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What you've overlooked is that these governments also like that the issue between Israel and Palestine persists so that the public doesn't focus on the internal problems of their countries and stays fixed on these external issues.
You nailed it! in order for Arab leaders to continue stealing, looting and killing their own people they must keep the people's minds pre-occupied that their is an external enemy and that enemy can never be defeated you can the leader of Syria for example whenever he talks about the situation in Syria he always says " their is a global conspiracy against us and we are fighting against that " but who is the enemy and what are they're motives? He never specifies instead he keeps saying this to give his pro-butt lickers something to cheer for and get behind
No one cares about that because most of these governments aren't genuine democracies which means they don't serve the people so why would they care about internal issues? Building the wealth of the rich and powerful is more important.
This is a double edged sword if it is true. Because once the extenal issue become so big and the government still takes no action, then the problem becomes internal and all the pressure is redirected towards the government. so the governments would have to walk a very fine line.
It's the other way around bud. The people are the ones that want the governments to focus on the 'external' issues. This arguments is weak and mainly pushed by the governments themselves to silence the people, internal v. external issues is a paradigm the governments choose to separate issues that are otherwise totally linked. If the UAE benefits internally from an external issue, then this model is irrelevant, likewise if Egypt suffers internally from an external issue. The only example where one can grant you a pass is Iran, but even there, this only apples to the IL-PS as the external issue... but there's the issue of embargoes from the west imposed on Iran, hugely impacting the internal situation there. So in the end, it still remains a moot argument with little to no bite to it. This paradigm is only useful in massive superpowers where external issues only have a marginal effect on the internal situation, but no political entity in the middle-east is a superpower.
Yeah the Arab world has always been split.. that’s why there are countries like Syria and Yemen that have been in a state of civil war for like over a decade
I really think you did a misjustice in the first few minutes by ignoring some key details. For example: 1. Palestinian/Arabs (Palestinians didn't get it's modern definition until after 1948) were constantly attacking Jews in the region since the 1800's during Ottoman rule of the region when nationalism had spread from Europe to Arab world. 2. 1967 "20 years later, Israel Sparked another War". Well, between 1948 and 1967, Israel was constantly attacked by t8rror1st out of Gaza and Egypt had blockaded Israel in 1956. In 1967, Israel said another blockade is an act of war and Egypt did a blockade on Israel which lead to Israel attacking Egypt. Also, come one...such neutral language on the ter --ist from Gaza?
Examples of said attacks by Palestinian Arabs on Jews in the 1800s? Source: Trust me bro. While we’re on the subject, didn’t mention terrorism is the very foundation of Israel: Haganah, Irgun, Stern Gang who also carried out attacks against the USS Enterprise and the King David Hotel bombing - one of which literally became PM of the country (Menachem Begin). Yep, “misjustice” 🙄
@@jacer5677 that's not my point. The point is that Palestinians never willed to divide the country, the want the entire area of israel with the jews thrown to the sea. As an Israeli I can tell you the majority of the people support the idea of the Palestinian state, but all of them know that in the moment they will have, they will try to kill us, they hate the jews for being jews, it was never about land. Do you think all the arab states care about the Palestinian cause? They just want to see jews evaporated. Its sad but its the truth
Nice visuals, but the analysis is very shallow. The tone of the entire video is very definitive - you're saying arguable stuff with so much certainty, that it makes it painful to listen to.
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This video felt extremely one sided and biased. Completely ignores a lot of historical context and facts and unfortunately this is being passed on as ‘history’.
@@melodicvirginia Yes, for example 11:00 The blockade in 2006 was specifically because “Hummus” was chosen by the people. The reporting on this video is heavily anti Isrl. Vox, where he comes from, has done the same in recent videos.
People seem to misunderstand the topic of the video: This is a video about the Geopolitical relations between Israel and the Arab states, and how the conflict with Hamas makes them re question their relationships. This video is NOT about the conflict or about who is right or wrong
Exactly. I'll go even further and say it doesn't even matter who's right or wrong. Israel wants peace and the Palistinians want to be free. That is the crux of the issue here.
@@gal2659free ?! can’t have an airport or a sea port or move in or out without a permit and you call this free ? What a delusional way to think about freedom.
@@Khaleya5 Looks like we got an expert here. Sorry, but you need to recheck what happened in Gaza in 2005, and whether it could have an airport or a sea port..
Great video! Some small corrections: 1. While during the 1973 Yom Kippur war Israel did cross the Suez canal and made some gains during the final phase of the war, they withdrew back to the Asian side of the canal following a renewed ceasefire. 2. The audio said Anwar Sadat was killed by the military, but it was an organisation called the Egyptian Jihad that assassinated him. They disguised themselves as soldiers and opened fire at him while he was observing a military parade, ironically one commemorating his "victory" in the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
After renewed ceasefire egypt kept holding land they got during war (whole east side of canal) while israel withdrew from all land they got in this war.
There was one more: around the 3 minute mark the narrator said the Arab states agreed to reject Israel "until it gave Palestinians land back." This is ignoring the fact that until 1967 Israel did not occupy the West Bank or Gaza and those countries attacked anyway. The modern public Arab position, that of wanting a two state solution, was adopted later.
Well, people say that palestine isnt independent becuase of Israeli occupation. The point is that from 1948 up to 1967 the west bank and gaza were under arab control, meaning that if they really wanted a country in 48' borders like they claim they could have had it a long time ago...@@shway1
@@shway1 it would have had no choice, it was weak back then.... the only reason Israel captured these lands is because the arab countries planned and invasion against Israel, so Israel had to strike preemtively... Also, a two state solution was offered to the paleatinians on several occasions, and all the offers were denied, even ones who are very close to the 48' borders.
It's quite hillarious that he points out Israel took more land when they won the Yomkippur like DUHHHH don't you know how war works???? Or are scared of loosing millions of inbred fans
In 1972, Sadat expelled 20,000 Soviet advisers from Egypt and opened new diplomatic channels with Washington, D.C., which, as Israel’s key ally, would be an essential mediator in any future peace talks. He formed a new alliance with Syria, and a concerted attack on Israel was planned.
0:01 "The ARMED Palestinian group, Hamas." Why is the majority democratically elected political party of Gaza being labeled as an armed group? Are you saying the same thing of Israel, the "ARMED Israeli group led by PM Netanyahu, Likud."
Its because 1. They know Israel and obliterate them and 2. Its more in their favour for an Israeli state as it means Iran isn't focusing their entire projection into Arab states so it means they can focus on other things and building up defences against both Israel and Iran.
Why ? when did Arab states helped them ? '48 war was full of self interests and desires to annex territory (to Greater Syria aspiration or to Jordan, as the latter did, which isn't mentioned here, simply says "Arab control" in 02:45). Hell, the diversity is what made them lose that war.. Qawuqji couldn't stand El-Husseini, or Hassan Salame.. no co-ordination no nothing.. Palestinians themselves were divided with the extreme anti-partition policy led by El-Husseini, who were unfortunately the leading voice, against more moderates who were either pro-partition or up for discussion. Division even led to assassination of moderates like Sami Taha. '73 war was to revenge for the '67 loss and gain territories back. Some more Historical reasons why Arab leaders don't help them: Jordan- 1951 King assassinated, guess by who. 1970 Black September. Lebanon- 1975 dragged into an insane civil war partly/mostly (depends who you're asking) by Palestinian refugees. During this time, Syria also started having shakey relations with the Palestinians as a result. Kuwait- Palestinian refugees supported Saddam during the invasion Egypt- el-Sisi praying every night that Israel would finish Hamas. Can't stand them, they're a branch of the Muslim brothers, his worst enemies. Egypt co-decided and enforced the 2007 blockade for a reason. They always tied themselves with the extreme leaders.. Saddam, Ghaddafi, Idi Amin, always looking to incite and cause troubles in other places.. The only Arabs that are helping are other Iran proxys.. and that's the only reason they're helping.. Why would Arab governments be dragged into a surprise war made by a bunch of psychos ? Arab leaders know well enough who Hamas are. They know exactly what happened in Gaza between 2005-2007 (which isn't mentioned in the video), and they know that since then, Gazans life is made miserable by Hamas. This war, is just another one in a line of wars between Hamas and Israel, which gained nothing but more poverty and desperation for Gazans. Everyone realize that when Hamas took over, they blew a great precedent for the West Bank to be free of Israeli occupation as well.. They know Hamas is also Qatarian funded, and if you'll dive into the recent Qatar diplomatic crisis, you'll get another reasons why Arabs aren't the biggest fans of this. It's a weird headline for this video.. the Arab world was always split
Sadat refused to sign a peace deal with Israel unless they kept the gaza and the west Bank in israeli control as he did not want the Palestinians in his country
On the eve of the Yom Kippur war, Dovi, one of Marwan's handlers, told his bosses at Mossad that their mole in the Egyptian state demanded an immediate meeting between 4-5 October. The meeting was “to give information of great importance… connected to the ‘chemicals’ in his possession”. “Chemicals” was the code word for warnings about information concerning an impending war.
One important piece of context for the six day way is that Egypt and Syria were building up tanks and their armies on the Israeli border, and many of the key signs for war like soviet ambassadors leaving Also that the Israeli population is primarily not European Jews anymore. The population is roughly 20% Arab, 45% Mizrach Jews(Middle Eastern/North African) and 35% Ashkenazi Jews (European). With if course Jews that don't fit any of these categories like Beta Israel from Ethiopia and Bene Israel from India.
The Non-Ashkenazis have been westernized since a while now. The fact that Israel is a Western base in the middle east and that its population has absolutely nothing in common (religiously, ideologically, culturally) with the rest of the region's populations is very difficult to contest.
@@martinmatino6253 What do you mean by "westernised"? There's almost no difference between Lebanese Christians and Arab Israeli Jews in looks or their outlooks.
@@varsoo1doesn't change the fact israel is settler colonial project(zionist literally called themselves colonizers)and arabs are treated as second class citizens . Similar to south africa .
@@pixelpie5280 doesn’t change the fact that Arabs (some after 1948 began to call themselves Palestinians) tried to eradicate the xJe.ws since the 1800’s and one day one of Israel they along with 5 Arab countries sent their armies into Israel.
@@martinmatino6253 there are Christian Israelites and Christian Lebanese that look the same and have similar values. There use to be more Christian Lebanese but Palestinians in large number went into southern Lebanon and were a big factor in starting a war against the Christian Lebanese while also attacking Israel
One correction: at 2:50 you said that Israel sparked the 1967 six days war. While Israel did start the war it was only after Egyptian troops were mobilized to the border, and Abdel Nassar (the Egyptian President) declared he was going to wipe Israel off the map.
The video attempts to portray Israel as the initiator of the conflict on multiple occasions. However, in reality, Israel was often provoked and responded in self-defense, which gradually escalated into larger conflicts. In most cases, Israel was not the aggressor.
At the end of the video, you say that the Arab countries want some sort of resolution to this Palestinian situation. How can there be a resolution if Hamas’ charter states that its committed to the destruction of Israel?
Why would hamas abandon the destruction of israel if everyday since 1948 israel has been committed to the extermination of palestinian people??? There will never be a two state solution, because israel refuses to give back the land they stole and will do anything to own all the land in the region, even if it means committing genocide.
Are we really gonna completely gloss over everything leading up to the 6 day war in 67 and just say that Israel started it? All signs were pointing to an imminent invasion from Jordan and Egypt and Egypt had also blockaded the gulf of aqaba (which is literally an act of war...).
He DID say that Israel started it and I beg to differ. Israel took the first strike that is true, but Nasser was told a lie by the Soviets and surprise surprise it took off.
This is not the first time they have done this. I commented on this extremely biased selective presentation of the facts on a previous video they made where they also glossed over everything leading up to the 6 day war and simply blamed Israel. I'm glad to see others picking up on it.
This is not the first time they have done this. I commented on this extremely biased selective presentation of the facts on a previous video they made where they also glossed over everything leading up to the 6 day war and simply blamed Israel. I'm glad to see others picking up on it.
In 1967 didn't Egypt close off the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel shipping and the surrounding Arab nations mobilize their troops (similar fashion to Russia before they Invaded Ukraine)? That prompted Israel to be preemptive? This video cartwheels over a lot of details.. but I guess this topic can't be covered in full in 16mins.
I’m sorry, but you fail to mention one very crucial fact. Jordan and Egypt rules the the West Bank and Gaza Strip from 1948 until 1967 and didn’t even think about establishing a Palestinian state. There are two main reasons for that, first they considered the Arabs living on those territories as an extra ion of their own nations. Such as Jordan annexing the West Bank, and secondly they had an issue with Israel existing at all.
@@ymtzlgn no no I don't need to go back to Arabia cuz the cananeties arab is the first people live there will you European came here after the zionists bch movement understood?? So I am from the original people will you just like the white people who lived in South Africa
@@nommsperhaps when it is about local affairs. But about when it is about the Israel-Hamas war you would need to watch all the time to catch their latest apologize for misinformation before you could trust it. Apparently, getting a story first comes before getting it right.
@@nomms Outlets can be different on topics and audiences. Is the BBC factual in international coverage? Absolutely. Some of the best coverage in the world. How they're covering transgender rights in their own country? Absolute trash. And it's not just them. Al Jazeera, for example. They do an excellent job covering much of the Mideast with an objective eye. They do great work there. Covering their home country of Qatar? Very different. Context matters in all aspects. Both are government-funded outlets. They do maintain a lot of editorial independence, but there can always be a pain point where they could toe the line. Doesn't mean you can't rely on their coverage at all, but be smart in how you rely on it and understand where its coming from.
Really glad to see more coverage on this issue form a more macro lens POV and less from an emotional POV. I feel like only with these kinds of large scale contexts can the conflict be inched towards peace, not with calls for the destruction of Gaza or for the abolition of the state of Israel, as these are coming more from a place of raw emotion and have no actual basis in real world context and implications
When lives are on the stake both parties can get emotional, but the important thing is to allow for that emotion blind you from truth about the genocidal campaigns dehumanisation and the apartheid regime
israel did not gain more territory during the yom kipur war. you should check your sources. israel gained more territory in 1967 at the six day war. any video that starts with "israel kills palestinian" cannot be historically accurate since its clearly biased. if you want to learn about the history of the conflict, look for a real source.
Completely incorrect. The intervention of the United States in various countries and the overthrowing of governments have resulted in the establishment of the current ones that do not represent their citizens.
"Great essay! However, I believe that starting the discussion of this issue with British colonialism is an oversimplification. The British only held control for 28 years, which is a relatively short period in the history of empires. Before that, the land had been under Ottoman Empire rule, and Jews had lived there for centuries. Ignoring this history, ignores another big part of this puzzle.
Jews didn't even make more than 5% of population under Ottoman rule. Brits wooed Arabs to backstab Ottomans - a Muslim authority - in exchange for a large Arab state of their own but later backtracked. Not only did it backtrack, it offered Palestine to Jews in 1917. Your mind is too simplistic to understand this conflict, especially the role of Brits.
@@maquacr7014 Then we can go back further, before the Ottoman rule to the Muslim Conquest when 90,000 Christians were massacred. My point is that this area is millennia old and has been fought over many times. To blame it all on the Brits, who I'm not saying are innocent in this, and use words like "Colonialism," and disregard all this previous history and the historical importance of this land to so many of all religions and backgrounds, won't make solutions come any easier. Also, we don't need a negative response. Debate is important and necessary. Don't make it a zero-sum game and throw around insults. It's counterproductive.
I guess that does highlight the complexity of this history when we’re asking which 90,000. I was referring to the siege of Jerusalem in 636. I was going way back for that one. I’m curious I’ve been building a reading list to help myself understand all this, do you have any books, articles to recommend?
@@olamid333 Some people are victims of propoganda, best to ignore them fully. They won't be convinced nor swayed towards the facts, Isreal isn't an angel state that has done no wrong, no country is full innocent in politics and war.
Well technically they did. Israel bombed out Egypts fields destroying most of their Air Force. That was the first kinetic act of the war. The Arab countries were staging and posturing about attack Israel…but technically Israel started it.
@@willneverstop it was a preliminary defensive strike in response to mobilization of massive amounts of troops and munitions into every one of their borders. As well as intelligence from communications interception that the invasion was imminent. Saying the started the war is foolish
While I appreciate the depth you get into here in this video and that you can't possibly include everything, there are multiple instances where you gloss or entirely skip over information that can help viewers build a more complete and accurate understanding and opinion on the subject. Examples: - when Wa'el says "mainly European Jews" at 2:15, no context or time frame is given, ignoring the fact that the 1948 deceleration of Israel resulted in all of the Arab countries expelling their Jewish populations and so already in 1950 the majority of Jews in Israel were not "European". Regardless, this also plays into (mostly antisemitic) tropes claiming that Jews have no historical connection to the land are are "white, European settlers". - when talking about the early 2000s and peace between Israel and the Palestinians, ignoring the second Intifada as a potential reason for rejection of the Saudi peace plan, as well as the multiple peace initiatives and deals offered to the PA by Israel (for example Olmert agreeing to almost everything the wanted), makes it seem as if Israel rejected the only peace initiative, didn't initiate any themselves, and implies that Palestinians have no agency of their own.
Despite what Sam Ellis claims to be an unbiased video, this video is extremely biased against Israel. Probably because all sources, left and right, like to be antisemitic. If he truly wanted to be unbiased, he wouldn't just invite Wa'el Alzayat, an outspoken anti-Israel propagandist, but he would also invite someone from the Israeli side to speak about the conflict. I'm quite disappointed.
@@andreimandelshtam1943 I don't think that "all sources" are antisemitic (and not all people who aren't "pro-Israel" are antisemitic). Western voices in academia and journalism tend to be biased for sure, though I don't think some fringe right-wing super pro Israel voice here would have balanced things out either. As an Israeli, I found Wa'el to be pretty fair with what he was saying, not that I necessarily agreed with all his analysis. I just think that the perspective from which he was speaking was clearly a biased one, just like I would have regardless of how hard I tried to present things neutrally.
So many wrong sayings from you. Your insistence to call Hamas 'armed resistance' after you saw what they did to Israelis (raped, murdered, tortured and kidnapped) is baffling to me. Saying that Hamas done this act as a counter move to the warming relations of Israel and Saudi Arabia is just ignorance. It has been proved by several investigations that Hamas has planned this kind of offensive against israel for years, maybe a decade. It was more so because it was the exact date that pointed 50 years from the Yom Kippur war, which until October 7th, was the worst event Israel went through in its existence. Also, they basically copied the plan of Hezbollah for an invasion of northern Israel, which is widely believed to be decades old. The 1947 UN resolution was a recommendation, without any legal obligation (you are welcome to check the law), which Israel accepted, but the arabs declined. The true land of israel includes Gaza and Judea and Samaria, according to the borders of the former British mandate, hence, Israel isn't occupying any land because it belongs to it.
Its a bit simplistic to say the jew accepted the UN deal while the Arabs didnt... There were a lot of reason why they didnt mainly the the division of land was not fair its like saying if someone came to your house and only took half your house would you say yes?
I'm sorry but describing the 6-day War in 1967 as "Israel sparked another war and gained even more territory" is a gross mischaracterization of history, ignoring key facts, namely that Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and mobilized their military along with Jordan and Syria was a prior escalation of conflict.
1. The Palestinian flag was invented in the 1960s when Palestinian identity was created. 2. "Palestinians with Israeli citizenship" are Israeli Arabs, descendants of Arabs who didn't leave in 1948. There are 2 million and are 20% of Israeli population, they are Israelis exactly like Jews and have full rights. A majority support Israel. 3. West Bank belonged to Jordan before 1967 and people living there were Jordanians, Gaza belonged to Egypt before 1967 and people there were Egyptians. 4. Arabs were not ethnically cleansed in 1948, the opposite, they fled and are the ones who tried to ethnically cleanse the Jews before 1948. In 1948 all Arab countries attacked the new Israeli state after refusing the 1947 UN partition plan. 5. The UN and Arab countries created refugee status that passes through generations, as political tool against Israel. They also created "right of return", there is no such thing anywhere else in the world. 6. So the "Nakba" (catastrophe) is about the fact that they lost the war that they started and left their homes (most of them voluntarily) because of war that they themselves started. 7. And as we all know very well, there is no genocide in Gaza, there is a war, that again they themselves started.
@search-party I can see you made effort to be neutral here, but why would you mention Israel's "brutal treatment of palestinians" without any context on why the blockade in Gaza was put in to place? or the geographical conundrum that is the West Bank's geography and it's threat to Israel? that's an extremely one sided description.
After the Israeli Independence war, the West Bank and Gaza strip wasn't under a Palestinian rule; The Gaza Strip was controlled by Egypt, while the West Bank was occupied and then annexed by Jordan (which was iilegall according to the United Nations). The only TWO COUNTRIES to blame are Egypt and Jordan, you know why? Becuase from 1949 to 1967 (19 years), both of them controlled the "Palestinian Terrotries", why didn't they establish a Palestinian state in these territories? They had 19 years to do so, until 1967 when the Six Day War was launched. Write me what you think was the reason. By the way, about the Two states solution, Israel offered the Palestinians a solution 6 times in the past, but they denied all of them; -1937: Peel commission -1947: United Nations Partition Plan -1967: Arab Peace Initiative offered by the Arab League -2000: Camp David Initiative -2008: Ehud Olmert offer to re-endorsement of the Arab Peace Initiative -2020: United States then president Donald Trump's peace plan The Palestinians rejected all of them.
Nice video. But 2:52 wording could have been better instead of “Israel sparked another war”. Yes They launched pre-emptive strike but after iraq egypt and jordan mobilized their armies on their border. More context would have helped to first time viewers
This video is very misleading. There is overemphasis on the connection between the Palestinian issue to domestic and strategic issues of many of the Muslim countries. There is no mentioned on the many peace agreement Israel has made with the Palestinians (accept for the Oslo accords) that were rejected by the Palestinians. There is no mentioned on the catastrophic attempts done by Palestinians to overthrow governments of countries that host them (Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt). This video is trying to paint a picture, but it's not the reality.
Marwan, the son-in-law of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, told the then Mossad chief Zvi Zamir “there is a 99 percent chance that the war will start tomorrow… (Oct 6, 1973) it will start simultaneously on both fronts, the Egyptian and the Syrian”. Those warnings were largely dismissed by the Israeli defence establishment. But they proved accurate.
Eh. This video conspicuously misses the mark on who should be held responsible for the lack of a Palestinian state. Missing information: 1. Egypt controlled Gaza until 1967. Jordan controlled the “West Bank” until 1967. If Egyptians and Jordanians wanted Palestinians to have their own state in which they could self-determine, they would have done so from 1948-1967 & this would likely not be the issue it is today. Egyptians and Jordanians protesting in the streets after Egyptian and Jordanian normalization with Israel is a crock of bull. No one said boo during the 19 years Palestinians lived statelessly under their government’s rules. 2. After the Six Day war, Israel offered Egypt the return of Gaza and the West Bank to Jordan for peace, and no one would negotiate with Israel, so military occupation stood, waiting for peace partners. Israel’s post ‘67 borders were never defined, which is what usually happens after a war, and that’s why the West Bank continues to be a shit show. Definitely Israel’s fault, but also Egypt’s fault & Jordan’s fault & Palestinian leaders’ fault. 3. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 (all Israeli military and 50,000 civilians were uprooted and relocated into Israel) and the “harsh blockade” on Gaza in 2007 (mentioned in this video in relation to Israel) was also mirrored by Egypt. A point you also neglected to mention. 4. The Oslo Accords crumbled because of the second Intifada, which was also left out of this video. The second intifada continued the tradition of deadly violence against Israel not creating opportunities for peace for the Palestinians. Huh, who would have thought? 5. Israel may have agreed to give up the West Bank for peace in the 90s or early 2000’s, but will probably never do so now. The West Bank is a mountainous region that overlooks the economic center of the country (Tel Aviv and surroundings). If Israel pulling out of Gaza let Iran in, it can only be assumed/known that pulling out of the West Bank would do the same. Israel could never risk its security like that, and not acknowledging the likely risk is an important piece this video also left out when talking about a possible future for Two State solution. Israel has learned a terrible lesson & will probably never swap more land for a peace Palestinian leaders can’t promise. (Who is there, Abbas? 88 years old & going on 19 years of his 4 year elected term. Hamas? Who don’t acknowledge Israel’s right to exist in any form. Who is there to make peace with?) 7. The points about Hamas fighting this proxy war for Iran to destabilize Saudi’s peace deal with Israel was well put, but you’re naïve to think Hamas attacked Israel because a plan for Palestinian statehood was left out of the deal. Hamas doesn’t care about Palestinians. If they did, they would invest the billions of dollars they get annually in aid and invest it in infrastructure, bomb shelters for civilians (if they are going to continue to get into wars with Israel), food, water, jobs, and healthcare. Instead, they kill and violently silence anyone that protests against them, dig up their water pipes to make rockets out of, which they continue to shoot into Israel, and use all that money on an intricate network of tunnels under Gaza, while they keep their own people in refugee camps.
2:53. “Israel sparked another war” well at least we know where the biases are in this video. Love how you just leave out all context whatsoever. Pitiful
Missed an opportunity to clarify why israel is not a colonialist state; the jewish immigrants were not agents of Britain. Did not mention Arab or Jewish regional displacement, planned attacks leading up to the 6 Day War and various other points, including Hezbollah attacks on Israel and deeper explanations of geopolitical motivations. Content here is informative but incomplete.
2:54 in 1967 Israel didn't spark a war Egypt did and Israel made a preemptive strike they legally gained the Sinai and Judea and Samaria in a defensive war.
2:55 "Israel sparked another war" - what an interesting narrative you have there... Israel was attacked by three countries. No provocation. Just existing... Words have meaning. When you use words semantics matters. Making Israel an aggressor to fit your narrative doesn't work well with the historical facts.
You forgot the issue that Palestinians have been extremely disruptive and negative for the governments that did help them. Muslim brotherhood meddling with secular Arabism in Egypt and Syria, ruining Lebanon from a peaceful multi religious Christian entity into the war torn mess it is today, the Jordanian assassinations against the former and attempted against the current king, they supported saddams war in Kuwait despite Kuwait being one of the few countries that let them in in massive numbers, and a few more incidents besides. The Arab state are conscious and wary of Palestinians for good reason because they’ve done more damage than Israel has technically.
This was a basic amt of info about the conflict, with decent accuracy. I don’t think he has done enough research to speak about what you’re saying. Most people don’t know this, glad to see a few genuinely knowledgable commentators here.
The muslim brotherhood candidate won the elections fair and square in the 2011 egyptian elections The majority of people wanted a muslim state in Egypt, which is why they voted for Morsi. Also, that's a very big oversimplification of events that took place in Lebanon leading to its collapse: the PLO did play a part in it, but it wasn't the only reason the country collapsed (other reasons include sectarian tensions, the militias question, refusal to recognize palestinian immigrants as lebanese citizens, the overwhelming power that the president had over the cabinet, systematic corruption in every level of government, etc. Which issue was more important depends on which religious group you ask)
Arab puppet rulers don't represent the will of the people living there just because isreal is in bed with their rulers doesn't mean the people living there like the isrealis.
@@thisisforsteam2316 I'll tell you Lebanon's problem: it was a state which prioritised Christians over everyone else, established by France to serve France's interest against neighbouring Muslim countries.
So many details are twisted or missing. Just a few of them: 2:30 calling the jewish immigrants, returning to their fatherland, who just escaped the holocaust basically with nothing a 'form of colonialism' is twisted. 9:55 'Israel rejected a peace deal'- there was never an actual peace deal offered to Israel at the time (or ever)+ you just skipped the fact the 90s gave rise to the most deadly terror attacks until then killing 100s of civilians. Generally there was no actual 'Palestine' before 67, it was Jordan and Egypt You keep mentioning that the peace treaties were 'against the will' of the arab citizens- since when arab countries have any consideration to their peoples will?
"returning to their fatherland", no part of Palestine is or was ever their land. They preceded to steal and violently displace/kill the native inhabitants (Palestinians) living there -- which is typical colonial behavior. 'Palestine' existed throughout all of human history even referenced in the most famous classical books including Shakespeare's Othello, debunking your entire "67" claim (misinformation propagated to justify genocide of Palestinians). Your opinions are clearly biased, ignoring historical facts, and based mainly on zionist propaganda.
its simple, as history and time have progressed so have the intertwining of all our paths - geo-politically speaking. The nature of relationship countries share is multidimensional -agreeing over certain issues, while disagreeing over others. Also the world's cautious and concerning nature towards the Islamic world, everyone is aware what they truly are capable of, so making pseudo friendships with "them" to restrain their tendacies to do what they.
For someone uneducated on the subject this might seem like a fair recap of historical events. It is not. * Israel did not start the 1967 (six day war), Egypt did by closing the Straits of Tiran (an act of war), kicking out UN peace keeping force in Sinai and mobilizing on the border. * Israel invasion of Southern Lebanon was preceded by numerous terror attacks from PLO based in Southern Lebanon. * Israel did offer the WB back to Jordan during the peace talk, they didn't want it. * For that matter, Israel also offered the Gaza and over 92% of the WB (2000 Camp David). The Palestinian leadership (Yasser Arafat) refused. In 2008, Ehud Olmert offered Gaza and over 99% of the WB (with territorial swaps) and parts of East Jerusalem. The Palestinian leadership (Mahmoud Abbas) just walked out on it. * The blockade of the Gaza strip only began *after* Hamas took over, not before.
@BDB I've also pointed out their errors and the act that the content creator said "Israel sparked another war" set me off. I'm old enough to remember that war, and its been endlessly discussed and analyzed by people smarter than him. FFS
So many of your points are outright lies. Absolute Israel propaganda. Funny how you frame Israel giving crumbs to the Palestenian people as good will actions. Or how you frame resistance as terror attacks, but not the much more common, deadly and brutal Israel attacks. Just read your sentences. Arabs are bad for "starting" the 1967 war. But Israel isn't bad for starting the war against Lebanon. Arab resistance is terrorism and bad. Israel genocide can't be bad and is actually defense. The powerful is allowed to genocide, terrorize and murder hundreds of thousands, while the weak isn't even allowed to throw stones back. Whenever Israel talks, it reads exactly like Russia talking about Ukraine, English in Ireland, French in Algeria or Third Reich in Poland. Exact same words. Genocide, apartheid and settler colonialism. Of course Israel will pretend to give things back, and then claim Palestenians refused it. The powerful always do this obvious move. You have to be very stupid to fall for it. There will never be peace in the Region while Israel exists. Even after you kill all Palestenians, their brothers will remember. The only road for peace if the abolishment of Israel and the creation of ONE state for all christian, jewish, and muslim natives. Like christian, jewish, and muslim Palestinians been asking for decades.
Also they didn't mention they can't give back the Golan Heights to Syria as they are still not in peace and would be a death sentence for all people living within a 100km radius from the heights due to modern artillery.
This video leaves out a lot of the history. Why not analyze the decision making of Palestinian leaders? The 2nd Intifada, a terror campaign orchestrated to make the Peace Process untenable. Why not mention how Israel left Gaza? Unilaterally, you make it seem like Israel unreasonable wanting to leave the West Bank, when what happened with Gaza was purely a result of Israeli optimism. If they want a two state solution they should pressure the Palestinians to accept the existence of Israel.
This video was meant to be 16 min and about how arab don’t support palastine nowadays, i couldn’t even think of a better way to clarify it, And there was never a peace just to imagine a colonial body from west comming to middile east bcz west has been killing jews all over is ridiculous, plus Israel has been taking palastine and killing them over and over with west support how tf is it imaginable to think of peace
@@lewar_kurdi The Jews are the indigenous and native inhabitants of the land of Israel and there has always been a continuous Jewish presence there. The Jewish people had always been coming back to the land, despite its poverty and violence. This was a growing dynamic long before the Holocaust. The "West" did not give the Jews the land because of the Holocaust, the Jewish population grew and demanded self-determination. It tried to coexist with Arabs but the Arabs killed Jews in Pogroms in the 1920s and that soured relations. The West did not back the Jews, but the Arabs. The British always sided with the Arabs, they limited Jewish immigration, which would have saved millions during the Holocaust. They supported an Arab majority single state, before the Jewish Insurgency against the British forced them to leave the issue to the UN. When Israel declared independence, only Czechslovakia sold it weapons and they did that for opportunist reasons because they needed money after WW2. The British sold weapons to the Arabs and British officers commanded the Jordanian Arab Legion, the only competent Arab military force. Responsible for ethnically cleansing the Jews of Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. The leaders of Western countries embargoed Israel, they didn't care and wanted to keep buying Arab oil. This dynamic changed slightly when Socialist Ba'athist dictatorships took power in various Arab countries which pushed them towards the USSR and the US therefore towards Israel. Israeli Arabs enjoy more right and freedoms than Arabs anywhere else in the Middle East. Israel offered Arabs citizenship, in 1948, there were even Arabs that fought for the IDF, most especially Bedouin, reaching the rank of Colonel. The narrative should take into account how the Arab nations have always failed to support Palestinian people, trying to use them as tools against Israel to distract their own citizens from bad government and corruption. How they could have easily paid to help settle Palestinians who left their homes, with a single day of oil revenue, they could have settled permanently all Palestinian refugees. They didn't. Palestinian leaders today continue to insist on war against Israel, a national suicide, while live the good life as Billionaires in Qatar. Arabs need a better leader who is willing to work towards peace in good faith. In the early 2000s, Israel offered '67 borders and East Jerusalem, the PLO said no and started the 2nd Intifada, a campaign of terrorism and suicide bombings targeting innocent Israeli civilians, Jews, Druze, Arabs, and others. They could have had peace on the most generous terms imaginable, but they said no and resorted to terrorism. They reaped what they sowed.
Saying that the Israelis sparked another war in 1967 when all their neighbours moved military equipment to their borders is a very nice hot take. 02:50 It was a preemptive strike, not a war insinuated by the Israelis.
4:21 you say Egypts peace treaty with Israel was seen as a betrayal because it didn't solve this problem (i.e. the Palestinian problem). That is again misleading the issue is they the other Arabs wanted the total destruction of Israel not just the areas you highlighted on the map on Judea and Samaria. Ok maybe you can get 30sec without being dishonest? Can you please?
THANK YOU. This was the contextual video on the middle east that I feel like has really been missing. I feel much better informed for having watched it. I appreciate it.
Dude he oversimplified and missed so much stuff,not giving proper context.. he said that “Israel sparked the 6 day war” which is not how it really went down. Israel attacked preemptively as a response to Egypt and Arab armies amassing at the border. In other words, the Arabs were gettting ready to attack Israel
2:52 since the Palestinians rejected a state the entire mandate went to Israel according to international law. Jordan illegal took over Judea and Samaria and Egypt illegal took over Gaza. You deliberately replaced Jordan and Egypt with Arab control to mislead your viewers into thinking it was Palestinian. This is very dishonest.
Rubbish. Israel is the one who financially propped up Hamas in order to rival the more recognized PLO and to create division within Palestine and thwart a future state. Israel then agreed to relinquish stolen Palestinian land and halt their settlements in OSLO but instead they kept every inch and expedited their illegal settlements far into previously agreed upon Palestinian Territories and with brutal violence. Once you stop reading Israeli propaganda and do your own research you will feel better about knowing the truth
If the peace deal's is offering slavery! How you will call it a peace treaty? Isreal rejected more then Palestines! All have sympathies for isreal but not knowing they refuses any Palestine state!
A lot of information in this video is either incorrect or completely glossed over to attempt to make the video as stoic and neutral as possible. Israel only "sparked" 6-day war after troops were amassed at their border and their shipping routes were being blockaded. And that the "rage" of Hamas to do what they did on October 7th was justified by the normalizing of relations between the other arab states and Israel. A real disgusting product here in my opinion.
They were not attacked first, the, Israel killed around 300 peaceful protesters years before it who marched to end the blockade, and after that Israel continued to Harasse Palestinians buy trashing the Aqsa mosque, expanding their illegal settlement, enabling settlers to kill and abuse Palestinians, imprisoning Palestinians with no trails including children, all of that while the western media ignored it so people like you but the blame on the Palestinians when they decide enough is enough and fight back for their right to exist in their land with dignity
Clearly they were never a real threat if they were wiped out in a mere 6 days. Putin threaten to blows up the west every other week, yet we still did a hostage deal with them last month. Israel had attacked Egypt 2 or 3 times at this point before 67 also. So no surprise Egypt had propaganda against them.
9:22 again with your Palestinian land back which is wrong because they never had it. And Jordan making peace was a good thing don't make it bad because even more wasn't accomplished. Jordan can't negotiate on behalf of Hamas.
Kinda disingenuous to jump over the entire build up to the 6 day war and refer to it as "Israeli aggression", when the more accurate title would be "preemptive Israeli war"
We had Jews living peacefully in the Arab world, until the creation of Israel, after which the conflicts started to arise, we started getting terrorist attacks from Jewish Zionists and spying activities. That lead to increase the heat on them and for President Nasser in Egypt to enforce them out.. Sure most of them were not terrorists, but have they created Israel in another place other than someone else lands or if the British give them another land the company would have arrived in another place away from the middle east Maybe they could buy some land in North America and live peacefully having their own country. If we need a country for only Jews to live in, why don't Muslims and Christians create their countries around religion again?
lol well I know where you get your news from…fox, cnn…because that’s literally not true Hamas wants a two state solution they’ve said so for like a decade now.
Hamas offered to dismantle its military wing in exchange for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders more than once in 1998, 2006 and 2007, but Israel did not agree because they simply do not leave something they have usurped by peace, but it is taken away from them by force, and offered again now, but of course there is no response from the side with the ideology of Greater Israel, which has demonstrations demanding settlements in Lebanon.
Hamas offered to dismantle its military wing in exchange for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders more than once in 1998, 2006 and 2007, but Israel did not agree because they simply do not leave something they have usurped by peace, but it is taken away from them by force, and offered again now, but of course there is no response from the side with the ideology of Greater Israel, which has demonstrations demanding settlements in Lebanon.
@@AmiraMohamed-lt4iy If someone punched you in the face cause they hated you so u fight them back and you beat them up, and as ur leaving you take his watch, and then he comes back to beat you up again cause he hates you and u take all his money out of his wallet this time, and he does it again and this time you take his gold necklace, after u beat his ass of course, and he comes back and says "Ill stop harrasing you and attacking you and trying to beat you up if you give me my stuff back" what would you do? Are you, morally, in the wrong for saying "screw you, imma keep all ur stuff and beat you up again"?
Zionist And Netnyahu are not concerned about 2 state solution , but about one Zionist Jewish Palestine Free(possiblly Dead ) State instead , so hell no
this video tries to justifies the horrific oct 7 attack and that is just disgusting. you should be ashamed, spreading misinformation on inhumane attacks on civilians like the oct 7 attack can kill people.
I thought there were two odd ones: Israel 'sparking another war' in 67 and rejecting Saudi Arabia's ask for a Palestinian state are pretty questionable claims. That being said, I don't want to crash the conversation: it is really hard to give context on this issue and you've done a brilliant job.
Was looking for this comment. Saying Israel sparked the conflict isn’t accurate. They were responding to military build on their boarders from Syria, Egypt and Jordan. An attack was imminent. It’s impossible to go over this history in 16 minutes.
@@thegreatprogressivemind788 I saw a documentary that said he didn't want one, but it had gotten away from him and he was worried about being assassinated by his officers if he did not.
Good video overall, obviously very very biased againts Israel but no one is free of agenda I fear. The part about Israel breaking down a peace offer by saudi arabia is kind of nonsense, and its disappointing you chose to show it this way.
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14:38 or maybe those countries recognize the justice of Israels cause? Why assume bad motives on their behalf? At least present some other possibilities.
this video ignores all the times the Palestinians declined peace offers. Usually Israel was the willing side and the Palestinians demanded more or were not willing to talk at all.
In October war Israel didn't have alot of territory on west of the canal they couldn't capture any major cities and on other side egyptian still have 13km beach head The egyptian plan is to have territories in East of the canal and then negotiate peace deal because we already don't have the same kind of support that Israel had from US
@netaji-thebritishslayer in 1972 Egypt have problems with USSR and as a result Russian pilots and expert leve the country Fun fact we have North Korean pilots fight with us 😆😆
@@anubisegy2002fun fact, America didn't really join the war, they just supported Israel, like they didn't send weapons, mind u some countries are using Israeli weapons 😂😂
Pretty inaccurate retelling of the history. Saying Israel ‘sparked’ the 6 day war without including the context of Egypt closing the Suez Canal, signing military pacts with other arab states and the mobilising of troops in the Sinai, indicated a clear bias
That's a stupid excuse.. Israel struck first, which makes it the one who sparked the war, it wasn't even a war it was an aggression by Israel on Arabs.
I noticed that too. Never mentions that Palestinians were offered Statehood on numerous occasions but refused, that the 1400 Palestinians killed in retaliatory attacks in 2023 were in response to Hamas slaughtering over 3000 Israelis on October 7th, and other factual gaslighting. Search Party is just another far-left outlet disguised as objective news.
i think youre switching up 1956, thats when the suez crisis began and Egypt blocked the suez for israeli trade. Israel did win some regions over but a UN resolution forced them to go back. 1967 was the six day war where Israel took revenge and took over the sinai etc
@@-User-1707- nah. Egypt closed the straits of tiran(again) in 1967, and started putting its soldiers on israels borders and also expelled UN peacekeepers prior to israels strike. This is why it is called a pre-emptive strike that israel undertook. Jordan and Syria joined later
Now that I look into the entire deal situation of Saudi Arabia with Israel, it seems like Iran was going to do something. The Oct 7 attacks don't feel like a surprise anymore. I'm wondering how did the Israeli Intelligence didn't see this coming.
From what I understand, they knew it was going to happen and chose to not do anything about it so they could take Gaza. And with Israel's track record I absolutely believe it
It is confirmed that neytenyahoo's strategy was to prop up hamas so his forces had an excuse to take their land. Hamas played themselves with their violence.
Considering they probably get record amounts of attack plans exposed probably on a daily basis. There is a limit to human ability to predict which is the biggest threat. It would seem reasonably safe to assume it was leaked by someone but that seriousness of it was not realized. More importantly was the silence of where the hostages were taken by the community that held them. Gaza chose to kill itself. In the end, they didn't even plan an efficent defensive system to win war.
Is it really geopolitics? Israel has 200 nukes .. none of the neighbours can realisitlcy reach any traditional military success anymore without nuclear retaliation. They did their first (known) test in 1979 so is probably a better explanation for why the neighbours started being chill about Israel from the eighties onwards than 'changing geopolitics'. Because many of the neighbors still help the Palestinian cause covertly with military supplies.
2:49 correction: the word "sparked" isn't exactly accurate here. Yes, Israel hit first, but it did so as a preemptive maneuver against Egypt's air force, as its intelligence noticed Egypt and Jordan preparing their military for attack. There was going to be a war either way, Israel just chose to not be the sitting duck.
Egypt was not going to invade Israel, even an israeli general said this in an interview: "we have to be honest with ourselves, Nasser (the president of Egypt in that time) was not going to invade us, WE decided to invade him" (i don't remember the name of who said this, but if you search it up you'll find it) That's why israeli air force shot down all the egyptian airforce in sinai in less than 2 hours, because they were not preparing themselves to go to war, THEY WERE NOT GOING TO INVADE ISRAEL. As someone who's been searching a lot about middle eastern wars, especially the arab-israeli wars, i can already tell in the first five minutes that this video is pretty biased, pathetic.
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The Arab league nations map you showed is incorrect. It’s missing Mauritania, Djibouti, Comoros islands and Somalia. Please correct this
@@AliA-yn4hk Its correct for the time period
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What you've overlooked is that these governments also like that the issue between Israel and Palestine persists so that the public doesn't focus on the internal problems of their countries and stays fixed on these external issues.
You nailed it!
in order for Arab leaders to continue stealing, looting and killing their own people they must keep the people's minds pre-occupied that their is an external enemy and that enemy can never be defeated you can the leader of Syria for example whenever he talks about the situation in Syria he always says " their is a global conspiracy against us and we are fighting against that " but who is the enemy and what are they're motives? He never specifies instead he keeps saying this to give his pro-butt lickers something to cheer for and get behind
No one cares about that because most of these governments aren't genuine democracies which means they don't serve the people so why would they care about internal issues? Building the wealth of the rich and powerful is more important.
This is a double edged sword if it is true. Because once the extenal issue become so big and the government still takes no action, then the problem becomes internal and all the pressure is redirected towards the government. so the governments would have to walk a very fine line.
pretty accurate
It's the other way around bud. The people are the ones that want the governments to focus on the 'external' issues. This arguments is weak and mainly pushed by the governments themselves to silence the people, internal v. external issues is a paradigm the governments choose to separate issues that are otherwise totally linked. If the UAE benefits internally from an external issue, then this model is irrelevant, likewise if Egypt suffers internally from an external issue.
The only example where one can grant you a pass is Iran, but even there, this only apples to the IL-PS as the external issue... but there's the issue of embargoes from the west imposed on Iran, hugely impacting the internal situation there. So in the end, it still remains a moot argument with little to no bite to it.
This paradigm is only useful in massive superpowers where external issues only have a marginal effect on the internal situation, but no political entity in the middle-east is a superpower.
Yeah the Arab world has always been split.. that’s why there are countries like Syria and Yemen that have been in a state of civil war for like over a decade
Is it me or Palestinians are treated as fifth class citizens pretty much by all the neighboring countries??
Treated better in Israel than in them, too.
go see what happen when the neighboring countries accepted to taken in palestinians and you will see why
No one wants them
where do I see that? @@JR47846
Care to elaborate @@JR47846
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I really think you did a misjustice in the first few minutes by ignoring some key details. For example:
1. Palestinian/Arabs (Palestinians didn't get it's modern definition until after 1948) were constantly attacking Jews in the region since the 1800's during Ottoman rule of the region when nationalism had spread from Europe to Arab world.
2. 1967 "20 years later, Israel Sparked another War". Well, between 1948 and 1967, Israel was constantly attacked by t8rror1st out of Gaza and Egypt had blockaded Israel in 1956. In 1967, Israel said another blockade is an act of war and Egypt did a blockade on Israel which lead to Israel attacking Egypt.
Also, come one...such neutral language on the ter --ist from Gaza?
Examples of said attacks by Palestinian Arabs on Jews in the 1800s? Source: Trust me bro. While we’re on the subject, didn’t mention terrorism is the very foundation of Israel: Haganah, Irgun, Stern Gang who also carried out attacks against the USS Enterprise and the King David Hotel bombing - one of which literally became PM of the country (Menachem Begin). Yep, “misjustice” 🙄
2:00 what everyone keeps forgetting
whatever country you're living in, are you ready to divide into two states one for you and one for settlers from another continent ?
exactly
@@jacer5677 that's not my point. The point is that Palestinians never willed to divide the country, the want the entire area of israel with the jews thrown to the sea. As an Israeli I can tell you the majority of the people support the idea of the Palestinian state, but all of them know that in the moment they will have, they will try to kill us, they hate the jews for being jews, it was never about land. Do you think all the arab states care about the Palestinian cause? They just want to see jews evaporated. Its sad but its the truth
“Increasingly brutal treatment” but provides no evidence.
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Nice visuals, but the analysis is very shallow.
The tone of the entire video is very definitive - you're saying arguable stuff with so much certainty, that it makes it painful to listen to.
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This video felt extremely one sided and biased. Completely ignores a lot of historical context and facts and unfortunately this is being passed on as ‘history’.
Your grievous error gave me a gentle chuckle. Horrifying, but you're forgiven this time.
@@melodicvirginia Yes, for example 11:00 The blockade in 2006 was specifically because “Hummus” was chosen by the people. The reporting on this video is heavily anti Isrl.
Vox, where he comes from, has done the same in recent videos.
People seem to misunderstand the topic of the video:
This is a video about the Geopolitical relations between Israel and the Arab states, and how the conflict with Hamas makes them re question their relationships.
This video is NOT about the conflict or about who is right or wrong
Exactly. I'll go even further and say it doesn't even matter who's right or wrong. Israel wants peace and the Palistinians want to be free. That is the crux of the issue here.
@@Austin-vp6qq Gaza was free in 2005.. so maybe not all Palestinians want to be free.. but something else
@@gal2659free ?! can’t have an airport or a sea port or move in or out without a permit and you call this free ? What a delusional way to think about freedom.
@@Khaleya5 Looks like we got an expert here. Sorry, but you need to recheck what happened in Gaza in 2005, and whether it could have an airport or a sea port..
@@Khaleya5there literally was an airport in Gaza before Palestinians turned it into a terrorist base. Ignorant dummy
Great video! Some small corrections:
1. While during the 1973 Yom Kippur war Israel did cross the Suez canal and made some gains during the final phase of the war, they withdrew back to the Asian side of the canal following a renewed ceasefire.
2. The audio said Anwar Sadat was killed by the military, but it was an organisation called the Egyptian Jihad that assassinated him. They disguised themselves as soldiers and opened fire at him while he was observing a military parade, ironically one commemorating his "victory" in the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
Regarding 2, Khalid al-Islambuli participated but it was not a military coup. it was one individual in the military working with others.
After renewed ceasefire egypt kept holding land they got during war (whole east side of canal) while israel withdrew from all land they got in this war.
Israel did not withdraw they they gave at back when the war ended,
Also that Hamas was founded in 1987 and not in the 70's
There was one more: around the 3 minute mark the narrator said the Arab states agreed to reject Israel "until it gave Palestinians land back." This is ignoring the fact that until 1967 Israel did not occupy the West Bank or Gaza and those countries attacked anyway. The modern public Arab position, that of wanting a two state solution, was adopted later.
2:47 you forgot to mention the west bank was controled by jordan, and gaza by egypt.
Not the palestinians
Israel was controlled by British
I keep seeing pro-israel people say this as if its some kind of argument in their favor and don't understand why. could you please explain?
Well, people say that palestine isnt independent becuase of Israeli occupation. The point is that from 1948 up to 1967 the west bank and gaza were under arab control, meaning that if they really wanted a country in 48' borders like they claim they could have had it a long time ago...@@shway1
@@loofloof1441 oh, really? and israel would have accepted that and not taken it back like they did? but today they won't? makes perfect sense!
@@shway1 it would have had no choice, it was weak back then.... the only reason Israel captured these lands is because the arab countries planned and invasion against Israel, so Israel had to strike preemtively...
Also, a two state solution was offered to the paleatinians on several occasions, and all the offers were denied, even ones who are very close to the 48' borders.
A lot of people don't focus on the context of geopolitics. Awesome video. And happy six month! Congrats on the success!
Missing a few key details though to be fair
It's quite hillarious that he points out Israel took more land when they won the Yomkippur like DUHHHH don't you know how war works???? Or are scared of loosing millions of inbred fans
In 1972, Sadat expelled 20,000 Soviet advisers from Egypt and opened new diplomatic channels with Washington, D.C., which, as Israel’s key ally, would be an essential mediator in any future peace talks. He formed a new alliance with Syria, and a concerted attack on Israel was planned.
The chief of Mossad from 1963 to 1968 Meir said”Egypt was not ready for war and nasser did not want war.”
@@thegreatprogressivemind788u must look at the speech he gave to the trade unionists😅
@@netaji-thebritishslayer what speech
0:01 "The ARMED Palestinian group, Hamas."
Why is the majority democratically elected political party of Gaza being labeled as an armed group? Are you saying the same thing of Israel, the "ARMED Israeli group led by PM Netanyahu, Likud."
Because it is a terrorist group
The lack of support from arab states was what baffled me the most ever since this conflict began. Thank you for this essay
they have their own host of issues...in addition to trying to dog pile isreal at times lol
Its because 1. They know Israel and obliterate them and 2. Its more in their favour for an Israeli state as it means Iran isn't focusing their entire projection into Arab states so it means they can focus on other things and building up defences against both Israel and Iran.
They went to war with Israel so not exactly. The US gives Israel blank cheques, pretty much.
Because all arabs countries ruled by traitors who work only for money they get from the west
Why ? when did Arab states helped them ?
'48 war was full of self interests and desires to annex territory (to Greater Syria aspiration or to Jordan, as the latter did, which isn't mentioned here, simply says "Arab control" in 02:45). Hell, the diversity is what made them lose that war.. Qawuqji couldn't stand El-Husseini, or Hassan Salame.. no co-ordination no nothing..
Palestinians themselves were divided with the extreme anti-partition policy led by El-Husseini, who were unfortunately the leading voice, against more moderates who were either pro-partition or up for discussion. Division even led to assassination of moderates like Sami Taha.
'73 war was to revenge for the '67 loss and gain territories back.
Some more Historical reasons why Arab leaders don't help them:
Jordan- 1951 King assassinated, guess by who. 1970 Black September.
Lebanon- 1975 dragged into an insane civil war partly/mostly (depends who you're asking) by Palestinian refugees. During this time, Syria also started having shakey relations with the Palestinians as a result.
Kuwait- Palestinian refugees supported Saddam during the invasion
Egypt- el-Sisi praying every night that Israel would finish Hamas. Can't stand them, they're a branch of the Muslim brothers, his worst enemies. Egypt co-decided and enforced the 2007 blockade for a reason.
They always tied themselves with the extreme leaders.. Saddam, Ghaddafi, Idi Amin, always looking to incite and cause troubles in other places..
The only Arabs that are helping are other Iran proxys.. and that's the only reason they're helping..
Why would Arab governments be dragged into a surprise war made by a bunch of psychos ? Arab leaders know well enough who Hamas are. They know exactly what happened in Gaza between 2005-2007 (which isn't mentioned in the video), and they know that since then, Gazans life is made miserable by Hamas. This war, is just another one in a line of wars between Hamas and Israel, which gained nothing but more poverty and desperation for Gazans. Everyone realize that when Hamas took over, they blew a great precedent for the West Bank to be free of Israeli occupation as well..
They know Hamas is also Qatarian funded, and if you'll dive into the recent Qatar diplomatic crisis, you'll get another reasons why Arabs aren't the biggest fans of this.
It's a weird headline for this video.. the Arab world was always split
Sadat refused to sign a peace deal with Israel unless they kept the gaza and the west Bank in israeli control as he did not want the Palestinians in his country
Source: trust me bro
Source: trust me bro
@@valhex86 Sadat was a traitor though, because he switched allegiance from Soviets to USA
Jews have been kicked out of 109 and are despised by every culture on the planet. Fact
Was he a Russian? If he was an Egyptian then that is not treasonous it is smart.
On the eve of the Yom Kippur war, Dovi, one of Marwan's handlers, told his bosses at Mossad that their mole in the Egyptian state demanded an immediate meeting between 4-5 October.
The meeting was “to give information of great importance… connected to the ‘chemicals’ in his possession”.
“Chemicals” was the code word for warnings about information concerning an impending war.
I noticed this on Johnny Harris's vids, but I love how you have a tracker along the bottom of the ad breaks. It's very user friendly.
One important piece of context for the six day way is that Egypt and Syria were building up tanks and their armies on the Israeli border, and many of the key signs for war like soviet ambassadors leaving
Also that the Israeli population is primarily not European Jews anymore. The population is roughly 20% Arab, 45% Mizrach Jews(Middle Eastern/North African) and 35% Ashkenazi Jews (European). With if course Jews that don't fit any of these categories like Beta Israel from Ethiopia and Bene Israel from India.
The Non-Ashkenazis have been westernized since a while now. The fact that Israel is a Western base in the middle east and that its population has absolutely nothing in common (religiously, ideologically, culturally) with the rest of the region's populations is very difficult to contest.
@@martinmatino6253 What do you mean by "westernised"?
There's almost no difference between Lebanese Christians and Arab Israeli Jews in looks or their outlooks.
@@varsoo1doesn't change the fact israel is settler colonial project(zionist literally called themselves colonizers)and arabs are treated as second class citizens . Similar to south africa .
@@pixelpie5280 doesn’t change the fact that Arabs (some after 1948 began to call themselves Palestinians) tried to eradicate the xJe.ws since the 1800’s and one day one of Israel they along with 5 Arab countries sent their armies into Israel.
@@martinmatino6253 there are Christian Israelites and Christian Lebanese that look the same and have similar values. There use to be more Christian Lebanese but Palestinians in large number went into southern Lebanon and were a big factor in starting a war against the Christian Lebanese while also attacking Israel
One correction: at 2:50 you said that Israel sparked the 1967 six days war. While Israel did start the war it was only after Egyptian troops were mobilized to the border, and Abdel Nassar (the Egyptian President) declared he was going to wipe Israel off the map.
Which is a lie Isreali Generals admitted they attacked without provocation.
Thanks for that, I was wondering what was meant. It was a preemptive attack, according to what I've read.
The video attempts to portray Israel as the initiator of the conflict on multiple occasions. However, in reality, Israel was often provoked and responded in self-defense, which gradually escalated into larger conflicts. In most cases, Israel was not the aggressor.
At the end of the video, you say that the Arab countries want some sort of resolution to this Palestinian situation. How can there be a resolution if Hamas’ charter states that its committed to the destruction of Israel?
How can there be a resolution if we accept european colonialism?
Why would hamas abandon the destruction of israel if everyday since 1948 israel has been committed to the extermination of palestinian people??? There will never be a two state solution, because israel refuses to give back the land they stole and will do anything to own all the land in the region, even if it means committing genocide.
@@carlitos366 you need to take a history class and get educated about the issue.
Are we really gonna completely gloss over everything leading up to the 6 day war in 67 and just say that Israel started it? All signs were pointing to an imminent invasion from Jordan and Egypt and Egypt had also blockaded the gulf of aqaba (which is literally an act of war...).
He DID say that Israel started it and I beg to differ. Israel took the first strike that is true, but Nasser was told a lie by the Soviets and surprise surprise it took off.
This is not the first time they have done this. I commented on this extremely biased selective presentation of the facts on a previous video they made where they also glossed over everything leading up to the 6 day war and simply blamed Israel. I'm glad to see others picking up on it.
This is not the first time they have done this. I commented on this extremely biased selective presentation of the facts on a previous video they made where they also glossed over everything leading up to the 6 day war and simply blamed Israel. I'm glad to see others picking up on it.
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It is not an objective video, although it is presented as such, and anyone who doesn’t know better will believe every word of it
Not complicated at all. What give Uk the right to give away the Palestinian land to begin with? Israel is committing a genocide period.
In 1967 didn't Egypt close off the Gulf of Aqaba to Israel shipping and the surrounding Arab nations mobilize their troops (similar fashion to Russia before they Invaded Ukraine)? That prompted Israel to be preemptive? This video cartwheels over a lot of details.. but I guess this topic can't be covered in full in 16mins.
Israel was never in danger in 67.
@@mussyegit would be really bad for Israel's trade and oil supply wdym?
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Khomenei, we will never help Israel, . Well Israel gave weapon systems to Iran during its war with Iraq. Complex situation, eh
I’m sorry, but you fail to mention one very crucial fact. Jordan and Egypt rules the the West Bank and Gaza Strip from 1948 until 1967 and didn’t even think about establishing a Palestinian state. There are two main reasons for that, first they considered the Arabs living on those territories as an extra ion of their own nations. Such as Jordan annexing the West Bank, and secondly they had an issue with Israel existing at all.
Yes you should back to Europe
@@qaqawd8018 keep dreaming losers
@@qaqawd8018and it’s that kind of talk that will force you back to Arabia. Don’t start something you’ll end up regretting.
@@ymtzlgn no no I don't need to go back to Arabia cuz the cananeties arab is the first people live there will you European came here after the zionists bch movement understood??
So I am from the original people will you just like the white people who lived in South Africa
@@buffdadio1 we have ishell existing at all if you don't want to go back we should force you to go out it's Muslim Arab land
When he said factual and BBC in one sentence , I directly knew I would never use that ground app😂😂😂
Most of the BBC's reporting is competent?
@@nommsperhaps when it is about local affairs. But about when it is about the Israel-Hamas war you would need to watch all the time to catch their latest apologize for misinformation before you could trust it.
Apparently, getting a story first comes before getting it right.
@@nomms Outlets can be different on topics and audiences. Is the BBC factual in international coverage? Absolutely. Some of the best coverage in the world. How they're covering transgender rights in their own country? Absolute trash.
And it's not just them. Al Jazeera, for example. They do an excellent job covering much of the Mideast with an objective eye. They do great work there. Covering their home country of Qatar? Very different. Context matters in all aspects.
Both are government-funded outlets. They do maintain a lot of editorial independence, but there can always be a pain point where they could toe the line. Doesn't mean you can't rely on their coverage at all, but be smart in how you rely on it and understand where its coming from.
The BBC is very anti-Israel and cannot be trusted on that topic. Al Jazeera is a disaster. Some of their reporters actually held hostages in Gaza.
Really glad to see more coverage on this issue form a more macro lens POV and less from an emotional POV.
I feel like only with these kinds of large scale contexts can the conflict be inched towards peace, not with calls for the destruction of Gaza or for the abolition of the state of Israel, as these are coming more from a place of raw emotion and have no actual basis in real world context and implications
When lives are on the stake both parties can get emotional, but the important thing is to allow for that emotion blind you from truth about the genocidal campaigns dehumanisation and the apartheid regime
israel did not gain more territory during the yom kipur war. you should check your sources. israel gained more territory in 1967 at the six day war.
any video that starts with "israel kills palestinian" cannot be historically accurate since its clearly biased. if you want to learn about the history of the conflict, look for a real source.
Arabs were taught a lesson by Israel. They have been kept in their place hence their silence.
Completely incorrect. The intervention of the United States in various countries and the overthrowing of governments have resulted in the establishment of the current ones that do not represent their citizens.
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"Great essay! However, I believe that starting the discussion of this issue with British colonialism is an oversimplification. The British only held control for 28 years, which is a relatively short period in the history of empires. Before that, the land had been under Ottoman Empire rule, and Jews had lived there for centuries. Ignoring this history, ignores another big part of this puzzle.
Jews didn't even make more than 5% of population under Ottoman rule.
Brits wooed Arabs to backstab Ottomans - a Muslim authority - in exchange for a large Arab state of their own but later backtracked. Not only did it backtrack, it offered Palestine to Jews in 1917.
Your mind is too simplistic to understand this conflict, especially the role of Brits.
European jews and African jews did migrate in groves though to new land of Israel. Which makes up majority today.
@@maquacr7014 Then we can go back further, before the Ottoman rule to the Muslim Conquest when 90,000 Christians were massacred. My point is that this area is millennia old and has been fought over many times. To blame it all on the Brits, who I'm not saying are innocent in this, and use words like "Colonialism," and disregard all this previous history and the historical importance of this land to so many of all religions and backgrounds, won't make solutions come any easier.
Also, we don't need a negative response. Debate is important and necessary. Don't make it a zero-sum game and throw around insults. It's counterproductive.
@@cookies1758 Which 90000 Christians were massacred? And where? Are you talking about Armenians?
I guess that does highlight the complexity of this history when we’re asking which 90,000. I was referring to the siege of Jerusalem in 636. I was going way back for that one. I’m curious I’ve been building a reading list to help myself understand all this, do you have any books, articles to recommend?
3:04 "Israel sparked another war" You must be joking.
huh?
1967 Israel attacked the Arab nations.
@@olamid333 Some people are victims of propoganda, best to ignore them fully. They won't be convinced nor swayed towards the facts, Isreal isn't an angel state that has done no wrong, no country is full innocent in politics and war.
Well technically they did. Israel bombed out Egypts fields destroying most of their Air Force. That was the first kinetic act of the war. The Arab countries were staging and posturing about attack Israel…but technically Israel started it.
@@willneverstop it was a preliminary defensive strike in response to mobilization of massive amounts of troops and munitions into every one of their borders. As well as intelligence from communications interception that the invasion was imminent. Saying the started the war is foolish
While I appreciate the depth you get into here in this video and that you can't possibly include everything, there are multiple instances where you gloss or entirely skip over information that can help viewers build a more complete and accurate understanding and opinion on the subject.
Examples:
- when Wa'el says "mainly European Jews" at 2:15, no context or time frame is given, ignoring the fact that the 1948 deceleration of Israel resulted in all of the Arab countries expelling their Jewish populations and so already in 1950 the majority of Jews in Israel were not "European". Regardless, this also plays into (mostly antisemitic) tropes claiming that Jews have no historical connection to the land are are "white, European settlers".
- when talking about the early 2000s and peace between Israel and the Palestinians, ignoring the second Intifada as a potential reason for rejection of the Saudi peace plan, as well as the multiple peace initiatives and deals offered to the PA by Israel (for example Olmert agreeing to almost everything the wanted), makes it seem as if Israel rejected the only peace initiative, didn't initiate any themselves, and implies that Palestinians have no agency of their own.
Agreed
Despite what Sam Ellis claims to be an unbiased video, this video is extremely biased against Israel. Probably because all sources, left and right, like to be antisemitic. If he truly wanted to be unbiased, he wouldn't just invite Wa'el Alzayat, an outspoken anti-Israel propagandist, but he would also invite someone from the Israeli side to speak about the conflict. I'm quite disappointed.
@@andreimandelshtam1943 I don't think that "all sources" are antisemitic (and not all people who aren't "pro-Israel" are antisemitic). Western voices in academia and journalism tend to be biased for sure, though I don't think some fringe right-wing super pro Israel voice here would have balanced things out either.
As an Israeli, I found Wa'el to be pretty fair with what he was saying, not that I necessarily agreed with all his analysis. I just think that the perspective from which he was speaking was clearly a biased one, just like I would have regardless of how hard I tried to present things neutrally.
This isn’t accurate at all as anyone who has properly studied the early noughties history of the conflict
@@jsquire5pa would you care to be more specific as to what you are calling inaccurate? "this" could mean a lot of things.
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So many wrong sayings from you.
Your insistence to call Hamas 'armed resistance' after you saw what they did to Israelis (raped, murdered, tortured and kidnapped) is baffling to me.
Saying that Hamas done this act as a counter move to the warming relations of Israel and Saudi Arabia is just ignorance. It has been proved by several investigations that Hamas has planned this kind of offensive against israel for years, maybe a decade. It was more so because it was the exact date that pointed 50 years from the Yom Kippur war, which until October 7th, was the worst event Israel went through in its existence. Also, they basically copied the plan of Hezbollah for an invasion of northern Israel, which is widely believed to be decades old. The 1947 UN resolution was a recommendation, without any legal obligation (you are welcome to check the law), which Israel accepted, but the arabs declined. The true land of israel includes Gaza and Judea and Samaria, according to the borders of the former British mandate, hence, Israel isn't occupying any land because it belongs to it.
Nice try. We all know this is Hasbara.
All the things you described and worse are done by Israeli soldiers. And the world can see it now
@@Jackwis You can label it as you wish, but the facts remain the same. Am Israel Hai 🇮🇱
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Its a bit simplistic to say the jew accepted the UN deal while the Arabs didnt... There were a lot of reason why they didnt mainly the the division of land was not fair its like saying if someone came to your house and only took half your house would you say yes?
I'm sorry but describing the 6-day War in 1967 as "Israel sparked another war and gained even more territory" is a gross mischaracterization of history, ignoring key facts, namely that Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and mobilized their military along with Jordan and Syria was a prior escalation of conflict.
1. The Palestinian flag was invented in the 1960s when Palestinian identity was created.
2. "Palestinians with Israeli citizenship" are Israeli Arabs, descendants of Arabs who didn't leave in 1948. There are 2 million and are 20% of Israeli population, they are Israelis exactly like Jews and have full rights. A majority support Israel.
3. West Bank belonged to Jordan before 1967 and people living there were Jordanians, Gaza belonged to Egypt before 1967 and people there were Egyptians.
4. Arabs were not ethnically cleansed in 1948, the opposite, they fled and are the ones who tried to ethnically cleanse the Jews before 1948. In 1948 all Arab countries attacked the new Israeli state after refusing the 1947 UN partition plan.
5. The UN and Arab countries created refugee status that passes through generations, as political tool against Israel. They also created "right of return", there is no such thing anywhere else in the world.
6. So the "Nakba" (catastrophe) is about the fact that they lost the war that they started and left their homes (most of them voluntarily) because of war that they themselves started.
7. And as we all know very well, there is no genocide in Gaza, there is a war, that again they themselves started.
11:00 The blockade in 2006 was specifically because “Hummus” was chosen by the people. The reporting on this video is heavily anti Isrl.
Hamas was funded by israel, dont forget that.
@search-party I can see you made effort to be neutral here, but why would you mention Israel's "brutal treatment of palestinians" without any context on why the blockade in Gaza was put in to place? or the geographical conundrum that is the West Bank's geography and it's threat to Israel? that's an extremely one sided description.
Its so sad to see the rise of anti sematisim
Yep. Even when an increasing number of Jews are speaking up against Israel.
Oy vey. Kicked out of 109 clubs but it was never once my fault.
Not even once.
Oy vey.
Never forget.
arab hate/ islamophobia is also a real problem, it's unfortunately considered more acceptable than antisemitism, both should be considered equally bad
@@Unnamed7964 Islamophobia is not widespread enough.
@@thisisnothappening8452how much you got paid to say that?
After the Israeli Independence war, the West Bank and Gaza strip wasn't under a Palestinian rule; The Gaza Strip was controlled by Egypt, while the West Bank was occupied and then annexed by Jordan (which was iilegall according to the United Nations). The only TWO COUNTRIES to blame are Egypt and Jordan, you know why? Becuase from 1949 to 1967 (19 years), both of them controlled the "Palestinian Terrotries", why didn't they establish a Palestinian state in these territories? They had 19 years to do so, until 1967 when the Six Day War was launched. Write me what you think was the reason.
By the way, about the Two states solution, Israel offered the Palestinians a solution 6 times in the past, but they denied all of them;
-1937: Peel commission
-1947: United Nations Partition Plan
-1967: Arab Peace Initiative offered by the Arab League
-2000: Camp David Initiative
-2008: Ehud Olmert offer to re-endorsement of the Arab Peace Initiative
-2020: United States then president Donald Trump's peace plan
The Palestinians rejected all of them.
Nice video. But 2:52 wording could have been better instead of “Israel sparked another war”. Yes They launched pre-emptive strike but after iraq egypt and jordan mobilized their armies on their border. More context would have helped to first time viewers
This video is very misleading.
There is overemphasis on the connection between the Palestinian issue to domestic and strategic issues of many of the Muslim countries. There is no mentioned on the many peace agreement Israel has made with the Palestinians (accept for the Oslo accords) that were rejected by the Palestinians. There is no mentioned on the catastrophic attempts done by Palestinians to overthrow governments of countries that host them (Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt).
This video is trying to paint a picture, but it's not the reality.
Marwan, the son-in-law of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, told the then Mossad chief Zvi Zamir “there is a 99 percent chance that the war will start tomorrow… (Oct 6, 1973) it will start simultaneously on both fronts, the Egyptian and the Syrian”.
Those warnings were largely dismissed by the Israeli defence establishment. But they proved accurate.
Eh. This video conspicuously misses the mark on who should be held responsible for the lack of a Palestinian state.
Missing information:
1. Egypt controlled Gaza until 1967. Jordan controlled the “West Bank” until 1967. If Egyptians and Jordanians wanted Palestinians to have their own state in which they could self-determine, they would have done so from 1948-1967 & this would likely not be the issue it is today. Egyptians and Jordanians protesting in the streets after Egyptian and Jordanian normalization with Israel is a crock of bull. No one said boo during the 19 years Palestinians lived statelessly under their government’s rules.
2. After the Six Day war, Israel offered Egypt the return of Gaza and the West Bank to Jordan for peace, and no one would negotiate with Israel, so military occupation stood, waiting for peace partners. Israel’s post ‘67 borders were never defined, which is what usually happens after a war, and that’s why the West Bank continues to be a shit show. Definitely Israel’s fault, but also Egypt’s fault & Jordan’s fault & Palestinian leaders’ fault.
3. Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 (all Israeli military and 50,000 civilians were uprooted and relocated into Israel) and the “harsh blockade” on Gaza in 2007 (mentioned in this video in relation to Israel) was also mirrored by Egypt. A point you also neglected to mention.
4. The Oslo Accords crumbled because of the second Intifada, which was also left out of this video. The second intifada continued the tradition of deadly violence against Israel not creating opportunities for peace for the Palestinians. Huh, who would have thought?
5. Israel may have agreed to give up the West Bank for peace in the 90s or early 2000’s, but will probably never do so now. The West Bank is a mountainous region that overlooks the economic center of the country (Tel Aviv and surroundings). If Israel pulling out of Gaza let Iran in, it can only be assumed/known that pulling out of the West Bank would do the same. Israel could never risk its security like that, and not acknowledging the likely risk is an important piece this video also left out when talking about a possible future for Two State solution.
Israel has learned a terrible lesson & will probably never swap more land for a peace Palestinian leaders can’t promise. (Who is there, Abbas? 88 years old & going on 19 years of his 4 year elected term. Hamas? Who don’t acknowledge Israel’s right to exist in any form. Who is there to make peace with?)
7. The points about Hamas fighting this proxy war for Iran to destabilize Saudi’s peace deal with Israel was well put, but you’re naïve to think Hamas attacked Israel because a plan for Palestinian statehood was left out of the deal. Hamas doesn’t care about Palestinians. If they did, they would invest the billions of dollars they get annually in aid and invest it in infrastructure, bomb shelters for civilians (if they are going to continue to get into wars with Israel), food, water, jobs, and healthcare. Instead, they kill and violently silence anyone that protests against them, dig up their water pipes to make rockets out of, which they continue to shoot into Israel, and use all that money on an intricate network of tunnels under Gaza, while they keep their own people in refugee camps.
The intro is not right, you should have started from 1948
Did you watch the rest of the video?
Also, how did hamas "begin to govern the gaza strip in 2006"? BEBAUSE ISRAEL WITHDREW ONE SIDEDLY FROM THE AREA AND GOT BACK NO PEACE
2:53. “Israel sparked another war” well at least we know where the biases are in this video. Love how you just leave out all context whatsoever. Pitiful
I noticed that too
Missed an opportunity to clarify why israel is not a colonialist state; the jewish immigrants were not agents of Britain. Did not mention Arab or Jewish regional displacement, planned attacks leading up to the 6 Day War and various other points, including Hezbollah attacks on Israel and deeper explanations of geopolitical motivations. Content here is informative but incomplete.
2:54 in 1967 Israel didn't spark a war Egypt did and Israel made a preemptive strike they legally gained the Sinai and Judea and Samaria in a defensive war.
2:55 "Israel sparked another war" - what an interesting narrative you have there... Israel was attacked by three countries. No provocation. Just existing... Words have meaning. When you use words semantics matters. Making Israel an aggressor to fit your narrative doesn't work well with the historical facts.
You forgot the issue that Palestinians have been extremely disruptive and negative for the governments that did help them. Muslim brotherhood meddling with secular Arabism in Egypt and Syria, ruining Lebanon from a peaceful multi religious Christian entity into the war torn mess it is today, the Jordanian assassinations against the former and attempted against the current king, they supported saddams war in Kuwait despite Kuwait being one of the few countries that let them in in massive numbers, and a few more incidents besides.
The Arab state are conscious and wary of Palestinians for good reason because they’ve done more damage than Israel has technically.
This was a basic amt of info about the conflict, with decent accuracy. I don’t think he has done enough research to speak about what you’re saying. Most people don’t know this, glad to see a few genuinely knowledgable commentators here.
The muslim brotherhood candidate won the elections fair and square in the 2011 egyptian elections
The majority of people wanted a muslim state in Egypt, which is why they voted for Morsi.
Also, that's a very big oversimplification of events that took place in Lebanon leading to its collapse: the PLO did play a part in it, but it wasn't the only reason the country collapsed (other reasons include sectarian tensions, the militias question, refusal to recognize palestinian immigrants as lebanese citizens, the overwhelming power that the president had over the cabinet, systematic corruption in every level of government, etc. Which issue was more important depends on which religious group you ask)
Arab puppet rulers don't represent the will of the people living there just because isreal is in bed with their rulers doesn't mean the people living there like the isrealis.
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I'll tell you Lebanon's problem: it was a state which prioritised Christians over everyone else, established by France to serve France's interest against neighbouring Muslim countries.
@@موسى_7 still a better place than the mess it turned into today
What do you mean "give any land BACK to palastinians"? It was not taken from them, and there was no one to "give" it to.
So many details are twisted or missing. Just a few of them:
2:30 calling the jewish immigrants, returning to their fatherland, who just escaped the holocaust basically with nothing a 'form of colonialism' is twisted.
9:55 'Israel rejected a peace deal'- there was never an actual peace deal offered to Israel at the time (or ever)+ you just skipped the fact the 90s gave rise to the most deadly terror attacks until then killing 100s of civilians.
Generally there was no actual 'Palestine' before 67, it was Jordan and Egypt
You keep mentioning that the peace treaties were 'against the will' of the arab citizens- since when arab countries have any consideration to their peoples will?
"returning to their fatherland", no part of Palestine is or was ever their land. They preceded to steal and violently displace/kill the native inhabitants (Palestinians) living there -- which is typical colonial behavior.
'Palestine' existed throughout all of human history even referenced in the most famous classical books including Shakespeare's Othello, debunking your entire "67" claim (misinformation propagated to justify genocide of Palestinians).
Your opinions are clearly biased, ignoring historical facts, and based mainly on zionist propaganda.
They teach you this in israel?
its simple, as history and time have progressed so have the intertwining of all our paths - geo-politically speaking. The nature of relationship countries share is multidimensional -agreeing over certain issues, while disagreeing over others. Also the world's cautious and concerning nature towards the Islamic world, everyone is aware what they truly are capable of, so making pseudo friendships with "them" to restrain their tendacies to do what they.
For someone uneducated on the subject this might seem like a fair recap of historical events. It is not.
* Israel did not start the 1967 (six day war), Egypt did by closing the Straits of Tiran (an act of war), kicking out UN peace keeping force in Sinai and mobilizing on the border.
* Israel invasion of Southern Lebanon was preceded by numerous terror attacks from PLO based in Southern Lebanon.
* Israel did offer the WB back to Jordan during the peace talk, they didn't want it.
* For that matter, Israel also offered the Gaza and over 92% of the WB (2000 Camp David). The Palestinian leadership (Yasser Arafat) refused. In 2008, Ehud Olmert offered Gaza and over 99% of the WB (with territorial swaps) and parts of East Jerusalem. The Palestinian leadership (Mahmoud Abbas) just walked out on it.
* The blockade of the Gaza strip only began *after* Hamas took over, not before.
@Search Party
It's important to cover this.
Cherry picking facts it's not telling the true. What Israel is doing is colonizing and war crimes. The UN said it so many times.
@BDB I've also pointed out their errors and the act that the content creator said "Israel sparked another war" set me off. I'm old enough to remember that war, and its been endlessly discussed and analyzed by people smarter than him. FFS
So many of your points are outright lies. Absolute Israel propaganda. Funny how you frame Israel giving crumbs to the Palestenian people as good will actions. Or how you frame resistance as terror attacks, but not the much more common, deadly and brutal Israel attacks.
Just read your sentences. Arabs are bad for "starting" the 1967 war. But Israel isn't bad for starting the war against Lebanon. Arab resistance is terrorism and bad. Israel genocide can't be bad and is actually defense. The powerful is allowed to genocide, terrorize and murder hundreds of thousands, while the weak isn't even allowed to throw stones back.
Whenever Israel talks, it reads exactly like Russia talking about Ukraine, English in Ireland, French in Algeria or Third Reich in Poland. Exact same words. Genocide, apartheid and settler colonialism. Of course Israel will pretend to give things back, and then claim Palestenians refused it. The powerful always do this obvious move. You have to be very stupid to fall for it.
There will never be peace in the Region while Israel exists. Even after you kill all Palestenians, their brothers will remember. The only road for peace if the abolishment of Israel and the creation of ONE state for all christian, jewish, and muslim natives. Like christian, jewish, and muslim Palestinians been asking for decades.
Also they didn't mention they can't give back the Golan Heights to Syria as they are still not in peace and would be a death sentence for all people living within a 100km radius from the heights due to modern artillery.
This video leaves out a lot of the history. Why not analyze the decision making of Palestinian leaders? The 2nd Intifada, a terror campaign orchestrated to make the Peace Process untenable.
Why not mention how Israel left Gaza? Unilaterally, you make it seem like Israel unreasonable wanting to leave the West Bank, when what happened with Gaza was purely a result of Israeli optimism.
If they want a two state solution they should pressure the Palestinians to accept the existence of Israel.
This video was meant to be 16 min and about how arab don’t support palastine nowadays, i couldn’t even think of a better way to clarify it,
And there was never a peace just to imagine a colonial body from west comming to middile east bcz west has been killing jews all over is ridiculous, plus Israel has been taking palastine and killing them over and over with west support how tf is it imaginable to think of peace
@@lewar_kurdi The Jews are the indigenous and native inhabitants of the land of Israel and there has always been a continuous Jewish presence there. The Jewish people had always been coming back to the land, despite its poverty and violence. This was a growing dynamic long before the Holocaust.
The "West" did not give the Jews the land because of the Holocaust, the Jewish population grew and demanded self-determination. It tried to coexist with Arabs but the Arabs killed Jews in Pogroms in the 1920s and that soured relations.
The West did not back the Jews, but the Arabs. The British always sided with the Arabs, they limited Jewish immigration, which would have saved millions during the Holocaust. They supported an Arab majority single state, before the Jewish Insurgency against the British forced them to leave the issue to the UN. When Israel declared independence, only Czechslovakia sold it weapons and they did that for opportunist reasons because they needed money after WW2. The British sold weapons to the Arabs and British officers commanded the Jordanian Arab Legion, the only competent Arab military force. Responsible for ethnically cleansing the Jews of Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. The leaders of Western countries embargoed Israel, they didn't care and wanted to keep buying Arab oil. This dynamic changed slightly when Socialist Ba'athist dictatorships took power in various Arab countries which pushed them towards the USSR and the US therefore towards Israel.
Israeli Arabs enjoy more right and freedoms than Arabs anywhere else in the Middle East. Israel offered Arabs citizenship, in 1948, there were even Arabs that fought for the IDF, most especially Bedouin, reaching the rank of Colonel.
The narrative should take into account how the Arab nations have always failed to support Palestinian people, trying to use them as tools against Israel to distract their own citizens from bad government and corruption. How they could have easily paid to help settle Palestinians who left their homes, with a single day of oil revenue, they could have settled permanently all Palestinian refugees. They didn't. Palestinian leaders today continue to insist on war against Israel, a national suicide, while live the good life as Billionaires in Qatar. Arabs need a better leader who is willing to work towards peace in good faith. In the early 2000s, Israel offered '67 borders and East Jerusalem, the PLO said no and started the 2nd Intifada, a campaign of terrorism and suicide bombings targeting innocent Israeli civilians, Jews, Druze, Arabs, and others. They could have had peace on the most generous terms imaginable, but they said no and resorted to terrorism. They reaped what they sowed.
Saying that the Israelis sparked another war in 1967 when all their neighbours moved military equipment to their borders is a very nice hot take. 02:50
It was a preemptive strike, not a war insinuated by the Israelis.
This sound like the argument another European power used to invade Ukraine.
@@sushil6509ukraine had been bombing crimea and the east since 2014, stop the cap
4:21 you say Egypts peace treaty with Israel was seen as a betrayal because it didn't solve this problem (i.e. the Palestinian problem). That is again misleading the issue is they the other Arabs wanted the total destruction of Israel not just the areas you highlighted on the map on Judea and Samaria. Ok maybe you can get 30sec without being dishonest? Can you please?
THANK YOU. This was the contextual video on the middle east that I feel like has really been missing. I feel much better informed for having watched it.
I appreciate it.
Dude he oversimplified and missed so much stuff,not giving proper context.. he said that “Israel sparked the 6 day war” which is not how it really went down. Israel attacked preemptively as a response to Egypt and Arab armies amassing at the border. In other words, the Arabs were gettting ready to attack Israel
It’s not accurate and it is biased
Thank you for that salient and informative comment, user-hp2go6iw7 ... p? Good to see totally-human, non-bot interaction on YT still exists!
2:52 since the Palestinians rejected a state the entire mandate went to Israel according to international law. Jordan illegal took over Judea and Samaria and Egypt illegal took over Gaza. You deliberately replaced Jordan and Egypt with Arab control to mislead your viewers into thinking it was Palestinian. This is very dishonest.
This skips the multiple peace deals offered by Israel to the Palestinians which were rejected by their leaders the most recent of which was 2008
Rubbish. Israel is the one who financially propped up Hamas in order to rival the more recognized PLO and to create division within Palestine and thwart a future state. Israel then agreed to relinquish stolen Palestinian land and halt their settlements in OSLO but instead they kept every inch and expedited their illegal settlements far into previously agreed upon Palestinian Territories and with brutal violence. Once you stop reading Israeli propaganda and do your own research you will feel better about knowing the truth
See, these deals only benefited Israel. They were rejected because it was a bad deal for the Palestinians
If the peace deal's is offering slavery! How you will call it a peace treaty? Isreal rejected more then Palestines! All have sympathies for isreal but not knowing they refuses any Palestine state!
A lot of information in this video is either incorrect or completely glossed over to attempt to make the video as stoic and neutral as possible. Israel only "sparked" 6-day war after troops were amassed at their border and their shipping routes were being blockaded. And that the "rage" of Hamas to do what they did on October 7th was justified by the normalizing of relations between the other arab states and Israel. A real disgusting product here in my opinion.
2:53. “Israel sparked another war”. Love how you just leave out all context they were attacked first from multiple fronts
They were not attacked first, the, Israel killed around 300 peaceful protesters years before it who marched to end the blockade, and after that Israel continued to Harasse Palestinians buy trashing the Aqsa mosque, expanding their illegal settlement, enabling settlers to kill and abuse Palestinians, imprisoning Palestinians with no trails including children, all of that while the western media ignored it so people like you but the blame on the Palestinians when they decide enough is enough and fight back for their right to exist in their land with dignity
True
Israel started the conflict according to international law, they attacked before any actual combat or declaration of war happened.
Clearly they were never a real threat if they were wiped out in a mere 6 days. Putin threaten to blows up the west every other week, yet we still did a hostage deal with them last month. Israel had attacked Egypt 2 or 3 times at this point before 67 also. So no surprise Egypt had propaganda against them.
2:42
No... not under "Arab control"... it was annexed to Jordan and Egypt...
Iran and Saudi Arabia came to an agreement this year and made peace with each other
9:22 again with your Palestinian land back which is wrong because they never had it. And Jordan making peace was a good thing don't make it bad because even more wasn't accomplished. Jordan can't negotiate on behalf of Hamas.
Kinda disingenuous to jump over the entire build up to the 6 day war and refer to it as "Israeli aggression", when the more accurate title would be "preemptive Israeli war"
Your videos are so well made and your narration is extremely clear.
If only they were accurate and non biased
What a terrible video. 16 minutes of justifying the horrible Hamas attacks and not one word about the unthinkable atrocities commited by them.
To say "Israel started another war 20 years later" is also omiting the fact the neighboring countries had troops assembled at the border
Realize they’re all misinformed or Jew haters.
We had Jews living peacefully in the Arab world, until the creation of Israel, after which the conflicts started to arise, we started getting terrorist attacks from Jewish Zionists and spying activities.
That lead to increase the heat on them and for President Nasser in Egypt to enforce them out..
Sure most of them were not terrorists, but have they created Israel in another place other than someone else lands or if the British give them another land the company would have arrived in another place away from the middle east
Maybe they could buy some land in North America and live peacefully having their own country.
If we need a country for only Jews to live in, why don't Muslims and Christians create their countries around religion again?
@@joshuaiosevich3727change jews with thives and it all make sense
and that egypt blocked Israel's access to the Red Sea and expelled UN peacekeepers, which is an act of war
I don’t like writing comments like this, but this video was a terrible video. Unbelievably biased and sad 😢 contact me if you want to know why
Hamas is not concerned about 2 state solution, but about one Arab-Islamic state instead, so hell no.
lol well I know where you get your news from…fox, cnn…because that’s literally not true Hamas wants a two state solution they’ve said so for like a decade now.
Hamas offered to dismantle its military wing in exchange for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders more than once in 1998, 2006 and 2007, but Israel did not agree because they simply do not leave something they have usurped by peace, but it is taken away from them by force, and offered again now, but of course there is no response from the side with the ideology of Greater Israel, which has demonstrations demanding settlements in Lebanon.
Hamas offered to dismantle its military wing in exchange for a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders more than once in 1998, 2006 and 2007, but Israel did not agree because they simply do not leave something they have usurped by peace, but it is taken away from them by force, and offered again now, but of course there is no response from the side with the ideology of Greater Israel, which has demonstrations demanding settlements in Lebanon.
@@AmiraMohamed-lt4iy If someone punched you in the face cause they hated you so u fight them back and you beat them up, and as ur leaving you take his watch, and then he comes back to beat you up again cause he hates you and u take all his money out of his wallet this time, and he does it again and this time you take his gold necklace, after u beat his ass of course, and he comes back and says "Ill stop harrasing you and attacking you and trying to beat you up if you give me my stuff back" what would you do? Are you, morally, in the wrong for saying "screw you, imma keep all ur stuff and beat you up again"?
Zionist And Netnyahu are not concerned about 2 state solution , but about one Zionist Jewish Palestine Free(possiblly Dead ) State instead , so hell no
this video tries to justifies the horrific oct 7 attack and that is just disgusting. you should be ashamed, spreading misinformation on inhumane attacks on civilians like the oct 7 attack can kill people.
I thought there were two odd ones: Israel 'sparking another war' in 67 and rejecting Saudi Arabia's ask for a Palestinian state are pretty questionable claims. That being said, I don't want to crash the conversation: it is really hard to give context on this issue and you've done a brilliant job.
Was looking for this comment. Saying Israel sparked the conflict isn’t accurate. They were responding to military build on their boarders from Syria, Egypt and Jordan. An attack was imminent.
It’s impossible to go over this history in 16 minutes.
Thé military build UP by their neighbors is due to the soviet informing that Israel is planning an attack
The chief of mossad from 1963 to 1968 Meir said”Egypt was not ready for war and nasser did not want war.”
@@thegreatprogressivemind788 I saw a documentary that said he didn't want one, but it had gotten away from him and he was worried about being assassinated by his officers if he did not.
5:07 it's not dominating because it's complicated there are many complicated things that aren't covered at all. It's because of antisemitism.
Throughout this Arab Monarchy
Good video overall, obviously very very biased againts Israel but no one is free of agenda I fear.
The part about Israel breaking down a peace offer by saudi arabia is kind of nonsense, and its disappointing you chose to show it this way.
I always thought Atlas was the best thing Vox ever produced. I loved what Sam did with it and elevated it once Johnny went to Borders. Atlas is in good hands still but there's now basically an 'Atlas-only' channel? Oh hell yes! Expect a comment along the lines of "this is my very favourite thing on TH-cam and I love it dearly, I will set aside time for it and look forward to watching each upload no matter the topic". Those sweet infographics and the welll-researched topics are Chef's Kiss. Did I mention this is and has from the outset, my very favourite series on TH-cam and I love it dearly? Because I do! You're the best Sam
14:38 or maybe those countries recognize the justice of Israels cause? Why assume bad motives on their behalf? At least present some other possibilities.
"As Israel bombs Gaza"?
Can you pls explain thourouly what happend that led into that?
Can you as well say what happened that led to all of this mess? It goes back to maybe even before you were born.
75 years of isreali apartheid
@@Gaminglife-sf1ozI'm South African pls don't use that word, what Israel is doing its not Apartheid
@@Jbkeditznot your choice, it is a apartheid.
this video ignores all the times the Palestinians declined peace offers. Usually Israel was the willing side and the Palestinians demanded more or were not willing to talk at all.
In October war Israel didn't have alot of territory on west of the canal they couldn't capture any major cities and on other side egyptian still have 13km beach head
The egyptian plan is to have territories in East of the canal and then negotiate peace deal because we already don't have the same kind of support that Israel had from US
U had soviet union😅
@netaji-thebritishslayer in 1972 Egypt have problems with USSR and as a result Russian pilots and expert leve the country
Fun fact we have North Korean pilots fight with us 😆😆
@@anubisegy2002fun fact, America didn't really join the war, they just supported Israel, like they didn't send weapons, mind u some countries are using Israeli weapons 😂😂
11:48 why not call it the Abraham Accords and acknowledge Trump for it?
I lost it when he said BBC is trustful.
Wordddd, they spread the most lies.
Israel didn't start the 6 day war. Egypt did with the block of the straits of Tiran.
Pretty inaccurate retelling of the history. Saying Israel ‘sparked’ the 6 day war without including the context of Egypt closing the Suez Canal, signing military pacts with other arab states and the mobilising of troops in the Sinai, indicated a clear bias
No it's not. Israeli prime minister Menahem Begin said that Israel started war.
also worth noting the fact that palestinians constantly refused any settlement offered since 1936 till the present day.
In 1967, Israel did NOT "aprk another war". Egypt did that with a blockade.
That's a stupid excuse.. Israel struck first, which makes it the one who sparked the war, it wasn't even a war it was an aggression by Israel on Arabs.
I noticed that too. Never mentions that Palestinians were offered Statehood on numerous occasions but refused, that the 1400 Palestinians killed in retaliatory attacks in 2023 were in response to Hamas slaughtering over 3000 Israelis on October 7th, and other factual gaslighting. Search Party is just another far-left outlet disguised as objective news.
i think youre switching up 1956, thats when the suez crisis began and Egypt blocked the suez for israeli trade. Israel did win some regions over but a UN resolution forced them to go back. 1967 was the six day war where Israel took revenge and took over the sinai etc
@@-User-1707- nah. Egypt closed the straits of tiran(again) in 1967, and started putting its soldiers on israels borders and also expelled UN peacekeepers prior to israels strike. This is why it is called a pre-emptive strike that israel undertook. Jordan and Syria joined later
Wow so much context missed it’s like you were paid by Iran for this video
People defending Israel in the comments like it's not a colonial apartheid state smh
Me when I use words I just learnt existed
@@PeruvianPotatowhat word did you just learn?
Why you keep showing half map of morocco on your videos?
Now that I look into the entire deal situation of Saudi Arabia with Israel, it seems like Iran was going to do something. The Oct 7 attacks don't feel like a surprise anymore. I'm wondering how did the Israeli Intelligence didn't see this coming.
heres how... they saw it coming from miles away ...but didnt do anything ...
Israel benefits from this if it manages to ethnically cleanse Gaza.
From what I understand, they knew it was going to happen and chose to not do anything about it so they could take Gaza. And with Israel's track record I absolutely believe it
It is confirmed that neytenyahoo's strategy was to prop up hamas so his forces had an excuse to take their land. Hamas played themselves with their violence.
Considering they probably get record amounts of attack plans exposed probably on a daily basis. There is a limit to human ability to predict which is the biggest threat. It would seem reasonably safe to assume it was leaked by someone but that seriousness of it was not realized. More importantly was the silence of where the hostages were taken by the community that held them. Gaza chose to kill itself. In the end, they didn't even plan an efficent defensive system to win war.
Is it really geopolitics? Israel has 200 nukes .. none of the neighbours can realisitlcy reach any traditional military success anymore without nuclear retaliation. They did their first (known) test in 1979 so is probably a better explanation for why the neighbours started being chill about Israel from the eighties onwards than 'changing geopolitics'. Because many of the neighbors still help the Palestinian cause covertly with military supplies.
2:49 correction: the word "sparked" isn't exactly accurate here. Yes, Israel hit first, but it did so as a preemptive maneuver against Egypt's air force, as its intelligence noticed Egypt and Jordan preparing their military for attack. There was going to be a war either way, Israel just chose to not be the sitting duck.
Egypt was not going to invade Israel, even an israeli general said this in an interview:
"we have to be honest with ourselves, Nasser (the president of Egypt in that time) was not going to invade us, WE decided to invade him"
(i don't remember the name of who said this, but if you search it up you'll find it)
That's why israeli air force shot down all the egyptian airforce in sinai in less than 2 hours, because they were not preparing themselves to go to war, THEY WERE NOT GOING TO INVADE ISRAEL.
As someone who's been searching a lot about middle eastern wars, especially the arab-israeli wars, i can already tell in the first five minutes that this video is pretty biased, pathetic.