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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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 ....
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
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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
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.
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).
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?
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
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!
“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.
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🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
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
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.
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
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!
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 .
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
I'm now 50, and I've always known about the British involvement in the creation of Israel. But, I never knew the gruesome details of how this happened. Now, it all makes sense to me, when all the details are presented in this way. Bottom line, in a nutshell. The western world, created Israel basically. Yeah, given the manner in the way GB handled it. I'd be angry too.
And after watching this you will still don't know. Britain was cornered into the declaration. It will require more than 18 minutes and 30 seconds to know.
I think even without British meddling, jewish refugees would have headed there, and then wanted their own state. Its very clear today, that people fleeing persecution will go where they feel safe and have a better future. It's human nature.
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.
@@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
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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......
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.
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.
@@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.
90 precent arabs you say, what with the druze, christians, beduin? Arabs are an ethnic group, muslims in Palestinian arent arab at all. They are part Egyptians, part the regions people from ancient times (aram, ashur, phonicia) converted forcefully to isalm. What about the aparthide practiced at that time and before it under the turks against religious minorities? Rules about where they can go, build, what occupations they can have, property they can own, limitations on their religious practicious, special infidels taxes, all written as official laws of the ottomans? Where are those in your video?
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.
Completely omitted the alliance of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem with Hitler. Side stepped the fact that out of the Ottoman lands several Arab nations, vastly larger than the Jewish state were created. Doesn’t focus on the motivation for the Arab refusal to accept tiny Israel.
The Grand mufti was irrelevant has he was just a puppet installed by the British until they could figure out what to do with Palestine. Zionists only bring this up only to try to paint Palestinians as allies of Hitler for propaganda purposes which is simply false. Not all Arabs are the same and its racist to assume so. This is like saying all white Europeans are the same. Arabs consist of many tribes and those who lived in Syria or Iraq for generations arent the same as the Palestinians who lived in Palestine for generations for example. The motivation for the refusal is simply the loss of their homeland and expulsion from their homes which is a completely valid reason to reject the criminal Balfour Declaration.
The Grand mufti was irrelevant as he was just a puppet installed by the British government until they could figure out what to do with Palestine. Zion*sts only bring this up only to try to paint Palestinians as allies of H*tler for propaganda purposes which is simply false. The Arab race consists of many tribes meaning not all Arabs are the same and its racist to assume so. Arabs who lived in Syria or Iraq for generations are not the same as Palestinians who lived in Palestine for generations for example. It's like saying all white Europeans are the same. As for the motivation for refusal, its because of the loss of their homeland and expulsion from their homes which is a completely valid reason to reject the criminal Balfour Declaration.
It does not matter who occupier Israel after the Romans, because the Jewish people were always in their indigenous land, so when if it was occupied by the ottomans they knew they were occupiers of the Jewish peoples lands and the Jewish people had to pay them taxes and tributes like every occupier doe to the indigenous people of their own lands. No other occupying nation every claimed that they land of Israel was theirs, they all knew that they were occupiers of the Jewish homeland, there have never been a time in 4000yrs that Jewish people have not been in their oen land. and this claim about arab muslims being palestinians is a total lie, There was not one person called a pally arab at the time of the Roman occupation of Israel. Go forward 700 yrs at the time of mohamad and their still were not a people called pally arab muslims living in the land of Israel. Only arabs, and later arab muslims who all left their own arab muslim lands of origin to occupy Israel, there is not one single arab muslim in Israel that cannot trace their heritage back to a arab nation. It is the Jewish people alone who heritage is of Israel and in Israel. This is the reason no matter where many Jewish people. who were sent into exile went to, everyone in the whole world knew that they came from Israel exactly where Israel is today. And why after 6 million Jewish people were slaughter in nazi death camps, the world knew that it was time for the Jewish people to return to the Jewish people still living in the land of Israel to have self determination and to be the makers of their own destiny. The arabs should never have been offered any of Israel, but Israel was called trans Jordan at this time and it was partitioned by the u.n. and Israel accepted their partition but the arab refused their. and at this time not one arab muslim was known as a palestinian. The arabs refused 2 offers for their own state but refused it but Israel accepted theirs. The arab muslims did not take this Roman pally name onto them selves until the early 60s until then as they are today are all arab muslims who left their own arab lands to occupy Israel. Israel has no other place to go because they arew in their indigenous land, their land of origin. and every single arab muslim occupying Israel should return to their own arab lands of origin. and everyone knows not one arab origin was ever from the land of Israel. Israel is a nation and Israel will remain a nation for at least 1000yrs. That another promise the God of Israel made to His chosen Jewish people. And never forget the God of Israel is not the god of the arabs muslims these are the polar opposite of each other, the God of Israel is the God of light and life, but the god of islam in the god of darkness and death. No one in islam serves the God of the first Jewish man Abraham. This is what the real fight is about, everything else is secondary, the reason why when the terrorist were massacring the 1200 innocent Jewish civilians where all screaming their guts out to their god, because they believe that his will is to destroy the Jewish people, proving it is a totally false.
Never did the ottomans even when they in the land of Israel they knew that they were occupying Israel, it was the, as did every nation who conquered the middle east, when they conquer the surrounding nations of Israel they never that these nations were their and knew they were occupying another nations land. So every nation that conquered Israel knew that they were occupying the Jewish indigenous land, because the Jewish people still lived in their homeland no matter who conquered it, just like the surrounding nations who were conquered never gave up their nation but they believed that even though conquered that their land will still their lands and were always in the process of having full control of their lands again. this was no different with Israel since Israel became a nation, 4000yrs ago, and yes it was 4000yrs ago they never from that time ever have a time when there were no Jewish people in their indigenous land and every nation that conquered the middle east when they got to Israel they also knew that the land of Israel was the Jewish peoples homeland. Even where ever the many Jewish people went to in the exile every single nation they were sent to knew exactly who the Jewish people were and knew exactly where the Jewish peoples indigenous land was. It was not by mistake that when Israel became a nation again that they returned to their people who were still in the land of Israel and this is where they became a nation again, so it was a rebirth of their nation. They never spun a wheel to where ever it stopped that was where Israel became a nation, because the entire world knew that the land of Israel was the Jewish peoples indigenous land. It is the arab muslims who occupied Israel that should never have been offered any piece of land of Israel, but they themselves turned down 2 offers of their own state when trans Jordan was partitioned, Israel accepted theirs and settled for less than what the entire empire and kingdom that Israel once was, the Jewish people were just glad to be back in their homeland to become the makers of their own destiny and to have self determination. and Israel has gone from nothing to a middle east super power in 70 short yrs. and the arab msulims occupying Israel have done nothing but cry, weep and whine and have turned down every opportunity that they had and they have had 6 offers since their first offer to have their own state and they turned them down. and now today Israel will not and cannot allow another terrorist arab state upon their doorstep that will turn into another huge terrorist base as gaza. The reality is that Israel is a nation today and Israel will remain a nation and no one or no nations will ever unroot the Jewish people from being a nation. Israel will remain a nation for at least 1000yrs.
After the events of 7 Oct 2023, the first emphatic statements made by Western gov. particularly Britan and the USA were that Israel had the right to exist. As someone who had never questioned Israels existence, I did wonder at their need to say this over and over again. Now I know why...
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
An EXCELLENT video.... excellent presentation. A very studious overview from which viewers who are interested can start their own researching. Unfortunately, quite a number of Arab intellectuals of today IGNORE the extremely IMPORTANT FACT you made at 3:37 and 11:48 That the 'promise of a homeland run by Zionists' was visualized as being IN/ inside Palestine.... not all of Palestine. 4:47 NOTICE THE WORDING that Arab intellectuals commonly mis-translate, purposely or not; the document clearly states; "establishment IN Palestine" , as in inside on Palestine. Nothing is mentioned of any intention or promise to make ALL of Palestine a Zionist run homeland. The Balfour Declaration in reality it was not all-encompassing is imagined by those trying to fit square pegs into round holes agendas. The foundation of the region's turmoils was the creation of the British Palestine Mandate itself. > On this point, in my opinion, it's irrelevant to try and believe the British Empire officials and their claims of what they intended. They achieved ruling 25% of the world through gunboat diplomacy, ruthlessness and mostly divide and conquer negotiation duplicity (lying on an epic world changing scale ) -> ie, what can be referred to as PERFIDIOUS ALBION. 4:47 - One thing needs to be pointed out here that is extremely important. The very misleading notion that all Zionists were united under one banner. In the decades prior to 1917, there existed in fact, various factions of Zionists; some were Left wing, others socialists, some Conservative, etc.... And importantly, MOST diaspora Jews worldwide were not interested in Zionism. Among the Zionists, various factions had differing ideas on where to establish a Homeland; locations included INSIDE South America, and Africa for example. 5:30 - It can be also claimed that some Christians (and many evangelists these days) are Zionists in their beliefs of the agenda pertaining to Palestine as the idealized Homeland*. It should be mentioned also that for decades before 1917, in small numbers, there were Zionists from East Europe were already migrating and settling in Palestine. 7:00 - This is what triggered a faction of Palestinian Jews who were living well enough* with their Arab neighbours in Ottoman-rule, to be forever against British-Zionism at that time. 8:00 - I mean seriously; British officials preaching ethics and morale codes at the time is a farce; they invaded and controlled 25% of the world by that time by implementing the exact opposite of respecting conquered peoples' rights. It's so important to grasp this fact..... 9:40 - Extremely important; the roots of extremist Arab nationalism grew here; because of the hideous but not surprising British government lie; Right HERE it started. 10:10 - One can safely assume, that though British duplicity had raised tensions in Palestine, most of the locals in each community still got along for the moment, but British idiocy did not remedy the situation. One historical fact not mentioned here, is that the first of several British temporary blockages of Jewish migration to Palestine occurred at this time. 12:20 - Extremely important fact is missed here; In Germany, a Zionist neo-conservative faction led by Georg KARESKI was very busy acting in duplicity; they operated to scuttle the 1933 international Jewish diaspora led-boycott against Nazi Germany in exchange for attaining the power to collaborate with the Nazi SS to influence / intimidate / bully Germany's population of Jewish heritage ( 540,000 , less than half a percent of Germany's population ) to be obliged to migrate to Palestine. This was the Munich Transfer Agreement; it was actually a 3-way collaboration between the Nazis looking to expel Jews, the Kareski Zionists who wanted power in organizing a Palestine-Zionist agenda, and the BRITISH who were going to get financial benefits; this angered local indigenous Palestinian Jews as they were ignored and watching there once stable lifestyles continue to worsen - the Far Right Betar Zionists incoming from Eastern Europe were also disgusted in seeing Zionists helping Nazis persecute Germany's population - especially in policies to segregate them which included stripping away they national identity and rights throughout the 1930s. This scheme failed miserably; simply because most German Jews were not interested in Zionism, and Germany was their home; only around 80,000 migrated to Palestine. Of the remainder, just over 200k fled/ attempted to flee Germany. and the remaining 200K + that stayed, few would survive the Holocaust. THIS influx is what spurred the 1936 revolt it can be argued. Ask most Arabs and intellectuals what the 1933 Munich Transfer Agreement was, only a rare few know about it, even though this event is no secret. Naturally the Zionists and the British never want to mention this collaboration with the Nazis. The extreme off-shoots of the Betar Zionists did end up later assassinating a couple of the nazi-collaborating Kareski Zionists ( ie, Kastner) 13:00 - This is what REAL British foreign policy amounted to; if they weren't acknowledged as the big boss, their reprisals were overwhelming and merciless.... including its long centuries-old global tradition of exacting 'Collective punishment' 14:44 - Blocking of Jewish migration did not start at this point; the 1939 block was the third in 20 years by the British. 16:00 - It was from the Betar Zionists that terrorist squads emerged; but they were in action just prior to WW2 as well.
"and the remaining 200K + that stayed, few would survive the Holocaust." The vast majority of Jews went back to Germany to the UNRRA camps where they got new identification and started a new life in Germany. (See the Jewish Almanac for more info.) UNRRA established 1941, was a jewish organization under "Joint" which is the cover for all Jewish organizations. Felix M. Warburg (banker family) was the leader. One of the members was Henry Morgenthau Jr., finance minister of USA and author of how to destroy Germany after the war. Lots of money is made in a war! And in the end, the winners write the history which is mostly lies.
A very informative and helpful reply. I am going to print it, as it will help in my research into this ongoing, very perplexing disaster. I am from Ireland and the term 'Perfidious Albion" is a common expression among Irish people. The Six Counties of North East Ulster in Ireland is STILL a festering sore, DELIBERATELY unresolved by continuous Westminster Governments.
Least we forget that "The ancient Romans pinned the name on the Land of Israel. In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina-that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast." Why wasn't this discussed so people can better understand why this Jewish land was given this name.
Places in the Old Testament that prove that Palestine existed…. Exodus 15.v 14 Isaiah 14: 29 Isaiah 14: 31 After the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by Almighty God through Titus , Hadrian rebuilt the city in AD150 and then in AD1415 during the Ottoman Empire Jerusalems walls were rebuilt. So , ironically, every year millions of people think that they are going over to the “holy land” when it’s really Roman / Ottoman pagan land as Jesus said that not one stone would be left upon another( Matt 24:2)
This documentary left out a lot of details that would have made it more balanced. Just because the Arabs had been there for "many centuries" they weren't there first. The 10% Jews is an estimate, with some estimates closer to 20%. To go back only as far as suits your narrative is not conducive to finding a solution to the ongoing conflict.
@@EleonoreG53 You can live in denial all you want. Israel is just a colonial apartheid state oppressing natives of a land they stole and continue to steal. By your logic, if Native Americans in the Americas came with a religious book and demanded their land back citing God-given rights, or the Aboriginal people of Australia or even black Americans came back to Africa and started reclaiming land they can claim was theirs 500 years ago, you wouldn't even want to hear a single word they say. So people claiming it was their land from 2000 years ago is proposterous. Most of Europe was Roman territory. I doubt if today's Italians started laying claim to it again you would be so considerate as you are with Zionists.
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
The British divided people and countries wherever they went and ruled creating the everlasting existence of rivalry and hostility between the people who once used to live there peacefully! They did the same in India too dividing the nation into two, India and Pakistan. “Divide and rule” was there motto! And the conflict we witness between the Arabs and Jews today is no exception. And unfortunately, people also transport their homeland conflict with them to wherever they migrate too!!😢
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.
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.
Try "imagining" the realities that the original owners', of what is now Israel, felt through the centuries of persecution, rejection and pogroms in EVERY NATION THEY WERE DISPERSED TO!! When Jews came home, the fulfillment of prophecy was wonderful to Zion's Jews and bitter for the Arab world!! Go Bibi!!
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.
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.
thank you Balfour Project! Some points where new to me. I was pleased how entertaining und informative the video is with only pictures, background sound and a voice actor. Well done!
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.
Thank You for an unbiased overview. Now for the the hard truth, every sovereign nation in this world has been established by war, all 195 of them including YOURS . And war has been the the method of founding nations for 3,000 + years of recorded history. There are only two rules of war 1. To the victors go the spoils 2. The vanquished will either adapt or die out .And that is the case with Israel , they have fought three wars of independence, 1948 , 1967 and 1973 against 3-4 Arab nations at a time, always with Arabs living in Israel joining these Arab nations in attacking Jews. Speaking from 24 years of military experience, once a war is lost their is no "do over" no " you won the war but the land is still ours" no " It's not fair ". Israel is the sovereign nation of the Jewish people. This is the way the world has worked since the dawn of humans and it is not going to change. In the last 100 years 1900-2000 the total number of wars worldwide was 245 wars.
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
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 🙄.
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 ?
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.
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
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
Its always the innocent people who suffer
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
Freedom for Palestinians 🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴🇯🇴
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
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
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
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.
@@rincemor I'm sure she does...
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 ....
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
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?
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!
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 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
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)
" 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
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 😢💔🙏
This documentary is a cogent overview that many people would benefit from reading it.
Wow...great..finally someone did a good effort to reveal truth with ground realities.. wonderful effort
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).
Thanks for posting this informative program. Richard in Dallas
Pictures tell a thousand words , thank you for this these “stills” have been cleared my mind
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
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.
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
“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.
This explains the current state of affairs in Middle East.
Britain reneged on promises!
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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 :)
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!
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!
Thank you for creating and uploading this documentary. Direct. Clear. Honest.
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
Britain and France should pay reparations !
another sponger, the white mans burden
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 is must viewing for anyone wanting to understand the roots of the Palestine-Israel conflict and the events of Oct. 7th.
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 .
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
I'm now 50, and I've always known about the British involvement in the creation of Israel. But, I never knew the gruesome details of how this happened. Now, it all makes sense to me, when all the details are presented in this way. Bottom line, in a nutshell. The western world, created Israel basically. Yeah, given the manner in the way GB handled it. I'd be angry too.
Don't forget it was a land called Judea and the Jews were only given 20%
They created a câncer
Given England’s track record, I think it might make more sense to say that it is the cancer
And after watching this you will still don't know. Britain was cornered into the declaration. It will require more than 18 minutes and 30 seconds to know.
I think even without British meddling, jewish refugees would have headed there, and then wanted their own state. Its very clear today, that people fleeing persecution will go where they feel safe and have a better future. It's human nature.
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 !!!
This is a lesson in short term thinking.
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"!
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!
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
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.
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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
I like the black-and-white images depicting a modest Holy Land before the great conflict.
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 ❤
Excellent level headed exposition on the 'middle east problem'.
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
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
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......
They messed up Ireland as well. Also too many other countries to list.
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.
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
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.
90 precent arabs you say, what with the druze, christians, beduin? Arabs are an ethnic group, muslims in Palestinian arent arab at all. They are part Egyptians, part the regions people from ancient times (aram, ashur, phonicia) converted forcefully to isalm.
What about the aparthide practiced at that time and before it under the turks against religious minorities? Rules about where they can go, build, what occupations they can have, property they can own, limitations on their religious practicious, special infidels taxes, all written as official laws of the ottomans? Where are those in your video?
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.
Incredibly well put together! Thank you!
Agree
Completely omitted the alliance of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem with Hitler. Side stepped the fact that out of the Ottoman lands several Arab nations, vastly larger than the Jewish state were created. Doesn’t focus on the motivation for the Arab refusal to accept tiny Israel.
The Grand mufti was irrelevant has he was just a puppet installed by the British until they could figure out what to do with Palestine. Zionists only bring this up only to try to paint Palestinians as allies of Hitler for propaganda purposes which is simply false. Not all Arabs are the same and its racist to assume so. This is like saying all white Europeans are the same. Arabs consist of many tribes and those who lived in Syria or Iraq for generations arent the same as the Palestinians who lived in Palestine for generations for example. The motivation for the refusal is simply the loss of their homeland and expulsion from their homes which is a completely valid reason to reject the criminal Balfour Declaration.
The Grand mufti was irrelevant as he was just a puppet installed by the British government until they could figure out what to do with Palestine. Zion*sts only bring this up only to try to paint Palestinians as allies of H*tler for propaganda purposes which is simply false. The Arab race consists of many tribes meaning not all Arabs are the same and its racist to assume so. Arabs who lived in Syria or Iraq for generations are not the same as Palestinians who lived in Palestine for generations for example. It's like saying all white Europeans are the same. As for the motivation for refusal, its because of the loss of their homeland and expulsion from their homes which is a completely valid reason to reject the criminal Balfour Declaration.
It does not matter who occupier Israel after the Romans, because the Jewish people were always in their indigenous land, so when if it was occupied by the ottomans they knew they were occupiers of the Jewish peoples lands and the Jewish people had to pay them taxes and tributes like every occupier doe to the indigenous people of their own lands. No other occupying nation every claimed that they land of Israel was theirs, they all knew that they were occupiers of the Jewish homeland, there have never been a time in 4000yrs that Jewish people have not been in their oen land. and this claim about arab muslims being palestinians is a total lie, There was not one person called a pally arab at the time of the Roman occupation of Israel. Go forward 700 yrs at the time of mohamad and their still were not a people called pally arab muslims living in the land of Israel. Only arabs, and later arab muslims who all left their own arab muslim lands of origin to occupy Israel, there is not one single arab muslim in Israel that cannot trace their heritage back to a arab nation. It is the Jewish people alone who heritage is of Israel and in Israel. This is the reason no matter where many Jewish people. who were sent into exile went to, everyone in the whole world knew that they came from Israel exactly where Israel is today. And why after 6 million Jewish people were slaughter in nazi death camps, the world knew that it was time for the Jewish people to return to the Jewish people still living in the land of Israel to have self determination and to be the makers of their own destiny. The arabs should never have been offered any of Israel, but Israel was called trans Jordan at this time and it was partitioned by the u.n. and Israel accepted their partition but the arab refused their. and at this time not one arab muslim was known as a palestinian. The arabs refused 2 offers for their own state but refused it but Israel accepted theirs. The arab muslims did not take this Roman pally name onto them selves until the early 60s until then as they are today are all arab muslims who left their own arab lands to occupy Israel. Israel has no other place to go because they arew in their indigenous land, their land of origin. and every single arab muslim occupying Israel should return to their own arab lands of origin. and everyone knows not one arab origin was ever from the land of Israel. Israel is a nation and Israel will remain a nation for at least 1000yrs. That another promise the God of Israel made to His chosen Jewish people. And never forget the God of Israel is not the god of the arabs muslims these are the polar opposite of each other, the God of Israel is the God of light and life, but the god of islam in the god of darkness and death. No one in islam serves the God of the first Jewish man Abraham. This is what the real fight is about, everything else is secondary, the reason why when the terrorist were massacring the 1200 innocent Jewish civilians where all screaming their guts out to their god, because they believe that his will is to destroy the Jewish people, proving it is a totally false.
Never did the ottomans even when they in the land of Israel they knew that they were occupying Israel, it was the, as did every nation who conquered the middle east, when they conquer the surrounding nations of Israel they never that these nations were their and knew they were occupying another nations land. So every nation that conquered Israel knew that they were occupying the Jewish indigenous land, because the Jewish people still lived in their homeland no matter who conquered it, just like the surrounding nations who were conquered never gave up their nation but they believed that even though conquered that their land will still their lands and were always in the process of having full control of their lands again. this was no different with Israel since Israel became a nation, 4000yrs ago, and yes it was 4000yrs ago they never from that time ever have a time when there were no Jewish people in their indigenous land and every nation that conquered the middle east when they got to Israel they also knew that the land of Israel was the Jewish peoples homeland. Even where ever the many Jewish people went to in the exile every single nation they were sent to knew exactly who the Jewish people were and knew exactly where the Jewish peoples indigenous land was. It was not by mistake that when Israel became a nation again that they returned to their people who were still in the land of Israel and this is where they became a nation again, so it was a rebirth of their nation. They never spun a wheel to where ever it stopped that was where Israel became a nation, because the entire world knew that the land of Israel was the Jewish peoples indigenous land. It is the arab muslims who occupied Israel that should never have been offered any piece of land of Israel, but they themselves turned down 2 offers of their own state when trans Jordan was partitioned, Israel accepted theirs and settled for less than what the entire empire and kingdom that Israel once was, the Jewish people were just glad to be back in their homeland to become the makers of their own destiny and to have self determination. and Israel has gone from nothing to a middle east super power in 70 short yrs. and the arab msulims occupying Israel have done nothing but cry, weep and whine and have turned down every opportunity that they had and they have had 6 offers since their first offer to have their own state and they turned them down. and now today Israel will not and cannot allow another terrorist arab state upon their doorstep that will turn into another huge terrorist base as gaza. The reality is that Israel is a nation today and Israel will remain a nation and no one or no nations will ever unroot the Jewish people from being a nation. Israel will remain a nation for at least 1000yrs.
Hitlers biggest mistake was not to build a strong alley with Palestinians and Arabs!
After the events of 7 Oct 2023, the first emphatic statements made by Western gov. particularly Britan and the USA were that Israel had the right to exist. As someone who had never questioned Israels existence, I did wonder at their need to say this over and over again. Now I know why...
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.
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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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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Britain caused so much death, pain, oppression and the list is long and still haven't learnt a lesson. They played with people's lives😢
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
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.
An EXCELLENT video.... excellent presentation. A very studious overview from which viewers who are interested can start their own researching.
Unfortunately, quite a number of Arab intellectuals of today IGNORE the extremely IMPORTANT FACT you made at 3:37 and 11:48
That the 'promise of a homeland run by Zionists' was visualized as being IN/ inside Palestine.... not all of Palestine.
4:47 NOTICE THE WORDING that Arab intellectuals commonly mis-translate, purposely or not; the document clearly states; "establishment IN Palestine" , as in inside on Palestine. Nothing is mentioned of any intention or promise to make ALL of Palestine a Zionist run homeland.
The Balfour Declaration in reality it was not all-encompassing is imagined by those trying to fit square pegs into round holes agendas.
The foundation of the region's turmoils was the creation of the British Palestine Mandate itself.
> On this point, in my opinion, it's irrelevant to try and believe the British Empire officials and their claims of what they intended. They achieved ruling 25% of the world through gunboat diplomacy, ruthlessness and mostly divide and conquer negotiation duplicity (lying on an epic world changing scale ) -> ie, what can be referred to as PERFIDIOUS ALBION.
4:47 - One thing needs to be pointed out here that is extremely important. The very misleading notion that all Zionists were united under one banner.
In the decades prior to 1917, there existed in fact, various factions of Zionists; some were Left wing, others socialists, some Conservative, etc.... And importantly, MOST diaspora Jews worldwide were not interested in Zionism. Among the Zionists, various factions had differing ideas on where to establish a Homeland; locations included INSIDE South America, and Africa for example.
5:30 - It can be also claimed that some Christians (and many evangelists these days) are Zionists in their beliefs of the agenda pertaining to Palestine as the idealized Homeland*. It should be mentioned also that for decades before 1917, in small numbers, there were Zionists from East Europe were already migrating and settling in Palestine.
7:00 - This is what triggered a faction of Palestinian Jews who were living well enough* with their Arab neighbours in Ottoman-rule, to be forever against British-Zionism at that time.
8:00 - I mean seriously; British officials preaching ethics and morale codes at the time is a farce; they invaded and controlled 25% of the world by that time by implementing the exact opposite of respecting conquered peoples' rights. It's so important to grasp this fact.....
9:40 - Extremely important; the roots of extremist Arab nationalism grew here; because of the hideous but not surprising British government lie; Right HERE it started.
10:10 - One can safely assume, that though British duplicity had raised tensions in Palestine, most of the locals in each community still got along for the moment, but British idiocy did not remedy the situation.
One historical fact not mentioned here, is that the first of several British temporary blockages of Jewish migration to Palestine occurred at this time.
12:20 - Extremely important fact is missed here; In Germany, a Zionist neo-conservative faction led by Georg KARESKI was very busy acting in duplicity; they operated to scuttle the 1933 international Jewish diaspora led-boycott against Nazi Germany in exchange for attaining the power to collaborate with the Nazi SS to influence / intimidate / bully Germany's population of Jewish heritage ( 540,000 , less than half a percent of Germany's population ) to be obliged to migrate to Palestine.
This was the Munich Transfer Agreement; it was actually a 3-way collaboration between the Nazis looking to expel Jews, the Kareski Zionists who wanted power in organizing a Palestine-Zionist agenda, and the BRITISH who were going to get financial benefits; this angered local indigenous Palestinian Jews as they were ignored and watching there once stable lifestyles continue to worsen - the Far Right Betar Zionists incoming from Eastern Europe were also disgusted in seeing Zionists helping Nazis persecute Germany's population - especially in policies to segregate them which included stripping away they national identity and rights throughout the 1930s.
This scheme failed miserably; simply because most German Jews were not interested in Zionism, and Germany was their home; only around 80,000 migrated to Palestine.
Of the remainder, just over 200k fled/ attempted to flee Germany. and the remaining 200K + that stayed, few would survive the Holocaust.
THIS influx is what spurred the 1936 revolt it can be argued. Ask most Arabs and intellectuals what the 1933 Munich Transfer Agreement was, only a rare few know about it, even though this event is no secret. Naturally the Zionists and the British never want to mention this collaboration with the Nazis. The extreme off-shoots of the Betar Zionists did end up later assassinating a couple of the nazi-collaborating Kareski Zionists ( ie, Kastner)
13:00 - This is what REAL British foreign policy amounted to; if they weren't acknowledged as the big boss, their reprisals were overwhelming and merciless.... including its long centuries-old global tradition of exacting 'Collective punishment'
14:44 - Blocking of Jewish migration did not start at this point; the 1939 block was the third in 20 years by the British.
16:00 - It was from the Betar Zionists that terrorist squads emerged; but they were in action just prior to WW2 as well.
"and the remaining 200K + that stayed, few would survive the Holocaust."
The vast majority of Jews went back to Germany to the UNRRA camps where they got new identification and started a new life in Germany. (See the Jewish Almanac for more info.)
UNRRA established 1941, was a jewish organization under "Joint" which is the cover for all Jewish organizations. Felix M. Warburg (banker family) was the leader. One of the members was Henry Morgenthau Jr., finance minister of USA and author of how to destroy Germany after the war.
Lots of money is made in a war! And in the end, the winners write the history which is mostly lies.
A very informative and helpful reply. I am going to print it, as it will help in my research into this ongoing, very perplexing disaster. I am from Ireland and the term 'Perfidious Albion" is a common expression among Irish people.
The Six Counties of North East Ulster in Ireland is STILL a festering sore, DELIBERATELY unresolved by continuous Westminster Governments.
Excellent!
Excellent and elaborate explanation of the Balfour project 👏 thanks 🌹 for the same 🙏🌹🙏
Least we forget that "The ancient Romans pinned the name on the Land of Israel. In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina-that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast." Why wasn't this discussed so people can better understand why this Jewish land was given this name.
Thank you!
Places in the Old Testament that prove that Palestine existed….
Exodus 15.v 14
Isaiah 14: 29
Isaiah 14: 31
After the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 by Almighty God through Titus , Hadrian rebuilt the city in AD150 and then in AD1415 during the Ottoman Empire Jerusalems walls were rebuilt.
So , ironically, every year millions of people think that they are going over to the “holy land” when it’s really Roman / Ottoman pagan land as Jesus said that not one stone would be left upon another( Matt 24:2)
This documentary left out a lot of details that would have made it more balanced. Just because the Arabs had been there for "many centuries" they weren't there first. The 10% Jews is an estimate, with some estimates closer to 20%. To go back only as far as suits your narrative is not conducive to finding a solution to the ongoing conflict.
Concordo 🙏
@@EleonoreG53 You can live in denial all you want. Israel is just a colonial apartheid state oppressing natives of a land they stole and continue to steal. By your logic, if Native Americans in the Americas came with a religious book and demanded their land back citing God-given rights, or the Aboriginal people of Australia or even black Americans came back to Africa and started reclaiming land they can claim was theirs 500 years ago, you wouldn't even want to hear a single word they say. So people claiming it was their land from 2000 years ago is proposterous. Most of Europe was Roman territory. I doubt if today's Italians started laying claim to it again you would be so considerate as you are with Zionists.
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 ?
The British divided people and countries wherever they went and ruled creating the everlasting existence of rivalry and hostility between the people who once used to live there peacefully! They did the same in India too dividing the nation into two, India and Pakistan. “Divide and rule” was there motto! And the conflict we witness between the Arabs and Jews today is no exception. And unfortunately, people also transport their homeland conflict with them to wherever they migrate too!!😢
Eire.
The British were not in favour of partition in India....
But the people were...
And conversely, 80% of the Irish were not in favour of partition but they got it.@@dogsnads5634
@@dogsnads5634 explain more of the "people's" orchestration INDIA if you please, I'm very interested in the theory...
The British Government at that time had Jews in very High Positions!
Extremely important to show the world how the mess started and interesting to see how it will be solved.
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.
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.
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.
Such tragedy. Cant imagine what the fenerations of Palestinians have endured and continue to endure
Why do you call it a tragedy?
Try "imagining" the realities that the original owners', of what is now Israel, felt through the centuries of persecution, rejection and pogroms in EVERY NATION THEY WERE DISPERSED TO!! When Jews came home, the fulfillment of prophecy was wonderful to Zion's Jews and bitter for the Arab world!! Go Bibi!!
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.
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 Balfour Project! Some points where new to me. I was pleased how entertaining und informative the video is with only pictures, background sound and a voice actor. Well done!
My country is still divided.. Ireland stands with Palestine 🇮🇪🇵🇸
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.
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.
Sadly very incomplete, ignores the fact that Jordan received approx. 77% of the mandatory territory!
Thank You for an unbiased overview. Now for the the hard truth, every sovereign nation in this world has been established by war, all 195 of them including YOURS . And war has been the the method of founding nations for 3,000 + years of recorded history. There are only two rules of war 1. To the victors go the spoils 2. The vanquished will either adapt or die out .And that is the case with Israel , they have fought three wars of independence, 1948 , 1967 and 1973 against 3-4 Arab nations at a time, always with Arabs living in Israel joining these Arab nations in attacking Jews. Speaking from 24 years of military experience, once a war is lost their is no "do over" no " you won the war but the land is still ours" no " It's not fair ". Israel is the sovereign nation of the Jewish people. This is the way the world has worked since the dawn of humans and it is not going to change. In the last 100 years 1900-2000 the total number of wars worldwide was 245 wars.