The 1956 Suez canal Crisis and the end of British Empire
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The Suez Canal is considered to be the shortest link between the east and the west due to its unique geographic location.
It is an important international navigation canal linking between the Mediterranean sea at Port said and the red sea at Suez.
In 1956, the French and British invaded Egypt, leading to a crisis that came to be known as the tripartite aggression or the Suez Canal crisis.
This was a well done script...though i need to add that the main reason Americans were upset with the anglo french adventure in the suez canal was because..one condition they had not fulfilled after the end of ww2 in order to get help to rebuilt under the marshall plan was to give up their colonies.America ALWAYS feared a resurgent BRITAIN or France DUE TO THEIR HUGE COLONIES and territories so ..their number one plan for next 20 yrs after ww11 was to ensure no other power had any ability to raise resources and power to threaten america...and therefore pushed the french and british to grant independence to vast colonies..meanwhile the CIA was busy ensuring none of the new free countries became communist....the genesis of american fear of any future recolonization is manifest in their 2nd amendment of their constitution to allow the right to bare arms for all americans and the monroe doctrine passed by congress during the late 18thcentury and 1900s.
One correction. British Intelligence is not called M16 it’s correctly called Mi 6 !!
The US had an interest in undermining British and French imperial aims.
Amerikkka always wants to be the number 1 Imperialist nation in the world,they only use the British,French and at times Belgians as props to achieve their Amerikkka hegemony.
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Beautifully written and well documented. I'm learning from you, sir.
I really salute Nasser that man is the father of African Nationalism.
Thanks for sharing such history that esp Africans need to know
How does this video have this little views, in my opinion its one of your best videos
Exactly because they don’t want to know the truth Egyptian victory
Today I now know that Gamel Abdel Nasser was a great leader of the Egyptian Nation.
May Allah grant his soul good rest,
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Rich people that want to keep the west on top.
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This video is the most comprehensive Video that explains the Suez Crisis.
I now understand the Suez Crisis better than ever before you know,
Am happy to hear this
Sir May you become a full Professor of history with no other condition within our world and our globe.
Great video, well done! Long live the African and Arab struggle for independence from imperialism! Greeting from Serbia.
one source cites only 1.36-2.49 deaths per thousand per year and an average workforce of 18,605-34,258 per year bringing the total death toll of building the suez canal to only 429. another cites 120,000 death mostly from cholera and similar epidemics. so the geometric mean would be 7,177 deaths in the construction of the suez canal.
Thanks for the video!
This was excellent - thank you so much. 🙏
Your videos are always top notch. Bravo
Very knowledgeable
Very well made take on the Suez crisis! 👍
Thank you kindly!
I wasnt born but 1956 was a year of amazing promise for the UK and in 1957 a new nation was born Ghana the Former Gold Coast the pioneer in African Indeependence.
Thanks, this was an amazing video! I was only going to watch a little bit atm because I'm meant to be doing other work, but I ended up watching it all lol. I'm british but I didn't really know that much about what happened, except the very basics... They certainly make sure to not teach or talk much about it here in the UK, now I understand why for how awful & embarrassing it was to the british gov!
And it's shocking how the same arguments and tone is still used to justify present wars/more recent invasions in the middle east! Even though I'm british/scottish (although my mum's family is irish so I heard a lot about anti-imperialism & palestine growing up, I had irish family that were linked to algerian independence too), I despise western imperialism & all the propaganda that is still present in our media today. So it's amazing to see that particular british politician type of arrogance, who is also totally uncompromising/pompous, actually get a good kicking from their warmogering and have to walk back home in shame 😂😂😂 Only that it is still despicable that Eden was able to get away without being tried for international war crimes for causing that much suffering to Egypt's population. I'm not joking when I say that the majority of people in the UK under 60 would not know who he was, they've tried to wipe it out from history here that much. Even the average british person under 40 is sick of it here (although the news will not show that), they act like maniacs in government and think nothing can touch them despite their cruelty to the the global south & working classes, so it is amazing to see them actually be scared by the consequences of their own actions. They still talk like this and warmonger just as much, but are even less politically powerful than they were in 1956. Seeing Khrushchev threaten that he would bomb london must have made them absolutely terrified 😂
Nasser was the most badass modern day Arab leader.
So was Gaddafi and the crown prince of Saudi Arabia
Nasser had the largest funeral in history.
@@cuthbertjolly4859 I guess that he didn't even have the biggest funeral in Egypt, judging by the size of the pyramids the Pharaoh's probably had very big funerals.
Of course that doesn't make Nassars achievements any smaller.
5:42 love that
Anthony Eden was voted the worst Prime Minister
HOW DARE YOU! It is clearly Chaimberlain.
@@FortuneZer0 look it up lol
@@TruetoCaesar Its still Chaimberlain.
@@FortuneZer0 you are still a loser
Both wrong definitely Blair
what are the names of the songs used in this video if i may ask?
America could have played hardball if it wanted to, and threaten to fight the Soviet Union in Egypt. The reason they didn't was because Eden didn't inform Eisenhower of his intentions before the war. America had a vision of how the world should run, which included requiring nationalizations to be paid for, and punishing Egypt for following the rules would go against this. US companies owned a lot of mines and plantations in South America at the time, which would be nationalized in future years, and American businessmen wanted to be paid when it happened. Even if Eisenhower could be convinced to back Britain's war, he had no time to formulate a strategy, and it was deliberately causing trouble for the non-Communist alliances at a time when they couldn't afford it. Not to mention that colonization went against our national ethos as a "colony that won independence."
If Nasser didn't stop the oil shipments, and if Eisenhower didn't draw the line with the West, Africa may still have colonies today. It's ironic--he's our most imperialist President, but he stopped Britain's colonization machine.
The irony of Amerikkka as a Colony that won Independence,it will later create a Colony in Liberia before Europe even thought of Colonizing Africa.When the Berlin Conference was held in 1884-1885,it was Amerikkka that was also present at the event to lend support for certain European nations of their choice to Colonize part of Africa.When Norwegians and Swedes wanted to get portion of the Congo,it was Amerikkka that stifled their hopes and instead approved the Belgian King Leopold the 2nd to take over the whole Congo as his own personal property.We all know what happened to the Congo after that.
@@lemigod4475 So you wanna blame America for all our woes.
@@jamesbedukodjograham5508 Blame someone when blame is warranted,nothing wrong with that,as the saying goes if the shoe fits.
@@lemigod4475 the USA is much guilty about so many atrocities all over the globe and the world you know.
Especially the Middle East,Most of the African Region, and even the Rest of the Asian Nation.
6:14 Ah, yes, the venerable arab nation of United Khingdom.
I can see how Egypt didn't want to join there.
Nice video!! Very engaging from beginning to end. Nevertheless, businesses and investment are easiest way to make money irrespective of which party makes it to the oval office.
Good for Egypt for standing up for themselves against the West!
The absence of a leader like Gamal Abdel Nasser in the Middle East is the reason why the Arab nations are so powerless in the world today.
Thanks for the article brother.Nasser was a thorn in the side to Western Imperialism and Reactionaries.He influenced Ghadaffi who would also become another thorn in the side to Imperialists and reactionaries.The British and the French have not changed that much,they seem to have mastered the art of soft power.Amerikkkans have used aggressive power through dropping bombs,that created enemies so they adopted soft power from 2009 onwards,but that changed to buffoonery in 2016 and Amerikkka has since fallen off the map of soft power.They are now in process of trying to regain back their soft power influence in 2021,but its too little too late as Germany appears to have the lead at this stage.This decade is gonna have so many twists and turns.
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What country are you from jw cos accent
Uganda.
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good video! the amount of time that traffic was held up in the canal you would think that everyone with half a mind would just sail around africa and tell egypt to keep the canal, it reminds me of a playground argument that got out of hand and on a much much bigger scale, but thats the clowns that run the show's mentality lol
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5:00 You forgot to mention how the Palestinian fighters were committing terrorist attacks against Israel which led to the Israeli response.
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Imagine going to illegally occupy an area, kick its inhabitants out, genocide them, and then complain when they fight back. Wait, you don't have to imagine cause that's what Israel is
lmao that's always the case, though. Britain and France knew they could take advantage of that excuse, and steal back their old canal.
@S Rupp If you read the Jews own Torah, thier holy book, you will know that they weren't the first inhabitants either and invaded the land themselves thousands of years ago.
Maybe us humans could just learn living next to each other without displacing each other in horrid wars, even if culture and religion differ.
You'd think Israelis would know the horrors ethnostates are capable of...
The biases and reductionist reasoning as an 'explanation' for why there was the conflict are just horrible. YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS
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Good story
Good narrating
But poor facts, and more of praie or biased
The reason for Israel's attack on the Sinai was not on British behalf and the sinking of ships in the canal which by the way are civilian ships owned by private individuals and corporations by Nasser was evil and should have been condemned rather than praise
How is supporting terrorists that are specifically targeting Israeli civilians nothing? Is this just anti-semitism or structural racism against what you perceive as a 'White' country?
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Lol your Pissrael has been targeting Palestinian civilians long before anyone else and how does saying anything against Pissrael is anti Semitism . Pissrael is nothing but WHITE colony of Ashkenazi converted Khazar Jews who discriminate not just Arabs but original and actual Jews in the apartheid state. Zionists are not even Semite lol.
Cry somewhere else!
Well Israel supported White minority rules in Africa ( South Africa and Rhodesia ) so if you ask me where I stand,the Palestinian side it's the obvious answer.
It has to be antisemitic or racism against whites now? I can provide plenty of example where western countries have provided arms to authoritarian and dictatorial regimes. Along with terror groups which have utilized their arms against civilians. So spare use your nonsensical hypothesis.
We have Bots on this channel.But its to be expected from sympathizers of Imperialism and Eurocentric ends.