What Joshua Carr says in the above video is true. Israel is far and away the best country in the region, in terms of its control of land, of its rights and laws, of its historical ownwership and stewardship of the land on which it sits today.
Somewhere else, I think it was Dinesh D'Souza, there's the concept of what it means to be a genuine, bona fide, proper country. Three things according to Dinesh, or any one of these three things:
1. History. You're the indigenous people on the land.
2. Law: you get an authority to name you a State.
3. Control: you control an area of land because you fought for it.
Israel has all three of these:
1. It's been in the land of Judea and Samaria since 3,000 BCE.
2. The United Nations accepted it as a nation in 1947.
3. Israel has fought repeated wars for its existence. It has gained land. In some cases given it back to the original owners (without it's bringing them any peace), in other cases (the "west bank") these areas remaining "disputed territories".
In sum: no other lands, no other countries, have such a strong claim to nationhood in the land the currently occupy, as does Israel. Yet it's the most demonised.
More importantly: Israel is a genuine democracy. Where all faiths and ethnicities are equal and have equal rights. Where there are more practicing Christians living free and safe lives, than in any single other of the surrounding 22 Arab Muslim states. Where 22% of the population is Arab Muslim. Where Muslims are on the Supreme Court. Where Muslims -- as all other religions -- can vote in Israeli elections.
Don’t believe it? Do as Joshua Carr did. And as we did. Visit Israel. Then visit Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan. Or anywhere surrounding Israel. And conclude a fair account of which is best tended. Of which best looks after its citizens. Of which best runs its economy. Of which has the best and most advanced technology. Of which is building and which is not.
I'm glad Joshua Carr gets it. Many people don't. Or willfully decide not to get it.
Long Live Israel!
