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Amazing! I'm looking forward to the second part!

I love your videos. You have helped me learn about history way faster than ever

this is the most neutral presentation of facts on the palestinian conflict by any channel on YT. the channel has no motive and no history of any political leanings except to present history as it was. thank you for presenting history as it was and to let the viewers make their own opinion based on the facts, who grabbed from whom and why the losers are persistent thorns on those who won.

If it's not your land how do you promise it to someone else ! ! !

PART 2 please. amazing clarity

Looking forward to seeing the second part!

Thanks for creating vids relating to modern day events. Truly educational and entertaining!

I just discovered your channel and am enjoying listening to this video, a topic I studied as a student. Having worked in Central Asia, the picture at 6:22 is of a group in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, or Tajikistan -- I'm going by the architecture and the clothes they wear.

A clear informational video that shows the history of the region. Looking forward to part two.

Can't wait till the part two. wonderful episode.

yup they promised the land to both sides and ran away after their plans blew up in their faces

Just one point; as I understand it, the Sykes-Picot lines were not random doodlings by diplomats, they were based on the Ottoman Administrative regions, as you would expect.

Well at the current situation it can be an explosive topic, but very informative to form one's own opinion..

Highly recommened video. Provides some good elaboration on UK's political strategy in the region.

And there I was thinking that Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Olden took the surrender of Damascus on 1 October 1918, hours before Feisal and Lawrence arrived.

Great video but so few views 😢 Pretty much confirms to few truly care about the issue and how it might get resolved.

Great description of the situation, very impressive

In the past, Europe, including England and France, caused global instability, affecting non-European countries. It's surprising that Great Britain isn't more active in resolving conflicts, with the United States taking a more prominent role instead.

The British followed one rule, ”Divide and conquer”

This is by far the best coverage of the conflict I have seen so far. Excellent!

Very very nice video! I found myself wondering what the origins of the Israel Palestine conflict are and needed to know. Now i see that it is more complicated than i first thought and that there are many groups/ countries involved.

Wonderful video, as always. Thank you. Note: the bottom part of Africa is not the Horn of Africa.

Mr. Editor, a bit of a sudden ending there, combined with the KZfaq advertisement, made it somewhat confusing. Food for thought.

This seemed to end suddenly. Will there be a second episode?

Is there an IWM video about TE Lawrence? I’d be interested in that.

Another interesting presentation...Thank you I WM. ROGER...PEMBROKESHIRE

Excellent historical documentary. 👏👏👏

Are we the bad guys ? That's how you get an empire.

I have been listening to a podcast, the rest is history, which stated one of the focusing factors for the British to enter the first world was their desire to protect their control of India from the Russians. As you point out the drawing of the middle eastern map was in part due to Britains desire to protect the Suez canal which gave them expedited access to India.

Beautifully succinct documentary that explains so much

Feels like there should be a part two?

Outrageous! *spits out tea*

Excellent video! Thank you.

Hmmm .... as someone who supports the IWM financially, I'll reflect on this and look forward to part 2's position

Very good and informative video - please do another part, preferably more to cover whole history of Isreali state

Echoing the comments of others… what next? This is fascinating insight into this troubled part of the world.

1. Ottoman was once sending letter regarding about if war ever broke out in Europe they wanted to join triple Entente but rejected by British, France, and even Russian Empire because of their objectives doesn't aligned with any triple Entente nation. 2. Of all minister that holding power or we can say Three Giants in ottoman notably Minister of War Enver Pasha, Minister of Naval Djemal Pasha, and minister of interior Talaat Pasha were once students in the British and France studying all sectors then came in contact with nationalism idea.

I’m actually doing my research paper on the Jewish Legion and the controversy of the Balfour Declaration. While pleased at the fact your organisation made this video I do believe some elements could have been expanded upon and one argument made in the video was not properly constructed. Mainly I wish the story of the Zion Mule Corps and Jewish Legion had actually been expanded upon because what I hope to argue in my paper is that these military units are more crucial to the history of this topic than we think. Mainly because it shows a British engagement with the concept of Zionism going back to the earliest days of the war. For context roughly 50,000 Jews from the Yishuv (the pre state community of Jews in what people call Palestine I’d call the land of Israel) were expelled from the Ottoman empire. The majority made their way to Alexandria where discussion quickly rose to establish a Jewish military unit to serve in the British for an offensive in the Middle East. Britain had at this time had discussions of forming a Jewish regiment but the community in England at this time leaned more towards wanting to assimilate into English society. Nether the less in 1915 due to British regulations of admitting foreign soldiers into their ranks. A supply unit was established that would serve at Gallipoli, mainly Cape Helles called the Zion Mule Corps. It was disbanded after the retreat from Gallipoli with 100 servicemen joining a London rifle regiment which would eventually become the basis of the 38th Royal Fusiliers. The first of 3 regiments of the Jewish Legion. The other 2 being the 39th and the 40th Royal Fusiliers. What’s crucial is the date of the establishment of the 38th. They were established in August of 1917 and a key scholar of this topic: Martin Watts and the primary source from their NCO Lt Col John Henry Patterson: with the Judeans in the Palestine campaign, shows that the 38th was established with the explicit intent to go and fight within the EEF in the Palestine campaign with an aim of the Zionist movement being awarded territory after the war. My criticism comes from the use of the armband to reach the conclusion that Zionism wasn’t a popular among us during the war. If you had used documentation from Lucien Wolff, the Board of Deputies, the book: we are coming, unafraid: the Jewish legions and the promised land in the First World War, to have made your argument I would have respected it, disagreed with it to some level but found it more able to hold water. I would counter with evidence that all 3 regiments served under both the British flag and the flag that would become the Israeli flag. Hatikva was sung alongside G-d save the king, recruitment posters I’ve seen for the 39th Royal Fusiliers, displayed in Canada and reports about the unit’s training, the march the 38th had through London and testimony from Patterson I would use to prove this point I do apologise if I’ve been rude but I believe you could have made your argument better by drawing upon other sources and do believe the role of Jewish military service in the British army during this time needs to be explored more to gain more of a proper understanding to Britain’s decisions

Lovely of the Brits to make ''Plans'' for another people without asking first. Now what's that called in other circles??

I hear that Mt. Kilimanjaro was gifted away to a person across the continent by a person from across the continent. A natural feature.

A story that needs to be told. Thank you.

How on earth did you get out an informative video with the current UK government's culture wars going on? I really do admire your integrity and courage, for the truth belongs to those with money in this modern world.

Fantastic video!!! Never knew that 🇯🇴🇵🇸 were one state then divided into two

Sure, I have heard of the Balfour Declaration. But until just now I had never had the chance to read what it actually says. It strikes me that for such an important document, it is surprisingly wishy-washy, to use the preferred academic term. As a official statement, it simply expresses a preference. It is not a law, a foreign policy objective of the Crown, or a carefully arrived-at, negotiated treaty obligation.' It simply seems to be a carefully worded, straddle the fence thinking of the Foreign Office, designed not to give too much away to either side, designed to be abandoned or at least modified should shifting circumstances require it. To make it the cornerstone of British foreign policy, is, to quote Sir Bernard Appleby, to put a burden on it that it is semantically and epistologically not designed to support".

Lord Balfour went to Eton. Anyone else seeing the link between crass incompetent politicians and that establishment?

Thank you for the video

The original title along the lines of “why britain is responsible for the arab-israeli conflict” was accurate. Too bad someone at the IWM lost their nerve.

1:25 wrong map for the Russian Empire in 1914. 10:59 it's pronounced Mesopotamia (meaning "between the rivers"), not "Mesopotania"

Royal Navy 1904 - 1926 changed from coal to oil Good relations with Arabs were essential Also, there were many politicians who loved Arabic culture - Anthony Eden spoke Arabic and was enraptured by the culture Many British simply "Didn't like Jews" Britain was NOT pro-Zionism : some folks were, most weren't

It’s easy to promise things to others that isn’t yours

It's more to the situation than British involvement now...but its no surprise about this information.

High production value, great images from the period, but an overly simplistic cherry picked version of events aimed at pinning the current conflict on the British. Perhaps the IWM could make a video about the Rashidun Caliphate of the 7th century, or the subsequent Ottoman Empire’s persecution and massacre of non-Muslim minorities? Maybe then the layman would have a better understanding of the origins of the current conflict in the Middle East.

All the European colonial powers divided up the world by putting into the same territories groups of people who always lived in their own territory. This way, the native groups would fight among themselves rather than attack the colonial powers. That’s why ac

I'll just remind us all the Trans- Jordan Memorandum at the Cairo Conference of 1922, in which the Britts, rulers of Palestine, together with the Arab League States, takes off the Eastern part of palestine know as Jordan today from the equation of the "Jewish Homeland in Palestine" from the 1917 Balfour Dec.

Thanks Britain.

The flippant drawing of borders were the British’s specialty. I wouldn’t be surprised if they meticulously planned it this way.

This is what people should be watching not tiktoks

I am sure that the uprising involving Faisal also involved an obscure, unknown British officer and his Rolls Royce armoured cars, I am trying to remember his name, but clearly, I am not the only one to forget to mention T E Lawrence "of Arabia"?

Those of you that are really interested in the facts and history read 'Paris 1919' and 'Desert Queen' the life story of Gertrude Bell. I am afraid our children protesting today have no idea how the Middle East was created.

GREAT COVERAGE, THANK YOU

Israel is a historical provable contemporary of Egypt and Babilon, so very much before Rome or Palestine! Be ashamed!

Doesn't need a 15-minute explanation to answer the question. I can do it in a second: Yes.

1919 Versailles : Lloyd George was poor on geography - he though Mecca was in Syria But he was hot on bible studies : he suggested Israel's borders should run from "Ham to Beersheba". Civil servants had to trawl the archives to find ancient maps.

The maps drawn post war were erroneous, Syria and Lebanon were not split yet, and the NW corner of Syria was not yet taken out.

Generally a very balanced and interesting account. My one quibble - starting in 1914 does rather skew the argument! It would be equivalent to starting at 1973 - ie that Egypt invaded Israel in the Sinai desert and occupied Israeli land! Very disingenuous I’m sure everyone would agree. The point being - where you start the story massively changes perception. What you missed is that the Jews in Israel were occupied by a foreign power (Rome) and over time were kicked out of their homeland by many peoples - including by the Arabs. The Arab colonisation of the levant and North Africa often gets a free pass. But if people have a lawful claim to land they were kicked out of (think Palestinian refugees, Ukrainian refugees etc) then how long does it last and why have you picked that time? It’s a messy situation - and frankly trying to blame Britain for the mess rather absolves all the actual people on the ground fighting over it…

Lads we did it again!

They don't call the Union Jack a Butchers Apron for nothing hey.

Why do you write Israel-Palestine if hamas attacked first? Or is it différent in english?

Huge deaths to draw lines on a map

A a major factor behind the suffering and divide to this day 😕

What everyone miss to mention is that Jordan was part of the british mandate for palestine, so the arabs took 3 times more land than the jews, actually the so called "palestinan" arabs have a state since 1947, it is called Jordan, it has the same flag as the "palestinians" are waving today, the problem is, and the heart of the conflict , that the palestinians dont want a jewish state in that region in any borders or shape, "from the river to the sea" their famous chant makes that clear.

absolutely

This is a great summary from a British colonial perspective. I highly recommend both parts 1 & 2.

Hindsight.

So the British will clean up their mess and all will be well. Maybe a single secular state called Balfouria would work.

If you compare the treaties of Versailles, (the harshness of which is attributed to the rise of Hitler) Saint-Germain, Trianon and Sevres, it's very easy to distinguish the extreme amount of racism inherent in the European mindset of the period: Germany lost a minimum amount of land and Austria was disbanded to give the locals their own states while Turkey lost pretty much everything except a small portion of lowest value rural inner Anatolia and any non-Christian locals were instead colonized by Britain and France.

In 1988 the Palestine National Council meeting in Algiers proclaimed the establishment of the State of Palestine. The Security Council demanded Israel withdraw its forces “forthwith and unconditionally” from Lebanon up to its internationally recognized boundaries. 06 June 1982.

didnt it start with the Romans ?

Objectively…..the British, for such a small nation, really punched well above its weight for centuries.

Too bad this hasn't been put out years ago, year after year.

Quick question - why couldn’t Britain or any other western country offer a place for Jews? Did they not want them in their country ? Why place them in a country where the original residents didn’t want to share their country ? This move in1947, seemed to have displace many Palestinians and they were treated with injustice by the UN. America is so large, why couldn’t one state be given to the Jews? Seems like the west were always racist to Jews, it was only Muslims who voluntarily gave Jews a place to live - during the ottomon empire in the 1880.

still dont get it

1:17 Why does that say Mumbai? It should be Bombay.

Is it factually correct to keep referring to that area as Palestine? That is not what I read from other sources.

Nice explantion 'history is fact

There was also an involvement from British Baptists in Zionism

If two fish are fighting in a pond it means the British were there.

It's amazing that the Small Country of Britain and there politicians and Policy's had so much to do with what is still happening in our World 🌎 😮

Unusual for the British to be causing Chaos abroad 🤣

Next explain Lebanon

Proud to be British

I hope that part 2 will deal with: 1. Did the colonial powers have a right to do the division? It is not addressed strongly enough; 2. Was Palestine empty land, and how does Asher Ginsberg’s observations of Palestine in 1891 relate to this notion; 3. There were serious fights between Jewish settlers and native Arabs in Palestine throughout the 1930s. It is glossed over, thereby underplaying the beginnings of the illegal land claims of the Zionists; 4. There were about 4 or 5 Zionist terror groups, among them the father of Benjamin Netanyahu and Menachem Begin, who famously claimed to be the original terr0rist; 5. Why was the Balfour Declaration addressed to Rothschild, in particular, and was that part of a deal to bring America in to support the British in the war? This piece doesn’t adequately deal with the background to the conflicting promises and why the Brits ultimately favoured the Zionists. 6. This piece also does not adequately deal with the root cause of the current conflict, the Zionists’ master plan of establishing Greater Israel. It is the fulcrum of the manifesto of the Likud Party, founded by Begin. It is a matter of emphasis and important to understand the degree of culpability of not just the British Empire but also those currently in power in Israel who continue to push the Greater Israel agenda.

🤔 If I start my own religion and get a few thousand followers, can I then decide it's actually a nationality and demand a piece of someone elses land?

Brits should've done the moral thing and not partition arab land they won from the ottomans

How many Jews and Christians currently are living in Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan? Less than ONE PERCENT. What happened to all those people? Forced out? What’s currently happening in Nigeria? in churches in Nigeria?

Started before that.

Palestine wasn't Britain's to give a way in the first place.

You may consider this comment offensive but it is true none the less. Every time the British stick their noses in to other countries then leaves there has been nothing but a total failure. British empire ways are directly to blame for current problems in the middle east.

This video insists on separating Levantine Christians from Arabs, all are Arabs, some are Muslims and some are Christians