I searched for a video that explained why the middle east is so important in geopolitics in a clear, unbiased and extended way and I found exactly what I was looking for. Loved it!
It sucks that i had to fight with Google search results just to get to this video. Google is so liberal that they refuse to paint the middle east in any sort of compromising way even though it's an important part of REALITY. Jesus Google....
Lol, it's the common people that perpetuate this conflict, that refuse to compromise, it's because of them Arab leaders shy away from Israel, what a dumb, shallow and childish interpretation and understanding of the situation.
For some reason i woke up in the middle of the night and got scary obsessed about finding out whats happening in the middle east, and so here i am binge watching any and all political conflicts surrounding the area, and to make it even weirder I'm a highschooler from the Philippines (a totally different culture, yet im deeply intrigued)
@@butterfloop2071 some parts of the world chose not to see past whats being told in surface level media about countries in the middle east, like to most Americans when they hear middle east its associated with bad things, but for us Asian folks, well for me, its a rich and vibrant culture.
@@arcthepaladin2694 thank you very much T-T! Sadly what you mentioned is our reality right now. I wish people didn't believe everything on the news/media. or didn't generalise the whole community of billion people because of one brutal act . Or atleast speak up about the inhuman treatment and humiliation we're getting simply because if our religion and nationality, it almost feels like human rights stop at our tracks, and yet "they're" the first ones to talk about freedom.
You have taken one of the most confusing topics imaginable and managed to make it at least a bit intelligible to a wide audience, and you've done it in the most unbiased and fair-spirited way I can imagine. Many thanks, and congratulations.
An entire chapter on how America was a negative influence on the Middle East. Informative,entertaining, but not unbiased. FYI America removed an authoritarian dictator from Iraq and placed in a democratic republic you forgot to mention that.
This is probably the easiest to understand and well explained video on the middle east politics, covering so many different topics so efficiently! Thanks a lot
I've been searching for so f*cking long for a video that explains EVERYTHING I need to know about the Middle East. And not just a conflict between two of the countries. Finally I've found it!!!!! Thank you so much!
I don’t know why Geopolitics interests me so much 😂 I wish there were more opportunities for high schoolers like me to explore the subject on a deeper level.
Welcome to RUclips University. You're tutor will be Google. Firstly, you must learn of bias, and loaded words. Logical fallacies next. You're on your way! With this basic knowledge, the information you obtain through RUclips University should hold you well. I suggest an apprenticeship or trade school instead of college, and I hope you graduate high school easily and swiftly ! WELCOME TO RUclips UNIVERSITY 😂😂😂
I wish there were more opportunities? The entire world is opportunities. My daughter told me she wanted to be a photographer when she grew up. I handed her a camera and told her "have at it." The camera sat on the end table for several weeks before I put it away.
Wow, you have done an outstanding job presenting an accurate picture of what is happening and what has been happening in the Middle East for the past 100 years. My personal conclusion is that the destabilizing element of the war effort by the americans is deliberate but I very much appreciate that you chose not to pick sides, so viewers can draw their own conclusions rather then having someone else trying to do the thinking for them. This is what true journalists do, they do proper research and present the information to the public. I am most definitely subscribing and looking forward to more content!
Excellent summary of this topic, thank you! If I may add for the division of the Middle-East, it was decided under the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was a secret document during WW1 signed between the brits, french and russians in 1916.
I am from Middle East; I can say in general this video is a good and unbiased overview; but as has been said this is just and overview so it inevitably lack the depth of very complicated reasons of all conflicts happening there mostly due western world interventions and logging for the region wealth. Ex ISIS is created; trained and supported by USA and it's allies for the above reasons..anyway it's good video for who wants to have general Idea about ME.
@@ddkay6478 Trump in his presidintial campaign; hilary Clinton; most of political institutions; biggest media investigations; field investigations with terrorists; Isis didn't come to ME by UFOs; they came from somewhere;they entered from neighbouring USA allies countries Turkey; Saudia Arabia and others; and that what Joe Biden said when he was Vice prisedint of USA; US allies won't dare to do all that without USA approval; USA uses this terrorists to fight oppositon countries and as an excuse infront of US citizens to be in the region.
@@ddkay6478it's a huge subject; can't be condensed in a book or a website; You have the whole of internet; search by yourself; what I told you is a good start.
This was amazing! I have been for a long time searching for explanations about the Middle East (quarantine studies hahah) and this video really made it clearer, it is a great starting point and I love how you took a realist approach. I really appreciate that you tried your best to be unbiased. You just earned a new subscriber! Thanks a lot :)
Ah, I'm so pleased you liked the video and recognise the spirit in which it was created. It's definitely just a jumping off point. It's important that the conversations around politics and geopolitics be as measured as possible because things can so easily become emotive for opposing viewpoints and it scuppers progress.
I admit that I was expecting a one-sided presentation of the Middle East situation; but I was pleasantly surprised with your even-handed description of the current situation and your comprehensive presentation of the events that led up to it. I am a history student and I have naively tried to figure out what I would have done to improve on your video. I could think of nothing except details which might have been detracting from your overall goal. As a Canadian, I probably would have been more critical of the US performance in Syria, but as I said, those details would not necessarily have improved your presentation and may have detracted from the final result. Good job. Excellent presentation.
A middle-eastern here. At every corner I was worried there's gonna be over simplification or stereotypical misscharactarization, but fortunately the video is great and on point. The only problematic statement was "Israel is a strong democracy", where in fact Israel is an Apartheid state according to most human rights organizations and many indexing sources. Also, the role of forces (Kurds, Iranians, etc.) in the defeat of ISIS has been often deemed more important than US's intervention, whereas in this video it seems like US came in and defeated ISIS. But overall, this is a great, unbiased, and mostly accurate video. Thanks
Israel controls the west bank and gaza strip in what is legally considered belligrent occupation. It has violated international law by allowing, encouraging and supprting civilian settlements in these areas (no longer true for gaza strip though) and maintaining seperated infrastructures and authorities for settlers and palestinians in those areas does make it look like apartheid. However keep in mind that within Israel proper (behind the green line) there is no ethnic seperation and Palestnian citizens of Israel are subject to the same laws as Jewish ones. They suffer discrimination in some ways, which is wrong, but that's not apartheid. It's hard to talk about Israel without either making it look worse rt better then it actually is (and many people do that on purpose because of bias and willful ignorance). Israel has issues regarding its treatment of Palestinians, some of which have got better in recent years (some worse though) and I hope they'll get better yet. But comparison to apartheid without further clarifications is very misleading.
In no way am I choosing sides between the Israeli in the Palestine situation but I do have a lot of empathy for the Palestinian people #sitting on the fence
You are one of the few westerners who knows which countries are included in the Middle East, unlike the uneducated people that confuse the region with a continent or think it's synonymous with Western Asia. But I want to just note something for later videos on the region. I saw a comment on here that mentioned Cyprus being part of the Middle East and he is right. You responded with “geographically it is and not culturally. The Middle East’s geographical makeup is solely based on shared culture politics and History. It is a geopolitical region. The region is not continental based but it is a transcontinental region(not confined to a single continent). The Middle East is a British term and may have originated in the 1850's in the British India Office. The term became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to designate the area between Arabia and India. So in the 20th century, the Middle East gradually came to encompass both the Near East and the Middle East. Egypt, The Levant, the Balkans and Turkey were part of the Near East. The Near East was the term in more common use during the 19th and early 20th century. The term “Middle East”, if employed at all, only referred to the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran. But later, the “Middle East” gradually came to encompass both areas(excluding the Balkans). This change in definition and terminology usage began taking place during World War 2 when Egypt was the site of the Allies’ Middle East supply center. There is actually a very deep meaning to this geographical division that precedes the Eurocentric terminologies of the region. So we have to go all the way back to the actual concept of this geographical/geopolitical division. What we call the “Middle East” region was originally an Arab invention/concept created way before the western terms “Middle East/Near East” even existed. The original term for the Middle Eastern region was “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق) which is Arabic for “Where the sun rises”, referring to the Eastern part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.) In the 19th century the Western term “Middle East/Near East” was created and used to basically describe the same region that the Arab medieval historians and geographers created in the 14th century. The region was originally a division conducted by Medieval Arab Historians and Geographers such as Ibn Khaldun to geographically divide the Arab world based on the cultural, political and historical differences between the Western Berber Maghreb region(Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco) and the Eastern Mashriq part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq). When the Europeans came along in the 19th century, they created the newer terms for the same region(Middle East/Near East/the Orient) and towards the 19th and 20th century they gradually added the non Arab countries(Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, and Iran). The word “Maghreb”, the opposite region to the Middle East, also called “Al Maghreb” or “Al Maghreb Al Araby”(المغرب العربي) is Arabic for “where the Sun sets”, and it refers to the western part of the Arab world, which are the North African countries beginning with Libya and ending with Morocco(sometimes Mauritania is included). “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق) is modern day Middle East, while “Al Maghreb” is now what people call “North Africa” which does not really constitute the entirety of North Africa but just those Berber states. On the downside, said divisions were perfectly and coincidentally tailored for imperialistic powers. Conquer and divide, as they say, except this time around, the division was already there, so all that was left was the conquering part. The French and the British exploited this division. The Maghreb region was taken by the french and the Mashriq/Middle East/Near east region was taken by the British. They also took turns and went back and forth between regions(Egypt, Syria and Lebanon also experienced french imperialism). The funny thing is that the British continued using the original Arabic term for the “Maghreb” for a very long time until the newer generations just started calling it “North Africa”, which brings a lot of confusion today.
You basically summarised all my thoughts lots of ignorant people think the Middle East is only west Asia when in truth Egypt is also included because the Middle East is a region and west Asia is a subcontinent.
Hello! I have been searching references in the internet for conflicts in history to be studied, what came into my mind was the turmoil in the Middle East. Thank you for breaking it down in an unbiased and simplified way!
Thank you for commenting ... it was very important to me that people from that part of the world feel that this video is accurate, representative of all sides and objective 👍
I hope so too but I think it'll be very hard, all these governments and organisations appear to work purely on self interest sometimes not even considering their own people's interests for Israel and Palestine they'll need representation that aims for true peace for everyone, I believe only when the Israeli and Palestinian politicians ( as well as radicals like hamas) are ready to take into account the interest of the other as well as their own, and only when they place the other's innocent civilians as a priority will a true peace be achieved, be it through a one state solution, a semi independent state solution, a two state solution, a three state solution or even a one state solution with either or both west Bank and Gaza under Jordanian and Egyptian rule respectively, the oslut3 should matter little as long as it bridges and lessens the conflict to the maximum and ensure as much of an ever lasting peace as possible, despite everything I'm convinced that unlike Syria, Lebanon, Iraq or Yemen, Israel and Palestine can end their conflict on their own just between themselves and tell the rest of the world mind their business with lesser consequences on them both especially if they continue cooperating, however I believe the others especially Syria is much much more complicated the amount of regional and international powers involved make it harder to just end the conflict with an internal peace deal, not only the true conflict can easily count nearly 6 sides, some more allied between themselves than others, if we add regional sides it just keeps growing with Iran, Turkey and Israel among the top 20 international military powers and top 5 regional political powers , and then you have Russia, USA and to a lesser extent Europe and China with a real headache inducing graph network of allies and enemies " the simple : enemy of my enemy is my friend, doesn't seem to exactly work"
You're epic, thank you for keeping it simplistic and easy comprehensible. You did a amazing job is explaining everything you stated in the video. Thank you for your unbiased and accurate conveying of the middle east.
Some time stamps: 1:55 The division of the Middle East by foreign powers 2:41 The spread of Wahhabism 3:21 The Israel vs. Palestine conflict 5:40 The Saudi Arabia and Iran rivalry 6:38 American foreign policy 17:09 Conclusion
Very helpful! I’m always confused by this stuff. Although it was fast, it at least shed some light for me. Going to watch it again to hopefully retain more. Thank you!
It makes me really mad that schools in Europe don’t teach anything about the Middle East, and all the news are just about war, conflict and poverty. Ends up we become super ignorant and full of stereotypes with our euro-US centered culture. So thank you for the informative video!
While all this is going on Oman is the only peaceful country that never involved in wars and power greeeds in the Middle East Lucky to have been brought up in Oman❤🇴🇲
Middle East was very peaceful until ottomans fall on the early 1900s. Europe was hell back then with wars, middle East was peaceful. Now it is the opposite.
Saw some people arguing under a comment that there is bias or a lack of clarity. I also understand this was explained without great depth and broad brush strokes. Great video as an introduction, exactly what I was looking for as someone who knew very little. It gives me topics I can grasp onto and investigate further. Thank you.
I think this is a very fair, balanced, and brief video highlighting major events in the area! Perhaps maybe it would help to give more detail about events before WW1. It might help explain the nationalism that pops up in the different countries over the past hundred years
Hum, well I see that some commenters are thinking that this video is totally unbiased but not. It is comprehensive and thorough. Stating who was aggressive to whom isn't biased if it is a fact. That is an omission that leaves the audience without necessary information to understand the conflict. I don't white-washing either side is useful explaining a complex and controversial issue. Except for the 1948 war israel-Arab War the initiation of the violence to cause a war is discussed. The fact that several Arab neighboring nations attacked Israel on the same day Israel declared independence. Other than this I think this video is FANTASTIC!
Just an important correction, there was never a Palestinian state, the people living in the mandate territory called Palestine were both Jews and Muslims. It is true that the last remaining Jews that were not murdered in the Nazzi camps immigrated to Israel along with a large amount of Jewish minorities who were expelled from Muslim countries often with non of their belongings. The Muslims living in the mandate Palestine were a mixture of tribes and under the mufti of Jerusalem who wrote to Hitler during WWII and suggested to help with the final solution, chose to reject the UN proclamation of 1947. War broke out and the tiny Jewish state won... This is the beginning of modern day Israel (Not of the 3000 year old connection Israel has to the region).
You could have mentioned that Turkey has been a member of Western Bloc, a NATO & Council of Europe member starting from 1950s despite of being ‘partially’ located in Asia Minor. Its historic capital Istanbul is the most populated city in the continental Europe. Turkish language is either co-official or minority language in several European countries. Turkish history is intertwined with Europe since 1300s. Turkey was formally acknowledged as an European state in 1800s.
Arabs, Persians, Iranians, Kurds, Turks, Armenians, Azeris, Aramaics, Summerians, Mizrahim, Druze, Phonecians, Assyrians, and so on all need to form a large trusting circle
this is a good unbiased explanation,but u forget to mention why hezbollah was created in the first place,when the PLO was expelled from jordan for trying to overthrow the monarchy (events of black september)the PLO(palestine liberation organization)occupied south lebanon and started attacking isreal,so isreal invaded and occupied south lebanon for 18 years to drive out the PLO ,hezbollah was created to expell the isreali occupation of south lebanon and was backed and trained by the iranian revolutionary guard
Aaaaaallll us Arabs are considered 'minorities' ... I'm confused ..... how, who decides who is considered a minority? population number? we don't fall short on the list..... this part has been confusing me for a while now, I would really appreciate someone explaining it to me, please other than that tiny bit, the video is great, thank you
Thanks for the info, not biased and i think i followed that up decently because i didnt fully understand what went on in the middle east that much but i guess its a simplified version of what happened so thanks
I didn’t forget it - it’s mentioned but culturally and politically it’s European and since we’re covering geopolitics of the ME as a whole there’s nothing more to add.
@@LondonCityGirl that will go to turkey as well they don’t share anything Middle East accept the religion, even turkey is a secular state and it’s foreign policy it doesn’t base on religion like other middle eastern. And their politics doesn’t base on sharia like other Middle Eastern.
I searched for a video that explained why the middle east is so important in geopolitics in a clear, unbiased and extended way and I found exactly what I was looking for. Loved it!
The conclusion was just beautiful! Unbiased, clear and empathetic, highlighting the real victims, the common people!
I agree!
It sucks that i had to fight with Google search results just to get to this video. Google is so liberal that they refuse to paint the middle east in any sort of compromising way even though it's an important part of REALITY. Jesus Google....
Surprisingly objective. You don’t see many unbiased assessments of middle eastern politics.
Lol, it's the common people that perpetuate this conflict, that refuse to compromise, it's because of them Arab leaders shy away from Israel, what a dumb, shallow and childish interpretation and understanding of the situation.
For some reason i woke up in the middle of the night and got scary obsessed about finding out whats happening in the middle east, and so here i am binge watching any and all political conflicts surrounding the area, and to make it even weirder I'm a highschooler from the Philippines (a totally different culture, yet im deeply intrigued)
I've been SUPER intrigued by global politics recently. I'm a young American and obsessing over other countries has opened my eyes a bit.
Wow i thought the rest of the world didn't know we existed 😂
@@butterfloop2071 some parts of the world chose not to see past whats being told in surface level media about countries in the middle east, like to most Americans when they hear middle east its associated with bad things, but for us Asian folks, well for me, its a rich and vibrant culture.
its just that, the politics can really make the image as a whole not that pleasant for normal people.
@@arcthepaladin2694 thank you very much T-T!
Sadly what you mentioned is our reality right now. I wish people didn't believe everything on the news/media. or didn't generalise the whole community of billion people because of one brutal act . Or atleast speak up about the inhuman treatment and humiliation we're getting simply because if our religion and nationality, it almost feels like human rights stop at our tracks, and yet "they're" the first ones to talk about freedom.
You have taken one of the most confusing topics imaginable and managed to make it at least a bit intelligible to a wide audience, and you've done it in the most unbiased and fair-spirited way I can imagine. Many thanks, and congratulations.
Simple, clear, unbiased.
Thank you! A key aim was to ensure that all perspectives were given equal weight so this comment is very much appreciated
An entire chapter on how America was a negative influence on the Middle East.
Informative,entertaining,
but not unbiased.
FYI America removed an authoritarian dictator from Iraq and placed in a democratic republic you forgot to mention that.
this video is incredibly biased
@@shardch100 sure I agree, the American democracy should be specified as a bourgeois republic
What is Greater Middle East Project (MENA)?
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This is probably the easiest to understand and well explained video on the middle east politics, covering so many different topics so efficiently! Thanks a lot
I've been searching for so f*cking long for a video that explains EVERYTHING I need to know about the Middle East. And not just a conflict between two of the countries. Finally I've found it!!!!! Thank you so much!
No doubt, that was well done, but 18 minutes...you think maybe that's not everything?
"Everything" LoL
This should be the media capital instead of FOX news and CNN
What is Greater Middle East Project (MENA)?
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They both should be shut down lmao
If popular media outlets reported with this much clarity and unbiasedness, there would be much less hatred in the world
i just discover this channel, i'm gonna consume all the videos in the following quarantine days :-)
how did it go??
What is Greater Middle East Project (MENA)?
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Best video I've found so far. You summed the history, went over key wars and events that has led the ME to what it is today. Thank you!
we need more people like you describing major things in simple ways!! great video btw
I don’t know why Geopolitics interests me so much 😂 I wish there were more opportunities for high schoolers like me to explore the subject on a deeper level.
I'm a highschooler too and get so interested in these videos, I seriously want to learn all about the details lmao.
Welcome to RUclips University. You're tutor will be Google. Firstly, you must learn of bias, and loaded words. Logical fallacies next. You're on your way! With this basic knowledge, the information you obtain through RUclips University should hold you well. I suggest an apprenticeship or trade school instead of college, and I hope you graduate high school easily and swiftly ! WELCOME TO RUclips UNIVERSITY 😂😂😂
I wish there were more opportunities? The entire world is opportunities. My daughter told me she wanted to be a photographer when she grew up. I handed her a camera and told her "have at it." The camera sat on the end table for several weeks before I put it away.
Dave S not when you’re poor and have to work as a teen to help support your family
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Wow, you have done an outstanding job presenting an accurate picture of what is happening and what has been happening in the Middle East for the past 100 years. My personal conclusion is that the destabilizing element of the war effort by the americans is deliberate but I very much appreciate that you chose not to pick sides, so viewers can draw their own conclusions rather then having someone else trying to do the thinking for them.
This is what true journalists do, they do proper research and present the information to the public.
I am most definitely subscribing and looking forward to more content!
This is simple and well structured, you just earned yourself a subscriber. Thank you!
Thank you! So great to get feedback like this after the time and effort required for these type of vids 😁
Well said
@@Hassan-cf8dp The Western capitalists and Imperialists brought so much destructions to this part of the world.
Alhamduillah.. 😭😭🙏🙏
Excellent summary of this topic, thank you! If I may add for the division of the Middle-East, it was decided under the Sykes-Picot Agreement which was a secret document during WW1 signed between the brits, french and russians in 1916.
I am from Middle East; I can say in general this video is a good and unbiased overview; but as has been said this is just and overview so it inevitably lack the depth of very complicated reasons of all conflicts happening there mostly due western world interventions and logging for the region wealth. Ex ISIS is created; trained and supported by USA and it's allies for the above reasons..anyway it's good video for who wants to have general Idea about ME.
"Ex ISIS is created; trained and supported by USA and it's allies for the above reasons" sources for this assertion please?
@@ddkay6478 Trump in his presidintial campaign; hilary Clinton; most of political institutions; biggest media investigations; field investigations with terrorists; Isis didn't come to ME by UFOs; they came from somewhere;they entered from neighbouring USA allies countries Turkey; Saudia Arabia and others; and that what Joe Biden said when he was Vice prisedint of USA; US allies won't dare to do all that without USA approval; USA uses this terrorists to fight oppositon countries and as an excuse infront of US citizens to be in the region.
@@ffhashimi Trump is not a source for me😝
@@ffhashimi you didnt give a book, a website, a documentary, a research...would you please
@@ddkay6478it's a huge subject; can't be condensed in a book or a website; You have the whole of internet; search by yourself; what I told you is a good start.
This is the best explanation about the middle east's geopolitics i have ever found here on youtube, thanksssss
This was amazing! I have been for a long time searching for explanations about the Middle East (quarantine studies hahah) and this video really made it clearer, it is a great starting point and I love how you took a realist approach. I really appreciate that you tried your best to be unbiased. You just earned a new subscriber! Thanks a lot :)
Ah, I'm so pleased you liked the video and recognise the spirit in which it was created. It's definitely just a jumping off point.
It's important that the conversations around politics and geopolitics be as measured as possible because things can so easily become emotive for opposing viewpoints and it scuppers progress.
This RUclipsr said unified saudi! You can't unified athing never existed there was nothing such as saudi to be unified
@@messianic_scam then why is Arabia mentionned in the Quran??
@@anonymous-oy7zg
where
Crazy how Israel has managed to survive meanwhile surrounded by so many Muslim countries.
very clear and well explained. Kudos to all who were involved in the making of this video!
I admit that I was expecting a one-sided presentation of the Middle East situation; but I was pleasantly surprised with your even-handed description of the current situation and your comprehensive presentation of the events that led up to it. I am a history student and I have naively tried to figure out what I would have done to improve on your video. I could think of nothing except details which might have been detracting from your overall goal. As a Canadian, I probably would have been more critical of the US performance in Syria, but as I said, those details would not necessarily have improved your presentation and may have detracted from the final result. Good job. Excellent presentation.
Easy to follow, clear, unbiased, great visuals -- great job love it
A middle-eastern here. At every corner I was worried there's gonna be over simplification or stereotypical misscharactarization, but fortunately the video is great and on point. The only problematic statement was "Israel is a strong democracy", where in fact Israel is an Apartheid state according to most human rights organizations and many indexing sources. Also, the role of forces (Kurds, Iranians, etc.) in the defeat of ISIS has been often deemed more important than US's intervention, whereas in this video it seems like US came in and defeated ISIS. But overall, this is a great, unbiased, and mostly accurate video. Thanks
Israel controls the west bank and gaza strip in what is legally considered belligrent occupation. It has violated international law by allowing, encouraging and supprting civilian settlements in these areas (no longer true for gaza strip though) and maintaining seperated infrastructures and authorities for settlers and palestinians in those areas does make it look like apartheid.
However keep in mind that within Israel proper (behind the green line) there is no ethnic seperation and Palestnian citizens of Israel are subject to the same laws as Jewish ones. They suffer discrimination in some ways, which is wrong, but that's not apartheid.
It's hard to talk about Israel without either making it look worse rt better then it actually is (and many people do that on purpose because of bias and willful ignorance). Israel has issues regarding its treatment of Palestinians, some of which have got better in recent years (some worse though) and I hope they'll get better yet. But comparison to apartheid without further clarifications is very misleading.
In no way am I choosing sides between the Israeli in the Palestine situation but I do have a lot of empathy for the Palestinian people #sitting on the fence
Palestine > israshit
Palestine? That is Jordan of today.
LOL
Nothing more endearing than 70 years of intransigently demanding the ethnic cleansing of your neighbors from their homes.
@@jackkessler9876
Where did you get this from?
Al-Jazeera?
@@osher87 No, from the Palestinians
Thank you very much. I was one of the "Utterly Confused" and this was very helpful.
This is one of the cleanest and most helpful videos I've ever watched on this subject. This video is a treasure. Thank you, LondonCityGirl
That was so well made! I actually understand what's happening now!
You are one of the few westerners who knows which countries are included in the Middle East, unlike the uneducated people that confuse the region with a continent or think it's synonymous with Western Asia. But I want to just note something for later videos on the region. I saw a comment on here that mentioned Cyprus being part of the Middle East and he is right. You responded with “geographically it is and not culturally. The Middle East’s geographical makeup is solely based on shared culture politics and History. It is a geopolitical region. The region is not continental based but it is a transcontinental region(not confined to a single continent).
The Middle East is a British term and may have originated in the 1850's in the British India Office. The term became more widely known when American naval strategist Alfred Thayer Mahan used the term in 1902 to designate the area between Arabia and India. So in the 20th century, the Middle East gradually came to encompass both the Near East and the Middle East. Egypt, The Levant, the Balkans and Turkey were part of the Near East. The Near East was the term in more common use during the 19th and early 20th century. The term “Middle East”, if employed at all, only referred to the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, and Iran. But later, the “Middle East” gradually came to encompass both areas(excluding the Balkans). This change in definition and terminology usage began taking place during World War 2 when Egypt was the site of the Allies’ Middle East supply center.
There is actually a very deep meaning to this geographical division that precedes the Eurocentric terminologies of the region. So we have to go all the way back to the actual concept of this geographical/geopolitical division. What we call the “Middle East” region was originally an Arab invention/concept created way before the western terms “Middle East/Near East” even existed. The original term for the Middle Eastern region was “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق) which is Arabic for “Where the sun rises”, referring to the Eastern part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq.) In the 19th century the Western term “Middle East/Near East” was created and used to basically describe the same region that the Arab medieval historians and geographers created in the 14th century. The region was originally a division conducted by Medieval Arab Historians and Geographers such as Ibn Khaldun to geographically divide the Arab world based on the cultural, political and historical differences between the Western Berber Maghreb region(Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco) and the Eastern Mashriq part of the Arab world(Egypt, Levant, Arabian Peninsula and Iraq). When the Europeans came along in the 19th century, they created the newer terms for the same region(Middle East/Near East/the Orient) and towards the 19th and 20th century they gradually added the non Arab countries(Cyprus, Turkey, Israel, and Iran). The word “Maghreb”, the opposite region to the Middle East, also called “Al Maghreb” or “Al Maghreb Al Araby”(المغرب العربي) is Arabic for “where the Sun sets”, and it refers to the western part of the Arab world, which are the North African countries beginning with Libya and ending with Morocco(sometimes Mauritania is included). “Al Mashriq” (ٱلْمَشْرِق) is modern day Middle East, while “Al Maghreb” is now what people call “North Africa” which does not really constitute the entirety of North Africa but just those Berber states.
On the downside, said divisions were perfectly and coincidentally tailored for imperialistic powers. Conquer and divide, as they say, except this time around, the division was already there, so all that was left was the conquering part. The French and the British exploited this division. The Maghreb region was taken by the french and the Mashriq/Middle East/Near east region was taken by the British. They also took turns and went back and forth between regions(Egypt, Syria and Lebanon also experienced french imperialism). The funny thing is that the British continued using the original Arabic term for the “Maghreb” for a very long time until the newer generations just started calling it “North Africa”, which brings a lot of confusion today.
You basically summarised all my thoughts lots of ignorant people think the Middle East is only west Asia when in truth Egypt is also included because the Middle East is a region and west Asia is a subcontinent.
Great video, very clear and concise!
Thank you,
Joe.
Hello! I have been searching references in the internet for conflicts in history to be studied, what came into my mind was the turmoil in the Middle East.
Thank you for breaking it down in an unbiased and simplified way!
Didn't know much about the Middle East conflict. According to comments its a great video, so I subbed. :) Thank you!
Never heard it explain this well! Nice job and keep up the great work you do!
Israeli here, excellent video, hope it'll somehow get fixed all of this situation.
Thank you for commenting ... it was very important to me that people from that part of the world feel that this video is accurate, representative of all sides and objective 👍
We will never accept Israel. Israel is trash
I hope so too but I think it'll be very hard, all these governments and organisations appear to work purely on self interest sometimes not even considering their own people's interests for Israel and Palestine they'll need representation that aims for true peace for everyone, I believe only when the Israeli and Palestinian politicians ( as well as radicals like hamas) are ready to take into account the interest of the other as well as their own, and only when they place the other's innocent civilians as a priority will a true peace be achieved, be it through a one state solution, a semi independent state solution, a two state solution, a three state solution or even a one state solution with either or both west Bank and Gaza under Jordanian and Egyptian rule respectively, the oslut3 should matter little as long as it bridges and lessens the conflict to the maximum and ensure as much of an ever lasting peace as possible, despite everything I'm convinced that unlike Syria, Lebanon, Iraq or Yemen, Israel and Palestine can end their conflict on their own just between themselves and tell the rest of the world mind their business with lesser consequences on them both especially if they continue cooperating, however I believe the others especially Syria is much much more complicated the amount of regional and international powers involved make it harder to just end the conflict with an internal peace deal, not only the true conflict can easily count nearly 6 sides, some more allied between themselves than others, if we add regional sides it just keeps growing with Iran, Turkey and Israel among the top 20 international military powers and top 5 regional political powers , and then you have Russia, USA and to a lesser extent Europe and China with a real headache inducing graph network of allies and enemies " the simple : enemy of my enemy is my friend, doesn't seem to exactly work"
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You're epic, thank you for keeping it simplistic and easy comprehensible. You did a amazing job is explaining everything you stated in the video. Thank you for your unbiased and accurate conveying of the middle east.
Some time stamps:
1:55 The division of the Middle East by foreign powers
2:41 The spread of Wahhabism
3:21 The Israel vs. Palestine conflict
5:40 The Saudi Arabia and Iran rivalry
6:38 American foreign policy
17:09 Conclusion
Brilliant. Watching this has been so valuable; can’t thank you enough.
thanks for this! that was an amazing way of summarizing a lot of group names and all the wars
I love your voice, soft and sound, making the intense subject seem very academically objective.
Im in the Usaf right now and our instructor talked about his time in the Middle East and it interested me to see how everyone interacts with everyone
This is not an explanation,. This is art.
Very helpful! I’m always confused by this stuff. Although it was fast, it at least shed some light for me. Going to watch it again to hopefully retain more. Thank you!
Easy to understand 💯no long grammar 😂 ,I love the illustration and it was really helpful 💯👌thank you and I just subscribed 😀
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Not many things I can think of where a "simple" explanation warrants an 18-minute video, but the Middle East is one of them.
Well balanced, unbiased narrative.. kudos to the narrator
It makes me really mad that schools in Europe don’t teach anything about the Middle East, and all the news are just about war, conflict and poverty. Ends up we become super ignorant and full of stereotypes with our euro-US centered culture. So thank you for the informative video!
I subscribed after 1 minute. Wonderfully explained
Incredible how you made everything so clear
Thanks for uploading this, it makes much more sense now!
Cyprus is just spectating
While all this is going on
Oman is the only peaceful country that never involved in wars and power greeeds in the Middle East
Lucky to have been brought up in Oman❤🇴🇲
Who came here to get info for university assignment 🤣🤦
Thank you well explained 👍❤️
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Had to watch in .75x🕵️♂️ loved the cadence and info. Good job city gurl💯👌
Thank you! 😁😁
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Very clear independent unbiased overview of problems in the Middle East.
What a mess. In Europe we have enjoyed 70 years of peace, while multiple conflicts rage(d) in the Middle East. I feel for all those affected.
Middle East was very peaceful until ottomans fall on the early 1900s. Europe was hell back then with wars, middle East was peaceful. Now it is the opposite.
Excellent video. Simple, clear and easy for someone with little to no knowledge of the region to understand.
Very well done, liked it.
It´s a good overview and it´s ok for everyone. with a normal understanding.
Best video ever on middle East ❤pls continue this
Fantastic explanation! Five stars!
Saw some people arguing under a comment that there is bias or a lack of clarity. I also understand this was explained without great depth and broad brush strokes. Great video as an introduction, exactly what I was looking for as someone who knew very little. It gives me topics I can grasp onto and investigate further.
Thank you.
YASSS QUEEN! Thanks for a straightforward no bullshit video. Luv u Sis ❤️
I think this is a very fair, balanced, and brief video highlighting major events in the area! Perhaps maybe it would help to give more detail about events before WW1. It might help explain the nationalism that pops up in the different countries over the past hundred years
Had been looking for a crisp explanation , found it very useful , thank you 👍
The missing crash course I needed
Lovely storytelling
Just what I needed! I’m going to watch it again
Historic facts, I love it. This clear up so much I didn’t understand or got wrong.
Very very amazing, everyone should watch this
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Hum, well I see that some commenters are thinking that this video is totally unbiased but not. It is comprehensive and thorough. Stating who was aggressive to whom isn't biased if it is a fact. That is an omission that leaves the audience without necessary information to understand the conflict. I don't white-washing either side is useful explaining a complex and controversial issue. Except for the 1948 war israel-Arab War the initiation of the violence to cause a war is discussed. The fact that several Arab neighboring nations attacked Israel on the same day Israel declared independence. Other than this I think this video is FANTASTIC!
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I watched this to supplement my world history course but the course ended up supplementing this video.
precise and neat, this is what we need to see more of. new subscriber :)
Just an important correction, there was never a Palestinian state, the people living in the mandate territory called Palestine were both Jews and Muslims. It is true that the last remaining Jews that were not murdered in the Nazzi camps immigrated to Israel along with a large amount of Jewish minorities who were expelled from Muslim countries often with non of their belongings.
The Muslims living in the mandate Palestine were a mixture of tribes and under the mufti of Jerusalem who wrote to Hitler during WWII and suggested to help with the final solution, chose to reject the UN proclamation of 1947. War broke out and the tiny Jewish state won... This is the beginning of modern day Israel (Not of the 3000 year old connection Israel has to the region).
Extremely well done speedy brief on what is the middle east.
Very nice video and honest history
The real tragedy is having to recite all those disclaimers at the end. What a world... -_-"
This video was perfect, very educational and unbiased. Well done!
So delighted to find your videos with realistic simple but complete expln of complex matters
You could have mentioned that Turkey has been a member of Western Bloc, a NATO & Council of Europe member starting from 1950s despite of being ‘partially’ located in Asia Minor. Its historic capital Istanbul is the most populated city in the continental Europe. Turkish language is either co-official or minority language in several European countries. Turkish history is intertwined with Europe since 1300s. Turkey was formally acknowledged as an European state in 1800s.
the most populated city in continental Europe is moscow not istanbul.
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Thank you for sharing your ideas. Watching all the way from Vanuatu 😁😀👍🔥🔥🇻🇺🇻🇺🇻🇺
Arabs, Persians, Iranians, Kurds, Turks, Armenians, Azeris, Aramaics, Summerians, Mizrahim, Druze, Phonecians, Assyrians, and so on all need to form a large trusting circle
true but persians are iranians
Phoenicians are pure Lebanese but Lebanon has a lot of Armenians too
@@youareveryannoying9179 phoenicians died centuries before modern-day lebanese (arabs) colonized the levant.
this is a good unbiased explanation,but u forget to mention why hezbollah was created in the first place,when the PLO was expelled from jordan for trying to overthrow the monarchy (events of black september)the PLO(palestine liberation organization)occupied south lebanon and started attacking isreal,so isreal invaded and occupied south lebanon for 18 years to drive out the PLO ,hezbollah was created to expell the isreali occupation of south lebanon and was backed and trained by the iranian revolutionary guard
Aaaaaallll us Arabs are considered 'minorities' ... I'm confused ..... how, who decides who is considered a minority? population number? we don't fall short on the list.....
this part has been confusing me for a while now, I would really appreciate someone explaining it to me, please
other than that tiny bit, the video is great, thank you
That smile on sadham face at 12 minute mark. Can you be more jolly
A very clear overview.
Excellent breakdown in such a relatively short time. Well done.
Very good broad overview, thank you!
Thanks for the info, not biased and i think i followed that up decently because i didnt fully understand what went on in the middle east that much but i guess its a simplified version of what happened so thanks
Very well explained. Mark a new subscriber 👍🏻
You forget Cyprus 🇨🇾 it’s a part of Middle East.
I didn’t forget it - it’s mentioned but culturally and politically it’s European and since we’re covering geopolitics of the ME as a whole there’s nothing more to add.
@@LondonCityGirl that will go to turkey as well they don’t share anything Middle East accept the religion, even turkey is a secular state and it’s foreign policy it doesn’t base on religion like other middle eastern.
And their politics doesn’t base on sharia like other Middle Eastern.
@@LondonCityGirl So why include Turkey and Israel then?
Nicely put together in a sequence. Loved it
Brilliant: Well done! Amazing production.
thank you ,for covering all this in this time
Superb neutral explanation, thank you. Better than mainstream media.
Very informative video. Keep it up. Love from India.
Thanks for watching! 😍
Very well done. Thank you for the insight.
The Middle East has always been like this! Literally for 5000 years of conflict
Wow super complex things explained in simplest way.... Subscriber earned