I moved to Johannesburg from the UK at age 5, the town we ended up living in and the neighboring town had a fairly large Lebanese population that had all fled Lebanon...
Mark Taylor yeah calling someone a donkey, dog or animal are pretty common insults in leb and for some reason they even sound way more offensive than they do in English
Lebanon went from a great 1st world country to one of the poorest nations in the world , my grandpa was a sailor and told me stories on when he visited in the 60's and on how impressed he was with all the riches in the country.
@@yossiallen3316 actually thanks to your parents who immigrated from Europe and kicked a Palestinian family and took their whom , you never admit that the Palestinian crisis and the establishment of "state of Israel" was the cause of the unrest in the middle East.
@King Saddam no Muslims took the nation as they felt they were a majority. But they weren't at that time Now it's a militarized state with low living standards in constant war.
Meanwhile Lebanon was booming that time, Dubai people were riding camels and living in tents, Turks couldn't speak any other language, Singapore was corrupted. Too bad Lebanese people didn't knw the treasure they had !
@@elel2017 Your comments show how an ignorant ill minded person you are. Saudi Arabia was and is a great countrh with great people. They put an end to lebanons civil war through the Taif agreement. It is a shame to see such idiotic comments in a time of mass communication
Issues and contrasts between the poor and the rich could have been solved in a democratic way, but civil war in Lebanon wasn’t just a matter of contrasts between different social classes but even a matter of contrasting foreign powers: Israel, USE, Syria, Iran, France, England, Palestinian people. Lebanon today is in bankruptcy, I am very sad for that. There are still heavy issues with foreign interference as Iran. There is a very serious corruption and Mafia problem as well. Hope Lebanon can find its way for prosperity, peace and democracy again.
I’ve studied a lot of the Middle East’s wars in the 20th century, and this one is honestly one of the worst. I thought I was prepared for anything after reading about Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. But this one got to me, reading about this one one shook me to my core.
Ultimately it's a class war complicated massively by the israeli - Palestinian conflict. And the Syrians. And the Iranians via Hezbollah. And external meddling by the USA. And the Brits. Also the French as the ex colonial power.
My dad turned 18 when the war started and served in the Lebanese army during this time. It's surreal to watch footage knowing my family were living such a hard life in a country they loved so much. I was in Lebanon when the protests started and it's great to see the new generations of Lebanese working together to protest for a better life. I'll never forget it.
Hey Remy 👋 how are things going with your work out here and how 🤔 are you guys 👦 and what you 😉 up for now مرحبا بك في وقت لاحق على طول الوقت افكر في الموضوع دا اللي هو انا اقدر اقول شي من البقاله مرحبا مليون دولار مرحبا كيفك يا عسل
Instead of fighting about which religion started the war and who won, why don't we unite together, as Lebanese, for a better Lebanon? A country were people can live together no matter their religion and beliefs. God bless and protect Lebanon and all Lebanese❤
All parties in this documentary confirmed that it was NOT a religious war. Yet everyone so quickly FORGOT that it was the Palestinians who STARTED this war through 3 monthly attacks on the Lebanese Army since March 1975. Unless they & the Syrians are sent out, a new War is BREWING!
@אתה כלב Schlomo Shillman Shekelstein Schlomo, who accuses Israel of being a terrorist State? Not the Christian Lebanese! We live in a country that has never taken its Independance yet. And since its Independance, it has been run by feudalistic families like the Sicilian mafia clans! Unless we re-unite with Israel through peace & collaboration, we shall ALWAYS remain a volatile "democracy" (18 political parties over 4m people! What a disgrace!)
Regardless of what has been said about this civil war , the fact remains that it was the Lebanese people , of different parties , militias , and groups , who fought each other and destroyed their country . Although that civil war stopped in the Lebanese field 25 years ago , Lebanon still suffers painfully from its horrible consequences .
+tony bousamra If America told the Lebanese to fight each other , why did they listen to it ? Don't they have minds and will ?! What we see in the above documentary is Lebanese war leaders and fighters not American soldiers !
+softfofo me as lebanese i am not justifying our big mistake in the civil war. But what is confusing was Henri kissinger position about that war. He remained silent for more than 1 year when the war started in 1975. He had a plan to remove the Christians from lebanon and settle Palestinian refugees in their places to make Israel rest from the Palestinian question forever
softfofo this is the truth buddy believe me. Henri kissinger is a big war crimonol. Once he described Lebanon as a Geographical error that needs to be corrected. He was supporting israel in blind way and it is documented very well that he threatened the Lebanese president at that time : "Solayman Franjieh" during their meeting in 1973. He offered on Franjieh to remove the Christians of Lebanon and settle the Palestinians in their places. Franjieh told him that the Christians have been in this land since 6000 years and told Kissinger that Christians will not leave. Kissinger was mad and told him: "You will regret a lot. The war started in 1975 and Kissinger remained silent for more than 1 year, so dont you think he had a role in planning for the war? The Lebanese also committed dreadful errors during the war but who is the original architect behind this war that lasted for 15 years !!
My dad fought in this war. I never thought to look up footage in my entire life until today. I am sobbing finally realizing what he went thru as a young man
@abdelhadi nsiri And what is your opinion on the current situation? It seems that nothing will unlock the stalemate except a an internal war where only one victor will come out.. Th 1975 civil war did not achieve that and maybe this is why Lebanon is in the mess it is now. Dont you think?
@abdelhadi nsiri very interesting. Thank you. Doesn’t it look like Hezbulla is the dominant force that could impose its power over the rest and thus bring stability?
@Shane Gallagher 50000 ? I think the deaths in Ulster are around 2000 ....although the Catholics are morally and ethically in the right, the Marxist BS turns me off.... although what difference does it really make? ...England is kind of Socialist anyways and each decade that passes will turn it more and more Communist ( time will prove me right) I actually think as time goes on past our deaths, ..say 100 years from now, the UK the way it's going will prove to be the new Soviet Union of Europe... But back to this video, it's the same ole' song and dance ..the have nots started a ruckus with the haves ..... The problem is, the have nots are not always right and end up in the long run with less than if they just EARNED themselves a higher class in the first place....ala the U.S. currently
After 34 years from the start of the Lebanese civil war, Lebanon is still suffering from the effects of it starting from the separation of Lebanese people into towns according to their religion because two groups of people from different religions can’t live together, to the indifference regarding the elections because the same delegates are being elected, and that is due to the stupidity of most of the people who are choosing the same people for another 4 years, then after the elections they start to nag about the same things.
This is true. It doesn't help that it is actual law that it is illegal to speak about the civil war in classrooms, which is residual censorship of the ottoman days and tax farming, or slavery really.
Lubnan is such a beautiful country with a friendly and open-minded people (as long as people stay away from religous-ethnic-politicall disunion). So, please, in the name of your love-for-life, stay united and preserve peace.
In Lebanon it's Lebnen not Lubnan (or Liban in French). And I'm sure you say "stay open minded people" but in reality you spend all your time in East Beirut and Jounieh lmao
I remember my sister visiting Lebanon at the beginning of the 70s, she was invited with her host family as a fer looked after their children, when she came home she told me that it was a very beautiful and calm country that reminded of Paris at that time but then it worked out the Muslims to take power in the country in the mid-70s and now the country a landfill.
Both my parents lived through the civil war, when I showed them this they said "Its not at all how it happened." Strange thing is they both said different things.
Look at a mountain and everyone who's standing at a different angle sees something different. They are all right even if they disagree, they are wrong if they accuse the others of seeing things differently. When you stand next to your father you'd say hes taller than you , your father would say your shorter than him both of you are right . Fyi I went to a Lebanese school this video deals with the problem from the very top ( most of the maronites interviewed in this video are french freemasons of the orient lodge and the British journalist knows this coz hes from the British lodge) what your parents experienced is what the average civilian experienced which was unique to them but not the entire picture. Lebanon at this time was the scene of many operations by many countries so no 2 regions had the same experience.
Your parents are right , the author knows nothing about this war and the reasons of it ... this documentary excluding the actual fighting scenes that we should learn from is totally wrong and useless.
The Lebanese need to unite and stand together so can never happen again! We don't need a other way. What a shame! Beirut was once the best city in the world, and Lebanon was one of the best country's. please don't be dumb ppl spread the love :(
In few years, Lebanon described the whole history of human kind. You are prosperous in your territory but allow people with poisonous minds to inhabit your land and suddenly your land is in flames. Suddenly the people who brought prosperity for the country where called totalitarians, dictators, American puppets, etc. and the ones that destroyed and divided ethnically and religiously the land were called heroes (what a paradox). At least the migration of the rich people out of Lebanon benefited individuals such as Mr. Slim in Mexico and others in Spain who have managed to prosper with out the fear of being terrorized by "takers, rapists or those who use the suffering of the people to advance their hidden agendas".
+Phill osophy curious analysis. I would love to sit down over a drink with you and pick your brain about several historical world affairs. your opinion differs a bit than mine but it certainly makes me think about things differently. like i said, im curious.
Incredibly, Mr Slim became the richest man on earth for a few years. The irony of it all..If You could see the millions of lebanese, many of them Christian, who fled to Brazil and Paraguay and became rich too..
AlLebneneh Arab Ummah. Complete nonsense that will ultimately ruin the Arab middle-east. Thank the secular Ba'athist idiots who came up with this idiotic idiology and the Saalafi morons who continue these lies with religion.
Jonathan Spengler Actually, a German company had a large hand in the shit of the Lebanon civil war and genocide even more than any nation. The Krupp Co. is about the weirdest and most murderous organization the world has ever seen... Don't believe me?...Look it up.
I researched what led to the war and this is what I found The PLO moved its primary base of operations to Beirut in the early 1970s, after Black September in Jordan. The presence of Palestinian forces was one of the main reasons that led to a Christian-Muslim conflict in Lebanon in 1975-1976 which ended with the occupation of Lebanon by peace-keeping forces from several Arab countries[citation needed], including Syria. Over the next few years, the Syrians and the PLO gained power in Lebanon, surpassing the ability of the official Lebanese government to curtail or control their actions. Throughout this time, artillery and rocket attacks were launched against Israel. Israel bombed targets in Lebanon and in 1978 launched a military invasion in to Southern Lebanon codenamed "Operation Litani". In 1978, and again in 1981 and early 1982, the United Nations sponsored a cease-fire, and Israeli troops were withdrawn. In 1982 Israel re-invaded Lebanon following the attempted assassination of its ambassador in London, despite being aware that the attack had been carried out by the Abu Nidal faction, which was at war with Arafat's PLO. The architect of the war, Ariel Sharon (then Defense Minister), presented it to the Israeli government as a limited incursion into Southern Lebanon but took his troops to Beirut. The invasion was code-named "Operation Pines" or "Peace for Galilee", and was intended to weaken or evict the PLO and impose Bachir Gemayel, head of the Christian Phalange party, as President of Lebanon in order to get Lebanon to sign a peace treaty with Israel and bring the country into Israel's sphere of influence. This plan failed when Gemayel was assassinated not long after being elected President by the Lebanese parliament under Israeli pressure. The Israeli forces invaded in a three-pronged attack. One group moved along the coastal road to Beirut, another aimed at cutting the main Beirut-Damascus road, and the third moved up along the Lebanon-Syria border, hoping to block Syrian reinforcements or interference. By the 11th of June, Israel had gained air superiority after shooting down a number of Syrian aircraft; Syria called for a cease-fire, and the majority of PLO guerrillas fled Tyre, Sidon, and other areas for Beirut.
Ola -Jide Chris, don't forget the economical situation of disbalance between the social classes, neither the struggle for more power among different clans, as well as the undemocratic and unjuts Lebanese political system which favoured the Christian elites against the majority Muslim (Shia, Sunni, Druze, Alauite...) population.
@@AthThawra And also the Christian government attempting to overthrow local Sunni businesses, and majority cities, attempting to take control of the economy of the muslim populace. And killing those who spoke against it.
Watching this in 22oct 2019 in the middle of the amazing revolution in lebanon, were all Lebanese people ,elderly people ,university students, inside lebanon or abroad are United calling for a united lebanon no political parties no religious divide just lebanon. #لبنان_ينتفض
My grandfather was stationed in Beirut during the civil war. He was apart of the United Nations convoy in Lebanon and worked closely with Generals. It has been my duty to learn about the Lebanon civil war and educate myself for the Lebanese people and for the honour of my grandfather’s name. RIP Grampy.
yeh poor lebanese the shit that they've gone thru! if its not israel getting vindictive about pow's or pushy assyrians wanting yoke to be yellow and flowing like a mix of cream and gold and that silly national pact allowing christians to run a third of the joint with crusty commies, peatree pinko's, bluees, blashphemoust and lacerates all salute the anarchists nest and ready to mix
Years later and the Lebanese people have yet to learn that loving your Christian/Muslim brother is the answer for a prosperous Lebanon. Unfortunately the hatred still runs deep and the memories aren’t forgotten. As long as we are divided, our corrupt leaders will carry on taking advantage of that.
@@georgefullbattery9085Israelis and the Palestinians ruined Lebanon one the Israelis killed thousands and displaced millions of Palestinians forcing them to be refugees in Lebanon they started running plo operations against Israel bringing the instability Israel invaded so it's Israels fault and Secondly the Palestinians
I don't think the war was ever about religions. For me, religions were just a pretext, a justification, and a way of making the simple people believe that the militias were holy soldiers protecting them (from a completely constructed enemy), instead of bands of lawless, selfless and godless bands of bandits and warlords just acting for their self interest (no wonder the first week of the war were just about looting the banks, port and hotels of Beirut). For me, and the reporter seems to agree, neo-liberalism, Capitalism, "laissez faire", huge income inequalities, and of course the political system, were the main reasons for the embrasement. I mean come on, muslims, christians and jews lived for CENTURIES together in the region. Not without hiccup admittedly, but in this last civil war, religion was just a pretext. Economics don't explain everything but it explains a lot. If everyone has food on it's table at the end of the month, there is not reasons to fight. There is revenge sure, but at some point we need to stop, we should have learned from history but apparently we are not good at doing that. They (our so beloved political and religious 'leaders' ) said, and are still saying that they are protecting our beliefs, while they are just robbing them from us. Sure Lebanon was dramatically weaken by the Palestinians, Syria and Israel (and all of the meddling from foreign powers), but they were able to do it so efficiently and quickly because it was already rotten on the inside. Lebanon was always weak, from the beginning, and it's our own fault. Were we a united nation, a more equalitarian and socially just one, maybe even a secular one, we wouldn't have fell so hard in JUST A YEAR. We lived in an illusion from 1943 to 1975, and the civil war was the hard price to pay for our lack of perspicacity. We refused to see beyond religious differences (and what minor differences, don't we all say Allah?), and we still do today! Despite what happened in Lebanon, despite what's happening in Syria, in Irak in Israel/Palestine, and even in some places in the West. I mean look at us today, doing it all over again, building malls instead of schools, banks instead of libraries, hotels instead of hospitals... I'm not religious for one bit, I was when I was younger, and my family is, and I respect that, but please stop using religion to make false points, you are just disrespecting it... And making a lot of people disgusted (like me) about religion. Keep the religion where it should belong, in your hearts!
Lebanon is an culturally diverse and alluring nation, not in spite of it's various ethnicities and religions; but because of it. The paradox of this demographic feature unfortunately also means Lebanon is prone to sectarianism and deterioration, like that of the Yugoslavian republic which was disjointed into multiple semi-autonomous nations; some now EU member states. Yugoslavia, like Lebanon was ounce prosperous even a hub of tourism, until endemic ethnic rivalries steeped the nation into peril, decline, and debt. Forces beyond your borders are profiting from the inner-turmoil, as was shown during the 1'st Israeli invasion; where the Israeli's seized upon this allying with the Christian Phalange and capitalizing on the death of Gemayel to incite the massacres in Shatila and Sabra. U.S. foreign policy as dictated by the Pentagon, would surely invite a collapse of Lebanese society; as it would mean an ally from Damascus and the strangulation of Hezbollah the force that successfully ceased the Israeli offensive in 2006. Partition, is not of the best interest to Lebanese people, it didn't benefit the Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, and the people of Kosovo(which is barely a sovereign nation and not recognized officially by many nations of the UN). Profit motives are fueling this conflict as with the restructuralization of the entire middle east in the Wests image, and while you take up arms against your neighbor; the dispenser who sold you the weapon to kill him earns greatly. Why else would the EU vote to end the arms embargo to the Syrian "rebels;" which means European armaments manufacturers may now sell to the SNC. Equally as linked to the sale of arms and ammo into the region are the Saudis, Israelis, Emiratis, Qataris and the European and American companies that are fueling the fermenting instability in and around the region. To ward off the divisions that threaten to separate us as well as malevolent external aggression, we must all cease to be Maronite, Druze, Sunni, or Shiite; and begin the unified identity as Lebanese.
david traverse I disagree with your first point. I do not believe in the case that sectarian or multi-ethnic relations are fixed or predetermined as being hostile between each other. I think that describing societies of that nature where everyone hates each other and can't get over it like that's just the way they are, is incredibly misleading. Why the hack USA or South Africa are not already plunged in racial civil wars, partition or genocide? Why Indonesia, the Philippines or Brazil are fairly stable despite their multi-religious and mutli-ethnic nature? The truth is that different coexisting communities are not spilling over into violence just because they coexist in the same place, but becaue they are being manipulated, preferably by populist political leaders in a period of economic or other social crisis. That happened in both Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Iraq and now Syria. You can be a proud Maronite (or a Muslim) and be a proud Lebanese at the same time, those two identities are not mutually exclusive. People generally have multiple identities. For example an American citizen, most of the time is not just an "American", he also can be a White-American, African-American, Jewish-American, Italian-American, Southern American, Puerto-Rican, etc.
My mom kept telling me stories about civil war in Lebanon while I was child, she was so sad although we re not leabanes. Now I ve realised that only few politicians were running the war FOR THEIR OWN PENIPHET, while civilians had sufferd the most.
Its also got to do with influx of Palestinian refugees. Shias felt oppressed under the christians, sunni population went high due to the refugees. The delicate balance was hurt. These too😢
@@igoryounes3745 he isnt half English, not that I know of, but I know he went to school in the UK and later married a beautiful Australian model but they then divorced
The scenario is repoducing now with 500 000 Syrian refugees, may our faith stay strong to protect our people and our nation till the back of our Lord Christian of Lebanon 4 ever!!!!!
zul far Greetings to you my brother, God bless you !!! But Ottomans slaughtered a lot of Maronites in the past so we can't support actions of our murderers......
دائماً أنظر الى لبنان على أنها أكثر البلاد العربية أناقة، وفن، وثقافة، وجمال. مع إحترامي وتقديري للجميع، ولكن هذا رأيي الشخصي.. الله يحميها وأهلها من الإختلاف والضعف وزوال النعم
The man who was translating arabic to english was Dany chamoun who was murdered by Syrians in his appartment with his 2 kids and wife in 1990, only one daughter survived, his brother Dory Chamoun is still alive
I lived in Lebanon from 1991 to 2001 amazing country too had corruption wars kept ruining it not to mention it’s border from Palestine and Israel is close by Syria so there will be always issues with that country
Lebanese civil war, 2006 Lebanese war, spillover of the Syrian war and the 2020 Beirut blast. When will Lebanon ever get a break hope peace and unity will be Lebanon future.
It's ridiculous how people in the comments are saying it's the Christians fault or the Muslims fault or the Palestinians fault. The civil war was a fault of everyone involved. No one fought with honour (or didn't fight at all) and all parties involved had fought with absolute disregard for life and with inhuman and cruel habits, massacre after massacre from either sides. You'd think our country would move on from all this but the leaders of the different parties now are even worse, and almost every sunni supports a sunni leader, Maronite supports a Maronite leader, and shiite supports a shiite leader, when none of these 'leaders' have lebanon's interests at heart. They steal from the country and have us all following along like sheep. I dream to see the day we wake the fuck up and unite regardless of religion, and work towards making Lebanon the once great nation it was.
There's a lot of people here who seem to have simplified opinions about the middle east conflicts and middle eastern peoples . It's about centuries of conflict , centuries of injustice and prejudice by every faith and ethnic group and centuries of interference by outside parties seeking to gain from their preferred side winning . It's still happening now and when the US and Russia are fighting proxy war through their respective allies it doesn't help the peace process.
@Steve Makron تسمية فينيقيين أعطيت كلقب من اليونان إلى الكنعانيين الذين سكنوا لبنان وتمددوا تجارة وسكنا في عدة مناطق حول العالم لكن مركزهم كان في صيدا وصور وكانت تجارتهم هي صناعة اللون الارجواني. لبنان فيه أعراق عديدة. يكفي أن تقول لبنان فهو وطن يجمع جميع اللبنانيين بغض النظر عن العرق والأصل سيد ستيف ماكرون 😊
@Steve Makron كلام ان الكنعانيين اصلهم من اليمن موضوع دراسة. لكن انت تقول اننا نحن نرفض هذا الكلام. تحت أي خانة أناس وضعتني،، هذا اولا؟ ثم، ثانيا، من أنت؟ وبصفتك ماذا تبحث عن تاريخ لبنان؟ أليس بلدك أولى باهتمامك ووقتك؟
@Steve Makron طبعا ان العرب من اشرف القبائل. لكن بالنسبة قولك انك تاج راسي... انا لست أعرفك أصلا يا ستيف معكرون. هل أنت واثق من نفسك لدرجة وصفك بأنك تاج رؤوس الناس. وفعلا لماذا لا تهتم ببلدك وبشعبك وببيئتك؟ لبنان يأخذ من وقتك كثيرا 😂
@Steve Makron ومن ذكر كلمة جريمة 😂 انا قلت انه يبدو أنك لست لبناني ولكنك تولي أكثر تعليقاتك بلبنان. لماذا لا تهتم ببلدك وبيئتك وشعبك وتترك لبنان لشعبه 😂
No, this country was declining prior, and has had many problems since the war. Read more into colonialism and the creation of this “country.” You can’t see from this video that the Maronite elites run the country and the rest are left in poverty and to suffer?!
@@handsanitiser9832 I'm well aware of the country's history. Maronites, Muslims, druz, etc.. are ALL corrupt and thieves but the Palestinian mass refugee were the gasoline on fire for that country.
@@WeAreNotSheep2023 Again, I'm not saying they didn't cause problems, but historians like Robert Fisk say it was destined to fall b/c of the rulership and tensions! Who had the presidency? Where was money being channeled?! To Mt. Lebanon and its environs, not to Muslim-majority areas. They were facing abject poverty and expected, as Chamoun put it, to accept the "servent-master" relationship. Is this fair?! I've never heard of Muslims or Druze saying that!
This has been writen about extensivley for those who understand the region. The "Golden Era" was a farce. As the UC Berkerly archives state: "Amid the glimering casinos were the Muslim poor." You can look up blogs abt this, too. Under colonialism, the power and wealth was in the Maronite elite's hands. This facade of "thriving" can only last so long. Just a ask the USA, wherein injustice agains minorities and system discrimination have caused riots (George Floyd).@@badabinbadaboom7338
@steven mathew beats taking the side of the fucking fascists my dude lmao before you try to argue that im just calling the right fascists,you should know the leader of the phalangists was a mussolini admirer
@@chev443 The PLO single handedly created a civil war for a country that had nothing to do with their goals. Phalangists fought to free Lebanon from islamic invaders. I would easily side with the phalangists.
Lebanese Christians Feel for the palestinians and their situation. But it was wrong to try to take over Lebanon. PLO had no right to take over Lebanon... We helped them and they arm Up and start taking political control of the country... Your fight was with Israel not Lebanon... Many lives lost, and for what? Your fight was never with lebanon... This is why things ended so badly
It's so sad to see my beautiful Lebanon in that state. I'm so glad it's fixed (physically) but there are still a lot of people from all sides who are racist and cause problems. I just want to visit my country when ever I want and not worry about any war or problems breaking out.
10:35 RIP Al mou'alim Kamal Jumblatt .. You are one of the best politicains who ruled lebanon you helped poor people and your thoughts light us in the dark
blaming this war just 'muslims' 'left' or whatever, is way too much wrong. the term 'civil war' itself doesn't really fit in. it was a giant clusterfuck. I can oversimplify this and it will still be too long to read. 1. Lebanon was a prominent city, beirut is one of the most important harbour in middle east since at least more than four thousand years. not just a 'historically important place' but just 'important place' all the time. it was called a 'paris of middle-east' but to be frankly, paris? noob. grow a thousand year. 2. Lebanon itself is a part of 'geographical' Syrian region. It doesn mean the current nation of syria. like 'britain(in geographic term)', there are nations like england, scotland, wales...and together there is a UK, in Syria there was a region called 'lebanon' and that becomes modern day lebanon. Syrian region was always wealthy. since there was a fantastic harbour-of course that's Beirut. 3. The Christian population/influence was always heavy compared to other region around there. Syria, Lebanon, especially Beirut and surrounding area. of course I mean after the first islamic empire rised and captured that region. before islam, it was just wealthy roman province and before that it was wealthy poenician region. and crusader nations are been around there about some centuries. 4. so to take control of the 'pearl of the middle east', late roman(byzantine) empire, several islamic nations, some europeans fight over but eventually ottoman empire took it all. and they kinda didn't really kicked the native christian people's arses since they were not stupid enough to break their own moneypot. 5. so the beirut/lebanon was being 'five-star commercial district' 'five-star cultural site' 'one of the 10 places must visit before you dead blahblah clickbait' 'a holy place and bastion for christian people(not the same one in europe)' for centuries. they kinda always did the 'I'm the boss here, don't fuck with me and I don't really give a fuck about your religion or anything.' - causing mayhem in several region but at least they didn't actually wanted them to fight over centuries later. I don't really blame them. 6. and the ottoman empire fall. I mean, the turks are still going well but lost contol of that region anyway, and the french came in(with brits, but in this region it's french). and french were trying to of course. make money out of that region but not really want them to 'WAKE UP AND LIBERATE OURSELF' or anything, so they decided to draw the line on syria, make it into two seperate region. that will be modern syria and lebanon. in syria there are more muslims, arabs. in lebanon, christians and other people. and what french decided to do was, give some piece of land(which islamic population was dominant)into lebanese part so naturally, lebanon should be a country with many christians, some other people, some muslim... but that muslim part was kinda got larger. and that small patches of muslim land/community will not get an independence(since it's small), so they natrually, want their right as lebanese people. well, all the natives there didn't care about the borders or anything like centuries but here it is. But unfortunately for france, which wanted lebanese to fight each other(but not full-scale civil war) but people in Lebanon was not a shitbag, sterotypical 'violent sand people' somebody thinks, so they actually managed to 'let's be multicultural, functional nation' and it did worked. actual story. there's a church, there's a mosque, there's a muslim woman-black clothes from head to toes, there's a girl with bikini, money comes in, culture grows. and PETROLEUM. you don't get a oil just dig up any lebanese land but it's a harbour. money comes in. and it's the best place for vacation in middle east for centuries. all the money. hotels, banks. the french and brits changed their mind, like 'huh, you're cool. I'm cool. let's be friend'. so french influence(like language, food, cultural things)are there. no problemo. 7. but in the surrounding area, things are not doing well. it's a nation, surrounded by syria, north of Israel/Palestine and Jordan. and go further you'll meet Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Egypt. massive muslim refugees were appeared and I don't think anybody needs why. and they are just trying to survive and surrounding nations kinda send them into lebanon. muslim population drastically increased. 8. unfortunately, Lebanese goverment(as I told earlier, they managed to actually form a working goverment with completely differnt people)started to 'let's fight now' at that moment. or the chaotic situation made them to. anyway, all the muslim nations 'used' that muslim refugees(okay, they're palestanians). and PLO popped up. basically, a armed group of palestanian people. but they were not functiong as anything yet since you can't make a decent armed force out of refugees, it's not ancient times. and PLO was finally got themselves as working group, under a leadership of.. Arafat. they were formed a base in Jordan since majority of palestanian refugees were at there. but government(monarch)of Jordan doesn't like PLO sticking in his country. so Jordan army fights over PLO. and PLO kinda seperated into - radical(gonna bomb'em all) and non-radical(all we want is just SURVIVE) groups. and munich. oh I forgot. PLO's been fighting with IDF(Israeli armed forces)of course. 9. Army of Jordan kinda kicked out PLO. and PLO got their base at southern Lebanon now. Lebanese government fighting over with 'left-right' 'christian-muslim' or anything and just kinda doing nothing. still. christians were like 'like I gave a shit(because southern lebanon was already a muslim-area kinda), but don't fucking trying to take over this nation with that large band of refugees.' and clueless native muslims were 'kay, there were poor brothers and sisters keep coming in. uhh. they look very angry. well they've been through a lot. they'll get over it I hope.' and radical muslims were 'this is our ticket to win an election wow' and some guys were like 'YEAH GO LEFT WOOHOO' and some people's like 'DIE YOU COMMIE FUCKER' and thing's going worse and worse. 10. PLO, now based on southern lebanon keep throwing shit(kinda explosive shits)at Israel. Israel pissed off, bombing lebanon. lebanese government? doing same thing. 11. tension between christian people and muslim people, and not just between them. different group of christian people, different group of muslims, all groups got their grudge. shit's gonna explode soon. every group start arming themselves. skirmishes are happening. so many group fighting each other. it's not a team deathmatch more like a fucking battle royale. lebanese government finally did something. asked syria to help(they were brother-nation at first, and no serious grudges between them till). syria agrees. and try to kick some ass of 'any radical behaving people'. but Israel didn't like that becuase Lebanon(before)is kinda 'christian with muslims), Syria was 'Muslims with christians' and relationship between Israel and Syria was bad because of course. Israel didn't want Syrian army to come near them(coming in lebanon. lebanon is close to Israel), and Israel was supporting anyone who fighting with PLO. and Syrian army crosses the border(of lebanon. it is not an invasion because lebanon asked them to). there was some agreements but as usual it fucking breaks and Israel just bombed the shit out of Syrian army and PLO, which is located in Lebanon. why? because Israel was constantly bombed by people in Lebanon and Israel was paranoiac as shit since they are getting their daily bombing about decades. 12. so major conflict is, Israeli forces fighting over Syrian army and PLO, in lebanon and lebanese native and refugees got into lebanon was got into shitty war so bombshell everywhere. look at this. it is 'simplified'. what kinda fucking civil war is this? basically, Israel v Syria/PLO in lebanon and lebanese people are divided into pieces and shit. yeah there was a 'civil war' part but this is more like a... we need a new term for this kinda war. not a proxy war, not a civil war.
Gosh! The only DECENT English I read here is from Schlomo! The rest is emotionally-wired ArabEnglish! Where are all the educated Lebanese? Or have they become an Endangered Specie as well?
@@sammyraymondnajemabu-jaoud4143 yeah "specie" is proper English 👍 stop being a typical Lebanese with the all that matters is seeming classy and looking good mentality, bullshit appearances. The Westerners couldn't care less about your language or you culture. Fluent English or French is nothing to be proud of, a working grasp of the language is more than enough. Foreigners who learn other languages are almost never fluent in the second language, just look at most Europeans and their horrible English or israelis especially their mossad and govt who have to learn Arabic to understand their enemy. Almost always they are more than happy with just understanding the second language and speaking it on a beginner level. Instead learn and speak with your own language be it Arabic or even whatever the original language of the Christians in Lebanon is , who I don't personally consider Arabs. Whatever the case be proud of your mother tongue, culture and heritage and learn it with all it's complexities and teach it your kids before anything else. In other cultures (other than Indians who are obsessed with their past colonists the Brits, and recently the Arabs sadly) it's a national duty so why not learn from that. I've seen it everywhere from Turkey, Azerbaijan and the Caucasus to China and Europe, people proud of their national identity and rich history.
Hmmm i read this and i find what you said at the end very funny. To many players in the game it sounded like and every move someone made pissed everyone else off.
+PhoenicanSailor yeah thats why they threw themselves from the top floors.. they were pussies who were only good as snipers in the high rise hotel hunting normal people crossing the roads
+PhoenicanSailor hhh..they had fun sniping innocent people going around thier daily needs, going after bread, water, shelter.. but once they we moved in they dropped their pants and jumped to their graves..actually there is a video showing our jeeps dragging them around.. hhh.. you talk shit while i say things as it happens and people here know it because thats a well documented history..douchebag
This is a very short sighted documentary. To assume that the war that united Moslems and Palestinians against the Christian minority in Lebanon was because of political injustice is naive. The fact that Lebanon still has various armed Palestinian factions and Hizballah clearly demonstrates that the problem was regional and beyond a political system.
Heartbreaking. I remember this war well...seeing it in the news daily. What really sticks in my mind to this day, is war photographer Francoise "Fifi" Demulder's iconic photo of the Karantina Massacre. (May she Rest In Peace).
The Arab Muslim world had a gem that they could branch off of called Lebanon.. but their 5th century thinking threw it in the gutter.. Christian Lebanon was the best thing that ever happened to that region...
Awwww racist little white boy likes believing in falsehoods the Christian Lebanese oppressed the Muslims and didn’t give them equal shares of power that’s what happens when you oppress people and they fight back also most Arab countries in this time were like Lebanon before the west I diot
Why are some people confused? the muslim Lebanese supported the PLO against Israel based on religion and ethnicity being Arabs, the Christians Lebanese don't identify as Arabs and wanted nothing to do with Palestine Israel conflict, the Palestinian refugees wanted to fight Israel from Lebanon supported by muslim Lebanese, the Christians did not.
This war in Lebanon was caused by the Palstenian Liberation Organisation and their supporting Arab countries intervention in lebanon to help Arrafat to take over power in Lebanon from the original rulers of Lebanon . Arafat tried to do that in Jordan and king Hussain kicked him and PLO out , and Arafat and PLO were kicked out of Lebanon for the same reason... Lebanon , the smallest Arab country , was left to take the full impact of the Palestinian problem , while bigger countries withdrew back and watched . some of them supported and financed Arafat and other militias like the socialists and supporters in the hope of taking over the power in Lebanon and to make it a war front with Israel . While they keep their borders and countries safe . Now , after decades of that war , Lebanon is on the brink of another sectarian war between Sunni Muslims and Shiia Muslims , where is the rich-and-poor excuse ? ...or , the class excuse now ?.. the Soviet Union is gone ...it is , as it was before , a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the control of Lebanon and the middle east . And the super powers and not out of the picture .
stock man Lebanon while Muslim in majority was not is not technically a Muslim country. In the 1920s it had nearly an 80% Christian population. That number is much lower today with around 20% Christian population and while its leadership is mostly Muslim there is still a Christian constituency represented in the government.You are correct about Arafat and the PLO having started this war and it being a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Its a shame that the world's masses don't seem to see past Israeli Involvement in Lebanon or see that Arafat and the so called Palestinian Liberation Organization are not even really Palestinian as most plo fighters were actually from other Arab countries and use the Palestinian conflict as a way to excuse their fight and hatred against Israel.
Hans S The Jews didn't start anything... They survived progroms, genocide and Yes now They defend themselves in an intelligent way. They long for Peace. Don't be mistaken about that.
Nice work (slightly more positive than the truth) and brave reporter and crew for traveling there from the UK during the war. I'm glad the Lebanese comments on this video were not broadcast on UK TVs with this documentary. Because Lebanese people have a beautiful piece of land with great food and weather but they are full of hate and racism and will never learn how to be organized, respectful and work together as a team. Lebanese people, like most eastern cultures, are very kind and hospitable. But many times I'm ashamed of being Lebanese because of the bad reputation and chaos the others have left. Most of us don't deserve the old Lebanon. Look at the way we treat immigrants, refugees and EACH OTHER. Then we immigrate to US & Canada and on day 1 they give us have equal rights as their own citizens. Because they want you to belong and to love your new country and to be patriotic. I bet that more than 90% of US citizens with Lebanese origins don't accept cross-racial marriages. You know why? Because their parents fed them their racist and religious thoughts. Each and every one of this MAJORITY OF LEBANESE is RACIST of religion/sect/color/gender/ location etc.... ("MEN WEN INTA"? -mmmm... another village 5Km away... he's NOT one of us). It's almost impossible to make Lebanese people truly patriotic with the overall mentality that exists after having 2 generations that were raised during war/corruption and chaos. Not to mention the power of religion and sects in our system and the proxy battles of bigger countries around us that manipulate this helpless government. Yes, I also think that the government and the sectarian system is crap. But it's the people that make their country, the government should be their tool. And with people full of hate that are eager for a small trigger to eat each together up; people that think they are superior because they were born in this part of the country (a very tiny country). What kind of Lebanon do we get? A Lebanon that will never make it to the 21st century and that will never go back to the old prosperous Lebanon. Some Lebanese aren't like that, they are minorities and unfortunately, they don't have much hope.
In fact, they are genetically identical. Danny Chamoun is a Maronite, and the Maronites do not have any European genetic influence. Rather, most of their origins are local Levantine, according to DNA analysis. White skin and light-colored hair are not limited to Europe, but have existed in the Middle East since ancient times.
Huge numbers from each ‘faction’ died and many more families devastated by this crazy conflict, even the USA gave up on it and fled. Until now the result, economic catastrophe. Just in my memory, when their followers were still bleeding, after the PLO were ‘encouraged’ to move their ‘command centre’ to Tunisia, I recall the leaders of the Christians and Druze sitting apparently at ease together - maybe pretence for the media but where was their guilt for the Demise of the Lebanon. I only have sorrow for all the Lebanese and the Lebanon.
And Hezbollah didn't won the Christians "ouwet" gave their arms for peace as Hezbollah was supposed to do but he found himself a cute excuse that he defends Lebanon vs Israel which is a big lie since Israel attacks only hesbollah people and found a way to keep their arms instead of having a peaceful Lebanese country so go share your opinions somewhere else
zaid abu hassan ههههه لبنان اكثر بلد حارب بالعالم ، ٢٢ سنة حرب اهلية ، حرب مع العثمانيين والانكليزو، وفرنسا ، وامريكا واسرائيل وداعش وجبهة النصرة ، وحروب الطوائف و ٧ ايار 😂😂😂😂😂😂 لبنان بلد بتحسو سلام عشان تعود عالحرب . يعني اللبناني بحارب وبينزل جنبوا صواريخ بتلاقي عم بيشرب اركيلة
I could not forget how arrogant were the Lebanese guys whom I worked with in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They still hold on the idea that they have superior education than the rest of the Middle East and Asia. The other Lebanese guy had the gall to even ask me about the tech specs of the computer system that had been installed long before I came to take over as the system administrator. I just ignored him and in a short time, the French manager pushed them out of the company.
I went there in 2013: it's such a shame! The food is great, the landscape, weather and women are beautiful! It's dangerous, but you know what.....I still want to go back again for another vacation it's that damn good. Bucket list place to visit
To quote my grandfather
"Anyone who had the money or brains to get out, did so a long time ago"
May God save Lebanon
I moved to Johannesburg from the UK at age 5, the town we ended up living in and the neighboring town had a fairly large Lebanese population that had all fled Lebanon...
The Lebanese in my area own successful businesses
@@ca9968 who in their right mind would move _to_ South Africa
@@adi2.054 In the early 1980`s it was paradise compared to the UK...
@@ca9968 What it's like these days?
0:02 he says:” you donkey what are you shooting at”😂😂😂
haha.. Thanks for the translation.
🤣
Didn't realise Gordon Ramsay was Lebanese.
Mark Taylor yeah calling someone a donkey, dog or animal are pretty common insults in leb and for some reason they even sound way more offensive than they do in English
DQ7 it’s common everywhere in the arab world from the indian ocean to the atlantic
Lebanon went from a great 1st world country to one of the poorest nations in the world , my grandpa was a sailor and told me stories on when he visited in the 60's and on how impressed he was with all the riches in the country.
Thanks to Islam 🕌🕌
@@yossiallen3316 actually thanks to your parents who immigrated from Europe and kicked a Palestinian family and took their whom , you never admit that the Palestinian crisis and the establishment of "state of Israel" was the cause of the unrest in the middle East.
@@yossiallen3316 thanks to islam it was a great country
@@unknownkingdom most of Lebanese were Christians up until 70s. When Lebanon was prosperous majority of people there were Christians, not Muslims.
@King Saddam no Muslims took the nation as they felt they were a majority. But they weren't at that time Now it's a militarized state with low living standards in constant war.
Meanwhile Lebanon was booming that time, Dubai people were riding camels and living in tents, Turks couldn't speak any other language, Singapore was corrupted. Too bad Lebanese people didn't knw the treasure they had !
True , saudi arabia was still Medieval , wait it is still today Medieval
chefi chef not true Saudi Arabia is one of the worlds richest countries. They should be the ones housing the immigrants
@@elel2017 Your comments show how an ignorant ill minded person you are. Saudi Arabia was and is a great countrh with great people. They put an end to lebanons civil war through the Taif agreement.
It is a shame to see such idiotic comments in a time of mass communication
@@otaibi4ever91 yes they a great by killing innocent people in yemen and supporting the zionist-regime
@@otaibi4ever91 stop talking bullshit saudi troll
Important to keep these pictures alive. Young ppl must learn from history.
it will happen again because syria want lebonan for ever
Like they are ased.
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No to foreign interference!!!!❤🇱🇧✌
Issues and contrasts between the poor and the rich could have been solved in a democratic way, but civil war in Lebanon wasn’t just a matter of contrasts between different social classes but even a matter of contrasting foreign powers: Israel, USE, Syria, Iran, France, England, Palestinian people.
Lebanon today is in bankruptcy, I am very sad for that. There are still heavy issues with foreign interference as Iran.
There is a very serious corruption and Mafia problem as well. Hope Lebanon can find its way for prosperity, peace and democracy again.
I’ve studied a lot of the Middle East’s wars in the 20th century, and this one is honestly one of the worst. I thought I was prepared for anything after reading about Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. But this one got to me, reading about this one one shook me to my core.
Ultimately it's a class war complicated massively by the israeli - Palestinian conflict. And the Syrians. And the Iranians via Hezbollah. And external meddling by the USA. And the Brits. Also the French as the ex colonial power.
«Give us peace and we will astound the world.»
"What's so civil about war anyway?" - Axl Rose
LOL
For the size of Lebanon totally agree, but brutality wise, Syrian war was more systemized
My dad turned 18 when the war started and served in the Lebanese army during this time. It's surreal to watch footage knowing my family were living such a hard life in a country they loved so much. I was in Lebanon when the protests started and it's great to see the new generations of Lebanese working together to protest for a better life. I'll never forget it.
Fuck the protest, fuck BLM, fuck globalism!
@@Oline1756 yeah fuck the left too... and fuck communism!
@@charlesbukowski9836
I’m glad we are on the same side.
@@Oline1756 what does that have anything to do this video or comment
Hey Remy 👋 how are things going with your work out here and how 🤔 are you guys 👦 and what you 😉 up for now
مرحبا بك في وقت لاحق على طول الوقت افكر في الموضوع دا اللي هو انا اقدر اقول شي من البقاله مرحبا مليون دولار مرحبا كيفك يا عسل
Instead of fighting about which religion started the war and who won, why don't we unite together, as Lebanese, for a better Lebanon? A country were people can live together no matter their religion and beliefs.
God bless and protect Lebanon and all Lebanese❤
@muslim police is banning accounts on youtube Learn to spell before you start writing about politics or religious division, asshole...
All parties in this documentary confirmed that it was NOT a religious war. Yet everyone so quickly FORGOT that it was the Palestinians who STARTED this war through 3 monthly attacks on the Lebanese Army since March 1975. Unless they & the Syrians are sent out, a new War is BREWING!
@אתה כלב Schlomo Shillman Shekelstein Schlomo, who accuses Israel of being a terrorist State? Not the Christian Lebanese! We live in a country that has never taken its Independance yet. And since its Independance, it has been run by feudalistic families like the Sicilian mafia clans! Unless we re-unite with Israel through peace & collaboration, we shall ALWAYS remain a volatile "democracy" (18 political parties over 4m people! What a disgrace!)
That's impossible because of. Religion.
Because foreign actors like meddling in the affairs of others, because they can.
Regardless of what has been said about this civil war , the fact remains that it was the Lebanese people , of different parties , militias , and groups , who fought each other and destroyed their country . Although that civil war stopped in the Lebanese field 25 years ago , Lebanon still suffers painfully from its horrible consequences .
+tony bousamra If America told the Lebanese to fight each other , why did they listen to it ? Don't they have minds and will ?! What we see in the above documentary is Lebanese war leaders and fighters not American soldiers !
+softfofo me as lebanese i am not justifying our big mistake in the civil war. But what is confusing was Henri kissinger position about that war. He remained silent for more than 1 year when the war started in 1975. He had a plan to remove the Christians from lebanon and settle Palestinian refugees in their places to make Israel rest from the Palestinian question forever
+Ghassan jenainaty hahahahaha ... with full respect to what you wrote it sounds like a fairy tale !
softfofo this is the truth buddy believe me. Henri kissinger is a big war crimonol. Once he described Lebanon as a Geographical error that needs to be corrected. He was supporting israel in blind way and it is documented very well that he threatened the Lebanese president at that time : "Solayman Franjieh" during their meeting in 1973. He offered on Franjieh to remove the Christians of Lebanon and settle the Palestinians in their places. Franjieh told him that the Christians have been in this land since 6000 years and told Kissinger that Christians will not leave. Kissinger was mad and told him: "You will regret a lot. The war started in 1975 and Kissinger remained silent for more than 1 year, so dont you think he had a role in planning for the war? The Lebanese also committed dreadful errors during the war but who is the original architect behind this war that lasted for 15 years !!
@Jesse Brennan The Palestinians made mistakes . This is true but lets not throw everything in their backs as well.
My dad fought in this war. I never thought to look up footage in my entire life until today. I am sobbing finally realizing what he went thru as a young man
Me too
True in 1976 and true today in 2019. Same problems, corruption, class divide, poverty, feudalism, religious divide.
@abdelhadi nsiri Proxy wars were still a reality in the 1975 civil war.
@abdelhadi nsiri And what is your opinion on the current situation? It seems that nothing will unlock the stalemate except a an internal war where only one victor will come out.. Th 1975 civil war did not achieve that and maybe this is why Lebanon is in the mess it is now. Dont you think?
@abdelhadi nsiri very interesting. Thank you. Doesn’t it look like Hezbulla is the dominant force that could impose its power over the rest and thus bring stability?
Fam why lebanon is rn a mess today is cuz of hezbollah
@@Hadi-no5pc it was in a mess long before hezbolla
Has to be one of the most confusing civil wars ever.
Of the past 200 years, post-European industrialization, west of the Hindu Kush? Definitely. There wasn’t even a good outcome to all this.
15 years of brutal killing and mass-slaugher, anarchy and chaos, and no decisive outcome.
@@x6621 And the warlords who once fought in the conflict are now Lebanon’s corrupt politicians.
@Shane Gallagher 50000 ? I think the deaths in Ulster are around 2000 ....although the Catholics are morally and ethically in the right, the Marxist BS turns me off.... although what difference does it really make? ...England is kind of Socialist anyways and each decade that passes will turn it more and more Communist ( time will prove me right) I actually think as time goes on past our deaths, ..say 100 years from now, the UK the way it's going will prove to be the new Soviet Union of Europe... But back to this video, it's the same ole' song and dance ..the have nots started a ruckus with the haves ..... The problem is, the have nots are not always right and end up in the long run with less than if they just EARNED themselves a higher class in the first place....ala the U.S. currently
The Balkan war was more confusing
After 34 years from the start of the Lebanese civil war, Lebanon is still suffering from the effects of it starting from the separation of Lebanese people into towns according to their religion because two groups of people from different religions can’t live together, to the indifference regarding the elections because the same delegates are being elected, and that is due to the stupidity of most of the people who are choosing the same people for another 4 years, then after the elections they start to nag about the same things.
This is true. It doesn't help that it is actual law that it is illegal to speak about the civil war in classrooms, which is residual censorship of the ottoman days and tax farming, or slavery really.
14:36 You know things are getting serious when a lady’s hairdresser and a handbag maker are taking arms to fight.
Lady hairdresser. What do u want to do. Dreas ldies hair!
Probably mounted a rocket launcher on the back of his Mazda miata mx5!
14:55 Nacho Libre!!
For real!! :🤣🤣👏
Probably had more courage than some who worked in typically 'masculine' occupations 🤷♀️
Hahahahahhahhahah
Lubnan is such a beautiful country with a friendly and open-minded people (as long as people stay away from religous-ethnic-politicall disunion).
So, please, in the name of your love-for-life, stay united and preserve peace.
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Gaz Girl this is how you pronounce lebanon in arabic, lubnan
In Lebanon it's Lebnen not Lubnan (or Liban in French). And I'm sure you say "stay open minded people" but in reality you spend all your time in East Beirut and Jounieh lmao
@@alycestapleton no your the dummy. He's saying it in the way it would sound in Arabic. saying Lebanon is English language.
no liar.
I remember my sister visiting Lebanon at the beginning of the 70s, she was invited with her host family as a fer looked after their children, when she came home she told me that it was a very beautiful and calm country that reminded of Paris at that time but then it worked out the Muslims to take power in the country in the mid-70s and now the country a landfill.
Both my parents lived through the civil war, when I showed them this they said "Its not at all how it happened." Strange thing is they both said different things.
Look at a mountain and everyone who's standing at a different angle sees something different.
They are all right even if they disagree, they are wrong if they accuse the others of seeing things differently.
When you stand next to your father you'd say hes taller than you , your father would say your shorter than him both of you are right .
Fyi I went to a Lebanese school this video deals with the problem from the very top ( most of the maronites interviewed in this video are french freemasons of the orient lodge and the British journalist knows this coz hes from the British lodge) what your parents experienced is what the average civilian experienced which was unique to them but not the entire picture.
Lebanon at this time was the scene of many operations by many countries so no 2 regions had the same experience.
Trying to make sense of the Lebanese civil war is very difficult as a foreigner
It's because each side has it's own story
@@James-th7wb trying to make sense of Lebanese civil war is very difficult as Lebanese myself
Your parents are right , the author knows nothing about this war and the reasons of it ... this documentary excluding the actual fighting scenes that we should learn from is totally wrong and useless.
The Lebanese need to unite and stand together so can never happen again! We don't need a other way. What a shame! Beirut was once the best city in the world, and Lebanon was one of the best country's. please don't be dumb ppl spread the love :(
That doctor seemed like a really good guy
I thought that too. He seems to really care
Looks like pablo Escobar
Doctors tend to be smarter.
Yes, he is inspiring
I remember seeing this conflict on the news as a little kid.
It's never really stopped.
I feel there's no hope for humanity alas.
right, it was on the news every day.
In few years, Lebanon described the whole history of human kind. You are prosperous in your territory but allow people with poisonous minds to inhabit your land and suddenly your land is in flames. Suddenly the people who brought prosperity for the country where called totalitarians, dictators, American puppets, etc. and the ones that destroyed and divided ethnically and religiously the land were called heroes (what a paradox). At least the migration of the rich people out of Lebanon benefited individuals such as Mr. Slim in Mexico and others in Spain who have managed to prosper with out the fear of being terrorized by "takers, rapists or those who use the suffering of the people to advance their hidden agendas".
+Phill osophy curious analysis. I would love to sit down over a drink with you and pick your brain about several historical world affairs. your opinion differs a bit than mine but it certainly makes me think about things differently. like i said, im curious.
Perfect. Open for good discussions that always imply objective rationale. Soy el filosofo Salvadoreno :)
Thoses prosperous individuals were the ones who created the conditions for the war, they were the ones with poisonous ideas.
Incredibly, Mr Slim became the richest man on earth for a few years. The irony of it all..If You could see the millions of lebanese, many of them Christian, who fled to Brazil and Paraguay and became rich too..
0:02 "ya 7mar 3a shu 3am bet2awes" LOOL
Only in this country
Honestly 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOLZ
@FukAzz RS "You donkey/ass what are you shooting at"
Lmaoooooo
More reasonable than most analyses that merely frame everything as sectarian, christain against muslim etc.
damn The Lebanon was such a nice place before the civil war. What led to this?
Politics that used religion to mount people against others for economical benefits
***** Your chosen people had a hand in that also.
Israel
AlLebneneh Arab Ummah. Complete nonsense that will ultimately ruin the Arab middle-east. Thank the secular Ba'athist idiots who came up with this idiotic idiology and the Saalafi morons who continue these lies with religion.
Jonathan Spengler Actually, a German company had a large hand in the shit of the Lebanon civil war and genocide even more than any nation. The Krupp Co. is about the weirdest and most murderous organization the world has ever seen... Don't believe me?...Look it up.
When documentaries used to have a high level of information and were very near to the scene. 👍
I researched what led to the war and this is what I found
The PLO moved its primary base of operations to Beirut in the early 1970s, after Black September in Jordan. The presence of Palestinian forces was one of the main reasons that led to a Christian-Muslim conflict in Lebanon in 1975-1976 which ended with the occupation of Lebanon by peace-keeping forces from several Arab countries[citation needed], including Syria. Over the next few years, the Syrians and the PLO gained power in Lebanon, surpassing the ability of the official Lebanese government to curtail or control their actions. Throughout this time, artillery and rocket attacks were launched against Israel. Israel bombed targets in Lebanon and in 1978 launched a military invasion in to Southern Lebanon codenamed "Operation Litani".
In 1978, and again in 1981 and early 1982, the United Nations sponsored a cease-fire, and Israeli troops were withdrawn. In 1982 Israel re-invaded Lebanon following the attempted assassination of its ambassador in London, despite being aware that the attack had been carried out by the Abu Nidal faction, which was at war with Arafat's PLO. The architect of the war, Ariel Sharon (then Defense Minister), presented it to the Israeli government as a limited incursion into Southern Lebanon but took his troops to Beirut. The invasion was code-named "Operation Pines" or "Peace for Galilee", and was intended to weaken or evict the PLO and impose Bachir Gemayel, head of the Christian Phalange party, as President of Lebanon in order to get Lebanon to sign a peace treaty with Israel and bring the country into Israel's sphere of influence. This plan failed when Gemayel was assassinated not long after being elected President by the Lebanese parliament under Israeli pressure.
The Israeli forces invaded in a three-pronged attack. One group moved along the coastal road to Beirut, another aimed at cutting the main Beirut-Damascus road, and the third moved up along the Lebanon-Syria border, hoping to block Syrian reinforcements or interference. By the 11th of June, Israel had gained air superiority after shooting down a number of Syrian aircraft; Syria called for a cease-fire, and the majority of PLO guerrillas fled Tyre, Sidon, and other areas for Beirut.
To be continued..
Israel/palestine issue is the reason for all the chaos in the middle east
Ola -Jide Chris, don't forget the economical situation of disbalance between the social classes, neither the struggle for more power among different clans, as well as the undemocratic and unjuts Lebanese political system which favoured the Christian elites against the majority Muslim (Shia, Sunni, Druze, Alauite...) population.
@@AthThawra bs lies
@@AthThawra And also the Christian government attempting to overthrow local Sunni businesses, and majority cities, attempting to take control of the economy of the muslim populace. And killing those who spoke against it.
Watching this in 22oct 2019 in the middle of the amazing revolution in lebanon, were all Lebanese people ,elderly people ,university students, inside lebanon or abroad are United calling for a united lebanon no political parties no religious divide just lebanon. #لبنان_ينتفض
Some people aslo died yesterday
Schools and banks are closed including roads
May LEBANESE PEOPLE don't go back
#لبنان_ينتفض
@johny odisho there will be a fake peace soon but the true peace comes after fake is destroyed by God himself
I fear that Lebanon will slip back into the chaos. Don't allow external powers to interfere
@johny odisho I meant iran
@la7oud i am not Lebanese but we are all arabs we stand with each other 🙌🏼🇵🇸🇱🇧
My grandfather was stationed in Beirut during the civil war. He was apart of the United Nations convoy in Lebanon and worked closely with Generals. It has been my duty to learn about the Lebanon civil war and educate myself for the Lebanese people and for the honour of my grandfather’s name. RIP Grampy.
My friends family escaped Lebanon and she told me horror stories of the fighting.They behaved like nazis
Anyone after Beirut massive explosion?
Yeah my nigga
yeh poor lebanese the shit that they've gone thru! if its not israel getting vindictive about pow's or pushy assyrians wanting yoke to be yellow and flowing like a mix of cream and gold and that silly national pact allowing christians to run a third of the joint with crusty commies, peatree pinko's, bluees, blashphemoust and lacerates all salute the anarchists nest and ready to mix
Yes, I’m from Lebanon. And please stop asking.
Beirut was on the brink of collapse before the explosion. And this explosion is just increasing the chance of collapse
Me
Years later and the Lebanese people have yet to learn that loving your Christian/Muslim brother is the answer for a prosperous Lebanon. Unfortunately the hatred still runs deep and the memories aren’t forgotten. As long as we are divided, our corrupt leaders will carry on taking advantage of that.
Naaah it is deeper than that. They have Muslims and Christians live in peace in other countries. Look at you neighbor and it's allies
@@georgefullbattery9085Israelis and the Palestinians ruined Lebanon one the Israelis killed thousands and displaced millions of Palestinians forcing them to be refugees in Lebanon they started running plo operations against Israel bringing the instability Israel invaded so it's Israels fault and Secondly the Palestinians
I don't think the war was ever about religions. For me, religions were just a pretext, a justification, and a way of making the simple people believe that the militias were holy soldiers protecting them (from a completely constructed enemy), instead of bands of lawless, selfless and godless bands of bandits and warlords just acting for their self interest (no wonder the first week of the war were just about looting the banks, port and hotels of Beirut).
For me, and the reporter seems to agree, neo-liberalism, Capitalism, "laissez faire", huge income inequalities, and of course the political system, were the main reasons for the embrasement.
I mean come on, muslims, christians and jews lived for CENTURIES together in the region. Not without hiccup admittedly, but in this last civil war, religion was just a pretext. Economics don't explain everything but it explains a lot. If everyone has food on it's table at the end of the month, there is not reasons to fight. There is revenge sure, but at some point we need to stop, we should have learned from history but apparently we are not good at doing that.
They (our so beloved political and religious 'leaders' ) said, and are still saying that they are protecting our beliefs, while they are just robbing them from us.
Sure Lebanon was dramatically weaken by the Palestinians, Syria and Israel (and all of the meddling from foreign powers), but they were able to do it so efficiently and quickly because it was already rotten on the inside. Lebanon was always weak, from the beginning, and it's our own fault. Were we a united nation, a more equalitarian and socially just one, maybe even a secular one, we wouldn't have fell so hard in JUST A YEAR.
We lived in an illusion from 1943 to 1975, and the civil war was the hard price to pay for our lack of perspicacity. We refused to see beyond religious differences (and what minor differences, don't we all say Allah?), and we still do today! Despite what happened in Lebanon, despite what's happening in Syria, in Irak in Israel/Palestine, and even in some places in the West.
I mean look at us today, doing it all over again, building malls instead of schools, banks instead of libraries, hotels instead of hospitals...
I'm not religious for one bit, I was when I was younger, and my family is, and I respect that, but please stop using religion to make false points, you are just disrespecting it... And making a lot of people disgusted (like me) about religion. Keep the religion where it should belong, in your hearts!
Lebanon is an culturally diverse and alluring nation, not in spite of it's various ethnicities and religions; but because of it. The paradox of this demographic feature unfortunately also means Lebanon is prone to sectarianism and deterioration, like that of the Yugoslavian republic which was disjointed into multiple semi-autonomous nations; some now EU member states. Yugoslavia, like Lebanon was ounce prosperous even a hub of tourism, until endemic ethnic rivalries steeped the nation into peril, decline, and debt. Forces beyond your borders are profiting from the inner-turmoil, as was shown during the 1'st Israeli invasion; where the Israeli's seized upon this allying with the Christian Phalange and capitalizing on the death of Gemayel to incite the massacres in Shatila and Sabra. U.S. foreign policy as dictated by the Pentagon, would surely invite a collapse of Lebanese society; as it would mean an ally from Damascus and the strangulation of Hezbollah the force that successfully ceased the Israeli offensive in 2006. Partition, is not of the best interest to Lebanese people, it didn't benefit the Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, and the people of Kosovo(which is barely a sovereign nation and not recognized officially by many nations of the UN). Profit motives are fueling this conflict as with the restructuralization of the entire middle east in the Wests image, and while you take up arms against your neighbor; the dispenser who sold you the weapon to kill him earns greatly. Why else would the EU vote to end the arms embargo to the Syrian "rebels;" which means European armaments manufacturers may now sell to the SNC. Equally as linked to the sale of arms and ammo into the region are the Saudis, Israelis, Emiratis, Qataris and the European and American companies that are fueling the fermenting instability in and around the region. To ward off the divisions that threaten to separate us as well as malevolent external aggression, we must all cease to be Maronite, Druze, Sunni, or Shiite; and begin the unified identity as Lebanese.
david traverse I disagree with your first point. I do not believe in the case that sectarian or multi-ethnic relations are fixed or predetermined as being hostile between each other. I think that describing societies of that nature where everyone hates each other and can't get over it like that's just the way they are, is incredibly misleading. Why the hack USA or South Africa are not already plunged in racial civil wars, partition or genocide? Why Indonesia, the Philippines or Brazil are fairly stable despite their multi-religious and mutli-ethnic nature? The truth is that different coexisting communities are not spilling over into violence just because they coexist in the same place, but becaue they are being manipulated, preferably by populist political leaders in a period of economic or other social crisis. That happened in both Lebanon, Yugoslavia, Iraq and now Syria.
You can be a proud Maronite (or a Muslim) and be a proud Lebanese at the same time, those two identities are not mutually exclusive. People generally have multiple identities. For example an American citizen, most of the time is not just an "American", he also can be a White-American, African-American, Jewish-American, Italian-American, Southern American, Puerto-Rican, etc.
Omar Tarabay Islam is cancer.. Don't TAQIYA me fucktard
Do you know what is Taqiya you lying ignorant fuck ????
Okay then, tell me what is it ?
This is how Europe is going to look like if they don't wake up.
Francisco Valle lebanese here, i can confirm. SHUT YOUR BORDERS.
This isn't how Europe is going to look.
The jew and muslim will work together to take down europe.
wabblum99
No, the stupidity of people like you will.
Save it for the evangelicals shlomo
My mom kept telling me stories about civil war in Lebanon while I was child, she was so sad although we re not leabanes. Now I ve realised that only few politicians were running the war FOR THEIR OWN PENIPHET, while civilians had sufferd the most.
Its also got to do with influx of Palestinian refugees. Shias felt oppressed under the christians, sunni population went high due to the refugees. The delicate balance was hurt. These too😢
Tell me Chamoun although not English, his English almost sounds similar to that of an Englishman.
Joker Swank he went to school in the UK
He's half English and he studied in English.
@@igoryounes3745 he isnt half English, not that I know of, but I know he went to school in the UK and later married a beautiful Australian model but they then divorced
@abdelhadi nsiri he had two wives
@Worzal Gummidge that's what I said...
If the civil war didn't happen lebanon will be the most developed country in Asia
Muslim colonialisim. People have the right to practice the religion they want. Obligue people to convert to islam is a crime against humanity.
This is America's future
Love Lebanon from India ❤❤❤❤❤✌✌✌✌✌✌🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The scenario is repoducing now with 500 000 Syrian refugees, may our faith stay strong to protect our people and our nation till the back of our Lord
Christian of Lebanon 4 ever!!!!!
Peace to all Christian in Lebanon . Victory over the infidels !
Thank you brother, greetings to Armenia
LebanonOf Jesus hello my brother lebanese christian
greetings from your own fellow
zul far Greetings to you my brother, God bless you !!! But Ottomans slaughtered a lot of Maronites in the past so we can't support actions of our murderers......
religion sucks what happened to arab socialism
دائماً أنظر الى لبنان على أنها أكثر البلاد العربية أناقة، وفن، وثقافة، وجمال. مع إحترامي وتقديري للجميع، ولكن هذا رأيي الشخصي.. الله يحميها وأهلها من الإختلاف والضعف وزوال النعم
تعالى شوهم رب العنصرية و الطايفية
طبعا انت مسكين
@@samsimon1120 اكيد انت سوري
I'm proud to be Lebanese I refuse to fight my own country men weather they are Christian or any other religion. Lebanese is one nsha alla ❤⛪🕌
Fuck lebanon.
Love you you are a great man on earth
@steven mathew doesnt it suck for you that lebanon is a Christian/Muslim country with peace and aint shit you can do about it
@steven mathew bum
FUCK ISLAM. ISLAM IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL
I want to see a "where are they now" of these people who survived
My grandmother lived in Tripoli, one of the major cities, to this day she always has new stories from that time
nitrorush ههههههه كل مره لها حكاية جديدة،الله يحفظها لك
Dany Chamoun was assassinated in 1990, along with his wife and children.
The man who was translating arabic to english was Dany chamoun who was murdered by Syrians in his appartment with his 2 kids and wife in 1990, only one daughter survived, his brother Dory Chamoun is still alive
They are still alive , waiting for the Lebanon they faught for ...
I lived in Lebanon from 1991 to 2001 amazing country too had corruption wars kept ruining it not to mention it’s border from Palestine and Israel is close by Syria so there will be always issues with that country
And history repeats itself. Lebanon is in a crisis
That is
Way worst than the civil war era.
This is what happens when a diverse society decides to be not so diverse.
Lebanese civil war, 2006 Lebanese war, spillover of the Syrian war and the 2020 Beirut blast.
When will Lebanon ever get a break hope peace and unity will be Lebanon future.
It is totally fu**ed to say the least.
God bless Lebanon and all of Christendom. Love from India
What happened to Christian in India killed and Burnt houses and churches
@@musawiniaz4984don't lie abdool those things happen in Muslim countries
THE JOURNALIST
TWO THUMBS UP‼️
is this jamil sayed in 21:21?
Yes
Looool
Yes bro!
When the mentality from all parties stop thinking that Lebanon is only his nothing will be changed
Despite issues with its analysis of the conflict, it's great to see footage of people like Danny Chamoun and Kamal Jumblatt
i am seeing them talking for the first time :)
That is Camille Chamoin. Dany Chamoun was killed along with his wife amd 2 children in 1990. One child survived.
@@wayne3210 Dany is also interviewed here.
Didnt know Kamal spoke English so well.
It's ridiculous how people in the comments are saying it's the Christians fault or the Muslims fault or the Palestinians fault. The civil war was a fault of everyone involved. No one fought with honour (or didn't fight at all) and all parties involved had fought with absolute disregard for life and with inhuman and cruel habits, massacre after massacre from either sides. You'd think our country would move on from all this but the leaders of the different parties now are even worse, and almost every sunni supports a sunni leader, Maronite supports a Maronite leader, and shiite supports a shiite leader, when none of these 'leaders' have lebanon's interests at heart. They steal from the country and have us all following along like sheep. I dream to see the day we wake the fuck up and unite regardless of religion, and work towards making Lebanon the once great nation it was.
this is the only comment worth reading
There's a lot of people here who seem to have simplified opinions about the middle east conflicts and middle eastern peoples . It's about centuries of conflict , centuries of injustice and prejudice by every faith and ethnic group and centuries of interference by outside parties seeking to gain from their preferred side winning . It's still happening now and when the US and Russia are fighting proxy war through their respective allies it doesn't help the peace process.
"for a moment mayhem seemed imminent, then, mere chaos was restored"
Black September is the reason this happened...the PLO tried to take over Jordan and lost, then moved to Lebanon and were the basis for the war.
It's all started with Jews, they should back to Poland
Fuck off Frank.
True
@negro bsr from Russia,USA, arab countries ,etc....
@negro bsr ask wikipedia
الجبهة اللبنانية هي الوحيدة الوطنية. لم تقبل باحتلال لا شقيق ولا عدو. لبنانيون وكفى ♥️🇱🇧♥️
@Steve Makron تسمية فينيقيين أعطيت كلقب من اليونان إلى الكنعانيين الذين سكنوا لبنان وتمددوا تجارة وسكنا في عدة مناطق حول العالم لكن مركزهم كان في صيدا وصور وكانت تجارتهم هي صناعة اللون الارجواني. لبنان فيه أعراق عديدة. يكفي أن تقول لبنان فهو وطن يجمع جميع اللبنانيين بغض النظر عن العرق والأصل سيد ستيف ماكرون 😊
@Steve Makron كلام ان الكنعانيين اصلهم من اليمن موضوع دراسة. لكن انت تقول اننا نحن نرفض هذا الكلام. تحت أي خانة أناس وضعتني،، هذا اولا؟ ثم، ثانيا، من أنت؟ وبصفتك ماذا تبحث عن تاريخ لبنان؟ أليس بلدك أولى باهتمامك ووقتك؟
@Steve Makron طبعا ان العرب من اشرف القبائل. لكن بالنسبة قولك انك تاج راسي... انا لست أعرفك أصلا يا ستيف معكرون. هل أنت واثق من نفسك لدرجة وصفك بأنك تاج رؤوس الناس. وفعلا لماذا لا تهتم ببلدك وبشعبك وببيئتك؟ لبنان يأخذ من وقتك كثيرا 😂
@Steve Makron ومن ذكر كلمة جريمة 😂 انا قلت انه يبدو أنك لست لبناني ولكنك تولي أكثر تعليقاتك بلبنان. لماذا لا تهتم ببلدك وبيئتك وشعبك وتترك لبنان لشعبه 😂
لتحدثنا عن بلدك. من أي بلد انت؟
Letting 150K Palestinian refugee into southern Lebanon was the beginning of the end of that Country....
No, this country was declining prior, and has had many problems since the war. Read more into colonialism and the creation of this “country.” You can’t see from this video that the Maronite elites run the country and the rest are left in poverty and to suffer?!
@@handsanitiser9832 I'm well aware of the country's history. Maronites, Muslims, druz, etc.. are ALL corrupt and thieves but the Palestinian mass refugee were the gasoline on fire for that country.
@@WeAreNotSheep2023 Again, I'm not saying they didn't cause problems, but historians like Robert Fisk say it was destined to fall b/c of the rulership and tensions! Who had the presidency? Where was money being channeled?! To Mt. Lebanon and its environs, not to Muslim-majority areas. They were facing abject poverty and expected, as Chamoun put it, to accept the "servent-master" relationship. Is this fair?! I've never heard of Muslims or Druze saying that!
@@handsanitiser9832It was thriving during colonialism though 😂
This has been writen about extensivley for those who understand the region. The "Golden Era" was a farce. As the UC Berkerly archives state: "Amid the glimering casinos were the Muslim poor." You can look up blogs abt this, too. Under colonialism, the power and wealth was in the Maronite elite's hands. This facade of "thriving" can only last so long. Just a ask the USA, wherein injustice agains minorities and system discrimination have caused riots (George Floyd).@@badabinbadaboom7338
I literally came here with no knowledge and even I can see the bias throughout this video. It instantly takes a side.
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the phalangists were fascists,no bias its just how it was
@steven mathew beats taking the side of the fucking fascists my dude lmao
before you try to argue that im just calling the right fascists,you should know the leader of the phalangists was a mussolini admirer
@Furry Destroyer yes
@@chev443 The PLO single handedly created a civil war for a country that had nothing to do with their goals. Phalangists fought to free Lebanon from islamic invaders. I would easily side with the phalangists.
Lebanese Christians Feel for the palestinians and their situation. But it was wrong to try to take over Lebanon. PLO had no right to take over Lebanon... We helped them and they arm Up and start taking political control of the country... Your fight was with Israel not Lebanon... Many lives lost, and for what? Your fight was never with lebanon... This is why things ended so badly
the PLO used you. Lebanon gave them a home, the PLO and now Shitbollah (actually Iranians) took over the whole country.
Truly instresting.. Most educational video I have watched in a while, it's nice to learn about your country and it's wars.
nearly 50 years after this documentary and still nothing has changed......... god help us
"You killed my brother" explains why the Christians were forced to clear out the slums. It was an act of self defence
Fake news!!!
Oh yeah, the little girl sure did such things
It's so sad to see my beautiful Lebanon in that state. I'm so glad it's fixed (physically) but there are still a lot of people from all sides who are racist and cause problems. I just want to visit my country when ever I want and not worry about any war or problems breaking out.
Karine Hammoud feel bad for you in Ukraine before the war we had lebanese friends*
They will fight till the end.
@abdelhadi nsiri for a better Lebanon
Awesome report. Thank you for uploading!
All the palastinians fault
Actually Islam’s fault, they can never go against other Muslims decisions when it comes to fighting other religions
Reason of every civil war :
Two or more big countries that want to fight each other in a small county.
Yasser Arafat interview - PLO Leader - Thames Television
Where did these subtitles come from? They're dreadful.
10:35 RIP Al mou'alim Kamal Jumblatt .. You are one of the best politicains who ruled lebanon you helped poor people and your thoughts light us in the dark
Ayre brabbo
Rest in piss bozo won't be missed 👎😹👎
traitor
blaming this war just 'muslims' 'left' or whatever, is way too much wrong.
the term 'civil war' itself doesn't really fit in.
it was a giant clusterfuck. I can oversimplify this and it will still be too long to read.
1. Lebanon was a prominent city, beirut is one of the most important harbour in middle east since at least more than four thousand years. not just a 'historically important place' but just 'important place' all the time. it was called a 'paris of middle-east' but to be frankly, paris? noob. grow a thousand year.
2. Lebanon itself is a part of 'geographical' Syrian region. It doesn mean the current nation of syria. like 'britain(in geographic term)', there are nations like england, scotland, wales...and together there is a UK, in Syria there was a region called 'lebanon' and that becomes modern day lebanon. Syrian region was always wealthy. since there was a fantastic harbour-of course that's Beirut.
3. The Christian population/influence was always heavy compared to other region around there. Syria, Lebanon, especially Beirut and surrounding area. of course I mean after the first islamic empire rised and captured that region. before islam, it was just wealthy roman province and before that it was wealthy poenician region. and crusader nations are been around there about some centuries.
4. so to take control of the 'pearl of the middle east', late roman(byzantine) empire, several islamic nations, some europeans fight over but eventually ottoman empire took it all. and they kinda didn't really kicked the native christian people's arses since they were not stupid enough to break their own moneypot.
5. so the beirut/lebanon was being 'five-star commercial district' 'five-star cultural site' 'one of the 10 places must visit before you dead blahblah clickbait' 'a holy place and bastion for christian people(not the same one in europe)' for centuries. they kinda always did the 'I'm the boss here, don't fuck with me and I don't really give a fuck about your religion or anything.' - causing mayhem in several region but at least they didn't actually wanted them to fight over centuries later. I don't really blame them.
6. and the ottoman empire fall. I mean, the turks are still going well but lost contol of that region anyway, and the french came in(with brits, but in this region it's french). and french were trying to of course. make money out of that region but not really want them to 'WAKE UP AND LIBERATE OURSELF' or anything, so they decided to draw the line on syria, make it into two seperate region. that will be modern syria and lebanon. in syria there are more muslims, arabs. in lebanon, christians and other people. and what french decided to do was, give some piece of land(which islamic population was dominant)into lebanese part so naturally, lebanon should be a country with many christians, some other people, some muslim... but that muslim part was kinda got larger. and that small patches of muslim land/community will not get an independence(since it's small), so they natrually, want their right as lebanese people. well, all the natives there didn't care about the borders or anything like centuries but here it is.
But unfortunately for france, which wanted lebanese to fight each other(but not full-scale civil war) but people in Lebanon was not a shitbag, sterotypical 'violent sand people' somebody thinks, so they actually managed to 'let's be multicultural, functional nation' and it did worked. actual story. there's a church, there's a mosque, there's a muslim woman-black clothes from head to toes, there's a girl with bikini, money comes in, culture grows. and PETROLEUM. you don't get a oil just dig up any lebanese land but it's a harbour. money comes in. and it's the best place for vacation in middle east for centuries. all the money. hotels, banks. the french and brits changed their mind, like 'huh, you're cool. I'm cool. let's be friend'. so french influence(like language, food, cultural things)are there. no problemo.
7. but in the surrounding area, things are not doing well. it's a nation, surrounded by syria, north of Israel/Palestine and Jordan. and go further you'll meet Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi-Arabia, Egypt. massive muslim refugees were appeared and I don't think anybody needs why. and they are just trying to survive and surrounding nations kinda send them into lebanon. muslim population drastically increased.
8. unfortunately, Lebanese goverment(as I told earlier, they managed to actually form a working goverment with completely differnt people)started to 'let's fight now' at that moment. or the chaotic situation made them to. anyway, all the muslim nations 'used' that muslim refugees(okay, they're palestanians). and PLO popped up. basically, a armed group of palestanian people. but they were not functiong as anything yet since you can't make a decent armed force out of refugees, it's not ancient times. and PLO was finally got themselves as working group, under a leadership of.. Arafat. they were formed a base in Jordan since majority of palestanian refugees were at there. but government(monarch)of Jordan doesn't like PLO sticking in his country. so Jordan army fights over PLO. and PLO kinda seperated into - radical(gonna bomb'em all) and non-radical(all we want is just SURVIVE) groups. and munich. oh I forgot. PLO's been fighting with IDF(Israeli armed forces)of course.
9. Army of Jordan kinda kicked out PLO. and PLO got their base at southern Lebanon now. Lebanese government fighting over with 'left-right' 'christian-muslim' or anything and just kinda doing nothing. still. christians were like 'like I gave a shit(because southern lebanon was already a muslim-area kinda), but don't fucking trying to take over this nation with that large band of refugees.' and clueless native muslims were 'kay, there were poor brothers and sisters keep coming in. uhh. they look very angry. well they've been through a lot. they'll get over it I hope.' and radical muslims were 'this is our ticket to win an election wow' and some guys were like 'YEAH GO LEFT WOOHOO' and some people's like 'DIE YOU COMMIE FUCKER' and thing's going worse and worse.
10. PLO, now based on southern lebanon keep throwing shit(kinda explosive shits)at Israel. Israel pissed off, bombing lebanon. lebanese government? doing same thing.
11. tension between christian people and muslim people, and not just between them. different group of christian people, different group of muslims, all groups got their grudge. shit's gonna explode soon. every group start arming themselves. skirmishes are happening. so many group fighting each other. it's not a team deathmatch more like a fucking battle royale. lebanese government finally did something. asked syria to help(they were brother-nation at first, and no serious grudges between them till). syria agrees. and try to kick some ass of 'any radical behaving people'. but Israel didn't like that becuase Lebanon(before)is kinda 'christian with muslims), Syria was 'Muslims with christians' and relationship between Israel and Syria was bad because of course. Israel didn't want Syrian army to come near them(coming in lebanon. lebanon is close to Israel), and Israel was supporting anyone who fighting with PLO. and Syrian army crosses the border(of lebanon. it is not an invasion because lebanon asked them to). there was some agreements but as usual it fucking breaks and Israel just bombed the shit out of Syrian army and PLO, which is located in Lebanon. why? because Israel was constantly bombed by people in Lebanon and Israel was paranoiac as shit since they are getting their daily bombing about decades.
12. so major conflict is, Israeli forces fighting over Syrian army and PLO, in lebanon and lebanese native and refugees got into lebanon was got into shitty war so bombshell everywhere.
look at this. it is 'simplified'. what kinda fucking civil war is this? basically, Israel v Syria/PLO in lebanon and lebanese people are divided into pieces and shit. yeah there was a 'civil war' part but this is more like a... we need a new term for this kinda war. not a proxy war, not a civil war.
Let's call a spade. A spade. It was Palestinians against Lebanese, on our own land!
Gosh! The only DECENT English I read here is from Schlomo! The rest is emotionally-wired ArabEnglish! Where are all the educated Lebanese? Or have they become an Endangered Specie as well?
@@sammyraymondnajemabu-jaoud4143 yeah "specie" is proper English 👍 stop being a typical Lebanese with the all that matters is seeming classy and looking good mentality, bullshit appearances. The Westerners couldn't care less about your language or you culture. Fluent English or French is nothing to be proud of, a working grasp of the language is more than enough. Foreigners who learn other languages are almost never fluent in the second language, just look at most Europeans and their horrible English or israelis especially their mossad and govt who have to learn Arabic to understand their enemy. Almost always they are more than happy with just understanding the second language and speaking it on a beginner level. Instead learn and speak with your own language be it Arabic or even whatever the original language of the Christians in Lebanon is , who I don't personally consider Arabs. Whatever the case be proud of your mother tongue, culture and heritage and learn it with all it's complexities and teach it your kids before anything else. In other cultures (other than Indians who are obsessed with their past colonists the Brits, and recently the Arabs sadly) it's a national duty so why not learn from that. I've seen it everywhere from Turkey, Azerbaijan and the Caucasus to China and Europe, people proud of their national identity and rich history.
Islam is still poison.
Hmmm i read this and i find what you said at the end very funny. To many players in the game it sounded like and every move someone made pissed everyone else off.
"No one will ever know how many heroes died in the Holiday Inn" One of the single most absurd things ive ever heard.
+Justin Ballinger not really, they were heroes, and withstood against countless waves of Palestinian, Arabist and Communist terrorists
+PhoenicanSailor yeah thats why they threw themselves from the top floors.. they were pussies who were only good as snipers in the high rise hotel hunting normal people crossing the roads
+PhoenicanSailor hhhhh you talking to someone who was there lol, they screamed like girls while jumping to their death fearing to see our faces
+PhoenicanSailor hhh..they had fun sniping innocent people going around thier daily needs, going after bread, water, shelter.. but once they we moved in they dropped their pants and jumped to their graves..actually there is a video showing our jeeps dragging them around.. hhh.. you talk shit while i say things as it happens and people here know it because thats a well documented history..douchebag
Im not doubting them to be hero's its the holiday inn part i find absurd.
This is a very short sighted documentary. To assume that the war that united Moslems and Palestinians against the Christian minority in Lebanon was because of political injustice is naive. The fact that Lebanon still has various armed Palestinian factions and Hizballah clearly demonstrates that the problem was regional and beyond a political system.
Who made this translation? In 4:36 she says "Phalangists" and the translation said "Falen cysts"
Excellent documentary as someone who lived it. It's right on the money
Heartbreaking. I remember this war well...seeing it in the news daily. What really sticks in my mind to this day, is war photographer Francoise "Fifi" Demulder's iconic photo of the Karantina Massacre. (May she Rest In Peace).
The Arab Muslim world had a gem that they could branch off of called Lebanon.. but their 5th century thinking threw it in the gutter.. Christian Lebanon was the best thing that ever happened to that region...
Awwww racist little white boy likes believing in falsehoods the Christian Lebanese oppressed the Muslims and didn’t give them equal shares of power that’s what happens when you oppress people and they fight back also most Arab countries in this time were like Lebanon before the west I diot
Peace, freedom and restoration for all for all time.
God bless Lebanon May god bless Muslims , Christians, Druze Lebanese people that live peacefully in it
Our leaders today want this to take place in Europe.
Why are some people confused? the muslim Lebanese supported the PLO against Israel based on religion and ethnicity being Arabs, the Christians Lebanese don't identify as Arabs and wanted nothing to do with Palestine Israel conflict, the Palestinian refugees wanted to fight Israel from Lebanon supported by muslim Lebanese, the Christians did not.
Католики не хотели, а вот, православные арабы и армяне были за Палестину!
Well now lebanon is the best country! Modern and old. Best cuisine. Best prople. Keep going lebanon. ♥️♥️♥️♥️
That didint age well 😂😂😂😂
Aged like milk
@@kaiserwilhelmii1023 worse
This war in Lebanon was caused by the Palstenian Liberation Organisation and their supporting Arab countries intervention in lebanon to help Arrafat to take over power in Lebanon from the original rulers of Lebanon . Arafat tried to do that in Jordan and king Hussain kicked him and PLO out , and Arafat and PLO were kicked out of Lebanon for the same reason... Lebanon , the smallest Arab country , was left to take the full impact of the Palestinian problem , while bigger countries withdrew back and watched . some of them supported and financed Arafat and other militias like the socialists and supporters in the hope of taking over the power in Lebanon and to make it a war front with Israel . While they keep their borders and countries safe .
Now , after decades of that war , Lebanon is on the brink of another sectarian war between Sunni Muslims and Shiia Muslims , where is the rich-and-poor excuse ? ...or , the class excuse now ?.. the Soviet Union is gone ...it is , as it was before , a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the control of Lebanon and the middle east . And the super powers and not out of the picture .
stock man Lebanon while Muslim in majority was not is not technically a Muslim country. In the 1920s it had nearly an 80% Christian population. That number is much lower today with around 20% Christian population and while its leadership is mostly Muslim there is still a Christian constituency represented in the government.You are correct about Arafat and the PLO having started this war and it being a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Its a shame that the world's masses don't seem to see past Israeli Involvement in Lebanon or see that Arafat and the so called Palestinian Liberation Organization are not even really Palestinian as most plo fighters were actually from other Arab countries and use the Palestinian conflict as a way to excuse their fight and hatred against Israel.
Robert Santiago yes i do because if they didn't we would have won this war easy peezy
stock man you wrote all this for nothing
give me fucking break .
we know the truth now
Hans S The Jews didn't start anything... They survived progroms, genocide and Yes now They defend themselves in an intelligent way. They long for Peace. Don't be mistaken about that.
You mean life
Nice work (slightly more positive than the truth) and brave reporter and crew for traveling there from the UK during the war.
I'm glad the Lebanese comments on this video were not broadcast on UK TVs with this documentary.
Because Lebanese people have a beautiful piece of land with great food and weather but they are full of hate and racism and will never learn how to be organized, respectful and work together as a team.
Lebanese people, like most eastern cultures, are very kind and hospitable. But many times I'm ashamed of being Lebanese because of the bad reputation and chaos the others have left. Most of us don't deserve the old Lebanon. Look at the way we treat immigrants, refugees and EACH OTHER. Then we immigrate to US & Canada and on day 1 they give us have equal rights as their own citizens. Because they want you to belong and to love your new country and to be patriotic. I bet that more than 90% of US citizens with Lebanese origins don't accept cross-racial marriages. You know why? Because their parents fed them their racist and religious thoughts. Each and every one of this MAJORITY OF LEBANESE is RACIST of religion/sect/color/gender/ location etc....
("MEN WEN INTA"? -mmmm... another village 5Km away... he's NOT one of us).
It's almost impossible to make Lebanese people truly patriotic with the overall mentality that exists after having 2 generations that were raised during war/corruption and chaos. Not to mention the power of religion and sects in our system and the proxy battles of bigger countries around us that manipulate this helpless government.
Yes, I also think that the government and the sectarian system is crap. But it's the people that make their country, the government should be their tool.
And with people full of hate that are eager for a small trigger to eat each together up; people that think they are superior because they were born in this part of the country (a very tiny country). What kind of Lebanon do we get? A Lebanon that will never make it to the 21st century and that will never go back to the old prosperous Lebanon.
Some Lebanese aren't like that, they are minorities and unfortunately, they don't have much hope.
'Confessions of an economic hitman'. Good watch. Explains the root cause of all problems.
That was great !!!
there are 24 missing episodes
Do u know where they can be found???
Sadly, this might be happened AGAIN in Lebanon sooner or later...
It wont, we all know who will win this time
"Beirut's biggest hotel was a Holiday Inn" that fucking tells you everything...
Holiday inn used to be dope not like the shit today , actually still today there’s some high class holiday inns
thanks for upload
every time i watch middle eastern history it's more and more complex to understand
Yes. 😆 🤣 are you from Pakistan? Thank you!
Absolutely wrong. It was about religion then as it is now
Its interesting how diverse looking the Lebnasee people are. Dany Chamoun looks like he could have been from Western Europe.
Yes, looks French to me lol. I think the Christians and the M there are not genetically the same.
In fact, they are genetically identical. Danny Chamoun is a Maronite, and the Maronites do not have any European genetic influence. Rather, most of their origins are local Levantine, according to DNA analysis. White skin and light-colored hair are not limited to Europe, but have existed in the Middle East since ancient times.
Wow...im interest to watching lebanon 70's fashion....
Huge numbers from each ‘faction’ died and many more families devastated by this crazy conflict, even the USA gave up on it and fled. Until now the result, economic catastrophe. Just in my memory, when their followers were still bleeding, after the PLO were ‘encouraged’ to move their ‘command centre’ to Tunisia, I recall the leaders of the Christians and Druze sitting apparently at ease together - maybe pretence for the media but where was their guilt for the Demise of the Lebanon.
I only have sorrow for all the Lebanese and the Lebanon.
Back when Western journalists actually did journalism, instead of merely acting as regime propagandists. Shame that Lebanon never recovered from this!
And Hezbollah didn't won
the Christians "ouwet" gave their arms for peace
as Hezbollah was supposed to do
but he found himself a cute excuse that he defends Lebanon vs Israel
which is a big lie since Israel attacks only hesbollah people
and found a way to keep their arms instead of having a peaceful Lebanese country so go share your opinions somewhere else
Hezbollah was formed in 1985
@@husseinmasri901 and the Lebanese civil war ended in 1990 what's your point?
بصراحة انا مش لبناني بس ما بتخيل لبنان او اللبنانيين بحاربو او عايشين حرب بحس لبنان بلد سلام
zaid abu hassan ههههه لبنان اكثر بلد حارب بالعالم ، ٢٢ سنة حرب اهلية ، حرب مع العثمانيين والانكليزو، وفرنسا ، وامريكا واسرائيل وداعش وجبهة النصرة ، وحروب الطوائف و ٧ ايار 😂😂😂😂😂😂 لبنان بلد بتحسو سلام عشان تعود عالحرب . يعني اللبناني بحارب وبينزل جنبوا صواريخ بتلاقي عم بيشرب اركيلة
Muhammad Shim hahahahaha your answer is the real FACT in a funny way .
I could not forget how arrogant were the Lebanese guys whom I worked with in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. They still hold on the idea that they have superior education than the rest of the Middle East and Asia. The other Lebanese guy had the gall to even ask me about the tech specs of the computer system that had been installed long before I came to take over as the system administrator. I just ignored him and in a short time, the French manager pushed them out of the company.
I went there in 2013: it's such a shame! The food is great, the landscape, weather and women are beautiful! It's dangerous, but you know what.....I still want to go back again for another vacation it's that damn good. Bucket list place to visit
Alright, alright. However, on one condition. You must take me with you.
I'm glad the Christians stood up and defended their right to exist.
You could also praise your country Syria and its government for killing you’re Christian brothers and sisters.
Catch 22 baby 🤔🤔
The war started because their stupidity.