The irony here is, that the statement nassar is saying, that they will fight street by street, village by village, etc is quite similar to the statement Churchill made during the battle of Britain in world war two
There was no irony, Nasser deliberately chose those words to show that he was trying to rally his people to defend the nation against the foreign aggressor, or two in this case, Britain and France. He was trying to establish Egypt as a truly independent nation, but Britain and France were only interested in maintaining ownership of a figment of colonialism, the Suez Canal, and the money earned through the passage of ships transiting it
It was Eden’s close political support that fuelled Churchill’s final resolve to make that speech or at least to take that stance of non-appeasement to Nazi aggression. Staggering that Eden should accuse Nasser of fascism whilst also supposing him to be the Soviets’ puppet.
Nasser never stopped oil supplies flowing into Europe. That is one historical fact that you have to make yourself aware of. Also, technically Nasser did not invade the Suez Canal as it is commonly referred to. He nationalized it. You can not invade your own territory. Moreover, it would not have been half-bad for us to just let the Egyptians nationalize it. I mean, if some foreign power came up the Thames and built a bridge while not allowing us to use it, I would be quite pissed off.
I'm not Egyptian, but if it's on Egyptian land, nationalising it is their prerogative. Plus, after years of colonisation, I don't think they need to answer to the west about what is fair. the west took enough from them so taking what is theirs is justified. Calling them goat hearders and analphabets only makes you look like a small person who enjoys calling people names and being racist. Stop being a keyboard warrior and watch the documentary without insulting others for goodness sake!
What do you have against the proud, ancient Arab tradition of goat herding and illiteracy?!? Also: The British and French built the canal. It was theirs.
I really wonder everytime i meet somebody like you sir, one from the white man community saying the real truth. It is always surprising me. All my respect to you sir and all who know the real truth
@ChaiwatThATprotonmailDOTcom Not true. The Canal was built in an Egypt which was a colony of Egypt. When Egypt was free, it built the Aswan High Dam, with finance from the Soviet Union.
I was disappointed not to hear one word about the Greek pilots who at their entirety stayed in Egypt and assisted the Egyptian trainees to keep the canal open to navigation. The only foreign pilots who remained were the Greeks. I find it shameful that at least the Egyptians who talked in this video did not pay even lip service to those to whom they owe the success of their action. The children of those Greek pilots are still here and all of us who lived those days of 1956 in Port Said, will always remember and honor them.
Helicopter Hat Hacker I cannot comment on what I do not know. My comment is focused on what this particular video is showing. It clearly passes the message that the only pilots employed by the Societe du Canal de Suez were Brittish and some French. Which is utterly untrue and biased, as all British documentaries - especially those of WW2 - are. So, if you know what the "uncut" version of this video is, please share.
Yannis Akridiotis That is not my interpretation from what was said in this video and furthermore you are bringing your own bias into this as shown by your general comment on all British documentaries. It implies that the pilots were employees of the company, which is something one would expect and that some of them were foreign. Furthermore there clearly were Egyptian pilots as some have been interviewed.
***** It is a fact that all BBC documentaries that I have seen at least never but never say the whole truth. They show what is definitely in favor of the UK. It is hidden propaganda and I do not blame them. But, they do not have the right to say the contrary for other countries when they do the same. Now, as far as "interpreting" what the video clearly shows is not even subjective, because it is there in "black-and-white". If you chose to give your subjective interpretation, is another story. As for the Egyptian pilots that have been interviewed, you may want to go back and listen to what one of them said: that it was his FIRST ship ever! Because, if indeed there were Egyptian pilots to guarantee the smooth running of the transit, then why the Anglo-French left, in order to pressure Nasser? Please do not try tyo muddy the waters, it is a video and I can go back and watch it!!
Yannis Akridiotis its nice how not on Egyptian acknowledges that they didn't build the canal! They didn't pay to build it! Naser says the money from the canal "should be ours!" they wouldnt have built it by the 60s (the better part of a century) when this war happened either!
My goodness, even though I lived in Egypt at the time I did not realize how humiliated was Anthony Eden through this misadventure in Egypt. A man with this stupidity deserved what he got This is a good and objective documentary, well done BBC.
@@poodtang2104 THEY NEVER RUN OUT OF POMPOUS ASSES ,DO THEY ??REGIME CHANGE IS NOT NEW ,NOW THE US.HAS DONE THE SAME ,IN IRAQ/LIBYA/SYRIA/AFGHANISTAN/VENEZUELA !!
ART DECO how surprising the us catches blame. Did you not just watch the doc? The US put on the pressure that got you your precious canal. Your welcome children. Just like Nasser all you can do is blame. Nasser held this same “pompous” nature which you accuse Eden of during the six day war or as you call it “the setback”. Some setback. After Nasser and the Arab coalitions legendarily humiliating defeat Nasser tried to save his own skin by blaming the US for the loss. In reality both US and Soviet intelligence releases have consistently proven that this was nothing but a ploy by a desperate man. After that the “evil” United States had to pressure Israel to give you back the sinai. Since then (Camp David accords) we, the US, have sent over 1 billion USD annually in economic aid to Egypt. So your welcome for that as well.
Eden was a worse imperialist than Bush and Putin put together. I mean at least Iraq was ruled by a dictator responsible of genocide and Ukraine has been such a mess its difficult to say what would be best for that country. But this was just arrogant action which was a relic of colonialism. Egypt sure ain't perfect but I think Egyptians can be proud of not only the age of pharaohs and Saladin but also of the resistance they gave to the British and French at this time. Respects and greetings from Finland. As far as I'm concerned I compare the actions of Eden against Egypt to actions of Stalin against Finland during Winter War.
Our objective was just to get rid of the British, French and the Israelis. That's why we consider this a victory, even though our army was complete shit back then.
The failure was going in on behalf of the Jews in the first place. Serving a foreign country is treason and like Blair and bush, Eden should of executed for treason for serving Israel using British lives.
lol israel beat Egypt and Syria and Jordan all in 6 days and then took a day off. The us couldnt do it, the UN couldn't do it, but Israel did it in 6 days.
This is an awesome piece of reporting. It's interesting thinking how Libya was also brought down by the same madness and it's now a failed state. A lot of today's and future leaders can learn a lot by watching this.
A number of commentators don't seem to understand that Nasser didn't "take" the canal, he nationalised it buy buying all the shares... the British and French didn't want to lose the canal, but they did get money, Egypt didn't steal it.
@Random Person Agreed. Two more things that are commonly forgotten: 1. The canal would have reverted to Egyptian ownership anyway within about 10 years IIRC, under the terms of the lease (same as with Panama). 2. The Egyptian government paid off the shareholders in full, and quite quickly (within a few years).
Very serious, No one at that time made the Egyptians have a canal through the country, they leased the land with payment to the Egyptians for a legal time, agreed by the french and Egypt.. The lease was due to run out within a few years, but Nasser could not wait, without any planning for Industry, nothing in the way of exports, begging of western countries was away of life. I was in Egypt at the time all this was going on, although not understanding it at the time, I saw the way of life. The average Egyptian male had no work ethic at all, a bit of wheeling and dealing, sit outside his shop , smoking, or praying, but manual work ! No ! a few country folk half heartedly cultivated a plot here and there and lived like Europeans lived a Thousand years ago.. Without the input of White Europeans all these African countries would still be in the stone age.
You must be quite young, possibly uneducated ! The presence of British troops in the Middle East,was the result of WW1, and events afterwards, ... At that time France was also into North Africa, and the Germans were carving out Empires, and still are , the EU.. Read my comments again !! We Bought Shares from a Private French Company, with a lease , paid for. The main cause of this confrontation, if you get to the nitty gritty, was the World Banks, TheBank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank , all Private companies.
He did take the Canal, he only paid for it after he was forced to by the United Nations. It the same as someone stealing a car then after being caught is then forced to pay retribution for his action, then saying that person didn't really steal the car he paid for it. And why wouldn't the US and GB be pissed off and concerned after they were magnanimous enough to offer to loan him what he couldn't afford to build an extremely expensive dam and then he turns around goes to bed with the Soviets, right at the height of the Cold War. He's lucky he didn't get regime changed.
@@tonyboleno8191 It's not meant to be fun. It's meant to be informative to those with the brains to fathom what is being told. If you want fun, go to Disney.
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something". Gamal Abdel Nasser
@ZGoodTerrorist Not! The fool is your dumb ass. Nassar was preparing to invade Israel, the Israelites intercepted and along with Syria, Egypt lost the conflict. Suck it up clown. And no, Israel didn’t lose in 1973, Egypt lost again though 🤣
I had returned from Cairo to assume the position of research assistant in the newly created Middle East Department at UCLA just days before the Suez attack. The mood was definitely anti-Nasser.as he was being demonized by the majority of Americans who had no knowledge of historical developments in the ME and who believed unquestionably Israeli propaganda. My attempt to defend Nasser fell on deaf ears..Needless to say my contract was not renewed!
You seem to forget the tripartite attack, Israel,France and Britain, concocted at Sevres that killed thousands of Egyptians on the pretext of reinstating western imperial control over the Suez Canal !
I'm not saying British colonialism was the greatest thing on earth but look at the total mess a lot of African countries were and still are in after the British granted them independence and withdrew.
Jes, because british used concentrate camps , which is horibbel, british slave trade, british coup d etat, and using natural resources of the lands, maybe you overlooked some details, 😂
Thank you BBC , informative and balanced documentary which lifts the veil on the source of a part of the (lasting) middle-east conflict and the arab-american-british-israëli relations..should be more docus like these on public broadcasting channels TV
+poodtang1 To rob Palestine was the goal of the West always. It is their key to divide and kill us. Their economy and weapon making market strive on that. They make billions off of this policy to sell their military junk to the higher bidder. Fighters to Saudi Arabia! can not fly without clearance from the West. We know dirty tricks.
shashank shukla the Brits were never top dogs in reality. Only in their arrogance !! They have this need to boost their egos no matter how the world is affected. Britain has been at the core of many wars , yet , it always takes the rest of the world to settle the issue.
In 1919, a new state appeared on the scene, exploited a new political situation, and invaded and took away large portions of a neighboring state. The railways were nationalized, and suddenly the taxpayers who had built those railways, had to pay transit fees for tracks they had built themselves. What was the French and British attitude to that? "C'est la vie...", and "That's how it goes..." What was the advice given to the Germans? "Man up ! Stop whining ! Get over it and move on...." Only 30 years later, the exact same thing happened to the Brits and the Frogs. A new state appeared on the scene, exploited a new political situation, and nationalized their precious canal. Now, British and French ships would have to pay transit fees for a canal they had built themselves. Ah, well...c'est la vie..., that's how it goes...let's "man up and stop whining !" Let's "get over it and move on".... Wait a minute.... That's not what happened....
Both Eden in 1956 and Bush in 2003 overreacted against the wrong nation and threat, Nasser and Saddam were second line and regional in strategic and military terms NK and Iran and Saudi were always much more significant.. Blair was something of a lightweight on a moral high horse, who assuming real war is over, rushed to support Bush and ride as deputy. Eden in contrast was attempting to assert some independence.
Cameron and T May both misread the British sentiments even in the era of social media. Eden forgot UK was no longer the superpower but managed to convince France too: it was very rude awakening for UK, a former colony is now their new master. Blair had no choice and had to toe the Bush weapon's of mass destruction lies. Shouldn't the International Court in Hague investigate US for these war crimes ?? Or as they say they are above the law.
It's good to know that the BBC can be unbiased, being that this Documentary Series covers the Suez Crisis from both the British Point of View ("Suez: A Very British Crisis") as well as the Egyptian Point of View ("The Other Side of Suez"). This is probably the best Documentary I've seen on the subject.
Thanks for sharing this amazing video! During the cold war, I was lied to, in USA's public school history classes. We students were told that the communists encouraged Nasser to seize the Suez canal and that US funding for the Aswan dam was cancelled because the dam was too dam expensive. LOL! In this video, "revised" history tells us that the Russian dictator Khrushchev knew nothing about Nasser's intentions, leaving Khrushchev afraid that he'd be blamed for trying to shut down the canal, with the Egyptian takeover. This could lead to escalation of the cold war, at a time the western powers had overwhelming superiority over Russia, in nuclear bombers and missiles. More astounding, at 35 minutes into this video, we are told that in 1956 there was a secret agreement, between Britain, France, & Israel, to coordinate their attempt to take back the Suez canal, with military force. Further, this agreement was typewritten and signed, as in with pen and ink on paper, by diplomatic representatives of the three conspiring nations, with copies distributed for each of their national archives. More astounding, this signed on paper agreement was kept secret for over 40 years. No-one leaked a hint of it? However, conspiracies cannot be kept hidden for long periods of time... according to some experts... or can they? ...for example, assassinations? Whaddaya think? What other secret, signed conspiracies might be still be kept locked away, in tip-top secret archives?
In polish school I didn't hear a single word about Suez Crisis. They don't lie about it. They just omit it. So crucial event and basic to understand the world.
UK made many secret agreements. Sykes-Picot, in cahoots with France, Russia , etc drew up a plan on how to divide the spoils of WW1. UK, then the super power, practiced gunboat diplomacy - the most infamous were the Opium Wars , the second with the French. The in 1997 UK was toying with the idea of not returning Hong Kong and Kowloon back to China. Such hypocrites.
Bush and Blair were a lot lot worse since they managed to destabilise the entire middle-east and give rise to ISIS and the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Libya etc. Its now wars and terror attacks without end. Bush and Blair were warned at the time that this would probably happen by various think-tanks and even Mandela himself, but of course the oil and the foothold in Iraq were worth the gamble to them they reckoned. How wrong.
Morally speaking, Eden has at least the excuse (which neither Blair nor Bush have) that he grew up in an England that ruled a world empire and was shaped by its class and racial attitudes. He was sincere in his belief that it was all right to be underhand and overweening, dealing with the "wogs" in Egypt. But, of course, Nye Bevan got it perfectly right: "If he is sincere in what he says, he is too stupid to be Prime Minister of Britain." P.S. Interesting that the film does not really consider the rôle of the French in all this. Or, does one just expect French governments to do that sort of thing?
@ Complete fucking idiot, why don't you read a book before you you make such ridiculous statements, "Arab Spring" was a western psy-op, very little to do with "native origins" , more to do with the maintenance of Anglo-American "Ordo ab Chaos". The Iraq SLAUGHTER was entirely an ORGY of germanic conceit.
Right... we would not be in the 'mess' we're in now... we'd be in a 'mess' ten times as bad!!.....Greeks, Romans, Turk's, Anglo-French, America, etc... come one come all...incurr the same disastrous result...I mean...look at the history of all this 'mess'...oh damn that cursied oil!!
Britain collecting tolls from the Suez Canal makes as much sense as Egyptians collecting tolls on the London Bridge. Restore the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps to his place of honor. He has spent too much time in exile at Port Fouad shipyard
Naser had balls . However he failed in 67 . They should've bombed Israel first than deployed the shisha girls to distract Jewish soldiers will the army encircled them LOL
I love how so many westerners/Americans and Isrealis refuse to learn anything from history...from reading the comments below. The Suez canal was NOT built by the British, it was built with Egyptian labor and by Egyptians, just as the Pyramids were. Britain was an occupying force and the Egyptian had the right to resist and kick them out & claim the Suez as theirs, just as the Afghanis and Iraqis have the right under international law to resist and kick out the occupying americans. And I love how some of you have to make this about religion and Anti Semitism. Naser was not anti semite since he is a semite himself....Arabs are Semitic people by the way. Resisting and fighting the Israeli occupation and invasion is not anti semitic. And Muslims and Jews have lived together in peace in Southern Spain for over 600 yrs, this is even acknowledged by Jewish historians like Aba Eban.
A French company engineered the canal. People from many countries performed the labor. It seems Afghans and Iraqis want the Americans to leave their countries -- until the Americans actually begin to do so. I'm not sure I'd characterize the American presence in those places as "occupying".
" lived together in peace in Southern Spain" had always relied on the subjugated to become a tax source by their oppressors... The occupation of Iberia by the Moors was a welcome occurrence for a well pummeled and remaining Jewish population. Of course the Muslims were not completely tolerant, but they were more tolerant than the rulers of the previous administration. Under the ruling Caliph (the descendant of Mohammed--the prophet of G-d on earth), the Jews were able to preserve their rites and traditions. Peaceful coexistence led to their economic and social expansion. Their status was that of Dhimmis, non-Muslims living in a land governed by Muslims. The Jews had limited autonomy, but full rights to practice their religion, as well as full protection by their Muslim rulers; but this did not occur for free. There was a specific tax called the jizya that Dhimmis had to pay to receive these benefits. Having its origin in the Qur'an, it states Dhimmis who did not pay this tax, should either convert to Islam, or face the death penalty (Qur'an 9, 29)
@@1greghcolonialism was certainly occupying. Egypt just took away the interests of enemy powers. Given the colonialism in that area, nationalising the canal was fair game
+Jeremy Marshall The Bush Administration, contrary to popular belief, said no to the Israelis several times even threatening to withhold foreign aid when the Israelis wouldn't comply. The Obama Administration most recently went against Israeli wishes in signing the Iran Nuclear Deal.
+alan hopkins You really think the Anglo-Americans and US Military will allow themselves to be controlled by an Ethnic minority? The Zionists are working for the best interests of the US Military and not the other way around. Where would Israel be without Oil in the Middle East?
I love how USSR called Great Britain and France out. Yeah, because that little affairs in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968 and Afganistan 1979 were nothing major.
You seem to forget that Britain was happily killing in Kenya and Malaysia. I leave the US out because it's too much. The Soviet didn't do a tenth of what the west did, even considering only the post 1917
@@felixndayisdebologne9725 If British, French and Americans killed as many people in Kenya, Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, Laos and Middle East as Soviets killed between 1917-1989 in Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Balkans and Middle East, these countries would be no more. Only real competition is China, really, or Mongols. I would rather be born in British Empire than Eastern Bloc, to be frank. And I was born in Eastern Bloc, sadly.
@@felixndayisdebologne9725 Thank you, my family are Polish Jews and democrats. My grandfather was in British army in WWII, my father was political dissident half of his life. I was in prison when I was barely legal. Nobody liked us, Nazis, Commies, Catholics. Most of my extended family flew Poland or died in concentration camps. This is not contest of who had it harder. Western capitalists are greedy and racist, yes. But communism is designed to root out everybody who doesn't conform. It is designed to crush you completely, to destroy your spirit, to make you mere tool, unflinching and without questions. I don't wanna be black man over there. But don't wanna be Jew over here.
A great Documentary. I remember being in Paris to improve my French and a classmate was a girl from Hungary who escaped the crushing of its democracy. This is not add here. I was finishing ny Master's Degree and was told by an Egyptian classmate the naval bombardment of the city of Suez killed 10,000 civilians. This is not reported here how many died.
"We all know this is how fascist governments behaves." What, nationalization? Your own government did/went on to do a hell of a lot more of that than Nasser.
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tbr2109 The Egyptians couldn’t afford to build the Suez canal. Brits, French and Turks payed for it. Egypt got LOTS of jobs in construction. When the canal is ready - ”-Hey, wait. This expensive canal is here in Egypt. Let’s just take it, because... nationalism.” 🙄
hey wait, this entire continent is someone else's. let's just take it. because nationalism. how hypocritical. hey these natural resources are from other parts of the world, let's just take them because nationalism. hypocrisy is a funny thing.
@ actually the egyptians paid in full for the canal. the expenses bankrupted the country at the time. this compelled the egyptian government, under pressure from the french and british, to give up control of the canal to the benefit of the franco-british suez canal company. extremely complex geo-political and geo-strategic interest have been shaping the events of the time.
why stopping with egypt? it's still contuning today under the media blackout and the cover up of 'human rights' and 'democracy'....but more recently the tactic changed from sending their armies to creating proxy armies or mercenaries...for example Syrian rebels, Libyan rebels, Boko Haram in Nigeria....ISIS in Iraq and if u watch news today u can see the latest addition is Yemen...which is under attack...i think the only country that survived this kind of proxy army attack was Sri Lanka...coz UK created and harbored tigers as a regional terror unit to bring India and even Chiina under control...by giving them training and financing under cover and not to mention the wide media coverage...as far as I know that's their only failed project...
Blood Raven its nice how not on Egyptian acknowledges that they didn't build the canal! They didn't pay to build it! Naser says the money from the canal "should be ours!" they wouldnt have built it by the 60s (the better part of a century) when this war happened either!
Hundreds of trillions of what, my friend? The fact that the British had a _mostly_ *positive* effect on India is not debatable. If you look at how the Indians were treated by the Mughals when you have tens of *millions* of Hindus killed while being moved into slavery by the Muslims contrary to the freeing of the slaves by the British Empire.
This video removes the role of the Soviet Union, who had defended Egypt in 1956. Soviet Air Force defended Cairo from the air-attack of Israel , they sent tanks to Syria already and an attack on Israel was imminent. At that time Eisenhower asked the British and French to withdraw. After the war the Soviet Union gave the money to build the Aswan dam.
@@egyptionpharaoh2463 Listen man, I am an American and I say don't listen to that asshole. I understand the significance of Arab Nationalism and the love of ones own country. I love my country, and although it is by no means perfect I strive to see it get better and I am sure you feel the same about your country of Egypt. Don't let people like Jimits123 make you believe all Westerners think like that. The ones who are the most crazy also tend to be the most vocal. The majority of Westerners have no hate for Egypt, but there will always be those people on the internet who want to troll you to get a reaction out of you.
@@egyptionpharaoh2463 Yeah mate, as a Brit I'd say that Egypt is a beautiful country with a rich history and good people. Don't get lulled into hating each other because of one or two dickheads online.
Maged attia nothing till be proud of until you kneel before Lord Jesus at the end. Dropping the pedophile prophet Muhammad is something you could be proud about. Beeing Egyptian is not enough. Sorry but you need the truth!!!
The soundtrack of this documentary is amazing. It also sounds familiar. I wonder if it was composed specially for this documentary or it was repurposed from a different feature film?
then jail probably would be better and you would want to be there with us and would be crying that you have no protection anymore on the outside... let me in, let me in .... imo
I seen this quite a while ago on TV. This is the first documentary I seen about Suez and by far the best. It was as captivating as a movie as I didn't know much about it.
Interesting video on what was arguably the key point in the Cold War for France and Britain at least. What is interesting to me is the damage this, admittedly ill founded expedition did to the NATO alliance, the UN and the path it placed the United States upon in becoming 'world policeman' after having undermined Britain and France's already unsteady return to imperial careers in the post 1945 era. Hardly suprising that France left NATO and Britain refused to send troops to South Vietnam in the aftermath of this debacle.Highly ironic that this was the only time the United States and the Soviet Union voted together at the UN and that it led Khrushev to consider that nuclear brinkmanship was a valid and acceptable part of Soviet diplomacy, to come badly unstuck in Cuba six years later...
To the scum bags who are saying the Suez isn't Egypts, you are true low lives- it was designed yes by the West, but was built on the Backs of Egyptians & also many Greeks...There is no excuse to occupation & oppression!
Stupid. The West made the investment. Are you saying labor should take all the end products while the capital contributor gets nothing? Are you a communist? Does your country have stock market?
***** What's wrong with communism is the same thing that's wrong with Bolshevism, Nazism, Maoism, Ba'athism. and every other form of socialism. It creates an ideological justification for mass thievery and the enslavement of working people to an aristocratic class of socialist elites. Socialists drove the auto industry out of Detroit. The Ba'athists are engaged in a genocide in Syria as we speak. No shock that they would blame their own crimes and atrocities on their victims, as they have done this so many times before. The socialists are even bringing back anti-Semitism while blaming it on the "Zionist" Jews.
***** LOL! Are you crazy? Detroit was the capital of the world when the free market was allowed to roam free. The second socialists and unions took control of that city it has gone down hill ever since. Now it looks worse than Nagasaki. From 1917 all the way up to the fall of the Berlin wall, the Soviet Union had an agricultural deficit. Every. Single. Year. Those dummies couldn't even manage to feed themselves. Yet any country that adopted capitalism had a surplus, every year.
In war always follow the money. After Suez the British pound was replaced by the US Dollar as the world reserve currency..the petrodollar is still with us now despite it becoming a fiat currency in 71. BTW had to go and spew when I saw Blair lying in this. He’s so transparent now, but at the time..! I don’t know how he did it.
Eden's defeat was the last gasp of the British Empire. Looking back now, sadly, things would be much better if he won. The US Empire is far more exploitative and ruthless than the British as we now know after they eliminated the competition from the UK and USSR. The US doesn't build any transportation, schools, hospitals, or anything. The US is worse than even the Spanish Conquistadors and even ruined Haiti worse than the French. And now destroying Syria. The Federal Reserve has bought out all the European banks and given them austerity. Despite all the propaganda, the British Empire had more of a positive influence on the world than negative. Most of the air ports, roads, hospitals, schools, government structures, modern courts and justice, were built by the British and still used today. Well... until the Americans bomb it.
USA leadership was bad only for Middle East and Southamerica. American leadership is one of the best things ever happened to Asia in the last 500 years. USA kicked out brits from India, Japanese from China and French, dutch from South East Asia. If not for USA, Asians still would've been lived as slaves. And British Empire is one of the worst thing ever happened to Asia. Only an Englishman who never lived in british ruled colony spit out such nonsense. Atleast Americans don't abandon their soldiers like britain did to WW2 indian soldiers thru partition.
Quite a lot of parallels with the situation in the Belgian Congo: a new, charismatic (?) young leader, with dreams of sharing the wealth that could be brought by the copper and uranium that are mainly found in one province, an ex colonial power that is seeking ways of eliminating him (politically or physically), then that leader starting to look at the direction of Moscow for arms, of course upsetting both the CIA and Belgium etc etc. Except that of course the Russians don't seem to have threatened with nuclear war in the case of the Kongo. Also some parallels with Cuba, the Americans thinking that creating some fuzz with noisy anti Castro rebels would be enough to frighten Cubans, who were supposed to turn against Castro. Peter Wright in his book Spycatcher claims the British were able to decipher the codes used by the "Gyppies" (as they were apparantly called in those days). These messages were shared with the Americans. In them, it became clear that the USSR really was very serious about a nuclear war, if the UK / France and Israel went ahead with their plans, which prompted the Americans to put pressure on Eden. The British had to leave quite a stock of arms behind, which were flooded on the black market afterwards.
"Small, poor, arab country" Not small nor poor. They had no problem attacking the actually small and actually poor Israel up till that conflict and afterwards... Nor did it defend itself the Egyptian military was defeated quite easily both on the front lines by Israel and later on by the French and English. The only reason why they still have the sinai and suez canal under their control is because of the U.S
Few individuals realise when fundamentals changes occur in history, since, the Owl of Minerva, spreads its wings and flies only with the falling of dusk.
One has to wonder just what Eden was thinking (at least beyond his colonial racism). He was in the War Cabinet during the Blitz, and had to see first hand that bombing cities, and killing civilians doesn’t weaken the morale or determination of the civilians, but strengthens it. It happened in Britain, it happened in Berlin, and terror bombing rarely, if ever, works. Yet he seems to have forgotten this lesson, in using such a murderous strategy against Egypt. What arrogance!
Fantastic documentary. I am currently reading an excellent book called Nasser:The Last Arab by Said Aburish. It is so gratifying to see an accurate documentary on this topic. Nasser was such an inspiring figure - an anti-colonial nationalist who believed in the separation of politics and religion.
First of all Egypt is not a small arab nation its a big Egyptian nation that showed to the whole world the meaning of life. I ask people in the western world, are you proud of your leaders who destroy countries under the name of human rights and democracy? See what you did to Egypt and all African nations. Egypt stood up against the darkness and the fake uprising and its sunshine will always hit the faces of the enemies. Long live the Egyptian Nation
Get off your High Horse, and see facts, Egypt is 90% Dessert !, take away all past input this last 300 years from Europeans *(Everything White!! ) and every other country including Egypt would trill be in the bronze age. I am not saying it is right , just that it is a fact.
@@CaptainMorganxxx 90% desert has the greatest civilization and has taught the world meaning of life so get over it and my advice mind your own business and by the way i am proud to be from this land whatever you think of it
amazzinnggg video makes you fall in love with this country and the people , real egyptians, all over again !! know your history , chin up and do your job as it should be done.... perfectly.
Welcome to capitalism as its ugliest. This sort of thing isn't new, it happens time after time.. from Vietnam to Iraq..to Syria etc etc. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
This is not an example of capitalism. Capitalism is based on voluntary transactions between willing participants. It is socialism which uses force or coercion to conduct business. *Corporatism is not capitalism*-it is distinctly different and you should not make the mistake of confusing the two, even though it is an easy mistake to make.
There's a reason Eden was called by one of his own advisors "a criminal lunatic". Sad really. He should be remembered as an honourable man for resigning and opposing Chamberlain's appeasement policy. Instead suez was his epitaph
base on Globalist usury aka debt based economics, you can cut all public spending and raise tax to 70% of income and you still wont pay off the debts because the scam is impel the banks only produce enough money to pay off the loans but not the interest on loans, thus there is not enough money in circulation to pay it all off, this forces nations to look abroad and thus another people have to be exploited which, is colonialist repression. Nationalism and anti Marxian Socialism is the way forward. Every time a nation merges the two, the West come in with their Jewish made democracy bombs.
The irony here is, that the statement nassar is saying, that they will fight street by street, village by village, etc is quite similar to the statement Churchill made during the battle of Britain in world war two
There was no irony, Nasser deliberately chose those words to show that he was trying to rally his people to defend the nation against the foreign aggressor, or two in this case, Britain and France. He was trying to establish Egypt as a truly independent nation, but Britain and France were only interested in maintaining ownership of a figment of colonialism, the Suez Canal, and the money earned through the passage of ships transiting it
It was Eden’s close political support that fuelled Churchill’s final resolve to make that speech or at least to take that stance of non-appeasement to Nazi aggression. Staggering that Eden should accuse Nasser of fascism whilst also supposing him to be the Soviets’ puppet.
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv13:00 codename Omega undeclared war
John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary during war, Anthony Eden
MI6 Lucky Break
@@RalphBrooker-gn9iv Nasser was openly pro-fascist.
This documentary was well-done and educational.
Thanks for uploading.
Nasser never stopped oil supplies flowing into Europe. That is one historical fact that you have to make yourself aware of. Also, technically Nasser did not invade the Suez Canal as it is commonly referred to. He nationalized it. You can not invade your own territory. Moreover, it would not have been half-bad for us to just let the Egyptians nationalize it. I mean, if some foreign power came up the Thames and built a bridge while not allowing us to use it, I would be quite pissed off.
Egypt was allowed to use the canal.
The Suez canal was built in the 19th century by French and British money.
Money didn't excavate the canal. 120000 Egyptians died during the excavation @@ericarbib4183
BBC always makes fantastic documentaries.
They use to make fantastic documentaries and their news and reporting was world class.
Now they are agents of the woke brigade.
I'm not Egyptian, but if it's on Egyptian land, nationalising it is their prerogative. Plus, after years of colonisation, I don't think they need to answer to the west about what is fair. the west took enough from them so taking what is theirs is justified. Calling them goat hearders and analphabets only makes you look like a small person who enjoys calling people names and being racist. Stop being a keyboard warrior and watch the documentary without insulting others for goodness sake!
What do you have against the proud, ancient Arab tradition of goat herding and illiteracy?!?
Also: The British and French built the canal. It was theirs.
@ChaiwatThATprotonmailDOTcom
well england forced egyptains to build it
u know the plan was english but the hands that made the canal were egyptain
Sheik Bombalot stay out of others people’s countries
I really wonder everytime i meet somebody like you sir, one from the white man community saying the real truth. It is always surprising me. All my respect to you sir and all who know the real truth
@ChaiwatThATprotonmailDOTcom Not true. The Canal was built in an Egypt which was a colony of Egypt. When Egypt was free, it built the Aswan High Dam, with finance from the Soviet Union.
I was disappointed not to hear one word about the Greek pilots who at their entirety stayed in Egypt and assisted the Egyptian trainees to keep the canal open to navigation. The only foreign pilots who remained were the Greeks. I find it shameful that at least the Egyptians who talked in this video did not pay even lip service to those to whom they owe the success of their action. The children of those Greek pilots are still here and all of us who lived those days of 1956 in Port Said, will always remember and honor them.
How do you know they didn't? A lot can get edited out and cut for time.
Helicopter Hat Hacker I cannot comment on what I do not know. My comment is focused on what this particular video is showing. It clearly passes the message that the only pilots employed by the Societe du Canal de Suez were Brittish and some French. Which is utterly untrue and biased, as all British documentaries - especially those of WW2 - are. So, if you know what the "uncut" version of this video is, please share.
Yannis Akridiotis
That is not my interpretation from what was said in this video and furthermore you are bringing your own bias into this as shown by your general comment on all British documentaries. It implies that the pilots were employees of the company, which is something one would expect and that some of them were foreign. Furthermore there clearly were Egyptian pilots as some have been interviewed.
***** It is a fact that all BBC documentaries that I have seen at least never but never say the whole truth. They show what is definitely in favor of the UK. It is hidden propaganda and I do not blame them. But, they do not have the right to say the contrary for other countries when they do the same. Now, as far as "interpreting" what the video clearly shows is not even subjective, because it is there in "black-and-white". If you chose to give your subjective interpretation, is another story. As for the Egyptian pilots that have been interviewed, you may want to go back and listen to what one of them said: that it was his FIRST ship ever! Because, if indeed there were Egyptian pilots to guarantee the smooth running of the transit, then why the Anglo-French left, in order to pressure Nasser? Please do not try tyo muddy the waters, it is a video and I can go back and watch it!!
Yannis Akridiotis its nice how not on Egyptian acknowledges that they didn't build the canal! They didn't pay to build it! Naser says the money from the canal "should be ours!" they wouldnt have built it by the 60s (the better part of a century) when this war happened either!
Any one because recent Suez Canal blockage?
Here I am 😎
I am, I wanted to learn more about the history of the canal 😅
Here because of history homework
My goodness, even though I lived in Egypt at the time I did not realize how humiliated was Anthony Eden through this misadventure in Egypt. A man with this stupidity deserved what he got
This is a good and objective documentary, well done BBC.
Eden was a pompous ass.
@@poodtang2104 THEY NEVER RUN OUT OF POMPOUS ASSES ,DO THEY ??REGIME CHANGE IS NOT NEW ,NOW THE US.HAS DONE THE SAME ,IN IRAQ/LIBYA/SYRIA/AFGHANISTAN/VENEZUELA !!
ART DECO how surprising the us catches blame. Did you not just watch the doc? The US put on the pressure that got you your precious canal. Your welcome children.
Just like Nasser all you can do is blame. Nasser held this same “pompous” nature which you accuse Eden of during the six day war or as you call it “the setback”. Some setback. After Nasser and the Arab coalitions legendarily humiliating defeat Nasser tried to save his own skin by blaming the US for the loss. In reality both US and Soviet intelligence releases have consistently proven that this was nothing but a ploy by a desperate man.
After that the “evil” United States had to pressure Israel to give you back the sinai. Since then (Camp David accords) we, the US, have sent over 1 billion USD annually in economic aid to Egypt. So your welcome for that as well.
I think it's amazing that Eden could have blundered so badly; he'd been great in WW2! It's bizarre. And hugely regrettable.
@@dragonfly1929 Totally true.
Eden was a worse imperialist than Bush and Putin put together. I mean at least Iraq was ruled by a dictator responsible of genocide and Ukraine has been such a mess its difficult to say what would be best for that country. But this was just arrogant action which was a relic of colonialism. Egypt sure ain't perfect but I think Egyptians can be proud of not only the age of pharaohs and Saladin but also of the resistance they gave to the British and French at this time. Respects and greetings from Finland.
As far as I'm concerned I compare the actions of Eden against Egypt to actions of Stalin against Finland during Winter War.
Thank you my friend.
Our objective was just to get rid of the British, French and the Israelis. That's why we consider this a victory, even though our army was complete shit back then.
Egyptian Patriot Still is mate! If push came to shove; Britain could still walk all over you!
***** Nope.
***** And you needed to say that because why? Only way to feel national pride is to troll others?
The failure was shared, no need to make it all about Britain. France and Israel weren't passive in the agression
True! All 3 had an interest in it.
America said no
In his memoirs Eisenhour wrote. Eden was right I was wrong
The failure was going in on behalf of the Jews in the first place. Serving a foreign country is treason and like Blair and bush, Eden should of executed for treason for serving Israel using British lives.
lol israel beat Egypt and Syria and Jordan all in 6 days and then took a day off. The us couldnt do it, the UN couldn't do it, but Israel did it in 6 days.
This is an awesome piece of reporting. It's interesting thinking how Libya was also brought down by the same madness and it's now a failed state. A lot of today's and future leaders can learn a lot by watching this.
Macron and Boris Johnson should watch.
A number of commentators don't seem to understand that Nasser didn't "take" the canal, he nationalised it buy buying all the shares... the British and French didn't want to lose the canal, but they did get money, Egypt didn't steal it.
He gave them a take it or get nothing deal, and paid them a fraction of its worth, with international money from jewish banks,
@Random Person Agreed. Two more things that are commonly forgotten:
1. The canal would have reverted to Egyptian ownership anyway within about 10 years IIRC, under the terms of the lease (same as with Panama).
2. The Egyptian government paid off the shareholders in full, and quite quickly (within a few years).
Very serious, No one at that time made the Egyptians have a canal through the country, they leased the land with payment to the Egyptians for a legal time, agreed by the french and Egypt.. The lease was due to run out within a few years, but Nasser could not wait, without any planning for Industry, nothing in the way of exports, begging of western countries was away of life. I was in Egypt at the time all this was going on, although not understanding it at the time, I saw the way of life. The average Egyptian male had no work ethic at all, a bit of wheeling and dealing, sit outside his shop , smoking, or praying, but manual work ! No ! a few country folk half heartedly cultivated a plot here and there and lived like Europeans lived a Thousand years ago.. Without the input of White Europeans all these African countries would still be in the stone age.
You must be quite young, possibly uneducated ! The presence of British troops in the Middle East,was the result of WW1, and events afterwards, ... At that time France was also into North Africa, and the Germans were carving out Empires, and still are , the EU.. Read my comments again !! We Bought Shares from a Private French Company, with a lease , paid for. The main cause of this confrontation, if you get to the nitty gritty, was the World Banks, TheBank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank , all Private companies.
He did take the Canal, he only paid for it after he was forced to by the United Nations. It the same as someone stealing a car then after being caught is then forced to pay retribution for his action, then saying that person didn't really steal the car he paid for it. And why wouldn't the US and GB be pissed off and concerned after they were magnanimous enough to offer to loan him what he couldn't afford to build an extremely expensive dam and then he turns around goes to bed with the Soviets, right at the height of the Cold War. He's lucky he didn't get regime changed.
Eden has to be a classic example of a person rising to the level of their incompetence
:-D
its not that fun actually
@@tonyboleno8191 It's not meant to be fun. It's meant to be informative to those with the brains to fathom what is being told. If you want fun, go to Disney.
that's what happens when your system puts a baby in charge of adults sometimes
Tony Boleno how much acid?
"The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something".
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Says the guy who made just a stupid move in invading Israel and got run
@ZGoodTerrorist Six day war you fool! You don’t know crap, do you?
@ZGoodTerrorist Not! The fool is your dumb ass. Nassar was preparing to invade Israel, the Israelites intercepted and along with Syria, Egypt lost the conflict. Suck it up clown. And no, Israel didn’t lose in 1973, Egypt lost again though 🤣
The US saved their ass and that is the truth the hole truth and nothing but the truth!
3 powerful countries tried to destroy a country, for their one
'RIVER', they need to support their people
I had returned from Cairo to assume the position of research assistant in the newly created Middle East Department at UCLA just days before the Suez attack. The mood was definitely anti-Nasser.as he was being demonized by the majority of Americans who had no knowledge of historical developments in the ME and who believed unquestionably Israeli propaganda. My attempt to defend Nasser fell on deaf ears..Needless to say my contract was not renewed!
What about Nasser’s crimes against his own people?
You seem to forget the tripartite attack, Israel,France and Britain, concocted at Sevres that killed thousands of Egyptians on the pretext of reinstating western imperial control over the Suez Canal !
@@dimitribuchene3086 , UCLA had sense to not renew your contract.
@@NicoleCzarnecki At least UCLA contracted him before......
@NicoleCzarnecki 39:00 toxic masculinity!
This is really good that British BBC issues documentaries like this one.
Even though I am not a Egyptian, but I am proud of Egypt.
Daniel S who’s more evil than the Brits and french
@@tyrionlannister6459 um... Nazis and Stalinists.
We have alot to answer for.....yet it's not the working class Brits that caused all the trouble, it's always been to upper class toffs. 🇬🇧
we all can be proud of Egypt. Anything resembling sophisticated Culture comes from there.
Thank you! Thank you! This program is astonishingly informative. Three cheers for BBC.
I'm not saying British colonialism was the greatest thing on earth but look at the total mess a lot of African countries were and still are in after the British granted them independence and withdrew.
Jes, because british used concentrate camps , which is horibbel, british slave trade, british coup d etat, and using natural resources of the lands, maybe you overlooked some details, 😂
Thats because, like here, colonial powers continued to do anything to protect their interests.
Thank you BBC , informative and balanced documentary which lifts the veil on the source of a part of the (lasting) middle-east conflict and the arab-american-british-israëli relations..should be more docus like these on public broadcasting channels TV
Incredibly informative and amazing documentary !!
Be aware the BBC is very left wing so delight in painting any tory action in a bad light,
Nasser repeating Churchill's famous speech from Battle for Britain and throwing it in Britain's face is just epic!! Glorious!!
+Gakgaming
Every victory has a price.
The price the destruction of Palestine. And almost constant war between Israel and the Arab world.
poodtang1 the war between Arabs and Israel is the result of the world bending to zionist terrorism and giving in to their demands.
+poodtang1 To rob Palestine was the goal of the West always. It is their key to divide and kill us. Their economy and weapon making market strive on that. They make billions off of this policy to sell their military junk to the higher bidder. Fighters to Saudi Arabia! can not fly without clearance from the West. We know dirty tricks.
+Gakgaming Love it!
What's the speech?
Thank you, very well put.
16:00 poison coffee and nerve gas in ventilation
When the brits realised they weren’t top dogs anymore.
...s.k.o. Brexit - the prequel...?
53:28 when you beat the smart ass in a test.
shashank shukla the Brits were never top dogs in reality. Only in their arrogance !! They have this need to boost their egos no matter how the world is affected. Britain has been at the core of many wars , yet , it always takes the rest of the world to settle the issue.
U fuck!
@@gailhandschuh1138 not a proud moment in British history that is true. To say the UK is at the centre of most wars is complete nonsense. Grow up!
In 1919, a new state appeared on the scene, exploited a new political situation, and invaded and took away large portions of a neighboring state. The railways were nationalized, and suddenly the taxpayers who had built those railways, had to pay transit fees for tracks they had built themselves.
What was the French and British attitude to that?
"C'est la vie...", and "That's how it goes..."
What was the advice given to the Germans?
"Man up ! Stop whining ! Get over it and move on...."
Only 30 years later, the exact same thing happened to the Brits and the Frogs.
A new state appeared on the scene, exploited a new political situation, and nationalized their precious canal.
Now, British and French ships would have to pay transit fees for a canal they had built themselves.
Ah, well...c'est la vie..., that's how it goes...let's "man up and stop whining !" Let's "get over it and move on"....
Wait a minute....
That's not what happened....
Are you talking about South West Africa
@@omalone1169 The "new state" which appeared in 1919?
Poland.
Both Eden in 1956 and Bush in 2003 overreacted against the wrong nation and threat, Nasser and Saddam were second line and regional in strategic and military terms NK and Iran and Saudi were always much more significant.. Blair was something of a lightweight on a moral high horse, who assuming real war is over, rushed to support Bush and ride as deputy. Eden in contrast was attempting to assert some independence.
Frederick Miles, UK was with America in this war! Many others, but many pulled out! Not the UK!
Cameron and T May both misread the British sentiments even in the era of social media. Eden forgot UK was no longer the superpower but managed to convince France too: it was very rude awakening for UK, a former colony is now their new master. Blair had no choice and had to toe the Bush weapon's of mass destruction lies. Shouldn't the International Court in Hague investigate US for these war crimes ?? Or as they say they are above the law.
It's good to know that the BBC can be unbiased, being that this Documentary Series covers the Suez Crisis from both the British Point of View ("Suez: A Very British Crisis") as well as the Egyptian Point of View ("The Other Side of Suez"). This is probably the best Documentary I've seen on the subject.
No one has the right to invade another country!
+Imran Siddique Many nations are created by invasions over time, including Egypt.
+Imran Siddique might makes right!
+Imran Siddique You are wrong, we had the right to invade Nazi Germany.
@@tobycrackit8125
No Egypt was always there before even Europe came out of their caves
Egypt was not in caves, no, just in mud walls, with all the men sat outside smoking, .
thanks for posting
Thanks for sharing this amazing video!
During the cold war, I was lied to, in USA's public school history classes. We students were told that the communists encouraged Nasser to seize the Suez canal and that US funding for the Aswan dam was cancelled because the dam was too dam expensive. LOL! In this video, "revised" history tells us that the Russian dictator Khrushchev knew nothing about Nasser's intentions, leaving Khrushchev afraid that he'd be blamed for trying to shut down the canal, with the Egyptian takeover. This could lead to escalation of the cold war, at a time the western powers had overwhelming superiority over Russia, in nuclear bombers and missiles.
More astounding, at 35 minutes into this video, we are told that in 1956 there was a secret agreement, between Britain, France, & Israel, to coordinate their attempt to take back the Suez canal, with military force. Further, this agreement was typewritten and signed, as in with pen and ink on paper, by diplomatic representatives of the three conspiring nations, with copies distributed for each of their national archives. More astounding, this signed on paper agreement was kept secret for over 40 years. No-one leaked a hint of it? However, conspiracies cannot be kept hidden for long periods of time... according to some experts... or can they? ...for example, assassinations?
Whaddaya think? What other secret, signed conspiracies might be still be kept locked away, in tip-top secret archives?
Thank you, very much, KatKoot. I kind'a suspected that. LOL! I appreciate yur sense o' humor!
In polish school I didn't hear a single word about Suez Crisis.
They don't lie about it. They just omit it.
So crucial event and basic to understand the world.
UK made many secret agreements. Sykes-Picot, in cahoots with France, Russia , etc drew up a plan on how to divide the spoils of WW1. UK, then the super power, practiced gunboat diplomacy - the most infamous were the Opium Wars , the second with the French. The in 1997 UK was toying with the idea of not returning Hong Kong and Kowloon back to China. Such hypocrites.
What’s your take on JFK??
I love BBC documentaries , they sure know how to make them better and better !
Sounds like Eden was still living in WWII, even though the world had changed.
He was living in 1890's full-blown British Empire.
@@lemat579 amen that
Eden was still living in Churchill's shadow as he had not had any great military successes so he saw this as a good legacy play.
What a bastard Eden was, and I thought George W Bush and Tony Blair were bad...
Bush and Blair were a lot lot worse since they managed to destabilise the entire middle-east and give rise to ISIS and the ongoing conflicts in Syria and Libya etc. Its now wars and terror attacks without end.
Bush and Blair were warned at the time that this would probably happen by various think-tanks and even Mandela himself, but of course the oil and the foothold in Iraq were worth the gamble to them they reckoned. How wrong.
Morally speaking, Eden has at least the excuse (which neither Blair nor Bush have) that he grew up in an England that ruled a world empire and was shaped by its class and racial attitudes. He was sincere in his belief that it was all right to be underhand and overweening, dealing with the "wogs" in Egypt. But, of course, Nye Bevan got it perfectly right: "If he is sincere in what he says, he is too stupid to be Prime Minister of Britain."
P.S. Interesting that the film does not really consider the rôle of the French in all this. Or, does one just expect French governments to do that sort of thing?
Ha. Now we give you Trump. Makes Bush look like a saint and a genius.
Most men who rise to the top ar Psychopathic , nasser was no different, he was not elected !! remember that .
@ Complete fucking idiot, why don't you read a book before you you make such ridiculous statements, "Arab Spring" was a western psy-op, very little to do with "native origins" , more to do with the maintenance of Anglo-American "Ordo ab Chaos".
The Iraq SLAUGHTER was entirely an ORGY of germanic conceit.
The presenter calls Egypt a SMALL country in the opening. Now that is odd.
Hahaha. Compared to the fucking British Empire? It's a speck of sand.
@@diogenescasares4294 what is Britain now ,a tiny dot on globe .
eqypt was small in terms of competing militarily on the world stage
Small in international influence??? Sure Egypt's econm y is better then ever now
@Random Person , how dare you - moron- describe the land of the Pharaohs- as a banana republic ??
Thank you for posting ... shukran.
The Americans should have supported the Anglo-French action. We wouldn't be in the mess we are now.
@magna4100 - Exactly!
They were anti-colonialist sadly.
Right... we would not be in the 'mess' we're in now... we'd be in a 'mess' ten times as bad!!.....Greeks, Romans, Turk's, Anglo-French, America, etc...
come one come all...incurr the same disastrous result...I mean...look at the history of all this 'mess'...oh damn that cursied oil!!
Didn't you watch this documentary?
@@abatesnz49;00 he rallies the people
I had a friend who said that the British Empire was great, and improved all the countries it owned. He is no longer a friend.
I came here because of EVERGREEN
How about if the British didnt invade Egypt and give them the loan to build the dame to supply water to the country.
The fact they are not that kind of ppl
Britain collecting tolls from the Suez Canal makes as much sense as Egyptians collecting tolls on the London Bridge. Restore the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps to his place of honor. He has spent too much time in exile at Port Fouad shipyard
People find it hard to forget those who slave labor built that canal under Ferdinand de Lesseps supervision........
Egypt didn't build it though
Suez Canal was financed by France and England but Egyptian workers hand dug. Monument to their hard work can be seen along the Suez canal
Naser had balls . However he failed in 67 . They should've bombed Israel first than deployed the shisha girls to distract Jewish soldiers will the army encircled them LOL
Egyptis still poor nassee fsiled its a fofth world nstion
Thx mohomran for upload this fair Docu from BBCfour
Haha, so people have been calling people they don't like fascists since the late '50s! And nothing's changed...
Very interesting ! thanks for posting
I love how so many westerners/Americans and Isrealis refuse to learn anything from history...from reading the comments below.
The Suez canal was NOT built by the British, it was built with Egyptian labor and by Egyptians, just as the Pyramids were. Britain was an occupying force and the Egyptian had the right to resist and kick them out & claim the Suez as theirs, just as the Afghanis and Iraqis have the right under international law to resist and kick out the occupying americans.
And I love how some of you have to make this about religion and Anti Semitism. Naser was not anti semite since he is a semite himself....Arabs are Semitic people by the way.
Resisting and fighting the Israeli occupation and invasion is not anti semitic.
And Muslims and Jews have lived together in peace in Southern Spain for over 600 yrs, this is even acknowledged by Jewish historians like Aba Eban.
A French company engineered the canal. People from many countries performed the labor. It seems Afghans and Iraqis want the Americans to leave their countries -- until the Americans actually begin to do so. I'm not sure I'd characterize the American presence in those places as "occupying".
" lived together in peace in Southern Spain" had always relied on the subjugated to become a tax source by their oppressors...
The occupation of Iberia by the Moors was a welcome occurrence for a well pummeled and remaining Jewish population. Of course the Muslims were not completely tolerant, but they were more tolerant than the rulers of the previous administration. Under the ruling Caliph (the descendant of Mohammed--the prophet of G-d on earth), the Jews were able to preserve their rites and traditions. Peaceful coexistence led to their economic and social expansion. Their status was that of Dhimmis, non-Muslims living in a land governed by Muslims. The Jews had limited autonomy, but full rights to practice their religion, as well as full protection by their Muslim rulers; but this did not occur for free. There was a specific tax called the jizya that Dhimmis had to pay to receive these benefits. Having its origin in the Qur'an, it states Dhimmis who did not pay this tax, should either convert to Islam, or face the death penalty (Qur'an 9, 29)
You are not very bright are you,, the Egyptians did not build the Pyramids , they were build thousands of years before , by a previous nation,
Captain Morgan that is Egypt sir
@@1greghcolonialism was certainly occupying. Egypt just took away the interests of enemy powers. Given the colonialism in that area, nationalising the canal was fair game
The last time the United States stood up and said "NO!" to the Israelis.
+Jeremy Marshall The Bush Administration, contrary to popular belief, said no to the Israelis several times even threatening to withhold foreign aid when the Israelis wouldn't comply. The Obama Administration most recently went against Israeli wishes in signing the Iran Nuclear Deal.
Conceded!
+Allan Herrera ISRAEL RUN S America ,.. all the talk is bull shit... the americans are 100 % controlled by ISRAEL ...
+alan hopkins You really think the Anglo-Americans and US Military will allow themselves to be controlled by an Ethnic minority? The Zionists are working for the best interests of the US Military and not the other way around.
Where would Israel be without Oil in the Middle East?
+Jeremy Marshall I was wrong, totally admit it, because I just read the new book by Dennis Ross, "Doomed to Fail."
Nasser was the kind of leader India needed in 1947 , instead we got Nehru and Gandhi
Nasser was an indian ally tho❤❤
I love how USSR called Great Britain and France out. Yeah, because that little affairs in Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968 and Afganistan 1979 were nothing major.
You seem to forget that Britain was happily killing in Kenya and Malaysia. I leave the US out because it's too much. The Soviet didn't do a tenth of what the west did, even considering only the post 1917
@@felixndayisdebologne9725 If British, French and Americans killed as many people in Kenya, Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, Laos and Middle East as Soviets killed between 1917-1989 in Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Balkans and Middle East, these countries would be no more. Only real competition is China, really, or Mongols. I would rather be born in British Empire than Eastern Bloc, to be frank. And I was born in Eastern Bloc, sadly.
@@jakublulek3261 They killed way more. Would you have liked to be a black man there?
@@jakublulek3261 have you ever heard of the numerous man made famine triggered by the Brits in India. From 1917 to 1947 more than 15 millions.
@@felixndayisdebologne9725 Thank you, my family are Polish Jews and democrats. My grandfather was in British army in WWII, my father was political dissident half of his life. I was in prison when I was barely legal. Nobody liked us, Nazis, Commies, Catholics. Most of my extended family flew Poland or died in concentration camps. This is not contest of who had it harder. Western capitalists are greedy and racist, yes. But communism is designed to root out everybody who doesn't conform. It is designed to crush you completely, to destroy your spirit, to make you mere tool, unflinching and without questions. I don't wanna be black man over there. But don't wanna be Jew over here.
At 11:34 the narrator speaks about Weapons "newly accquired from russia" and the show british made Centurion tanks used by the egyptian army
A great Documentary. I remember being in Paris to improve my French and a classmate was a girl from Hungary who escaped the crushing of its democracy. This is not add here. I was finishing ny Master's Degree and was told by an Egyptian classmate the naval bombardment of the city of Suez killed 10,000 civilians. This is not reported here how many died.
"We all know this is how fascist governments behaves."
What, nationalization? Your own government did/went on to do a hell of a lot more of that than Nasser.
tbr2109
The Egyptians couldn’t afford to build the Suez canal. Brits, French and Turks payed for it. Egypt got LOTS of jobs in construction. When the canal is ready - ”-Hey, wait. This expensive canal is here in Egypt. Let’s just take it, because... nationalism.” 🙄
hey wait, this entire continent is someone else's. let's just take it. because nationalism. how hypocritical. hey these natural resources are from other parts of the world, let's just take them because nationalism. hypocrisy is a funny thing.
@ actually the egyptians paid in full for the canal. the expenses bankrupted the country at the time.
this compelled the egyptian government, under pressure from the french and british, to give up control of the canal to the benefit of the franco-british suez canal company.
extremely complex geo-political and geo-strategic interest have been shaping the events of the time.
@@asedkyjust ask the miners
"Hey, let's just take this country because colonialism". It was fair game because Britain and France had profited off having a protectorate in Egypt
Suez 1956 and Iraq 2003, looks like Britain did not learn it's lesson after the Suez debacle
why stopping with egypt? it's still contuning today under the media blackout and the cover up of 'human rights' and 'democracy'....but more recently the tactic changed from sending their armies to creating proxy armies or mercenaries...for example Syrian rebels, Libyan rebels, Boko Haram in Nigeria....ISIS in Iraq and if u watch news today u can see the latest addition is Yemen...which is under attack...i think the only country that survived this kind of proxy army attack was Sri Lanka...coz UK created and harbored tigers as a regional terror unit to bring India and even Chiina under control...by giving them training and financing under cover and not to mention the wide media coverage...as far as I know that's their only failed project...
Blood Raven
its nice how not on Egyptian acknowledges that they didn't build the canal! They didn't pay to build it! Naser says the money from the canal "should be ours!" they wouldnt have built it by the 60s (the better part of a century) when this war happened either!
***** Afghanistan 2006-14 as well, though Britain's three previous conflicts in Afghanistan should have been lessons heeded
the egyptian workers build the canal
Hundreds of trillions of what, my friend? The fact that the British had a _mostly_ *positive* effect on India is not debatable. If you look at how the Indians were treated by the Mughals when you have tens of *millions* of Hindus killed while being moved into slavery by the Muslims contrary to the freeing of the slaves by the British Empire.
This video removes the role of the Soviet Union, who had defended Egypt in 1956. Soviet Air Force defended Cairo from the air-attack of Israel , they sent tanks to Syria already and an attack on Israel was imminent. At that time Eisenhower asked the British and French to withdraw.
After the war the Soviet Union gave the money to build the Aswan dam.
what is a great true history we lived and to be proud that i am egyption
What, with that murdering arsehole Sisi in power? You must be fucking nuts. It's 'Egyptian', by the way.
they ddnt handle it right either...and you got rid of him
later right??? part true history... caused a lot of wrong pain
@@egyptionpharaoh2463 Listen man, I am an American and I say don't listen to that asshole. I understand the significance of Arab Nationalism and the love of ones own country.
I love my country, and although it is by no means perfect I strive to see it get better and I am sure you feel the same about your country of Egypt. Don't let people like Jimits123 make you believe all Westerners think like that. The ones who are the most crazy also tend to be the most vocal. The majority of Westerners have no hate for Egypt, but there will always be those people on the internet who want to troll you to get a reaction out of you.
@@egyptionpharaoh2463 Yeah mate, as a Brit I'd say that Egypt is a beautiful country with a rich history and good people. Don't get lulled into hating each other because of one or two dickheads online.
Maged attia nothing till be proud of until you kneel before Lord Jesus at the end. Dropping the pedophile prophet Muhammad is something you could be proud about. Beeing Egyptian is not enough. Sorry but you need the truth!!!
What's the dramatic music? Sounds rather like "Stansfield" from the film Leon.
The soundtrack of this documentary is amazing. It also sounds familiar. I wonder if it was composed specially for this documentary or it was repurposed from a different feature film?
Took me a few minutes to work it out but I finally got it, Its the soundtrack to the movie 'Leon the Professional'
I would not describe Egypt as a small country. Egypt is somewhat big and has a large population.
To paraphrase SIR Anthony,
"Please just hand over the cash old boy because I'm a man of peace",
Great documentary, BBC. A nice surprise !
Good stuff. Enjoyed the insight
one false flag after the other... bliar and bush.. should be in jail ...
then jail probably would be better and you would want to
be there with us and would be crying that you have no
protection anymore on the outside... let me in, let me in
.... imo
Thank you for posting this, very nice to see the Egyptian perspective on the Suez Crisis.
I seen this quite a while ago on TV. This is the first documentary I seen about Suez and by far the best. It was as captivating as a movie as I didn't know much about it.
Interesting video on what was arguably the key point in the Cold War for France and Britain at least. What is interesting to me is the damage this, admittedly ill founded expedition did to the NATO alliance, the UN and the path it placed the United States upon in becoming 'world policeman' after having undermined Britain and France's already unsteady return to imperial careers in the post 1945 era. Hardly suprising that France left NATO and Britain refused to send troops to South Vietnam in the aftermath of this debacle.Highly ironic that this was the only time the United States and the Soviet Union voted together at the UN and that it led Khrushev to consider that nuclear brinkmanship was a valid and acceptable part of Soviet diplomacy, to come badly unstuck in Cuba six years later...
Prove France left NATO
To the scum bags who are saying the Suez isn't Egypts, you are true low lives- it was designed yes by the West, but was built on the Backs of Egyptians & also many Greeks...There is no excuse to occupation & oppression!
Tarek Salah Get out of our canal then
Stupid. The West made the investment. Are you saying labor should take all the end products while the capital contributor gets nothing? Are you a communist? Does your country have stock market?
*****
Because the countries that adopted communism have failed miserably.
***** What's wrong with communism is the same thing that's wrong with Bolshevism, Nazism, Maoism, Ba'athism. and every other form of socialism. It creates an ideological justification for mass thievery and the enslavement of working people to an aristocratic class of socialist elites.
Socialists drove the auto industry out of Detroit. The Ba'athists are engaged in a genocide in Syria as we speak. No shock that they would blame their own crimes and atrocities on their victims, as they have done this so many times before. The socialists are even bringing back anti-Semitism while blaming it on the "Zionist" Jews.
***** LOL! Are you crazy? Detroit was the capital of the world when the free market was allowed to roam free. The second socialists and unions took control of that city it has gone down hill ever since. Now it looks worse than Nagasaki.
From 1917 all the way up to the fall of the Berlin wall, the Soviet Union had an agricultural deficit. Every. Single. Year. Those dummies couldn't even manage to feed themselves.
Yet any country that adopted capitalism had a surplus, every year.
In war always follow the money. After Suez the British pound was replaced by the US Dollar as the world reserve currency..the petrodollar is still with us now despite it becoming a fiat currency in 71.
BTW had to go and spew when I saw Blair lying in this. He’s so transparent now, but at the time..! I don’t know how he did it.
Excellent documentary !!
@7min10 the dude says that Egypt was a backward country...that 0.5% possesed 75% of the wealth
Reminds me of the USA
yeah,but you can climb the ladder,not in that Despot's Egypt!!!!
but a little diff...you eat good...get food stamp from gov,
they dont....little things like that...
Excellent documentary
Eden's defeat was the last gasp of the British Empire. Looking back now, sadly, things would be much better if he won. The US Empire is far more exploitative and ruthless than the British as we now know after they eliminated the competition from the UK and USSR. The US doesn't build any transportation, schools, hospitals, or anything. The US is worse than even the Spanish Conquistadors and even ruined Haiti worse than the French. And now destroying Syria. The Federal Reserve has bought out all the European banks and given them austerity. Despite all the propaganda, the British Empire had more of a positive influence on the world than negative. Most of the air ports, roads, hospitals, schools, government structures, modern courts and justice, were built by the British and still used today. Well... until the Americans bomb it.
A very rational analysis.
Bring back the Conquistadors.
USA leadership was bad only for Middle East and Southamerica. American leadership is one of the best things ever happened to Asia in the last 500 years. USA kicked out brits from India, Japanese from China and French, dutch from South East Asia. If not for USA, Asians still would've been lived as slaves. And British Empire is one of the worst thing ever happened to Asia. Only an Englishman who never lived in british ruled colony spit out such nonsense. Atleast Americans don't abandon their soldiers like britain did to WW2 indian soldiers thru partition.
Good documentary
Quite a lot of parallels with the situation in the Belgian Congo: a new, charismatic (?) young leader, with dreams of sharing the wealth that could be brought by the copper and uranium that are mainly found in one province, an ex colonial power that is seeking ways of eliminating him (politically or physically), then that leader starting to look at the direction of Moscow for arms, of course upsetting both the CIA and Belgium etc etc. Except that of course the Russians don't seem to have threatened with nuclear war in the case of the Kongo.
Also some parallels with Cuba, the Americans thinking that creating some fuzz with noisy anti Castro rebels would be enough to frighten Cubans, who were supposed to turn against Castro.
Peter Wright in his book Spycatcher claims the British were able to decipher the codes used by the "Gyppies" (as they were apparantly called in those days). These messages were shared with the Americans. In them, it became clear that the USSR really was very serious about a nuclear war, if the UK / France and Israel went ahead with their plans, which prompted the Americans to put pressure on Eden. The British had to leave quite a stock of arms behind, which were flooded on the black market afterwards.
Dunno shit about this crop
@@villiestephanov984Alan Watt informed me.of that. Cutting through the matrix
Still today Egypt is very poor, it has an exploding population of 110 millions.
The UK is nothing without the support it gets from the US
The world, particularly the US and Britain, didn't learn anything from the Suez Crisis
All human been must protect their Land, dignity,and traditions,.
At the end the arrogant will be shame of his act.
My only objection, is calling Egypt “small and poor”... !!
Explain to me how the official view came to that conclusion!?
Learning historic events from The Crown then watching documentaries for details.
"Small, poor, arab country" Not small nor poor. They had no problem attacking the actually small and actually poor Israel up till that conflict and afterwards...
Nor did it defend itself the Egyptian military was defeated quite easily both on the front lines by Israel and later on by the French and English. The only reason why they still have the sinai and suez canal under their control is because of the U.S
Anyone notice the music at the beginning is from the movie Leon! "This is from Matilda!!"
I realized it was from Leon as well. Sounds very familiar.
I'm sure Anthony Eden would have welcomed Dr. Heisenberg as a negotiator.
And spare a thought for the last time America stood for truth. Wasn't it a beautiful thing?
...those were the days...!
@stephen morris If the Soviets did not threaten to nuke Britain, France and Israel, the US would have probably done nothing.
Few individuals realise when fundamentals changes occur in history, since, the Owl of Minerva, spreads its wings and flies only with the falling of dusk.
One has to wonder just what Eden was thinking (at least beyond his colonial racism). He was in the War Cabinet during the Blitz, and had to see first hand that bombing cities, and killing civilians doesn’t weaken the morale or determination of the civilians, but strengthens it. It happened in Britain, it happened in Berlin, and terror bombing rarely, if ever, works.
Yet he seems to have forgotten this lesson, in using such a murderous strategy against Egypt. What arrogance!
Most people who rise to power are Psychopaths , death is not to be feared if it is some one else
@CaptainMorganxxx :: Well-"said" !
Those were the last kicks of a dying empire.
Seldom seen or heard such a groveling piece of work than this
21:00 centuries of dishonour
Fantastic documentary. I am currently reading an excellent book called Nasser:The Last Arab by Said Aburish. It is so gratifying to see an accurate documentary on this topic. Nasser was such an inspiring figure - an anti-colonial nationalist who believed in the separation of politics and religion.
Then, what a glorious moment and achievement for Egypt. Nowadays, it’s plagued with horrible islam teachings. I salute you Nasser.
summer2000ss nasser was a devout Muslim though.
@@shahirani4762 if he was devout Muslim,why his wife and daughter wore western short dress?
EVERY TIME I SEE THE THUMBNAIL TO THIS VIDEO I THINK ITS MR ROGERS AND I SAY WTF MR ROGERS WHAT ARE YOU DOIN IN THE SUEZ?
A dishonourable moment in British foreign affairs. The humiliation ruined Eden's health and reputation
A dishonorable moment in British foreign policy ? We'll just add it to the list . 😂
@@aristotle736what list ?
Such an amazing documentary, really liked it
never forget the history.. the real one not what is told... it repets itself over and over again...
True
@@Arslan2893330:30 what was the sabotage attempt?
First of all Egypt is not a small arab nation its a big Egyptian nation that showed to the whole world the meaning of life. I ask people in the western world, are you proud of your leaders who destroy countries under the name of human rights and democracy? See what you did to Egypt and all African nations. Egypt stood up against the darkness and the fake uprising and its sunshine will always hit the faces of the enemies. Long live the Egyptian Nation
@@CaptainMorganxxx
You need more education
@@CaptainMorganxxx Europeans invaded lands and consumed its resources. You call it an act of civilization? Thats a pitty
Get off your High Horse, and see facts, Egypt is 90% Dessert !, take away all past input this last 300 years from Europeans *(Everything White!! ) and every other country including Egypt would trill be in the bronze age. I am not saying it is right , just that it is a fact.
Tell me what Resource did Europeans consume ??
@@CaptainMorganxxx 90% desert has the greatest civilization and has taught the world meaning of life so get over it and my advice mind your own business and by the way i am proud to be from this land whatever you think of it
amazzinnggg video makes you fall in love with this country and the people , real egyptians, all over again !! know your history , chin up and do your job as it should be done.... perfectly.
Ah yes, Eden, a man of peace, striving for peace: a piece of Egypt.
37:45 30 October ultimatum
Tony Blair of the 50s
Kadir bashir...
C'mon Mr Kadir.
Get your spelling right... Tony B.Liar!
Less English men killed
AN AFRICAN LEADER SAY ONCE ''IF WE ARE UNITED THE ENEMY OUTSIDE CAN DO US NO HARM'' WELL ...........
Holy shit I though bush was bad
+Alex Voorhees talking about a damn lier after another!.
Welcome to capitalism as its ugliest. This sort of thing isn't new, it happens time after time.. from Vietnam to Iraq..to Syria etc etc.
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss".
This is not an example of capitalism. Capitalism is based on voluntary transactions between willing participants. It is socialism which uses force or coercion to conduct business. *Corporatism is not capitalism*-it is distinctly different and you should not make the mistake of confusing the two, even though it is an easy mistake to make.
There's a reason Eden was called by one of his own advisors "a criminal lunatic". Sad really. He should be remembered as an honourable man for resigning and opposing Chamberlain's appeasement policy. Instead suez was his epitaph
base on Globalist usury aka debt based economics, you can cut all public spending and raise tax to 70% of income and you still wont pay off the debts because the scam is impel the banks only produce enough money to pay off the loans but not the interest on loans, thus there is not enough money in circulation to pay it all off, this forces nations to look abroad and thus another people have to be exploited which, is colonialist repression. Nationalism and anti Marxian Socialism is the way forward. Every time a nation merges the two, the West come in with their Jewish made democracy bombs.
Ahhh, all the things we never knew, and now we do..
🤮😡🤮😡🤮
Same old story just a different day
Very recommendable!