Thanks for watching, look out for part 2 coming soon! Please remember to be polite in the comments. Any comments that we consider to be offensive or aggressive will be removed.
@Houthiandtheblowfish
7 ай бұрын
what a legacy sad but we need to protect it nevertheless
@latch9781
7 ай бұрын
I'm sure they will be very uncontroversial
@_Wombat
7 ай бұрын
Good luck 🤞 thanks for covering this.
@_Wombat
7 ай бұрын
Good luck 🤞 thanks for covering this.
@Ramiibr1
7 ай бұрын
Thank you
@hokepoke3540
4 ай бұрын
You may consider this comment offensive but it is true none the less. Every time the British stick their noses in to other countries then leaves there has been nothing but a total failure. British empire ways are directly to blame for current problems in the middle east.
@reubenmcmurray4377
Ай бұрын
Are they though? The British held the region for about 25 years. The ottomans controlled it for 400 years and a lot of the regions problems festered under the ottomans. Particularly poverty and infrastructure degradation.
@oliveOil7823
9 күн бұрын
@hokepoke3540 Between Britain & and US colonial imperialism, they have invaded, stolen resources, massacred, tortured & exploited most of the globe! 🙈 (to present day)
@oliveOil7823
9 күн бұрын
@reubenmcmurray4377 However, we have no 'right' to go thousands of miles to different countries; telling them what is 'best' for them (in the pretence that we are civilised & everyone else are savages) It is none of our business. They had their different tribes, religions, ethnicities, beliefs, cultures, etc. We have no right to think that 'our'way is better, or we know better. Let them sort their own issues out. The US did it to the native Indians! The English (now British) did it to the Irish, the Scottish!; the indigenous aboriginal people. UK & US Govs are actually the savages!
@GregoryShtevensh
4 ай бұрын
Looking for unbiased, objective, unpoliticised info. I hope this is the right place
@andreskorge1828
11 күн бұрын
@@GregoryShtevensh oh for the truth of the truth
@Gszarco94
7 ай бұрын
Amazing! I'm looking forward to the second part!
@Liverpool-2004
7 ай бұрын
The British followed one rule, ”Divide and conquer”
@tombearclaw
7 ай бұрын
They kinda did the same thing with India and Pakistan
@Nochancet.v
7 ай бұрын
We sold it 3 times 😢
@sjoormen1
7 ай бұрын
If two fish are fighting in a pond it means the British were there
@chuckh5999
7 ай бұрын
@@tombearclaw and Malaya!
@sergeanthowiefromthemainland
7 ай бұрын
@@sjoormen1 Britain cannot determine or change the nature of those fish. One of the fish species uses mostly American tax dollars to commit war crimes against the other fishies. If Britain is guilty of anything, its failing to condemn those fish. The same fish provided arms to Argentina during the Falklands War. This is a very dodgy fish.
@jeevachhprasad7751
7 ай бұрын
I love your videos. You have helped me learn about history way faster than ever
@geoms6263
3 ай бұрын
com to Ukraine sir if you want to liv and learn war faster than ever
@sghound
7 ай бұрын
PART 2 please. amazing clarity
@sc2881
5 ай бұрын
Quick question - why couldn’t Britain or any other western country offer a place for Jews? Did they not want them in their country ? Why place them in a country where the original residents didn’t want to share their country ? This move in1947, seemed to have displace many Palestinians and they were treated with injustice by the UN. America is so large, why couldn’t one state be given to the Jews? Seems like the west were always racist to Jews, it was only Muslims who voluntarily gave Jews a place to live - during the ottomon empire in the 1880.
@freddyt55555
5 ай бұрын
The Jews WERE the original residents.
@A1Kirazz
5 ай бұрын
Muslims actively prohibited Jews into the British mandate and then Muslim countries ethnically cleaned Jews from their countries.
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
@@freddyt55555 incorrect
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
Theyve been removed from 109 countries over the course of thousands of years... pretty self explanitory
@sram5308
2 ай бұрын
@@Ladybird55505 Israel is a Jewish country conquered by Romans then Ottomans then by British .You should blame these empires for conflicts. Jews took back what is rightfully theirs. Palestinians could have co-exist with them but they always want things to go according to their plans like conquer any country divide country and make Islamic countries around the world .If somebody else do the same thing they cannot tolerate.
@mogens47
7 ай бұрын
Well at the current situation it can be an explosive topic, but very informative to form one's own opinion..
@NathanDudani
7 ай бұрын
Lol
@شريفحمدي-ث6ق
7 ай бұрын
Can't wait till the part two. wonderful episode.
@thestoicsteve
7 ай бұрын
A clear informational video that shows the history of the region. Looking forward to part two.
@robrodell
7 ай бұрын
Wonderful video, as always. Thank you. Note: the bottom part of Africa is not the Horn of Africa.
@ashoakwillow
7 ай бұрын
How on earth did you get out an informative video with the current UK government's culture wars going on? I really do admire your integrity and courage, for the truth belongs to those with money in this modern world.
@RobespierreThePoof
5 ай бұрын
Culture wars in Britain? Surely not. I'm an American who lived in Britain for over ten years and nothing I saw there even remotely compares to the American culture wars. There's just the old knee-jerk nationalism where some British people want to be way more of an isolated, insular nation than Britain ever has been and is realistic, given economic and political links to the Continent and world
@ingGS
7 ай бұрын
This is by far the best coverage of the conflict I have seen so far. Excellent!
@IF18a
6 ай бұрын
It's biased in places, it decides to focus on some facts while ignoring others.
@oceanic8424
5 ай бұрын
@@IF18aBut it doesn’t shy away from pointing a big finger at the Brits for having massively contributed to this situation.
@KibbutzSalem
5 ай бұрын
its only best because it sings your song, but is it true?
@paweurbaniak6426
5 ай бұрын
@@IF18a It's always easy to comment like that. Mention those which were ignored, so the picture be even better.
@hochhaul
7 күн бұрын
@@IF18a It focuses on the real cause of WW1 and WW2. Those individuals are desperately attacking this documentary.
@kobedierckx2918
6 ай бұрын
Very very nice video! I found myself wondering what the origins of the Israel Palestine conflict are and needed to know. Now i see that it is more complicated than i first thought and that there are many groups/ countries involved.
@poisonousbadge126
7 ай бұрын
Thanks for creating vids relating to modern day events. Truly educational and entertaining!
@Phil-fw2ib
4 ай бұрын
In the past, Europe, including England and France, caused global instability, affecting non-European countries. It's surprising that Great Britain isn't more active in resolving conflicts, with the United States taking a more prominent role instead.
@Capt.sierra
4 ай бұрын
Great description of the situation, very impressive
@nicksallnow-smith7585
7 ай бұрын
Just one point; as I understand it, the Sykes-Picot lines were not random doodlings by diplomats, they were based on the Ottoman Administrative regions, as you would expect.
@stephenchappell7512
7 ай бұрын
The Ottomans provincial borders were very different
@PhillipTheHeretic
7 ай бұрын
Yes, I think this is correct.
@00700719
7 ай бұрын
This is actually not true, the city of Rafah was split into two, and divided betw Egypt and mandatory Palastine, after the ottoman defeat in ww1 focourse nobody knew at the time what was being planned for the whole region.
@YishaiBarr
5 ай бұрын
That's not true. The Ottoman administrative borders were very different from the British and French ones.
@BamBamGT1
3 ай бұрын
Not at all. You had 3 main entities: The vilayet of Syria, the vilayet of Beirut, and the independant Sanjak of Jerusalem. Wjat became Palestine after world War 1, was Jerusalem. a part of the sanjak of Ma'an (vilayet Syria) the sanjaks of Nablus, most of the Sanjak of Akka, a part of the Beirut Sanjak (all Beirut Vilayet). So yeah, the French and British did draw random lines. Britain had actually sent out an inquiry commission, the king crane commission, to get a feel of how the Arabs felt. Only 1% of local Arabs in the South wanted Palestine to be created. 85% favoured a united Syria. So yeah, fun fact, the main opponents of creating Palestine over a hundred years ago, were the ancestors of the people who call themselves the Palestinian people today.
@nilesoien7867
7 ай бұрын
Is there an IWM video about TE Lawrence? I’d be interested in that.
@ingGS
7 ай бұрын
There is a movie about it, I don’t how much of it is fictitious but the movie is a great watch!
@disbish5472
7 ай бұрын
@@ingGS what is it called
@sagapoetic8990
5 ай бұрын
@@disbish5472 Lawrence of Arabia but this channel, Imperial War Museums, has a video on him, too. I recommend the director's cut of Lawrence of Arabia if you look for it. It does maximize Lawrence and minimize the Arab role and, yeah, it omits his awareness of Palestine being promised to the Zionists behind the backs of the Sharif and his sons, but it is still interesting to watch.
@sagapoetic8990
5 ай бұрын
I don't remember at what point Lawrence learned that the Palestine part of the land was promised out per Balfour's letters.
@RobespierreThePoof
5 ай бұрын
There's a movie and a book.
@suhib132
4 ай бұрын
The question is; who gave Britain the permission to give someone land to another? Which law let Britain send Jewish people from Europe to go and take over Arab Palestine country ?! It’s so weird that there is still people don’t know the truth. This is Palestine for Arab Palestinians and the whole region for Arab only. The Israelis are occupiers. End of story.
@Dales-d2e
3 ай бұрын
Well that’s how wars work. The land belonged to the ottomans who lost the World war and lost the land to the British. That’s literally how wars worked. If you disagree, we should also give Turkey back to the Greeks, half the middle east to Iran(Persia) etc etc
@sram5308
2 ай бұрын
@@Dales-d2e You forgot ottomans took land from Romans who took it from Jews. Then why blame jews only .
@dimitarkosev8871
11 күн бұрын
You don't know history. End of story.
@DannyK1992
7 ай бұрын
yup they promised the land to both sides and ran away after their plans blew up in their faces
@shainazion4073
7 ай бұрын
Please show where Palestine was promised to the Arabs?
@muhammadashar640
6 ай бұрын
Read McMahan-Hussain Correspondence which was in 1915@@shainazion4073
@ayazansariofficial682
5 ай бұрын
At the very beginning; 00:25@@shainazion4073
@nennintoure9982
5 ай бұрын
@@shainazion4073 did you not watch the video?
@RobPires
3 ай бұрын
While they promised the land to both sides, one side was 95 percent of the population in Palestine. Pretty clear who were unjustly treated .
@mendo35
7 ай бұрын
This seemed to end suddenly. Will there be a second episode?
@LFX27
7 ай бұрын
Yes.
@alexfortin7209
7 ай бұрын
Great video but so few views 😢 Pretty much confirms to few truly care about the issue and how it might get resolved.
@ashmiah4090
5 ай бұрын
If it's not your land how do you promise it to someone else ! ! !
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0
5 ай бұрын
With imperialism
@yosefyonin6824
4 ай бұрын
Britain defeated the Ottoman empire. thus taking control of their territory. so yes the land did belong to the British
@hnd450
4 ай бұрын
Land was conquered by the British intern makes it their land. Pretty straight forward when nations lose wars they also lose land.
@Applied_Theory
4 ай бұрын
Incorrect @@hnd450 the ottomans ruled Palestine but the people of Palestine were the owners. Jewish refugees were given access, but they ended up expelling their hosts and talking over their land.
@gingerbaker1
4 ай бұрын
@@yosefyonin6824 Wrong. The Ottoman Empire ceded the land to the League of Nations, who set up a number of Mandates. Britain had to run every decision for approval by the LON, which means the whole world voted on all of this.
@MrHolden17
7 ай бұрын
Feels like there should be a part two?
@yacoob69
7 ай бұрын
Look at the thumbnail
@stop_paying_taxes
7 ай бұрын
probably feels like that because it says "part 1" in the thumbnail lol
@Abduldoctor
7 ай бұрын
There is a part 2
@cathiehutcheson6556
7 ай бұрын
All the European colonial powers divided up the world by putting into the same territories groups of people who always lived in their own territory. This way, the native groups would fight among themselves rather than attack the colonial powers. That’s why ac
@WarhammerWings
5 ай бұрын
Looking forward to seeing the second part!
@igorGriffiths
7 ай бұрын
I have been listening to a podcast, the rest is history, which stated one of the focusing factors for the British to enter the first world was their desire to protect their control of India from the Russians. As you point out the drawing of the middle eastern map was in part due to Britains desire to protect the Suez canal which gave them expedited access to India.
@CedarHunt
7 ай бұрын
I love how that makes no sense at all. Britain and Russia were on the same side during the First World War, and Russia wouldn't have been able to get to India ever. There is this little thing called the Himalayan Mountain range that would prevent that.
@Sinsteel
7 ай бұрын
The British were forced into the war because of treaties and alliances - same as the Germans were. Go look at some real history.
@shelbynamels7948
7 ай бұрын
@@CedarHunt This is not about WW I, this is the Great Game. British, or East-INdia Company troops have gone into Afghanistan three times over the decades, to make sure to close the door to the INdian subcontinent to Russia. The Crimean War was also in no small part to check Russian expansionism. You need to step back and look at the larger picture.
@shelbynamels7948
7 ай бұрын
From the day the Brits took over the Suez Canal from the French, they considered it to be of vital strategic interest. There are a few good videos on Ytube dealing with the Suez Canal Crisis from 1956 that could have brought the major powers to the brink of war again. Even today, the incident with the near-stranded container ship, and, by extension of the canal thru the Red Sea, the missile attacks by the Houthis remind us of the importance of the canal to global commerce.
@Raj-sp3ts
7 ай бұрын
The Empire Podcast explores the Great Game in detail@@shelbynamels7948
@malpreece5008
7 ай бұрын
High production value, great images from the period, but an overly simplistic cherry picked version of events aimed at pinning the current conflict on the British. Perhaps the IWM could make a video about the Rashidun Caliphate of the 7th century, or the subsequent Ottoman Empire’s persecution and massacre of non-Muslim minorities? Maybe then the layman would have a better understanding of the origins of the current conflict in the Middle East.
@makedonistoi
5 ай бұрын
an excellent and truthful comment
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
that's because Britain WAS the one to sell it.... Arabs already lived in the area before 7th century, because they were already there when people came from Africa, same with people from the med.
@malpreece5008
4 ай бұрын
@@Ladybird55505Britain didn’t ‘sell’ the land. They re-established a homeland for the Jews after defeating the Ottoman Empire, which they were obliged to do after the Ottoman’s attacked their ally Russia during WW1. If the Ottoman’s hadn’t attacked Russia the Muslims may still be abusing ‘Dhimmis/Kafirs’ across the entire region, as they had done for centuries.
@Atlastheyote222
2 ай бұрын
This was a period of history that deserves deep study and reflection going forward, lest we make the same mistakes.
@janusjones6519
7 ай бұрын
It’s easy to promise things to others that isn’t yours
@obsidianjane4413
7 ай бұрын
I see you don't understand about how power politics and The Great Game works.
@yehoshuadalven
7 ай бұрын
Whose was it? The ottomans?
@pistonburner6448
7 ай бұрын
That area was very clearly under British control.
@marykali3603
5 ай бұрын
That’s what I’m thinking
@BionicRusty
5 ай бұрын
Excellent historical documentary. 👏👏👏
@hawaiiflowers7066
5 ай бұрын
How many Jews and Christians currently are living in Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan? Less than ONE PERCENT. What happened to all those people? Forced out? What’s currently happening in Nigeria? in churches in Nigeria?
@jpevans01
7 ай бұрын
Generally a very balanced and interesting account. My one quibble - starting in 1914 does rather skew the argument! It would be equivalent to starting at 1973 - ie that Egypt invaded Israel in the Sinai desert and occupied Israeli land! Very disingenuous I’m sure everyone would agree. The point being - where you start the story massively changes perception. What you missed is that the Jews in Israel were occupied by a foreign power (Rome) and over time were kicked out of their homeland by many peoples - including by the Arabs. The Arab colonisation of the levant and North Africa often gets a free pass. But if people have a lawful claim to land they were kicked out of (think Palestinian refugees, Ukrainian refugees etc) then how long does it last and why have you picked that time? It’s a messy situation - and frankly trying to blame Britain for the mess rather absolves all the actual people on the ground fighting over it…
@aslampervez2294
7 ай бұрын
There were other people in Jerusalem before Abraham migrated from Iraq to Jerusalem. You just can't start with Jews were occupied by Rome.
@itseveryday8600
7 ай бұрын
To me, the history of Jewish people pushed out of Israel is widely known, but it's the other side of the history that's over looked. Such as Iran helped Jewish people to move back into ancient Israel, and also helped to build their 2nd Temple. The Iranians actually commissioned for the temple to be built.
@ralphbernhard1757
7 ай бұрын
IMO after 2,000 years one should be able to get over the fact that ones ancestors had been kicked out from somewhere. Imagine if every single group which had been kicked out somewhere over the past 2,000 years suddenly start aggressive actions to "return" today...
@shelbynamels7948
7 ай бұрын
The history of Europe, especially Eastern Europe, over the last few centuries is a history of displacement, genocide, forced relocation and ethnic cleansing. The grievances are manifold and long=standing. The key to a peaceful Europe is coming to terms with a status quo instead of nursing those multi=generational grudges. That has allowed most of Europe to enjoy one of its longest periods of peace, ever. The only parts of Europe that for the last eighty years since the end of WW II experienced the kind of murderous strife that is the historical default were the component states of the former Yugoslavia, and now Ukraine, and the reason for that is to reach back into history for some kind of wrongs that somebody feels needs to be redressed. That is the situation in today's Palestine. As long as the debate goes back further and further in time to arrive at some type of historical Ground Zero in the search for legitimacy for one's viewpoint, a solution for the future will always prove elusive.
@crappymeal
7 ай бұрын
2000+ years ago
@CG_VON
5 ай бұрын
It's more to the situation than British involvement now...but its no surprise about this information.
@metrokentenerjiteknoloji6313
3 ай бұрын
I am Turkish. In 1900, my grandfather served in the military in Yemen for 5 years. We Turks have fought from front to front for the Ummah for 1000 years. But now the situation has changed. We don't have a drop of blood to shed for traitors. They have lawrence 💥💥💥
@TheScudabear1
7 ай бұрын
🤔 If I start my own religion and get a few thousand followers, can I then decide it's actually a nationality and demand a piece of someone elses land?
@carolinescheffer3780
7 ай бұрын
According to Zionism: yes you can
@lashachakhunashvili1399
7 ай бұрын
That's exactly the story of Muslim Arab conquests from the 7th century onward: inventing a religion on the Arabian Peninsula, getting followers in various tribes, Arabizing native peoples of the Middle East and beyond and claiming vast swaths of lands in the Middle East and North Africa.
@jevro
6 ай бұрын
@@carolinescheffer3780 consider thinking before commenting. Jews are an ethnoreligious group separated by world history. It's not just a made up nationality.
@bldrtom
5 ай бұрын
Of course you can. You just might not win.
@mahatmaniggandhi2898
5 ай бұрын
judaism has been an ethno-religion throught almost the entirety of its history
@kidmohair8151
7 ай бұрын
why is there even a question mark in the title? what is happening today in Gaza is a *direct* result of British imperial machinations in the 1st half of the 20th century, and US imperial machinations in the second. (and now it *is* about oil)
@Tiberius88
4 ай бұрын
Notice that the word Palestinians never appears in the document. Why? Because that description did not exist until the 1960s. They were simply Arab peoples.
@Spectre_22
Ай бұрын
I always thought it ironic that Britain was calling Germany an aggressor in the run up to ww2 when they themselves had conquered more territory than any other at the time
@shyloswick
4 ай бұрын
You see people britain is the one everyone should be mad at there the ones who started the whole problem yet no one seems to see that instead they want to complain and cry at other nations instead of the nation that started it all
@1HuntingShark
7 ай бұрын
I’m actually doing my research paper on the Jewish Legion and the controversy of the Balfour Declaration. While pleased at the fact your organisation made this video I do believe some elements could have been expanded upon and one argument made in the video was not properly constructed. Mainly I wish the story of the Zion Mule Corps and Jewish Legion had actually been expanded upon because what I hope to argue in my paper is that these military units are more crucial to the history of this topic than we think. Mainly because it shows a British engagement with the concept of Zionism going back to the earliest days of the war. For context roughly 50,000 Jews from the Yishuv (the pre state community of Jews in what people call Palestine I’d call the land of Israel) were expelled from the Ottoman empire. The majority made their way to Alexandria where discussion quickly rose to establish a Jewish military unit to serve in the British for an offensive in the Middle East. Britain had at this time had discussions of forming a Jewish regiment but the community in England at this time leaned more towards wanting to assimilate into English society. Nether the less in 1915 due to British regulations of admitting foreign soldiers into their ranks. A supply unit was established that would serve at Gallipoli, mainly Cape Helles called the Zion Mule Corps. It was disbanded after the retreat from Gallipoli with 100 servicemen joining a London rifle regiment which would eventually become the basis of the 38th Royal Fusiliers. The first of 3 regiments of the Jewish Legion. The other 2 being the 39th and the 40th Royal Fusiliers. What’s crucial is the date of the establishment of the 38th. They were established in August of 1917 and a key scholar of this topic: Martin Watts and the primary source from their NCO Lt Col John Henry Patterson: with the Judeans in the Palestine campaign, shows that the 38th was established with the explicit intent to go and fight within the EEF in the Palestine campaign with an aim of the Zionist movement being awarded territory after the war. My criticism comes from the use of the armband to reach the conclusion that Zionism wasn’t a popular among us during the war. If you had used documentation from Lucien Wolff, the Board of Deputies, the book: we are coming, unafraid: the Jewish legions and the promised land in the First World War, to have made your argument I would have respected it, disagreed with it to some level but found it more able to hold water. I would counter with evidence that all 3 regiments served under both the British flag and the flag that would become the Israeli flag. Hatikva was sung alongside G-d save the king, recruitment posters I’ve seen for the 39th Royal Fusiliers, displayed in Canada and reports about the unit’s training, the march the 38th had through London and testimony from Patterson I would use to prove this point I do apologise if I’ve been rude but I believe you could have made your argument better by drawing upon other sources and do believe the role of Jewish military service in the British army during this time needs to be explored more to gain more of a proper understanding to Britain’s decisions
@strigoiu13
5 ай бұрын
sorry, but zionism was truly not popular and most zionists were perceived like lunatics zealots that you do not want to be associated with. you clearly do not understand that in an age of booming science and innovation, fewer and fewer people were interested in religious ideas and jews were following the trend much faster than any minority around! atheism was very popular among born jews and many of the first wave of communist propagandists were people with jewish background! to them, speaking of ancient temple and chosen land really made no sense!
@Conn30Mtenor
5 ай бұрын
The Jews needed military experience because they knew that a conflict with the Arabs was going to happen.
@emilyclose5583
4 ай бұрын
Would love some recommendations on what to start reading to get my head around the current situation in Palestine and Israel
@gideon_todes
5 ай бұрын
Beautifully succinct documentary that explains so much
@MrDrbld
Ай бұрын
There are are three glaring omissions here: 1) The justifiable declaration of war by the Ottoman Empire against the then allies was grounded in JIHAD , but not against the German Austrian allies. Theirs's was a holy Islamic war. 2) No mention of The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, **Hajj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini**, a truly authentic Palestinian by anyone’s definition is a key figure in this history. And the subsequent mentor of the Soviet backed Egyptian Yasser Arafat 3) The Holocaust How so?
@SteveXNYC
5 ай бұрын
In 1988 the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers proclaimed the establishment of the State of Palestine. The Security Council demanded Israel withdraw its forces “forthwith and unconditionally” from Lebanon up to its internationally recognized boundaries. 06 June 1982.
@clstrat837
4 ай бұрын
Just because Palestine claims itself as a state with borders they want doesn’t make it a state. Palestinians aren’t even an ethnic people. They are just Arabic people that live in what has always been a traditional home for the Jewish people. They’ve been exiled multiple times throughout history but they have had a claim to that land going back to the days of Babylon. Palestine is just a name the Romans gave to the area to insult the Jews. So much of this recent Palestinian state narrative is just plainly made up.
@sagapoetic8990
5 ай бұрын
I just discovered your channel and am enjoying listening to this video, a topic I studied as a student. Having worked in Central Asia, the picture at 6:22 is of a group in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, or Tajikistan -- I'm going by the architecture and the clothes they wear.
@vinm300
6 ай бұрын
Royal Navy 1904 - 1926 changed from coal to oil Good relations with Arabs were essential Also, there were many politicians who loved Arabic culture - Anthony Eden spoke Arabic and was enraptured by the culture Many British simply "Didn't like Jews" Britain was NOT pro-Zionism : some folks were, most weren't
@oliverbourne9599
7 ай бұрын
Hmmm .... as someone who supports the IWM financially, I'll reflect on this and look forward to part 2's position
@slightlyconfused876
7 ай бұрын
Lord Balfour went to Eton. Anyone else seeing the link between crass incompetent politicians and that establishment?
@zelig1799
7 ай бұрын
If only it was an issue of only one school. Rather, it seems more to be a temperamental issue rather than an environmental one. Consider the politicians and aspiring politicians from working class backgrounds at school. It was always the swotty, the snitches, the teacher's pets, the ones determined to make sure all the other children follow the rules. It's clear when you listen to the Labour politicians they have spent most of their lives believing, probably rightly if viewed in terms of academic success, that they are better than their peers. Unfortunately, you tend to find those who come from a less well of background who gain power can be even more tyrannical than the snobs.
@TheScudabear1
7 ай бұрын
Nicola sturgeon springs immediately to mind😂
@sam.p12345
7 ай бұрын
No, you’re the first person I’ve ever heard make that original and revealing association.
@LFX27
7 ай бұрын
The flippant drawing of borders were the British’s specialty. I wouldn’t be surprised if they meticulously planned it this way.
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same...sounds liek what they did in Africa
@qbas81
7 ай бұрын
Very good and informative video - please do another part, preferably more to cover whole history of Isreali state
@rogerrees9845
7 ай бұрын
Another interesting presentation...Thank you I WM. ROGER...PEMBROKESHIRE
@shitbrick89
7 ай бұрын
And there I was thinking that Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Olden took the surrender of Damascus on 1 October 1918, hours before Feisal and Lawrence arrived.
@VaucluseVanguard
7 ай бұрын
Yes but he left leaving the City unsecured. Feisal and Lawrence took control of the city; effectively it surrendered twice. However, Olden's part has been disgracefully underplayed ever since that day.
@karlgalvez7331
4 ай бұрын
The old divide and conquer routine
@NostalgiaNet8
4 ай бұрын
Just like the American Civil War.
@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك
3 ай бұрын
@@NostalgiaNet8The Republican Party, very strong, won the war
@julianshepherd2038
7 ай бұрын
Are we the bad guys ? That's how you get an empire.
@John14-6...
7 ай бұрын
I would say it wasn't "Us" as it was our ancestors but the bigger picture here is people want to blame someone for invading and taking land when that's exactly what ALL humans have been doing since the beginning of mankind, so there is no good guy or bad guy in that sense
@omarkastrat513
7 ай бұрын
@@John14-6...except that when “we” continue to fund imperial endeavors and destabilization in the region, you can’t really blame any ancestors. Neocolonialism exists.
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
lmao I love that sketch with David Mitchell 🤣
@irfans_AA
7 ай бұрын
1. Ottoman was once sending letter regarding about if war ever broke out in Europe they wanted to join triple Entente but rejected by British, France, and even Russian Empire because of their objectives doesn't aligned with any triple Entente nation. 2. Of all minister that holding power or we can say Three Giants in ottoman notably Minister of War Enver Pasha, Minister of Naval Djemal Pasha, and minister of interior Talaat Pasha were once students in the British and France studying all sectors then came in contact with nationalism idea.
@shelbynamels7948
7 ай бұрын
Sure, I have heard of the Balfour Declaration. But until just now I had never had the chance to read what it actually says. It strikes me that for such an important document, it is surprisingly wishy-washy, to use the preferred academic term. As a official statement, it simply expresses a preference. It is not a law, a foreign policy objective of the Crown, or a carefully arrived-at, negotiated treaty obligation.' It simply seems to be a carefully worded, straddle the fence thinking of the Foreign Office, designed not to give too much away to either side, designed to be abandoned or at least modified should shifting circumstances require it. To make it the cornerstone of British foreign policy, is, to quote Sir Bernard Appleby, to put a burden on it that it is semantically and epistologically not designed to support".
@MrBeneneb
7 ай бұрын
This was actually very intentionally done by the British. They knew how it conflicted with other promises they made, so they left it open to interpretation. Though it was made law in 1923 as part of the Mandate for Palestine. Interestingly though, people argue that the Balfour declaration being made law in Mandatory Palestine was in itself illegal. This is because the governing international law for Mandates which the League of Nations had agreed on, stipulated that countries like Britain were required to act effectively as trustees over their Mandates, and to act in the best interests of the people who lived their, ensuring the right to self determination. Since the Balfour Declaration alienated 90% of the population of Palestine from their political right to self determination, it violated a key component of the governing international law.
@AddieP91
6 ай бұрын
The Anti Israel narrative likes to pretend the declaration simply "handed over" the land to the Jews. I wish more people would simply read this short text. The very complicated history of the conflict is twisted to fit the tiktok activists.
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
ever seen who he addressed it too?
@deanprince8602
4 ай бұрын
An interesting and informative documentary.
@sapphyrus
7 ай бұрын
If you compare the treaties of Versailles, (the harshness of which is attributed to the rise of Hitler) Saint-Germain, Trianon and Sevres, it's very easy to distinguish the extreme amount of racism inherent in the European mindset of the period: Germany lost a minimum amount of land and Austria was disbanded to give the locals their own states while Turkey lost pretty much everything except a small portion of lowest value rural inner Anatolia and any non-Christian locals were instead colonized by Britain and France.
@Emre_Kermen
7 ай бұрын
I'm Turkish. Making the loss of land a race thing isn't fair. Racism isn't that significant in such decision making. All partition decisions were strategic and based on reason. Consider this: If there was racism, why did they support Arabs?
@Josephmutua-sy7mm
4 ай бұрын
I hear that Mt. Kilimanjaro was gifted away to a person across the continent by a person from across the continent. A natural feature.
@jamescrydeman540
3 ай бұрын
Going back a long way in history now with that one.
@Avbait-t2u
7 ай бұрын
I'll just remind us all the Trans- Jordan Memorandum at the Cairo Conference of 1922, in which the Britts, rulers of Palestine, together with the Arab League States, takes off the Eastern part of palestine know as Jordan today from the equation of the "Jewish Homeland in Palestine" from the 1917 Balfour Dec.
@DMx4839
7 ай бұрын
I hope that part 2 will deal with: 1. Did the colonial powers have a right to do the division? It is not addressed strongly enough; 2. Was Palestine empty land, and how does Asher Ginsberg’s observations of Palestine in 1891 relate to this notion; 3. There were serious fights between Jewish settlers and native Arabs in Palestine throughout the 1930s. It is glossed over, thereby underplaying the beginnings of the illegal land claims of the Zionists; 4. There were about 4 or 5 Zionist terror groups, among them the father of Benjamin Netanyahu and Menachem Begin, who famously claimed to be the original terr0rist; 5. Why was the Balfour Declaration addressed to Rothschild, in particular, and was that part of a deal to bring America in to support the British in the war? This piece doesn’t adequately deal with the background to the conflicting promises and why the Brits ultimately favoured the Zionists. 6. This piece also does not adequately deal with the root cause of the current conflict, the Zionists’ master plan of establishing Greater Israel. It is the fulcrum of the manifesto of the Likud Party, founded by Begin. It is a matter of emphasis and important to understand the degree of culpability of not just the British Empire but also those currently in power in Israel who continue to push the Greater Israel agenda.
@noraibrahim8862
7 ай бұрын
Certainly, the land of Palestine was not empty. It had approximately 900,000 Palestinians, Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
@shainazion4073
7 ай бұрын
@@noraibrahim8862it didn't even have that population in the first British census on 1922. The land was highly underpopulated and had less than 350,000 people in it for over 1000 years before 1860.
@paulamarsh1
6 ай бұрын
Israel accept s it doesn't have the totality of its land. Just the scraps. The Arab Palestinians should have done the same - greater Palestine was Jordan Lebanon and Southern Syria. The region given to them at Partition in 1948. Furthermore, as Zuheir Mohsen of the PLO stated: Palestinian people does not exist … there is no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese", though Palestinian identity would be emphasised for political reasons. In a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw he stated that "between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese there are no differences. We are all part of one people, the Arab nation [...] Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons"...
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
and the way he addresses these will give the legitimacy to his channel becasue we know that answers here.
@sjoormen1
7 ай бұрын
If two fish are fighting in a pond it means the British were there.
@andym9571
7 ай бұрын
Or the two fish were fighting before the British were there...then carried on after they left
@Jabberstax
7 ай бұрын
Muslim arabs and Turks colonised the area after the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Jews are the original inhabitants.
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
incorrrect.
@marilynshepherd6480
4 ай бұрын
jEWS ARE NOT A NATIONALITY, THE ORIGINAL JEWS WERE JUST ARABS
@cynthiacook1646
4 ай бұрын
@@Ladybird55505 Actually, his comment is historically factual. The Arabs did just that in the mid 600's before going on to conquer the Middle East, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and all the way in the east to Viena, Austria.
@KAISER_187
3 ай бұрын
judaea was renamed to palestine, israel has been harassing and stealing their land for 75 years.
@N_Wheeler
7 ай бұрын
Mr. Editor, a bit of a sudden ending there, combined with the KZitem advertisement, made it somewhat confusing. Food for thought.
@douglasfur3808
7 ай бұрын
So the British will clean up their mess and all will be well. Maybe a single secular state called Balfouria would work.
@Ladybird55505
5 ай бұрын
yeah put it in texas, the americans seem happy to play puppet to them
@MrDrbld
Ай бұрын
The Hajj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini (1895~1974) the Grand Mufti, was interviewed by the Peel Commission on January 12 1937 and this interview has been historically documented. Both he and various other leaders of the Arab High Committee testified that no land had been stolen. Prior to the discussion below was a debate between the Grand Mufti and Sir Laurie Hammond regarding the area, cost and type of land purchased. Grand Mufti - “In one case they sold about 400,000 dunams in one lot”. Sir Laurie Hammond - “Who, an Arab?” Grand Mufti - “Sarsuk. An Arab of Beyrouth”. Sir Laurie Hammond - “His Eminence gave us a picture of Arabs being evicted from their land and villages being wiped out. What I want to know is, did the Government of Palestine, the Administration, acquire the land and then hand it over to the Jews?” Grand Mufti - “In most cases the land was acquired”. Sir Laurie Hammond - “I mean forcibly acquired - compulsory acquisition as land would be acquired for public purposes?” Grand Mufti - “No it wasn’t”. Sir Laurie Hammond - “Not taken by compulsory acquisition?” Grand Mufti - “No”. Sir Laurie Hammond - “But these lands amounting to some 700,000 dunams were actually sold?” Grand Mufti - “Yes they were sold, but the country was placed in such conditions as would facilitate such purchases”. Sir Laurie Hammond - “I don’t quite understand what do you mean by that. They were sold. Who sold them?” Grand Mufti - “Land owners”. Sir Laurie Hammond - “Arabs?” Grand Mufti - “In most cases they were Arabs”. The interview continues and it is obvious that absentee Arab and non-Arab landlords forced the peasant farmers off the land in order to sell to the Jewish and Zionist buyers at highly inflated prices. Those same peasant farmers and Arab immigrants then found employment on the lands that had legally changed ownership.
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0
7 ай бұрын
Brits should've done the moral thing and not partition arab land they won from the ottomans
@andym9571
7 ай бұрын
They didnt. Read the whole of the Balfour Declaration
@shainazion4073
7 ай бұрын
It was NOT Arab lands, it was Ottoman Turkish lands.
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0
18 күн бұрын
@@shainazion4073with an Arab majority
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0
18 күн бұрын
@andym9571 the frech and brits did partition the Levant and more with the Sykes picot agreement
@mathieufaltys
7 ай бұрын
This is a great summary from a British colonial perspective. I highly recommend both parts 1 & 2.
@nareshvasishth4034
3 ай бұрын
I AM 90 YEARS OLD i LIVED AND GREW UP IN WHAT WAS CALED British INDIA efore thatit was ruled by Muslims and Later Moughals. Portugeesealso hd a part of INDIQ. iT IS CALL "dIVIDE AND rULE" In case of India nobody's fault. The Indians vaulentarily give away their land. (Even women as comfort women) So I left India, and now live in the LONG beech USA California. Iran, Iraq, Quatar, and many more are a part of DIVIDE AND RULE. I define my existence as follows "I am a Hindu on the Run>" Now the good news All my enemies are dead. My father encouraged me. He told me we are not indegenous to INDIA. we are nomads. The truest capitalist's of them all WE go where the action is.
@reginaldpasao8390
7 ай бұрын
Thank you for the video
@rachelbarlow9382
3 ай бұрын
I hope it will be easy to locate Part Two
@marieanne286
4 ай бұрын
How people can watch this and still not see that Israel are victims too, baffles me.
@christinaale608
2 ай бұрын
If they are victims why are they still killing Palestinians to this day? It’s difficult to play a victim and also a oppressor
@dshmain
7 ай бұрын
So, if I understand correctly, Jordan was created as a Palestinian state, and a state of Palestine would be the second Palestinian state🤔
@Dogbertious
7 ай бұрын
No, not really; Jordan started out as Transjordan, which was one half of the geographical British Mandate, and was an Arab state. The Arabs within Palestine then developed their own national identity due to the circumstances detailed in the video.
@julianshepherd2038
7 ай бұрын
Did not watch the video did you. Just made it up to suit you.
@The_kneidlach_engineer
7 ай бұрын
@@DogbertiousWrong on all accounts. Jordan is at least 75% of the former British Mandate of Palestine. 70-80% of today's jordanians are palestinians. Hashemites rulers are a small minority.
@dshmain
7 ай бұрын
@@julianshepherd2038 11th minute
@Nochancet.v
7 ай бұрын
Yeah but the people didn't want to move 100s of miles cause the jews just moved in don't you get it
@garysantos7053
3 ай бұрын
The British administration in Palestine institutionalized racism. Churchill's racism was shared by members of the force which he helped establish. Describing how Palestinians in Haifa protested against Zionism and the British Mandate, he wrote: 'Most of us were so infected by the sense bringing in the black and tans of our own superiority over "lesser breeds" that we scarcely regarded these people as human.' Churchill' wrote, 'arrogantly dubbed all Palestinians, whether they were Muslims, Christians or Jews' as 'wogs'. By the time they had decided to quit, the British had already created the conditions necessary for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. As they prepared to leave, the British authorities displayed a nonchalant attitude towards the continued acquisition of arms by Zionist forces. -Source: Balfour's Shadow / A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel
@mogh2603
7 ай бұрын
This video insists on separating Levantine Christians from Arabs, all are Arabs, some are Muslims and some are Christians
@alsu4345
6 ай бұрын
From the river to the sea, free of houses and buildings? Has the right to live in tents? Has the right to scramble to the sea, to get airdrop dispersed aid of food? March 2024.,..,
@divarachelenvy
7 ай бұрын
They don't call the Union Jack a Butchers Apron for nothing hey.
@user-zv6vm1sq9e
2 ай бұрын
Id expect a video of the history to start at the beginning of the troubles. Bit strange this didn't
@bravo2zero796
7 ай бұрын
So its completely and utterly the french's fault
@nigeh5326
7 ай бұрын
Isn’t everything 😃 lol Je plaisante, mes amis
@bravo2zero796
7 ай бұрын
@nigeh5326 yes, exactly
@obsidianjane4413
7 ай бұрын
@breamoreboy Nice racism.
@MsColl90
5 ай бұрын
@breamoreboyhow do you know your mum is south wales?By your analysis you’d have to trace your family roots back over 100 years to say that. You’re probably a mongrel, like most of us.
@liftfan2
4 ай бұрын
Is it factually correct to keep referring to that area as Palestine? That is not what I read from other sources.
@mavberil.2059
7 ай бұрын
Hindsight.
@-DC-
7 ай бұрын
Unusual for the British to be causing Chaos abroad 🤣
@metricstormtrooper
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, like go figure.
@metricstormtrooper
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, they had practice dumping Europeans in countries like Australia which was most certainly already inhabited.
@georgesamkutty686
7 ай бұрын
Britain created trouble in all over the land they ruled .Devide& Rule was their motto. Separated Brunei from Malaysia, KUWAIT from IRAQ , created major conflict in Cyprus in between Greek & Turkish speakers. Seperated Sudan& Egypt , India & pakistan .US their foreign policy is also devide and rule.
@noraibrahim8862
7 ай бұрын
Britain handed over the flag to America
@ralphbernhard1757
7 ай бұрын
Doesn't need a 15-minute explanation to answer the question. I can do it in a second: Yes.
@Emre_Kermen
7 ай бұрын
No.
@neil4692
7 ай бұрын
Lads we did it again!
@Jones-xx2gc
3 ай бұрын
I find this subject very interesting and it's very difficult to comment on. The one thing that appears to stand out is that Palestine has gone back in history a very long time and that people were just looking for a land grab.
@hayronaplal7934
7 ай бұрын
The Palestine is a victim of unequal treatment in agreement, some are supported and some are not. It's maybe bias.
@mikewinston8709
4 ай бұрын
Objectively…..the British, for such a small nation, really punched well above its weight for centuries.
@biloz2988
4 ай бұрын
The maps drawn post war were erroneous, Syria and Lebanon were not split yet, and the NW corner of Syria was not yet taken out.
@nowthenzen
7 ай бұрын
Don't blame us! It' s the Americans' fault!! Seems reasonable.
@EAcapuccino
7 ай бұрын
A a major factor behind the suffering and divide to this day 😕
@The_kneidlach_engineer
7 ай бұрын
Not at all. Only losers blame UK for today's woes
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0
7 ай бұрын
@thekneidlachengineer6038 I mean it is their fault that they occupied the land instead of giving the arabs independence
@christinaale608
2 ай бұрын
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 I really enjoyed this video for educational purposes!
@PedritoJr.Juntilla
7 ай бұрын
Historically Romans named Israel Palestine The true owner of that lsnd is Israel Historically
@Emre_Kermen
7 ай бұрын
"Historicly" Jews are from egypt. However historical claims hold no objective value. Nazi's made such absurd claims. They burned Jews for such bullshit reasons. And if "Historicly mine" was an acceptable arguement, they would be rightful to do so. History is gone. Today is what matters.
@khaledkhaled4299
6 ай бұрын
Herodotus referred to the land as ‘Palaistinê’ numerous times in his 5th century BCE book, and he didn’t use the term ‘Israel’ at all.
@makedonistoi
5 ай бұрын
@@khaledkhaled4299 -and u expect free men to believe this taquiya,we may be dimmies,but not dummies
@Nygaard2
3 ай бұрын
I’m guessing this first episode takes us to sometime around 13.8 billion years ago…
@detch01
7 ай бұрын
The Israeli-Palestinian (real Muslim) conflict isn't about land, it is a clash of a primitive 7th century world view and modern, technological liberal democracy. Islam cannot survive in a modern context so it has no choice but to oppose that context. This conflict won't go away even if they manage to destroy Israel. This conflict is an existential necessity for Islam, which means it is an existential threat to the rest of us.
@noraibrahim8862
7 ай бұрын
These ideas have no basis in truth or fairness. The conflict is not religious at all. The conflict is over the rights of people in their occupied land. In the inequality, oppression, discrimination and hatred practiced by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people. Colonialism ended decades ago and Israel is the last colonizer. This occupation must end and the people enjoy freedom. He decides his fate as he wishes
@hxmdnv
7 ай бұрын
No it’s not ☠️ Palestine has nothing to do with Islam besides it’s being 3rd holiest site Al aqsa and being one of this first kaba
@shainazion4073
7 ай бұрын
@@hxmdnvWRONG! The al Aqsa mosque was not named or built until 70 years after Muhammad's death. The real al Aqsa mosque is in Ji'rrana, Saudi Arabia near Taif. There was no mosque in Jerusalem at all until after Muhammad's death, when the *First* Muslims arrived in the land, Umar found the Temple Mount as a garbage dump, put there by the Crusaders. Umar had to clear the garbage to build a small wooden prayer shack to pray in, there was NO mosque there.
@paulamarsh1
6 ай бұрын
@@noraibrahim8862incorrect ! It is indeed religious. If Israel were not there, the Arabs would simply fight amongst themselves!
@paulamarsh1
6 ай бұрын
@@hxmdnvutter rubbish! Arabs are from Arabia as their name suggests. They have their own holy sites. They invaded The Holy Land in the 7th century and built a mosque on the site if the Mount of Olives, a sacred Jewish place. To Muslims, Jerusalem (see the name is Jewish!) it is just a conquered city. The proof is that you turn your back on Jerusalem to pray to Mecca! 🙏🇮🇱🕎🔯
@richardteixeira9411
7 ай бұрын
Nothing about Arab massacres of the Jewish communities. Odd
@kiereluurs1243
7 ай бұрын
Not really relevant, talking about that era. Think. Otherwise talk about 30.000 genocide (and counting)
@Aronshmuli665
6 ай бұрын
GREAT COVERAGE, THANK YOU
@fantasyguru26
3 ай бұрын
The Arabs of the region got their own state it was called Transjordan. At no time did the British promise them the entire territory. Also there are conflicting estimates of the Jewish population of Palestine at the beginning of WW1 (1914). They range anywhere from 59,000 to 94,000 (or 8.5-13.6% of the population). Regardless they were a relatively small minority in the region.
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