As per usual you don't understand the circumstances under which we were dragged into this nonsense. None of the Brits wanted to be there as the "Arab" problem has been raging for millennia and there will NEVER be an answer. If you think you could do better negotiating boarders, have at it! If they were so upset they can cut religion out of the equation and throw dice. Funny how they have yet again turned to us for help - why do you think that is? It won't be happening but still...
Then don’t ‘let’ them. Where was the leadership in this strategically important part of the world ? If you don’t take care of business, some one will do it for you. Lesson learned ? I doubt it
I must say that this is the only account I have seen on the Internet that is a fair, balanced and completely factual and unbiased exposition of the mess created in Palestine by the British, the League of Nations, the United Nations and the United States. It is a relief to see the truth now and then.
No mention of the tranfer agreement between the Nazi's and Zionists? Why not? It all counts and it all matters. For the most part it's a good vid but still lots left out.
@@madhaze0126The agreement between the Nazis and the Zionists doesn't establish any claim to the land, which is what this video is about. The video also leaves out what kind of shoe polish the Zionists used.
@@madhaze0126 So? There were also other reasons why Jews moved to Palestine before and after the Nazi Zionist agreement: Herzl's Zionist movement in the 19th century; Rothschild's and Balfour's operations after WWI; the massive immigration of Jews to Palestine after WWII. None of which has anything to do with this video's subject of the rival claims to the land.
The British promised the people a Palestinian state. And in fact they were offered a Palestinian state. Did the British literally tell them they could have every square inch of land? If so, cite the source. The British also offered a smaller state to the Jewish who were there as well. Which honestly, is pretty fair IMO. The idea it is was a gigantic conspiracy from the start is playing up the "oppressed" card.
I am an Arab who stands with Palestine, and now it becomes clear why the Arabs always stand with Palestine. Now the issue is clear to you for those who do not know who is right and who is wrong. The issue is not complicated as everyone who does not want to interfere in the heart of the issue says. The truth is clear and falsehood is clear.
Palestinian Arabs are ethnically Arabs. They are descendants of Arabic settlers. Judea and Samaria were Jewish for thousands of years Some Jews never left. There was a continuous Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria for 3500 years. Sadly this documentary doesn't show earlier history before the Arab conquest.
I wish there was a black and white solution to the Israel / Palestinian mess. We Jews are a racially mixed people just as many Palestinians are. I believe the problem is religious. There will never be peace in this part of the world.
@@zeljkodebeljko8767 Genetical researches already proved that Palestinan 81 - 87 % DNA was derived from 4500 year old Bronze age Cananite . Not all Arabic speaking people are Arabs. Yemenite Jews have 80 + modern day Arabic DNA & they have only 15 % Isralite DNA . While Palestininans have less than 5- 10 % Arabic DNA . White Ashkenazi Jews don't have Cananite DNA connection . White Jews have less than 35 % Isralite DNA . White Saphardic Jews have less than 40% Israelite DNA. Even Mirahi Jews have maximum 60 % Israelite DNA . Palestine Christians have 80 % Israelite DNA . Palestine Muslims have 82 % Israelite DNA. Samaritans have 94 % non Juda , Israelite DNA. Palestininans are Indiginous people . More over, Arabs are 100 % Semitic people and are cousins to Israelites. But Palestinans DNA showed their history connected with Cananites. You think white Slavic Mleikowski and German Weiss have 3500 years Middle East connection than Palestinans only because their ancesters converted Judaism. You will claim also Chinese Jews as Israrlites? You dont know different from Levents and Arabs . Sudanians , Somalians and Mauritanians black people too speak Arabic , while Egyptians, Lebanese , Iraqi , Algerians, Tuniseans, Morrocans , Libyans too speak Arabic . According to you all Arabic speaking Arabized nations came from Arabia ? You dont know even that Palestinans Arabic dialect is different from Saudi Arabians dielects and Palestinans life style is different from Gulf Arabs .. Scientists didnt find any historical neither archiological Exhodus evidence in Egypt & in Palestine. Chosen nation bullshit is a supremacist propaganda . Your so call 3500 years bullshit is not a history but an unproven mythical story . Any way Palestinanians have more percentage of Israelite DNA than White Jews . Most white Jews have zero Israelite DNA . That is why Israel banned to do DNA test . And keep Quite . You think You are the owner of Palestinans land ? Palestine Muslims have been living there 1400 years . That is much longer that white European Christians live in America , South Africa and Australia . You Shut up 🤡
@@zeljkodebeljko8767 omg this game talks about people who lives 4000 years ago who no longer live nor their DNA. Your not connceted to them nor your blood. It's like saying egyptians still exist. Israel will Pay the price remember that.
Sobering. A brief explanation of the Israeli/Arab conflict. When we say "British", we mean the government of the time, not the people. The government at the time was made up of the remnants of the aristocracy whose time and influence should have been past. Ordinary people everywhere do not wish for war, it is only the greed of those who stand to gain.
the greed of those who stand to gain unfortunately includes the present day British Government. People talk about lessons learned, but it's just a hoodwink. Britain made a mess and now continues to mess it up. Peace is the only way forward, but not if you're the British government. Sadly, I am a British citizen and as they say - not in my name.
@@gigglygiggly309 Even though Ishamel will be the first son born to Abram, he is not the promised child which God has guaranteed. This was not the way God intended to fulfill His vows to Abram. And so, this firstborn boy of Abram will become a wild donkey of a man.
Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary /QUCeQt8zg5o Al Jazeera English “A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes. But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century. The evidence suggests that its cities had a developing trade and commercial sector, growing infrastructure, and embryonic culture that would enable it to meet the challenges of the decades ahead. However, the political ramifications of the Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference and British Mandate set in motion a series of events that profoundly affected this vibrant, fledgeling society and led to the events of 1948 and beyond.
He trying to change the story by not saying over 3000 years autumn Empire only 400 years and conquer Palestine for 20 years only after they defeated in the first war England took over Palestine.
So, in the post ottoman world initially, the Arabs were the ones against partition. Then the Israelis dominated militarily, and many years later Yasir Arafat finally agreed. However, by that time, the Israelis no longer wanted partition. Until there is partition, I don’t see this situation calming down
@@danhardwick5462seems like a fair assessment..I don’t see Israel making any concessions in that regard any time soon as long as they have the monopoly on violence tipped in their favor. The unconditional support thru money, weapons etc from the US would have to cease for starters to even begin to have them start thinking that way..and even then all the capabilities they’ve developed over years of support will allow them to sustain the status quo against a comparatively unarmed/helpless people for quite some time I’d imagine…the 2 sides would have to be on somewhat equal footing in terms of strength and outside support and we all know how highly unlikely that is..I’d say if at least international support gained traction for the Palestinians to a point (to at least balance the other narrative) it may move things along even without the military aspect but thats a long shot..on a positive note though I have witnessed an immense groundswell of pro Palestinian social media activity I have never seen before and main stream media has been forced to pay the tiniest sliver of lip service here n there ..practically useless at this point but it’s a start q
In her book ‘Legacy of Violence - A History of the British Empire’, Professor Caroline Elkins devotes a couple of chapters to Britain’s role in Palestine.
This documentary makes the conflict much clearer and understandable. One can see both sides of the conflict. One thing is clear, we should never have interfered with other peoples destinies back then.
Notice how religion enters into it. And mucks everything up. We're still meddling to this day world-wide - religion or not, The colonial empire building continues. It's sickening really. Old men craving ever more power and wealth.
After watching a few great documentaries on this since October 7th I can understand why the Arabs hate them. Their land was basically stolen from them and how would you feel living your life growing up in an open air concentration camp. You have generations growing up in that shithole a 5 mile wide by 25 mile long concentration camp. This was inevitable, Makes me look at Jews in a different light.
@@minicat6217while not a full outline of Isreal / Palestine, this video focuses on the history of Jerusalem. ruclips.net/video/7GCXhKpoml0/видео.htmlsi=1IiEfefqwqs6wGeF
How do we know that the above investigation hasn't taken sides? In my opinion, it's a bit lacking but my memory can't regurgitate enough to point out omissions right now. I'll have to do some re-reading!!
Clear-yes, factual -yes, to the point -yes, not taking sides-no. Clearly you cannot cover everything, and here the information presented is selective to portray the two sides in a specific way.
15000 ottoman empire soldiers were blinded in Egypt by being put in the “krizol” pool by British army. Palestinians were promised by Britain to have their own country if they fight against Turks. They did and the promise has not been kept. This is not mentioned, maybe forgotten.
That geopolitical positioning, the Suez canal and oil resources were the factors of being there, two of the three parts are still relevant in most post colonial thinkers minds.
Drawing lines on maps without talking to the people on the ground is always going to cause violence. What it’s saying is ‘let’s ignore future conflict’.
And when they realized they'd created a huge horrific mess, they ran away in 1947 and abandoned everything. Sickening. It's too bad they ever meddled at all.
It begs the question did the nations (and their leaders) deliberately plan these borders in a style that would ferment timeless squabbles among the locals in order to maintain control over these lands and the mineral wealth that they then bled out of them?
I suspect they weren't looking that far ahead. The reports I've looked at agree that in about 1919 some religious-minded Brits thought it'd be a neat idea to put zionist jews in the "holy" land. This was worked out between 1919 and 1947 with minor fights. The brits promised the zionists land that they had no business promising and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly removed from their lands. In 1948, when all hell broke loose the brits left and told the league of nations to sort it out. And here we are in 2024 with NOTHING sorted. This, in a nutshell, is what my studies have revealed.@@peterfreeman1585
They did not run away they were encouraged to get out by UN after being shot at by both sides.By the way The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had a hobby attacking Jews. He was also a pal of Adolf Hitlers who formed a Moslem SS Regiment (Hahnschar) for security work.@@donnavorce8856
The photos you used were so high quality! Thank you for this documentary!🙏 What happened to the local Palestinian people during the 20th century is really sad and heart-breaking💔 The British did them so dirty, jeez! I really pray for them to find peace and healing within themselves after so many years of injustice, oppression and suffering🙏
The history is far more complicated. One might assume the Arabs (as they were termed as Palestine was not a nation nor a people, but an area) occupied less than 5% of the land and the Jews occupied a similar area. The land was largely unoccupied, as they are no natural resources there. Hamas would have people believe "Palestinians" occupied the entire area and Jews displaced them. In fact, Jews raised money and bought many Palestinian plots, though the price paid is indeed good for debate.
@@A190xx I just checked the statistics; You can google it too: Based on a '1922 census of Palestine' conducted by the British, the total population of Palestine was 78% Muslims, 11% Jews, 9% Christians and 9,474 others. Since1920, British forces actively started to help the Zionist movement for mass immigration of jewish people to the region (along with lots of other immoral unfair ugly things and oppressions they did against the native Palestinian people) till we reach the even uglier year of 1948. It's actually not that complicated (despite Zionists trying to tell you so), not for people who do their research to know the truth and has a moral compass. It seems it has been a strategic plan by Zionists to take the whole region eventually and expel native people. And they killed lots of people and manipulated and corrupted many things since then in my view. It was very immoral and is still very immoral.
@@neilritson7445 No you went to help yourself to the oil and resources and installed puppets who did your bidding instead of any functioning democracy. There is one thing about you Brits you cannot bring yourselves to admit to your mistakes or apologize for the crimes against humanity you have committed. Just because you are delusional doesn't mean anyone else is buying your nonsense.
Let s embrace the enlightenment we've collectively achieved. There are way to many rulers still sticking to the empire building models ... we weren't nice a century ago ... but we've come a long way ....
It was one of the most injustice in the history of the world and a nation country of the world Palestine was uprooted from the map of the world under western dominance.
Hey over it. It’s a valuable resource and the guy and country with the biggest gun gets to write history. There is no country in the history of ever that’s been started by any other means. Moving on
well, now everyone knows that gaza has gas sooo... also palestine's location is strategic, not to mention Jerusalem. and gaza is a city of palestine so check your facts. @@jantt2193
Marvelous documentary. My family lived in Jerusalem from the end of the 17th century to 1905. I hadn't heard any of this beyond just the sketchiest. Thank you. Oakland CA
My great Uncle, George, trooper of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, was shot and died in Palestine on 28th November 1917, aged just 21. May he rest in peace.
Hey do you know if his grave is in haifa? We got christian cemetry/graveyard for fallen troops in ww1 most of them are australians tho if its in haifa i would love to visit him for u and take a picture
The pull out of Great Britain from Palestine and the subsequent creation of Israel, was due in no small part, to pressure exerted by US president Harry S. Truman. Britain was at that time entirely dependent on US finance to rebuild its economy and it didn't take much to persuade the country to relinquish responsibility in what had become a bloody conflict abroad. The US President was the first world leader to officially recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish state on May 14, 1948, only eleven minutes after its creation.
Significant factoid: (Truman) did not attend a conventional school until he was eight years old. While living in Independence, he served as a Shabbos goy for Jewish neighbors, doing tasks for them on Shabbat that their religion prevented them from doing on that day.
When watching videos of this nature, it's easy to believe that the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are still a result of the actions of the United Kingdom in the past🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
What a BLISS to hear a professional Voice-over artist. Wow... what a difference. If you watch videos, reports, documentaries from just a decade ago, people communicating/debating, you realize clearly that Human Intelligence is decreasing quickly. Thank you so much for the upload, ♡♡♡ xx
I've been a supporter of the Palestinian struggle since the early 1970's. Why? Because the struggle is fundamentally an anti imperialist and anti colonialist one.
And that is why Britain is still protecting Israel with arms and in the UN, simultaneously calling on the Israelis to protect the lives of Palestinians!
@@l23918 What? You came to know this just now, through my comments and yet saying lot of.... Which historian, journalists (historians to you) or real historians like A J.Toynbee, Will Durant, et al?
One problem you run into with this film is the constant description of "Arabs" in opposition to Jewish settlements and states. "Arabs" is really vague description of a lot of indigenous groups There were various groups with differing goals, and many hated each other. Jordan. Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, and the Saudis were not all in agreement as each had their own interests.
Not a "problem" - the film tells it as it was. There was no Jordan (created 1946, a large chunk of Palestine), or Syria (created 1945). Iraq and Saudi Arabia were created in 1932. And as far as the subject of this film goes, all the above were united as Arabs in their opposition to any partition proposal allowing Israel to exist even as a tiny sliver of land where the most of the Jewish population was (and had been for millenia).
09:20: Jordan was initially part of the mandate of Palestine which is not mentioned here. As a matter of fact 90% of its population is Palestinian, so Britain did not consult the local population there either.
A huge piece of land was stolen by Hussein, but that never gets a mention, nor does the PLO trying to start a civil war in Jordan that led to black September, in fact a lot of negative acts done by Muslims are not publicised!
My Dad was there in the RAF. He “Flew Through Sand”. Camped in tents. Makeshift runways. Loved the Palestinian people. I have a great photographic record..
What did he do in Israel? Was it his homeland? Or he was just an Imperialist exploiting other nations everywhere? We Israelis kicked him out together with all the other British soldiers. 😅😅😅😂
“What can we say against their terrible hatred of us? For eight years now, they have sat in the refugee camps of Gaza and have watched how, before their very eyes, we have turned their land and villages, where they and their forefathers previously dwelled, into our home.” Moshe Dayan 1956
What would he say after 76 years in refugee Camps? What did the Arabs in order to take them out of there and resettle them elsewhere as Israel did? For your poor knowledge. In 1948 the Arabs countries started riots against their Jews. 900,000 Jewish refugees were expelled and arrived in Israel. They were also put into Camps but after a short while they were given jobs and housings and they were integrted.
@@simko8665 bahahahahaha 😂 😂 😂you clearly don't understand the quote, nor do you know Moshe Dayan 😂 😂. You are just looking for a place to peddle one of the false narratives that was fabricated by the descendants of the zìonists european jëwish tërrorists and invaders of Palëstine.
Excellent history nicely presented in a way to be easily understood. A part of the world and from a time so few understand, yet we must know it to put the current day in proper context. It will take leadership and wisdom to get us through today's nightmare.
After seeing this, is it any wonder that the Arabs think that Israel belongs to them? I knew about Great Britain's participation and the Balfor document but the history of the land must go back to the beginning of time when Abraham received possession of the land from God.
@randidean7424 And how pray tell can ANYONE prove that God ( seriously …..here is the problem to start with ) gave possession of the land to Abraham. So do we know for a fact that there were no people living before God “gave possession “ And then you have to forget everything that has happened in between and somehow believe that this land belongs to the Kingdom of Isreal . It’s a lot of mental gymnastics required to accept that . So what it boils down to at the end of the day is ideology …. And who currently has the greatest means to protect the narrative.
@@randidean7424 There was a large majority of 90% Arab population and the Jews 10% who lived for centuries in Palestine then why would Arabs think invading, immigrent Jews from Eastern Europe (fleeing persecution in Europe) would be entitled to their homes and land. It's theft, pure and simple. Theft that included demolition of Palestinian homes and murder. The Zionists didn't even stop at killing the British.
Unfortunate that the film glosses over the UN participation plan of 1947and states incorrectly that "the plan was abandoned". According to Wikipedia, "The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181 (II). The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States linked economically and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Additionally, the film neglects to mention that the Israelis accepted the partition plan and that the Arabs did not. Furthermore, the film overlooks the fact that when the British Mandate for Palestine expired on May 14, 1948, and the Jewish residents of Palestine declared a state in their portion, allocated in the UN Resolution, 5 Arab states, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq attacked the nascent state of Israel, leading to creation of Arab refugees. Had the 5 Arab states not attacked Israel, those Arabs who fled could have remained in their homes and like the more than 2 million Israeli Arabs today, be living in peace with their Jewish neighbors.
In diesem Film wird aber auch erklärt, wie die Araber verarscht wurden. Siehe die Aufteilung zuvor ohne IS RA EL. Siehe die Zeit vor 1939 die verarsche mit Polen und das Aufwiegeln zur Konflikt Schaffung. " Erschaffe eine Krise, und liefere die Lösung!" Britishe Weltherrschaftsmanier. Konflikte sind die Motoren für die Kriege von Morgen. Die Menschen sollen nicht in Frieden leben. Damit läßt sich die Welt nicht dauerhaft knechten!
Not taught in 1960s Catholic school and also not in the 1970s public high school curriculum. I just heard the word OIL!!! After that comes MONEY,greed and corruption! We are not taught to look for things like this in school.
Thank you so much for this. It brought me so much clarity on the current issue, one significantly muddied by information warfare and historical bias. What a time to be alive.
Unfortunate that the film glosses over the UN participation plan of 1947and states incorrectly that "the plan was abandoned". According to Wikipedia, "The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181 (II). The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States linked economically and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Additionally, the film neglects to mention that the Israelis accepted the partition plan and that the Arabs did not. Furthermore, the film overlooks the fact that when the British Mandate for Palestine expired on May 14, 1948, and the Jewish residents of Palestine declared a state in their portion, allocated in the UN Resolution, 5 Arab states, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq attacked the nascent state of Israel, leading to creation of Arab refugees. Had the 5 Arab states not attacked Israel, those Arabs who fled could have remained in their homes and like the more than 2 million Israeli Arabs today, be living in peace with their Jewish neighbors.
Thank you for this piece of history, my father was in Palestine just before WWII started, he told me a bit out the history, so thank you, you have filled the gap… btw my father was in the tank regiment, served in Middle East, Egypt, north India and Burma…
My father was Scottish and served in Burma. History is one of my strong subjects, part from the Roman Empire , and The Invasion of the Vikings to Scotland and England. Nearly every Country has had its history changed, in Europe and the Middle East.
Some things you forgot to say too : The name Palestine was given to this area by the Romans in 135 in order to uproot the jews and there was never a Palestine state or Palestine coins on the contrary of jewish Kingdoms and shekel money. The British mandate invested on big works such as buildings, roads, railroads... and many of the arabs living there in 1948 had come from close countries (Egypt, Syria...) in the 20-30's searching for work. They didn't live there before. Look at their names (Al Masri= Egypt...)
Left out the creation of the Arab Kingdom of Syria, established in 1918, and existing until attacked by French troops and forced to surrender in July, 1920.
Accurate? The a@hole erased whole nation in very first sentence. Palestine was land of Palestinians. Jew is one of the Palestin's religions. The rest become muslims in later stages. Arabs came later and mixed with muslim Palestinians. I don't want to continue watching this British propaganda. You guys make me sick!
There were no Palestinians in Israel 200 years ago; Arabs began to appear in Israel after Zionist Jews began to settle there. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - 1848. From a letter to Zhukovsky (02/28/1850), in which Gogol describes his impressions of his pilgrimage to Palestine: Noting that in ancient times it was “possibly” a flourishing country, Gogol writes: “but now, when it is rare, rare to see five or six olive trees along the entire slope of the mountain, the color of their land is as grayish and dusty as the most the rocks of the mountains, when only a thin layer of moss and patchy patches of grass turn green in the middle of this naked, uneven field of stones, and after some five or six hours of travel you come across an Arab’s hut somewhere stuck to the mountain, more like a clay pot, a stove , an animal burrow than a human dwelling - how can you recognize the land of milk and honey in such a place? Imagine, in the midst of such desolation, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and all the eastern cities, looking like randomly stacked piles of stones and bricks; imagine the Jordan, skinny in the middle of the naked mountainous surroundings, here and there overshadowed by small willow bushes; imagine in the midst of such desolation at the feet of Jerusalem the valley of Jehoshaphat with several stones and grottoes, as if the tombs of the kings of Judah.” “Really, I don’t know what I can tell you about Palestine that would lead you to beneficial thoughts and encourage you to take up your pen and your poem with inspiration.” Mark Twain - 1867. "Simps Abroad" Palestine can rightfully be considered a queen among lands whose very appearance causes despondency. Its mountains are barren and ugly, their colors are dull. The valleys are unsightly deserts with stunted vegetation, which emanates melancholy and squalor. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleepily numb among the deserted mountains and plains, where there is nothing to rest the eye on - there is nothing bright or striking here, there are no gentle landscapes dormant in a purple haze or dotted with the shadows of clouds floating in the sky. All cutting outlines, all lines are clear; there is no perspective here - in the distance everything is just as devoid of charm as up close. A joyless, gloomy and mournful land. However, some of its shreds and shreds must be beautiful in the bloom of spring - all the more beautiful since they are surrounded on all sides by a bare desert, which has no end or edge. I would very much like to see the banks of the Jordan in the spring, and Shechem too, and Ezdrilon, and Aijalon, and the shores of the Sea of Galilee - but even in the spring they would all seem like just toy gardens, planted far from each other in the endless desert. Palestine is a deserted and unsightly land... Palestine no longer belongs to our everyday life; prosaic world. It is given over to poetry and legends - it is a land of dreams
Jews were coming BACK to Israel in the 19th C long before the British had control; some Jew communities have been in Israel without a break since AD 77 - Roman settlement - and before. Jews would have returned to Israel no matter if the British had control or not - the Holocaust was the final straw of 2000 yrs of persecution, particularly in Europe
My late father was serving in the British army in Palestine in 1946. As an 18 year old he had to line up along with other conscripts and fire warning shots above the heads of Arab rioters. He witnessed the aftermath of the bombing of the King David Hotel - he said it was terrible. I have a photo album documenting his time there amongst which is the meeting of all the key people, Arab and British.
Our respective fathers were in the same place at the same time it appears. My late father was 21 when he was injured in the bombing of the hotel David, the event had a lasting impact on the rest of his life. He never spoke much of his time in Palestine other than to say that he owed his safety to his orderly who knew the danger spots to avoid.
Yes - my father said he lost good friends in that bombing. It was terrible and such a shock to the British forces. We have photos of the arabic staff in the album as well as someone who looks like Monty was he there.@@pablomitch5288
I enjoy the many varied comments from my fellow viewers. Their opinions are equally valid and complement this disturbing yet intriguing documentary. The additional discussion enhances the overall experience.
Good Documentary of a a very complicated historical period. I visited Israel in April 2023 (I was in Tel Aviv as a tourist when some of rockets hit nearby). I went to some of the museums when their and they discussed basically everything you just mentioned. I spoke to a Christian Palestinian who worked in Israel but live in Bethlehem. Who had a very pragmatic view of the circumstances. She mentioned that all Palestinians had the same label on them (as in all are terrorists) and that life was very difficult for them and her family had lived in Bethlehem (west bank) for many generations and lived in peace with there Muslims cousins. There is unfortunately a lot of BIAS in the news about the conflict, either focused on the Jewish or the Palestinian point of view. One thing I learned is I am not in a position to make an opinion about this! Its a mess lets be honest and It upsets me when people die because of ideologies. I do wish a peaceful settlement would occur, but don't know how. But killing innocents isn't right.
the big issue here is that the palestinians seem very insistant to elect and let them be represented by groups who want nothing else than the complete destruction of israel
The US n UK deliberately n unlawfully installed their proxy Israel in Palestine in order to expand their dominance over the entire resource rich n strategically important middle east region
@@Pushing_Pixels The 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) specifically the Grand Mufti, whilst residing in Berlin, recruited for the Hanjar (Saber) Division. They were the first non-Germanic unit.
Privatization is at the core of fascism. Transnational corporations and even US media were supportive of Hitler in that regard. Read article: Economy of Evil
My Father was part of the Long Range Desert Patrol in the RAF. He was on leave when he got caught up in the Bombing. He had serious injury's to his gut and his face by the shrapnel. He was a Regular and aged 40. After his return to the UK, and hospilisation etc. he was discharged on medical grounds. He had survived several air crash incidents and had to then get posted to Palestine and ended up a complete mess! It wasn't fair on our family.
Allah has said in the Qur'an: Verily, We created man from a drop of mingled sperm so that We may test him; and therefore We made him hearing and seeing. We have indeed showed him the way, now he be grateful or ungrateful. (76:3)
Verily, We shall put you to test with some fear, and hunger, and with some loss of wealth, lives, and offspring. And (O Muhammad) convey good tidings to those who are patient, who say, when inflicted by hardship, "Verily we are of God and verily to Him shall we return;" upon them is the blessings of Allah and His mercy. (2:155)
@elizabethmcpherson-lt9vh Typical self pity from the Brits, at fault for it all. What about the Palestinians whom they betrayed. Made promises and broke them. Attempted the same by promising a united Ireland if Irish men went to fight in WW1 and used Redmond's Irish Parlamentary party as a patsy conduit, mouthpiece with not the slightest hope of delivering what it promised. The Irish party Sinn Fein rejected it and saved hundreds of thousands of lives. It is time Britain was called out on their hypocrisy.
@guruofgold - Agree! I loved the modulated, non-rushed commentary and attractive voice. Such a voice is a great gift for any listening audience! Imo this was a very classy production throughout.
Why is Britain being blamed here for trying to unravel an impossible situation? The League of Nations which ultimately became the failed and corrupt UN has more responsibility as it represented a cross section of countries.
It was an impossible situation of their own devising. The British government spoke out of both sides of their mouth to the Jews and the Arabs, lied to both sides many times, and finally walked away and dumped the whole mess into the lap of the League of Nations. It is a repeat performance of something the Brits excelled at, namely attempting to colonize people in a country that they had no knowledge of and generally making a huge mess of things before leaving without a care in the world. We had to forcefully kick you out of our country twice before you finally got the hint. Unfortunately, our behavior has not historically been any better and we now have a long list of horrifically failed unilateral interventions in other countries to our credit. Nobody seems able to learn from making the same mistakes over and over again.
Because we used the Arabs for military gain all the while plotting against them; eventually washing our hands of the whole situation by abandoning the massive shithouse we created before abstaining in the final UN vote to recognise the state of Israel. All in the name of Oil.
@sallypatriot9015 How about West Bank were isreal is still taking more land from moderate Palestinian Authority who are willing to have two state solutions and are not using weapons to fight Israel? The problem is both Israel and hamas. Israel right now is run by hardline right wing and they are not ready to make peace with Palestinian Authority in the west Bank.
A really good video. Loved it. I see the media mentions nothing about this in Israel-Palestine war October 2023? 4:57 was that Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild? 5:24, so..no one wanted Jude in Europe or indeed Russia way back then either? interesting. I wonder why??? 5:31 Hertzil formed the the modern conception of Zionism (Austrian Empire [now in Hungary]-died July 3, 1904, Edlach, Austria), founder of the political form of Zionism, a movement to establish a Jewish homeland. His pamphlet The Jewish State (1896) 5:53 Chaim Weizmann. 5:57 see The Brandeis-Weizmann Dispute. 7:15 this included Christians, but everyone forgets. 7:46 A very important point right there.
The League of Nations were around 30 nations after WWII, so only those that felt that they had a say in this. It was a mess since the Brits got in there. It would have been way better had the Turks kept it and they would have been better, maybe. Or would they have done the same as they are doing today with the Kurds? Balfour and Rothschilds, those were the real problem that started this horror we see 76 years later. Hertzel didn't even live by the jewish faith. How dare they did this, holy land bull.
@@Horrifyd Yes, because Britain wasn’t there originally. The French landed in what is modern day Palestine under Napoleon -where they committed a genocides at the siege of Jaffa.
Really interesting background. thanks. Such a shame that all the turmoil and grief in this region of the world stems from competing regions (overlayed with the economic and political self interests of the western countries). It seems like the region could do with a big surge of athesim, less exploitable oil and gas resources.
In this sad days we are living today with an open war between Israel and Hamas, being once more the Palestinian civilians the ones that pay the highest price, trapped between two fires, it's even more necessary and useful than ever to have as much information as possible to understand this apparently endless conflict. My congratulations to The Balfour Project for this contribution to enlarge the knowledge of history. However, being history so important to understand the past every actor must be judged for what they do today, that's why history changes everyday.
'palastinians' didn't take the peaceful route to coexist in Isreal . They could have if you illegal start a war with your own nations leaders.. if you illegally form your own parliament and vote in an Islam extremist group that use all their funds bombing the Jewish irseal areas (isrealis are palastinians by the way, they just renamed their lands they built, as the name was given by Romans to destroy the Hebrew peoples, and digging tnlunnels and buying bombs.. and teaching extremism.. then you are digging your own graves.. not creating peace. The Jews are home. Their are the remaining Canaanites of the area.. 50% DNA that existed in the area 10,000 yrs before. They left eygpt and created the religion as a clear historic record of their lands. They are not interested in war...Jews have never declared war on anyone or invaded lands.. they engaged in a population exchange of 850,000 ancestral Jews in the 'arab lands '.. they were Arab Jews. With 250,000 Arabs in the area.. but the neighbours of isreal' didn't grant citizenship to the refugees.. instead they militarised them into an anti-Semitic army.. for 3 generations. ..while isreal' managed to bring in the local ousted populus. Not all Jews in Israel are from European ww2 survivors.. not all are Zionists that spend 51 yrs buying land and building their plot by plot.. and not all irsealis are Jewish. Let's just put things into perspective.. Does anyone really want to give a raping, torturing, beheading, child abusing, rabid sick phychopath peoples that blow themselves up in order to case mass carnage.. a land that is part of isreal'?? No. These people are Jordanians.. they can go and join their others in their homelands. No one forced them to fight of the wrong side of a world war.. they lost...and as with all loosing lands.. they underwent some foreign rule until the land could be returned without being a continuing threat.. and if the threat comes from (Al Afghani) twisted Afghan ideology.. then all the more reason to not give them more land and power in a shit show of iran-pakistan-afghanistan-qatar 'islam brotherhood'.. they are enslaving women and expected to 'breed as many child as humanly possible from any women.. in order to fill the world with Islam.. it's sick.. they gang rape to death.. they behead.. they kill gays.. they don't allow women even into their church.. it's all just barbaric narcissistic phychopath dredges of human behaviour.. men at their worst! Peace to all Jews...Islam brotherhood should be declared no# 1 enemy by the planet.. all other Islams, atheist.. etc.. I know I will never visit such backwards nations.
I am. I apologise for British arrogance in thinking it had the right to arrange the world. I guess the power from leading the industrial revolution went to our heads. May the future be better.
@@grantbartley483 not to forget to mention that it's the anglophile nations that's stirring the whole world into a right royal turmoil. The us leading the charge with the Brits and the Aussie and the spineless indians at the coat tail .
Can I suggest you also find other additional sources. I find this video lacking. Also, bear in mind that the Brits were not in Palestine as "colonisers". They were given the role of protectorate by the League of Nations at the end of WW1. The aim was to help the now defeated land, once belonging to the Ottoman Empire, to become self governing. The protectorate was meant to be temporary. There's nothing straightforward in the making of Palestine. WW2 followed hot on the heels of WW1. We all know of the diaspora of Jews and anti-Semitism in Russia and Europe. So much was thrown into the mix and the mix was more complicated than the video suggests. Happy history trawling and good luck in trying to get to "the truth".
@@anjiedavie6792 The Jews weren’t there as colonizers either, and would have not fought off Arabs if not first attacked In 1948.. Plus Jews were being encouraged to migrate therewith the promise of a legit homeland. For decades prior to that Arabs sold land to them at high prices, and they worked very hard establishing agriculture and businesses there prior to 1948.
My father was born in Palestine 1930 they were displaced in 1948 lucky to get out with their lives he went to Beirut Lebanon for 2 years then move to Canada in 1950 he met my mother who was 3rd generation Scottish soon afterwards they married and I was born in the mid 50s I remember when I was 14 years old some other man asked my father why did you not stay and defend for your country my father explained we were just too overpowered I'm just lucky to get out with our lives then the nasty man said to my father then you must feel like an effing coward my father charged towards the man thank God there was other men around who broke it up before it became a big fist fight only time I ever saw my father Attack someone but if my father did go back to his former Palestine therefore he will not be a effing coward he would be called a effing terrorist sucks to be a Palestinian losing your land them being called a coward or a terrorist
Being born in Syria and growing up in Lebanon, I do appreciate the presence of British and French influence in improving our lives by opening schools, hospitals and commerce which improved the quality of life. The cheos created in these countries has to do with rise of terrorists and extreme religious fanaticism. The ideology of creating an islamic nation became priority.
@@lizajalalian5665 You don't even know how to spell chaos. Besides colonialism has led to violence everywhere on earth, from South America to Africa to the rest of the middle east. It's a natural consequence and extreme Islamism is just one example of it
@@kevincourtney7312 i frankly do not give a fok about the bible……good gracious me !!!! religion foks up the issue big time. I live in the reality, not in some messianic wet dream
@@Bruno-tm3xo You might just try to examine the text rather than just dismiss it. To deny it without any investigation isn't a very intelligent thing to do.
@@kevincourtney7312 It will end indeed, Russia and China are the ones who will end this. The collective west is finished, and if the US or Israel rises its sword it will die by the sword.
Without regard for feelings and opinion, these are the facts. This led to the creation of the nation of Israel, with the open approval of the U.S. and tacit approval of the other Allied powers and the U.N. This is a story that can be found in all of human history. Following conflict, the victors make the rules.
Very very sad all the way around. Such a very tragic seize of the Holy Land. "Contradictory promises" for sure! Lies and Lives destroyed by those lies.😢
Arabs and Jews not being able to live side by side in Palestine (or anywhere else for that matter) is no real mystery. It's also no real mystery that the influx of Jewish immigrants to Palestine after WW1 and the creation of Israel has caused decades of conflict between Arabs and Jews. The Norman conquest of Britain facilitated several hundred years of intermittent conflict between France and Britain......
400 years of rule under the Ottoman Empire in which there seems to have been a degree of mutual tolerance between the Jewish and Palestinian communities says something. Since then it has been a disaster... don't make promises you can't keep.
Perfect example of colonialists disturbing the natural order of things. Yet these same countries representatives try to enforce their view of democracy onto other nations claiming they are right. China is called a human rights abuser - however they are the ones who bring some degree of order to some African nations rather than colonialising them. What hypocrisy all this politics really is.
Your cheap propaganda won't work. What has Palestine archived for herself or what benefit did Ottoman do to the world? Ottoman was one of the most brutal and wicked empire. They destroyed the ancient lands of the Jews so you don't v to do cry baby tactics. Empires come n go. Now that many things has happened, it's better to accept the two state policy and all Arabs, muslims should neg Egypt n Lebanon to release annexated lands.
The British Mandate for Palestine was not as originally shown in the map at 8:48! In 1918, at the end of WW1 the British Mandate contained all of what is present day Jordan. The Emirate of Transjordan was established on April 11, 1921 as a British protectorate. It was created after the Ottoman defeat in World War I and was administered under the Mandate for Palestine. The region was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty, which also ruled the neighbouring Mandatory Iraq and the Kingdom of Hejaz to the south. The Emirate of Transjordan remained a British protectorate until it achieved formal independence on May 25, 1946 and was renamed the “Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” All Population figures from that time included all the people that were on the East Bank of the Jordan River in the land that would be given to the Hashemite family for the Kingdom of Transjordan. All Jews that lived in that territory were transferred to the other side of the River Jordan, with all land to the East of that river being Jew free. So in comparing population figures of Arabs and Jews from that period have to take that into consideration. Also, 10 years prior in 1910 Pogroms were still being initiated against Jews living in the land by the Ottoman Empire. 6,000 Jews were expelled to Cairo in Egypt in 1910. I found that in 1917, the Ottoman authorities in Palestine ordered the deportation of 8,000 Jewish inhabitants from Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The deportation was carried out on April 6, 1917, and was accompanied by severe violence, starvation, theft, persecution, and abuse. The evicted civilians were not allowed to carry off their belongings, and it is thought that about 1,500 of the evicted people died as a result of the deportation. Since Jews first started returning to the land during what is called the First Aliyah, even greater amounts of Arabs were allowed to settle in the land by firstly the Ottomans and then the British, who actively encouraged the settling of Arabs that came from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and further afield, to make sure that there would not be a Jewish majority. The Palestine White Paper was a policy statement issued by the British government in 1922. It was drafted at the request of Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, partly in response to the 1921 Jaffa Riots. The official name of the document was “Palestine: Correspondence with the Palestine Arab Delegation and the Zionist Organisation” 2. The paper emphasized that the establishment of a national home would not impose a Jewish nationality on the Arab inhabitants of Palestine. It also called for a limitation of Jewish immigration to the economic capacity of the country to absorb new arrivals. The Palestine White Paper was one of several policy statements issued by the British government regarding Mandatory Palestine between 1922 and 1946. were
Actually it goes back to the Crusader Era, when the Viking Norman kiings expelled the Jewish communities of England (first to do so), and exterminated ALL the Muslims and Jews in the "Holy Land". And on and on, sucking & deceiving both peoples for a millenia, with other crafty racists like the U.S. Democratic Party. Their racist policies toward indogenes continued worldwide: confuse, divide, suck dry.
What is your point? There were more than a million Arabs living on whatever you want to call the land when the Zionists crawled out from their caves in Europe.
I didn’t understand the role the British played. Thank you for this. It’s good to have as much information as possible to try and understand what is happening.
A sad fact of the human condition is that if you do not have the means to protect your possessions and land sooner or later someone will come and take them from you. Humans are a lot like our good friend the dog. As individuals most are friendly and harmless, put them in a group and they become wolves.
This is an excellent documentary. For me it confirmed that if you keep looking at the past in these situations, you will almost certainly remain in conflict. It is the future that matters now, not the past. Just look at Northern Ireland to see how bloodshed gave way to peace even if ideologies still exist.
Well narrated, however the crucial link between US intervention in WW1 and Balfour declaration is not explained. For that one has to waddle into Wilson's presidency and make connection on his/ her own.
The Rich Roth Childs got the US enter World War I and World War II. Americans did not want to be in either war. Wilson ran on a platform of “he kept us out of war” and America did not want to join World War II. Money talks
@@rockyk1950 Yes, but the LINK is not clearly explained which gives room to a "conspiracy theory". At the end it was a massive participation of the U.S. military in France which decided the outcome of war. Consequently, Germany was greatly embittered and called fault.
@@marksherman1887 Every war is an effort for seeking more favorable condition for a given state/ nation. It is incorrect to see one as a culprit and the other solely as a victim. They both share the guilt/ blame. To seek a specific answer to your question you have to devote a SUBSTANTIAL time to study of history vis-a-vis current developments. You will discover that there are strong and profoundly evident connections. The way my thinking operates is to compare situation BERORE and AFTER the event. Try to determine ho gained and who lost. You can take an example the notorious event known as 9-11. When it comes to Germany's "guilt" it was an ambition to acquire a bigger share of the world resources in second half of 19th century. This was NOT in accord with what the standing powers such as France and Great Britain has envisioned as goal for themselves. Therefore, the clash as inevitable. The event of such kind as Sarajevo assassination was intended as a impetus sufficient to set forces into motion to achieve a given objective. Those ho came out as victorious give you indication thru their actions if this theory is sound or not. You be the judge. But before, be ready to study a LOT.
My late Father was in Haifa , Palestine with the British Royal Navy , ive pic of him on his ship having Christmas dinner in 1945 as his ship was docked just off main docks in Palestine .. He was also away on the Russian convoys with the British Royal Navy in the worst times they had which was described as hell with the hauling both dead and alive bodies from the sea men full of Oil brought out both dead and alive . And he was also in Alexandria in Egypt as well as in Florence , Venice and Sicily in Italy And scapaflow which was in the middle of no where and not good where had to look out for mines etc Also some other parts inc Gibraltar several times ok and and Malta which were British bases in war times got tattoo on his arm with words Mother when in Malta My Dad was the youngest guy on his ship , he was away for a good number of years in war times .
A great movie to watch that gives one most of this history is Lawrence of Arabia.I believe it won several oscars.I think this should be mandatory to watch.Good job.
My dad dwas there in 1947-1950...as part of a prison sentence...first timers were given the option of service to country, instead of being locked up, and he took it, but he said years after, that he wouldn't visit the places he'd been whilethere, as the people have different standards of what life should be compared to his..and also called it a HOT SPOT, you don't want to be in.
One correction: the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was not merely anti-Zionist but wholly anti-Semitic who sided with Hitlers vision of the total extermination of all Jews. It must also be emphasised that prior to WW1 for hundreds of years Palestine had been a province of the Ottoman Empire ruled by a Ottoman (Turkish) series of governors and in no way was Palestine self governing. However the defining feature of the Ottoman Empire was that it was multi-cultural and while professing Muslims had advantages, other faiths of the book (Christians and Jews) were tolerated. It’s style of Islam was tolerant certainly compared to what arose later (Wahabism ) out of the Holy cities of Saudi Arabia The militant form took root in Egypt and then influenced Palestine as well and so the Jews and Christians in Palestine knew that once real self rule came together an Arab led government in Jerusalem it would be nothing like the past ottoman rule.
@epincion Thank you. It's a great pity that modern day Islam chooses not to follow the generally tolerant model you describe under Ottoman rule. Most non-Muslims in our war-torn world today would probably have little problem with such a mode under the "live and let live" principle. Whereas habitual militancy in a religion creates fear and dampens the joy of life. It's how some factions choose to be. In the end, a choice affecting others.
It is true that the Ottoman Empire ruled almost all regions of the Middle East and North Africa for a limited period, but nevertheless they were countries that had their own people, culture, and history for thousands of years, and Palestine was inhabited by Palestinians. As for the Jews, they immigrated from other countries because Britain promised them a false homeland in Palestine. He does not falsify history.
@@ZooomZooo Flat out wrong. Palestine was populated by a mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. Yes it had a muslim majority but there were always jews living in the area.
@@epincion jews and Christians were few in number and were originally Palestinian and lived peacefully with Muslims. As for the Israelis, they were occupiers who came from other countries and killed Muslims and Christians.
After 1917, nothing in Palestine would bear any resemblance to the previous and for the most part, religiously and ethnically tolerant, Ottoman rule. Once Britain got involved, as always, things went down hill very fast and led to the absolute mess that exists now.
Name one other globally powerful state that tried harder than Britain to govern colonies with fairness and consideration for the locals? Recently I read correspondence between a Persian and an Egyptian Prince in the 1850/60's. They were astonished at the British spending so much trying to enforce anti-slavery policies, often in parts of the world where Britain had little interest - and bear in mind that the slave trade had been globally accepted for as long as human history. Their initial suspicion was gradually replaced by a bemused acceptance that these strange white men were genuine in their declared reasons for fighting slavery - It was wrong.
My grandfather was policeman in Palestine from 1936-1939 and eventually married a Jew but was very critical of Jewish attitudes and behaviour at that time though sympathetic to their plight.
@@knhcteam9266 He was based in Jericho but was also in Jordan and around the Dead Sea area and also involved in the Jaffa riots. His first act as a young corporal was to respond to a slight to his authority by a one eyed Arab spitting on his shadow but he was generally sympathetic to the Arabs and increasingly critical of Jewish settlers despite having an affair with one Jewish woman and later, his return to England, marrying another. He found the Jews to be arrogant and hypocritical but understood their plight. Once he was tasked with escorting a local shield on a train and accepting his parole on word of honour. Later as a soldier in the war he witnessed the liberation of Belson.
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The repeated lesson: never let Britain draw your borders.
As per usual you don't understand the circumstances under which we were dragged into this nonsense. None of the Brits wanted to be there as the "Arab" problem has been raging for millennia and there will NEVER be an answer. If you think you could do better negotiating boarders, have at it! If they were so upset they can cut religion out of the equation and throw dice. Funny how they have yet again turned to us for help - why do you think that is? It won't be happening but still...
Well they didnt.
You should include Europe in this category. The Europeans divided up Africa in the 1880's
Then don’t ‘let’ them. Where was the leadership in this strategically important part of the world ? If you don’t take care of business, some one will do it for you. Lesson learned ? I doubt it
@@MaxB50 Who are you to claim entitlement to other people’s business 🙄.
I must say that this is the only account I have seen on the Internet that is a fair, balanced and completely factual and unbiased exposition of the mess created in Palestine by the British, the League of Nations, the United Nations and the United States. It is a relief to see the truth now and then.
No mention of the tranfer agreement between the Nazi's and Zionists? Why not? It all counts and it all matters. For the most part it's a good vid but still lots left out.
@@madhaze0126The agreement between the Nazis and the Zionists doesn't establish any claim to the land, which is what this video is about. The video also leaves out what kind of shoe polish the Zionists used.
@@JBrandeis1 But it is why many Jews moved into Palestine.
@@madhaze0126 So? There were also other reasons why Jews moved to Palestine before and after the Nazi Zionist agreement: Herzl's Zionist movement in the 19th century; Rothschild's and Balfour's operations after WWI; the massive immigration of Jews to Palestine after WWII. None of which has anything to do with this video's subject of the rival claims to the land.
Exactly@@madhaze0126
Absolutely horrible how one country can mess up so many other countries.
It's absolutely horrible how so many other countries can mess up one country
Aah, the U.S.!!
@@tonyrosales915 I was thinking British government..
@@iaingillespie2821 very sad but true.
Siapa lagi dia inggris , USA dan teman2 nya
Britain F'ed this one up big time
Yes I couldn’t agree more and look at all the innocent lives that have been lost because of it 😢
losing wars has consequences
Israel isn't allowed to win the war 😢 muslims cry " noo my shiladren"
@@websitemartianthey call every war they provoke a genocide. Only Israel is expected to fight a but make sure no one dies in that war 😂
says who ?
It’s nice to see this. I try to explain this to folks and they tell me I’m uneducated and it never happened.
Rothschilds they owned the banks probably paid off the british for a piece of land. what a shame..
They just don't wanna k the truth, and are brainwashed by the Western Propaganda
It’s because they don’t want to recognize it and then are scared to hear the actual history
When you say "it never happened". What is the "it" that people around you claimed didn't happened?
@@marieantoinettev712why would anybody be "scared" to hear the history of the Balfour Declaration
Its always the innocent people who suffer
All that I have learned from this,is not to trust politicians or power.
This is one of the major lessons of history
I can imagine meeting you in the public toilet ))) and you saying - trust me
@@plejadyyou loiter around public toilets ? Is that you Tony Blair ?
The British promised the people a Palestinian state. And in fact they were offered a Palestinian state. Did the British literally tell them they could have every square inch of land? If so, cite the source. The British also offered a smaller state to the Jewish who were there as well. Which honestly, is pretty fair IMO. The idea it is was a gigantic conspiracy from the start is playing up the "oppressed" card.
@@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641 no - it is me haha
I am an Arab who stands with Palestine, and now it becomes clear why the Arabs always stand with Palestine. Now the issue is clear to you for those who do not know who is right and who is wrong. The issue is not complicated as everyone who does not want to interfere in the heart of the issue says. The truth is clear and falsehood is clear.
Palestinian Arabs are ethnically Arabs. They are descendants of Arabic settlers. Judea and Samaria were Jewish for thousands of years Some Jews never left. There was a continuous Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria for 3500 years. Sadly this documentary doesn't show earlier history before the Arab conquest.
I wish there was a black and white solution to the Israel / Palestinian mess. We Jews are a racially mixed people just as many Palestinians are. I believe the problem is religious. There will never be peace in this part of the world.
@@zeljkodebeljko8767
Genetical researches already proved that Palestinan 81 - 87 % DNA was derived from 4500 year old Bronze age Cananite . Not all Arabic speaking people are Arabs. Yemenite Jews have 80 + modern day Arabic DNA & they have only 15 % Isralite DNA . While Palestininans have less than 5- 10 % Arabic DNA . White Ashkenazi Jews don't have Cananite DNA connection . White Jews have less than 35 % Isralite DNA . White Saphardic Jews have less than 40% Israelite DNA. Even Mirahi Jews have maximum 60 % Israelite DNA . Palestine Christians have 80 % Israelite DNA . Palestine Muslims have 82 % Israelite DNA. Samaritans have 94 % non Juda , Israelite DNA. Palestininans are Indiginous people .
More over, Arabs are 100 % Semitic people and are cousins to Israelites.
But Palestinans DNA showed their history connected with Cananites. You think white Slavic Mleikowski and German Weiss have 3500 years Middle East connection than Palestinans only because their ancesters converted Judaism. You will claim also Chinese Jews as Israrlites? You dont know different from Levents and Arabs . Sudanians , Somalians and Mauritanians black people too speak Arabic , while Egyptians, Lebanese , Iraqi , Algerians, Tuniseans, Morrocans , Libyans too speak Arabic . According to you all Arabic speaking Arabized nations came from Arabia ? You dont know even that Palestinans Arabic dialect is different from Saudi Arabians dielects and Palestinans life style is different from Gulf Arabs ..
Scientists didnt find any historical neither archiological Exhodus evidence in Egypt & in Palestine. Chosen nation bullshit is a supremacist propaganda . Your so call 3500 years bullshit is not a history but an unproven mythical story . Any way Palestinanians have more percentage of Israelite DNA than White Jews . Most white Jews have zero Israelite DNA . That is why Israel banned to do DNA test .
And keep Quite . You think You are the owner of Palestinans land ? Palestine Muslims have been living there 1400 years . That is much longer that white European Christians live in America , South Africa and Australia .
You Shut up 🤡
@@zeljkodebeljko8767 omg this game talks about people who lives 4000 years ago who no longer live nor their DNA. Your not connceted to them nor your blood. It's like saying egyptians still exist. Israel will Pay the price remember that.
No they will not. Or at least anytime soon. The land was Jewish land and they came back. Wait a 1,000 years for your turn
Sobering. A brief explanation of the Israeli/Arab conflict. When we say "British", we mean the government of the time, not the people. The government at the time was made up of the remnants of the aristocracy whose time and influence should have been past. Ordinary people everywhere do not wish for war, it is only the greed of those who stand to gain.
the greed of those who stand to gain unfortunately includes the present day British Government. People talk about lessons learned, but it's just a hoodwink. Britain made a mess and now continues to mess it up. Peace is the only way forward, but not if you're the British government. Sadly, I am a British citizen and as they say - not in my name.
A better explanation is Genesis 16:12 whether you want to accept it or not
The family members of those who died at Pearl Harbor wished for war, and with good reason. The slaves in the Southern USA did too.
@@gigglygiggly309 Even though Ishamel will be the first son born to Abram, he is not the promised child which God has guaranteed. This was not the way God intended to fulfill His vows to Abram. And so, this firstborn boy of Abram will become a wild donkey of a man.
loved your answer.
Funny how today, so many think history of this region began last week..
Exact!
Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary /QUCeQt8zg5o Al Jazeera English
“A land without a people, and a people without a land” is how the relationship between Palestine and the Jewish people was described by Christian writers in the 1800s. And the 20th-century history of the Middle East has largely been written through these eyes.
But this film from Al Jazeera Arabic looks at Palestine from a different angle. It hears from historians and witness accounts, and features archive documents that show Palestine as a thriving province of Greater Syria and the Ottoman Empire at the dawn of the 20th century.
The evidence suggests that its cities had a developing trade and commercial sector, growing infrastructure, and embryonic culture that would enable it to meet the challenges of the decades ahead.
However, the political ramifications of the Balfour Declaration, San Remo Conference and British Mandate set in motion a series of events that profoundly affected this vibrant, fledgeling society and led to the events of 1948 and beyond.
He trying to change the story by not saying over 3000 years autumn Empire only 400 years and conquer Palestine for 20 years only after they defeated in the first war England took over Palestine.
That y majority of Palestine supporters were from respectable university like Harvard
The Region has never been exclusively Jewish throughout history too and it doesn't belong to Jew's exclusively
What a brilliant documentary ! Clear, efficient, not one-sided and profundly humble. May God bless you at all levels.
God doesn’t bless people who hate Him, comrade💉✊🏿
So, in the post ottoman world initially, the Arabs were the ones against partition. Then the Israelis dominated militarily, and many years later Yasir Arafat finally agreed. However, by that time, the Israelis no longer wanted partition. Until there is partition, I don’t see this situation calming down
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Mine did exactly that - too
@@danhardwick5462seems like a fair assessment..I don’t see Israel making any concessions in that regard any time soon as long as they have the monopoly on violence tipped in their favor. The unconditional support thru money, weapons etc from the US would have to cease for starters to even begin to have them start thinking that way..and even then all the capabilities they’ve developed over years of support will allow them to sustain the status quo against a comparatively unarmed/helpless people for quite some time I’d imagine…the 2 sides would have to be on somewhat equal footing in terms of strength and outside support and we all know how highly unlikely that is..I’d say if at least international support gained traction for the Palestinians to a point (to at least balance the other narrative) it may move things along even without the military aspect but thats a long shot..on a positive note though I have witnessed an immense groundswell of pro Palestinian social media activity I have never seen before and main stream media has been forced to pay the tiniest sliver of lip service here n there ..practically useless at this point but it’s a start q
In her book ‘Legacy of Violence - A History of the British Empire’, Professor Caroline Elkins devotes a couple of chapters to Britain’s role in Palestine.
This documentary makes the conflict much clearer and understandable. One can see both sides of the conflict. One thing is clear, we should never have interfered with other peoples destinies back then.
“We” hahaha you had nothing to do with nothing.
@@jamesrockin7950 Oh dear, what a dork.
it was war, WW1....you got the answer then???????
Notice how religion enters into it. And mucks everything up. We're still meddling to this day world-wide - religion or not, The colonial empire building continues. It's sickening really. Old men craving ever more power and wealth.
Britian always went in and intafeared in every country and took over than pass to another race. Which wasn't theirs in the first place.
Attempting to understand the events of October 7, 2023 without understanding the things laid out in this excellent work is a hopeless undertaking.
Exremely important post !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bunk. This was way too long ago to excuse terrorism. Any murders the Arabs do today is caused by being raised on hat and recruited by Iran.
After watching a few great documentaries on this since October 7th I can understand why the Arabs hate them. Their land was basically stolen from them and how would you feel living your life growing up in an open air concentration camp. You have generations growing up in that shithole a 5 mile wide by 25 mile long concentration camp. This was inevitable, Makes me look at Jews in a different light.
@@yisroelschachner1482 Can you point us to a balanced outline of all that?
@@minicat6217while not a full outline of Isreal / Palestine, this video focuses on the history of Jerusalem. ruclips.net/video/7GCXhKpoml0/видео.htmlsi=1IiEfefqwqs6wGeF
Clear, factual, to the point, not taking sides, this is a marvel. Many thanks for putting this together.
How do we know that the above investigation hasn't taken sides? In my opinion, it's a bit lacking but my memory can't regurgitate enough to point out omissions right now. I'll have to do some re-reading!!
@beesmonk ,,,,,from Hamas
Clear-yes, factual -yes, to the point -yes, not taking sides-no.
Clearly you cannot cover everything, and here the information presented is selective to portray the two sides in a specific way.
15000 ottoman empire soldiers were blinded in Egypt by being put in the “krizol” pool by British army. Palestinians were promised by Britain to have their own country if they fight against Turks. They did and the promise has not been kept. This is not mentioned, maybe forgotten.
@@gabiguendelwhich way is that?
That geopolitical positioning, the Suez canal and oil resources were the factors of being there, two of the three parts are still relevant in most post colonial thinkers minds.
Drawing lines on maps without talking to the people on the ground is always going to cause violence. What it’s saying is ‘let’s ignore future conflict’.
And when they realized they'd created a huge horrific mess, they ran away in 1947 and abandoned everything. Sickening. It's too bad they ever meddled at all.
It begs the question did the nations (and their leaders) deliberately plan these borders in a style that would ferment timeless squabbles among the locals in order to maintain control over these lands and the mineral wealth that they then bled out of them?
I suspect they weren't looking that far ahead. The reports I've looked at agree that in about 1919 some religious-minded Brits thought it'd be a neat idea to put zionist jews in the "holy" land. This was worked out between 1919 and 1947 with minor fights. The brits promised the zionists land that they had no business promising and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly removed from their lands. In 1948, when all hell broke loose the brits left and told the league of nations to sort it out. And here we are in 2024 with NOTHING sorted. This, in a nutshell, is what my studies have revealed.@@peterfreeman1585
" not talking to people" ???? Oh really. All arabs were encouraged by Uk to install democracy in their countries, and NOT 1 did.
They did not run away they were encouraged to get out by UN after being shot at by both sides.By the way The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had a hobby attacking Jews. He was also a pal of Adolf Hitlers who formed a Moslem SS Regiment (Hahnschar) for security work.@@donnavorce8856
The photos you used were so high quality! Thank you for this documentary!🙏 What happened to the local Palestinian people during the 20th century is really sad and heart-breaking💔 The British did them so dirty, jeez! I really pray for them to find peace and healing within themselves after so many years of injustice, oppression and suffering🙏
Are you sure they want peace? Maybe when they exterminated the Jews. Not before. Yes it is a sad story.
The history is far more complicated. One might assume the Arabs (as they were termed as Palestine was not a nation nor a people, but an area) occupied less than 5% of the land and the Jews occupied a similar area. The land was largely unoccupied, as they are no natural resources there. Hamas would have people believe "Palestinians" occupied the entire area and Jews displaced them. In fact, Jews raised money and bought many Palestinian plots, though the price paid is indeed good for debate.
@@A190xx I just checked the statistics; You can google it too: Based on a '1922 census of Palestine' conducted by the British, the total population of Palestine was 78% Muslims, 11% Jews, 9% Christians and 9,474 others. Since1920, British forces actively started to help the Zionist movement for mass immigration of jewish people to the region (along with lots of other immoral unfair ugly things and oppressions they did against the native Palestinian people) till we reach the even uglier year of 1948.
It's actually not that complicated (despite Zionists trying to tell you so), not for people who do their research to know the truth and has a moral compass. It seems it has been a strategic plan by Zionists to take the whole region eventually and expel native people. And they killed lots of people and manipulated and corrupted many things since then in my view. It was very immoral and is still very immoral.
That's your version 😢
@shooka2048 It IS true all WHAT YOU say 😢💔🙏
I am proud to be a working class Brit
I am disgusted by the idiocy of our ruling classes, though....what a mess!
And ordinary people pay the price.
Balls. We tried to help a load of tribal warlords create a civilised state
@@neilritson7445 No you went to help yourself to the oil and resources and installed puppets who did your bidding instead of any functioning democracy. There is one thing about you Brits you cannot bring yourselves to admit to your mistakes or apologize for the crimes against humanity you have committed. Just because you are delusional doesn't mean anyone else is buying your nonsense.
Always. The wealth and power brokers ensure their supply of both at any cost to anything in the way.
Why do you perpetuate the English class system. No one is better than you unless you choose to kowtow.
Let s embrace the enlightenment we've collectively achieved. There are way to many rulers still sticking to the empire building models ... we weren't nice a century ago ... but we've come a long way ....
It was one of the most injustice in the history of the world and a nation country of the world Palestine was uprooted from the map of the world under western dominance.
This documentary is a cogent overview that many people would benefit from reading it.
" Palestine and the middle east were regarded as highly strategic ...because of oil. "
Hey??? Where is the oil in Palestine or should I say Gaza?
Hey over it. It’s a valuable resource and the guy and country with the biggest gun gets to write history. There is no country in the history of ever that’s been started by any other means. Moving on
There is none, neither is there any in Israel or the WEst Bank/Jordan.@@jantt2193
And the Jews didn't receive any of it!
well, now everyone knows that gaza has gas sooo... also palestine's location is strategic, not to mention Jerusalem. and gaza is a city of palestine so check your facts. @@jantt2193
Marvelous documentary. My family lived in Jerusalem from the end of the 17th century to 1905. I hadn't heard any of this beyond just the sketchiest. Thank you. Oakland CA
Du meinst sicher
Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts......😉
How's Oaktown treating ya? My family left the bay completely as of 2014 and only a few old stalwarts left in CA.
imagine if all of that didn't happen, you would be from Jerusalem instead :)
Wow...great..finally someone did a good effort to reveal truth with ground realities.. wonderful effort
My great Uncle, George, trooper of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry, was shot and died in Palestine on 28th November 1917, aged just 21. May he rest in peace.
I knew your great uncle. Hell of a guy. He was my best man when I got married.
@@KJ-vc3sw in 1917?
Ordinary people die,but rulers enjoy. Their ego causes all the wars. They don't care who dies
Hey do you know if his grave is in haifa? We got christian cemetry/graveyard for fallen troops in ww1 most of them are australians tho if its in haifa i would love to visit him for u and take a picture
My great uncle worked at Nintendo.
Would love to know the back room deals that were done to secure the Balfour Declaration.
Well the Rothschilds are a very wealthy family. I expect Lloyd George and Arthur Balfour were richly rewarded for their atrocious decision
The pull out of Great Britain from Palestine and the subsequent creation of Israel, was due in no small part, to pressure exerted by US president Harry S. Truman. Britain was at that time entirely dependent on US finance to rebuild its economy and it didn't take much to persuade the country to relinquish responsibility in what had become a bloody conflict abroad. The US President was the first world leader to officially recognize Israel as a legitimate Jewish state on May 14, 1948, only eleven minutes after its creation.
Significant factoid:
(Truman) did not attend a conventional school until he was eight years old. While living in Independence, he served as a Shabbos goy for Jewish neighbors, doing tasks for them on Shabbat that their religion prevented them from doing on that day.
J.U.S.J.U.K HAD NO RIGHT TO GIVE PALESTINIAN LAND TO FORM A FAKE STATE.
It's shame!
The British were broke and dumped the Palestine problem on the infant UN. They didn't care what happened after they left, the British wanted out.
Good history lesson, I learned things, filled in many gaps in my knowledge. (Sound effects don't quite work to enhance the content)
When watching videos of this nature, it's easy to believe that the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are still a result of the actions of the United Kingdom in the past🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Who were paid by zionists to do that. Watch occupation of the American mind, and read Micah 3 in bible!
AGAINST MUSLIMS AND MUSLIMS COUNTRIES
نعم صحيح
Love from me to the people who stand against Genocide ,Zionism, Apartheid and Fascism !!
They are the results of the British Empire which existed in both world wars but was dismantled after WWII. It’s not a reflection on modern Britain.
What a BLISS to hear a professional Voice-over artist. Wow... what a difference. If you watch videos, reports, documentaries from just a decade ago, people communicating/debating, you realize clearly that Human Intelligence is decreasing quickly. Thank you so much for the upload, ♡♡♡ xx
Any idea who it is?
Especially distasteful is the computer generated drivel. It is literally disgusting!
Yes, it makes a difference to hear it from “ a professional Voice-over artist.”
Yin yang symbol shows your decling intelligence
Thanks for posting this informative program. Richard in Dallas
I've been a supporter of the Palestinian struggle since the early 1970's.
Why? Because the struggle is fundamentally an anti imperialist and anti colonialist one.
so you support Tibetans against China , and Kurds against many arab countries ?
@Joeyknows924 Bingo!
That was so well done and informative and fair obviously it explains the Arab worlds resentment to the west thank you for informing me
its rubbish.
This mess is even worse than I thought.
Yeah, I feel it too.
Like, Israel should never have happened. It’s a mess created by a failing British empire.
Some Kiddies are learning,Britain is not the worst !
Balfourtreaty boughtand paid for by Rothschild and wisemann
This is a lesson in short term thinking.
And that is why Britain is still protecting Israel with arms and in the UN, simultaneously calling on the Israelis to protect the lives of Palestinians!
Easiest way to protect those lives would be to stop trying to take more land from them.
@@mattroberts86 you must be hamas supporter
Lots of books by historians documented this
@@l23918 What? You came to know this just now, through my comments and yet saying lot of.... Which historian, journalists (historians to you) or real historians like A J.Toynbee, Will Durant, et al?
@@mattroberts86 -take land? the arab islamic colonialization of holy jewish lands lasted 1400 years, israel is now free u jihadi
Pictures tell a thousand words , thank you for this these “stills” have been cleared my mind
One problem you run into with this film is the constant description of "Arabs" in opposition to Jewish settlements and states. "Arabs" is really vague description of a lot of indigenous groups There were various groups with differing goals, and many hated each other. Jordan. Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, and the Saudis were not all in agreement as each had their own interests.
And Arab Jews? Conflating a religion with a widely distributed race of peoples makes it even more confusing
And you add that some are sunni Muslims and some are shiite Muslims .
Yes, but I would bet that, if given the choice, 99% + Arabs would back Palestine.
Good comment.
Not a "problem" - the film tells it as it was. There was no Jordan (created 1946, a large chunk of Palestine), or Syria (created 1945). Iraq and Saudi Arabia were created in 1932. And as far as the subject of this film goes, all the above were united as Arabs in their opposition to any partition proposal allowing Israel to exist even as a tiny sliver of land where the most of the Jewish population was (and had been for millenia).
09:20: Jordan was initially part of the mandate of Palestine which is not mentioned here. As a matter of fact 90% of its population is Palestinian, so Britain did not consult the local population there either.
A huge piece of land was stolen by Hussein, but that never gets a mention, nor does the PLO trying to start a civil war in Jordan that led to black September, in fact a lot of negative acts done by Muslims are not publicised!
Netanyahu revealed a map over a year ago which just had Greater Israel, no Palestine or Jordan.
Nobody seemed bothered about this at all?
@@JulieLevinge Hamas has a map the other way around!
@@Theother1089 Show us this Hamas map, please. The Zionist's map is all over the net
If you dont know god you better dont comment
This explains the current state of affairs in Middle East.
Britain reneged on promises!
My Dad was there in the RAF. He “Flew Through Sand”. Camped in tents. Makeshift runways. Loved the Palestinian people. I have a great photographic record..
Flew through sand ? That’s strange. My grandad lives there and he speaks of climbing olive trees
we wish if ur dad and his fellows stayed home, Palestinians would have continued to live in peace if that happened
@@sarahkh9927 refers to a book written about the time with that title.
What did he do in Israel? Was it his homeland? Or he was just an Imperialist exploiting other nations everywhere? We Israelis kicked him out together with all the other British soldiers. 😅😅😅😂
@@zohar99100 you mean "what was he doing in Palestine ?" It wasn't an israel back then mate.
“What can we say against their terrible hatred of us? For eight years now, they have sat in the refugee camps of Gaza and have watched how, before their very eyes, we have turned their land and villages, where they and their forefathers previously dwelled, into our home.” Moshe Dayan 1956
What would he say after 76 years in refugee Camps? What did the Arabs in order to take them out of there and resettle them elsewhere as Israel did? For your poor knowledge. In 1948 the Arabs countries started riots against their Jews. 900,000 Jewish refugees were expelled and arrived in Israel. They were also put into Camps but after a short while they were given jobs and housings and they were integrted.
In 1948? Few Arab countries were independent.
Are you aware of the lying stupidity you are spreading?
@@simko8665 bahahahahaha 😂 😂 😂you clearly don't understand the quote, nor do you know Moshe Dayan 😂 😂. You are just looking for a place to peddle one of the false narratives that was fabricated by the descendants of the zìonists european jëwish tërrorists and invaders of Palëstine.
Lies@@simko8665
I still don't see hate in the muslims.
Excellent history nicely presented in a way to be easily understood. A part of the world and from a time so few understand, yet we must know it to put the current day in proper context. It will take leadership and wisdom to get us through today's nightmare.
THERE IS NOT ANY LEADERSHIP TODAY! AND MOST OF THOSE IN LEADERSHIP "roles" ARE SIMPLY WEAK AND STUPID!
After seeing this, is it any wonder that the Arabs think that Israel belongs to them? I knew about Great Britain's participation and the Balfor document but the history of the land must go back to the beginning of time when Abraham received possession of the land from God.
@randidean7424 And how pray tell can ANYONE prove that God ( seriously …..here is the problem to start with ) gave possession of the land to Abraham.
So do we know for a fact that there were no people living before God “gave possession “
And then you have to forget everything that has happened in between and somehow believe that this land belongs to the Kingdom of Isreal .
It’s a lot of mental gymnastics required to accept that .
So what it boils down to at the end of the day is ideology ….
And who currently has the greatest means to protect the narrative.
@@randidean7424 There was a large majority of 90% Arab population and the Jews 10% who lived for centuries in Palestine then why would Arabs think invading, immigrent Jews from Eastern Europe (fleeing persecution in Europe) would be entitled to their homes and land. It's theft, pure and simple. Theft that included demolition of Palestinian homes and murder. The Zionists didn't even stop at killing the British.
The land belongs to the palastinan not Arabs, it wasn't an empty land.
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Unfortunate that the film glosses over the UN participation plan of 1947and states incorrectly that "the plan was abandoned". According to Wikipedia, "The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181 (II). The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States linked economically and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Additionally, the film neglects to mention that the Israelis accepted the partition plan and that the Arabs did not. Furthermore, the film overlooks the fact that when the British Mandate for Palestine expired on May 14, 1948, and the Jewish residents of Palestine declared a state in their portion, allocated in the UN Resolution, 5 Arab states, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq attacked the nascent state of Israel, leading to creation of Arab refugees. Had the 5 Arab states not attacked Israel, those Arabs who fled could have remained in their homes and like the more than 2 million Israeli Arabs today, be living in peace with their Jewish neighbors.
In diesem Film wird aber auch erklärt, wie die Araber verarscht wurden. Siehe die Aufteilung zuvor ohne IS RA EL.
Siehe die Zeit vor 1939 die verarsche mit Polen und das Aufwiegeln zur Konflikt Schaffung.
" Erschaffe eine Krise, und liefere die Lösung!" Britishe Weltherrschaftsmanier.
Konflikte sind die Motoren für die Kriege von Morgen.
Die Menschen sollen nicht in Frieden leben.
Damit läßt sich die Welt nicht dauerhaft knechten!
Fascinating and robustly independent documentary. Why isn't this history taught in our schools?
Not taught in 1960s Catholic school and also not in the 1970s public high school curriculum. I just heard the word OIL!!! After that comes MONEY,greed and corruption! We are not taught to look for things like this in school.
Because it’s mostly bullshit
because the truth still has to be hidden!
increasing stupidity is the aim!
and nearly prrfect achieved !!!
Thank you for sharing. Now I know what Palestine's people are seeking for the longest time.
they seek to own jewish lands in history,u home is arabia
Thank you so much for this. It brought me so much clarity on the current issue, one significantly muddied by information warfare and historical bias.
What a time to be alive.
The evil hypocrite British people.
@@Nzbdjcnx i was not celebrating, i meant it in a dystopian sense
Good to have an unbiased factual historical background to the current situation
Unfortunate that the film glosses over the UN participation plan of 1947and states incorrectly that "the plan was abandoned". According to Wikipedia, "The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181 (II). The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States linked economically and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings. Additionally, the film neglects to mention that the Israelis accepted the partition plan and that the Arabs did not. Furthermore, the film overlooks the fact that when the British Mandate for Palestine expired on May 14, 1948, and the Jewish residents of Palestine declared a state in their portion, allocated in the UN Resolution, 5 Arab states, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq attacked the nascent state of Israel, leading to creation of Arab refugees. Had the 5 Arab states not attacked Israel, those Arabs who fled could have remained in their homes and like the more than 2 million Israeli Arabs today, be living in peace with their Jewish neighbors.
Thank you for this piece of history, my father was in Palestine just before WWII started, he told me a bit out the history, so thank you, you have filled the gap… btw my father was in the tank regiment, served in Middle East, Egypt, north India and Burma…
My father was Scottish and served in Burma. History is one of my strong subjects, part from the Roman Empire , and The Invasion of the Vikings to Scotland and England. Nearly every Country has had its history changed, in Europe and the Middle East.
What is happening now in Palestine is the result of being friends with the British, Lawrence of Arabia or Thomas Edward Lawrence or whatever
I like the black-and-white images depicting a modest Holy Land before the great conflict.
This is must viewing for anyone wanting to understand the roots of the Palestine-Israel conflict and the events of Oct. 7th.
Some things you forgot to say too : The name Palestine was given to this area by the Romans in 135 in order to uproot the jews and there was never a Palestine state or Palestine coins on the contrary of jewish Kingdoms and shekel money. The British mandate invested on big works such as buildings, roads, railroads... and many of the arabs living there in 1948 had come from close countries (Egypt, Syria...) in the 20-30's searching for work. They didn't live there before. Look at their names (Al Masri= Egypt...)
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Excellent and accurate presentation of history in a concise narration. Bravo. I loved it.
Left out the creation of the Arab Kingdom of Syria, established in 1918, and existing until attacked by French troops and forced to surrender in July, 1920.
Accurate? The a@hole erased whole nation in very first sentence. Palestine was land of Palestinians. Jew is one of the Palestin's religions. The rest become muslims in later stages. Arabs came later and mixed with muslim Palestinians. I don't want to continue watching this British propaganda. You guys make me sick!
There were no Palestinians in Israel 200 years ago; Arabs began to appear in Israel after Zionist Jews began to settle there. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol - 1848.
From a letter to Zhukovsky (02/28/1850),
in which Gogol describes his impressions of his pilgrimage to Palestine:
Noting that in ancient times it was “possibly” a flourishing country, Gogol writes: “but now, when it is rare, rare to see five or six olive trees along the entire slope of the mountain, the color of their land is as grayish and dusty as the most the rocks of the mountains, when only a thin layer of moss and patchy patches of grass turn green in the middle of this naked, uneven field of stones, and after some five or six hours of travel you come across an Arab’s hut somewhere stuck to the mountain, more like a clay pot, a stove , an animal burrow than a human dwelling - how can you recognize the land of milk and honey in such a place? Imagine, in the midst of such desolation, Jerusalem, Bethlehem and all the eastern cities, looking like randomly stacked piles of stones and bricks; imagine the Jordan, skinny in the middle of the naked mountainous surroundings, here and there overshadowed by small willow bushes; imagine in the midst of such desolation at the feet of Jerusalem the valley of Jehoshaphat with several stones and grottoes, as if the tombs of the kings of Judah.”
“Really, I don’t know what I can tell you about Palestine that would lead you to beneficial thoughts and encourage you to take up your pen and your poem with inspiration.”
Mark Twain - 1867.
"Simps Abroad"
Palestine can rightfully be considered a queen among lands whose very appearance causes despondency. Its mountains are barren and ugly, their colors are dull. The valleys are unsightly deserts with stunted vegetation, which emanates melancholy and squalor. The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sleepily numb among the deserted mountains and plains, where there is nothing to rest the eye on - there is nothing bright or striking here, there are no gentle landscapes dormant in a purple haze or dotted with the shadows of clouds floating in the sky. All cutting outlines, all lines are clear; there is no perspective here - in the distance everything is just as devoid of charm as up close. A joyless, gloomy and mournful land.
However, some of its shreds and shreds must be beautiful in the bloom of spring - all the more beautiful since they are surrounded on all sides by a bare desert, which has no end or edge. I would very much like to see the banks of the Jordan in the spring, and Shechem too, and Ezdrilon, and Aijalon, and the shores of the Sea of Galilee - but even in the spring they would all seem like just toy gardens, planted far from each other in the endless desert.
Palestine is a deserted and unsightly land... Palestine no longer belongs to our everyday life; prosaic world. It is given over to poetry and legends - it is a land of dreams
*Hats down to this Arab who say there is no occupation of Palestine*
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Jews were coming BACK to Israel in the 19th C long before the British had control; some Jew communities have been in Israel without a break since AD 77 - Roman settlement - and before.
Jews would have returned to Israel no matter if the British had control or not - the Holocaust was the final straw of 2000 yrs of persecution, particularly in Europe
My late father was serving in the British army in Palestine in 1946. As an 18 year old he had to line up along with other conscripts and fire warning shots above the heads of Arab rioters. He witnessed the aftermath of the bombing of the King David Hotel - he said it was terrible. I have a photo album documenting his time there amongst which is the meeting of all the key people, Arab and British.
Our respective fathers were in the same place at the same time it appears. My late father was 21 when he was injured in the bombing of the hotel David, the event had a lasting impact on the rest of his life. He never spoke much of his time in Palestine other than to say that he owed his safety to his orderly who knew the danger spots to avoid.
Yes - my father said he lost good friends in that bombing. It was terrible and such a shock to the British forces. We have photos of the arabic staff in the album as well as someone who looks like Monty was he there.@@pablomitch5288
My father was also in Palestine at this time. Served from age 18 - 21 years old. He is 97 now and still with us today
It would be really interesting to see it. Have you posted it anywhere
Yes it would be nice to see it, if you have uploaded it
Thank you for creating and uploading this documentary. Direct. Clear. Honest.
playing sympathetic music every time you see a muslim Palestinian family does not fill me with confidence of the lack of bias in this "documentary"!
If other countries knew how Great Britain treated its own people.
They never would have let them into theirs.
I don’t think anyone let them in😂😂😂
Agree but they didn’t ’let them in ‘ the British had a mandate to overlord.. they weren’t invited there it was a post war sanction
You mean irish
I enjoy the many varied comments from my fellow viewers. Their opinions are equally valid and complement this disturbing yet intriguing documentary. The additional discussion enhances the overall experience.
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sound like an ai bot
Good Documentary of a a very complicated historical period. I visited Israel in April 2023 (I was in Tel Aviv as a tourist when some of rockets hit nearby). I went to some of the museums when their and they discussed basically everything you just mentioned. I spoke to a Christian Palestinian who worked in Israel but live in Bethlehem. Who had a very pragmatic view of the circumstances. She mentioned that all Palestinians had the same label on them (as in all are terrorists) and that life was very difficult for them and her family had lived in Bethlehem (west bank) for many generations and lived in peace with there Muslims cousins. There is unfortunately a lot of BIAS in the news about the conflict, either focused on the Jewish or the Palestinian point of view. One thing I learned is I am not in a position to make an opinion about this! Its a mess lets be honest and It upsets me when people die because of ideologies. I do wish a peaceful settlement would occur, but don't know how. But killing innocents isn't right.
Did you go to Palestine as a tourist too? Why not? Is it just dessert?
israel offered a peaceful settlement countless times................................
the big issue here is that the palestinians seem very insistant to elect and let them be represented by groups who want nothing else than the complete destruction of israel
the isrealis broke every agreement they signed all because the Limey terrorists were in hock to Rothschild......
@@jewhunterbidenThat's an ERROR on your part. You can't "offer" some land to the indigenous people as "courtesy". They ARE your Landlords.
Britain and France should pay reparations !
another sponger, the white mans burden
Excellent video of an extremely complicated and unfortunately duplicitous history.
The US n UK deliberately n unlawfully installed their proxy Israel in Palestine in order to expand their dominance over the entire resource rich n strategically important middle east region
Excellent presentation that just omits the Grand Mufti of Palestine's support for Hitler and his leadership of a Waffen SS battalion.
Absolutely, we'll said; include THE GRAND MUFTI BEING A NAZI.
Which battalion?
@@Pushing_Pixels The 13th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Handschar (1st Croatian) specifically the Grand Mufti, whilst residing in Berlin, recruited for the Hanjar (Saber) Division. They were the first non-Germanic unit.
Privatization is at the core of fascism. Transnational corporations and even US media were supportive of Hitler in that regard. Read article: Economy of Evil
You are correct m0nkeyboot!
My Father was part of the Long Range Desert Patrol in the RAF. He was on leave when he got caught up in the Bombing. He had serious injury's to his gut and his face by the shrapnel. He was a Regular and aged 40. After his return to the UK, and hospilisation etc. he was discharged on medical grounds. He had survived several air crash incidents and had to then get posted to Palestine and ended up a complete mess! It wasn't fair on our family.
Wasn't really fair to the Palestinians either.
Allah has said in the Qur'an:
Verily, We created man from a drop of mingled sperm so that We may test him; and therefore We made him hearing and seeing. We have indeed showed him the way, now he be grateful or ungrateful. (76:3)
Verily, We shall put you to test with some fear, and hunger, and with some loss of wealth, lives, and offspring. And (O Muhammad) convey good tidings to those who are patient, who say, when inflicted by hardship, "Verily we are of God and verily to Him shall we return;" upon them is the blessings of Allah and His mercy. (2:155)
I'm so sorry❤
That is terribly sad. My dad said he lost good friends in that bombing. No it wasnt fair on your family.
@elizabethmcpherson-lt9vh Typical self pity from the Brits, at fault for it all. What about the Palestinians whom they betrayed. Made promises and broke them. Attempted the same by promising a united Ireland if Irish men went to fight in WW1 and used Redmond's Irish Parlamentary party as a patsy conduit, mouthpiece with not the slightest hope of delivering what it promised. The Irish party Sinn Fein rejected it and saved hundreds of thousands of lives. It is time Britain was called out on their hypocrisy.
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This is a good synopsis in presentation of the historical facts.
Not at all. Big omission of the 1948 attack of the Arab League on Israel.
Too bad he left out the 3,500 years since Israel first possessed the Holy Land.
Wikipedia gives best unbiased synopsis.
Many comment on the content of the video. As a retired radio announcer, I think this narrator has a wonderful voice & delivery. Your thoughts?
@guruofgold - Agree! I loved the modulated, non-rushed commentary and attractive voice. Such a voice is a great gift for any listening audience! Imo this was a very classy production throughout.
Why is Britain being blamed here for trying to unravel an impossible situation? The League of Nations which ultimately became the failed and corrupt UN has more responsibility as it represented a cross section of countries.
It was an impossible situation of their own devising. The British government spoke out of both sides of their mouth to the Jews and the Arabs, lied to both sides many times, and finally walked away and dumped the whole mess into the lap of the League of Nations. It is a repeat performance of something the Brits excelled at, namely attempting to colonize people in a country that they had no knowledge of and generally making a huge mess of things before leaving without a care in the world. We had to forcefully kick you out of our country twice before you finally got the hint. Unfortunately, our behavior has not historically been any better and we now have a long list of horrifically failed unilateral interventions in other countries to our credit. Nobody seems able to learn from making the same mistakes over and over again.
Because we used the Arabs for military gain all the while plotting against them; eventually washing our hands of the whole situation by abandoning the massive shithouse we created before abstaining in the final UN vote to recognise the state of Israel. All in the name of Oil.
Before britain there was peace understand othomans
Where is the "Companion Guide to Britain in Palestine 1917-1948" mentioned in the video abstract?
A complex situation. But this helps improve, at least, understanding if not a solution.
There isn't a solution Gaza has a Hamas Problem not a Israel problem
@sallypatriot9015 How about West Bank were isreal is still taking more land from moderate Palestinian Authority who are willing to have two state solutions and are not using weapons to fight Israel? The problem is both Israel and hamas. Israel right now is run by hardline right wing and they are not ready to make peace with Palestinian Authority in the west Bank.
A really good video. Loved it. I see the media mentions nothing about this in Israel-Palestine war October 2023? 4:57 was that Baron Abraham Edmond Benjamin James de Rothschild? 5:24, so..no one wanted Jude in Europe or indeed Russia way back then either? interesting. I wonder why??? 5:31 Hertzil formed the the modern conception of Zionism (Austrian Empire [now in Hungary]-died July 3, 1904, Edlach, Austria), founder of the political form of Zionism, a movement to establish a Jewish homeland. His pamphlet The Jewish State (1896) 5:53 Chaim Weizmann. 5:57 see The Brandeis-Weizmann Dispute. 7:15 this included Christians, but everyone forgets. 7:46 A very important point right there.
it is not in "some" peoples' interest.
It wasn't just Britain, it was the whole League of Nations who granted the land to the Jews.
Britain was there originally
The League of Nations were around 30 nations after WWII, so only those that felt that they had a say in this. It was a mess since the Brits got in there. It would have been way better had the Turks kept it and they would have been better, maybe. Or would they have done the same as they are doing today with the Kurds?
Balfour and Rothschilds, those were the real problem that started this horror we see 76 years later. Hertzel didn't even live by the jewish faith. How dare they did this, holy land bull.
@@HorrifydBritain always takes the brunt of the anger, that’s the only excuse here.
@@InhertiaPink-t7n can you refute what I said? Or just complain ig
@@Horrifyd Yes, because Britain wasn’t there originally. The French landed in what is modern day Palestine under Napoleon -where they committed a genocides at the siege of Jaffa.
Excellent level headed exposition on the 'middle east problem'.
Incredibly well put together! Thank you!
Agree
Really interesting background. thanks.
Such a shame that all the turmoil and grief in this region of the world stems from competing regions (overlayed with the economic and political self interests of the western countries).
It seems like the region could do with a big surge of athesim, less exploitable oil and gas resources.
As long as Arab nations support Islamic Jihad, which calls for destruction of Israel, there will never be 2-state fix.
Seems you have little respect for the fact 3 faith lived there perfectly fine, before the greedy British and zionists arrived
In this sad days we are living today with an open war between Israel and Hamas, being once more the Palestinian civilians the ones that pay the highest price, trapped between two fires, it's even more necessary and useful than ever to have as much information as possible to understand this apparently endless conflict. My congratulations to The Balfour Project for this contribution to enlarge the knowledge of history. However, being history so important to understand the past every actor must be judged for what they do today, that's why history changes everyday.
There is not such hamas that is just excuse to harder the Palestinians israhell is 3vil terroris33tttt
'palastinians' didn't take the peaceful route to coexist in Isreal . They could have if you illegal start a war with your own nations leaders.. if you illegally form your own parliament and vote in an Islam extremist group that use all their funds bombing the Jewish irseal areas (isrealis are palastinians by the way, they just renamed their lands they built, as the name was given by Romans to destroy the Hebrew peoples, and digging tnlunnels and buying bombs.. and teaching extremism.. then you are digging your own graves.. not creating peace. The Jews are home. Their are the remaining Canaanites of the area.. 50% DNA that existed in the area 10,000 yrs before. They left eygpt and created the religion as a clear historic record of their lands. They are not interested in war...Jews have never declared war on anyone or invaded lands.. they engaged in a population exchange of 850,000 ancestral Jews in the 'arab lands '.. they were Arab Jews. With 250,000 Arabs in the area.. but the neighbours of isreal' didn't grant citizenship to the refugees.. instead they militarised them into an anti-Semitic army.. for 3 generations. ..while isreal' managed to bring in the local ousted populus. Not all Jews in Israel are from European ww2 survivors.. not all are Zionists that spend 51 yrs buying land and building their plot by plot.. and not all irsealis are Jewish.
Let's just put things into perspective..
Does anyone really want to give a raping, torturing, beheading, child abusing, rabid sick phychopath peoples that blow themselves up in order to case mass carnage.. a land that is part of isreal'?? No. These people are Jordanians.. they can go and join their others in their homelands.
No one forced them to fight of the wrong side of a world war.. they lost...and as with all loosing lands.. they underwent some foreign rule until the land could be returned without being a continuing threat.. and if the threat comes from (Al Afghani) twisted Afghan ideology.. then all the more reason to not give them more land and power in a shit show of iran-pakistan-afghanistan-qatar 'islam brotherhood'.. they are enslaving women and expected to 'breed as many child as humanly possible from any women.. in order to fill the world with Islam.. it's sick.. they gang rape to death.. they behead.. they kill gays.. they don't allow women even into their church.. it's all just barbaric narcissistic phychopath dredges of human behaviour.. men at their worst! Peace to all Jews...Islam brotherhood should be declared no# 1 enemy by the planet.. all other Islams, atheist.. etc.. I know I will never visit such backwards nations.
Its pretty simple. The jews and arabs hate each other.
US left the chat in a hurry..
Thank you for such a clear and concise video. ❤
Yes the British are the ones that started this whole mess. They are not in remorse for their doings at all.
Then people have the audacity to say “the Middle East is always fighting” 🤦🏻♀️
I am. I apologise for British arrogance in thinking it had the right to arrange the world. I guess the power from leading the industrial revolution went to our heads. May the future be better.
@@grantbartley483 not to forget to mention that it's the anglophile nations that's stirring the whole world into a right royal turmoil. The us leading the charge with the Brits and the Aussie and the spineless indians at the coat tail .
Informative, thank you. I will have to watch this a couple of times.
Can I suggest you also find other additional sources. I find this video lacking. Also, bear in mind that the Brits were not in Palestine as "colonisers". They were given the role of protectorate by the League of Nations at the end of WW1. The aim was to help the now defeated land, once belonging to the Ottoman Empire, to become self governing. The protectorate was meant to be temporary. There's nothing straightforward in the making of Palestine. WW2 followed hot on the heels of WW1. We all know of the diaspora of Jews and anti-Semitism in Russia and Europe. So much was thrown into the mix and the mix was more complicated than the video suggests. Happy history trawling and good luck in trying to get to "the truth".
@@anjiedavie6792 The Jews weren’t there as colonizers either, and would have not fought off Arabs if not first attacked In 1948.. Plus Jews were being encouraged to migrate therewith the promise of a legit homeland. For decades prior to that Arabs sold land to them at high prices, and they worked very hard establishing agriculture and businesses there prior to 1948.
@@keepussafeUSA Jews were slaughtering Arabs before 1948
My father was born in Palestine 1930 they were displaced in 1948 lucky to get out with their lives he went to Beirut Lebanon for 2 years then move to Canada in 1950 he met my mother who was 3rd generation Scottish soon afterwards they married and I was born in the mid 50s I remember when I was 14 years old some other man asked my father why did you not stay and defend for your country my father explained we were just too overpowered I'm just lucky to get out with our lives then the nasty man said to my father then you must feel like an effing coward my father charged towards the man thank God there was other men around who broke it up before it became a big fist fight only time I ever saw my father Attack someone but if my father did go back to his former Palestine therefore he will not be a effing coward he would be called a effing terrorist sucks to be a Palestinian losing your land them being called a coward or a terrorist
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why did he not move to another muslim country ?
Britian left a mess behind them in Palestine & all other places they have been.
Being born in Syria and growing up in Lebanon, I do appreciate the presence of British and French influence in improving our lives by opening schools, hospitals and commerce which improved the quality of life. The cheos created in these countries has to do with rise of terrorists and extreme religious fanaticism. The ideology of creating an islamic nation became priority.
@@lizajalalian5665 You don't even know how to spell chaos. Besides colonialism has led to violence everywhere on earth, from South America to Africa to the rest of the middle east. It's a natural consequence and extreme Islamism is just one example of it
This will never end
Yes it will. Read the Bible, this is all spelled out. Read Ezekiel 36 thru 39 for a quick primer.
@@kevincourtney7312 i frankly do not give a fok about the bible……good gracious me !!!! religion foks up the issue big time. I live in the reality, not in some messianic wet dream
@@Bruno-tm3xo You might just try to examine the text rather than just dismiss it. To deny it without any investigation isn't a very intelligent thing to do.
@@kevincourtney7312The Jewish people today are not the Israelites of Scripture Prophecy in Jer 30 and 31, sorry!
@@kevincourtney7312 It will end indeed, Russia and China are the ones who will end this.
The collective west is finished, and if the US or Israel rises its sword it will die by the sword.
Britain has so much blood on its hands.
And so does every other country in the world.
How many countries around the world don't?
@@johnross2924I think the Brit’s and USA has the most ever and also USA has British origins.
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@@thetruthhurts6652 I agree, my comment is still correct though!
Without regard for feelings and opinion, these are the facts. This led to the creation of the nation of Israel, with the open approval of the U.S. and tacit approval of the other Allied powers and the U.N.
This is a story that can be found in all of human history. Following conflict, the victors make the rules.
Might makes right - that’s the lesson of history.
@@Ephilates2024 It usually isn't a matter of right or wrong, but the victors do make the rules.
Very very sad all the way around. Such a very tragic seize of the Holy Land. "Contradictory promises" for sure! Lies and Lives destroyed by those lies.😢
The territory known as Palestine was the home of the Jews and Jerusalem was its Holy Capital for thousands of years.
Arabs and Jews not being able to live side by side in Palestine (or anywhere else for that matter) is no real mystery. It's also no real mystery that the influx of Jewish immigrants to Palestine after WW1 and the creation of Israel has caused decades of conflict between Arabs and Jews. The Norman conquest of Britain facilitated several hundred years of intermittent conflict between France and Britain......
Great documentary, this should be watched as it explains things clearly with a timeline.
Sadly some people will only believe what they want to believe.
400 years of rule under the Ottoman Empire in which there seems to have been a degree of mutual tolerance between the Jewish and Palestinian communities says something. Since then it has been a disaster... don't make promises you can't keep.
Perfect example of colonialists disturbing the natural order of things.
Yet these same countries representatives try to enforce their view of democracy onto other nations claiming they are right.
China is called a human rights abuser - however they are the ones who bring some degree of order to some African nations rather than colonialising them.
What hypocrisy all this politics really is.
Your cheap propaganda won't work. What has Palestine archived for herself or what benefit did Ottoman do to the world?
Ottoman was one of the most brutal and wicked empire. They destroyed the ancient lands of the Jews so you don't v to do cry baby tactics. Empires come n go. Now that many things has happened, it's better to accept the two state policy and all Arabs, muslims should neg Egypt n Lebanon to release annexated lands.
Brilliant comment Sir
Before 1948, Jews in "Palestine" were called Palestinians. Not the Arabs. The Arabs of the region didn't become Palestinian until the mid 1960s.
@@elizabethelias100590% of Palestinians were Arabs says the video, so I didn't get your point
The British Mandate for Palestine was not as originally shown in the map at 8:48! In 1918, at the end of WW1 the British Mandate contained all of what is present day Jordan. The Emirate of Transjordan was established on April 11, 1921 as a British protectorate. It was created after the Ottoman defeat in World War I and was administered under the Mandate for Palestine. The region was ruled by the Hashemite dynasty, which also ruled the neighbouring Mandatory Iraq and the Kingdom of Hejaz to the south. The Emirate of Transjordan remained a British protectorate until it achieved formal independence on May 25, 1946 and was renamed the “Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.” All Population figures from that time included all the people that were on the East Bank of the Jordan River in the land that would be given to the Hashemite family for the Kingdom of Transjordan. All Jews that lived in that territory were transferred to the other side of the River Jordan, with all land to the East of that river being Jew free. So in comparing population figures of Arabs and Jews from that period have to take that into consideration. Also, 10 years prior in 1910 Pogroms were still being initiated against Jews living in the land by the Ottoman Empire. 6,000 Jews were expelled to Cairo in Egypt in 1910. I found that in 1917, the Ottoman authorities in Palestine ordered the deportation of 8,000 Jewish inhabitants from Jaffa and Tel Aviv. The deportation was carried out on April 6, 1917, and was accompanied by severe violence, starvation, theft, persecution, and abuse. The evicted civilians were not allowed to carry off their belongings, and it is thought that about 1,500 of the evicted people died as a result of the deportation. Since Jews first started returning to the land during what is called the First Aliyah, even greater amounts of Arabs were allowed to settle in the land by firstly the Ottomans and then the British, who actively encouraged the settling of Arabs that came from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and further afield, to make sure that there would not be a Jewish majority.
The Palestine White Paper was a policy statement issued by the British government in 1922. It was drafted at the request of Winston Churchill, then Secretary of State for the Colonies, partly in response to the 1921 Jaffa Riots. The official name of the document was “Palestine: Correspondence with the Palestine Arab Delegation and the Zionist Organisation” 2. The paper emphasized that the establishment of a national home would not impose a Jewish nationality on the Arab inhabitants of Palestine. It also called for a limitation of Jewish immigration to the economic capacity of the country to absorb new arrivals. The Palestine White Paper was one of several policy statements issued by the British government regarding Mandatory Palestine between 1922 and 1946.
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Actually it goes back to the Crusader Era, when the Viking Norman kiings expelled the Jewish communities of England (first to do so), and exterminated ALL the Muslims and Jews in the "Holy Land". And on and on, sucking & deceiving both peoples for a millenia, with other crafty racists like the U.S. Democratic Party. Their racist policies toward indogenes continued worldwide: confuse, divide, suck dry.
What is your point? There were more than a million Arabs living on whatever you want to call the land when the Zionists crawled out from their caves in Europe.
What, if anything, can you tell me about the San Remo conference?
@@philspd473 Busy ATM. Plenty of info online about the San Remo conference and the subsequent White Paper.
You are an extraordinary informed and intelligent person thanks for this information ❤
I didn’t understand the role the British played. Thank you for this. It’s good to have as much information as possible to try and understand what is happening.
They messed up Ireland as well. Also too many other countries to list.
A sad fact of the human condition is that if you do not have the means to protect your possessions and land sooner or later someone will come and take them from you. Humans are a lot like our good friend the dog. As individuals most are friendly and harmless, put them in a group and they become wolves.
This is an excellent documentary. For me it confirmed that if you keep looking at the past in these situations, you will almost certainly remain in conflict. It is the future that matters now, not the past. Just look at Northern Ireland to see how bloodshed gave way to peace even if ideologies still exist.
Those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Please study the past to be wise and better for the future.
Well narrated, however the crucial link between US intervention in WW1 and Balfour declaration is not explained. For that one has to waddle into Wilson's presidency and make connection on his/ her own.
The Rich Roth Childs got the US enter World War I and World War II. Americans did not want to be in either war. Wilson ran on a platform of “he kept us out of war” and America did not want to join World War II. Money talks
The Balfour declaration.
@@rockyk1950 Yes, but the LINK is not clearly explained which gives room to a "conspiracy theory". At the end it was a massive participation of the U.S. military in France which decided the outcome of war. Consequently, Germany was greatly embittered and called fault.
@@zdenekprisovsky2783are you saying Germany was not at fault for the war?
@@marksherman1887 Every war is an effort for seeking more favorable condition for a given state/ nation. It is incorrect to see one as a culprit and the other solely as a victim. They both share the guilt/ blame. To seek a specific answer to your question you have to devote a SUBSTANTIAL time to study of history vis-a-vis current developments.
You will discover that there are strong and profoundly evident connections. The way my thinking operates is to compare situation BERORE and AFTER the event. Try to determine ho gained and who lost. You can take an example the notorious event known as 9-11.
When it comes to Germany's "guilt" it was an ambition to acquire a bigger share of the world resources in second half of 19th century. This was NOT in accord with what the standing powers such as France and Great Britain has envisioned as goal for themselves. Therefore, the clash as inevitable. The event of such kind as Sarajevo assassination was intended as a impetus sufficient to set forces into motion to achieve a given objective.
Those ho came out as victorious give you indication thru their actions if this theory is sound or not. You be the judge. But before, be ready to study a LOT.
Extremely important to show the world how the mess started and interesting to see how it will be solved.
Very interesting and informative, also I'm amazed that you got the actor Ryan Gosling to play the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (@ 14.08).
thespians are like whores....anything for money.....
Lol. I see what you mean. That mufti was a nasty piece of work though.
My late Father was in Haifa , Palestine with the British Royal Navy , ive pic of him on his ship having Christmas dinner
in 1945 as his ship was docked just off main docks in Palestine .. He was also away on the Russian convoys
with the British Royal Navy in the worst times they had which was described as hell with the hauling
both dead and alive bodies from the sea men full of Oil brought out both dead and alive .
And he was also in Alexandria in Egypt as well as in Florence , Venice and Sicily in Italy
And scapaflow which was in the middle of no where and not good where had to look out for mines etc
Also some other parts inc Gibraltar several times ok and and Malta which were British bases in war times
got tattoo on his arm with words Mother when in Malta
My Dad was the youngest guy on his ship , he was away for a good number of years in war times .
the British royal navy prevented Jews from saving their life running away from Europe.
My dad was a brickworker.
@@patsavage1245 Clever boy
@@fishingstevie8830 Good man Dan.
A great movie to watch that gives one most of this history is Lawrence of Arabia.I believe it won several oscars.I think this should be mandatory to watch.Good job.
don't forget to send a big greeting to Palestine who betrayed the Turks
Yes . Do you think it swayed the first world War.likely?@@мишар8128
My dad dwas there in 1947-1950...as part of a prison sentence...first timers were given the option of service to country, instead of being locked up, and he took it, but he said years after, that he wouldn't visit the places he'd been whilethere, as the people have different standards
of what life should be compared to his..and also called it a HOT SPOT, you don't want to be in.
One correction: the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was not merely anti-Zionist but wholly anti-Semitic who sided with Hitlers vision of the total extermination of all Jews.
It must also be emphasised that prior to WW1 for hundreds of years Palestine had been a province of the Ottoman Empire ruled by a Ottoman (Turkish) series of governors and in no way was Palestine self governing. However the defining feature of the Ottoman Empire was that it was multi-cultural and while professing Muslims had advantages, other faiths of the book (Christians and Jews) were tolerated. It’s style of Islam was tolerant certainly compared to what arose later (Wahabism ) out of the Holy cities of Saudi Arabia
The militant form took root in Egypt and then influenced Palestine as well and so the Jews and Christians in Palestine knew that once real self rule came together an Arab led government in Jerusalem it would be nothing like the past ottoman rule.
@epincion Thank you. It's a great pity that modern day Islam chooses not to follow the generally tolerant model you describe under Ottoman rule. Most non-Muslims in our war-torn world today would probably have little problem with such a mode under the "live and let live" principle. Whereas habitual militancy in a religion creates fear and dampens the joy of life. It's how some factions choose to be. In the end, a choice affecting others.
It is true that the Ottoman Empire ruled almost all regions of the Middle East and North Africa for a limited period, but nevertheless they were countries that had their own people, culture, and history for thousands of years, and Palestine was inhabited by Palestinians. As for the Jews, they immigrated from other countries because Britain promised them a false homeland in Palestine. He does not falsify history.
@@ZooomZooo Flat out wrong. Palestine was populated by a mix of Muslims, Christians and Jews. Yes it had a muslim majority but there were always jews living in the area.
@@epincion jews and Christians were few in number and were originally Palestinian and lived peacefully with Muslims. As for the Israelis, they were occupiers who came from other countries and killed Muslims and Christians.
After 1917, nothing in Palestine would bear any resemblance to the previous and for the most part, religiously and ethnically tolerant, Ottoman rule. Once Britain got involved, as always, things went down hill very fast and led to the absolute mess that exists now.
Interference in other Countries never works !!! Broken promises British governments have made. Shameful !!! So many lives lost So much. Suffering !
Name one other globally powerful state that tried harder than Britain to govern colonies with fairness and consideration for the locals?
Recently I read correspondence between a Persian and an Egyptian Prince in the 1850/60's. They were astonished at the British spending so much trying to enforce anti-slavery policies, often in parts of the world where Britain had little interest - and bear in mind that the slave trade had been globally accepted for as long as human history.
Their initial suspicion was gradually replaced by a bemused acceptance that these strange white men were genuine in their declared reasons for fighting slavery - It was wrong.
Same can be said of the Turks/Ottomans ruling other people's lands (before Britain).
@@paulleverton9569 you’re right
@@johnbatinovic6593Turks never oppressed and gave all freedom unlike England giving land didn't belong to them
@@fakhrimousa1963 Britain, not England.
My grandfather was policeman in Palestine from 1936-1939 and eventually married a Jew but was very critical of Jewish attitudes and behaviour at that time though sympathetic to their plight.
interesting comment - thanks - could you expand a little regards Jewish attitudes and behaviour of that time?
@@knhcteam9266 He was based in Jericho but was also in Jordan and around the Dead Sea area and also involved in the Jaffa riots. His first act as a young corporal was to respond to a slight to his authority by a one eyed Arab spitting on his shadow but he was generally sympathetic to the Arabs and increasingly critical of Jewish settlers despite having an affair with one Jewish woman and later, his return to England, marrying another.
He found the Jews to be arrogant and hypocritical but understood their plight.
Once he was tasked with escorting a local shield on a train and accepting his parole on word of honour.
Later as a soldier in the war he witnessed the liberation of Belson.
Excellent and elaborate explanation of the Balfour project 👏 thanks 🌹 for the same 🙏🌹🙏