The intro text has been deleted from the video since it was poorly researched and misrepresented the causes of the Lebanese Civil War.

This must have been painful to make

0:00 What you study for 5:53 The test

And you thought the Syrian Civil War was complicated...

Fun fact: This video simplifies the factions. There were subfactions, especially the green, in each faction that sometimes fought each other.

Lebanon: oh no civil war!! Syria: its free real estate... Lebanon: damn you

Video: Ends in 2005 Israel in 2006: *Mamma mia, here I go again*

I can’t imagine how hard it must have been to make this. Great work!

Watching this the day after Beirut exploded. Good thing my family was safe

This is probably the most complicated war of all time… Thanks for your great work in making this short, simple, and easy to understand.

There was no such thing as "government allied militias." The Christian militias were a response to the inaction of the state. They also fought the state in the late 80s.

There are a lot of mistakes in the context.. There's nothing really called "Black Sunday". If you're referring to "Black Saturday", that was in December of 1975, well into the war. April 13th, 1975 was when the clashes happened with the PLO bus that was driving around Ain el-Rammaneh and opened fire on the church. Black Saturday was when the 4 students were murdered and chopped up along with the retaliation the ensued. It wasn't clashes between Christian and Muslim militias - It was between Palestinian militias (PLO) who were predominately Muslim and predominately Christian Kateb (which had mostly Muslim members/soldiers in some areas/cities). It was political, not religious at the core. The army didn't favour the Christians and the Muslims didn't defect or join the PLO. The army were given orders not to take action. Half way through the war, it became too tense within the barracks. Soldiers were sleeping holding their gun under their pillow. Until they eventually decided to just leave and take whatever they could with them and return to their villages. Don't forget, the army fought with the Lebanese Forces at some point and is to date why the LF and Aoun don't get along because Aoun was the General at the time. There was never a "government-allied" Christan militia fighting the PLO. The Kateab/LF was a reaction to the inactive of the government/army in not defending its people. People would commit crimes, murder, rape and then go into the refugee camps untouched.

2:24 tigers have invaded Lebanon lmao

Syria taking half of Lebanon in 7 days is crazy ngl

The current President of Lebanon, Michal Aoun, was a commander who was stationed in Beirut during the later stages of the conflict. He led a revolt against Hafez Al Assad and made considerable efforts to end the occupation of the country. It ended when the Syrian government crushed his forces and killed many of his supporters. He fled to Paris and couldn't return until 2005.

And you have ONLY 2k subs..... That's not fair

When your rebels, that have rebels themselves, which on their turn also get their own rebels and they, you guessed, it, get rebels!

Thanks for this! I am Lebanese and no channel ever made a map about the Civil War.

Palestine: were loosing to israel, what should we do? Also Palestine: let's invade lebanon

My dad was born in 1964 in Lebanon , he was pretty much raised in a civil war and even studied and became a doctor. Idk how he was able to go to college in the middle of a civil war lol

I have been searching for this for a long time thank you!

Always impressive work from you, congratulations for all the time and effort you put into these videos!

4:14 , PLO is like "haha u thought i was gone? It was a prank bro"

3:00 BLITZKRIEG

Probably the best choice of music I've seen in one of these videos.

Okay this is absolutely amazing, great job Koop! Definitely better then mine.

Nah but in Lebanese schools we have to learn this shi in 5th grade history😭😭😭

Syria seeing Lebanon before : OMG FREE REAL ESTATE Lebonan seeing Syria now : OMG FREE REAL ESTATE

I'm Lebanese..this is very simplified.

Excellent It is really hard to make such synopsis in a simplified map about very complicated war that even Arabs and Libanese don't know what we're going on in that nasty war. Great job!!

this map more colorful than a rainbow 💀

My great great uncle was a peace keeper in this war he gave stuff to the lebanese soldiers

wow someone made it! Thank you man greetings from Lebanon

People talk about the Spanish civil war Nobody talks about this

Never before have I payed attention to Lebanon

If bachir gemayel was still alive, all of that would have never happened... israel would have gone back home because they wouldn't have any palestinians to fear of, syria would have abandonned their dream of annexing lebanon and pulled back to their little desert and the palestinian refugees would have found another country to occupy and destroy. In only 21 days, bachir unified all the lebanese people under one flag, under one nationalism, under one army and under one strong government. He thaught us to love our country and to say no to any foreign occupier even if it is our arab "brothers". He was the only person with enough balls to stand against the palestinian occupation while everybody was supporting them because of their "victim cards". He was the only smart smart person to understand that our "syrian brothers" weren't here to help us but rather to destroy us. He was the only person to understand that a temporary alliance with israel was necessary to save lebanon from becomming a part of syria or the new palestine. Everything he said back in the day is still true to that day. If you truly love lebanon and only lebanon, you should love bachir. It is really sad that some lebanese hate him without really knowing him or knowing everything he did for lebanon at such a young age (34). Most people hate him because of his alliance with israel without knowing the context and the reason of this alliance and automatically assume that he is a traitor. I say to these people to go cultivate themselves and learn who bachir gemayel really was before talking about him. And also, do u consider israel our enemy and syria our friend? As bas as israel destroyed lebanon, syria destroyed it 10 times more and this is a fact that not a lot of lebanese muslims want to believe. So I think that the real traitor is the lebanese that supports the actions of the syrian regime in lebanon and not the person that tried to save it from it. I personnaly think that if bachir lived only 3 months more, lebanon would still be the best country in the world. Unfortunetly, it is sad to see that not a lot of people know about bachir and most people that heard about him have a bad view of him. Till this day, the lebanon that bachir has dreamed of is still not their and I don't think it will be their soon. Until this day, we can only remember the great lessons that this great man thaught us that we are still using to get past this dark period of time. You made us proud to be lebanese sheikh bachir. We will never forget you! Until we meet again!! #bachir7ayfina #10452 ❤❤🇱🇧🇱🇧🌹🌹

Why civil wars in the middle east take so long?

LEBANON for LEBANESE ❤🇱🇧

Do you have a video about the map of Jordan during the Black September War of 1968 AD?

Rimworld music😂😂😂😂😂

I applaud while standing. I don’t understand why there are so few subscribers and likes on your channel

Rimworld music huh? I like your taste.

Even lebanon!?

Long life Syriac maronit nation ✊❤️

For the people who don’t understand. PLO supported the Muslim Lebanese people, the Lebanese government was with the Christians Lebanese and was supported by Israel.

Correction : at 6:58 there is nothing called “second damascus agreement “ lol I’m Lebanese and its the first time i hear about it . Its only called taif agreement thats it . Even i never heart of the “first” damascus agreement

0:01 Kindergarten Math Problems 5:53 College Math Problems

My man ran out of colors 😂

Look at Syria now itself , GOD have Justice

Least complex middle-eastern conflict

My uncle told me that he had been captured by Israeli forces in Beirut and then returned to Syria after the war. 3:08

The music sounds fairly similar to "Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 1", and that's a good thing.

I hope next video would be somalia civil war part 2 ♥️

Modern civil wars be like:

This video surprised me, you have done a huge work with it

Cairo agreement didn't give Palestinian states in Lebanon at all Oh just one more thing there were many mistake like the Summer of 1984 was so dramatic in lebanon mountain and

Syria and Isreal: Its Free real-estate

Anyone else here after recent events in Beirut?

When your rebels have rebels that have rebels

Who's here after April 4th 2020

I'm glad I finally checked out a video on this since I've come into contact with so many Lebanese. Fun fact: Peoria, Illinois has a huge Lebanese-American community, all Maronite Christians. Not all came during this conflict, actually most of them migrated to the US during the 1800s. Even the congressman from the area is Lebanese-American, I worked for him once. I learned that "Lebanese" is as much an umbrella term as "American" is; there are a ton of ethnicities living there, more than most Arab countries. I think the Muslims there all want to use the 'Arab' label, while Christians and other groups prefer more specific labels. What exactly was the PLO doing in Lebanon though? Talk about being a horrible guest in someone else's country when you start a civil war against the government sheltering you!

How can you have so many sides in such a small country?

I’m just surprised you left the comments on, brave move

Appreciate Syria which has the big role in ending this civil war ❤️🌿

i used to be a fighter with the red ones right wing falange aka lebanese forces good job by the way accurate mostly

Cool

Lebenon goverment: at first i could handle it Isreal joined the chat Arab league joined the chat Lebanon goverment:THEN IT JUST GOT WORSE The population of Lebanon joined the chat Lebanon goverment:okay what?

Very thanks for video.

0:36 Lebnon: war Syria : calm the shit down!

Me, An Israeli who's about to enlist next year: "Ah shit pops, here we go again."

Oh, look at all the pretty colors!

Damn what a Cluster F##k. It's endless for those guys .

So, what Palestinian liberators forgot in Lebanon? Shouldn't they... I don't know, liberate Palestine and not makeing a whole big mess in other countries?

U deserve more subs

Why does rimworld’s music feel oddly appropriate for this?

Now this is another 30 years war

Now , I understood why Lebanese hate Syrians, Palestinians and Israelis. Sad how a A beautiful country cursed by its geography 😔

Israel formally extended it's sovereignty to the Golan heights in 1979, so there's no reason to color it differently after that point EDIT: I was wrong.

Excellent video!

Summary: there were many involved, but there were two main sides - Israel, Multinational Forces and the Lebanese Front, supported by NATO, and haved Syria and the Lebanese National Movement, supported by the USSR and socialist countries.

Palestine: We are losing alot of land, What should we do? Random guy from the PLO: *Invade lebenon*

Not true at all... the red colour was divised into many sides espeacially lebanese forces party and lebanese army who were two opponents

From a Lebanese man .Ths is actually pretty accurate m thanks for effort . I Hope war never breaks in Lebanon again

this was made right before my birthday

Lebanon: has a civil war Syria and Israel: Allow is to introduce ourselves (Israel is worse btw)

I am really happy you made that video! Maybe when I am done with military service we could cooperate to make some videos

My Friends Dad was in the in lebanese civilwar. he was on palestanian side of the war because his ancestors were palestanian he had 16 siblings most of them died in war and the remaining one are now living in other countries (canada australia...) his family lives now peacefully in germany

I'm currently writing an essay on the Lebanese Civil War and, if you thought this was complicated, it's only a simplified version.

Very good job, Lebanese civil war show how survived democracy here, and again, there not really democracy in Lebanon.

It was a MESS!!!!😯😦😨

Great work despite some mistakes The red area were not controlled by the lebanese government, it was the christian militias (kataeb, lebanese forces, ahrar...etc) + u should have added the areas controlled by the socialits militia (mainly duruze) + for example areas south of beirut like damour were under control of the lebanese forces... But i don't blame u it was very complicated no one can sum it up in a mapping video😂

So Libanon what parties are involved in the civil war? Libanon: Yes.

When the name changed to "Hezbollah" I knew who was going to win.

There is lot of mistakes and inaccuracy in this video; first, the treaty of Cairo wasn't as silly as it's described at the beginning.. It didn't gave the right to a "Fatahland" on borders but more precisely it gave palestinians the right to rule their refugee camps. On the other side, it allowed the christian far-right parties to get arms and create their own militias. Then, the mapping is not so accurate due to the complexity of the situation and the demography in Lebanon, I don't know what were the standards to juge the domination on the map, but for example, in Lebanon you can find two or more parties and religions in one small village, and they may all have their arms and militias inside this village. Same can be applied on entier areas like Chouf department for example. Also, there is nothing about the christian-christian wars between 1984 and 1990, principaly Geagea-Hobeika battles, and for sure, Aoun-Geagea wars that were determinant for the Lebanese Civil War... P.S.: before March 1976, the area of Baabda-Matn was almost controled by the far-right, until the battles of Aintourah and Mtein (end of March 1976). This was also not explained on the map for example.

I love Lebanon 🇱🇧 because it is my country

Great Video, I greatly enjoy your Channel and the work you put into your videos!

u see how israel helped lebanon against the palestinians? this shit means hezbolla has no sence

3:01 Did Israel just attack the UN?

This vid leaves out the fact that Syria and Amal fought against Hezbollah (and the PLO) in the war of the camps in 1982. Hezbollah and Syria have good relations now but that wasn't always the case.

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