Why Does Israel Exist?

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    Israel is at the heart of one of the most controversial conflicts in the world today. In part 1 of this two-part video, we look at the origins of the state of Israel, the ideas behind it, and the origins of their conflict with the Palestinian natives.
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  • @StepBackHistory
    @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Why does Israel and Palestine seem embedded in endless conflict? This series explores the historical roots behind this ancient conflict: th-cam.com/video/hGxaepYw-cw/w-d-xo.html

    • @paultremblay4836
      @paultremblay4836 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Step Back History
      When am listening to you, I realize I only knew half of the history.
      Everytime I listen to you, I learn something new. You have a unique way,a unique style that keeps attention to the listener.

    • @luzhizui
      @luzhizui 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hi there. I can't find part 2 :( Where is it please?

    • @zozzy4630
      @zozzy4630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tristan,
      Great video, but I'm a bit concerned that you might be conflating two separate ideas, both of which you're referring to as nationalism - I'm going to simplify by saying "statist nationalism" and "racial nationalism" (because, to put all my cards on the table, I'm not entirely sure what the correct terminology might be). Statist nationalism is the idea that the nation is the most important aspect of life, as opposed to international, local, social, or other affairs. While you would think that would lend itself to non-interventionist foreign policy - and, to be fair, it sometimes does: see USA, 1890s through 1940s - it usually manifests alongside irredentist movements, like early 20th-century German nationalism, which included the idea that being German was the most important aspect of a German citizen, over things like being European, being from Berlin, or being working-class, but also led people to advocate for German domination over Europe and eventually the world. Racial nationalism, which often (but not always) forms part of statist nationalist ideology, is the idea that a nation should be led by and tolerant of only a single race to the exclusion of all others. An obvious example is white nationalism, which of course was another major tenet of German nationalism, especially by the time of Nazi rule - but it also has factions across the world and across history, especially in places populated almost entirely by just two racial groups. An example would be Israel, which almost exclusively includes Arab and Jewish citizens (though of course there are other diasporic populations, including white, south Asian, and African people). Zionism is a mixed ideology, like German nationalism, that includes both statist and racial nationalism: roughly holding that Israel should be an entirely Jewish nation, and its people should fight for the strength of the Israeli state rather than the strength of a social group or city or pretty much anything else (except religion - never expect power-hungry radical groups to be ideologically consistent if it would hamper their other goals). Just remember that Trump is espousing state nationalism when he calls to bring jobs back and to fight for American ideals, and Steven Crowder is espousing white nationalism when he asserts that diversity breeds disunity and POC are naturally more likely to be criminals. (*A*S*T*E*R*I*S*K* I'm not saying that either of those two men don't also propel the other's ideas; they most certainly do. Like I said, the two ideologies often go hand-in-hand.)

    • @goliatdepalestein3898
      @goliatdepalestein3898 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dear Trisan,
      I like your videos very much, most of them are spot on. In this one, you have mentioned the Stern gang and the King David Hotel attack, hardly any TH-cam historian, on this topic, does that, Excellent! You jumped from Napoleon Bonaparte to Chaim Weissmann and that is a big leap. Dr. Leon Pinsker (1821-1891) is the father of modern Zionism and wrote the pamphlet “Auto-emancipation”. This pamphlet is readable on Wikipedia in English. This is a must read, to understand the period between Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) -who endorsed Pinsker's theories and wrote the more moderate Der Judenstaat - and David Ben-Gurion (1886 - 1973). If you have the stomach, to read “Auto-emancipation”, you should make an additional video about it. It’s vomit or barf, “Auto-emancipation”, gave me a deep depression.
      Modern Zionism arose in response to the beginning of the abolition of black slavery and decolonization, in the 1850’s, as a small cult within Diaspora Judaism.

    • @padraigmcgrath3876
      @padraigmcgrath3876 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dear Tristan. I agree with almost everything you've said in this video, but still, let me insert one or two little caveats. Is Israel a genocidal apartheid-state? Yes. Quite clearly, yes.
      The state of Israel's conduct in the occupied territories is simply indefensible.
      Is Israel's existence a historical accident? Yes again, quite clearly.
      But..... Israel is not the world's first genocidal apartheid-state, and it sure won't be the last, so the level of popular obsession with Israel seems disproportionate, and sometimes I develop a pretty cynical hunch as to why that might be....
      Secondly, of course Israel's existence is a freak historical accident, but the same point could be made about most of the nation-states on Earth. Run through the entire list of 194 currently existent independent states and sovereign territories. When and under what circumstances did each of them gain their independence?
      It turns out that about 60% of all the currently existent independent states on Earth are younger than the modern state of Israel, and came into existence under circumstances no less arbitrary or accidental than those which brought Israel into existence. History is just a series of accidents.
      Is the state of Israel really an essentially more "artificial" entity than Suriname, or Ukraine, or even Belgium?
      The existence of ALL of those countries is purely and simply a matter of historical accident, just as it is in the case of Israel.
      Furthermore, ALL countries are temporary entities. Countries exist accidentally, until such a time as they simply contingently stop existing..... Many countries have had much shorter lifespans than the lifespans of individual people.

  • @silvermustelid764
    @silvermustelid764 6 ปีที่แล้ว +254

    The two-video solution. A wise choice.

    • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
      @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Elitist 226 You won the internet today, pal!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat 6 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Except that the other video feels like it doesn't exist right now.

    • @norelfarjun3554
      @norelfarjun3554 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Which adds more layer to the analogy

    • @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS
      @HauntaskhanHYPNOSIS 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I hate that Part 1 has 24k views and Part 2 has only 9k views...
      Let's you know how many choose to be blind..

    • @kittycubeenterprises7276
      @kittycubeenterprises7276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How about a no state solution

  • @Thumbsupurbum
    @Thumbsupurbum 6 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    > Slowly backing away from the comment section before the war starts.

  • @Lastman737
    @Lastman737 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Imagine two other countries deciding how much of your country they'll settle.

  • @SunflowerSocialist
    @SunflowerSocialist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +278

    Nationalism AND British imperialism! What could possibly go wrong?

    • @numetalmarkchavez24
      @numetalmarkchavez24 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      It's like trying to make a smoothie with a dead animal carcass and vomit

    • @JoesGLI
      @JoesGLI 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      The price of tea is to damn high!

    • @SunflowerSocialist
      @SunflowerSocialist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Alice Dexter the same can be said for any major religion.

    • @FirstNameLastName-ig2im
      @FirstNameLastName-ig2im 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alice Dexter JIDF schpotted

    • @timothybenton315
      @timothybenton315 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Brendan, I look at the different faiths, there is one faith today that is involved with 97% of terrorist attacks, it is not Christianity, sure not Buddhism, Judaism, or any other faith, but there is one that is, that would be Islam.

  • @YukiteruAmano92
    @YukiteruAmano92 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I had about 10 seconds where I was thinking '"Jewish pilgrims in Russia" what the hell does that mean!?' before realising it was just the way he was pronounce "Pogroms"!

    • @LukeTEvans
      @LukeTEvans 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      if i was jewish and saw how things have gone in israel and i wanted leave where i was i would go to the jewish republic in the far east. after the world 2 why should jews have to leave they shouldnt feel uncomfortable in europe or the west

  • @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs
    @MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Oh yeah... My favorite history channel touching this subject! How awesome is this?

  • @katiakominski432
    @katiakominski432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Another thing you should have mentioned- as to why the Jews had tension with the British- it might have to do with putting Holocaust survivors in prisons for attempting to flee into Israel. I think that could be an important factor.

  • @andreipristavu8170
    @andreipristavu8170 6 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    You have balls of steel to make this video.

    • @forgefathereli8354
      @forgefathereli8354 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I know right, And the fact he's jewish himself. Shit he showed a more objective history of this than any random secular version I've seen lol. He's like me though born jewish but like christians its honestly just a random question in conversations very rarely (more so if your a jew obviously, by nature of being the minority group) Then there's those jews who can't speak more than 3 sentences without mentioning that their jewish and how that somehow affects their opinion on the avengers movie... I used to be like that *rolls eyes in anachronistic embarrassment smh* But you get older. If there's one thing the internet teaches you, other peoples pet peeves and how to avoid them.

    • @TheFallinhalo
      @TheFallinhalo 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      sigh. can we retire that worthless old word it does nothing but detract form the topic at hand and more often then not just is used by pro-israel people because they have no argument.
      for me when i point out the truth of israel and its atrocities. whenever i get called a anti-semite i treat it as a badge of honour. because i pretty much just said something that the pro-israel person cant deny or come up with a legitimate argument. prom[ting them to play the "Anti-Semite card"

    • @edwardmartinez199
      @edwardmartinez199 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Diana Pristavu yes but very little mind we are here therefore the question is moot.

    • @edwardmartinez199
      @edwardmartinez199 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Eli Gutman He must be a convert.

    • @edwardmartinez199
      @edwardmartinez199 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ragin Caucasion Your comment is inaccurate rethink your post.

  • @cielarko6210
    @cielarko6210 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Thank you for mentioning the Arab-Nazi connection. However your explanation of the Jewish side was completely Ashkenazi centered. No mention of the Sephardic or Druze experience.

    • @LukeTEvans
      @LukeTEvans 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      jews left europe to the next worst place at the time for jewish people.

    • @KnightsUnion
      @KnightsUnion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LukeTEvans Zionist hate for Europe is clear to see

    • @KnightsUnion
      @KnightsUnion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@michaelreynolds8204 they have more claim to the land then European khazars

  • @MrShin1984
    @MrShin1984 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Amazing video, I really enjoyed your style of explaining everything to us, excellent work......

  • @timothymclean
    @timothymclean 6 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Nationalism, nationalism, and more nationalism, with a sprinkling of colonialist apathy. A surefire recipe for success (if you're lucky enough to live far away).

    • @anti-fascistapachehelicopt8236
      @anti-fascistapachehelicopt8236 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't be ridiculous, it's not colonialism. It's the Jewish homeland.

    • @seekingabsolution1907
      @seekingabsolution1907 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anti-fascistapachehelicopt8236 technically all humans come from Africa that didn't make the colonization of Africa by Europeans moral or right or not colonialism. Nor would it be right for Irish Americans to found a new state in Ireland and make current Irish citizens second class citizens.

    • @anti-fascistapachehelicopt8236
      @anti-fascistapachehelicopt8236 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seekingabsolution1907 You are absolutely correct, and since I wrote that comment I have shifted entirely in the Israel-Palestine conflict. I am now a proud supporter of Palestine.

    • @donovanlocust1106
      @donovanlocust1106 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@anti-fascistapachehelicopt8236 it's still their homeland.

  • @thetruth9494
    @thetruth9494 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Just discovered you channel and subscribed after viewing this first podcast and the following one. Thumbs up for a very detailed, well researched but simply explained issue which is so complicated, and without being biased. Will be looking forward to viewing your other videos, because from this first viewing I believe they might be sane comments about our presently insane world.

  • @Jenny-zu6nm
    @Jenny-zu6nm 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very good video, suprisingly non biased. I hope for once, the comments section of this video can remain civil. Good work!

  • @lisaclausen8304
    @lisaclausen8304 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stumbled on you channel, and am really happy I did! Thank you for the content!

  • @forgefathereli8354
    @forgefathereli8354 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Lol releasing this on passover is a nice touch You got style stepback. You got style. =)

  • @MrWilsonarnold
    @MrWilsonarnold 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    SB is a very good presentation giving a complete and comprehensive real events of the past ,very good

  • @Dreadnought26
    @Dreadnought26 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Intriguing video

  • @iDigsGiantRobots
    @iDigsGiantRobots 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love your video man. Saying it like it is. I did notice that you glossed over the nakba between 47 and 48 - are you planning on talking about it later?

  • @ByrdieFae
    @ByrdieFae 6 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Nice American Tail reference. ❤

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I was worried that it was too old a reference now

    • @SunflowerSocialist
      @SunflowerSocialist 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Step Back History hey I’m barley a millennial, but I got it. Thank god I was raised on Toon Disney (and PBS Kids).

  • @bojomay2952
    @bojomay2952 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good video. Thanks!

  • @maekong2010
    @maekong2010 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Liked, subscribed, and bell "rung."

  • @richardgerefanaccount4520
    @richardgerefanaccount4520 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    These comments are gonna be VERY interesting

  • @Pratchettgaiman
    @Pratchettgaiman 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ....I mean, there are definitely plenty of reasons to criticize the King David Hotel attack, but to refer to it as "a hotel" is rather deceptive, the attack was against British military and administrative headquarters within the hotel

    • @davidwright7193
      @davidwright7193 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was a hotel. My grandfather joined the RAF in ‘44 on a short service recruitment (the duration or 2 years). In 45 he was sent to Egypt for operational training as a navigator. His unit was stood down from training in May 45 and he spent the rest of his service with the RAF regiment guarding an air base in the Canal Zone near the bitter lakes. When his term was up in the summer of ‘46 he was given a weeks leave in Jerusalem so he could visit the holy sites of Jerusalem and Bethlehem if he wanted to. During that time he was quartered in he king david hotel. He never forgot nor forgave those who tried to kill him.

  • @TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN
    @TEHSTONEDPUMPKIN 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why does Israel Exist?
    As Dr. Zoidberg once said "Not a day goes by I don't ask myself the same question."

  • @bettinahooper5344
    @bettinahooper5344 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are doing some fine work here- it's much appreciated. I went to the Patreon site to support your work. Dude, the site is a mess- I can't donate....maybe you should have a look.

  • @christianweibrecht6555
    @christianweibrecht6555 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    tristan ,is one of your stretch goals to make collaboration video with pragerU, armored skeptic, and Louder with crowder? lol

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's just me watching their videos and yelling incoherently

    • @glitch42
      @glitch42 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Step Back History I have a friend that's been watching a lot of there videos. How do I refute their claims?

  • @ronethan
    @ronethan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ok I know I'm late for the party but why did you talk about the Jewish diaspora only in Europe?? There have been Jewish communities in Africa and Asia too, for centuries.

    • @Malamockq
      @Malamockq 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree. There's Black jews and Indian jews as well. It feeds into this stereotype that white jews are somehow, "authentic" while other races are not real jews. This is both racist and anti-jewish.

  • @evywthingseemsdiffagain921
    @evywthingseemsdiffagain921 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    And a vid on Cambridge analytica too(perhaps on the History of privacy rights and internet services, whatever you think up, thanks!).

  • @MercyS26
    @MercyS26 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Hey Tristan, do you have a video on the ottoman empire? Kinda interested in knowing more, great video!
    Also, you should do a video on the scramble for Africa, another tragic event in history where white Europeans fucked over an entire continent.

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'll bump it up

    • @abebabua7967
      @abebabua7967 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mk S.
      yep Blame all Europeans for what select groups did yep typical American

  • @ramishweel9506
    @ramishweel9506 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    seeing the star of David i thought you were going to be biased towards Israel, but I was wrong.
    thank you for your objectiveness.
    great video, keep it up.

  • @oisinboland7864
    @oisinboland7864 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow I've gone trough the comment section and haven't found anything controversial! Well done on being unbiased!

    • @oisinboland7864
      @oisinboland7864 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      M DC well, three weeks ago it was ok but now not so much

  • @troeteimarsch
    @troeteimarsch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    thanks!

  • @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan
    @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I guess these need an updated video

  • @josegonzalez-ii3vt
    @josegonzalez-ii3vt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "why does israel exist?" Stalin made an oopsie

  • @artmanxp
    @artmanxp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonder if he made a video on the more resion one

  • @zozzy4630
    @zozzy4630 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think there are two separate ideas being referred to as nationalism here - I'm going to simplify by saying "statist nationalism" and "racial nationalism" (because, to put all my cards on the table, I'm not entirely sure what the correct terminology might be). Statist nationalism is the idea that the nation is the most important aspect of life, as opposed to international, local, social, or other affairs. While you would think that would lend itself to non-interventionist foreign policy - and, to be fair, it sometimes does: see USA, 1890s through 1940s - it usually manifests alongside irredentist movements, like early 20th-century German nationalism, which included the idea that being German was the most important aspect of a German citizen, over things like being European, being from Berlin, or being working-class, but also led people to advocate for German domination over Europe and eventually the world. Racial nationalism, which often (but not always) forms part of statist nationalist ideology, is the idea that a nation should be led by and tolerant of only a single race to the exclusion of all others. An obvious example is white nationalism, which of course was another major tenet of German nationalism, especially by the time of Nazi rule - but it also has factions across the world and across history, especially in places populated almost entirely by just two racial groups. An example would be Israel, which almost exclusively includes Arab and Jewish citizens (though of course there are other diasporic populations, including white, south Asian, and African people). Zionism is a mixed ideology, like German nationalism, that includes both statist and racial nationalism: roughly holding that Israel should be an entirely Jewish nation, and its people should fight for the strength of the Israeli state rather than the strength of a social group or city or pretty much anything else (except religion - never expect power-hungry radical groups to be ideologically consistent if it would hamper their other goals). Just remember that Trump is espousing state nationalism when he calls to bring jobs back and to fight for American ideals, and Steven Crowder is espousing white nationalism when he asserts that diversity breeds disunity and POC are naturally more likely to be criminals. (*A*S*T*E*R*I*S*K* I'm not saying that either of them don't also propel the other's ideas; they most certainly do. Like I said, the two ideologies often go hand-in-hand.)

    • @seekingabsolution1907
      @seekingabsolution1907 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think the terms you're looking for are ethnic nationalism and civic nationalism, which date back to the emergence of nationalism in napoleon France. Civic nationalism is a common identity based on similar socio political values in a nation whilst ethnic nationalism revolves around an idea of common linguistic/cultural/religious identity and even in its inception it was manufactured and largely false requiring the destruction of many language groups within France by way of a standardization of the French school system.

  • @Greywind30
    @Greywind30 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I can't find second part

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/hGxaepYw-cw/w-d-xo.html

  • @tompatterson1548
    @tompatterson1548 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    all three pray on different days, why can't the dome on the rock be a mosque on Fridays, a synagogue on Saturdays, and a christian church on Sundays?

    • @ExatedWarrior
      @ExatedWarrior 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Interesting idea, but it's not inline with all those religions. They don't all just pray once a week, but Islam prays 5 times a day everyday, and Judaism prays 3 times a day everyday.
      Further, If we assume all religions play nice we still have some problems:
      Judaism - the temple is not just another synagogue nor could it even be reduced to such under Jewish religious law. It is THE holy site in Judaism and has to be used a specific way at all times. Having the temple be used under Jewish law and then give it away to other groups that don't follow the law is antithetical to what the temple is for. It'd be better if the temple mount isn't under Jewish control at all. There's also the issue of not using it until the time of the messiah.
      Islam - I don't think they have explicit religious laws against it, but they're incredibly restrictive about who goes up there. I don't think Islam is ok with dhimmi religions using their mosques since those religions are incorrect according to them.
      Christianity - You still have the issue of supposedly "incorrect" religions praying there, but they don't really put any significant claim to controlling it.
      There are a few other issues about specific things those religions reject about each other that I don't feel like going into.
      It's important to note that most Jews do not want control of the temple mount (until the messiah at least), but at most just want the right for individuals to go up there and pray if they so choose. This is controversial still under Jewish religious law, but is less extreme then making it a synagogue on Saturdays.
      Tl;Dr: Islam and Christianity likely wouldn't agree to it even in a more accepting world and Judaism can't agree to it and would rather just not have it.

  • @aviavy
    @aviavy 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I use your reddit sub! I often feel I'm the only one!

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      We must find something to do with it!

  • @SunflowerSocialist
    @SunflowerSocialist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    A step back subreddit would, I hope, be a place for primarily historical discussion and discussion on modern issues in historical context.

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This is a really good idea!

    • @Eunacis
      @Eunacis 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Not about this!

  • @ok-eu5nq
    @ok-eu5nq 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    cool vid 2018

  • @Shattered0Platinum
    @Shattered0Platinum 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow I am getting some super hot takes as advertisements on these videos.

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was once considering calling Quick Step "Cold Takes"

  • @thomasshane7360
    @thomasshane7360 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    How do I block this

  • @CasualHistorian
    @CasualHistorian 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The transitions between on screen talking and archival images was... awkward.

  • @mikeaskme3530
    @mikeaskme3530 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    no mention of the King David Hotel, wow.

    • @penguin-ify6649
      @penguin-ify6649 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Only if he mentions the Hebron Massacare too :D

    • @noamto
      @noamto 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He did mention it, he just presented it as a random bombing of a civilian hotel and not of a military HQ inside the hotel that received a warning call by the bombers before the bomb was set which the British officers openly dismissed and refused to evacuate the hotel.

  • @Aconitum_napellus
    @Aconitum_napellus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    'After the Allied victory of 1918, at
    the end of my father’s war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of
    Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my
    entire career-in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad-watching the
    peoples within those borders burn. ' Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation.

  • @theawkwardcurrypot9556
    @theawkwardcurrypot9556 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:45 also in a great number in the southern coast malabar regions in India.

  • @varun009
    @varun009 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They have NO industry!!! Only US tax dollars keep them afloat. I'd like to see how long and how well they hold out without that American dough.

  • @lewatoaofair2522
    @lewatoaofair2522 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This topic is so complicated, that my 12th Grade World History class spent half of a semester on it. (True story)

  • @buzzfiend
    @buzzfiend 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    *Wow that title though*

  • @user-py5gc5dn7t
    @user-py5gc5dn7t 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What defence pact with Germany?!?

  • @evywthingseemsdiffagain921
    @evywthingseemsdiffagain921 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This has not much to do with the vid, but do you think you could make a vid on John Bolton? Never hurts to have more info out there talking about warmongers.

  • @savvageorge
    @savvageorge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You should check out the Haavara Agreement of 1933. Some disturbing alliances between Nazis and the founders of Israel.

  • @coolguy111ish
    @coolguy111ish 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is this the guy that stole woody in toy story 2?

  • @dcbernman
    @dcbernman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's worth adding that there were a lot of Jewish communities in the arab countries, some dating back over a thousand years, like in the cases of Iraq and Iran. Many of these communities faced growing persecution as tensions with Israel rose, and either fled or were later airlifted in Israel's famous Solomon and Magic Carpet missions (and others besides). There were more displaced Arab Jews than even Palestinians in 1948. Israel's adoption of many arabic cultural norms, foods, music, etc, stemmed from their fascination with their arabic Jewish brethren, particularly those of yemeni heritage. These arab Jews were known as Mizrahi, and played as vital a role in Israel's evolution as any European groups.
    I'd also like to add that there were multiple, small settling attempts over the centuries as Jews returned to Israel in small groups, in some cases even with the blessing of the Turkish Sultan. The staying power of these communities doesn't seem to have really lasted, but Jews returning was not just a 19th century phenomenon. For those wondering why the memory of return remained so present, Passover literally ends with the saying "next year in Jerusalem."

  • @marlbankian
    @marlbankian 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are taking about Lebensraum philosophy.

  • @HughDingwall
    @HughDingwall 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As a person from a somewhat British background I'd instinctively pronounce "Balfour" as "BAL-for", not "bal-FOUR" as you're doing. Then again, you're the history nerd - maybe I'm wrong.

  • @Alonglongtimeago
    @Alonglongtimeago 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    8:41 "I wonder why?"

  • @nonelast4152
    @nonelast4152 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Surprised that the like to dislike ratio isnt nearly as bad as I thought...

  • @ignemuton5500
    @ignemuton5500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    herzel, the founder of zionism did actually take into account the people living there, one of the main characters in his manifesto is Reshid Bey, an arab engineer from haifa, in the book all the non jews have equal rights to the jews and in fact one of the main plots of the story is that a fanatical rabbi attempts to take away rights from non jews, which of course makes sense since the biggest opponent zionism had wasn't arabs, it was the reactionary haredi movement, zionism was a more socialist movement at heart after all.
    herzel somehow managed to perfectly predict some of the most crucial political problems modern israel faces, those being the hyper religious communities refusing to cooperate.

  • @austro-hungarianegonomist9049
    @austro-hungarianegonomist9049 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    fun fact: the Sykes-picot agreement was revealed by lenin

    • @headsworthtg3585
      @headsworthtg3585 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      huh, how did he do that?

    • @LukeTEvans
      @LukeTEvans 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@headsworthtg3585 it is known as the lenin great reveal of 19 aught

  • @pavelZhd
    @pavelZhd 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    10:05
    A little correction here.
    The ottoman Empire didn't join the war because of the defensive pact with Germany. It didn't want to join the war at all, since Russian Empire was kind of eager to swipe some more land off of the Ottomans and secure access to middeterranian sea. And the last time Russia attempted to do this, the Ottomans had to rely on English and French intervention to bring Russia down a peg. So now with Russia, England and France being allies in the war, the Ottoman Empire clearly could see the writing on the wall and did its best to avoid getting involved in the war.
    Unfortunately for them, they han a nival exercise scheduled for their officers to learn from German officers. And the German admiral commanding the exercise had a bright idea to order the ottoman ships to fire upon British ships that happened to be nearby.
    And that is how despite its best efforts, the Ottoman empire got dragged into the WWI

  • @swr3603
    @swr3603 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    hatchi matchi that thumbnail

  • @dinosaurusrex1482
    @dinosaurusrex1482 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't disable the comments

  • @matthewkuchinski1769
    @matthewkuchinski1769 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I found this a fantastic video, one which provided a truly fair examination of both sides of the conflict and gave an important reminder of why extreme nationalism is a hindrance to world peace.

  • @desdicado999
    @desdicado999 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    does it?

  • @Goldenhawk0
    @Goldenhawk0 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ooooooooh Boy Brace yourself for some flame wars in the comments.

  • @darvlll
    @darvlll 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the different between Khazar Jews and Semitic Jews?

    • @Moszan
      @Moszan 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      One of them is a myth, having no evidence that links to the Ashkenazi Jews.

  • @neonmarkov6544
    @neonmarkov6544 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    PLEASE make a video about syke-picot. Would be fantastic

  • @jaojao1768
    @jaojao1768 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Oh shit this will be controversial

  • @sherylhosler9487
    @sherylhosler9487 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The title of this video should totally be "Nationalism... hmm, hmm, hmm..."

  • @MRdaBakkle
    @MRdaBakkle 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Religion making tense situations even better..... Yay.

    • @MRdaBakkle
      @MRdaBakkle 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Unknown kay. Sure there are. But religion also doesn't help. My point still stands religion sucks.

  • @1czechit1
    @1czechit1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You are also ignoring the San Remo conference which established a Jewish state in not only what is today Israel but also Jordan. It was ratified by treaty, became international law and is part of the UN Charter... ignored for expediency by the general assembly which illegally voted for partition of western "Palestine"

  • @danielchapman547
    @danielchapman547 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    So basically no one is the good guy out of this messed up situation. Yay...

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      That's history for you :P

    • @Giaayokaats
      @Giaayokaats 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's basically what I got out of it too, lol

    • @joeykitty2483
      @joeykitty2483 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yay, blame the Muslims for all the worlds wrongdoings. Classic. Just like people who blame the Jews for everything... You're no better than them anti Semitics All I know is I really like Kosher and halal food. Now let's all sit down for a meal, enjoy each others company, talk it out and make world peace, ok? Sound legit?

    • @edwardmartinez199
      @edwardmartinez199 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Daniel Chapman Wrong

    • @edwardmartinez199
      @edwardmartinez199 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Alice Dexter True

  • @anubis2814
    @anubis2814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    19th century nationalism was about what do we share in common that unite us. Hence black nationalism, native nationalism, German and italian naitonalism. 20th century nationalism was about purity tests and expluding people who weren't enough like us, aka fascism. Just like with Liberia, westernized Jews and African slaves viewed themselves as culturally superior to the people now living in the areas they were relocated to and tried to enforce their western ideas on them and treated them as inferior.

  • @SunflowerSocialist
    @SunflowerSocialist 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pay heed all who dare enter the comments section, for there be dragons

  • @hmartinspliff
    @hmartinspliff 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:48 Palestinian - Nazi joint military operation......did _Ludwig von Arabia_ act as the liaison between the Arabs and the Germans in their fight against the British?

  • @nromk
    @nromk 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    You know what! I have a plan to foster diplomatic ties between the Arab, Israeli, Persian, and Pakistani and Afghan nations: EDM--yes that seems to be the one common feature that superpasses religion, langaues, and politics. Also Eurovision, a chicken song?!! Really?!! But back to EDM, the international community could foster some type peace concert for the youth of nations like Palestine, Israel, Iran, Qatar, Pakastin etc...and since EDM is foreign to the region, there can be no claims of cultural appropriation unlike with hums or falafels!

  • @maxinemccartney5284
    @maxinemccartney5284 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Long story short for the Arab-Israeli animosity goes back literally thousands of years when with the births of Ishmael born to the housemaid and Isaac born to the wife. Ishmael fathered 12 sons all of whom God identified as wild men, men without self control or natural ambition. The son born of the with was favored and identified as the only son, which naturally did not set well with the illegitimate son. Hence, hatred was engendered. Following right along, the legal son Isaac has twin sons, one of which obtains his father's inheritance as promised before their births. These two sons are Esau, modern day descendants located in the middle east who still have an axe to grind against his brother, Israel, even after thousands of years of conflict and bloodshed. Speaking about various conflicts and battles with no regard to the long history is only like reading one chapter out of a book of a 100,000 chapters. You must realize a two to three hundred year synopses will never encompass the basis of the very long and brutal story. The next few years will bring the world to the brink of annihilation as all the descendants of Abraham race bvb toward armageddon. Make no mistake. Armed Megiddo is a very real, brutal, and final battlefield where all the descendants of Abraham and their nation states will duke it out. Not with fists or swords or cannon but with horrific weapons of mass destruction, such as the US's "mother of all bombs" (MOAB) and Russia's much more powerful weapon, the "DEVIL". When the world conflict reaches that finale, the whole world will be battle scarred and wrecked. The conflict of thousands of years will not end until the King of Kings brings down the final curtain.

  • @dougacebedo3855
    @dougacebedo3855 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    a prophet is not without honor except in his own country

  • @cizlerable
    @cizlerable 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Around minute 12 you keep saying 'Jewish' and I think sometimes you mean 'Arab', because the sentence doesn't make much sense.

  • @guka4617
    @guka4617 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    ooh jeezz.

  • @mohammadaladham7721
    @mohammadaladham7721 6 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    This is actually fair and unbiased to both sides! wow

    • @yaitz3313
      @yaitz3313 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "Fair" and "Balanced" are slightly different. I agree this was balanced, but not quite that it was fair.

    • @edwardmartinez199
      @edwardmartinez199 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mohammad Al Adham But moot like always an Arab got it wrong.

    • @mohammadaladham7721
      @mohammadaladham7721 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the fuck you on about

  • @Pratchettgaiman
    @Pratchettgaiman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The King David Hotel was a hotel, but it was also a military, police, and administrative headquarters, so arguably it was a valid target

  • @Malamockq
    @Malamockq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I take issue with one thing you said early on. You basically implied that the jewish people are essentially a race of people that were expelled from israel and are now returning to their mother land. This is not well supported. In fact it's contradicted by the fact that European jews are... white. Judaism is a religion, it's not a race, anyone can be jewish, and there are Black jews and even Indian jews. Being a religion and not a race, there is no homeland of the jews anymore than there's a homeland for christians. People converted to judaism and the religion spread as any religion does.

  • @katiakominski432
    @katiakominski432 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually, any proposal that allowed Jews to have a home was widely supported, and people danced in the streets- not sure why you say people didn't like it.
    Also, props for keeping anti-semitism out of your comment section!!!

  • @shpilbass5743
    @shpilbass5743 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The pronunciation is pretty cringy (except Chaim you're like the only foreigner to ever pronounce it correctly)

    • @SunflowerSocialist
      @SunflowerSocialist 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shpilbass how is it pronounced?

    • @shpilbass5743
      @shpilbass5743 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      What, Chaim? Just like Tristan pronounced it

    • @Pantsinabucket
      @Pantsinabucket 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@SunflowerSocialist pronounced Yiddish hard H noise, ayim. Such as in l’chaim.

  • @shacharraz9129
    @shacharraz9129 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Irgun literally means the group...

    • @StepBackHistory
      @StepBackHistory  6 ปีที่แล้ว

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irgun

    • @shpilbass5743
      @shpilbass5743 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      כנראה ארגון שקראו לו הארגון, כמו שהמוסד הוא מוסד שקוראים לו המוסד

    • @YishaiBarr
      @YishaiBarr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      אנשים בחו"ל קוראים לאצ"ל "ארגון" משום מה.

    • @penguin-ify6649
      @penguin-ify6649 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      אצל = ארגון צבאי לאומי

    • @YishaiBarr
      @YishaiBarr 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Penguin-ify כן, אבל הם לא אומרים "צבאי לאומי".

  • @hmartinspliff
    @hmartinspliff 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    10:14 _"Knight Rider. A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. __-Michael-__ Muhammad Knight (pbuh): a young loner on a __-crusade-__ jihad to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the 'Sharia' law."_

  • @tzufbb
    @tzufbb 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please Read the book of Prof. Shlomo Sand about Israeli history and the invention of the Jewish people

  • @hamobu
    @hamobu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You kind of omitted planned and systematic ethnic cleansing of Arabs. That's like omitting holocaust when talking about WWII

  • @Yashua2Rule
    @Yashua2Rule 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cup of trembling

  • @maxmuftic
    @maxmuftic 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Moses Hess

  • @okm8699
    @okm8699 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    no mentions of the isreali gang massacres on palestinian villages or the isreali ethnic cleansing in general huh?

  • @zacksager6771
    @zacksager6771 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    BTW, Palestinians are not Ethnic Arabs, they are Arab speaking, the Ottoman tried in the late 19th century to replace Arabic language in Palestine, Syria with the Turkish Language, but WW1 stopped that project, if the Ottoman succeeded, would we be now calling the Palestinians “Turkish”???

  • @freefiremclin9379
    @freefiremclin9379 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Put all hate comments below

  • @someone1903
    @someone1903 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Based?

  • @matan610
    @matan610 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi man I'm sorry if I offend you but you have the knowledge of 10 yo who read 2 pages in Wikipedia

  • @vandeseroy3266
    @vandeseroy3266 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    no hitlet ,no israel..thats a fact