I sure hope the next one discusses Sykes-Picot, as it's the only WWI-Era agreement that held any real weight, and if it isn't covered, it'd be a glaring omission from the series. While it may not have dealt directly with Israel/Palestine, Sykes-Picot settled the spheres of influence, and the prospective carving of British and French zones from Arabia and the Levant, shaped the future nation-states of Lebanon and Syria; and Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, respectively. This decided the neighborhood of the Middle East for the last nearly 100 years, not to mention have repercussions for the region and it's peoples at present. Iraq and Syria are prime examples of heterogenous peoples that were contrived together to form nation-states without national cohesion. Both were held together by the force of military dictatorship and now are crumbling in the wake of the vacuum the US left after destroying the Ba'ath state apparatus and bungling the job of replacing it in the 2nd Iraq War, while next door Syria's civil war provided chaos fertile enough for radical murdering bands that shall remain nameless to now wreak havoc on both of the weak states, straddling their border and undoing it, and Sykes-Picot with it. If Sykes-Picot is the starting point, then the present-day de facto state far eclipses any injustice of the European occupations, mandate system, or protectorates. I don't expect all of that to be mentioned, but find mentioning these repercussions myself as useful to underline the importance of the accord. Since I'm commenting anyway, I'll join the chorus: make each episode longer when y'all shoot the next ones!

its the brits fault

In Episode 5, your link to Episode 6 at the end is broken, it still says "Coming Soon". Great series by the way, I am very interested to see the coming episodes.

Se·mit·ic səˈmidik/ adjective adjective: Semitic 1. relating to or denoting a family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic and certain ancient languages such as Phoenician and Akkadian, constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family. 2. relating to the peoples who speak the Semitic languages, especially Hebrew and Arabic. Not just Jewish people.

what year was this please

Omg! The British!

Meanwhile I would've gotten an F for an unclear answer in a test.

No lawrence of arabia?

Could it hurt the Brits to be more concise as to where along the Mediterranean strip the Arabs could not take the land? This would have avoided unnecessary controversy in the region.

While this guy is thinking more critically than most when it comes to this subject, he still cherry picks what events to mention to support his position on the conflict.

The flag of Ottoman Empire is different than Turkish Republic but the one you put for Ottoman Empire is actually the Turkish Republic one.

Why is Japan placed as one of the 4 allied powers while Russia is left out? Japan's role in the war was relatively small (to Japan's great benefit) they snatched Germany's colonies with very little resistance. Not a huge deal, just weird.

Jihad does not mean "Holy War"

U say that both sides wanted to claim lands that belonged to the Ottomans, and this completely ignore that these lands are owned by the Syrians, Palestinians Lebanese and Jordanians. The idea of the Arab nationalism only came during and after the first ww1 and when u keep saying the Arabs you ignore that all the countries mentioned before has existed for thousands on years with their own culture and history

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This series started off great but its increasingly becoming obvious that there is a bias here. Will have to unsubscribe.

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israel-palestine; jammu-kashmir; pattani-siam; rakhine-myanmar; hong kong-china 🤔

You placed the arabs and the jews in demands in same category, while it is not, because the arabs were asking for independence for the land the live on, while the jews were asking for a colony to be given for them. Arabs wanted the steering wheel of their country while the jews wanted the arabs lands with the steering wheel of course. imagine that Scottish people want to get independence and france said they will help then suddenly canadian people show up and say we want scotland to be our national home.

Free Palestine

When I started this video series, I thought it was relatively neutral but the further I watch the more your biases and agenda show. Palestinians' claim to the land was a claim of independence from colonization of their land, pretty much like many countries around the world at that period of time, While Israeli's claim was a claim of somewhere to escape to because they were bullied in their countries in Europe. You'd think that they would simply migrate and live peacefully with the literal millions already living there, but no they want to cut off half of their land, make it another country completely, and simply take it. How does any of this sound like they had the same claim?

There is no mention of who were the indigenous people of Palestine ? and no mention of the colonization of the region by Europe. Not really critical thinking if facts are being omitted