Randahl FinkJohn Oliver's recent takedown of Benjamin Netanjahu's illegal setler policies is one of the best episodes Last Week Tonight has ever produced.
Thought provoking, frightening even, but very, very important.
If you are against genocide, boost this:
SearingTruth"The solution to the Israeli/Palestinian problem is simple.
Unfortunately it demands both sides be treated equally, and thus far this has not been done.
First, here's an abridged history.
After the fall of the Ottoman empire Britain owned much of its land (the "British Mandate"). The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine of 1922 laid the plans for an Israeli state, but Israelis and Arabs committed many terrorist acts against each other and the British and it didn't work. After WWII there was a justifiable moral outcry at the slaughter of innocent Jews so it was decided that Israel must be created immediately and the UN instituted the United Nations Palestine Partition Plan of 1947.
And unfortunately, since Arabs were considered primitive second class citizens it was decided that the land where Israel now resides would be purchased from the British and all its current inhabitants would either submit, or be stripped of all title to their land. And because of Arab disunity and political infighting they failed to stop it.
Since then, America has simply taken one side, turning a blind eye to Israels terror and collective punishment, while condemning Palestinian terror.
So here's the simple answer.
Demand that terrorism stop on all sides, that Israel return to the borders awarded it in 1947, and that Jerusalem be divided equally. And withdraw all funding from both sides until it happens.
Until then there will always be war."
SearingTruth