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I Was Wrong About Israel: What I Learned on the Ground
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I was wrong about Israel.
For years, I viewed the Israeli–Palestinian conflict through the lens of my family’s history in Northern Ireland. Protestants and Catholics, paramilitaries, and sectarian violence — it all looked familiar. But after traveling to Israel, interviewing people from Kibbutzim on the Gaza border, and speaking with officials at the Knesset, I realized my assumptions didn’t fit the reality on the ground.
This isn’t Northern Ireland. In 1948, Israel faced an existential war of survival. And today, generations of Palestinians are raised with maps erasing Israel entirely. A “Sons of Palestine” strategy, like what worked in Iraq, simply wouldn’t work here.
In this video, I share what I saw: weapons depots inside schools, guest workers who betrayed the very Israelis who employed them, and why Israel often loses the information war even when the facts are on its side. I also talk about what Israel gets wrong — from restricting journalists to neglecting the professional NCO corps.
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