1948, 1967, and 1973. My generation and the generation after me haven’t seen such conflicts. But we have all grown up under the shadow of terrorist violence—from suicide bombers to Hamas rocket attacks.
And terrorists don’t discriminate between Jews and Arabs.
When you come face to face with this reality—when you have face-to-face conversations— you realize that everyone within the borders of Israel confronts the same threat. And then you can begin to understand that the real story isn’t two groups—Jews and Arabs—locked in eternal conflict, but two parts of a nation coming together in a process I call Israelization.
A silent, but ever-growing majority of citizens simply want to live in peace with their neighbors—the ones across the street and the ones on the other side of national borders.
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For more than a thousand years “Christians” in Europe penalized anyone who disagreed with the opinions of the majority of professed Christians. The ultimate penalty, death, was applied to people who persisted in their disagreements.
In the early sixteenth century, some people who disagreed with the majority managed to survive the Inquisition and create a new version of Christianity – one they considered to be more biblical.
Even among the protestants in Europe, however, some penalized people who disagreed with them. King James I of England, for example, vowed to “harry them (the puritans) out of England, or else worse.”
Some of the puritans fled to the Dutch Republic. There, they found a greater degree of freedom but some of them worried that their children would be negatively influenced by the “worldly ways” of the Dutch so some of the puritans boarded the Mayflower for North America.
In some ways, the puritan settlements in New England in the seventeenth century were idyllic. One could live for some time in a puritan settlement without hearing an oath or seeing a drunkard or a beggar. The majority of the puritans, however, were as willing to penalize people who disagreed with the majority as King James I had been willing to penalize the puritans.
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, some gentlemen named Washington, Franklin and Jefferson tried to create a government that didn’t favor one religion over another. The experiment didn’t entirely succeed but it offered greater freedom to a wider spectrum of people than anytime in the previous two thousand years.
Now there is a new religion in the United States. It isn’t quite clear whether its high priests prefer that we worship Mother Earth or the goddess of Reason but their evangelistic zeal is as great as that of the puritans before them. They are determined to make the rest of us comply with their dogmas and they don’t hesitate to use the civil government to accomplish their goals.
There are Muslims who say Islam is a religion of peace. Well, I’ve read an English paraphrase of the Quran and it seems to me that it – or at least the last parts of it – advocates for violence against people who disagree with Muslims.
So here is my question: How long will it be before some Muslims do with “traditional” Islam what some Christians have done with “traditional” Christianity – which is to strip it its political dimension, even if the people who do that are called “heretics” or whatever would be the Arabic equivalent of that word.
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There are idiots in every country, especially when they're paid to be traitors.
Im a secular jew. I work in israel in a phone support and back office in a medical company. Many of the workers with me are muslim arabs and ultra ortodox jews. I love all of them. We met in one of the workers house to celebrate khanuka. And one of the people there was an arab muslim. My mana
ger was arab as well. I was sad that the left the company.
Brilliant! You are such an inspiration
How about Jews for Palestine instead?
This video is about truth of Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1yJ8bUZAJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECSY87CI9LU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2uI0gZD-c
Successfully brainwashed by the Israeli propaganda machine.
Reich Minsitry of Propaganda will be proud of you.
A happy Israeli Arab, that's good. But he never mentions his neighbours in the West Bank and Gaza, both under a brutal military occupation
This really sadness me, you are a traitor to arab nation-scratch that you are a traitor to the human race #FreePalastine
Replacing Jews v Muslims with Israeli v extremists groups
Is Good tactic to no longer make it look like a holy war over shitty land
Its Prager/Proaganda U so lets see what they aren't telling us. Yes there are Arab citizens of the nation-state of Israel. There are also some lands Israel took control over in a war with other nation-states some decades ago, the people living in these lands are not treated as Israel citizens and are often referred to as Palestinians. Thus there are three groups of people-Jewish Israelis, Arab Israelis, and Palestinians. The apartheid claims are about how the third group of people is treated-not the second.
This group tries to confuse people over which is which.
The reason Arab Israeli members of parliament would be able to pick who won is because the biggest political parties in that particular election were close to the number of seats they needed in order to win but not quite there. So smaller parties could form a coalition with either of the larger parties and become a tie breaker.
I'm not critical of the Israeli political system that encourages or allows smaller political parties to make coalitions with larger ones.
I'm not critical of the war the Israel fought and won decades ago when it was trying to (techically preemptively) defend itself against multiple neighboring nations.
But there is still the question of how people are treated.
And it is the third group of people, not the second, that the Israel nation-state treats the worst. And that is why Israel gets some of the negative media coverage it does.
How to treat the people living on those lands nor what to do with the lands themselves has not yet been resolved after many years. Meanwhile people who are not treated well as a group an be easy for terrorist groups to recruit so no matter how thing started years ago a cycle of violence can continue today.
Thanks for showing the truth!
The simply Truth
we love you Joseph 🤍🇮🇱❤
He was doing well until he brought the bankers into it!!🤔
The voice of wisdom
Love this brilliant guy
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Is this the Israeli Candace Owens?
Sure Rotchilds is arab, Larry silverstein the twin tower owner is arab to ?? Bilderberg club ?? the isralies in the pagaonia ? trash video.
Arab Israelis are being pushed out of the cities of Jaffa and Nazareth. You better talk about that
Arab has never been a problem; Islam… now we have a problem.
Islam is the absolute best argument in favor of genocide that has ever existed.
People tends to forget that The hatred between Islam and Judaism is relatively recent and that jews historically had much better relations with muslims than anything else.
Or also the fact that both Hebrews and Arabs trace their roots to a sumerian man 4500 years ago known as Abraham