Lies About Israel Lead to Lies About Everything
Why would someone like Sebastian Cevallos, a university student in Ecuador, care about Israel? You’d think this tiny country on the other side of the globe from where he lives would have no bearing on his life. But it does. Here’s why.
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Script:
Why would someone who lives in Ecuador—that’s me—be preoccupied with… Israel? The countries are separated by two continents and an ocean. Nothing that happens in Tel Aviv has much, if any, effect on what happens to me in Cuenca.
Except for this: I always want to know the truth about things. And I hate lies. And there are more lies told about Israel than about any place in the world. I have come to realize that if you believe lies about Israel, you will believe lies about almost anything. And if you know the truth about Israel, you’re likely to think straight about most things.
In other words, Israel is a kind of truth test. Fail this test, and you’ve fallen into a fantasy world of untruth, a funhouse mirror of the real world.
That’s a pretty bold statement, I know. But I stand by it—and I’m not even Jewish. In fact, only about 1,000 Jews live in the entire country of Ecuador. So how did Israel even get on my radar? you might ask. That’s easy.
Israel is very hard to ignore, no matter where you live. Did you ever meet someone who didn’t have an opinion about the Jewish state? So, sometime during my high school years, Israel got my attention. And I started to do some research.
At first, I thought, “Wow, this is a complex issue.” Was Israel the victim or the aggressor in the Middle East? Did it oppress its minority population or was it a bastion of civil rights? Was it a colonizer of Palestinian land? Or did it have legitimate claim to that land? Why did the United Nations pass resolution after resolution condemning Israel, but say nothing about Syria or North Korea? Why did Israel’s neighbors pledge themselves to its utter destruction?
All this attention, focused on a country you have to squint to see on a globe, a country one-tenth the size of my own and with one-half the population. It was all very confusing. So I pushed on. And the more research I did, the clearer the picture became.
Israel has free speech, a free press, and independent courts. It has open and fair elections. Its neighbors don’t. Women have full rights and are active in every profession, including the military. That’s not true of any of its neighbors.
Neither is this: Tel Aviv hosts one of the largest gay pride parades in the world, and the only one in the Middle East. A fifth of Israel’s citizens are Arab Muslims. In fact, they have their own political party. The holy sites of all religions are fully protected within its borders. Can’t say that about its neighbors.
More research led to even more revelations. Israel has repeatedly offered the Palestinians their own state, and every time, those efforts were rejected. Why? For one simple reason: the Palestinians have never accepted Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. And the wall Israel built to separate themselves from the Palestinians? The wall most of the world condemns? The only reason the Israelis built it was to stop waves of suicide bombings. It worked. The bombings stopped.
This stuff isn’t hard to find out. Nor was it hard to find out—despite the lack of Western media coverage—how many Syrians fled to Israel during the Syrian civil war to have their injuries treated and lives saved in Israeli hospitals.
And then I realized that Israel is like a North Star of truth, a way to set your moral compass. If you can’t locate this star, you’re guaranteed to get lost in a sea of lies. How many rockets does Hamas have to launch, how many times does Iran have to threaten to blow Israel off the face of the earth, before this becomes clear to you?
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He is talking about truth and lies😂😂😂poor fellow
We ve enough informations about illegal sionist settler behaving.
We ve enough records about extrem right ministers déclarations
We ve enough with the 75 years of sionist occupation to get where does the problem come from.
You lie and try to mislead people…that s your entire responsability. One time is coming…sooner than you would…you ll have to give account of it. Poor ssionist.
Free Palestine!
Stop your propaganda go and study history.The Europeans persecuted the Jews let us start with your Spanish forefathers.Queen Isabella of Spain brought about the Spanish inquisition.The poles, Russian, Ukrainian Georgians all had Cossacks that had pogroms against the Jews.The Germans committed genocide against the Jews.The French with the Dreyfus affair the Vichy regime were anti Jewish.There were many other like Hungary and Romania which had regimes which were anti Jewish.So now you see European countries did not want Jews.They started to look for countries to send the Jews they even considered Madagascar.During this time North African countries like Libya Algeria Morocco who Moslem gave them refuge.Europe then to get rid. of their problem and salve their conscience by taking Palestinian land and giving it to the Jews That my friend is a true history lesson
…..even lies about 'University' status – eh 'PragerU'? Or does the 'U' stand for unplugged?
Wow, just seeing this……….ah those far off old days when many people believed this crap, unfortunately many still do (mainly in america).
It was more like lies created Israel, then these lies never stopped growing and bifurcating.
Israel is a right wing apartheid state genociding Palestinian people.
"Lies About Israel Lead to Lies About Everything" Very true, pro-Israel lies are the root of many other lies
How much did they pay you to make thos video?
Hahahahahaha dumb funny vidz . Cheap as big noses goblins
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I like Praeger University. But this part was type of indoctrinated nonsense you typically hear from the woke left. Totally useless.
This is the stupidest video I have seen, thank you.
Smart young man to do research. Although if you listen to your elders who lived through the hard times you can find the truth
Keep working on it Sebastian. You may find some semblance to the truth eventually.
I find it ironic that the majority of people who completely ignore the constant bombings & missile attacks on Israel are those on the Far Left who fight for stricter gun control laws in the U.S. You shouldn't be able to own guns to defend yourself (like Israel defending itself militarily), but apparently that's worse than send missiles (unprovoked) into a neighboring country. Their hypocrisy is mind-blowing!
The Jewish exodus from Arab countries, was the departure, flight, expulsion, evacuation of 850,000 Jews from Arab Muslim world, mainly from 1948. The reasons for the exoduses are manifold such as persecution, antisemitism, political instability and poverty. Islamism have been criticized for: repression of free expression and individual rights, rigidity, hypocrisy, antisemitism,not withstanding proclaimed opposition to any such innovation by others.
Who came here in 2023 after Hamas attack because its so confusing which is which ? 😂
True
“Palestinians use the opposite strategies from Jainism, Thoreau, Gandhi, MLK, Mandela, and the 14th Dali Lama because they focus on murdering civilians. Bloodthirsty primitivism cannot be accepted or rewarded without disastrous consequences.” —Kevin Everett FitzMaurice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ7vCXPo-VI
This guy failed his own test
No, Israel is easy to ignore. PragerU got to you and convinced you that you have to give it importance. You should worry about your country, Ecuador, and how to make it a better place.
Thank you for beautiful TRUTH.
Israel, a moral compass, jajajajajajaja, this video is garbage
Support Israel!
“Its hard to ignore Israel no matter where you live.”
Yes that’s precisely what we are trying to explain to you cuckservatives
Always remember the USS Liberty. If you've never heard of that, start learning.
Israel sucks. They keep Palestinians in concentration camps. Burn in hell jooz.
All the Jews that oppose Zionism listening to this guys spew x.x
This guy likes apartheid
Israel is the people of Palestine out of their homes and stealing their land…. seriously wake up!!!
This guy is immaturely just looking at the situation in black and white terms.
No Government is perfect, or few… and no Israel does not value the people's of Palestine's democracy and freedom!
This is "delusional…" first of all!
Israel is a democracy of sorts, so it has 'different' Governments and different Governments at different times.
So, to just "blindly" say we have to believe 'everything' is Israel says, is plain bloody ignorant and stupid!
No, Israel does not have 'entirely' free speech… so that is wrong for a start, and attacks such as the Palestinians who try to express themselves!
No, Israel does not have a 'free press' much of its press is right wing biased!
No, the present Israel Government under Netanyahu is attacking the independence of the courts!
Women's rights… ok, but this is the issue is it, we are speaking of Israel's abuse against Palestine?
In respect of it's neighbours… Palestine strives for these rights, and yet Israel are oppresses its people!
And I'm angry about this video saying Palestine is rejecting the right of Israel to exist and this is the stumbling block… utter nonsense!
Israel is the people of Palestine out of their homes and stealing their land…. seriously wake up!!!
Poorly written assortment of vague platitudes. I support Israel but not this Podcast.
Great video and even more amazing presenter!
Ah yes, prageru known for its honest take on sources and facts. Guess we are all lying then?
Patton was right 🪖
Just ask them a very simple question. when Hamas fires rockets into Israel, who protects the Al-Aqsa mosque? Israel's Iron Dome. And yet they curse the very same thing that protects their building.
Israel is a great country but Zionism is a dangerous ideology to Americans, just like Fascism, Communism, Wahhabism etc.
If ISRAEL built the wall to separate Palestinians from itself, then why is the wall not on the border, but rather in a place that separates Palestinians from other Palestinians. Would it interest anyone to know that Bethlehem and the surrounding towns are about 70% Christian who have done zero suicide bombings and yet walls separate them from land that their families have cultivated for hundreds of years? I personally was at a farm with legal papers to show ownership and for 30 years the state has tried to commandeer it and give it to a Jewish settler who doesn't know if his ancestors owned land there or anywhere in Canaan at all.
The thing you forgot is that Israel supports the authoritarian governments around it because it's not in its interest if Arabs had freedom and the Arab spring shows that clearly, so if you actually supports democracy you must oppose Israel.
he is defending an occupier and claiming if you disagree you are wrong about everything, typical.
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LOL
U lier
Eye opening video. Thanks for that!
Israel may be right or wrong but we all know that it employs disproportionate use of force against civilians and illegal settlements are against all civic property rights.