Thank you for literally painting a very accurate image. Born in 1964 and lived throughout the war within walking distance from the Holiday Inn !. I can relate to every scene. Never held a weapon but managed to cheat death countless times. Immigrated to Canada in 1990 as Canada will remain my home forever.
I am a second generation Lebanese. Please can someone talk to me about this. My parents don't talk much about it. I was born in 86 and our family fleed to the US when i was around 2yrs old
My dad fled during this time and eventually came to the United States. Sworn in as a citizen by Ronald Reagan himself. He been an engineer for FDOT for over 30 years in good standing and married my Mom in 1983. I was born in 1992 in Prince Georges Hospital in Maryland. He still has nighmares and anxiety issues that I wish he would get help for. With racist bullying that got worse at work and outside after 01 his symptoms became unbearable. I live alone now but I had to deal with the brunt of it(I have ASD but I was rushed to the doctors/thrown in a hospital). For anyone who want's to criticize Ilhan Omar, I ask them to trade places with me(YOU'll be begging to go back to your privalaged life).
I lived a long time of my childhood in the street hundert meters away right in front of the holiday inn. Though it was war I don’t to miss the experience had ever lived there. I can tell a story of almost every corner shown. Thanks for creating and sharing this film.
I am inhabitant of Beirut . I wish this great holiday (Holiday inn) would get rebuilt again or Rehabilitate it and make it a symbol for peace ! Every time i pass near it, it makes me sad the way it is and all the sad memories of the civil war era
At the end the war will end , And the leaders will handshake , And the old woman will still waiting her dead son , And the girl will still waiting her dead husband, And these children will still waiting their heroïque dead father , I don't know who sold home ,but i saw who paid the price .
It's amazing how history repeats itself. The country was divided in 1975 between those who were pro-Lebanese sovereignty and anti-Lebanese sovereignty and now we find ourselves divided along the same lines. Except this time it is not Muslim v. Christian but pro and anti-Hezbollah.
And by the way Al Jazeera thanks for the documentary. You guys provide that different angle or perspective that I look for. Thanks for the vast amount of resources you provide the public. Keep up the good work. God bless
I live in a city of hundreds of highrises, including quantities of hotels. The Beirut war and particularly the symbolism of the Holiday Inn inevitably make me wonder what a similar war would be like here...we had a similar Holiday Inn, which also opened in the early 1970s. That building is still standing, intact, although its ownership has changed. No civil wars here, for which I am thankful.
I wished this documentary was 3 hours long, I could listen all day long to those wonderful journalists, photographers and artists who witnessed that era!
The Holiday Inn in Beirut opened in 1974 and was already destroyed one year later. I think it was one of the most luxurious hotels in 70s in Middle East before the civil war. What is his future now after three decades ? I saw him when I visited Beirut several times.
yes indeed ! holiday inn was the front line , hilton hotel was as well front line , i survived 3 days and 2 nights defending it no food and no sleep . we were few students fighting many enemies from different part of the world. soviet flags together with pps , mourabitoun and palerstinians were engaged against us. they planned to kill us all , but they failed. if we had support from any country, we would have defended all the areas, but we were alone. our only help was the miracles from the Lord .
اسم المعركة معركة الفنادق انتهت بسيطرة القوات الفلسطينية والحركة الوطنية اللبنانية على منطقة الفنادق الاستراتيجية وهزيمة القوات المسيحية وادت االى تقسيم العاصمة الي شطرين غربي تحت سيطرة الفلسطينين وقوات الحركة الوطنية واغلب السكان مسلمين مع وجود مسيحيين ايضا ام الشطر الشرقي فكان مسيحيا بالكامل
The younger brother of a family friend of ours was caught in the building (Kataeb fighter) fighting floor to floor until he had no bullets left, they threw him off the building while alive.
It's such a shame, i visited Lebanon in 2013. The food alone is worth the visit. Beautiful country, beautiful mountains - they have it all there except peace.
One wonders if Lebanon’s proxy war orchestrated by Israel and backed by the U.S.left Lebanon eventually liberated ,than we should always hope that the proxy war in Yemen orchestrated by US backed Saudi Arabia will end too and leave the Yemenis free to rebuild the country and live in peace.
@@riannamajzoub5241 for your comparison to work , Trump's motto should not ve been "America 1rst" but "Anglosaxons 1rst" ... Anglosaxons being all people with british origins in countries like the UK , Australia , Canada and New Zealand
Actually it should just be made a memorial site. It would be good for greiving families and would help the country to heal with somthing more neutral as a reminder. No business or anything else should be put there. It's just a bad idea entirely(any place of a major disaster or conflict tends to give off this feeling of dread if built on or changed any believer in the paranormal would understand this).
عدد قليل من الكتائبيين ارعب الكثير و عندما تم محاصرة المبنى اضطر شباب الكتائب ان ينتحروا منهم من اطلق النار على نفسه و منهم من رمى بنفسه عند محاصرته لكي لا يتم تعذيبه و بالنهاية الكتائب باقية و اما الاخرون فانتهى دورهم لانهم بالاساس مجموعات مرتزقة مدعومة من اعداء لبنان
All these young fighters were taken advantage of by their leaders, they used them to their own interests nothing else, just look who benefited at the end of the civil war.
@@keifermcpot4392 you are mistaken now there are more of them with the same ideology all over outside Lebanon and they are not even Lebanese and this was thanks to your behavior , mentality , culture and Fanaticism that is ready to surface fully blown soon enough
Wars need to be permanently outlawed as no one ever wins, So many lives lost, Both servicemen and civilans and for what, Stupid wars? That's why I'll Always speak out against them. Its sickening that the Holiday Inn, in Beirut is only remembered for war and not for the lavish hotel it was meant to be. Sickening, just sickening
"But it passed by the Holiday Inn", said the researcher, referring to teh Green Line(22.10).. That's not correct, the Green Line as it's commonly known was much farther to the east, running south up from Martyr's Square.
How things have turned out now, explosion in the wherehouse, waterfront gone, the effects all building demolished in the immediate area. Like a nuke went of. We can rebuild. ✊☘️✌️
Cat bombs were a thing, the US marine barracks during the war was hit by one and it killed over 300 troops. They didn't blow it up because it was strategically important by being able to have a birds eye view of the entire area
Lol, you failed when there was freedom movement in Punjab so what you beggars will do now, when there is no freedom movement ? But for sure FAtA and Balochistan will be free country.
Israeli doesn't care about your existence. All they do is care for Lebanese and Palestinian. Stop Oiling other countries instead take of yours, watch out for China and Pakistan
What war ?????? For God sake the war ended 30 years ago and you still talking about it with every time anyone mention Lebanon. Nowadays Lebanon is the only country in Middle East that is stable and safe and it’s the only real democracy in the Middle East whom everyone have the full freedom to express themselves.
Other than the mountain wars and massacres of sabra w shatila this probably was the most barbaric event in the civil war. Just imagine having to fight floor by floor. At some point you had amal wel eshtirakiye on one floor with the lebanese forces on the floor under them and then under their floor you had another militia group 😂
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Thank you for literally painting a very accurate image. Born in 1964 and lived throughout the war within walking distance from the Holiday Inn !. I can relate to every scene. Never held a weapon but managed to cheat death countless times. Immigrated to Canada in 1990 as Canada will remain my home forever.
thats good to hear my man cheers from California ! Lebanese Roots
👌 Bor
I am a second generation Lebanese. Please can someone talk to me about this. My parents don't talk much about it. I was born in 86 and our family fleed to the US when i was around 2yrs old
I'm sorry no one replied, what kinda things you wanna know? Then mb someone will answer@@bassemadawoud3890
Long live the Christians of Lebanon. Lions of the Middle East
Says the guy having a masonic pp
Thanks bro, I will always be ready to defend my faith and people, God bless you
I am afraid the Christian people in Europe will have this same problem.
Heart breaking, I was a kid at the time. And I can tell u that the only people who lost in this proxy war. Were the Lebanese themselves....
brittle bone bobby saudis? It waschristian an israelis foult saudis were on the right side the plo
Bobby in Lebanon?
My dad fled during this time and eventually came to the United States. Sworn in as a citizen by Ronald Reagan himself. He been an engineer for FDOT for over 30 years in good standing and married my Mom in 1983. I was born in 1992 in Prince Georges Hospital in Maryland. He still has nighmares and anxiety issues that I wish he would get help for. With racist bullying that got worse at work and outside after 01 his symptoms became unbearable. I live alone now but I had to deal with the brunt of it(I have ASD but I was rushed to the doctors/thrown in a hospital). For anyone who want's to criticize Ilhan Omar, I ask them to trade places with me(YOU'll be begging to go back to your privalaged life).
@@riannamajzoub5241 you weren’t able to live a pretty good life with your father being an engineer?
I lived a long time of my childhood in the street hundert meters away right in front of the holiday inn. Though it was war I don’t to miss the experience had ever lived there. I can tell a story of almost every corner shown. Thanks for creating and sharing this film.
You should write a book.
Lebanon is such a fascinating country! One day I'll visit Beirut for sure.
make sure you convert to Shia Islam before you do!
@@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt why
Funny how they didn't mention the reason why the Christian's attacked the bus was in response for a church shooting
Figured something like that happened.👍
@@captainpinky8307 Deus Vult?
you make it out like they shot up the church when they really just did a drive by assassination of a guy who had been attacking them
@Sami Almuntasr kiss ekhtak, you cant change facts
@Sami Almuntasr EKHTAK
I am inhabitant of Beirut . I wish this great holiday (Holiday inn) would get rebuilt again or Rehabilitate it and make it a symbol for peace ! Every time i pass near it, it makes me sad the way it is and all the sad memories of the civil war era
At least one floor at a time.
At the end the war will end ,
And the leaders will handshake ,
And the old woman will still waiting her dead son ,
And the girl will still waiting her dead husband,
And these children will still waiting their heroïque dead father ,
I don't know who sold home ,but i saw who paid the price .
PLO should have never been allowed in the country. Should have handled them the Jordanian way
Amen
who allowed them in?
Zionist who ate killing innocent people in Gaza today... @@kraf9132
The false hearted entity created all that refugees who lived in the camps of hunger and poorness
It's amazing how history repeats itself. The country was divided in 1975 between those who were pro-Lebanese sovereignty and anti-Lebanese sovereignty and now we find ourselves divided along the same lines. Except this time it is not Muslim v. Christian but pro and anti-Hezbollah.
Dev Dixit dude go marry an 11 year old
And by the way Al Jazeera thanks for the documentary. You guys provide that different angle or perspective that I look for. Thanks for the vast amount of resources you provide the public. Keep up the good work. God bless
It's not a civil war when Palestinians and Syrians are involved. This was Lebanon being attacked from all sides!!
Tony A wrong it’s was a civil war look it up
You are begins and kill peaple
@@louisbeerreviews8964 WRIONG. IT WAS NOT. I WAS THERE.
@@tareksadek8436 what?
@@TonyA4766 this the fact
Interesting...same that hotel, Holiday Inn, was the major point in battle for Sarajevo in Bosnia 1992.
True
It's often the biggest and most imposing hotel in a city. The Sarajevo one was built for the Olympics, IIRC.
I live in a city of hundreds of highrises, including quantities of hotels. The Beirut war and particularly the symbolism of the Holiday Inn inevitably make me wonder what a similar war would be like here...we had a similar Holiday Inn, which also opened in the early 1970s. That building is still standing, intact, although its ownership has changed. No civil wars here, for which I am thankful.
Great video. Heartbreaking what happened to Lebanon. Libnanrahyerja3
I wished this documentary was 3 hours long, I could listen all day long to those wonderful journalists, photographers and artists who witnessed that era!
"When you're burdened down with trouble / And your nerves are wearing thin / Kick your cares - down the stairs / And come to Holiday Inn!"
The Holiday Inn in Beirut opened in 1974 and was already destroyed one year later. I think it was one of the most luxurious hotels in 70s in Middle East before the civil war. What is his future now after three decades ? I saw him when I visited Beirut several times.
yes indeed ! holiday inn was the front line , hilton hotel was as well front line , i survived 3 days and 2 nights defending it no food and no sleep . we were few students fighting many enemies from different part of the world. soviet flags together with pps , mourabitoun and palerstinians were engaged against us. they planned to kill us all , but they failed. if we had support from any country, we would have defended all the areas, but we were alone. our only help was the miracles from the Lord .
اسم المعركة معركة الفنادق انتهت بسيطرة القوات الفلسطينية والحركة الوطنية اللبنانية على منطقة الفنادق الاستراتيجية وهزيمة القوات المسيحية وادت االى تقسيم العاصمة الي شطرين غربي تحت سيطرة الفلسطينين وقوات الحركة الوطنية واغلب السكان مسلمين مع وجود مسيحيين ايضا ام الشطر الشرقي فكان مسيحيا بالكامل
So sad to see what was once a great city be reduced to ruins.
Keep western governments out of your country and you should be fine.
HAHAHA
What about uncle Sam?
It was the PLO and Israel who started it, not the US
Ah yes, Russia was not using the PLO though, right?
The PLO and Syrians totally didn’t start it 😂
We stayed at the Holiday Inn in Sarajevo before the war 1987.
The younger brother of a family friend of ours was caught in the building (Kataeb fighter) fighting floor to floor until he had no bullets left, they threw him off the building while alive.
yah, to be honest snipers never really get mercy. They are usually executed as they are hated the most.
He deserves it tbh
Keifer Mcpot it should of been you
@@danial469 he wasn't a sniper, they got caught in the building and kept going up.
No one in the holiday inn got shown mercy.
who is they exactly
It's such a shame, i visited Lebanon in 2013. The food alone is worth the visit. Beautiful country, beautiful mountains - they have it all there except peace.
After the fighting stopped in holiday inn people were saying that you can hear the cries of the dead and i think thats why its left as it is .......
One wonders if Lebanon’s proxy war orchestrated by Israel and backed by the U.S.left Lebanon eventually liberated ,than we should always hope that the proxy war in Yemen orchestrated by US backed Saudi Arabia will end too and leave the Yemenis free to rebuild the country and live in peace.
just like Sarajevo's holiday inn......
Mourbatoon are NOT nationalist, they are Nasserites, following the Pan-Arab unification ideology of Egypt's president Nasser
Kinda the Arab equvilant of Trump supporters?
@@riannamajzoub5241 No, this is not accurate at all.
@@riannamajzoub5241 for your comparison to work , Trump's motto should not ve been "America 1rst" but "Anglosaxons 1rst" ... Anglosaxons being all people with british origins in countries like the UK , Australia , Canada and New Zealand
Nassar was Ba'ath in all but name
Why don't I feel bad for this people the way the mistreat migrant workers is heartless.
i hope they dont renovate it they should leave it as it is
lol yah it will be needed soon
Actually it should just be made a memorial site. It would be good for greiving families and would help the country to heal with somthing more neutral as a reminder. No business or anything else should be put there. It's just a bad idea entirely(any place of a major disaster or conflict tends to give off this feeling of dread if built on or changed any believer in the paranormal would understand this).
@@riannamajzoub5241 They did same thing in Germany after ww2, left a major government building as a reminder.
It has been left the last time I was there (10 years ago now)
Very informative! Thank you!
عدد قليل من الكتائبيين ارعب الكثير و عندما تم محاصرة المبنى اضطر شباب الكتائب ان ينتحروا منهم من اطلق النار على نفسه و منهم من رمى بنفسه عند محاصرته لكي لا يتم تعذيبه و بالنهاية الكتائب باقية و اما الاخرون فانتهى دورهم لانهم بالاساس مجموعات مرتزقة مدعومة من اعداء لبنان
لكن الحركة الوطنيه اليساريه انتصرت على الجبهه اللبنانيه اليمينيه في معركه الفنادق
ماتت الكتاىب يا خيي ماتت
All these young fighters were taken advantage of by their leaders, they used them to their own interests nothing else, just look who benefited at the end of the civil war.
@@keifermcpot4392 you are mistaken now there are more of them with the same ideology all over outside Lebanon and they are not even Lebanese and this was thanks to your behavior , mentality , culture and Fanaticism that is ready to surface fully blown soon enough
صقر فلسطين الله محي و يقوي المقاومة الفلسطينية و المقاومة اللبنانية ضد عدو الله امريكا و الصهاينة
Tower to symbol a non war as the region to a peace as other to conflict for a next generation for a people💖🇬🇧.
Wars need to be permanently outlawed as no one ever wins,
So many lives lost,
Both servicemen and civilans and for what,
Stupid wars?
That's why I'll Always speak out against them.
Its sickening that the Holiday Inn, in Beirut is only remembered for war and not for the lavish hotel it was meant to be.
Sickening, just sickening
And the intense fire....did not provoke the hotel to fall upon itself....looking like a controlled demolition. That rarely happens
I just seen that building this week October 15/22.
Now EU politicians import refugees from Syria.
Doing the same and expect different results is madness.
You are supporting christian terror all over again
@@mustimon ANd you are supporting Islamic terror
@@mustimon when will you stop using this language caveman? Christian terror? really? Tfeh 3lek
Its crazy to think my dad was part of this war. I don’t know if he took part in this battle, i need to ask him 🤔
My father did
I was not born yet my parents where in U.S.A where i was born in 1979 this is horrible.
I lived in Beirut. I never knew there was a civil war
Thanks to social front - Ahmed gabriel and his brothers this city is free of racists and fanatics
my parents wedding as in holiday inn
"But it passed by the Holiday Inn", said the researcher, referring to teh Green Line(22.10).. That's not correct, the Green Line as it's commonly known was much farther to the east, running south up from Martyr's Square.
👍👍👍👍👍
Seriously TH-cam ? Why are you blocking today's news ? It's not like we won't find out from somewhere else.
How things have turned out now, explosion in the wherehouse, waterfront gone, the effects all building demolished in the immediate area. Like a nuke went of. We can rebuild. ✊☘️✌️
Still looks like that today. The government can’t even clean up after its own criminal negligence
Tyson Fury got robbed
Excellent co-relation. Lol
To be honest if you go there you might still find equipment bullets etc
This could make a good movie 🎦
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Thts like Trevors Truck
اجمل اوتيل بلعالم الله يلعن الحرب واهلها
Excuse my words
But think of it as a PROXY F...D UP WAR. Sensless and heartless
Kind seems where rich go, trouble is not far behind
اين الترجمة
Beautiful documentry
Wherever Palestinians wars!
Good
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18:28 Rambo
Shut up
I guess car bombs were not a thing back then, because that's all it would have taken to level the holiday inn
Cat bombs were a thing, the US marine barracks during the war was hit by one and it killed over 300 troops.
They didn't blow it up because it was strategically important by being able to have a birds eye view of the entire area
Yes, bring white old men to explain to us this
Old white men started the war
Old white men start all wars. Gog and magog
And they were old when they were interviewed because they had been young at the time the war started in 1975.
Christians went flying
???
I hope Qatar becomes the next Yemen
serpent977MB what you gonna gain if Qatar become like Yemen are you Jewish or what
@Abe E it'll be better for all of us if Saudi Arabia manages the gulf region..
The entire GCC will more than likely slip into war once the need for oil is over.
Wtf is wrong with you
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وساعه. في. أكل 🍔🍖.وغير في. ساعه. وعاد🎹🎷🎺. موسىء
وطلب. رزق. فولوك 🛶. بيت. في. مدينة. هولود.
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I think india will host 20 in 2020. War....and india punjab is referendum 2020 khalistan free punjab
Pakistan will host 20 in 2020 free Balochistan referendum.
Lol, you failed when there was freedom movement in Punjab so what you beggars will do now, when there is no freedom movement ? But for sure FAtA and Balochistan will be free country.
Long live Israel
Love from India!
Kaschmir is Pakistan
Nah, long live Lebanon, Christian and Muslim
Israeli doesn't care about your existence.
All they do is care for Lebanese and Palestinian.
Stop Oiling other countries instead take of yours, watch out for China and Pakistan
@@lebnan885kashmir is independent
Free Palestine!
Who won the war ????
Desert Eagle nobody
actually no one
No one , no war is "won" . History is written by the tyrants
No one
Iran won and syria
What war ?????? For God sake the war ended 30 years ago and you still talking about it with every time anyone mention Lebanon. Nowadays Lebanon is the only country in Middle East that is stable and safe and it’s the only real democracy in the Middle East whom everyone have the full freedom to express themselves.
Not for long... Wake up.
Man, weed must be legal where you live. You must buy the good stuff.
Well you should see Lebanon now. Turn on the freaking news
If you don’t remember the past then you are doomed to repeat it
History almost repeating now
Allah ouwet
Other than the mountain wars and massacres of sabra w shatila this probably was the most barbaric event in the civil war. Just imagine having to fight floor by floor. At some point you had amal wel eshtirakiye on one floor with the lebanese forces on the floor under them and then under their floor you had another militia group 😂
I dont know
Please blow it up, and build a peace park., and homes for the homeless.
That's some nice virtue signaling 😆
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