Not a review, but I agree with all he said. Dr Omar Suleiman was great, clear and comprehensive. You?
Interesting.
Me, I am not keen on commenting on the speaker, but I only care about the content being factual/informative.
In that regard I agree with @mark5000 's point here:
Usually the editors of such videos will put in a “gotcha!” moment in the preview to get attention, but the only thing they managed was to spotlight a very controvertial/hyperbolic take and negatively predispose the viewer about the veracity of the video.
“Show me that counterpart in the West, It doesn’t exist” (talking about historic Jewish communities)
Well, I am sorry doctor, but there are such things and have existed “in the West” for a long time.
Here is one:
The history of the Jews of Thessaloniki reaches back two thousand years
Oops 
I am sure people from other countries will be able to find relevant examples. E.g.
“existing from classical times until today” …
Or maybe are these not “West enough”? 
That’s not true either, as we mentioned in this topic.
I think that 6:26 contradicts the video’s title and his later points.
7:40 is also not true. Maybe that has happened in the latest years where the current leaders are of questionable diplomatic merit (to put it mildly), but I happened to be alive when Arafat was still around and he was definitely NOT seen as an “arab savage” (he was on the cover of TIME magazine multiple times iirc) and he was treated with significant respect and had meetings with many world leaders through the decades.
15:20 taking a quote from Lindsay Graham and applying his opinion to everyone in “the West” was a very bad and, frankly, illogical idea.
So, I reached the end of the video and I was left with the feeling that my earlier point was enhanced. It is a much better time investment to read sources/facts on an issue, than watch videos about it. It also enhances my point about reading/informing yourself first and then dwelving and diving into the opinions of others. Because if you do not have enough knowledge on a subject, you cannot judge whether the opinions of others are factually correct or not.
I think you should keep an open mind for an old technology like writing and reading sources and give it a try 
Tl;dr;
I have no opinion on the video other than the fact that five points were false/untrue/misrepresented.
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My comment to you - Dr Omar Suleiman was great, clear and comprehensive. I agree with all he said.
“I don’t think a single Western politician has spoken on Gaza as powerfully, correctly, and with such unshakable clarity as Yanis Varoufakis.”
https://x.com/PhilipProudfoot/status/1744852754663694600?s=20
Support South Africa’s Genocide Convention Case Against Israel
WHAT international community?
The global community didn’t impose sanctions and boycott Israel as quickly as they did when Russia invaded Ukraine. Could it be due to Ukrainians being fair-skinned while you have darker skin and hair? Yes, it’s racism.
https://x.com/DrMadsGilbert/status/1745197371141542197?s=20
"Appeal at pro-Palestinian demo, Oslo, 7/1-24:
"…NO, this is not complicated!
Many people say: - I can’t take a stand, it’s such a complicated conflict.
No! This is NOT a difficult “conflict”! This is a difficult occupation!
A brutally one-sided, bloody and deadly, illegal occupation. An occupation with elements of a sadism that is hard to comprehend. Because - if this is a military struggle against Palestinian resistance forces:
- Why shouldn’t Palestinian children get food, water, warm clothes and a roof over their heads?
- Why shouldn’t the sick receive medication and treatment?
- Why should the war injured not receive life-saving and injury-reducing emergency treatment?
- Why shouldn’t Palestinian hospitals, schools, universities, churches and mosques be protected?
- So far, 23 out of 36 Palestinian hospitals and 53 health centres in Gaza have been bombed or suffocated out of function, while ISraeli terrorist bombing has destroyed 370 schools and universities, at least 122 mosques, three churches, 121 ambulances and 11 bakeries - and 455,000 housing units.
So the answer is as brutal as it is simple: This is NOT a symmetrical military battle between an ISrael with a claimed right to defend itself against the occupied. This is an overpowering occupier systematically attacking the lives and communities of the occupied in order to eliminate them…"
Dr.Mads"
https://x.com/DrMadsGilbert/status/1745219047891800101?s=20
I had never heard of him before, but Mads Gilbert seems to be a controversial figure. A statement of his about the 9/11 attacks on the US by al-Qaeda in 2001:
When asked if he supported a terrorist attack against the US he answered: “Terror is a poor weapon, but my answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned.”
And
During the conflicts in Gaza in 2009 and 2014, Gilbert was accused by some in Norway and abroad of facilitating propaganda by Hamas.
According to Israeli intelligence sources, Gilbert was banned from entering Israel because there had been revealed close ties between Gilbert and Hamas-leaders.
And he also seems to justify the Hamas attacks on the 7th of October:
Gilbert drew criticism for his statements on the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel. He described the Hamas forces as brave: “That is what happened when the Palestinian resistance broke out of Gaza and attacked the occupier on his own ground.”
I have more hope that the actions of Sigrid Kaag, the newly appointed UN humanitarian coordinator for Gaza and a more widely respected politician and experienced UN diplomat, can actually make a difference and bring some alleviation to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza:
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Could it be that Ukraine and Russia are much larger, closer and more interconnected to the global economy (e.g. both of them are among the largest producers of wheat in the world) and much more geopolitically important? Nah? It has to be racism for that fellow, eh? He couldn’t think of ANY other reason?
Here we go again.
As if Varoufakis earlier, isn’t? I saw what the OP did earlier with that video of that other PhD, which is why I didn’t bother replying, but I am starting to wonder where does he find these PhDs anyway? It is not as if they have a PhD in diplomacy or history or something relevant to the topic they are talking about. 
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Ease up on him. He wasn’t speaking as powerfully, correctly, and with such unshakable clarity as some Marxist former finance minister for five months managed to do.
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The man who even mispells his name for attention and to be unique, doesn’t have his own theory? I am stunned. I thought he was a Varoufakisist.
The case in the ICJ opened today. I was surprised to read that it is only a two day affair. Today we heard the South African side, tomorrow we shall hear the Israeli.
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I’ve read it’s about making an interim decision to intervene quickly, if there is indeed a genozide going on. Edit: I guess it isn’t really about “indeed going on”, but about an interim decision.
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In this spirit, we pose these questions for consideration:
- What does it mean to be human, and what will it take for us to recognize everyone’s humanity, vulnerability and dignity without condition?
- What might be required to make ostensible spaces of refuge into true refuge for everyone?
- How might the experiences of Black and racialized persons in this crisis be embraced as the foundation for necessary policy change?
- What can we learn from Black Studies and Black liberation struggles toward crafting a vision of the “human” in which all humans count?
Ukraine refugee crisis exposes racism and contradictions in the definition of human
[Richard Medhurst]
[Full segment] South Africa Meticulously Exposes Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians at the ICJ
https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1745580147724464494?s=20
South Africa’s closing statement:
-Each day, 247 Palestinians are being killed, 1 every 6 minutes
-48 mothers, 2 every hour
-117 children, 5 every hour
-Each day, 10 children will be amputated without anaesthetics
—Irish lawyer, Blinne Ni Ghralaigh
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1745482597373804966?s=20
South Africa’s opening statement in the case of genocide at the ICJ against Israel:
“The Palestinian people suffer for 75 years.”
https://x.com/DrLoupis/status/1745414587455865069?s=20
“For the past 96 days the genocide of Palestinians has been live-streamed.”
https://x.com/Resist_05/status/1745392751179678176?s=20
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It must be a pre-court initial hearing. Two days for such a serious issue to be decided is far too fast. Just reading through the points of the legal text would take two days, let alone the argument over them.
Did you actually consider them or did you get the answers ready from elsewhere, like previously?
Anyway, I know now that it is a waste of time on you, but here is something else to consider on the matter for anyone else that might be interested:
Christian refugees to Greece faced a similar set of difficulties as they struggled to adapt to their new lives. Large cities like Atina/Athens and Selanik/Thessaloniki were popular settlement sites for the newcomers. The political narratives surrounding the refugees to Greece and the reality of the refugee experience were quite different. While the government publicly welcomed these newcomers with open arms and allocated resources to help them begin their lives in Greece, the conditions of the refugees was less than ideal. These resources were often co-opted by native Greeks before the refugees even arrived. This meant that refugees were forced to face near-homelessness, occupying slums and living out of tents. The refugees’ new neighbors, who had lived in Greece for all or most of their lives, outwardly expressed xenophobia towards these refugees. They treated these newcomers as foreigners rather than as brethren, and were hostile to these people. Like the refugees to Turkey, these new Greeks struggled with practical issues like language barriers and the loss of all their economic capital.
What does this say? It says that we do the same nasty things to our OWN kind, given the chance, and we do not really need colour differences to be total jackasses. Personal interest is all it takes.
6-7 more paragraphs that included modern examples where written, but I deleted them.
I write in fora to discuss new points of view, inform myself and re-think issues, but it dawned to me that sometimes writing too many facts and details is mind-bendingly boring for other people, so I pressed delete and kept the historical details/facts for myself. I got prenty of new views and information in the course of this topic and I re-thought the issue and that was good enough for me. If someone else wants to dig more into it, history and daily life are full of examples. Thus if people care about finding information and facts about such issues, that is so easy nowadays that some people might even feel insulted by someone else offering more information and actually close their minds to new things and ideas, instead of being more sceptical and critical about them. So I recognise that it was a very bad mistake on my end to try to provide historical sources and analysis on this topic/instance. I apologise for any informational overload and I will not be adding anything else.
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I just don’t think we’re going to see eye to eye on this topic. As disheartening as those numbers are (assuming their accuracy and relevance), urban warfare often leads to such outcomes when one faction decides to fortify within cities. Even if this isn’t a conventional war, it’s also incorrect to simplify the situation as colonial oppressor v. Indigenous victim. There are major issues with that narrative that deserve consideration.
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I always found it strange to hear people decry antisemitism, because that’s all you heard over and over when it came to Jews. Like, it’s been 50 years since Hitler, I think society has gotten the memo not to kill people for being Jewish, can we stop beating a dead horse already? The only things I heard which could be considered antisemitic if one was looking to be offended, were online comments which could equally be interpreted as trolls satirizing the tilting at windmills of condemning antisemitism.
When I started watching David Wood, it made sense that some Muslims could dislike Jews, but it didn’t change the big picture that basically everyone agreed that hating Jews was bad.
It was only in the past few months where I heard about the latest installment in the war in Israel, and that apparently some people in America saw Palestine as the good guys. Saw Israel as unjust invaders. Wanted Isreal wiped off the map.
I can understand Muslims disliking Jews. Not agree with it, but I can understand. I can understand people joking about global Jewish banking conspiracies as pushback to all the antiantisemitism which seemed heretofore so patronizingly misplaced. I can understand Christians thinking Yahweh has no further plans for national Israel. Disagree, but I can understand.
What I cannot understand, is people who don’t appear to have a vested interest in seeing Jews fall, unironically call for Israel to kowtow to groups who have been offered reasonable deals over and over for the past half-century, and have refused and broken ceasefires time and time again. Call for Israel to measure their retaliation, their already saintlike proportionate retaliation, against an enemy who tortured and raped hundreds of women to death, who hide behind their own citizens, and who bear false witness against Israel. May every innocent Palestinian death by Israeli arms be on the head of Hamas and those who support them.
What constitutes a just war, especially when the potential war in question is a vicarious one, is not insofar as I can tell a remotely easy question, but if I must pick a hot war currently underway most likely to be just to join, I am unaware of any better bets than siding with Israel against their enemies.
From the river to the sea, whether before or after Jesus the Messiah’s return, Yahweh will establish the kingdom of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and Hamas nor any other can do more than delay it.
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THE US MADE A BIG MISTAKE BOMBING YEMEN
If you think the new war in Yemen is going to be restricted to Yemen, think again.
It’s now open season for US and British military bases in the region. The Yemenis are fearless and have nothing to lose.
They will easily set the entire region on fire. Do not underestimate their strike capacity far outside Yemen or their deeply embedded alliances with other groups.
Great, you have a strong faith. I hope it works out for you.
The REAL Reason US & UK Are Bombing Yemen
https://x.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1745912803150491826?s=20
“In defending Israel at the ICJ, Malcolm Shaw opens with a patently false statement by EU’s Ursula von der Leyen claiming Hamas butchered many babies on Oct 7”
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1745934339186045274?s=20
Yanis Varoufakis
On Thursday, the ICJ began hearing the case, brought to it by the gvt of South Africa, that Israel is committing genocide.
https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1745745773306785824?s=20
This thread is being closed because everything that could have been said has, resulting in only tangential discussions and a need for repeated moderator involvement.
Thanks for your contributions.