In early 1919, Italian PM Orlando met with Vittorio Emanuele III before leaving for Versailles. The King asked him if he intended to challenge Sykes-Picot at all. Orlando shook his head and replied, "There's a reason that the Old Romans left, Majesty- too many problems there". How right he was.
It's a fitting comment for what Orlando sees there in 1919. But the actual Romans didn't leave, they were swept out by an Arab conquest in 634. -- Most of the population remained and converted, so presumably a lot of (eastern) Roman ancestry is still there.
Inaccurate video. There's no mention that we Lebanese are completely different from the so-called Arab world. Political correctness I suppose. There's a reason Pan Arabism didn't happen, and that reason was us. We aren't Arabs. This video is incredibly poor quality as it doesn't highlight these central facts.
U.K. and France had territory in the African and Pacific theaters at the time. It even existed during the crusades during 1000 years due to religious wars. This is what I gathered from the text books and video games.
It’s ironic since Jordan was not governed at the time and was in a state of anarchy. The British didn’t feel like going out there nor did the Hashemites.
An interesting but rather ambiguous name, there have been so many civil wars: Russian, Lebanese, Spanish, English (both of them), Chinese, American, the current Syrian Civil War and the Romans and Byzantines had dozens more.
That was the 18th century because of expansions of territories and wealth. Ottomans were building an empire and Austria just broke from the Holy Roman Empire and was building as well.
We go trough this in swedish school the partition of the middle east during this time, had huge impact on conflicts later on, many of the powers drew borders specifically so to cause internal yension to prevent them from unifying against the colonial powers.
I have no idea what they teaching in public school history today but I learned about Sykes-Picot in 11th grade world history. School curriculum has seen an on-going dumbing down for at least 35 years.
Some of them were cut by the ottomans so they can use this wood for cold winter (Still Lebanon is forest everywhere very greeny compared to it's neighborhoods
@@JohnWick-vb9pc The stool that you can rest your feet when you are tired... LOL Ottomans were the muslim empire from 1299 to 1922, a multiethnic empire with the Osman Turk Sultan in the center of the empire.
people keep saying the middle east (or the balkans) is always a mess while it is just an area that had a power vacuum due to the collapse of a former empire like anytime in history, the only difference is that instead of one conflict solving the issue and giving birth to a new dominating power in the region the new "global system" ushered by the victorious powers of the great war did not allow the creation of such a force, and thus kept the region divided and always on the verge of collapse.
Lol, I did not really state my own position from that global system (just pointing out that people shouldn't be surprised of its outcomes and blame it on the region's people themselves), If I would criticize such a system I might do it on the basis that I don't believe that the great powers who created it have the right to intervene in all these countries (but would need to search on its effect world wide before issuing my final judgement) your statements could branch to other topics like "is israel the natural force that could unite the region incase the global system did not exist" or "were the moving parts of the system biased to the arabs more than israel" and I am relatively sure (from your statement) that I wouldn't agree with you anyway at the end.
@@rogerjohnson2562 Greetings, If this was a simple statement then eventhough I would agree it is one of its many problems today, but no it is not "the reason"; we can argue it is more of a product of the pase mess / messes. Check the 50s for example, most of the promenent political powers in the middle east were either secular nationalists or left leaning parties (or maybe both like Nasir :v), was the middle east less messy at that time? Absolutely no. (Check the first lebanese civil war) Trying to reduce all the negative aspects of a society into a single cause is under-estimation for the way history progresses
I am honored and pleased to work with you TGW crew, especially Flo and Jesse, and I feel grateful because your channel gave me the opportunity to tell the story of my country in front of a world based audience by sharing with you my research and contributing to the writing of the draft of the script. A dream come true! Last, I & all Lebanese fans appreciate your wishes for wellness in the midst of the current political-economical crisis in our country at 28:18. Keep up the great work. Big cheers to you!
Great work, Rabih! On a separate note, is it true that after the Beirut explosion this year, tens of thousands of Lebanese signed a petition for France to become a protector of Lebanon?
My Lebanese supplier once told me a joke. "Did you know that Adam and Eve were Lebanese? They were poor, hungry, didn't have even proper clothes, yet they believed they live in a paradise."
I just want to thank the great war for all the great content over the years as a maronite catholic myself it was really hard to find out the history of my people it’s nice that you can use this video as a framework
Why don’t Maronites like using names like Charbel, Boutros or even Boulos. Putting aside Arabic ones. Because they want to put aside all there Maronite identity. I’ve got an Arabic name and people like myself have held onto our customs, traditions, culture and language. That is what makes our identity
A lot of blind faith in our community new generation should do more in looking into their history and also learning Arabic so that they will be able to read certain scripture describing or narrating the life and faith of the maronites
Amazing, detailed, and impartial account of events that forged the middle east 100 years ago, and what triggered many of the disasters afflicting the region today. I take my hat off to you.
no offense but in this video genocides was mentioned, famines that killed 1/3 of the entire population what makes it wonderful? its pretty sad lebanon is a beautiful country but they had it pretty rough the last century
You want to know your history, you have to look at unbiased work, not this garbage. Lebanon starts at the time of the Phoenicians. And continues to this day, with its inhabitants being NOT Arabs, but simply Lebanese. Anyone who doesn't understand this will never understand Lebanese people.
And somehow we get all the credit and blame. The most recent example to come to mind was the intervention in Libya first civil war back in 2011. All the US did was act as a glorified fedex/mobile gas station for France, the UK and coalition of Europeans and gulf countries while they blew the country up. We get the blame abroad, and domestically it went from you’re not doing enough by leading from behind Obama to blaming him for the whole affair even though British and French jets launched the opening salvos.
Ah. Y. Not entirely. Globally yes. They kinda got relegated to regional powers. You can look at France now and the pull they still have over certain west and Central African countries through the monetary system, most of these countries are obligated to hold most of their foreign currency reserves in French accounts. France has been rather active if not more so in Africa than the US. It’s just not as publicized in America. They’ve done several interventions in varying scale. They have their own war on terror in the Sahel since they launched an intervention in Mali in late 2012 against Tuareg tribes fresh with weapons from serving as mercenaries in Libya for Qaddafi that had aligned with some offshoot of al queda at the time. The French are still there. Don’t underestimate what the French are able to do. It helps that they have an expendable foreign legion when it comes to body bags returning. The brits have definitely had their influence fade compared to France. But it doesn’t change the fact they’ve gotten involved in interventions that serve their interests.
@@alexhage8092 of course silk was present in Lebanon way before, but in 17th century with Fakhreddin came large scale production. So than for the advise.
Interesting. My best friends are Lebanese, at least that's how they would describe themselves. Their grandparents, who emigrated to the U.S. during the troubled times spelled out here never saw themselves as Lebanese. If anything, when asked, they would say they were Assyrian's. In reality, they were Chaldean's, a Christian sect who were being squeezed by all sides at that time. My friends were raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, same as me, but their grandparents saw themselves as aligned with, but not part of, the Vatican Papacy. And that was their real allegiance,. They saw themselves in cultural, not nationalistic terms and never felt a close bond to Lebanon as a nation-state. They would always simply refer to it as the old country and they said it with a tinge of sadness because none of the family ever returned. The story of Lebanon is tragic. It's creation was not thought out properly and the idea that France would protect Christian minorities fell flat. One of the tragedies of drawing arbitrary lines based on old maps is that it has put Lebanon smack dab in the middle of hostile powers and as they go to war to with each other they tend to use the place as a highway. It suffers the same type of problems based on geography that Poland has traditionally endured. I think I would have like to have seen it as it was before WWI. From the stories I heard as a child it was a beautiful region with lots of tress and while there was tension, people mostly got along. Sykes-Picot strikes again. A curse on that fowl agreement between gentlemen.
I never thought of comparing Lebanon to Poland, but I definitely see it. I am Lebanese, my family is, and has been. It hurts me what our country has been through, and continues to go through. So much of the conflict is based on religion, it is ironic that religious protection was the original goal. Sigh...
no dont mistake it, i am a lebanese assyrian, we have a lebanese nationality, well a small part of us do, is because we the massacre of 1933 in simele in assyria which led to the loss of our land to the kurds. the other lebanese including christians are arabs.
Did the Kurds massacre you assyrians? I don't know enough about this history and this is the first of Lebanon I've explored. It always struck me as odd that the Kurds weren't given a state especially after the overthrow of Saddam. I'm inferring the Kurdish were a warring Force against the Assyrians at that time?
my friend, the kurds deserve a land and have a homeland, its in iran but they cannot topple the iranian goverment, anyways, in 1915 1 million assyrians died on the hands of the ottomans, after that the massacre of simele happened 1933 and thats where we lost our lands to the kurds, the kurds pushed by the ottomans and the iraqi kingdom at the time to commit a genocide of the assryians of all faiths,some children were able to escape to syria and lebanon and thats why we are more than 8mil across the globe, after sadam left we were treated worse, isis commited a massacre in 2014 and now the kurds are using force to steal lands, what left that is@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape
As a Norwegian, I think we tend to be very sensitive toward other people and cultures and for that reason, I’d would start by seeing that your title is misleading: it should be : the creation of Greater Lebanon, for that Lebanon is one of the most ancient nations in humanity, known as ancient Phoenicia, the land that gave us the Alphabet and it’s the birthplace of Europe, after all Europe or’ Erp’ in Aramaic ( the language spoken by the Phoenicians was Aramaic) was a Phoenician princess. They founded Carthage and the people of Tyre founded half of the Mediterranean cities in Cypress, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta up to Antibes ( a Phoenician name and Marseille... they weren’t only limited to the Eastern Mediterranean.. so Lebanon’s history, just with the ancient city of Byblos, it spans a history of more than ten thousand years.. it’s considered as the cradle of civilization along with ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Assyria..
As a Norwegian, you have a lot to say 3000 miles away from Middle East.Certainly you diluted history in a very generalized way, The modern historians also put their prejudicial punctuations. All humanity contribute more or less into our modern world.And if you ask Americans they will tell you that just in 250 years invented Democracy and civilization.
@@antoniosdimoulas3566 spot on. The original commentator is a moron that just spewed some garbage. Trying to detach Lebanon from the rest of the Middle East, just like how the colonists were doing a 100 years ago
@@ahmadz81 Go back to school and learn real history, or as I Muslim yourself,you believe in the Holy Bible, read it and soon you will find out where Phoenicians come from
@@ahmadz81 not much is know about the Phonecians but genetic studies were done and there is a distinct genetic marker for those people in Lebanon which represents roughly 30% of the population and largely coastal. The genetics uncovered bring those Phonecian people in close relation to the people of Mesopotamia… also that genetic marker is found very highly in the Caucuses mountains today (Georgia, Armenia and Chechnya). So one would infer from those data that the Phoenicians are a population that is related to the Caucuses mountains populations of today. In fact, the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula also have roots in the Caucuses mountains with migrations from that region 7,000 years ago. There’s no need to ascribe a fake gaslight narrative around the Phonecians. There is ample evidence for their origin. At the same time, Phonecians weren’t exactly a people with a singular origin. In fact they were a nation that probably had a diverse population made up of people with different ethnic backgrounds that were United by culture and commerce moreso than genetic lineage.
I am currently researching the whole Israel palistine thing, when I came across your video, I always knew that Lebanon was a part of this but I never knew why, now I do. Middle East history is vary complex from what I'm learning, I just wish some people on this would would seek out objective facts instead of half truths and propaganda as history. Thank you for your efforst and I definitely will be checking out your other site.
The video is misleading. Not all what is said is true. First, we don’t have any desert in Lebanon meaning we are not bedouins. Second, We were farmers in history. Third, We have Arabic language but we are not Arabs. Fourth, We are semetic so dont be antisemetic
Infact your statements are misleading, half of the area of Lebanon, the eastern hills and valleys except AL-Bika 'a is a semi-desert area! The Bedouins are living there, and they are basic component of Lebanese society, and Arabs like you and semitic like you as you said. You are NOT Arabs??!! What is a puzzle is that? @@ronaldoazzam
@@adnanbaker4663 give me a reference for what you are saying. Anyway when you say semi means it is not a desert. When a piece of land which is semi desert as u are saying have snows falling on it, then it is not a desert. Deserts have camels. Lebanon never had Lebanese bedouins. They were farmers. If you want to say we have syrian bedouins then those are the ones fleeing the syrian war. Thousands are coming to lebanon as refugees and no one can stop them. This is a conspiracy. Anyway this is not a debate. The video is misleading.
As a child my father used tell these stories but as a five years old innocent child I believed that these were scary fantastic tales that excited my imagination.
Interestingly, RUclips had to cut the money given to creators from ads tehn they increased the number of ads per video. Besides the begining and ending ads, it was also interrupted twice for ads. Before the adpocalypse, you only had begining ads.
Well America runs RUclips and they're obsessed with money and shoving as many ads in our faces they can possibly get away with . The only problem is none of these ads are getting any products sold because they're so annoying
I am Turkish. In 1900, my grandfather served in the military in Yemen for 5 years. We Turks have fought from front to front for the Ummah for 1000 years. But now the situation has changed. We don't have a drop of blood to shed for traitors. They have lawrence
Very clear and well paced narration made this easy to digest whilst listening and the frequency and choice of maps, photos and images was perfect. Thank you. I learnt a lot.
14:38 : May 1920 the Christian village of Ain Ebel ( District of Bent Jbeil) were attacked and put under siege; after a brutal and tense fight the village defences crumbled and out numbered by the attackers the village fell and many people died subsequently the majority of its populations fled to the south into Palestine till the French troops arrived and order re-stablished. A monument exists today honouring the martyrs of May 1920 near the village's church, names of the martyrs is carved on the monument.
Amazing video content on the history of Lebanon. You highlighted The Competition and influence of France, and Great Britain in the Middle East. Greetings from Europe.
Very important French sent troups ( but not french ) They sent Algerians ( Spahis ) Moroccans , senegalese .... from their colonies . I know because my great grandfather a Spahi Algerian - was a Captain in the french army and he died in the mountain in 1922 .
THey fought for the French, because they consider themselves Arabs and hated the Turks? 1922 sounds more like fighting against the Arabs, and I would think that was risky.
@@slewone4905 No they fought for the French because Algeria was a french colony , as well as Senegal , Morocco was a protectorate .... so one of the only way to get a status I guess as an ' indiginous 'was to enroll in the french army .... and the french preferred to send non french to get killed in their wars .... my great grandpa died at âge 38 ...
They can’t do it. They hate anyone who is not like them. It has been taught to every generation from the time they can understand. They also have generations who have known nothing else but war. It is the same in Afghanistan and Iraq. They have grown up knowing nothing but war.
Wow! The comments regarding this video are as wide, varied, and devisive as the video on the history of Lebanon itself, which only proves that there is a lot more to this story than is being told. Regardless, the contributions of the Lebanese people to the advance of modern civilization is impressive, but so is the destruction they have endured throughout all of history.
Thank you so much for this video. My grandparents, who were Maronite Catholics, came from “Lebanon” around the turn of the century. Since Lebanon did not exist yet, I have always wondered why they left.
how did you come to such conclusion ?? is it because it satisfies your ego ??? nothing in what was mentioned in this documentary is true ??? the writer unfortunately Lebanese as many lebanese who always dreamt to link Lebanon to syria is just faking ?? Lebanon is much older than syria . and whoever considers Lebanon as a fake state that has been splitted from syria , has to tell when did it happen in all of lebanon's history that lebanese were known as syrians ?? it never happened .. Sikes Picot , returned to Lebanon the 4 cazas that thr ottomans have splitted and annexed them to damascus in order to weaken lebanese resistance ... unbelievable how bad the world is and how fast lies run
@@rabihrac oof rip sorry for that the Ottoman were really cruel... Mine was then forced into the French Mandate forces... Survived again... Died 1993 knowing 3 different rulers for the country. Mr Worldwide.
@@icemanire5467 I am ready to reply to anybody provided the opinion or question is expressed with politeness and respect; and by the way, History is a scientific field that provides adequate answers to all truth seekers.
British colonies in the ME (and the world, especially) are now better-off or more prosperous than the french's. Even the present United States was a British colony at first. I wonder why? Hmm..
Lebanese Maronite here: to add to the famine caused by the Ottomans, we had terraced fields in my village for agriculture, the Ottomans forced us to abandon agriculture and made us plant pine trees instead for train tracks for the war. To this day there is no agriculture in my village and it’s all just forest.
It's not like the Maronites were angels either. Maronite elitism was one of the main contributors to the build up of sectarian and religious tension that triggered the civil war.
This is my second viewing of this video. I still see that there were many points missing that were important and deserved a pause to explain, rather than mentioning them so casually.
Those scenes around 21:00 and later around 24:00 are from 1920 and if yes how come that they are in such a quality and coloured? Was the original material cleaned up and coloured at some point?
I live in a small town in rural South Georgia. After WW1 two Lebanese brothers and their wives came here and started a general store. 100 years later their descendants have several successful businesses and prominent positions in our city.
Christian Khoury my dad fought with the LF as well. Really a crazy time for everyone involved in the civil war. I’m very lucky that my family came out alive. Btw, it’s always nice to see another Khoury family member!
While I appreciate the effort.. I have to complain a bit.. the colored footages shown were mainly of Damascus and not from Lebanon ( it was a bit confusing). The opposition to the state of Greater Lebanon was not only led by Faisal and his government, the Muslims of Lebanon but also the Greek Orthodox Christians and a diverse spectrum of secular locals in many cities that saw the division as unnatural. Rida al-Rikabi the first prime minister in the new, British supported, government in Damascus was the one who appointed Alayubi to govern Beirut not Faisal (they were in correspondenceو but Faisal had not been declared as king yet ), which was not a rebellious decision to angry the French , but as one of the many he had to make to establish order in the new state. The Bedouin tribes were raiding all the cities of the Levant ( not just in Lebanese parts) after the Ottomans were defeated, and later on, many of theses tribes were supported by the French to control and subdue the cities opposing the French ( they helped the French take over Damascus and Aleppo after betraying the Syrian army in Maysaloun). The French division of Syria was motivated by an agenda to weaken and isolate some local governments and strengthen others in the hope that the latter would abandon and claim preputial independence from the former. There were some other minor errors that I will leave a lone.
Basically the socalled " Greater Lebanon" was forced on the local population by the French with the support of 2 groups: The Maronite Church and the feudal families, Druze and Maronite especially, there was a sizeable number of Maronites who wanted to be part of Grester Syria, the most important was SaadAllah Howeyek, a brother of then Maronite Partriarch Elias Howeyek, the French even exiled SaadAllah and his colleagues,
Which is to say, how can anyone imagine there was any right way to organise the complexity of the whole ME? The Ottomans did it by fiat & force, & that 'worked' for 400 years bc they accepted no fealty other than to their rule. The Imperial model of governance was replaced by a balance of powers approach, which suffers from the picking of favorites, & too many competitors to possibly manage. Nation states have been less violent & vastly more productive than the prior models, so local preferences must be subsumed to a higher power; democracy offers that potential, & it works, if it is properly implemented. That if is the challenge, same challenge as always .. territorial, violent, deceitful .. humans.
'the M.E would still have the same problems without an 'agreement'. The path to violence/hate/religious fanatics would have taken a different route -- but the destination the same
They still would’ve had problems, but without foreign meddling, those problems would be a lot easier to solve. Western meddling made all the problems orders of magnitude worse.
@@davidhoran7116 That is very questionable to say the least. A giant united "Arab state" of which we had no idea how many people actually wanted to just suddenly exist under a single entity after it had all been a part of numerous states and empires does not spell "future stability" to me. Frankly, imho, the ME was doomed to constant conflict and future feuding.
Excellent documentary for the French view of the story. I am (not) surprised to see no sources from the region (Arab, Turkish) historians used in making of this documentary.
Your am amazing historian teacher am leaning some much ...I sincerely appreciate your hard work in bring this unbiased truth...thank you...from Jamaica
Lebanon is the oldest country name it was named by the phonecians which meant white that represents the Lebanese mountains, Lebanon and Syria were created way before the ottoman empire, France is born yesterday compared to them.
The history is made up of so many different perspectives. It depends whose version you read and watch becomes the history you know! General information might be correct but analysis may not be!
Yes, that is why people need to seek out different sources and perspectives. Just so they can see the issue from different mindsets. Unfortunately you have to do that with almost everything you are researching and learning about. Most historians have a bias or worse, an agenda.
The Allies (British and French) were holding onto the Middle East because of the resources and from their past history between them. Example of this was the War of the Roses.
No,They were protectorates, from internattional law.They were The 2 manage the fallout, from the fall of tThe Ottoman Empire. of coBecausee they had interests, everyone does,But There would have been a much bigger Bloodbath and far greater chaos, if the Brits and the French troops had not been there to prevent conflict and act as a deterrent, to what would have been mass conflict, between multiple different ethnic groups, vying for perceived hegemony and because those groups all had relatively similar resources and levels of weaponry technology, Civil War would have raged back-and-forth, for an indefinite period (probably years).It's the same situation now with USA having nuclear weapons. After World War II, which essentially caused 70 years of relative peace, so far.of course, there is still conflict, but it is minuscule compared to the conflict in the 19th century, when there was no "deterrent"
Since the beginning of history, all near and far great powers ans civilizations wanted this piece of heaven to be their own. Even all persecuted and oppressed people of the area took Lebanon as a refuge. The only real help and progress came from the french and this is why we love France
I fully endorsed everything Jesse says abt CuriousityStream and Nebula. Abt 13 euros for two channels with tens of hours of interesting content. 16 days in Berlin is indeed an excellent series and other subjects like WWI (colorised) are really a must watch. The only negative aspect is that a day has only 24 hours and considering work, rest and family obligations no more than three full hours are left for watching educational staff on the web.
@@aag3752 before the establishment of the current Lebanese state, only Mount Lebanon wanted to be either and independent state or be a protectorate of France.
@@AJ--JA I'll repeat. "We hate the idea of pan-Arabism. Majority of us Lebanese. We're not Arabs." Nobody in Lebanon thought that they were Arabs. They were DUPED into thinking that speaking Arabic makes you the same people. They soon realized this was a fantasy. There's no way the descendants of mummies in Egypt are similar to a Lebanese person. There's no way kabsa-eating, camel-riding, people of Arabia are similar to a white Lebanese person from the Mediterranean. They realized that they were under a delusion. And most of them came out of it. Today, in Lebanon, being an "Arab" just means speaking Arabic. That's it. It's actually a misnomer because there's no way a language can change your identity. Everyone knows it, yet some people want to argue. Making themselves look more foolish than a donkey rider at a car racing event.
Arabs have been in Brazil since colonial times but in small numbers. In the early 20th century there was a huge migration and, strangely, they are still referred to by "Turks" - because they entered Brazil with Ottoman passports. Their contribution to Brazilian culture, industry and sciences is enormous - though, imho, the most important was culinary! What I'm learning just now is why that happened - and I have to thank The Great War for that! You are the best history channel on youtube! It's BBC meets serious scholarship quality!
Do you know my friend "Adam" was a Phoenician/Lebanese. Source: 1- the Scottish theocrat and founder of the Free masonry/Scottish Lodge. 2- The Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos 50 BC. Albert i. Baumgarten 1981 (assessment of the works of Philo of Byblos who claimed having translated Sanchouniathon author of the Phoenician History (not before the Trojan war and not after X century BC) 3-Unlike Egypt, Phoenicia/Lebanon and Hellas/Greece, Syria doesn't exist (no archeological remains). 4-thank you Sykes and Picot for having restored Great Lebanon.
All dose and dees conflicts in this regions were very well planned divided between french and UK. Like today situations in EU and ukrainian and Russian. The idea was and still the same in this century and it will be the same for next countries. This is the idea, dividing the nations and roll them. It will continue true centuries as tension between western , regional and eastern countries.
And with the signing of the agreement, everyone lived happily ever after.
Was just about to say the same thing 🤣
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I think you meant: happily NEVER after...
Or do they?
agreement or not, the M.E. would still be problem
Hahahaha
In early 1919, Italian PM Orlando met with Vittorio Emanuele III before leaving for Versailles. The King asked him if he intended to challenge Sykes-Picot at all. Orlando shook his head and replied, "There's a reason that the Old Romans left, Majesty- too many problems there". How right he was.
Lol like the most crime and mafia infested country on earth were not just born innate criminals, definitely need their opinion lol
It's a fitting comment for what Orlando sees there in 1919. But the actual Romans didn't leave, they were swept out by an Arab conquest in 634. -- Most of the population remained and converted, so presumably a lot of (eastern) Roman ancestry is still there.
Inaccurate video. There's no mention that we Lebanese are completely different from the so-called Arab world. Political correctness I suppose. There's a reason Pan Arabism didn't happen, and that reason was us. We aren't Arabs. This video is incredibly poor quality as it doesn't highlight these central facts.
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@@nicholasevangelos5443arab not romain People the semitic DNA indegenous People the meeddlle east
Britain and france: we're sure that all this will not result in an entire century of political instability
Don't worry we USA will be your enforcer so they will hate us instead of you.
@martin corderoy it not leaving but staying after
@martin corderoy the French and British troops left Lebanon in 1946.
@martin corderoy there was an Arab national movement to unite all the arabs lands but that was against the colonial forces wish.
Much of the middle east and the world was better under European imperial rule. Islam and communism is 40% of humanity. Also slavery is back.
UK and France: Don't worry. Our division of former Ottoman lands definitely won't result in instability that will last for more than 100 years.
U.K. and France had territory in the African and Pacific theaters at the time. It even existed during the crusades during 1000 years due to religious wars. This is what I gathered from the text books and video games.
Yeah because the creation of Israel didn't also help contribute to that.
Colonial powers be like "oops here I go destabilizing regions again 🤷🏼♂️"
It’s ironic since Jordan was not governed at the time and was in a state of anarchy. The British didn’t feel like going out there nor did the Hashemites.
@@mangonel It is only a matter of time before Jordan becomes like Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya
I can’t see how this could go wrong
"The Allies' Plans For The Middle East Go Wrong"
An interesting but rather ambiguous name, there have been so many civil wars: Russian, Lebanese, Spanish, English (both of them), Chinese, American, the current Syrian Civil War and the Romans and Byzantines had dozens more.
@@ForelliBoy que always sunny theme
@@Dave_Sissondid you see his channel and choose to smugly comment about a fact that isn’t lost on anyone?
@@SecNotSureSir No I haven't seen his channel, thus my question about the rather ambiguous name.
Last time I was this early, the Ottomans were pushing for Vienna.
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED!
That was the 18th century because of expansions of territories and wealth. Ottomans were building an empire and Austria just broke from the Holy Roman Empire and was building as well.
@@michaelaburns734 that was the point of my joke. :)
@@da_gonozal6754 I think he was replying to me; although I am well aware of the history.
@Snoopdog Ummm.....
Great history lesson. Not a single word about this i school. Yet, this had such huge impact in the region (and later, western europe).
Indeed, I regularly listen to Middle East podcasts and I had no idea how these divisions began...
We go trough this in swedish school the partition of the middle east during this time, had huge impact on conflicts later on, many of the powers drew borders specifically so to cause internal yension to prevent them from unifying against the colonial powers.
I have no idea what they teaching in public school history today but I learned about Sykes-Picot in 11th grade world history. School curriculum has seen an on-going dumbing down for at least 35 years.
Exactly
@@yrobtsvt bcoz WAHABBISM will never talk about their history today. They have to glorify Saudi family and defame turkey
It's so cool how you make half an hour long videos that are actually interesting
I had always wondered what had happened to the forests of Lebanon, now I know, they were all cut down a hundred years ago :(
Some of them were cut by the ottomans so they can use this wood for cold winter
(Still Lebanon is forest everywhere very greeny compared to it's neighborhoods
@@elaceaceak2357 who are ottomans?
@@JohnWick-vb9pc google it
@@JohnWick-vb9pc The stool that you can rest your feet when you are tired... LOL
Ottomans were the muslim empire from 1299 to 1922, a multiethnic empire with the Osman Turk Sultan in the center of the empire.
Turks
people keep saying the middle east (or the balkans) is always a mess while it is just an area that had a power vacuum due to the collapse of a former empire like anytime in history, the only difference is that instead of one conflict solving the issue and giving birth to a new dominating power in the region the new "global system" ushered by the victorious powers of the great war did not allow the creation of such a force, and thus kept the region divided and always on the verge of collapse.
Are you really that desperate to be conquered by Israel?
Lol, I did not really state my own position from that global system (just pointing out that people shouldn't be surprised of its outcomes and blame it on the region's people themselves),
If I would criticize such a system I might do it on the basis that I don't believe that the great powers who created it have the right to intervene in all these countries (but would need to search on its effect world wide before issuing my final judgement)
your statements could branch to other topics like "is israel the natural force that could unite the region incase the global system did not exist" or "were the moving parts of the system biased to the arabs more than israel"
and I am relatively sure (from your statement) that I wouldn't agree with you anyway at the end.
The middle east is a mess because of islamic fundamentalism/terrorism.
@@rogerjohnson2562
Greetings,
If this was a simple statement then eventhough I would agree it is one of its many problems today, but no it is not "the reason"; we can argue it is more of a product of the pase mess / messes.
Check the 50s for example, most of the promenent political powers in the middle east were either secular nationalists or left leaning parties (or maybe both like Nasir :v), was the middle east less messy at that time? Absolutely no. (Check the first lebanese civil war)
Trying to reduce all the negative aspects of a society into a single cause is under-estimation for the way history progresses
Earlier colonizers lasted long enough such that they have changed local language culture and religion.
I am honored and pleased to work with you TGW crew, especially Flo and Jesse, and I feel grateful because your channel gave me the opportunity to tell the story of my country in front of a world based audience by sharing with you my research and contributing to the writing of the draft of the script. A dream come true! Last, I & all Lebanese fans appreciate your wishes for wellness in the midst of the current political-economical crisis in our country at 28:18. Keep up the great work. Big cheers to you!
Thank you for your commitment, Rabih.
Great work, Rabih! On a separate note, is it true that after the Beirut explosion this year, tens of thousands of Lebanese signed a petition for France to become a protector of Lebanon?
@@Darwinek ? They asked president Macron, yes. I have no knowledge about but I think it might be true, ridiculous but true.
Shukran Rabih!
Merci thank you chukran im lebanese too
My Lebanese supplier once told me a joke. "Did you know that Adam and Eve were Lebanese? They were poor, hungry, didn't have even proper clothes, yet they believed they live in a paradise."
he aint wrong
Bruh that joke is so real that it became truth
Shame
lebanon is a paradise but with a corrupted government
@@migk988 that the people don't do anything about
When youtube is a better history teacher than the US education system..
A chewed piece of gum is better than US education. Its only purpose it to produce a working class.
@@armyofninjas9055 , amen
Even better than lebanese education system 😂
People, the US education on history is to keep supporting its WS agenda.
@@armyofninjas9055 💀💀💀 tru tho 😭😭😭
I just want to thank the great war for all the great content over the years as a maronite catholic myself it was really hard to find out the history of my people it’s nice that you can use this video as a framework
Why don’t Maronites like using names like Charbel, Boutros or even Boulos. Putting aside Arabic ones. Because they want to put aside all there Maronite identity. I’ve got an Arabic name and people like myself have held onto our customs, traditions, culture and language. That is what makes our identity
A lot of blind faith in our community new generation should do more in looking into their history and also learning Arabic so that they will be able to read certain scripture describing or narrating the life and faith of the maronites
Shame on you !
Lebanon was mentioned 71 times in the Bible so no one create it review the history
Yes millions of people died so you can be entertained what a stupid comment
Great Video. My great grandparents immigrated to the U.S from Lebanon in 1913.
@@donnyjoe123there are also Corey’s
Amazing, detailed, and impartial account of events that forged the middle east 100 years ago, and what triggered many of the disasters afflicting the region today. I take my hat off to you.
You mean the region was peaceful before that.
Brother, what a mess! My head's hurting and I'm not quite halfway yet.
If Lebanon was smart they would become friends with Israel!It could save their economy.
It’s not impartial
At 3:01 you had a mistake; the Maronites are roman-catholic adherents. My mother is Maronite.
my great grandparents are from lebanon. and i’m curious about their history. what is now my history! this was wonderful !
no offense but in this video genocides was mentioned, famines that killed 1/3 of the entire population what makes it wonderful? its pretty sad lebanon is a beautiful country but they had it pretty rough the last century
@@homersimpson6585 are you a princess
Same as me my great grandfather was born there in 1890
I'm 100% lebanese baby! check out the stache
You want to know your history, you have to look at unbiased work, not this garbage. Lebanon starts at the time of the Phoenicians. And continues to this day, with its inhabitants being NOT Arabs, but simply Lebanese. Anyone who doesn't understand this will never understand Lebanese people.
And that is why all our modern problems are caused by the French and the Brits.
And somehow we get all the credit and blame. The most recent example to come to mind was the intervention in Libya first civil war back in 2011. All the US did was act as a glorified fedex/mobile gas station for France, the UK and coalition of Europeans and gulf countries while they blew the country up. We get the blame abroad, and domestically it went from you’re not doing enough by leading from behind Obama to blaming him for the whole affair even though British and French jets launched the opening salvos.
@@Bonanzaking 😑 France and Britain stopped being that influencial since the 1950s. Modern issues, allow me it's USA, Russia and China. All three.
Ah. Y. Not entirely. Globally yes. They kinda got relegated to regional powers. You can look at France now and the pull they still have over certain west and Central African countries through the monetary system, most of these countries are obligated to hold most of their foreign currency reserves in French accounts. France has been rather active if not more so in Africa than the US. It’s just not as publicized in America. They’ve done several interventions in varying scale. They have their own war on terror in the Sahel since they launched an intervention in Mali in late 2012 against Tuareg tribes fresh with weapons from serving as mercenaries in Libya for Qaddafi that had aligned with some offshoot of al queda at the time. The French are still there. Don’t underestimate what the French are able to do. It helps that they have an expendable foreign legion when it comes to body bags returning.
The brits have definitely had their influence fade compared to France. But it doesn’t change the fact they’ve gotten involved in interventions that serve their interests.
Would you have preferred Adolf Hitler?
@@jaysalisbury193 yes!.
Silk was not introduced to Mount Lebanon by the French, rather it was introduced during the reign of Fakreddin Ma'an in the 17th century.
Way before then buddy. Go search the silk road
@@alexhage8092 of course silk was present in Lebanon way before, but in 17th century with Fakhreddin came large scale production. So than for the advise.
The video says the French introduced silk worm farming NOT they introduced silk
@@mrobserver474 OK
Silk was originally made in China and in India. Indian silk was special and of superior quality.
Interesting. My best friends are Lebanese, at least that's how they would describe themselves. Their grandparents, who emigrated to the U.S. during the troubled times spelled out here never saw themselves as Lebanese. If anything, when asked, they would say they were Assyrian's. In reality, they were Chaldean's, a Christian sect who were being squeezed by all sides at that time. My friends were raised in the Roman Catholic tradition, same as me, but their grandparents saw themselves as aligned with, but not part of, the Vatican Papacy. And that was their real allegiance,. They saw themselves in cultural, not nationalistic terms and never felt a close bond to Lebanon as a nation-state. They would always simply refer to it as the old country and they said it with a tinge of sadness because none of the family ever returned.
The story of Lebanon is tragic. It's creation was not thought out properly and the idea that France would protect Christian minorities fell flat. One of the tragedies of drawing arbitrary lines based on old maps is that it has put Lebanon smack dab in the middle of hostile powers and as they go to war to with each other they tend to use the place as a highway. It suffers the same type of problems based on geography that Poland has traditionally endured. I think I would have like to have seen it as it was before WWI. From the stories I heard as a child it was a beautiful region with lots of tress and while there was tension, people mostly got along.
Sykes-Picot strikes again. A curse on that fowl agreement between gentlemen.
I never thought of comparing Lebanon to Poland, but I definitely see it. I am Lebanese, my family is, and has been. It hurts me what our country has been through, and continues to go through. So much of the conflict is based on religion, it is ironic that religious protection was the original goal. Sigh...
no dont mistake it, i am a lebanese assyrian, we have a lebanese nationality, well a small part of us do, is because we the massacre of 1933 in simele in assyria which led to the loss of our land to the kurds. the other lebanese including christians are arabs.
Did the Kurds massacre you assyrians? I don't know enough about this history and this is the first of Lebanon I've explored. It always struck me as odd that the Kurds weren't given a state especially after the overthrow of Saddam. I'm inferring the Kurdish were a warring Force against the Assyrians at that time?
my friend, the kurds deserve a land and have a homeland, its in iran but they cannot topple the iranian goverment, anyways, in 1915 1 million assyrians died on the hands of the ottomans, after that the massacre of simele happened 1933 and thats where we lost our lands to the kurds, the kurds pushed by the ottomans and the iraqi kingdom at the time to commit a genocide of the assryians of all faiths,some children were able to escape to syria and lebanon and thats why we are more than 8mil across the globe, after sadam left we were treated worse, isis commited a massacre in 2014 and now the kurds are using force to steal lands, what left that is@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape
so the kurds do have a homeland but it aint the kurdistan of today@@GreenCanvasInteriorscape
As a Norwegian, I think we tend to be very sensitive toward other people and cultures and for that reason, I’d would start by seeing that your title is misleading: it should be : the creation of Greater Lebanon, for that Lebanon is one of the most ancient nations in humanity, known as ancient Phoenicia, the land that gave us the Alphabet and it’s the birthplace of Europe, after all Europe or’ Erp’ in Aramaic ( the language spoken by the Phoenicians was Aramaic) was a Phoenician princess. They founded Carthage and the people of Tyre founded half of the Mediterranean cities in Cypress, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Malta up to Antibes ( a Phoenician name and Marseille... they weren’t only limited to the Eastern Mediterranean.. so Lebanon’s history, just with the ancient city of Byblos, it spans a history of more than ten thousand years.. it’s considered as the cradle of civilization along with ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Assyria..
As a Norwegian, you have a lot to say 3000 miles away from Middle East.Certainly you diluted history in a very generalized way, The modern historians also put their prejudicial punctuations. All humanity contribute more or less into our modern world.And if you ask Americans they will tell you that just in 250 years invented Democracy and civilization.
@@antoniosdimoulas3566 spot on. The original commentator is a moron that just spewed some garbage. Trying to detach Lebanon from the rest of the Middle East, just like how the colonists were doing a 100 years ago
Well said Sir, hugely impressed with your knowledge of true Lebanese history and geography 🙏🏻
@@ahmadz81 Go back to school and learn real history, or as I Muslim yourself,you believe in the Holy Bible, read it and soon you will find out where Phoenicians come from
@@ahmadz81 not much is know about the Phonecians but genetic studies were done and there is a distinct genetic marker for those people in Lebanon which represents roughly 30% of the population and largely coastal. The genetics uncovered bring those Phonecian people in close relation to the people of Mesopotamia… also that genetic marker is found very highly in the Caucuses mountains today (Georgia, Armenia and Chechnya). So one would infer from those data that the Phoenicians are a population that is related to the Caucuses mountains populations of today. In fact, the Arabs of the Arabian peninsula also have roots in the Caucuses mountains with migrations from that region 7,000 years ago. There’s no need to ascribe a fake gaslight narrative around the Phonecians. There is ample evidence for their origin. At the same time, Phonecians weren’t exactly a people with a singular origin. In fact they were a nation that probably had a diverse population made up of people with different ethnic backgrounds that were United by culture and commerce moreso than genetic lineage.
I am currently researching the whole Israel palistine thing, when I came across your video, I always knew that Lebanon was a part of this but I never knew why, now I do. Middle East history is vary complex from what I'm learning, I just wish some people on this would would seek out objective facts instead of half truths and propaganda as history. Thank you for your efforst and I definitely will be checking out your other site.
i agree
Please please fact check every RUclipsr
The video is misleading. Not all what is said is true. First, we don’t have any desert in Lebanon meaning we are not bedouins. Second, We were farmers in history. Third, We have Arabic language but we are not Arabs. Fourth, We are semetic so dont be antisemetic
Infact your statements are misleading, half of the area of Lebanon, the eastern hills and valleys except AL-Bika 'a is a semi-desert area! The Bedouins are living there, and they are basic component of Lebanese society, and Arabs like you and semitic like you as you said. You are NOT Arabs??!! What is a puzzle is that? @@ronaldoazzam
@@adnanbaker4663 give me a reference for what you are saying. Anyway when you say semi means it is not a desert. When a piece of land which is semi desert as u are saying have snows falling on it, then it is not a desert. Deserts have camels. Lebanon never had Lebanese bedouins. They were farmers. If you want to say we have syrian bedouins then those are the ones fleeing the syrian war. Thousands are coming to lebanon as refugees and no one can stop them. This is a conspiracy. Anyway this is not a debate. The video is misleading.
As a child my father used tell these stories but as a five years old innocent child I believed that these were scary fantastic tales that excited my imagination.
2:40 the maronites spoke Syriac for a long time until they had to learn Arabic to speak with the other communities
Be sure we are praying forLebanon and the entire MiddleEast. Peace in the Middle East will surely impact the world positively. Love from Nigeria❤❤
Ohhh prey away. Archaic, irrelevant religion is the great problem Grow up
Faisal's pet leopard looks like it knows this is going to end badly.
Fahad means Leopard
Nice vid my great gran father was born in 1890 wedi chahrour Lebanon 🇱🇧
Cool.I am from there 😊
Interestingly, RUclips had to cut the money given to creators from ads tehn they increased the number of ads per video.
Besides the begining and ending ads, it was also interrupted twice for ads. Before the adpocalypse, you only had begining ads.
Ads are paying less per ad after the adpocalypse. Then enters covid which has further reduced what they pay with many businesses cutting back on ads.
I specifically boycott any advertiser that interrupts a video I'm watching. They can pay to lose money.
Well America runs RUclips and they're obsessed with money and shoving as many ads in our faces they can possibly get away with . The only problem is none of these ads are getting any products sold because they're so annoying
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A lot of the old videos are of Damascus rather than Lebanon. Most are visibly and clearly the Umayyad Mosque and the old Eastern Gate of Damascus.
Thank you for this great video about my country, its sooo much more interesting than what I had learnt in school 💯
Amazing video as always! Thank you for shedding light in great details on this part of my country's history.
I am Turkish. In 1900, my grandfather served in the military in Yemen for 5 years. We Turks have fought from front to front for the Ummah for 1000 years. But now the situation has changed. We don't have a drop of blood to shed for traitors. They have lawrence
Vital background information. I shall be rewatching this from time to time.
Thank you for the dedication To teaching history. Appreciated!
Hi guys. I got hooked with the deforestation stuff in Lebanon. Wpuld you mind to tell me which was your reference there? Thanks a lot!!
Hi José. Thank you for your interest. I will give you the references from which I took this piece of info
Any update yet? Also, thanks for creating such a well detailed video. I just subscribed.
Great episode as always!
The picture at 19:35 is from Pera street, Istanbul and not Lebanon, though.
Was about to comment on this as well, nice catch
Very clear and well paced narration made this easy to digest whilst listening and the frequency and choice of maps, photos and images was perfect. Thank you. I learnt a lot.
14:38 : May 1920 the Christian village of Ain Ebel ( District of Bent Jbeil) were attacked and put under siege; after a brutal and tense fight the village defences crumbled and out numbered by the attackers the village fell and many people died subsequently the majority of its populations fled to the south into Palestine till the French troops arrived and order re-stablished.
A monument exists today honouring the martyrs of May 1920 near the village's church, names of the martyrs is carved on the monument.
Hi are you from Ain Ebel? Interesting information
Amazing video content on the history of Lebanon. You highlighted The Competition and influence of France, and Great Britain in the Middle East. Greetings from Europe.
Lebanon - I'm sure nothing bad will ever happen there.
Very informative. Thanks for teaching us the past history of Lebanon
Very important French sent troups ( but not french ) They sent Algerians ( Spahis ) Moroccans , senegalese .... from their colonies . I know because my great grandfather a Spahi Algerian - was a Captain in the french army and he died in the mountain in 1922 .
THey fought for the French, because they consider themselves Arabs and hated the Turks? 1922 sounds more like fighting against the Arabs, and I would think that was risky.
@@slewone4905 No they fought for the French because Algeria was a french colony , as well as Senegal , Morocco was a protectorate .... so one of the only way to get a status I guess as an ' indiginous 'was to enroll in the french army .... and the french preferred to send non french to get killed in their wars .... my great grandpa died at âge 38 ...
@@lous.1548 Allah y rahmou. .mourrir à 38 ans pour la guerre d'autre pays...très triste, maudite colonisation ...
Imagine the huge improvement in the STANDARD OF LIVING in the Middle East if there was NO more fighting and chaos.
You’d have to get rid of Islam
They can’t do it. They hate anyone who is not like them. It has been taught to every generation from the time they can understand. They also have generations who have known nothing else but war. It is the same in Afghanistan and Iraq. They have grown up knowing nothing but war.
@@BIGGOODBOY Islam is not at fault but person like you are.
Lebanon would be at least an emerging economy
No more religion you mean
Wow! The comments regarding this video are as wide, varied, and devisive as the video on the history of Lebanon itself, which only proves that there is a lot more to this story than is being told.
Regardless, the contributions of the Lebanese people to the advance of modern civilization is impressive, but so is the destruction they have endured throughout all of history.
Last time I was this early, the Arabs still believed in getting their independence after the war.
Not happening anytime soon. 😁😇
So sad for what happened to Lebanon 🇱🇧🇱🇧 as until today majority are suffering I really hope they can become a better country someday. 😢😢
Thank you for what you do, we need more like you! Much Love!
Mount Lebanon did not come into being in 1861, it's only the new system of Mutasarrifiya. It was already semi autonomous before that.
There are many inaccuracies in the video..its amazing how ppl think its an excellent video
Thank you so much for this video. My grandparents, who were Maronite Catholics, came from “Lebanon” around the turn of the century. Since Lebanon did not exist yet, I have always wondered why they left.
I am so thrilled that I have found this channel! So much unbiased detailed information about the origins of the modern world! ❤
how did you come to such conclusion ?? is it because it satisfies your ego ??? nothing in what was mentioned in this documentary is true ??? the writer unfortunately Lebanese as many lebanese who always dreamt to link Lebanon to syria is just faking ?? Lebanon is much older than syria . and whoever considers Lebanon as a fake state that has been splitted from syria , has to tell when did it happen in all of lebanon's history that lebanese were known as syrians ?? it never happened ..
Sikes Picot , returned to Lebanon the 4 cazas that thr ottomans have splitted and annexed them to damascus in order to weaken lebanese resistance ... unbelievable how bad the world is and how fast lies run
the years after World War I were just complete chaos
My great grand father was forced into the Ottoman Army (safarbarlik)... He survived tho. 😌
@Lone Wolf ik but the turks were cruel with non-turks. Besides, jokes on them Arabs deserted and joined the revolution with their arms 😂
Same for my great grandfather... unfortunately for him, he didn't survive but died in Jerusalem against the Anzac forces, possibly in 1917
@@rabihrac oof rip sorry for that the Ottoman were really cruel... Mine was then forced into the French Mandate forces... Survived again... Died 1993 knowing 3 different rulers for the country. Mr Worldwide.
@@justanotherfrenchie This is so unfair! So he didn't enjoy the freedom from the Ottomans then the French took him back to enroll in their army?!
@@icemanire5467 I am ready to reply to anybody provided the opinion or question is expressed with politeness and respect; and by the way, History is a scientific field that provides adequate answers to all truth seekers.
Beautiful photography with great narrative delivered by a real human being (who pronounces words correctly!). Thank you so much!
This is the time when many Lebanese and Syrians immigrated to north and South America
why?
Starting at 1850.
Yet there are Americans think Middle Eastern communities are recent, versus them being here for centuries.
Correction: Who think.
British colonies in the ME (and the world, especially) are now better-off or more prosperous than the french's. Even the present United States was a British colony at first. I wonder why? Hmm..
Lebanese Maronite here: to add to the famine caused by the Ottomans, we had terraced fields in my village for agriculture, the Ottomans forced us to abandon agriculture and made us plant pine trees instead for train tracks for the war. To this day there is no agriculture in my village and it’s all just forest.
It's not like the Maronites were angels either. Maronite elitism was one of the main contributors to the build up of sectarian and religious tension that triggered the civil war.
@@najabs123 for sure! But this video isn’t about that.
@@najabs123Palestinian terrorists were the group that enabled Muslims to massacre Christians.
This is my second viewing of this video. I still see that there were many points missing that were important and deserved a pause to explain, rather than mentioning them so casually.
Thank you 🙏 for your excellent succinct informative and flawless video 👍❤️💪..it should replace boring soulless history classes everywhere.
Thank you!
7:50 "decimated" seems to be an understatement!!
Thanks for covering this underrated part of history
Im so grateful my friend todl me about your channel
Those scenes around 21:00 and later around 24:00 are from 1920 and if yes how come that they are in such a quality and coloured? Was the original material cleaned up and coloured at some point?
we used an algorithm to colourise them. the high quality was a result of very well done digizalisation of the original reel.
I live in a small town in rural South Georgia. After WW1 two Lebanese brothers and their wives came here and started a general store. 100 years later their descendants have several successful businesses and prominent positions in our city.
Great historic detail. Thank you.
Superb research and presentation as usual thanks for the hard work and dedication
Too bad Lebanese history is so underrated
@Christina exactly
@Christina yeah I learned by asking my dad about the Lebanese civil war, he fought with the Lebanese forces when he was 17
Christian Khoury my dad fought with the LF as well. Really a crazy time for everyone involved in the civil war. I’m very lucky that my family came out alive. Btw, it’s always nice to see another Khoury family member!
@@jkhoury327 haha from where are you from? Lebanon or outside of Lebanon? What town?
Christian Khoury my family is from Tripoli but I live in the US. What about yourself?
There is a saying "If you see two fish fighting in the river, a European must have passed by"
Thanks!
Great video and quality content.
Simply the best channel
While I appreciate the effort.. I have to complain a bit.. the colored footages shown were mainly of Damascus and not from Lebanon ( it was a bit confusing). The opposition to the state of Greater Lebanon was not only led by Faisal and his government, the Muslims of Lebanon but also the Greek Orthodox Christians and a diverse spectrum of secular locals in many cities that saw the division as unnatural. Rida al-Rikabi
the first prime minister in the new, British supported, government in Damascus was the one who appointed Alayubi to govern Beirut not Faisal (they were in correspondenceو but Faisal had not been declared as king yet ), which was not a rebellious decision to angry the French , but as one of the many he had to make to establish order in the new state.
The Bedouin tribes were raiding all the cities of the Levant ( not just in Lebanese parts) after the Ottomans were defeated, and later on, many of theses tribes were supported by the French to control and subdue the cities opposing the French ( they helped the French take over Damascus and Aleppo after betraying the Syrian army in Maysaloun). The French division of Syria was motivated by an agenda to weaken and isolate some local governments and strengthen others in the hope that the latter would abandon and claim preputial independence from the former.
There were some other minor errors that I will leave a lone.
Basically the socalled " Greater Lebanon" was forced on the local population by the French with the support of 2 groups: The Maronite Church and the feudal families, Druze and Maronite especially, there was a sizeable number of Maronites who wanted to be part of Grester Syria, the most important was SaadAllah Howeyek, a brother of then Maronite Partriarch Elias Howeyek, the French even exiled SaadAllah and his colleagues,
Which is to say, how can anyone imagine there was any right way to organise the complexity of the whole ME?
The Ottomans did it by fiat & force, & that 'worked' for 400 years bc they accepted no fealty other than to their rule.
The Imperial model of governance was replaced by a balance of powers approach, which suffers from the picking of favorites, & too many competitors to possibly manage.
Nation states have been less violent & vastly more productive than the prior models, so local preferences must be subsumed to a higher power; democracy offers that potential, & it works, if it is properly implemented.
That if is the challenge, same challenge as always .. territorial, violent, deceitful .. humans.
Bravo, and thank you for this excellent documentary.
Beg to differ...its an inaccurate doc
That's the best ever documentary about Lebanon I've ever heard, very impressing
True.
'the M.E would still have the same problems without an 'agreement'. The path to violence/hate/religious fanatics would have taken a different route -- but the destination the same
Those Middle Easterners are just like those Europeans, centuries after centuries of hate, wars, religious fanatics.
They still would’ve had problems, but without foreign meddling, those problems would be a lot easier to solve. Western meddling made all the problems orders of magnitude worse.
@@davidhoran7116 That is very questionable to say the least. A giant united "Arab state" of which we had no idea how many people actually wanted to just suddenly exist under a single entity after it had all been a part of numerous states and empires does not spell "future stability" to me. Frankly, imho, the ME was doomed to constant conflict and future feuding.
Excellent documentary for the French view of the story. I am (not) surprised to see no sources from the region (Arab, Turkish) historians used in making of this documentary.
I love this channel. I am addicted to history.
Look for a more accurate channel
..this is truly a misleading video..its not accurate in any way
Thanks alot it is really wonderful explanation
wish to get more
The aim of colonization is to enrich the colonizer which always results in the impoverishment of the colony.
Your am amazing historian teacher am leaning some much ...I sincerely appreciate your hard work in bring this unbiased truth...thank you...from Jamaica
Lebanon is the oldest country name it was named by the phonecians which meant white that represents the Lebanese mountains, Lebanon and Syria were created way before the ottoman empire, France is born yesterday compared to them.
Exactly Bro Syria first civilization Lebanon first name of country etc...
@@suleyman8696 👍
Yes Syria was originally created as a Roman province.
Thanks for providing sources.
The history is made up of so many different perspectives. It depends whose version you read and watch becomes the history you know! General information might be correct but analysis may not be!
Yes, that is why people need to seek out different sources and perspectives. Just so they can see the issue from different mindsets. Unfortunately you have to do that with almost everything you are researching and learning about. Most historians have a bias or worse, an agenda.
An informative and spellbinding lecture. Thank you.
Fast forward to the 1960’s Lebanon was a peaceful nation Beirut was the Las Vegas of the Middle East
Biggest Casino show in the world
Superb history lesson!
Subscribed and thanks!
Lack of basic acknowledgement of history
The Allies (British and French) were holding onto the Middle East because of the resources and from their past history between them. Example of this was the War of the Roses.
No,They were protectorates, from internattional law.They were The 2 manage the fallout, from the fall of tThe Ottoman Empire. of coBecausee they had interests, everyone does,But There would have been a much bigger Bloodbath and far greater chaos, if the Brits and the French troops had not been there to prevent conflict and act as a deterrent, to what would have been mass conflict, between multiple different ethnic groups, vying for perceived hegemony and because those groups all had relatively similar resources and levels of weaponry technology, Civil War would have raged back-and-forth, for an indefinite period (probably years).It's the same situation now with USA having nuclear weapons. After World War II, which essentially caused 70 years of relative peace, so far.of course, there is still conflict, but it is minuscule compared to the conflict in the 19th century, when there was no "deterrent"
Great video and great channel!
Since the beginning of history, all near and far great powers ans civilizations wanted this piece of heaven to be their own.
Even all persecuted and oppressed people of the area took Lebanon as a refuge.
The only real help and progress came from the french and this is why we love France
Since the beginning of history this are was the great power. The rest were still in their caves
Fantastic video Jesse. The details of the horse trading are amazing.
Thanks!
People who point to this period as the beginning of the Middle East's problems have very little concept of history.
One of many grievances in the history of the Levant
This is still a big one thou. its just more clear. i think
How so?
Well, I mean, Sykes-Picot certainly didn't help...
This channel just gets better and better!
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Amazing documentary and love the old movies and pictures. From NZ
A great video, but you forgot to mention that a part of lebanese people wanted to be a part of a United Arab kingdom, mostly supported by Muslims.
Yup Pan Arabism, are you part of the Jaafar clan?
@@donnyjoe123 no I'm actually from the South
@@AJ--JA We hate the idea of pan-Arabism. Majority of us Lebanese. We're not Arabs. Get it through your head.
@@aag3752 before the establishment of the current Lebanese state, only Mount Lebanon wanted to be either and independent state or be a protectorate of France.
@@AJ--JA I'll repeat. "We hate the idea of pan-Arabism. Majority of us Lebanese. We're not Arabs." Nobody in Lebanon thought that they were Arabs. They were DUPED into thinking that speaking Arabic makes you the same people. They soon realized this was a fantasy. There's no way the descendants of mummies in Egypt are similar to a Lebanese person. There's no way kabsa-eating, camel-riding, people of Arabia are similar to a white Lebanese person from the Mediterranean. They realized that they were under a delusion. And most of them came out of it. Today, in Lebanon, being an "Arab" just means speaking Arabic. That's it. It's actually a misnomer because there's no way a language can change your identity. Everyone knows it, yet some people want to argue. Making themselves look more foolish than a donkey rider at a car racing event.
Best history class to watch on video.
we are united ever than before🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧
Lol
yaret ya khaye
@@kevinhasbanyhasbany1487 Lebanon will never be united, we never were, that's just how it is
Lol
The united lebanese that you're talking about are now a new division and even these can be divided.
Arabs have been in Brazil since colonial times but in small numbers. In the early 20th century there was a huge migration and, strangely, they are still referred to by "Turks" - because they entered Brazil with Ottoman passports. Their contribution to Brazilian culture, industry and sciences is enormous - though, imho, the most important was culinary! What I'm learning just now is why that happened - and I have to thank The Great War for that! You are the best history channel on youtube! It's BBC meets serious scholarship quality!
Do you know my friend "Adam" was a Phoenician/Lebanese. Source: 1- the Scottish theocrat and founder of the Free masonry/Scottish Lodge.
2- The Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos 50 BC. Albert i. Baumgarten 1981 (assessment of the works of Philo of Byblos who claimed having translated Sanchouniathon author of the Phoenician History (not before the Trojan war and not after X century BC)
3-Unlike Egypt, Phoenicia/Lebanon and Hellas/Greece, Syria doesn't exist (no archeological remains).
4-thank you Sykes and Picot for having restored Great Lebanon.
All dose and dees conflicts in this regions were very well planned divided between french and UK. Like today situations in EU and ukrainian and Russian. The idea was and still the same in this century and it will be the same for next countries. This is the idea, dividing the nations and roll them. It will continue true centuries as tension between western , regional and eastern countries.
i can listen to him for hours and not feel sleepy, as i usually did in history class.