The Middle East Problem | 5 Minute Videos | PragerU
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The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it's very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and are willing to accept a neighboring Palestinian state. And most Palestinians do not want Israel to exist. As Dennis Prager explains, this is really all you need to know. In 5 minutes, understand how Israel was founded, and how, since that auspicious day in 1948, its neighbors have tried to destroy it, again and again.
How about we Americans just withdraw and let all of the people of the region work out their own solutions.
No foreign aid. No weapons systems.
The ME is on the other side of the world. We have plenty of problems of our own to solve.
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When I did my graduate studies at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University’s School of International Affairs, I took many courses on the question of the Middle East conflict.
Semester after semester, we studied the Middle East conflict as if it was the most complex conflict in the world -- when in fact, it is probably the easiest conflict in the world to explain. It may be the hardest to solve, but it is the easiest to explain.
This was prophesied in the Holy Bible in the book of Genesis where God expressly promised the land to Abraham and his descendants for ever!
In a nutshell, it’s this: One side wants the other side dead.
Israel wants to exist as a Jewish state and to live in peace. Israel also recognizes the right of Palestinians to have their own state and to live in peace. The problem, however, is that most Palestinians and many other Muslims and Arabs, do not recognize the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist.
Why are you not highlighting the unfair land owner and they the way the took over Palestinian land....pure Hippocratic speech...
Free Palestine they are there land since the world was made and the Jewish just want to take there precious land by killing millions of people including children...
Free Palestine 🇯🇴
This has been true since 1947, when the United Nations voted to divide the land called Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state.
The Jews accepted the United Nations partition but no Arab or any other Muslim country accepted it.
The unfortunate truth about the middle east is its own history. This area was the first settiled after the nomad history of humanity. They hsve been fighting everr since.
When British rule ended on May 15, 1948, the armies of all the neighboring Arab states -- Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, and Egypt -- attacked the one-day old state of Israel in order to destroy it.
But, to the world’s surprise, the little Jewish state survived.
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Then it happened again. In 1967, the dictator of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser, announced his plan, in his words, “to destroy Israel.” He placed Egyptian troops on Israel’s border, and armies of surrounding Arab countries were also mobilized to attack. However, Israel preemptively attacked Egypt and Syria. Israel did not attack Jordan, and begged Jordan’s king not to join the war. But he did. And only because of that did Israel take control of Jordanian land, specifically the “West Bank” of the Jordan River.
Shortly after the war, the Arab states went to Khartoum, Sudan and announced their famous three “No’s: “No recognition, no peace, and no negotiations,”
4:33 western lefties today know this but dont care apparently they think its ok when islam tries to genocide jews but when jews fight back its considered "genocide" in a false narritive
They want everyone in israel dead which is why we cant stop fighting after ignorant democrats who call for the destruction of the only jewish state in the world
What we need is to start prosecuting them like nazis
Give anyone who stands against israel the death sentence for support of jewish genocide,anti semtism and support of terrorism
What was Israel supposed to do?
Well, one thing Israel did, a little more than a decade later, in 1978, was to give the entire Sinai Peninsula -- an area of land bigger than Israel itself, and with oil -- back to Egypt because Egypt, under new leadership, signed a peace agreement with Israel.
Know islam no peace
No islam know peace
So, Israel gave land for the promise of peace with Egypt, and it has always been willing to do the same thing with the Palestinians. All the Palestinians have ever had to do is recognize Israel as a Jewish state and promise to live in peace with it.
But when Israel has proposed trading land for peace -- as it did in 2000 when it agreed to give the Palestinians a sovereign state in more than 95% of the West Bank and all of Gaza -- the Palestinian leadership rejected the offer, and instead responded by sending waves of suicide terrorists into Israel.
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Meanwhile, Palestinian radio, television, and school curricula remain filled with glorification of terrorists, demonization of Jews, and the daily repeated message that Israel should cease to exist.
So it’s not hard to explain the Middle-East dispute. One side wants the other dead. The motto of Hamas, the Palestinian rulers of Gaza, is: “We love death as much as the Jews love life.”
The land is promised unconditionally. Living in it continuously is conditional on covenant faithfulness. Rejection of Christ sounds like a very good reason to lose the land again to me.
Deuteronomy 28:64, God warns that Israel would be scattered among the nations if they disobeyed.
Amos 5:27: “I will send you into exile beyond Damascus…”
Hosea 9:3 Israel will not remain in the land.
Isaiah: warned about Assyria as a tool of judgment.
Assyrian Exile 722 BC Many Israelites were deported and dispersed across the Assyrian Empire.
Jeremiah warned repeatedly that Judah would fall to Babylon if they didn’t repent.
Habakkuk specifically identifies the Babylonians (Chaldeans) as the coming conquerors.
Ezekiel (during exile, after 597 BC) Prophesied during the early stages of exile warned that Jerusalem would still be destroyed completely—which happened in 586 BC.
Babylonian Exile 586 BC Jerusalem and the Temple were destroyed, and many Jews were taken into exile in Babylon.
The Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD
“Are the Jews God’s Chosen People?” Israel is. Israel is the body of Christ. What about the modern Jew today? Faith in Christ is the condition to be Israel. Being cut off from the branch is the consequence of that lack of faith. A modern day Jew with no faith in Christ is not a part of Israel and is not a part of his chosen people until they come into faith in Christ. They can enter back anytime they acquire the required faith but if not, they remain cut off. This isn't rejection forever but they are clearly described as not true Israel UNTIL they have the saving faith in Christ. Ethnic distinctions no longer determine who belongs to God’s people.
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@hankfrank2436This history is not quite true.
@JustuskullWithout Israel will be a better world. No more war
@eternity875People have heard enough about the middle east problem, let’s talk about the jew problem instead.
@BotBoy-un3pzDear unpacked can you pls add "HINDI" dubbed audio so my parents can also understand.....they are anti-israeli but I hope to change their mindset 🇮🇱💪👍
@qouiou1Excellent and so true. God bless His ancient land & people.
@christinemoscovitz693❤
@rw8507Literally this is a propaganda video to put light on israel... do not get brainwashed by just a 5min video with no evidence whilst you can find tons of articles on the abuse and murder of the Palestinian people why is that not being said??? Imagine having to give up your home just because somebody "claims" your house is their house?? This is ridiculous
@agilshahab387It's common sense
@JifdmanI want mommy I want milk
@FormatbreakerERASE IT and instate a christian monarchy there
@granola661Jewish propaganda
@Atracos_pod"to divide the land called palestine" yall are really dumb enough to eat his whole narrative without catching the dirty laundry in the corner of your eye?
@partyhaty6985Truman's Folly he was warned recognizing Isreal would mean no peace in the Middle East. Should the US return the Southwest to Mexico because historically it was Spains'.
@earllsimmins9373Israel will never disappear.
The God of their Fathers is their greatest and mightiest source of their preservation.
100% agree!
@Velaldo-nw7vePrmorevoidmightly
@adamgamers88Mr Prager, you are right in every historical and factual aspect of analysis of the Middle East conflict since 1948 except when you and unfortunately millions in Israel proper and around the world utter the words Palestine / Palestinians !
That fictional narrative actually emboldened the ARAB world and somehow gave legitimacy to their murderous attitude and non recognition of the State of Israel
Can I smoke what you're smoking? Free Palestine 🇵🇸
@belfastbollixgoyslop
@barabek3175I’m good on the First and Second Kingdoms that spanned from 1000 to 63 B.C, but Prager then skips to present day. So no entity ruled that area for more than 2000 years🤔
@Alfonso-q4cIf You all study that so much, and know so much about that, why you call that people "the Palestinians" shen you know very well that there are no people known as palestinians? I am not from that part of the World, and would like to know why that so coled arabs are "Palestinians"😂
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@VickyBantaChristThats all wrong Israel occupied Palestine, besieged, starved and tortured civilians.
What is the evidence for what I say?
Whats happen now In 2025 and the genocide on gazza (Palestinian city) This is what remains of all of Palestine
Are you stell believe this nonsense in the video!!!!
The truth is so clear
Why do I have to be taxed to solve this problem? You boys are Gods "chosen people" allegedly. Solve your own problems ffs.
@countlessbathory1485King ❤🇮🇱
@talshahaf7Yeeees! That's exactly what I think and what I tell people around me (but get a lot of criticism!). Thank you for this explanation. Always very clever and right from PragerU!
@serg1732Any anti Israel comments get deleated by this channel
@andym9571Arabs are the Middle East Probem
@r.morris5589jusr one word (2) stolen land !!!! and ONGOING
@maxb9369Thank you for making the never-ending problem so easy to understand. Why hasn't the UN watched this?
Or the groups of people who are asking to "free the perpetrators"? And that climate girl.
This is a religious war. Muslims and some Christians against the Jewish state. Who kills the most Muslims in the world? Muslims. But that's not talked about.
@maurielfischerLol this aged like milk
@HectoniksGarbage
@TheRedArabshame on you. watchin the simplicity of your videso is easy to figure out that you and your university is founded with israel money. As you refer in your video the conflict as the easiest to resolve is clear that is from your propangandistic and scary point of view, if you are a professor of university you should try not be so simple minded is embarasing. This is fanaticism your vision of conflict is closer to those fatanics ortodox shetleer armed to theeth eager to kill any palestinian. at your yes arab muslim palestiniam are all the same. please maybe you can adoctrinate your scholars but i have brain enough to think further and widther. Open your eyes and ears and stop spreading more shit all around we need peace and understanding. Your president also a very clever man (sarcasm) thinks the isuee has an easy solution.
@juanbustamante6642Then, October 7th took place and the useful idiots of the West joined in defense of Hamas.
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