My mom was Palestinian and my Dad was Iraqi they both killed in the war of Mousel in 2014 may God rest their souls in eternal peace

"Peace be upon them all, and all of you" If only everyone was like you, Mark

Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq have always amazed me with their culture traditions and history. You are all blessed if you are one of those nationalities

Thank you Mark for being a positive voice among the hateful noise around this topic.

Most Christians don't know how much Muslims love Jesus. And most Jews don't know how much Muslims love Moses.

I'm Palestinian-Filipino and I have my Palestinian brothers and sisters living in Egypt, I also have a sister in Gaza who's been living there ever since the occupation started

Love Palestine and my palestinian brothers from Algeria 🇩🇿

I love my Palestinian brothers and sisters From Tunisia 🇹🇳❤🇵🇸

I am a Palestinian Christian and I learned more from you than any other teachings.

Love Palestine from Norway 🇵🇸❤️🇳🇴

My grandma is from Palestine 🇵🇸 my mother is from Jordan 🇯🇴 my father is from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 that makes me I love all of the Arabs in the entire world 🙏🏻🌸

one of the best youtubers all love from yemen 🇾🇪

Hats off mark , Hats off ! Thank you for this series and especially this ❤️👍🏽✌🏽 All the respect from Tamra , Northern district Palestine .

Oooooh finally a video about our beloved country Palestine.. Thank you Mark for the amazing video 🌸 All love and respect to all our Palestinian sisters and brothers.. from Kuwait 🇰🇼🖤❤🇵🇸

انها بلدنا جميعاً، وطن كل العرب ! عاشت فلسطين حرّة ♥️ شكراً مارك !!

من النهر إلى البحر ستبقى فلسطين 🇵🇸❤

Thanks Mark.. love to Palestine and all Palestinians from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 #PalestenianLivesMatter

Eywa 🇵🇸❤️🇱🇧

I love how mark is proud to be arab unlike some other Lebanese people in diaspora

Love Palestine and Palestinians greetings form Morocco 🇲🇦❤️🇵🇸

I stand with 🇵🇸 Palestine. Love from Norway ❤️

Indeed. It wasn't "the Jews" or "the Muslims" or "the Christians". It was European deceit and imperialism.

All these countries in the Middle East look so beautiful Oh we got the funny number

I’m speechless Mark! Thanks for this amazing video with love and Kunafa from Nablus, PS ❤️ 🇵🇸

Perfect timing Habibi, thank you. I was looking through your channel for this 2 days ago

You missed the Mamluks in between the Mongols and Ottomans.

First and can’t wait to watch! Yislamo for posting Marc!

i find it amazing that you mention eyad el halaq.. thanks you have a big heart man

Amazing video 🤙, تحية لك من موريتانيا 🇲🇷🙋‍♂️

شكرا مارك👌👏🏾

This video was just recommended to me and I'm so happy I clicked on it for many different reasons ! For the history , the different meaningful and beautiful sites that are there , the culture and definitely the food ! Im also happy I didn't see this during Ramadan ! Thank you for making this video it was amazing and I really hope to see more of them

THAAAAANK YOU for this amazing video. I've I've searching about past Palestine news and I finally found this amazing video that is too well researched, free of any biasness.

Beautiful, beautifully said and my prayers to his family, my heart goes out to them for their loss

My flatmate from Iraq used to make knafeh for us some times. It's sooooo amazing. I really want to visit the whole of the Levant some day.

Thank you mark ! This was a beautiful done video. As a Palestinian American I really appreciate your honesty and sense of humor. The end made the video epic and brought a tear to my eye. If you are ever in the San Francisco area please join us for musakhan

Palestine and Jordan are one hand along with Lebanon and all the Arab nations thanks mark for making this video

So proud to be Palestinian

As an Israeli Jew, thank you for speaking the way you did. Even taking an exstra moment for saying the hebrew names of all these places. Thank you for not being hateful and simply talking about the beautiful culture of this country and about its history. 🌻

Thank you Mark for highlighting on these most amazing facts from my country! I am very humbled that you mentioned palestine! All the love from a palestinian living in Lebanon!

Thank you so much Mark , it's such a pleasure to have such influencers

As you may be aware already, we Americans are having our own problems with human rights, civil rights and trying to keep a democracy rather than Trump's fascist theocracy. Our people are suffering, especially minorities. Hate has become "normalized" thanks to Trump. We want the world to know we stand with Palestine and we feel your pain. Americans do not like our tax money being used to fund apartheid Israel's bloodthirsty war machine. Please know the majority of Americans are good people and we love diversity and there are legion of us actively working to restore democracy in America and also to uphold human rights in other nations such as Palestine. CHANGE IS ON THE HORIZON.......WE WILL OVERCOME.......STAY STRONG!

Been there several times in my life. It was lovely and reminded me alot of the climate in california.

Deeply appreciate the content of your videos. This series is amazing. Peace to all.

Thank you Mark ❤ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Love and support for Palestinian from Iraq 🇮🇶 ❤

Best video ! About an amazing and bless contry , love from Morocco 🇲🇦 🇵🇸 🙏

Thank you , your knowledge is amazing I am Palestinian my son is Peruvian my daughter is Italian and for me to explain and teach all of this was hard but you broke it down amazing

seems like I had a complete tour about Palestine... keep your VLOGS coming! more power to you! - greetings from Dammam KSA

الله يوفقك. يسلم هذا الفم. فرحتني كثير على هذا الفيديو. I got so excited when I saw Palestine. Your loyal follower from the Kingdom of Bahrain

Palestine is on my bucket list - what an amazing country...AND THE FOOD!!! Another great job Mark. Breaking down barriers through knowledge and understanding TY.

Mark your videos are very nice and informative yet a bit funny too thanks akhee.

First of all Naiiman for haircut ,نعيمٱ ya Mark😃😃what a nice person you are👌secondly Palestine and the brotherly Palestinian people are always in our hearts..Salam from Syria 🇸🇾🇵🇸

Omg I was waiting for this one!! ❤❤🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸❤️🇱🇧❤️🇱🇧❤️🇱🇧 إخوة

I appreciate your content.. sometimes hilarious and other times serious... love the balance

I hope this video gets a lots of views as it's one of your best videos ever!!

I had knafeh from there when I visited my cousins in Jordan❣️

as a israeli, i really liked this video, it's make me see palestinian society in a completely different way. I had enough of this conflict. i really want that us, the younger generation, israelis and palestinians, would be fixing this situation together. we don't need history of bloodshed write our future. maybe, one day, we would laugh about those horrible events. #peaceforisraelandpalestine

I continue to admire you more and more man. Respect from Sana’a Yemen 🇾🇪

I visited Palestine in summer 1984 with a little group of French people from the city of Lyon who helped financially children in Palestinese villages or refugees camps. I made the translations for them between arabic and french. We took only palestinian cabs. One french lady told me : "Marcel, you should have seen the face of the driver when you told him in arabic where we wanted to go". The driver was very friendly and I think he had mistaken us for Israelis at the beginning... I have nice memories of all the places we saw and the nice people we met in Jerusalem, Ramallah, Al-Khalil (Hebron), Naplus, Gaza, Nazareth, Tabariya, Al-Bira, Taybéh...

Ah yes, finally, my motherland. Thank you for being a voice of reason and positivity in this trying time.

As a Palestinian tour guide I'd like to thank you! It's a beautiful video!

Even though I've been on KZfaq since 2006, but I don't really comment on anything on here, so this is probably my first KZfaq comment. As a Palestinian-American, I've found this video very informative and unbiased; a mini documentary that tells the truth about our people's history, culture and traditions..tons of facts that most of people don't even know! (eye-opener) Thank you for the effort, Mark, you've got a new subscriber! God bless.

Amazing!! I really appreciated that. Thank you Mark!

Amazing and very touching video, keep up the good work Mark!

Palestine has so much history and wars that this land needs to breath. Its trees and nature is crying for some rest.

I really enjoy your vlogs, I learn so much. You have a pleasing voice and I like hearing the proper way to pronounce the words. Thank you.

Love your videos. Educational and interesting. Thank you for creating them.

Bless you Mark for conveying your work in such a diligent way and meaningful way. I only wish you could have tackled other important cities in Palestine which are in the same league as the cities you mentioned. Jaffa, Caesaria, Saint Jean D’Acres, Haifa, Safad, Capernaum, Tiberias, Ascalan, Lydda, Ramle etc. you have done a great Job and it only makes me happy to see how you treat things with intelligence and profoundness. Shukran Mark.

Thanks Mark for this video ! My grandmother was a Palestinian Christian that got driven out of her home and was a refugee in Lebanon. She married a Lebanese Christian and through him got the citizenship. Here are some sad facts related to this conflict : - In a letter to his son in October 1937, the Israeli prime minister Ben-Gurion explained that partition would be a first step to "possession of the land as a whole". He had no intention of respecting the partition plan. Ben Guiron also said the following : “If I were a Palestinian leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” - Another quote by Ben Guiron in 1939 : “Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves … politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves… The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country. … “ - Thirty years before the UN partition plan more than 90% of the population was Palestinian. I don't think there's anywhere in the world where people would accept without a fight that a group of people from a different continent shows up and declares that they are more entitled to the land than the people who have been living there for generations and generations. Being opposed at the 'very beginning' isn't something people can hold against Palestinians. The land was taken over by a foreign power, foreign peoples were placed there, with the land forcibly divided between them. It's like saying Native American tribes should have "acted in good faith" when the colonists arrived. - What’s more, why would Palestinians accept to partition their land with people that saw them as sub-humans ? Articles in publications by a Zionist political party of the time (Lehi) wrote about Jewish "master race", contrasting them with Palestinians who were a “nation of slaves”. Lehi was unabashedly racist towards Palestinians. Their publications described Jews as a master race and Palestinians as a “slave race." Lehi called for mass expulsion of all Palestinians from Palestine and Transjordan, or even their physical annihilation. - John F Kennedy visited Palestine in 1938 and witnessed many terrorist Jewish groups bombing other Jews and trying to blame the Palestinians for it. - By the way the Cannanites were living on the land waaaaay before Moses and his Hebrew tribe came and “physically annihilated” the goyim as “commanded by god”. But oops...Turns out most Lebanese, Palestinians and Syrians have canaanic ancestry so NO, they did not manage to exterminate the native canaanites. - Israel started a war in 1967 with Arabs with the sole intention of annexing more land. - In 1981, a cease-fire was signed between the PLO and Israel, on one hand, according to a UN report, Israel violated the cease-fire 2,096 times (web.archive.org/web/20081202004040/domino.un.org/unispal.nsf/9a798adbf322aff38525617b006d88d7/687deff0fe05590a85257019006e4036!OpenDocument). On the other hand the PLO "took great pains not to violate the [ceasefire] agreement of July 1981" and "the border between July 1981 and June 1982 enjoyed a state of calm unprecedented since 1968." [Morris, Righteous Victims, p. 509] - Israel has zero interest in any future peace agreement with the Palestinians, and politicians like Netanyahu and his right-wing fanatics have been ensuring that there is no longer any 2-state solution possible, leaving them with only a single option, which involves "annexing" all Palestinian territory and keeping the Palestinian people forever as 2nd class citizens under apartheid rule, because allowing them voting rights would mean the immediate change of Israel away from being the "Jewish state" into being a secular state, something the right-wing extremists currently running the country will never allow. - Ben Gurion also warned in 1948: Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes: “The old will die and the young will forget.”

Ive always respected you and I love your work, but seriously mad respect brother.

I was waiting impatiently for this episode 👍👍

Palestinian here from Jerusalem 😎

We arabs agree on nothing But we all agree that palestine is ours hope it will bring us all together and "Al quds" will be our capital Love from Algeria 🇩🇿

Hey, this has been a great video, Mark! I'm from the Dominican Republic and I have always loved Arab culture, food and, of course, people. In my country we have 2nd, 3rd and up to 5th generations who have either Lebanese, Syrian or Palestinian descent. We also have many Israelis who came from Argentina and less from Israel. Israelis established here and taught us how to cultivate in arid lands, thanks to them! . Now, kibbeh, tabbouleh and malfuf are almost considered national Dominican foods (we are crazy you know). This video portrays such richness in these cultures in all senses. Everything one can be proud of. My simpathy to all the peoples and cultures of the Levant!

Beautiful country beautiful culture,strong and lovely people of Palestine One day you will be free again 🇵🇸 Ameen From India🇮🇳

"you sneaky little" this sums it.

Cute fact: Bethlehem means "house of bread" in Hebrew but means "house of meat" in Arabic.

damn i love your channel im learning a lot, thanks so much

I love the content! I hope you keep engaging yourself with such topics

Long live Ireland from Palestinian you're the only nation who can feel us UK must give us compensations for the disaster they created children are dying day by day because of the UK and the disaster they created for us Uk currently is a very rich devolped and I'm sure they can solve the problem they created unfortunately none of them care they just say Israel Israel I don't hate Israel I want peace but there's another nation here there's wars destruction solve the disaster you created UK Give Palestinians British passport for free for the land you stole that might create peace I would love to make business in Uk if you do that but unfortunately none of you cares God will judge you 💔 🙏 not me if you just don't compensate

As fully Lebanese, my heart burns for Palestine every day. There's nothing that I wish more than a free Palestine.

Thank you Mark ever so much for informing people about my beloved country, Palestine...

I appreciate you making this video a great deal. Thank you

Love is the solution to everything )

Thanks mark for this I hope Palestine comes back to be Palestine as before ♥️ 🇸🇦 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 ♥️

Big respect to you Mark. Salaam, shalom, peace

Thank you for this video! I love all your work, but this video is extra special for me and many other Palestinians!

Bless you always and forever Palestine ❤️🤲🏻 insha Allah you'll be free and happy soon 🤲🏻❤️

Hi Mark, I'm Israeli and I thought that was a very nice and thoughtful video. I hope to achieve peace and prosperity with my Palestinian neighbors here. Thank you for being a voice of reason and respect

Bravo Mark!Good explain.Peace from Bosnia to lovely Palestine

Hello mark I am so glad to have the honour to watch you I respect what you do your approach is truly inspiring you have a great heart mind and soul . I really enjoy your videos your talent should be recognised your humour your honesty and loyalty to humanity is truly inspiring. I have learnt so much from your outlook on Life. Keep up the excellent work you do . Be safe and God bless you and your family.

Love for my Palestinians brother form your Algerian brother in Algeria 🇩🇿❤️🇵🇸, We are all arabs. Thanks Mark awesome video as usual, i hope to see the episode about my country Algeria very soon 🇩🇿😍

Very powerful video! Great work, Mark! It's absolutely awesome that you mentioned many great facts about Palestine such as history and food. Palestinian cuisine is diversified and delicious and Palestinian history is very rich and has deep roots for thousands of years. It is a great land and it's sad that people there still can't have their freedom and that they've been struggling for basic rights for a very long time as they are still living under occupation and discrimination. In addition to what Mark mentioned, there are many other beautiful Palestinian cities, towns, and villages which were occupied by Israel in 1948 bu they are now fully controlled by Israel. However, we should never forget that they are Palestinian towns and their native residents were forced to leave their houses when Israel was created in 1948. Really sad and unfair...

Thank you Mark I think this is the best video have seen on KZfaq You did very good keep going

Shukran aktir Mark, blessings from palestinian diaspora in Argentina

I am curious about the breakdown of the people of Palestine. I understand that there is a sizable Lutheran population namely the ELCJHL in Palestine and I know that some in the ELCA's department of global missions works with them and I think that it would be an interesting video to talk about all the different people of Palestine just to show that it's a very cosmopolitan and varied nation. Maybe a bit of history would also be interesting. I think that understanding how many different people live in the region might be the start to understanding. I wish that all the people of Palestine could live in peace and enjoy the freedom to worship as they choose free of violence.

Mark you’re the best😍❤️❤️

the video towards the end makes me weep.Exhale hate...inhale LOVE. Sending you love and peace Palestine. Thanks Mark for the video.Great work

wow..have you ever been to Palestine before? This is a very rich intro about Palestine! I miss Ramallah, Rukab ice cream. By the way, the cafe you mentioned in the video called stars and bucks. It is a restaurant -Cafe. There is a belief that Starbucks supports Israel, so no one prefers its presence in Palestine. But we Palestinians are always able to create our own brands. We just added و in between and made it stars and bucks :D. LoL. Thank you for the video