I think the ratio idea in government was doomed from the start. it's anti democratic and anti meritocratic on the face of it to say that members of one group can only hold this job or that job even if there are members of other groups that could do it better.
Impossible. Lebanon was part of bilad al sham. When artificial countries are made like Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan forcefully against geography, demography and history. It's never ending war.
Not really. Even without Israel and the problems it created, sectarian and political tensions would errupt no matter what, especially as the Arab World was always divided thanks to its own internal dynamics and thanks to the Cold War.
I’m a Christian from iraq and I visited Lebanon in 1977 when I was ten and despite all the damage and destruction due to all the bombing Lebanon was STILL amazingly beautiful!!! Habibi Lebanon I cry for you
My great grand mother has always repeated, that bus was the beginning of the fall. But yes your right, the story from before that is very important for people to understand better
As a child i visited Lebanon in 1985 with my family, travelling from the airport to East Beirut, i was in compete shock at all the bombed out buildings, army, militias, checkpoints, etc, the next morning i woke up to the sound of blasts, though none of my Lebanese cousins were phased, they told me to go back to sleep, lol... coming from the peace of Australia to Lebanon i did feel scared, though this only lasted a couple of days. I really did enjoy my 2 months there, all the people were friendly and loved life, the social vibe in Beirut was incredible. its a shame what politics and religion can do, Lebanon is a beautiful country with a very strong resilient people, they have so much potential. one thing the Lebanese have learned is that there are no winners in WAR , everyone loses.
My coworker is an Christian Lebanese he escaped when the war broke out ! His whole family has been murdered in the war! I treated him like a brother and he treated me like a brother ! Be blessed Lebanon !
I am also Christian Lebanese and I don’t get to hear stories like this, you know they don’t like to talk about anything. Thanks for sharing so I can do my own research. What year did that happen? Terrible news to lose his whole family, that is heart breaking.
Iam from Libya 🇱🇾 and I remembered my dad ,he talked to me about the civil war (76/89)when Lebanese fought each other BC the different of religions between ppl there !!the civil war was always horrible killed thousands thousands of innocent ppl also it destroyed country and relations between families ,,,so ❤️ best wishes from Tripoli Libya 🇱🇾 to Tripoli Lebanon 🇱🇧
I'm a Lebanese that grew up during the civil war, congrats for explaining what happened in a non biased way, really rare to see that on internet Subscribed
@@DanielYWoo religion is just a part of the problem, one of the biggest reason of the war, was the social inequalities between the communities. Clearly the maronites (I am one) were privileged and the political and economical system were at their advantage
@@DanielYWoo the difference is that the US is a country made of immigrants who left their country for opportunities in hope of a better future. While religious and ethnic groups have lived in Lebanon for thousands of years.
@@DanielYWoo Society would lose one of its pillars. Religion is a social construct that is one of the bedrocks of social order, just like currencies and countries. Even if it is just a placebo effect, religiosity is correlated with happiness, meaning, and belonging. Taking religion away would lead to even more violence than what is committed in its name today.
Lebanon has always been a point of religious diversity in the middle east. It was without doubt that the state would collapse into chaos and instability due to the power- division policy which was catastrophic. I have heard many stories of a beautiful Lebanon from my grandmother, may she rest in peace.
Peace in the middle east is a mad man's dream Lawrence of Arabia These desert dwellers are the Spawn of Shaytan himself Anyone believing in this desert God of Abraham got to be insane Both Islam and Christianity both built on towers of skulls over ocean of innocent blood I give thanks I am not a middle eastern person P.S. August 12th 2022 Sir Salman Rushdie stabbed multiple times in the great Allah America irony giving a speech on USA being a safe heaven for exiled writers The perpetrators of this heinous I crime a Muslim If a fatwah issued by humans thirty years ago can't be reformed What hopes for Islam 1400 years and issued by Allah himself
It was frankly a hopeless situation in the modern day. Thanks to the Ottomans delayed modernization the muslim world had a delayed adoption of nationalism, and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism thanks to a reactionary response to modernization made sectarian and ethnic conflict pretty much inevitable. The same thing happened across the muslim world where any ethnic or religious minorities often faced discrimination at best and outright hostility at worst. Theres a reason most jews and Christians fled the muslim world en masse, and ethnic conflict wasnt much better with those without an ethnic state being repressed, like the Kurds.
@@arthas640 you seem to paint the middle east world as a primitive muslim world vs everyone mindset. which is false. modernization is not required for a better country/nation/anything let alone nationalism. and "Islamic fundamentalism" or the reasonable response to having one's religion being challenged in the name of western 'forwardism', is completely natural. the division of politics, those rifts in laws, are all because of westerns dividing the middle east just for the sole purpose of keeping other in perpetual disagreement, never in a position of power, but always fighting for it
Yes, believe that, as you want. Whoever started to kill Muslims and tried to wipe them out of Cyprus, isn't that the Christian priest and his Christian followers?
@@nicholascage7546 "Cyprus is not Cyprus" Do you realize how stupid that sounds? You just called Cyprus Cyprus, while at the same time saying that Cyprus is not Cyprus... Another L. HAHAHAHA TO MUCH TURKEY EDUCATION... The British eat you for thanksgiving.
I question the sequence of events in this video. I grew up in South Lebanon and was around 11 years old when the civil war started. I remember Christians were being attacked in Sidon before the civil war.
It was my luck to serve in this beautiful country in the Golden period from 2005 to 2017 one of the highest position ever held by an Indian in one of the biggest industry of a God fearing Lebanese business man who helped people and society around the industrial area. Pray to the Almighty to help this nation to come out of this crisis also soon and flourish like anything for the Lebanese to live in peace
The Palestinians wanted the war, they got booted out of Gordan and needed to create conflict to stay there. The amount of complexity in the civil war would be more than all wars combined.
Zionist Entity causes havoc in Middle East and West all their leaders change their names from East European names to Middle East names to cover up their true orogins
I agree with you in part. The PLO has overstepped boundaries and I also suspect that this was a Zionist tactic to destabilize the countries around Israel. It was also tried in Jordan until the PLO was thrown out. Unfortunately, all Lebanese fell for it, Christians and Muslims. I say this as a Sunni Muslim. The best proof of my theory is what the PLO has become today. They are traitors.
The Palestinians wanted refuge from being genocided and have their homeland taken by the zionists and the west, the same standard can be applied to the Armenians who also sought refuge in Lebanon due to their similar situation with the Ottomans, also like mentioned in the video the political system is still biased towards christians
@@misterzgharta7031 Its impossible. Arab Muslims can never be secular, they will always favor islam in one way or the other.Even Europe is having a hard time dealing with them.
@@misterzgharta7031 if saying you aren’t fascist means you aren’t fascist then Americans wouldn’t have political issues at all. Fascism often comes in the name of liberalism
Long before the mandate of France, there was a long history of internal fighting and killing between the different minorities in Lebanon.. in the 19. Century there were many massacres, especially in the wars between the maronates and the druze.. we should start looking for the problems we already had before blaming the imperial forces, which of course also played a role in the conflict.
Euro/Western Centrism is persistent, unfortunately. The interpretation of global history with Western Imperial forces being the catalyst for every success and problem taints broader understandings. Lebanon is an old place, much older than French colonialism and the CIA. The old historiography often championed the West's intervention in the affairs of the "savages" on other continents, now the overcorrection is to demonize colonists for every single problem the former empire faces, regardless of context--it's the other side of the same coin. Despite what Westerners think, they aren't the center of the universe.
@@NP1066 Sometimes i wonder do the Great power of the time realized the danger type of nationalism if people just based their ethnicity, regilion and skin color. That they will caused the great power lot of problem for long time.
All of the civil wars in Lebanon was started by Maronite Christians who felt confident to go to war because of the French support , this is why the Maronite Christians are the only violent Christian group in the Mideast, for the sake of power and the desire to ethnically cleans non Christian ( even before Muslims were part of Lebanon the Christian Maronite Church started a civil war with the Druze minority ) Sunni Muslims didn’t want to be part of Maronite Lebanon but they were forced by the French and the Maronite church to be part of Lebanon because of the strategic importance of the Muslim regions but the Maronite Christians wanted an Apartheid system this is why Lebanon has failed ( unfortunately Sunni Muslims became part of Lebanon when the Sunni coast was forcibly made part of Lebanon by “secular” sectarian France which was implementing the political agenda of one group the Maronite Church and Maronite political Christianity , this all started when the Maronite Church labeled the Druze minority as infidels and enemy of the cross and called for the genocide of the Druze but after suffering heavy losses the Druze minority turn the table and defeated the Maronites killing over 15000 Maronite soldiers of the church, this lead the war mongering church to call for peace and coexistence but when they had the upper hand before the conflict started they rejected all of the calls of peace from the Druze who begged the church not to go to war with them , but after the Maronite were defeated the church called on France to intervene this is how French colonization started , and the seeds of civil war in Lebanon then in Syria , secular France originally wanted to establish a Christian state in Mount Lebanon which was Majority Christian with a minority of Druze ( no Muslims were in Mount Lebanon ) this was a good idea for both Maronite and neighboring Muslim regions although it would be unfortunate for the Druze ,,, unfortunately the Church after France arrived wanted to expand Lebanon to include the Sunni coast and the Shiite coast ,,, the French thought it was a bad idea but the church and political Maronite Christianity insisted , to achieve this objective the French had to divide the Sunni coast to insure that Sunni Muslims won’t be a majority in Lebanon to ensure Maronite Christian supremacy and to prevent the Sunni coast from unifying the French gave one part of the Sunni coast to the Christian Maronite this is how Sunni founded them self in Lebanon , and the other part to political Alwaite which was crated by France to be part of the Alwaite mountain state ,it was part of France policy of minorities against the Muslim majority particularly the Sunnis , the Sunni coast stretched from Muslim Beirut to the borders of Turkey with almost 99% of the native population there Sunni Muslims , the French divide the Sunni coast and gave part of it to the Christian dominated government of Mount Lebanon and other part of the Sunni region to the Alwaite mountain state , the Sunni revolted against dividing them and making them a minority ( ironically Palestinian was also divided and a large part of it was given to political Ashkenazi Judaism who came from Europe and Sunni Muslims founded themselves prosecuted by 4 groups political Judaism political Maronite Christianity , political Alwaite , political secularism this lead to the conflicts in the Mideast because political Islamic Sunnism was excluded from politics unlike other groups and they became the victims of the worst type of prosecution from mass killings to ethnic cleaning to discrimination and identity wars and they were also the first victims of terrorism at the hand of political Maronite Christianity and political Judaism and political Alwaitesm , and political secularism in the Arab world , I recommend reading the book by JOURNAL ARTICLE Maronite Hegemony to Maronite Militancy: The Creation and Disintegration of Lebanon Elaine C. Hagopian
I'm a Lebanese American I lived all of it before moving to USA . This video took me back to my childhood . Thank you for your awesome work and saying the fact like it happen.
more than 20 percent is disturbing.. 30 percent is dangerous..40 percent is civil war.. more than 50 percent.. then unrest and persecution of other religion... 70 percent.. fighting themselves to death...
When the leaders are assassinating critics and protestors, conflict would have happened eventually. When the country is as fractured as Lebanon where every sect is its own armed clan that settle disputes with each other violently, it would have happened eventually. When you still have people blaming the whole thing on one religious group or another almost 50 years later, it would have happened eventually.
It's insane that anyone thought such a pact would work in the long term. The idea that positions in government should be predetermined based on religion is inherently undemocratic.
Thank you for the historical information of what happened to cause the civil war in Lebanon. So many people do not seek historical references to the struggles that keep occurring in this region! Study brings enlightenment and knowledge!
@@ynwa8835 The Jordanian government that expelled the Palestinians from Jordan and moved to Lebanon and started the civil war there after the Palestinians tried to kill the king of Jordan
I believe the Restaurant on the cliff sea side shown in the video is the one had lunch at in late 1991, on a ‘day trip’ to Beirut. I was told it had survived, whilst other nearby establishments were damaged, because the leaders of the 3 major factions used it as their favourite dining place. Of course precautions were in place to ensure their patronage was not on the same day! It’s where in the ‘good old days’ diners would reward youths diving from the cliff into the sea with tips. Halcyon days for sure.
but the whole world is crying for these animals.. pure propaganda .. unless western media reveals all the truth and educate the world.. bad things will happen
Not many useful videos can be found on this historical event so I thank you for covering it. I am really fascinated by the Lebanese civil war because a lot of Iranian guerilla fighters and prominent figures like Mostafa Chamran were trained during that time and after the 1979 revolution the IRI was active there in some capacity whilst also being engaged in a war against Iraq. Probably the only way to prevent the civil war would've been to integrate the Palestinian refugees sooners but that would necessitate the changing of the national pact.
@@randommonkey4900 That would be more alternative history but I don't think so since you can't "not allow" refugees, especially when they're a neighboring country it's impossible to keep all of them out. Refugees go wherever they feel safe.
@@randommonkey4900 Aside from the international law allowing refugees to settle wherever, it would not be possible for Lebanon to prevent it even with force short of committing second genocide with the Zionists.
@@morqesahar also, Palestinians are fellow Arabs so letting to be slaughtered by the Zionists would turn the entire Muslim population in Lebanon to turn on the Christians.
I played basketball with a dude from lebanon in high school years ago. Thought he was just another quiet nice shy foreign kid. Got into a little dust up at a party and this dude flew in outta nowhere and stopped these dudes from beating me up. No wonder he wasnt intimidated
Arabs whether muslim Christian or jews have brains to increase fights and not for solutions. Pakistan followed the same Arab mindset while killing Bangladeshi, Sindhi and Balochi people. But salute to Bangladeshi people for peace and development and hardwork
@@umaryusuf537 A country education system based on hatred towards all other communities except theirs is bound to produce such military. Military did it with support of civilian leaders. A country is known from its leaders. Is military from some other country, is it not know by Pakistan Army ?
@@somyadas1618 Pakistans biggest issue has been it’s military and establishment that discriminates against Muslims Christian’s Hindus Sikhs basically everyone it’s a corrupt society that is almost feudal some people blame Islam for Pakistans issues which is ridiculous
How? Demographics. If Lebanon was 100% Christian or 100% Sunni or 100% Shia it would be a relatively stable country. Countries where there is no dominant group are almost always unstable. Bosnia is ungovernable. Yemen is ungovernable. Nigeria is ungovernable. Syria has been run (into the ground) by the 12% Alawite population and it descended into chaos. Lebanon is too diverse for its own good. The best they could do in the ME is carve out a nation for Arab Christians, a small one for Druze, a large one for for Kurds, a rump Alawite state in western Syria, and start relocating populations and redrawing borders by force if necessary. It will eventually lead to a homeostasis.
Quite wrong, actually. The Sunnis of Syria couldn't have their country to themselves because of minority groups. Your thought pattern is why Russia and Ukraine are at war. Take your orthodoxy and keep it to yourself. The Middle East doesn't need it.
Stupid comment. Lebanese Muslims were secular back then. Its not their problem that Lebanese Christians held disproportionate power, discriminated against Muslims and Druze, forbade the integration of Palestinian refugees because of their religion then started a civil war to protect their power.
Islam is not called the "Religion of peace" because it's a religion of pacifists. If you had actually done a little bit of research instead of showcasing you ignorance here, you would have known that...
Thank you for sharing this, the Lebanese Civil War is a complicated war and it’s hard to fully explain why it started though this is a great try at that in simplifying.
@@slyjackalkompa4547 Ethnic tensions, UAR, Christian Nationalism and all the factions within Lebanon tied to it. Lebanon was a ticking time bomb which just can’t be simplified by Palestinian Refugees triggering the civil war.
@@slyjackalkompa4547 I’ll agree upon that, if it weren’t for Palestinians then the civil war wouldn’t have triggered in 1975. It would have been delayed to the 1980s or maybe even 1990s which might be significantly worse as Lebanon wouldn’t have Rafic Hairi to reconstruct it.
No, the government never failed to create the balance of power between different factions, it was the because of refugees that this civil war had to break out. Say it as it is.
They played identity politics. They should’ve allowed people to vote for who they believed was the most qualified for the job. Instead, they created a situation where a person’s religion could dictate their level of importance. They should’ve respected each other as fellow Lebanese citizens instead of members of rival religious groups. How was sectarian violence not supposed to happen at that point?
Since lock downs in 2020 i i took interest in watching foreign countries on Utube. One of countries i did watch about was Lebanon. Since then i fall in love with Lebanon culture, traditions, art, food, arcitecture and before everything Arab Lebanese music. I love it though i do not know Arab language. The Beirut city is so beautiful and antic. Combination of old and new Beirut. Food is super yummy. I would like one day if possible to visit Lebanon. I am 63. Who knows maybe. I am getting older.
I watched the whole video and I still don't understand why they are fighting. I mean I 'understsnd' but the idea of just fighting for keeps like they do generation after generation seems so alien to me.
No wonder the Arab countries don’t want them at all, but the politicians and some leaders of the West want them in their countries Western Europe gonna be like France, they are getting swarmed with mus lims from Africa and the ME, and one day in a hundred years or 500, they are gonna be the majority, and turn those countries into an Islamic State under Sharia Law, the next Lebanons 😆
As long as you have religion in your government this is what will happen. This is why Lebanon, along with the rest of the Middle East needs to be secular
I do not think Religion itself is the problem. It’s the use of Religion by the ‘Leaders’ to promote their own ideals and control/power/influence/wealth/ambition who are the guilty.
10:00 you would think it was a random attack by the gunman with such narration lol. There was a scuffle prior to the shooting which is failed to be mentioned. As Pierre’s Kataeb made a road-block to prevent cars during the ceremony some of the militia men became nervous when the Palestinian guerrillas returning from a rally refused to take an alternative route to drive through the road going near the church. The Kataeb militia consequently in the ensuing scuffle shot the PLO driver by accident and those shots fired towards those outside the church mentioned in the video were the response. No justification of those heinous acts from both sides but context matters!
Nice video but the thing is, the war was not christian vs Muslim it was left (with Muslim majority but had some christian representative) vs right (majority Christian but had Muslim representative
@@michaeledglington7812 thank you mate, I am from Lebanon a Christian fully supporting the left wing I studied this perfect it was very sad what happened and I truly believe it was the effect of the cold war the USSR (supported the left) and USA (supported the right) and we are still suffering the effects sadly
@@edwardtannous6 the usual comment whenever muslims have a problem with other religions. It's always political and never religious. Being an Indian I'm continuously reminded of this when talking abt medieval India, or the pre partition india or kashmir or pakisthan. I'm reminded of this when talking abt afganisthan And so on and on
How dis the goverment just let the PLO get in? I understand the refugees from the conflicts on sorrounding countries but an entire guerilla group geting in without any reestriction. I undesrtand the why but not the how.
Couldn't have anything to do with allowing huge numbers of Islamic terrorists in the form of refugees that lived apart from all other Lebanese. Their own camps, civil governance with the expressed intent of destroying Lebanon's neighbor Israel. Paramilitary groups building bunkers and rocket launch sites aimed at Israel. The Jews of palastine are hardly blameless in this conflict but outsiders put your civilians in the crosshairs is an unacceptable hardship enforced on the civilians of Lebanon! Which map would the Palestinians which to accept 1948, 1956, 1968, 1972. Which one?" No victory, no peace" Mohammed Farah Idid. Somali warlord before his son who was a US marine took over after his father's death. Palestinian refusal to admit defeat only benefits Zionists who will push the Palestinians off all the land. Unfortunately might does make right, especially for a people who can claim they suffered an attempted genocide!
I served in Beirut back in 1991. Still a dangerous place, we moved between east and west Beirut netting with both Christian and Muslim factions as well as with the Druze in the mountains. Trying to get everyone to lay down their arms and let th Lebanese government take over. In addition to negotiating the release of hostages take from American University of Beirut. Had our wok cut out.
In the mid-20th century, Lebanon was one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries in the Middle East. Its capital, Beirut, was once known as the Paris of the Middle East. It was the only state in the Middle East where Christianity was dominant, at one point making up over 60% of the population. Now, Lebanon is Islamic.
You forgot to mention that the peace agreement changed the governing formulas from 6:5 Christian to 6:6. Additionally, the (Sunni) prime minister was made more powerful than the (Maronite) president, whereas previously it had been the reverse.
Stupid comment. The conflict wasn't of religious nature. It was because Christians held disproportionate power, discriminated against Muslims and Druze, forbade the integration of Palestinian refugees because of their religion then started a civil war to preserve their power. My grandmother herself is a Lebanese Greek Orthodox and she blames the Maronite factions for starting the civil war because of their greed and racism.
@@nicholascage7546 we started the war directly but every single provocation came from the palestinian,they tried to assasin Pierre Gemayel and kidnapped Bachir. Should we kiss their right hand or their left? They tried to take our country as a replacement for palestine
Good summary. However you omitted a few events which had its impact on the civil war. The assassination of Kamal Jomblat and the involvement of Saddam Hussain in the war back in the 80s and early 90s.
The main reason behind the Lebanese civil war was the mass militarization of Palestinians in Lebanon. This caused a lot of tension between the Palestinians and the Lebanese nationalists who were and still are mostly Christians. Lebanon had prosperity and peace. The economy was one of the best. The issue wasn’t really religious as much as it was political. Many Christians fought with the leftists and Palestinians who were mostly Muslims, and many Muslims fought with nationalist Christians. The main objective was to eradicate the identity of Lebanon and to join pan-Arabic leftist ideologies. Sadly, this country has been ruined because of its neighbors more than anything, and is still paying the price of its geographical location.
What most do not know is that Lebanese folks did not get along before Lebanon became a country. Sectarian wars were common. The French created this abnormal place to be the way it is. Not to blame the French. Lebanese people are to blame.
Lebanese always would have its problems but they were resolved with words even if there were sporadic incidents here and there. the problem was the PLO which had no love for Lebanon and just saw it as a battlefront for its resistance to israeli forces.
It's almost like setting up a government based on ethnic inclusivity, religious factionalism, and group identity politics is doomed to fail from the start. Someone should tell that to the people in D.C. so they don't start codifying racial and ethnic quotas into law...
Not when it's bastardised and appropriated into a system that's been handed to you by your colonial overlords. Diversity is a beautiful thing that CAN be a strength but that doesn't change the fact it is highly volatile - use it properly and it can create magic; use it improperly and it will create chaos.
Do you think the Lebanese Civil War was avoidable?
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I think the ratio idea in government was doomed from the start. it's anti democratic and anti meritocratic on the face of it to say that members of one group can only hold this job or that job even if there are members of other groups that could do it better.
With such discrimination against the muslims in the government one more civil war is around the corner
Impossible. Lebanon was part of bilad al sham. When artificial countries are made like Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan forcefully against geography, demography and history. It's never ending war.
Not really. Even without Israel and the problems it created, sectarian and political tensions would errupt no matter what, especially as the Arab World was always divided thanks to its own internal dynamics and thanks to the Cold War.
@@kuroazrem5376 that kind of determinism is a little ahistorical don't you think?
I’m a Christian from iraq and I visited Lebanon in 1977 when I was ten and despite all the damage and destruction due to all the bombing Lebanon was STILL amazingly beautiful!!! Habibi Lebanon I cry for you
It's basically the same fictional story why kill over it
@@JohnnyChronic18 humans kill eachother over sports teams, we are just dumb violent apes when you peel back all the politics and theology
I was there too in 1977,for a short time,a day or two with a Greek merchant ship and as you have written here,it was still beautiful.
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I was on transit in 1977 at Lebanon airport. They kept us in the airport and security was tight
Thank you for acknowledging the complex culture of Lebanon. Many videos I've seen on this don't give any context and start at the bus incident.
Lebanon's modern history is... complex to put it mildly!
@@HikmaHistory as a lebanese, I can quite confirm so.
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My great grand mother has always repeated, that bus was the beginning of the fall.
But yes your right, the story from before that is very important for people to understand better
As a child i visited Lebanon in 1985 with my family, travelling from the airport to East Beirut, i was in compete shock at all the bombed out buildings, army, militias, checkpoints, etc, the next morning i woke up to the sound of blasts, though none of my Lebanese cousins were phased, they told me to go back to sleep, lol... coming from the peace of Australia to Lebanon i did feel scared, though this only lasted a couple of days. I really did enjoy my 2 months there, all the people were friendly and loved life, the social vibe in Beirut was incredible. its a shame what politics and religion can do, Lebanon is a beautiful country with a very strong resilient people, they have so much potential. one thing the Lebanese have learned is that there are no winners in WAR , everyone loses.
Have been recently, it's better but u can see old buildings filled with bullet holes, reminiscent of the war.
You have to go now in 2024. It’s completely different now, looks very modern
not untill hizoballah is gone@@KasAlbums
My coworker is an Christian Lebanese he escaped when the war broke out ! His whole family has been murdered in the war! I treated him like a brother and he treated me like a brother ! Be blessed Lebanon !
I am also Christian Lebanese and I don’t get to hear stories like this, you know they don’t like to talk about anything. Thanks for sharing so I can do my own research. What year did that happen? Terrible news to lose his whole family, that is heart breaking.
Very unfortunate😢😢😢
Iam from Libya 🇱🇾 and I remembered my dad ,he talked to me about the civil war (76/89)when Lebanese fought each other BC the different of religions between ppl there !!the civil war was always horrible killed thousands thousands of innocent ppl also it destroyed country and relations between families ,,,so ❤️ best wishes from Tripoli Libya 🇱🇾 to Tripoli Lebanon 🇱🇧
Libya attacked christians but they got fucked somalian aswell
God bless you
U prefer Qaddafi Libya or now Libya?
@@Ba-vt4ijnot a Libyan, but always Gaddafi's Libya.
@@Ba-vt4ijif you are Lebanese, can u tell who was responsible for Beirut explosion??
I'm a Lebanese that grew up during the civil war, congrats for explaining what happened in a non biased way, really rare to see that on internet
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What if there is no religion just like the world described in John Lennon's song "Imagination"?
@@DanielYWoo religion is just a part of the problem, one of the biggest reason of the war, was the social inequalities between the communities.
Clearly the maronites (I am one) were privileged and the political and economical system were at their advantage
@@bassemtabet7860 Maybe you are right, the US has so many religions and diversities but it's still a powerful country. Is it safe now?
@@DanielYWoo the difference is that the US is a country made of immigrants who left their country for opportunities in hope of a better future. While religious and ethnic groups have lived in Lebanon for thousands of years.
@@DanielYWoo Society would lose one of its pillars. Religion is a social construct that is one of the bedrocks of social order, just like currencies and countries. Even if it is just a placebo effect, religiosity is correlated with happiness, meaning, and belonging. Taking religion away would lead to even more violence than what is committed in its name today.
Lebanon has always been a point of religious diversity in the middle east. It was without doubt that the state would collapse into chaos and instability due to the power- division policy which was catastrophic. I have heard many stories of a beautiful Lebanon from my grandmother, may she rest in peace.
Peace in the middle east is a mad man's dream
Lawrence of Arabia
These desert dwellers are the Spawn of Shaytan himself
Anyone believing in this desert God of Abraham got to be insane
Both Islam and Christianity both built on towers of skulls over ocean of innocent blood
I give thanks I am not a middle eastern person
P.S. August 12th 2022 Sir Salman Rushdie stabbed multiple times in the great Allah America irony giving a speech on USA being a safe heaven for exiled writers
The perpetrators of this heinous I crime a Muslim
If a fatwah issued by humans thirty years ago can't be reformed
What hopes for Islam 1400 years and issued by Allah himself
Allah yer7ama
It was frankly a hopeless situation in the modern day. Thanks to the Ottomans delayed modernization the muslim world had a delayed adoption of nationalism, and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism thanks to a reactionary response to modernization made sectarian and ethnic conflict pretty much inevitable. The same thing happened across the muslim world where any ethnic or religious minorities often faced discrimination at best and outright hostility at worst. Theres a reason most jews and Christians fled the muslim world en masse, and ethnic conflict wasnt much better with those without an ethnic state being repressed, like the Kurds.
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This Lebanese disagrees
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you seem to paint the middle east world as a primitive muslim world vs everyone mindset. which is false.
modernization is not required for a better country/nation/anything let alone nationalism.
and "Islamic fundamentalism" or the reasonable response to having one's religion being challenged in the name of western 'forwardism', is completely natural. the division of politics, those rifts in laws, are all because of westerns dividing the middle east just for the sole purpose of keeping other in perpetual disagreement, never in a position of power, but always fighting for it
The muslim turkeys tried the same in Cypress but the cypriots defeated them.
Cyprus is now divided so I don't think Greek Cypriots defeated anyone.
Yes, believe that, as you want. Whoever started to kill Muslims and tried to wipe them out of Cyprus, isn't that the Christian priest and his Christian followers?
@@nicholascage7546 The fact that Cyprus is still Cyprus and not Turkey proves Cyprus won.
Cyprus will always be Cyprus and not Turkey.
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@@TexterEX Cyprus is not Cyprus, it's a divided country. So yeah, Turks won.
@@nicholascage7546 "Cyprus is not Cyprus"
Do you realize how stupid that sounds? You just called Cyprus Cyprus, while at the same time saying that Cyprus is not Cyprus...
Another L.
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TO MUCH TURKEY EDUCATION... The British eat you for thanksgiving.
I question the sequence of events in this video. I grew up in South Lebanon and was around 11 years old when the civil war started. I remember Christians were being attacked in Sidon before the civil war.
likely.
Thanks for your opinion, history lies in the heart of the debate
Do you happen to have Discord
It was my luck to serve in this beautiful country in the Golden period from 2005 to 2017 one of the highest position ever held by an Indian in one of the biggest industry of a God fearing Lebanese business man who helped people and society around the industrial area. Pray to the Almighty to help this nation to come out of this crisis also soon and flourish like anything for the Lebanese to live in peace
The Palestinians wanted the war, they got booted out of Gordan and needed to create conflict to stay there. The amount of complexity in the civil war would be more than all wars combined.
Zionist Entity causes havoc in Middle East and West
all their leaders change their names from East European names to Middle East names to cover up their true orogins
I agree with you in part. The PLO has overstepped boundaries and I also suspect that this was a Zionist tactic to destabilize the countries around Israel. It was also tried in Jordan until the PLO was thrown out. Unfortunately, all Lebanese fell for it, Christians and Muslims. I say this as a Sunni Muslim. The best proof of my theory is what the PLO has become today. They are traitors.
You’re a Jew, your opinion on this matter is irrelevant.
The Palestinians wanted refuge from being genocided and have their homeland taken by the zionists and the west, the same standard can be applied to the Armenians who also sought refuge in Lebanon due to their similar situation with the Ottomans, also like mentioned in the video the political system is still biased towards christians
@@Abo-Galambo Doesnt give them a right to destroy their neighbors and start wars.
Everyone I spoke to regardless of religion agreed that the sectarian system and constitution has been the problem
I'm Leb Christian and I agree
State should be completely secular
One of the reasons why I support SSNP (political party)
@@misterzgharta7031 they are literally Fascists
@@CataciousAmogusevic
Antun Saadeh literally said "our party isn't Hitlerite nor are we fascist". I can give you the full quote and reference as well.
@@misterzgharta7031 Its impossible. Arab Muslims can never be secular, they will always favor islam in one way or the other.Even Europe is having a hard time dealing with them.
@@misterzgharta7031 if saying you aren’t fascist means you aren’t fascist then Americans wouldn’t have political issues at all. Fascism often comes in the name of liberalism
Long before the mandate of France, there was a long history of internal fighting and killing between the different minorities in Lebanon.. in the 19. Century there were many massacres, especially in the wars between the maronates and the druze.. we should start looking for the problems we already had before blaming the imperial forces, which of course also played a role in the conflict.
Euro/Western Centrism is persistent, unfortunately. The interpretation of global history with Western Imperial forces being the catalyst for every success and problem taints broader understandings. Lebanon is an old place, much older than French colonialism and the CIA. The old historiography often championed the West's intervention in the affairs of the "savages" on other continents, now the overcorrection is to demonize colonists for every single problem the former empire faces, regardless of context--it's the other side of the same coin. Despite what Westerners think, they aren't the center of the universe.
@@theodoreschindler2372 I know where the "civilized" live.
19th century. Not 18.
@@NP1066 Sometimes i wonder do the Great power of the time realized the danger type of nationalism if people just based their ethnicity, regilion and skin color. That they will caused the great power lot of problem for long time.
All of the civil wars in Lebanon was started by Maronite Christians who felt confident to go to war because of the French support , this is why the Maronite Christians are the only violent Christian group in the Mideast, for the sake of power and the desire to ethnically cleans non Christian ( even before Muslims were part of Lebanon the Christian Maronite Church started a civil war with the Druze minority ) Sunni Muslims didn’t want to be part of Maronite Lebanon but they were forced by the French and the Maronite church to be part of Lebanon because of the strategic importance of the Muslim regions but the Maronite Christians wanted an Apartheid system this is why Lebanon has failed ( unfortunately Sunni Muslims became part of Lebanon when the Sunni coast was forcibly made part of Lebanon by “secular” sectarian France which was implementing the political agenda of one group the Maronite Church and Maronite political Christianity , this all started when the Maronite Church labeled the Druze minority as infidels and enemy of the cross and called for the genocide of the Druze but after suffering heavy losses the Druze minority turn the table and defeated the Maronites killing over 15000 Maronite soldiers of the church, this lead the war mongering church to call for peace and coexistence but when they had the upper hand before the conflict started they rejected all of the calls of peace from the Druze who begged the church not to go to war with them , but after the Maronite were defeated the church called on France to intervene this is how French colonization started , and the seeds of civil war in Lebanon then in Syria , secular France originally wanted to establish a Christian state in Mount Lebanon which was Majority Christian with a minority of Druze ( no Muslims were in Mount Lebanon ) this was a good idea for both Maronite and neighboring Muslim regions although it would be unfortunate for the Druze ,,, unfortunately the Church after France arrived wanted to expand Lebanon to include the Sunni coast and the Shiite coast ,,, the French thought it was a bad idea but the church and political Maronite Christianity insisted , to achieve this objective the French had to divide the Sunni coast to insure that Sunni Muslims won’t be a majority in Lebanon to ensure Maronite Christian supremacy and to prevent the Sunni coast from unifying the French gave one part of the Sunni coast to the Christian Maronite this is how Sunni founded them self in Lebanon , and the other part to political Alwaite which was crated by France to be part of the Alwaite mountain state ,it was part of France policy of minorities against the Muslim majority particularly the Sunnis , the Sunni coast stretched from Muslim Beirut to the borders of Turkey with almost 99% of the native population there Sunni Muslims , the French divide the Sunni coast and gave part of it to the Christian dominated government of Mount Lebanon and other part of the Sunni region to the Alwaite mountain state , the Sunni revolted against dividing them and making them a minority ( ironically Palestinian was also divided and a large part of it was given to political Ashkenazi Judaism who came from Europe and Sunni Muslims founded themselves prosecuted by 4 groups political Judaism political Maronite Christianity , political Alwaite , political secularism this lead to the conflicts in the Mideast because political Islamic Sunnism was excluded from politics unlike other groups and they became the victims of the worst type of prosecution from mass killings to ethnic cleaning to discrimination and identity wars and they were also the first victims of terrorism at the hand of political Maronite Christianity and political Judaism and political Alwaitesm , and political secularism in the Arab world , I recommend reading the book by JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maronite Hegemony to Maronite Militancy: The Creation and Disintegration of Lebanon
Elaine C. Hagopian
Thank you for the video! Lebanon has always place in my heart. I worked as a peacekeeper there and hoping all the best for the beatiful country.
Labanon: exists
France and Syria: it free real estate
France,Syria,USA,Iran, and Israel
my best friend, who now lives in Switzerland, always feels like crying when she talks about her home country.
I'm a Lebanese American I lived all of it before moving to USA . This video took me back to my childhood . Thank you for your awesome work and saying the fact like it happen.
What's your religion?
@@alaskaman805 muslim
@@mikebazzi3449 i hope you are living peacefully there not Spreading Jehad in U.S
@@happybunny6152 really bro
Before even watching the video I have a question. Would this conflict happen if muslims didnt became majority?
No
Search Bridgette Gabriel. She was the victim of Palestinian terrorism.
There would have been no civil war
more than 20 percent is disturbing.. 30 percent is dangerous..40 percent is civil war.. more than 50 percent.. then unrest and persecution of other religion... 70 percent.. fighting themselves to death...
When the leaders are assassinating critics and protestors, conflict would have happened eventually.
When the country is as fractured as Lebanon where every sect is its own armed clan that settle disputes with each other violently, it would have happened eventually.
When you still have people blaming the whole thing on one religious group or another almost 50 years later, it would have happened eventually.
It's insane that anyone thought such a pact would work in the long term. The idea that positions in government should be predetermined based on religion is inherently undemocratic.
Thank you for the historical information of what happened to cause the civil war in Lebanon. So many people do not seek historical references to the struggles that keep occurring in this region! Study brings enlightenment and knowledge!
Thank you so much for this video, the script, the way it's presented. Love from Peshawar ❤️
Manana
Thanks much to the uploader. It really helps me better understand what occurred. This is great!
Thanks Josh!
Always start with Palestinian
The civil war in lebanon
The civil war in syria 2011
The civil war in Israel
Im a Syrien Muslim btw
Why pelestine
“Nazi destroyed our home”
@@ynwa8835 The Jordanian government that expelled the Palestinians from Jordan and moved to Lebanon and started the civil war there after the Palestinians tried to kill the king of Jordan
@@נדבכוכבי-ע1ר sources
@@ynwa8835 source of what?!? Do you not know your own history? Search black September and jordanian -PLO war
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL. I can’t believe you uploaded weeks ago and I just noticed, thanks for the great content
I believe the Restaurant on the cliff sea side shown in the video is the one had lunch at in late 1991, on a ‘day trip’ to Beirut. I was told it had survived, whilst other nearby establishments were damaged, because the leaders of the 3 major factions used it as their favourite dining place. Of course precautions were in place to ensure their patronage was not on the same day! It’s where in the ‘good old days’ diners would reward youths diving from the cliff into the sea with tips. Halcyon days for sure.
We gave refuge to Palestinians and they occupied our land. Lebanese maronites will never forget it
but the whole world is crying for these animals.. pure propaganda .. unless western media reveals all the truth and educate the world.. bad things will happen
Not many useful videos can be found on this historical event so I thank you for covering it. I am really fascinated by the Lebanese civil war because a lot of Iranian guerilla fighters and prominent figures like Mostafa Chamran were trained during that time and after the 1979 revolution the IRI was active there in some capacity whilst also being engaged in a war against Iraq.
Probably the only way to prevent the civil war would've been to integrate the Palestinian refugees sooners but that would necessitate the changing of the national pact.
do you think it could've been avoided if Lebanon had not allowed in Palestinian refugees in the first place
@@randommonkey4900 That would be more alternative history but I don't think so since you can't "not allow" refugees, especially when they're a neighboring country it's impossible to keep all of them out. Refugees go wherever they feel safe.
@@morqesahar wait home come their not allowed to not?
@@randommonkey4900 Aside from the international law allowing refugees to settle wherever, it would not be possible for Lebanon to prevent it even with force short of committing second genocide with the Zionists.
@@morqesahar also, Palestinians are fellow Arabs so letting to be slaughtered by the Zionists would turn the entire Muslim population in Lebanon to turn on the Christians.
Lebanon was a beautiful and peaceful country until they decided to take in Palestinian refugees. A warning from history.
This is a good video! Good Thing it got recommended on my feed. Keep up the good work
Thank you Lew!
Just stumbled across your channel. I love history and all geo political issues. I'm hooked so far. Saw your Saddam Hussein one. Just subscribed
Glad to hear it Kenneth!
I just watched a podcast of a Lebanese woman basically saying life was good until they let the Muslims from Palestine in
I played basketball with a dude from lebanon in high school years ago. Thought he was just another quiet nice shy foreign kid. Got into a little dust up at a party and this dude flew in outta nowhere and stopped these dudes from beating me up. No wonder he wasnt intimidated
Lebanon was primarily Christian county but allowed too many Muslims in and they took over through violence.
exactly
Every beautiful country spoiled by Islam
Diversity creates weakness not strength
Assalamualaikum. I'm sunni Muslim from 🇧🇩Bangladesh and hope that Lebanese people ignore secretarian, all faiths live in harmony side by side.
Arabs whether muslim Christian or jews have brains to increase fights and not for solutions. Pakistan followed the same Arab mindset while killing Bangladeshi, Sindhi and Balochi people.
But salute to Bangladeshi people for peace and development and hardwork
@@somyadas1618you don’t know anything about Pakistan the persecution of Bengali was done by the military establishment
@@umaryusuf537 A country education system based on hatred towards all other communities except theirs is bound to produce such military.
Military did it with support of civilian leaders. A country is known from its leaders. Is military from some other country, is it not know by Pakistan Army ?
@@somyadas1618 Pakistans biggest issue has been it’s military and establishment that discriminates against Muslims Christian’s Hindus Sikhs basically everyone it’s a corrupt society that is almost feudal some people blame Islam for Pakistans issues which is ridiculous
Where there's Islam, there is always conflict.
Lebanon, India-Pakistan, Israel,China(Xinjian), Sri-Lanka,Rogingya in Myanmar.🤷♂️🤷♀️🤷
As if Eu,America,Russia,many others was always friendly countries
Even WHEN THEY WHERE CHRISTIANS, NON RELIGION COUNTRIES
And all these conflicts doesn't have anything with Islam to do.
@@palestineball2481 Lies
@@ramumanickam1643 according to who? You?
@@Aiman-yu6qg You liars your religion is the cause of all problems
Pause at 4:25 I could have sworn that I saw a nether portal
this is how a country gets screwed up due to communists and islamists😢😢
How come diversity wasn't their greatest strength?
Its almost like radicals like magas blame everyone and everything for stuff they did funny right
😂😂😂😂 dude perfect
How? Demographics. If Lebanon was 100% Christian or 100% Sunni or 100% Shia it would be a relatively stable country. Countries where there is no dominant group are almost always unstable. Bosnia is ungovernable. Yemen is ungovernable. Nigeria is ungovernable. Syria has been run (into the ground) by the 12% Alawite population and it descended into chaos. Lebanon is too diverse for its own good. The best they could do in the ME is carve out a nation for Arab Christians, a small one for Druze, a large one for for Kurds, a rump Alawite state in western Syria, and start relocating populations and redrawing borders by force if necessary. It will eventually lead to a homeostasis.
Fax
In your dreams
Let’s start with the us
Carve 5 states for blacks, 3 for latinos, 3 for Germans, 2 for Italians, 1 for white supremacists, 16 for anti vax, and so on.
Islam really is just so backward. The Christian Lebanon almost had it there way. If they did Lebanon would be a power house today
Quite wrong, actually. The Sunnis of Syria couldn't have their country to themselves because of minority groups. Your thought pattern is why Russia and Ukraine are at war. Take your orthodoxy and keep it to yourself. The Middle East doesn't need it.
Stupid comment. Lebanese Muslims were secular back then. Its not their problem that Lebanese Christians held disproportionate power, discriminated against Muslims and Druze, forbade the integration of Palestinian refugees because of their religion then started a civil war to protect their power.
@@nicholascage7546 that sounds based
This man included the whole Islam religion to make out the best lie possible
@@nicholascage7546 perfectly encapsulated!
I appreciate that this video did not have any biasism you gained a like my friend
Peaceful community spreading peace everywhere 🎉
Islam is not called the "Religion of peace" because it's a religion of pacifists. If you had actually done a little bit of research instead of showcasing you ignorance here, you would have known that...
Great documentary keep them coming ♥️🇲🇦♥️
Thank you! Will do!
Thank you for sharing this, the Lebanese Civil War is a complicated war and it’s hard to fully explain why it started though this is a great try at that in simplifying.
How is it hard to explain..the Muslims and Christians were peacefully living together till the Palestinian refugees showed up...
@@slyjackalkompa4547 Ethnic tensions, UAR, Christian Nationalism and all the factions within Lebanon tied to it. Lebanon was a ticking time bomb which just can’t be simplified by Palestinian Refugees triggering the civil war.
@@eyesoftomorrows they were the trigger...facts
@@slyjackalkompa4547 I’ll agree upon that, if it weren’t for Palestinians then the civil war wouldn’t have triggered in 1975. It would have been delayed to the 1980s or maybe even 1990s which might be significantly worse as Lebanon wouldn’t have Rafic Hairi to reconstruct it.
No, the government never failed to create the balance of power between different factions, it was the because of refugees that this civil war had to break out. Say it as it is.
They played identity politics. They should’ve allowed people to vote for who they believed was the most qualified for the job. Instead, they created a situation where a person’s religion could dictate their level of importance. They should’ve respected each other as fellow Lebanese citizens instead of members of rival religious groups. How was sectarian violence not supposed to happen at that point?
They didn’t learn their lesson btw
Since lock downs in 2020 i i took interest in watching foreign countries on Utube. One of countries i did watch about was Lebanon. Since then i fall in love with Lebanon culture, traditions, art, food, arcitecture and before everything Arab Lebanese music. I love it though i do not know Arab language. The Beirut city is so beautiful and antic. Combination of old and new Beirut. Food is super yummy. I would like one day if possible to visit Lebanon. I am 63. Who knows maybe. I am getting older.
I watched the whole video and I still don't understand why they are fighting. I mean I 'understsnd' but the idea of just fighting for keeps like they do generation after generation seems so alien to me.
The author represents strictly Muslim point of view. If he doesn't say clearly the reason it means that the fault lays on Muslims.
@@alexandermalinowski4277Nope
Because it’s incomplete. I’m lost too and the comments are a mess lol
I have no other context to this part of history, that being said this video was non bias and laid out facts from what I can tell. Thanks for the video
The Palestinians tried to overthrow the government and caused civil war, as it did in Jordan.
No wonder the Arab countries don’t want them at all, but the politicians and some leaders of the West want them in their countries
Western Europe gonna be like France, they are getting swarmed with mus lims from Africa and the ME, and one day in a hundred years or 500, they are gonna be the majority, and turn those countries into an Islamic State under Sharia Law, the next Lebanons 😆
As long as you have religion in your government this is what will happen. This is why Lebanon, along with the rest of the Middle East needs to be secular
Assad's regime is secular. That didn't prevent the bloodiest war in decades.
@@Arizona-ex5yt No it isn’t. Assad and his government are allied with Shia Iran
I do not think Religion itself is the problem. It’s the use of Religion by the ‘Leaders’ to promote their own ideals and control/power/influence/wealth/ambition who are the guilty.
@@Sidiqi The religion problem isn’t just exclusive to Lebanon. It’s all the Middle East
@@200131356 and beyond!
لا اعرف لماذا احب لبنان ...🇹🇳🇱🇧🥖🫒
I love Lebanese people. It is sad to see what has happened
to their home country.
the real problem for these people is what is Lebanese nationality. Because by ethnicity and religion they are very different.
Phoeniecians?
@@GooseGumlizzard technically
Very informative....
Very good script with excellence in the English Language.
10:00 you would think it was a random attack by the gunman with such narration lol.
There was a scuffle prior to the shooting which is failed to be mentioned. As Pierre’s Kataeb made a road-block to prevent cars during the ceremony some of the militia men became nervous when the Palestinian guerrillas returning from a rally refused to take an alternative route to drive through the road going near the church. The Kataeb militia consequently in the ensuing scuffle shot the PLO driver by accident and those shots fired towards those outside the church mentioned in the video were the response.
No justification of those heinous acts from both sides but context matters!
Nice video but the thing is, the war was not christian vs Muslim it was left (with Muslim majority but had some christian representative) vs right (majority Christian but had Muslim representative
Likely the only appropriate comment I've seen on this vid.
@@michaeledglington7812 thank you mate, I am from Lebanon a Christian fully supporting the left wing I studied this perfect it was very sad what happened and I truly believe it was the effect of the cold war the USSR (supported the left) and USA (supported the right) and we are still suffering the effects sadly
@@edwardtannous6 the usual comment whenever muslims have a problem with other religions. It's always political and never religious. Being an Indian I'm continuously reminded of this when talking abt medieval India, or the pre partition india or kashmir or pakisthan.
I'm reminded of this when talking abt afganisthan
And so on and on
christian lebanon would be so much better
Excellent video!!!! I loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
My parents went through the civil war in Lebanon
Not alot of mention of Muslim Lebanese atrocities,eh?
This comment reflects more on your own personal bias than anything mate
@@HikmaHistoryThey happened dude, Judging by your profile picture it’s you who is biased.
@IhateSusanWojcicki your pfp doesn't exactly scream "mentally stable"
Thank God... Mia Khalifa wasn't killed in this war...
Still loving learning from your videos 🤠💜
Heartbreaking. So much suffering for the people living in Lebanon...
What is the current situation in the country
This is very well made thank you
You have published the events of Lebanon correctly. Greetings to you from the marabitoun of Nasser
How dis the goverment just let the PLO get in? I understand the refugees from the conflicts on sorrounding countries but an entire guerilla group geting in without any reestriction. I undesrtand the why but not the how.
Because the Lebanese state didn’t want a strong army so they only made it about 20,000 men. They know plo could easily over power tgem
Arafat also paid African men as hired mercenaries. Lots were killed in my dad’s village
Couldn't have anything to do with allowing huge numbers of Islamic terrorists in the form of refugees that lived apart from all other Lebanese. Their own camps, civil governance with the expressed intent of destroying Lebanon's neighbor Israel. Paramilitary groups building bunkers and rocket launch sites aimed at Israel. The Jews of palastine are hardly blameless in this conflict but outsiders put your civilians in the crosshairs is an unacceptable hardship enforced on the civilians of Lebanon!
Which map would the Palestinians which to accept 1948, 1956, 1968, 1972. Which one?" No victory, no peace" Mohammed Farah Idid. Somali warlord before his son who was a US marine took over after his father's death. Palestinian refusal to admit defeat only benefits Zionists who will push the Palestinians off all the land. Unfortunately might does make right, especially for a people who can claim they suffered an attempted genocide!
Yeah, PLO started setting up checkpoints way before the Kataeb did. The Christians didn’t start this, you make it sound like we did
I served in Beirut back in 1991. Still a dangerous place, we moved between east and west Beirut netting with both Christian and Muslim factions as well as with the Druze in the mountains. Trying to get everyone to lay down their arms and let th Lebanese government take over. In addition to negotiating the release of hostages take from American University of Beirut. Had our wok cut out.
This is why religion should never meddle in politics.
In the mid-20th century, Lebanon was one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries in the Middle East. Its capital, Beirut, was once known as the Paris of the Middle East. It was the only state in the Middle East where Christianity was dominant, at one point making up over 60% of the population.
Now, Lebanon is Islamic.
Nice job bro
Keep gonig ❤️💪
Clean out islam in Lebanon
Interesting video Hikma history!
Thanks!
You forgot to mention that the peace agreement changed the governing formulas from 6:5 Christian to 6:6. Additionally, the (Sunni) prime minister was made more powerful than the (Maronite) president, whereas previously it had been the reverse.
"Christianity" the greatest and most powerful religion the world has ever known +++++
religion of "peace".
Yes it is. and we won 😎
Stupid comment. The conflict wasn't of religious nature. It was because Christians held disproportionate power, discriminated against Muslims and Druze, forbade the integration of Palestinian refugees because of their religion then started a civil war to preserve their power. My grandmother herself is a Lebanese Greek Orthodox and she blames the Maronite factions for starting the civil war because of their greed and racism.
@@nicholascage7546 they didn’t start the war
@@jhondalton130 they did.
@@nicholascage7546 we started the war directly but every single provocation came from the palestinian,they tried to assasin Pierre Gemayel and kidnapped Bachir. Should we kiss their right hand or their left? They tried to take our country as a replacement for palestine
Salam brother very good video as always.
Good summary. However you omitted a few events which had its impact on the civil war. The assassination of Kamal Jomblat and the involvement of Saddam Hussain in the war back in the 80s and early 90s.
Islam has a hard time living with other religious cultures.
Lebanon problem was the people decided to be United but seperate at the same time.
The main reason behind the Lebanese civil war was the mass militarization of Palestinians in Lebanon.
This caused a lot of tension between the Palestinians and the Lebanese nationalists who were and still are mostly Christians.
Lebanon had prosperity and peace. The economy was one of the best. The issue wasn’t really religious as much as it was political. Many Christians fought with the leftists and Palestinians who were mostly Muslims, and many Muslims fought with nationalist Christians.
The main objective was to eradicate the identity of Lebanon and to join pan-Arabic leftist ideologies.
Sadly, this country has been ruined because of its neighbors more than anything, and is still paying the price of its geographical location.
ALSO EXPLAIN, HOW PERSIA BECAME IRAN. AND WHAT ARAB MUSLIMS DID WITH PARSIS.
What most do not know is that Lebanese folks did not get along before Lebanon became a country. Sectarian wars were common. The French created this abnormal place to be the way it is. Not to blame the French. Lebanese people are to blame.
Muslims
LOOL dude behave yourself!
@@HikmaHistory LOOL dude truth hurts
@@abyantonyalexander7634 Sometimes, sometimes it sets you free. In this case, blaming Lebanon's woes on Muslims is childish and too simplistic.
@@HikmaHistory Truth is simple most of the time but people with agenda complicates it for obvious reasons.
@@abyantonyalexander7634 Heyyy I knew we could find something to agree on! Can't argue with that
Short Answer: Accepting refugees in order to become the mother-father of humanity.
no
short: 🇮🇱
Lesson to Learn: Never Ever let palestines get in your Country
In Greece it was called the Paris of the east
Chaos following Muslims...
Lebanese always would have its problems but they were resolved with words even if there were sporadic incidents here and there. the problem was the PLO which had no love for Lebanon and just saw it as a battlefront for its resistance to israeli forces.
Awesome video
It's almost like setting up a government based on ethnic inclusivity, religious factionalism, and group identity politics is doomed to fail from the start. Someone should tell that to the people in D.C. so they don't start codifying racial and ethnic quotas into law...
They should all just revert to being Phoenician and that would solve their sectarian pains amirite =P
Lool I think some of them tried that… didn’t work out too well
So what you’re saying is that diversity isn’t a strength?
Not when it's bastardised and appropriated into a system that's been handed to you by your colonial overlords. Diversity is a beautiful thing that CAN be a strength but that doesn't change the fact it is highly volatile - use it properly and it can create magic; use it improperly and it will create chaos.
The PLO went from Black September to Black Saturday? 😳
every time someone mentions lebanon it will only remind me of the christmas tree on the flag lmao