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@gardengal87
September 2, 2025 at 7:53 pm
What percentage of Muslims worldwide believe that Islam should either convert or kill non Muslims? I know it is an extremist view, but I am wondering how pervasive that is.
@sydeLPS
September 2, 2025 at 7:59 pm
Free Palestine
@MonsieurPolymathe
September 2, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Thanks for these balanced and truthful answers
@thisgirl654
September 2, 2025 at 8:12 pm
he’s literaly siding with israel and america so much that he can defend them killing his mother lol
@shareika
September 2, 2025 at 8:15 pm
His opinion on Syria and interpretation of the reality there are very telling. As is his completely overdone Arabic.
@omniapura
September 2, 2025 at 8:16 pm
at 6:50, the ‘professor’ insinuates that “middle eastern” and “muslim” are synonymous. so unserious.
@shmaxwellz
September 2, 2025 at 8:17 pm
There are recent videos of open gourmet restaurants in Gaza along with fat Palestinians walking the streets. Just look for a photo of a starving (thin) adult Palestinian that doesn’t have an obvious prior health condition. This is all 21st century blood libels, shame on you WIRED.
@gardengal87
September 2, 2025 at 8:22 pm
This is dumb but why cant we bring the Israelis to American deserts forever. Or North Dakota. They improve everything they touch. They will be safe and it has to be cheaper than what has been happening during the 20th C.
@SteveR100AU
September 2, 2025 at 8:27 pm
Very informative however the comment’s here unfortunately enlighten the true humanity of this sad conflict
@chibedaq
September 2, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Clearly a pro-Israel
@lover20181
September 2, 2025 at 8:30 pm
10:42 i wish it didn’t take so long that’s the double edged sword of how we execute justice internationally
@IronWolf123
September 2, 2025 at 8:33 pm
Saying that borders cause issues in the Middle East is interesting considering Asia is riddled in border conflicts such as Kashmir or Central Asia while there is a literal war happening in Ukraine.
@Sarah-iz3jl
September 2, 2025 at 8:39 pm
This dude could talk about anything and I’d listen
@mario.arsg345
September 2, 2025 at 8:40 pm
12:50 this is pretty dishonest as it is incomplete. What we see here is a classic example of lies of omission.
@lover20181
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 pm
at the end of the day it’s european colonialism’s fault for this mess
@qtrust
September 2, 2025 at 8:47 pm
In summary, Jews and Muslim were relatively fine till the crusaders and/or Europeans interfered.
@Cranberrydairy
September 2, 2025 at 8:50 pm
Wouldn’t call religious fundamentalists walking into peoples houses and tell them to leave “normal good well-meaning people” but hey.
@bfritz7259
September 2, 2025 at 9:00 pm
Every time he says a middle eastern word he sounds like John Travolta in Grease
@chelidonsz
September 2, 2025 at 9:01 pm
Is there a genocide in Gaza? Yes. Yes there is. Everyone knows that. Everyone with the slightest knowledge & authority in this matter is saying it already. The israeli government knows it. “We need to wait and see what the ICJ says” is just a lazy deflection, have some dignity ffs.
@mario.arsg345
September 2, 2025 at 9:01 pm
33:47 “the saudi arabia i grew up in WAS a very conservative society”
It still is bruv
@sbarley
September 2, 2025 at 9:22 pm
its not though. its kinda conservative
@RafiBarides
September 2, 2025 at 9:01 pm
He’s great
@AAV27
September 2, 2025 at 9:11 pm
Dude a fraud. Free Palestine.
@andrespk4734
September 2, 2025 at 9:12 pm
No genocide ? XD what a meme
@monguch01
September 2, 2025 at 9:14 pm
Mehmed II did not rename it Istanbul. In fact, It stayed as Konstantiniyye until the end of the Ottoman State. However, city is called many names over the years and Istanbul was the most popular/used name for Turkish populace.
@BryanKerr1
September 2, 2025 at 9:16 pm
Pretty funny that this comment section thinks they know better than this expert.
@theultimatetomyboy
September 3, 2025 at 7:43 pm
Get you a token middle eastern to whitewash US and Israel’s crime. “Only democracy in the middle east”, what is democracy to a genocidal state?
@montyollie
September 3, 2025 at 7:50 pm
I can’t believe he won’t call the genocide a genocide. It’s a simple question with a simple answer.
@Aflooos
September 3, 2025 at 7:58 pm
Israel is not the only shambolic democracy, Iraq is too
@annemulvihill691
September 3, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Thank you! This professor is THE best!!
@pirateking888
September 3, 2025 at 8:03 pm
Once the Palestinians are extinct, then we (well, not the Palestinians) can all have a vote to determine if it was a genocide.
@hollydandan
September 3, 2025 at 8:03 pm
So compelling and helpful! Thank you, Professor Masoud!
@benJman247
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 pm
This dude makes so many claims that, to the lay person seem so normal and factual. Just know that this guy’s views are his own, and he has clear biases.
@AbdiqaniCabdi-i5u
September 3, 2025 at 8:12 pm
There’s no way this guy said that Israel is a democracy I would argue turkeys much better for that title
@MsOm2006
September 3, 2025 at 8:14 pm
Are you kidding me! Prophet Mohammed is a prophet, he did not ask for leadership, he asked to be believed.
If you want to reference for political system, talk about how leaders were chosen after Prophet Mohammed’s death.
@AbdiqaniCabdi-i5u
September 3, 2025 at 8:14 pm
I hope this video was made before the council of genocide scholars said that what’s happening in Palestine is a genocide because if not then this video is obviously propaganda
@TheSkinnyZ
September 3, 2025 at 8:17 pm
Money & Religion… 🫠
@MsOm2006
September 3, 2025 at 8:19 pm
So, this video was made to increase the nonsense not the other way around! Awesome!
That just proves that Muslims should fight for themselves not waiting for a Western YouTube channel to impose their political agenda.
@TheSkinnyZ
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 pm
Inimical? Big word for Elmo!
@TheSkinnyZ
September 3, 2025 at 8:27 pm
Genuine question: is there a statistic that talks about the adherence of Muslims to a halal lifestyle, specifically with emphasis on the whole alcohol thing? Because I personally don’t know any Muslims who follow that rule.
@ariellelyons
September 3, 2025 at 8:37 pm
TIL english swaps “ah” and short a sounds when we say arabic words and names and we’re saying basically everything wrong lol
@toothbrushfromnisemonogatari
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 pm
This guy definitely went easy on Israel
@scottwill19
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 pm
I think he made an error in that Istanbul/Constantinople fact there.
Istanbul didn’t become its name until the 30s.
@HM-p2b6o
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Thumbnails a bit on the nose. The lack of democracy might have something to do with UK/USA/France murdering democratic leaders and funding extremely questionable political movements?
@jz7079
September 3, 2025 at 8:52 pm
This dudes definitely Jewish and every “fact “ or take he has shows it .
@DW10463
September 3, 2025 at 8:59 pm
Because the CIA launches coups.
@HirsiTV
September 3, 2025 at 9:07 pm
lies lies lies
@nasseral785
September 3, 2025 at 9:08 pm
He lost when he said both people are indigenous to the land 14:56
@MaaxMarc
September 3, 2025 at 9:13 pm
The Middle East doesn’t not include North Africa. Never has.
@retiredguyslife-bcnu
September 3, 2025 at 9:19 pm
Love the passion in your presentation. Thanks.
@jz7079
September 3, 2025 at 9:21 pm
This guy is amazing and holding water for Israel .
@msyedx
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 pm
Free Palestine
@marig9236
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 pm
Well Done Professor. What a great man.
@kitsunefire1
September 4, 2025 at 6:06 pm
This was such an informative and very good overview on a topic that could be seen as super inflammatory in the west
Im very grateful to Professor Masoud for bringing his expertise to these topics
@TheAmbex
September 4, 2025 at 6:08 pm
If Israel is a democracy then so is Turkey 😅
@ca8rio8ca
September 4, 2025 at 6:10 pm
Great great content
@hossammohamed5794
September 4, 2025 at 6:11 pm
You are a zionist Tarek and you know it.
@rayzoe
September 4, 2025 at 6:22 pm
Lebanon is a democracy too, imperfect but still a democracy
@feliceile1041
September 4, 2025 at 6:33 pm
Can you guys do the Caucasus region?:)
@abooodiksg
September 4, 2025 at 6:58 pm
You can’t even say it’s a genocide! You coward.
You call a Ukrainian war criminal named Benjamin Mileikowsky a native to the land of Palestine.
You pretend to be neutral and unbiased but that by itself is a clear bias.
@SiverFangBlackWing
September 4, 2025 at 7:20 pm
14:09 Also the British and then the UN drawing borders without a full understanding of the problem.
@GreenEmpire17
September 4, 2025 at 7:22 pm
The jews in Palestine are mostly European genetics
@GreenEmpire17
September 4, 2025 at 7:24 pm
These dudes be out in the desert with infinite build area and they decide to go in the sea
@chouchou06644
September 4, 2025 at 7:31 pm
Israelis indigenous ?
@SiverFangBlackWing
September 4, 2025 at 7:32 pm
25:28 He’s conflating two different definitions. Iraq didn’t have Nukes BUT they did have WMDs as they had chemical weapons. We know this because they were used by Hussein against Iraqi civilians.
@NovaNTS
September 4, 2025 at 7:48 pm
Sadam’s chemical weapons were dismantled after the 1991 Gulf War under U.N supervision. Colin Powell used false evidence in congress, his evidence was used a justifaction for congress to vote for war. Thus the 2003 Iraq war was an illegal action under US and international law.
Sadam did not have WMDs during the US 2003 Iraq invasion.
@GreenEmpire17
September 4, 2025 at 7:34 pm
Bro is staying as close to American line as possible, sell out
@chouchou06644
September 4, 2025 at 7:35 pm
Hé is definitly a zionist , that is such a stupid way to explain the conflict between Palestine and israel
@noface9875
September 4, 2025 at 7:42 pm
Cool to see Sudan in there too🇸🇩
@NovaNTS
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 pm
I love how he makes every argument against a palestinian state while also making arguments in favour of illegal israeli sttlements somehow being justified as a factor for why a 2 state solution is not possible. This guy is an ultimate fence sitter and hack. No thanks
@IstihaqHussain
September 4, 2025 at 8:27 pm
This video is such propaganda 🤣🤣
@kausha7135
September 4, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Thank you for stating the Palestinians and Israelians are both majority indigenous to the land. So annoying hearing people state otherwise.
@thegreatest1176
September 4, 2025 at 8:37 pm
Why didn’t he say that the syrias current president is a former isis member and was trained and funded by America
@EVO.0w0
September 4, 2025 at 8:39 pm
It isn’t about democracy.
It’s about oil and colonization.
I mean look at iraq and afghan. Let people be
@ashresearcher
September 4, 2025 at 8:47 pm
Has this guy criticized Israel even once? He seems biased
@josepht2407
September 4, 2025 at 8:59 pm
Although imperfect, how this man forgets to mention Lebanon as another middle eastern attempt at democracy places him in the camp of a rank amatuer.
@amirael-komy6638
September 4, 2025 at 9:18 pm
I don’t like this guy. He’s trying not to take sides on a subject in which you HAVE to take a side. Not siding with the oppressed means siding with the oppressor. It became quite obvious when he stated that “israel” is the only democracy in the Middle East, which is not true in the slightest and frankly very laughable, and refused to outright call it a famine. Also, two groups of people being indigenous to the land? Really? Only the Palestinians are indigenous, how dare you spread such terrible misinformation. بيدس السم في العسل as we say in Arabic. Shame on him.
@tarekmasoud
September 5, 2025 at 8:32 am
Thanks, everyone, for watching. I wanted to share some readings for those who’d like to dig deeper; make a couple of corrections; and make one shameless plug:
1. As several commenters here have noted, there’s a lot more to be said about the struggle between Israelis and Palestinians for sovereignty, security, and self-determination. For an Israeli perspective, see Ari Shavit, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel (2013). For a Palestinian perspective, see Rashid Khalidi, The 100 Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (2020). Neither book represents the totality of Israeli or Palestinian views of the conflict or the history of their own peoples, but they are good places to start.
2. If you’d like to learn more about the history of the current Middle Eastern state system and why it is so conflict-prone, you cannot beat David Fromkin’s weighty but eminently readable A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989)
3. For a perspective on the absence of democracy in the Arab world that emphasizes the role played by West, see Elizabeth F. Thompson, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs: The Syrian Arab Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance (2020). As the title suggests, the book tells the story of how a relatively liberal and pluralistic attempt at self-government in Syria was thwarted by European colonial powers. For an older, competing, and rather more controversial perspective on the absence of Arab democracy that emphasizes cultural factors internal to the Arab world, see Elie Kedourie, Democracy and Arab Political Culture (1994).
4. To learn more about Mustapha Kemal Atatürk, the man who rescued Turkey from ruin after the Ottoman Empire’s defeat in WWI, and who established today’s secular Turkish republic, read Andrew Mango’s superb (if matter-of-factly-named) Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey (1999)
5. To learn more about how oil has shaped the Middle East and the world, read Daniel Yergin’s magisterial, global history of your favorite hydrocarbon, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (1990).
6. Iran should be the subject of its own “Tech Support” episode. Until then, I recommend Stephen Kinzer’s All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror (2003). That book tells the story of the American- and British-backed overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected prime minister, Mohamed Mossadegh in 1953, which planted the seeds of the Islamic revolution that birthed the Islamic Republic a quarter-century later. For a highly personal account of Iran’s Islamic revolution, see Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis (2004).
7. On the transformations underway in Saudi Arabia, led by the country’s crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), see New York Times reporter Ben Hubbard’s MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman (2021). You can also read my review of the book in the Journal of Democracy:
8. On how political disputes among the early Muslim community produced the modern day split between Sunni and Shia Muslims, see Hugh Kennedy’s The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050 (1986). Another book on early Islamic history worth reading is Fred Donner’s Muhammad and the Believers: At the Origins of Islam (2010). That book argues that the early Muslims were originally part of a “community of believers” that included Jews and Christians. A comforting thought in this age of religious strife.
9. Finally, a bonus recommendation is Riad Sattouf’s extraordinary multi-volume series of graphic novels: The Arab of the Future, which tells of the author’s boyhood spent between the Arab world (including Libya, Saudi Arabia, and his father’s native Syria) and his mother’s native France. Originally written in French, the first four of the six volumes are available in English.
All of the above books are fairly accessible and enjoyable, despite the sometimes-difficult subject matter.
Now for two corrections:
1. 01:20 As a few of you noted, the renaming of Constantinople to Istanbul did not happen in 1453. The Ottomans called it “Konstantiniyye.” Istanbul was an informal name that only became official in the 20th century. I am sorry for the error.
2. 22:15 In my answer on the Sunni-Shia divide, I said the Iran-Iraq war took place in the 1970s and early 80s. Though there was armed conflict between Iraq and Iran in the 1970s over the Shatt al-Arab waterway, the conflict we know as the Iran-Iraq war started in 1980 and ended in 1988. Thanks to those of you who flagged this.
Finally, the shameless plug:
If you’re interested in hearing a variety of perspectives on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the war in Gaza, please check out the Harvard Kennedy School’s Middle East Dialogues, a series of in-depth interviews I have been conducting with intellectuals, activists, and leaders from Israel, Palestine, the United States, and the broader Arab world:
Thanks, again, everyone, for watching and for commenting. And thanks to the great team at Wired for giving me the opportunity to speak to you.
@piercarlotalenti4044
September 9, 2025 at 2:47 pm
Thank you so much for listing these added resources.
@angeljaviervazquez8458
September 9, 2025 at 4:07 pm
Man, you’re amazing, this is fantastic.
@StephenFoster-p5v
September 9, 2025 at 6:46 pm
Do you record any seminars around this topic that are available? Would be an interesting watch!
@theparadigm8149
September 9, 2025 at 9:35 pm
Fantastic! Just a minor correction that might be needed: 1:25 Constantinople’s name wasn’t changed until 1930, nearly 500 years after it was conquered by the Ottomans. Perhaps this correction won’t matter to the viewers UNLESS they are interested in some of the changes that the modern Republic of Turkiye implemented
@simpletruth6396
September 9, 2025 at 11:02 pm
Tarek is a turk with anti-west sentiments.
@Super_Syrian
September 5, 2025 at 4:24 pm
so many misconceptions, especially about Syria, “Alwaites and Druze” problems are directly connected to Assad’s regime leftovers, who were benefiting of Assad’s regime, and massacring any civilian that gets in their way
@frustrated_fari
September 5, 2025 at 4:42 pm
14:40 both indigenous? You are out of your f**king mind or just afraid that Harvard’s gonna kick you out?
@JohnPepp
September 5, 2025 at 4:59 pm
My late father summed it best in my opinion when he said they have been fighting in the Middle East for over 1,000 years, so why do people today think they can fix the Middle East.
@Scotty-x8e
September 5, 2025 at 5:12 pm
He lied about Iraq, 9/11 and Afghanistan though…
@Nadi-Ger
September 5, 2025 at 5:26 pm
You’re brave and strong. Thanks for the interview!
@Mr_Cheng
September 5, 2025 at 5:30 pm
Super interesting video! Loved the speaker
@khdr829
September 5, 2025 at 5:30 pm
I smell a UAE propaganda on this one.
@samsu9622
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 pm
I’ve got a question: WHY’S THE ARDB WORLD RUN BY TRAITORS AND SNITCHES!??
@lavizza
September 5, 2025 at 5:54 pm
4:39 he avoids the word genocide because that not a word to be used lightly…. Oh wait a second..
@ingGS
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 pm
I give props to professor Masoud for being balanced in some of the tricky questions. Good job. This is not an easy conflict to define and side categorically with one single reason.
@lavizza
September 5, 2025 at 6:06 pm
14:45 actually most Palestinians don’t want to share or divide it and that is precisely why this conflict lasts for about a hundred years. Also the Jews scattered all over the world: Ethiopia China the Middle East and Europe (I hope I didn’t miss a place). So please stop spreading the “white colonizers” bs.
@YasserAlhawary
September 5, 2025 at 6:08 pm
That’s guys how an Arab Zionist looks like
There is too much misinformation more than I can point too
@Unichab001
September 5, 2025 at 6:09 pm
Why is he putting things on top of the mushaf?
@dfgjkh7995
September 5, 2025 at 6:10 pm
I love how he just avoided answering anything would be against Israel, yeah trying so hard to keep your job i guess
@Unichab001
September 5, 2025 at 6:24 pm
It’s weird hearing him say Prophet Muhammad without saying PBUH
@idontevenexercise
September 5, 2025 at 7:09 pm
“It’s complicated” is the last refuge of cowards and genocide apologists.
@Estranged_sa9r
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 pm
How can you call europeans as indigenous people in the middle east?
@studmuffinner
September 5, 2025 at 7:39 pm
Democratic Islam is an oxymoron
@fathertimegaming17
September 5, 2025 at 7:44 pm
Ataturk: Make turkey great again
@lordraydens
September 5, 2025 at 7:56 pm
thank you for pronouncing things correctly. i had no idea i was way off on a lot of these
@emanellaithy4339
September 5, 2025 at 8:20 pm
Ugh! I don’t like this professor talk that makes you think you “should wonder” and “be neutral” as if there was no solution.
@AuthenticCelestial
September 5, 2025 at 8:47 pm
there’s literally a wiki page detailing the organisations who have called Gaza what it is (genocide), if you weren’t already aware.
(IN before somebody who considers themselves very smart tries strawmanning this because it has a Wikipedia entry)
@vining2024
September 5, 2025 at 9:08 pm
another zionist propaganda
@thekingofallblogs
September 5, 2025 at 9:16 pm
Seems like what Israel is doing is not genocide, it’s ethnic cleansing. What’s the difference. Israel wants to force Palestinians to move somewhere else. Unfortunately, no place else wants to take them.
@osoomr
September 5, 2025 at 9:22 pm
hypocrite
@Dr.MohammedAlSaghier
September 6, 2025 at 12:40 pm
What Tarek Masoud presented about women in Arab and Muslim societies reflects a colonial narrative rather than an authentic understanding of Islam.
@Dr.MohammedAlSaghier
September 6, 2025 at 12:41 pm
He reduced the discussion to inheritance and court testimony, ignoring the fact that Islam elevated the mother’s role to three times that of the father, and placed clear financial obligations on the husband to support his wife and children. If he passes away, his family is responsible for caring for his widow and children. This is a comprehensive social and family system, far more advanced than what many industrial societies offer today
@Dr.MohammedAlSaghier
September 6, 2025 at 12:41 pm
His comparison with the Taliban is also misleading—Taliban reflects a Pashtun tribal system, similar to other tribal systems across the globe, and should not be treated as representative of Islam as a whole.
@Dr.MohammedAlSaghier
September 6, 2025 at 12:42 pm
The truth is simple: Muslim women do not need the West to “save” them. It is the West that needs to save its own people
@Bebiibeatzable
September 6, 2025 at 12:45 pm
Is Isr@el a democracy even though it’s citizens have different rights depending on your ethnicity? And Islam isn’t friendly to democracy because of the prophet? What kingdom was friendly to democracy in the 700? Can’t take this guy serious…
@Dr.MohammedAlSaghier
September 6, 2025 at 12:50 pm
Tarek’s claim is simplistic and unworthy of serious scholarship. Reducing the Prophet ﷺ to a “ruler against democracy” ignores the rich historical record of shūrā (consultation), legal equality, and the pluralism of the Medina Charter. Any real scholarly analysis must account for how Islamic governance combined prophetic ethics with political practice, and how its principles of justice and accountability resonate with democratic values.
@Dr.MohammedAlSaghier
September 6, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Calling the killing of Palestinians merely a “war tragedy” and not even a war crime is nothing less than denial.
It is the same moral failure as those who deny the crimes of the Holocaust: refusing to recognize systematic destruction, mass killings, and forced displacement as what they truly are.
This framing isn’t neutrality — it is complicity in erasing Palestinian suffering.
@Dr.MohammedAlSaghier
September 6, 2025 at 12:51 pm
Tarek’s claim is simplistic and unworthy of serious scholarship. Reducing the Prophet ﷺ to a “ruler against democracy” ignores the rich historical record of shūrā (consultation), legal equality, and the pluralism of the Medina Charter. Any real scholarly analysis must account for how Islamic governance combined prophetic ethics with political practice, and how its principles of justice and accountability resonate with democratic values
@Quid-u1v
September 6, 2025 at 1:05 pm
17:10. I’ve been to Dubai and it’s awful. Hyper commercial and shallow. It’s the USA of the middle-East.
@Butterfly-cu8kf
September 6, 2025 at 1:25 pm
You are my hero ❤
@Butterfly-cu8kf
September 6, 2025 at 1:27 pm
It’s not censored, is it? 🧐
@edwinjimmy6254
September 6, 2025 at 2:24 pm
Trying to whitewash the Quran. But it won’t works in today’s world
@eurorail
September 6, 2025 at 2:33 pm
He’s cloaking a political agenda in the soft linens of academic neutrality. He pretends to simply “observe” the Middle East with Harvard detachment, but his selective framing, choice of language, and conspicuous omissions make it clear: he’s not documenting a conflict, he’s narrating a cause. This is not impartial scholarship—it’s advocacy in tweed.
He plays the humble explainer—‘well, of course no one can deny the suffering’—but avoids the hard truths about ideology, violence, and double standards. He gives moral complexity to one side and moral caricature to the other, then hides behind shrugging moderation.
It’s intellectual gaslighting: moral relativism posing as insight, and selective empathy passed off as fairness. Don’t be a fool, but I fear you already are.
@ngershon
September 6, 2025 at 3:09 pm
10:24 you do realize the videos of Palestinians with pots are staged in front of the same wall and consist of surprisingly not skinny people, plus is there a genocide isn’t some technical question, otherwise the technical details wouldn’t be rewritten to accustomed Gaza
@jamestobin3806
September 6, 2025 at 3:16 pm
Thank you!
@andrew-rc8se
September 6, 2025 at 4:07 pm
So many ads in this video of this wonderful professor
@ELWaili
September 6, 2025 at 4:28 pm
guys he’s trying to push a certain agenda, it’s a scam
@JonAthan-ln2wn
September 6, 2025 at 5:28 pm
The way he is using euphemisms to describe the horrendous situations in many of the middle eastern countries is almost comical. You can really see that he doesn’t wanna burn bridges 🤣
@chrislangstaff
September 6, 2025 at 5:31 pm
Yes it is a genocide you absolute coward
@EhNothing
September 6, 2025 at 6:28 pm
You know what, I’m genuinely surprised at how fair and even handed this was. Really, really well done Wired and prof.
@tour1st736
September 6, 2025 at 6:33 pm
Im at the first question and its an immediate red flag. He’s hinting that iran has/is close to getting/is trying to build nuclear weapons. They dont have them and are not very close either. However there is a country in the middle east that has nukes, doesnt disclose how many it has, doesnt let the IAEA do inspections on its nuclear sites, and hasnt even signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. The country is israel and other middle easterns countries certainly dont like the fact that israel has nukes.
@threeminuteshate
September 6, 2025 at 7:11 pm
The IAEA has stated Iran is in breach of non-proliferation agreements with regard to enrichment activities. It’s a naive take to state they’re not close to getting them and really serves only to let you make your point about Israel’s nuclear weapons program.
We don’t know how Iran might use a nuclear weapon but many Iranian leaders have called for the absolute destruction of Israel for decades. One thing we do know is Israel has possessed nuclear weapons for 58 years now and never used them.
@threeminuteshate
September 6, 2025 at 6:41 pm
30:37 ohhhhhh Wired! You gotta demote the person who made that map for him. In depth discussions of Israel/Palestine and you leave out Golan Heights? That is severely embarrassing.
@tour1st736
September 6, 2025 at 6:52 pm
It is incredible disingenuous to talk about the beginnings of the israel-palestine conflict and not mention the nakba AT ALL.
@WhiskeyDH
September 6, 2025 at 8:25 pm
making a timeline of middle east and not talking about the Russian occupation of Afghanistan is criminal. That is the main even which makes so much of the middle east what it is today
@lewar_kurdi
September 6, 2025 at 8:32 pm
Free Kurdistan ❤️☀️💚
Middle East can br summarized by this comment lol, a major fight will break out in replies here just cuz minor groups fight each other, cuz they won’t recognize or allow groups to rule themself, and cannot live with each other, it is also ironic since we muslim claim and go against racism yet fasicsiom runs in their blood
@hamoodrex
September 6, 2025 at 8:50 pm
You can just see how difficult it is for him to navigate around questions regarding Palestine. It’s a simple answer of yes there is a genocide but clearly those harvard professors have freedom of speech in the US.
@zeinjamoukha4718
September 8, 2025 at 1:43 pm
“Two indigenous people to the land” my guy, seriously nope!
@ages6592
September 8, 2025 at 1:53 pm
The question about why there is so much war in the Middle East could also be answered more nuanced: why are so many conflicts in the Middle East leading to war/attempted to be resolved by war? Or why is war used so frequently to resolve conflicts?
@mahmudhasan3093
September 8, 2025 at 1:57 pm
11:50 its actually a very easy question to answer
@PaulHo
September 8, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Hehe remember “Mission Accomplished”?
I am very curious about pointing with the ring finger though. Is there more to this?
@AsherStein-jg5ge
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 pm
wait isn’t turkey kindof a democracy??
@mrtankt5693
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 pm
Today I learned that religion plus politics is humanities greatest blunder.
@fvogel99
September 8, 2025 at 2:31 pm
he called khomeini the spirit of allah in arabic lol so much for an unbiased account, guy as shia as it gets
@MODElAIRPLANE100
September 8, 2025 at 2:35 pm
Something was cut out at 8:06 / 8:05 “some people point out” what was it ? Is it about the horrors inflicted daily by israel on the palestinians?
@tintinmilou9471
September 8, 2025 at 2:35 pm
Why should democracy be a USA problem, or the USA be the cause of it ? Im tired of these people give the USA and the west the faulth of thee problems, are you so weak and helpless you cant build your own state ? Your own democracy ?
@SGFTI
September 8, 2025 at 3:25 pm
Do you want a hamburger or a beer? If both, just be an atheist.
@issackhussein5838
September 8, 2025 at 3:32 pm
Yes, unequivocally it’s a genocide. You could’ve just said that.
@giannino2001
September 8, 2025 at 3:39 pm
1:32 Constantinople was only renamed Istanbul in the 20th century. Although the city was colloquially known in Turkish as Istanbul before that, it certainly did not occur under Mehmet II
@Thatsclassicaly
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 pm
Bring him back! I really loved how he answered these questions. I’d love more dives into different subjects by him!
@celestialnubian
September 8, 2025 at 4:40 pm
7:48 is a lie. Israel is not a “democracy”. Also, democracies are for secularism and the United States has systematically destroyed all secular governments in the Middle East.
@TheRozza333
September 8, 2025 at 5:22 pm
God I know its how you should say the words but its so annoying to hear someone randomly switch to an arabic accent
@sebastianborer6540
September 8, 2025 at 5:38 pm
Great content. But: Are we not considering turkey a democracy any longer or do people just love to say that Israel is the only democracy in the middle east?
@grumpus5248
September 8, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Tap danced pretty hard around the obvious yes or no in whether or not there’s a genocide happening in Gaza.
@mrcharlyie5393
September 8, 2025 at 7:02 pm
I like people who you can see make an effort to be neutral and objective.
@CH-fc8dm
September 8, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Clippy would upvote twice if Clippy could
@streetguru9350
September 8, 2025 at 7:55 pm
Perfect host.
@bar8198
September 8, 2025 at 8:25 pm
I was very skeptical when starting this video, but it was refreshingly unbiased and accurate. Very impressed with all he covered
@justinzhou27
September 8, 2025 at 8:28 pm
Dude could be a diplomat
@mugglescakesniffer3943
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 pm
Um as a woman I would not want to go into the middle east. Freedom is not free but it is better than a religious dogmatic government.
@lal9845
September 8, 2025 at 9:00 pm
thats not a very correct way of talking about ataturk and also the hat discouse. the fes was a reminder of the ottoman empire and the new country of turkey was being established, therefore it should have been left behind. turks were islamised and are not ethnically or culturally middle eastern but its undeniable that hundreds of years of interaction has left great marks (im not saying this is a good or a bad thing, there are both good and bad sides of it). ataturk wanted to modernise turkey in a way that liberated women and encouraged citizens to get educated. islam, midde easernisation of the tuks and the ottoman/monarchy mindset prevented that since both monarcy and theocracy set people back and controlled them.
@Jolie_sailor
September 8, 2025 at 9:24 pm
Unlike all other wired videos, I was tense the entire time listening to the questions and then the answers. Lots of bullets to dodge here.
I’d say some were dodged and some were not!!! Good content nonetheless.
@luciasmatanova9163
September 9, 2025 at 10:44 am
Did you really use a map of Europe with Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia?
@clippyclipsback00
September 9, 2025 at 10:53 am
4:03 that al qaeda was so smooth
@alik4325
September 9, 2025 at 11:01 am
correction 21:42 Prophet Mohammed SAV appointed Abu Bakr as the caliph
@alik4325
September 9, 2025 at 11:04 am
24:27 another correction is jihad was for when your being attacked
@arjun6358
September 9, 2025 at 11:12 am
Thanks for mentioning the state of the Indians and other Asians.
@croontangify
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 am
they did have weapons of mass destruction though. they had powerful chemical weapons. the nuclear weapon argument was always a strawman argument experts never thought they had nuclear weapons.
@3bdo3id
September 9, 2025 at 12:19 pm
19:42 yes, the question is why not?
@bez-y7b
September 9, 2025 at 12:27 pm
This guy speaks with knowledge and empathy. I vote that he leads the Middle-East peace process
@Trusted_Neighbor
September 9, 2025 at 1:03 pm
Harvard??? 😂😂😂
@mohham2911
September 9, 2025 at 2:49 pm
Reading the comments and the praise, I can understand to what extent westerners don’t know what is going on in the Middle East.
The guy is telling the west narrative and they are praising him because this is what they expect to hear 🙃
@itiz1
September 9, 2025 at 2:55 pm
lmaoooo he’s fr not going to address how muslims got a name for terror attacks not cause people r just blaming them but because Since 1979, Islamist extremist groups have carried out about 66,000 terror attacks worldwide, killing around 250,000 people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@yeopazman
September 9, 2025 at 3:28 pm
Where is palestine in that map?
@gil6875
September 9, 2025 at 3:34 pm
Israel for the win!
@gil6875
September 9, 2025 at 3:39 pm
10:00
i agree, nobody with a heart can’t feel sorry for them.
but nobody with a brain cant understand that they brought this on themselves, and they are not going to stop until they will kill all the Jews. F around and find out.
@yeopazman
September 9, 2025 at 3:56 pm
Europeans are indigenous to Palestine?
@yeopazman
September 9, 2025 at 3:56 pm
I don’t believe the lack of quality of Harvard education.
@inkdependence
September 9, 2025 at 4:58 pm
Do we really think the genocide question was about the legal definition? That definition is purposefully designed such that it is incredibly difficult to prove because it requires the proving of a nation’s “intent” in a court of law. The *concept* of genocide, though, is NOT difficult to understand. Is some group enacting the willful destruction of an entire people? If so: genocide is happening.
@MollySpiegelman
September 9, 2025 at 5:01 pm
Free Palestine!
@McDandyandy
September 9, 2025 at 5:59 pm
this guy is so good, clear and well constructed
@StephenFoster-p5v
September 9, 2025 at 6:44 pm
This guy was incredibly fascinating to watch, and imo handled the questions like a pro
@Pppboghani
September 9, 2025 at 7:13 pm
this video was extremely biased. a lot of facts were surpressed
@fahmosis
September 9, 2025 at 7:44 pm
The most beautiful flush of misinformation i have ever seen on the Internet..
Thank you for being so biased and and very defective about the facts you shared.
I will recommend this video to everyone that wants to see a zionist with good Arabic pronounciaton and a muslim name.
Cheers
@TheDisturbedOne091
September 9, 2025 at 8:36 pm
No mention of the Balfour declaration then?
@rodericksimmons9301
September 9, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Only disliking because of the unskippable ad every 2 minutes
@dukee179
September 10, 2025 at 2:36 am
Sooo not gonna mention the significant persecution of Christians in Syria right now??? Shameful.
@rl42382
September 10, 2025 at 4:16 am
Not enough backgrounds is covered about how Isreal was attracted a day after the un resolution where Isreal accepted the 😮
@whiteheavn
September 10, 2025 at 4:32 am
u sure he’s not biased on this Israel Palestine matter
@Go-shawkkkk
September 10, 2025 at 4:33 am
I was born in Iraq, which makes me a Filipino
@selomelo8770
September 10, 2025 at 5:29 am
24:32 – I would like to add, that in other holy books like the bible, the christians are also asked to spread their Religion and fight against the others. Example: the crusades in the 13. century.
@acasiatucker7401
September 10, 2025 at 6:09 am
I do very much appreciate your knowledge on these topics. Well spoken, easy to understand without coming across condescending, informative. This was a good topic.
@kunal9346
September 10, 2025 at 8:05 am
Each one of these WIRED episodes is outstanding but this was at another level! Loved how he was able to simplify such an incredibly complex topic and explain both the big picture as well as some very specific, detailed observations
@merida924
September 10, 2025 at 8:37 am
Please someone make a clip of 28:07 its so funny, needs to be a meme
@checkcommentsfirst3335
September 10, 2025 at 8:50 am
Istanbul was not renamed to Istanbul in 1453 but under Atatürk!
@trythisonfor_size
September 10, 2025 at 9:17 am
Brilliant human
@marvinmahehu1848
September 10, 2025 at 9:25 am
11:43 No normal, well meaning person is on Israel’s side in the Gaza conflict. Is it really that difficult of a question to answer?
@cherryslampa
September 10, 2025 at 10:59 am
No mention of the fact that the settlements in the West Bank are illegal and extremely violent. And calling the Zionists who came to Palestine ‘pioneers’?! What kinda white washed name is that. Colonialists is the word you’re looking for. And so many more things that show his bias.
Interesting that so many people find him balanced. And the Israelis love him in the comments…
@phimai4399
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 am
This is an awesome video. Thanks to the professor and the production team.
@reann4233
September 10, 2025 at 12:23 pm
Tarek is an academic, one that is an expert in compiling objective information in a way that is both informative and provable (lectures that make up courses). These videos are only that: mini informative sessions that condense wildly complex topics in an objective manner. They’re not op-ed’s or news articles that focus on one subjective viewpoint. They’re meant to *inform* and encourage *informed* , subjective discourse. He did a wonderful job!
@dannysday2001
September 10, 2025 at 12:37 pm
It’s really refreshing to see a video about the middle east that’s not hateful! Thank you for that
@gn8900
September 10, 2025 at 12:39 pm
“Struggle between the Israelis and Palestinians” well, not much of a struggle when one side is equipped with nuclear weapons and one of the world’s largest armies and the other aide mainly comprises children and youth under the age of 18.
@BigStone1536
September 10, 2025 at 1:50 pm
This was absolutely fantastic! Thank you! And yes, to anyone raising a stink, this gentleman had a very limited time frame to answer very VERY complex questions. One of the great things about living in a democracy is that you can take your own learning into your own hands. I therefore strongly suggest for any who wish to know more to use this gentleman’s information as a primer so you can dig deeper and learn more for yourself….or go back to school. 🙂
@tiganarunte4905
September 10, 2025 at 2:08 pm
What a masterclass in passive langague. You know its a genocide and you know who is causing it. Isreal is ACTIVLY STARVING Gaza but ya lets argue about the “tecnical deffinitions”. Really quite pathetic. You should be screaming at the top of your lungs for justice and the end of the slaughter but instead you want to argue “there are good people on both sides”? Nobody who looks at the murderous campaign of Isreal in 2025 and thinks it is okay or can be rationalized as “self defence” is a “good person” or a “normal person”. No good person watches the videos coming out of Gaza and thinks its improtant to “hear both sides”. “Israel” is a genocidel ethnostate currently being run by psychopaths.
@nerm9507
September 10, 2025 at 2:24 pm
3 unstoppable ads in 4 minutes is criminal. Wired is apparently greedy AND desperate
@kevinr5841
September 10, 2025 at 3:59 pm
This was absolutely a landmine of topics. Did pretty good
@thezegui93
September 10, 2025 at 5:33 pm
I stopped watching at 7:49
You gotta be kidding me
@redbeerdo
September 10, 2025 at 5:39 pm
Tragic struggle is a strange way to say genocide
@HouptChaya
September 10, 2025 at 5:59 pm
This is excellent
@genevaelyse1918
September 10, 2025 at 6:12 pm
As a Middle Eastern, I think our biggest problem is religious fanatism. We are so consumed by religion that any outsider can easily use it against us. It’s good to have faith but I think we need some freedom when it comes to personal choices. If you pay close attention, you’ll notice that 99.99% of our problems are rooted in religion (jews vs Muslims, sunni vs shia etc.) we really need to regulate our religious tendencies.
@mrbennbenn
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 am
19:30 i mean you could expel the settlers as they are illegal settlements right?
@salvestrom
September 11, 2025 at 3:13 am
Just a note, the “natural” borders of European countries are the result of 2000 years of fighting with each other. Natural terrain features were used as a convenience when settling who was getting what afterwards.
@berkovl7226
September 11, 2025 at 7:54 am
Tunisia is a democracy though. A flawed one, but democracy nonetheless.
@panos96pap
September 11, 2025 at 7:57 am
does religion play a role ? @tarekmasoud ?
@azoor5881
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 am
Ataturk was right.
@PimpleJThomas
September 11, 2025 at 9:25 am
Imagine really believing that Jews are indigenous to the land of Palestine
@LionHeartSamy
September 11, 2025 at 10:15 am
Seriously, who the heck decided to chuck the geological question to the professor answering questions of geopolitics and history? I literally got taken aback when he started explaining how oil formed 🤣
But wow, massive props to him, he is really good at breaking down complicated geopolitical questions in ways that are very easy to understand
@pureasmr4079
September 11, 2025 at 10:16 am
There’s no Genocide. There’s war
@taharbesri8000
September 11, 2025 at 10:20 am
This guy is biased
@liefdesbaard
September 11, 2025 at 10:46 am
I thoroughly enjoyed this video/lecture. I found it to be very informative, well balanced and clear. Navigated the complexities of a bunch of different struggles and events expertly. Thank you professor!
@marianamarica9591
September 11, 2025 at 12:47 pm
Great video … and also very comprehensive 🎉 … there were a lot of good questions and the answers were perfect
@jamesf3881
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 pm
Calling Israel a democracy is so discrediting.
@micaspi95
September 11, 2025 at 1:30 pm
Very interesting video, thank you! I think that an important fact that was not mentioned during this video is that the vote in the UN in 1947 that allowed the Jews to proclaim Israel as their state, actually was a vote over the 2 states solution, and also allowed the Palestinians to have the West Bank and Gaza Strip as the Palestinian state, with Jerusalem being an international zone. The Palestinians did not agree to that offer and proclaimed war on the Jews, with the help of all the surrounding Arab countries (7 in number if I remember right). That was the pretence for the Independence war / Nakbah, which ended with the Israeli state looking as mentioned in the video and no Palestinian state.
@SI5TO
September 11, 2025 at 2:45 pm
This was one of the best installments of this series.
@milky1l896
September 11, 2025 at 3:21 pm
I love how you tried to stay as factual as possible without emotionally loading any statement. This is a very brave video to film and you crushed it.
@selmaferdjioui
September 11, 2025 at 3:45 pm
as a north african, i never identified myself as middle eastern and i was in fact taught that north africa had nothing to do with the middle east in the sense that we are not a part of that region.
@carielle75
September 11, 2025 at 4:17 pm
How much is tuition at Harvard? And I got to listed to this guy for 37 minutes for FREE? Thanks, Wired 😉😉
@YI77I
September 11, 2025 at 4:34 pm
As an Iraqi, things failed here because politicians took advantage of people’s lack of experience with elections. The people didn’t choose democracy on their own and they weren’t ready for it. So the politicians exploited their ignorance. They turned the idea of multiple parties into religious parties. And since religion is seen as the absolute truth and the correct path, people chose their party as if it were their faith and not just a political option. Well, that was many years ago…The majority now have stopped voting. They don’t trust the whole regime anymore.
@SBereft
September 11, 2025 at 5:17 pm
So fascinating. No notes. More please. 😂❤
@furkanbozdag8198
September 11, 2025 at 5:31 pm
20:08 simple answer USA
@JahnNbe
September 11, 2025 at 6:14 pm
32:00 i understand that because of the need to provide a lot of information in a short time, you can’t elaborate on everything. But it’s important to remember that Egypt didn’t conquer saini in 73. And the peace was signed at 78 with a different Egyptian leadership
@yasmin.2125
September 11, 2025 at 6:18 pm
With respect, you have immense knowledge in lots of areas, but it is unfair to comment on Quranic interpretations without being/consulting a religious scholar or having studied it properly. Wholeheartedly think you misrepresented Islam, and took verses about jihad completely out of context. The least you could do is explain that it MUST be interpreted with context and causation in mind, otherwise you are just feeding into the misconceptions, prejudices and discrimination already rife in the West. Same with comments on gender (in)equality, it’s important to point out facts, such as the promotion of EQUITY in real Islam, rather than cherrypicking a couple of differences between rulings in men and women. There is always a logical reason and justification behind islamic law. There is a whole science dedicated to it called Fiqh. Look it up.
@amirmirou8037
September 11, 2025 at 6:44 pm
What a brainwashing video. So misleading btw.
@alonabecker6028
September 11, 2025 at 7:07 pm
I am Israeli, and I appreciate the incredible job you did with your answers
@jonathanbuzzard1376
September 21, 2025 at 7:14 pm
10:05 if you elect a genocial terrorist organisation as your government, come out in the streets to celibate October 7th , then the suffering you are undergoing right now is of your own making. You bet I can have no sympathy. Unconditional surrender and return of the hostages, its what the Allies demanded of Germany and Japan afer WWII, and seems perfectly reasonable for Israel to demand the same.
@vonstrapalong4343
September 21, 2025 at 7:21 pm
The answer is the US and it used to be UK.
@Gorogregoro
September 21, 2025 at 8:02 pm
He answered these questions really well
@northernlight1000
September 21, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Great video! Potentially very sensitive topic, but this professor handled it and answered the questions extremely well, great speaker, thank you!!
@enotonom
September 22, 2025 at 1:37 am
israil is the only democracy in the Middle east??? Really???
@rrr92462
September 22, 2025 at 8:07 am
This was good.
Creates an understanding of the history and current events of the Middle East.
Understanding another culture can only lead to open-mindedness and empathy.
@Luhbrudda
September 22, 2025 at 9:11 am
It’s strange that you all are praising the video style and talking about the topic at hand. What we just witnessed was very alarming. An entire country both in denial or in support of a genocide whilst living life to the fullest as if people aren’t suffering by their hands just an hour away. It’s disgusting
@achinoy
September 22, 2025 at 9:42 am
Western democracy is a farce. Your populations are enslaved by corporations and zionists.
@Larry26-f1w
September 22, 2025 at 10:39 am
The domestic terrorist who found safe haven at Harvard ? FDNY Chief Joseph Pfeifer ( caught by his own film crew detonating the WTC North Tower)
@danfsteeple
September 22, 2025 at 11:39 am
“Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East”
Lebanon: “Am I a joke to you?”
@stopprojectingyourbsonme
September 22, 2025 at 1:04 pm
The beaker really helped me understand things better 👻
@stopprojectingyourbsonme
September 22, 2025 at 1:04 pm
Ofc I appreciate the teaching 🙏🏾
@OGSauceDaddy
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 pm
It’s a genocide. The question isn’t hard
@kotzpenner
September 24, 2025 at 10:27 am
Don’t tarnish the weight of this word by calling everything a genocide.
@OGSauceDaddy
September 24, 2025 at 10:35 am
@@kotzpennerIt’s base definition. A specific demographic of people’s are being intentionally starved and outright murdered on mass by a government on the basis of their ethnicity.
Stop downplaying the atrocity Israel is committing in Gaza
@kotzpenner
September 24, 2025 at 10:51 am
@@OGSauceDaddy almost every war ever. Israel shows greater restraint than say Russia against Ukraine. By this logic Russia is genociding Ukraine, which even the western allies don’t say.
@OGSauceDaddy
September 24, 2025 at 11:08 am
@@kotzpennerit’s very clear you’re morally bankrupt. You’re defending what Russia is doing in Ukraine.
@CollinsWanjohi-ol6hf
September 22, 2025 at 4:23 pm
Hi, is it true that the original Israelites in the Bible were Black?
@chrishedlund2688
September 22, 2025 at 4:24 pm
fascinating thank you Dr. Masoud for sharing this with us and to wired as well
@DesmondSG
September 23, 2025 at 6:35 am
Best video I’ve watched on YouTube.
@3DMiniMagic-k2z
September 23, 2025 at 9:24 am
This is just outstanding. Lots of detailed information made very understandable to the non-expert.
@rsbandbj1
September 23, 2025 at 9:55 am
You know… it takes a lot of courage just to say “I don’t know” so TY professor.
@El_Lu-Shin
September 23, 2025 at 10:44 am
This was super educational for me. Those realities are really foreign to me, now I can understand a Lot of things way better.
@lordofentropy
September 23, 2025 at 2:37 pm
This is what happens when you have 2 religions that don’t eat bacon. If they knew the joy of bacon, they’d be less angry and inclined to fight all the time.
@zhiychen1626
September 23, 2025 at 3:48 pm
pork used to have lots of parasites that’s why they avoid them
@josephwalsh4738
September 23, 2025 at 3:52 pm
Funny how Isreal and Cyprus have managed it, despite cyprus faving the exact problems like occupation and war just like everyone else in the region. Its almost like it could be because of something else, hmmmmmmmmmmmm i wonder what it could be
@amerar9490
September 23, 2025 at 5:08 pm
So the question of whether it’s a genocide or not is a technical question? What a low life person, such a waste of education.
@MultiThrashed
September 23, 2025 at 5:10 pm
The reason why the middle east has trouble with democracy is century of inbreeding and low IQ’s.
@William-k416
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 pm
True, and do not forget the most important reason for Islam
@SorceressKana
September 23, 2025 at 6:12 pm
3:28 England and France: “Woohoo, I’m sure slicing up countries without local input is going to go well this time!” 🗿
Every African: 🤦🏾♀️
Every Arab and Persian: 😰
The Kurds: “…why do I hear boss music…?”
@SorceressKana
September 23, 2025 at 6:19 pm
I’m still watching the video, but the main take-away I have is… Is Palestine having trouble currently due to past Gentrification facilitated by rich people that didn’t care about anyone not-rich? And now said population is in the the midst of Hawaii-ing Palestine’s land???
Man, humans do not learn for ish…
@nwm56
September 23, 2025 at 10:39 pm
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
@jonathanpineda3557
September 23, 2025 at 11:35 pm
Your map had a typo it’s supposed to say Palestine and also the international justice court decided it IS IN FACT A GENOCIDE
@yoyoyocjeuneloup
September 23, 2025 at 11:48 pm
How is no one talking about the fact he said Israel is the only democracy, Lebanon is litteraly also a democracy
@english.45000
September 25, 2025 at 9:39 am
Lebanon is as much a democracy as Iraq and Turkey are 😅
@mamadnamvar3371
September 24, 2025 at 3:26 am
what a bunch of garbaage
@MenNeedHelp1
September 24, 2025 at 7:29 am
Whoever had to parse through the unimaginable amount of Islamophobic stuff on the internet to find anything substantial for this guy to respond to was not paid enough.
@cat-in-the-woods
September 24, 2025 at 8:17 am
Zionists are not indigenous! They are European.! They try to hide their real names. Just ask Prime Minister Mileikowsky 🇵🇱
@kotzpenner
September 24, 2025 at 10:35 am
Nice closing thoughts
@thelowlytrinity
September 24, 2025 at 11:20 am
so refreshing to hear a balanced take on these issues based on actual facts and history. the internet needs more of this.
@audreydupuy2628
September 24, 2025 at 3:52 pm
Israël talks a lot about them feeling safe, what about the Palestinians? They’re just as important
@007kingifrit
September 24, 2025 at 7:59 pm
if such mild statements as calling gazans animals is evidence the ICC considers then that’s evidence the ICC is not an adult court for rational thinkers
@stanleydonovan425
September 24, 2025 at 9:25 pm
That explorer 2 is gorgeous
@nicknjake
September 25, 2025 at 2:04 am
It would be helpful to explain why Arabs are afraid of Iran (Persia)
@roberw1912
September 25, 2025 at 8:25 am
It’s not a genocide unless you change the definition of genocide.
@english.45000
September 25, 2025 at 9:37 am
Are you kidding me? Last time I checked there are 40 million Kurds, 20 million Azeris, a Armenian state, many Christians and other religious ministries, etc. and yet nothing about them? One question about Turkey? You really made it all about Arabs and Palestine. Know what questions you’re picking 👎👎👎
@Flesh_Eating_Alienberry.
September 25, 2025 at 11:22 am
there’s so many inaccuracies and omitted crucial details, this is laced with misinformation
@normsmirnoff2301
September 25, 2025 at 1:48 pm
This is one of my favorites for sure.
@acct_deleted
September 25, 2025 at 2:44 pm
This guy was awesome and fair.
@the87jazels
September 25, 2025 at 3:25 pm
great topic. but the Turks had not renamed the city Istambul. Istambul is a greek name that caught on over the centuries and meanwhile constantinople was used. It was renamed Istambul ony 100 years ago. Also they did not conquer entire arab world (morroco algeria) and they did not hold it for 500 years (till 1954, but more like 300-400 years.
@WasabiSniffer
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 pm
a veritable minefield masterfully navigated. perhaps oversimplified but simplified enough for most of us to get decently caught up
@josephquesnel1737
September 25, 2025 at 7:08 pm
By and large pretty fair presentation of facts and arguments. The only thing with the Israel-Palestinian conflict that is neglected is the Arab historic rejection of Israel and co-existence with it being at the root of the conflict.
@josephquesnel1737
September 25, 2025 at 7:41 pm
I laughed out out loud when “AskMiddleEast subredddit” asked why Israel “started so many wars.” Are they delusional??! hahaha. Israel has been fighting for its survival against aggressors since before its inception.