The people of the Greater Middle East, including the Levant (most of whom are Semites, and the followers of Abrahamic religions) have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. *Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common.* Strategically ambiguous outsiders make use of this, for own advantages. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople, then during WW1 the seat of POWER playing these games changed to London/Paris (Sykes-Picot/Balfour Declaration/WW1), then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, starting around the time a bark by Washington DC in 1956 (Suez Crisis/War) showed who the new boss was, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC (the entire ME was the playground during the Cold War). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the ME, in order to _rule over the dissent_ which is classical divide-and-rule. Today, their leaders are ALL tools. Draw lines on the map without asking any of those affected. Exploit and foster endless wars, meddle for constant dissent. *Divide-and-rule connects the dots on the timeline of history.* Who has had (in all historical cases in the ME/Levant) the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of distance from the events resulting out of the own meddling and political activities, being able to reach all the other regions, but could not be reached itself as hegemony, at any given point of a historical timeline? Pax Romana, Rome. Pax Britannica, London. Pax Americana, Washington DC. All they ever wanted was *pax,* because they said so, but who picks up the *pieces of great wealth and the systemic gains* when all the others can be avoided from uniting? Different Empires. Different era. Same games... ------------------------------------- The people of the Africa have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Tribalism makes it easy to divide people, then keep them poor under the "kind foot" of exploitation. In the era of empires, first Rome/Constantinople in North Africa, then during the era of Western imperialism the seat of POWER playing these games changed to the USA/Europe, then after the 1950's as European colonialism's power decreased, Africa was the playground during the Cold War. Once the dividers had reached peak power for themselves, by simply drawing lines on the map without asking any of those affected (Congo Conference/1884) the own systems of gain could siphon off wealth like a giant vacuum cleaner. The intention was simply to avoid unity in Africa, in order to _rule over the dissent_ which is classical divide-and-rule. During the Cold War, Moscow took on the role of arming the resistance to the colonial dividers. Today, all African dissenters, including some of Africa's own greedy corrupt leaders, are ALL tools. Endless wars, constant dissent. _Give the weak mind money, and they will dance for the outside dividers..._ *Divide-and-rule.* Oldest trick in the book... Different people and systems. Different places on the map. Same games. -------------------------------------- The people of the Americas (most of whom are Christians), including the USA, have been divided and ruled over by outsiders for centuries. Because it is easier to divide people based on personal differences, than it is to unite them, based on what they have in common. In the beginning stages of era of European Imperialism, first Spain and Portugal entered the Americas, employing the divide-and-rule technique of top-down power on the local systems (Aztecs/Incas), and as European colonial powers' influence decreased during the 19th century, the role of divider was simply taken over by Washington DC. As the own power increased incrementally, the entire world became the playground after around 1900. _Today, it is the globalists who employ imperialist tools to play divide-and-rule games on their neighbours._ *Forget nukes. The divide-and-control/rule/conquer strategy is the most powerful force on the planet, because it can be employed equally in times of peace to CONTROL, in times of crises to RULE, and in times of war to CONQUER.* Ever since the two-faced snake slithered down that tree of unity (fable), speaking out of both sides of the mouth (lies, deceit), the wisest human beings have fruitlessly warned, and the easily divisable have continuously been warned against divisions within a peaceful status quo. When you bow to the division caused by deception, you will lose the good life..."and much that once was, is lost; for none now live who remember it." Such divisions create GAIN for OUTSIDERS (Eden as a system divided by lies and deceit). Now the intention is simply to avoid unity in the Americas, in order to rule over the dissent which is classical divide-and-rule. Endless wars on anything and everything from "drugs" to "terror" (sic.), constant dissent with everything's a war war war... Insert levers of lies, mistrust. The *two-party-duopoly* is two cheeks of the same butt which set out to create favourites: Favouritism, by granting access to the own POWER/WEALTH, to those who volunteer to act as proxies and extensions for the own power projection. The small picture lives of domestic political chaos, of the big picture reality of international insanity. Point the systemic (MSM) finger, everywhere else, by use of the own paid stooges of power by presenting their deep state-orchestrated three-letter-agency astroturfed violence on multiple tiers as being the reactions of "the poor oppressed people, who need our help for freedom and democracy" (sic.). Liars, deceivers, creators of the BLACK LEGEND for the "other side". *In February 1948, George F. Kennan's Policy Planning Staff said: "[W]e have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. ... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity."* Kennan: A prototype GLOBALIST. And that is what they did to increase their own wealth. Set up people against each other, then siphon off the wealth of entire regions of the planet. *And that is what you are fighting for. That is what the hegemon has always done, pretending to be the "good pax", but playing "good cop/bad cop" with the world, from a position of power.* In the past, the "good cops" were the INTERNATIONALISTS, and the "bad cops" were the IMPERIALISTS. In the present that has morphed into the "good cops" being the GLOBALISTS/NEOLIBS, and the "bad cops" being the NEOCONS. Name-branding and doublespeak for the slumberland plebs, enchanted by their "bread-and-circuses"-existences. America's friends and self-proclaimed default rivals in Eurasia are still being burnt to ensure this disparity continues, with a (quote) "pattern of relationships" which are beneficial to the own rule. Set up European and Eurasian nations (including the Middle East/North Africa) against each other. It is how divide-and-rule is implemented. The imperialist playbook of Great Britain and the USA for more than 100 years. Read Halford Mackinder (Pivot of History, 1904) and Zbigniew Brzezinski (Grand Chessboard, 1997) regarding Eurasia for the template. Read Smedley-Butler/War is a Racket for the modus operandi. Some say Europe is a divine goddess. I say, it is a humble apple tree, from an allegory as old as modern civilizations... *Divide and Rule.* Oldest trick in the book... Four corners of the globe. Different cultures and religions. Same games. THE LINK OF THE WORLD. --------------------------------------- The entire system they favor in the USA/collective West is based on a pre-set *managed and moderated division,* for the benefit of a very few at the top of the pyramids accompanied by the often-repeated nice-sounding storyline. Create the script of the own heroes. Their entire scripted money-funded history sounds like a Hollywood superhero movie that sounds too good to be true. Guess what? It is. It is what they are NOT telling you, that they try to hide. Who wields the POWER? Who has had the GEOGRAPHICAL ADVANTAGE of being able to reach all the other little buck catchers (tools, and other Roman-era style instruments of POWER), but could not be reached itself, because of a geographical-, technological-, organizational-, military-, strategic-, political advantage at any given point of a historical timeline? Create the default rival/enemy on their own marching routes. It is usually the power most likely to succeed which is determined as the default rival/enemy. Notice how, as soon as a rival starts mass-producing products high up in the value chain of capitalism, and starts vying for markets, and becomes successful, it immediately becomes the systemic rival, and is then geopolitically encircled by the greater empire. It happened around 1900, as Germany started building high-value products, and it happened around 2000, as China started moving away from building cheap toys and labor intensive kitchen appliances... The games start on the home turf. The first victims are their own people in the USA/collective West, locked in the eternal struggle for wealth and personal gain which they have been deceived into thinking is "good greed", but which WILL be exploited by the snakes who deceive them on the domestic tier of the divide-and-rule system of power. Because ..."most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place." - Walter E. Williams *War is a great **_divider._** It goes straight through the heads of millions and billions of people from the very top tiers, right down to the individual level. War divides alignments and alliances, goes straight through organizations, divides political parties, tears through families, and finally at the very bottom tier, goes straight through individual hearts and minds as individuals struggle with themselves.*

Egyptians were on the right side of history

Excellent overview - I would have preferred to hear more about the Israeli duplicity in all of this.

Still today Egypt is very poor, it has an exploding population of 110 millions.

Abdul Nasser lost to Israel in 1949 in the sack of Falluja.

Those were the last kicks of a dying empire.

Sam Elliott should have played Eden in a movie. Dead ringers.

What is this a woke agenda biased bbc documentary on how British is such a joke and isn’t strong enough to defend its existence! This is on BBC 4 and I feel like it’s a complete joke interviewing the Egyptians

at 56:50... coincidence or irony ? the front bench MP to the right of Tony Blair with his arms crossed was the cabin steward to Anthony Eden on his trip to NZ following his resignation in 1957.

Edens decisions led to US melding into the Middle East, the rise of Islamic Fundmentalism, the fall of Persia via the Islamic Revolution, the Six Day War, the tenuous peace between Arab nations and Israel, the US allying with Israel, the Gulf War, the Iraq War, and finally, 9/11 and 7/7 and every other form of Islamic terrorism on British Shores.

The Suez Crisis was the inevitable result of Churchill's treason during World War II.

from the 54 th minutes to the end , lying took a new turn utter unremitting lies

The west is a piece of uncivilized animals. The west was never and will never be civilized. Punch of human snakes.

The west is a piece of uncivilized animals. The west was never and will never be civilized. Punch of human snakes.

The usual and the notorious suspects again! The British has done what they are known for but no one should underestimate Israels lucid role. The notorious and usual suspects. How Boris Johnson convinced Selensky not to sign the peace agreement with Putin wich has led to an ongoing war and Nightmare for Ukraine. And to see how Israel is committing war crimes, atrocities and a genoncide showing that some things are seemingly never changing . Some people and some nations are keen on to maintain their lucid role in history! But calling themselves the civilized nations while pointing on other nations who were never interested to cause any harm or problems to other nations are still getting bullied, threatened, invaded and exploited by exactly those nations who are calling themselves the civilized nations. It's always the same with this nations : Great Britain, France, USA and Israel.

I love the camel j*ckey music during the end credits!

To try and compare Nasser in the 50s to Saddam in the 00s is just insane. They are both Arab Muslims and that’s about the only similarity. Saddam was a monster, Nasser was not.

It's good to know that the BBC can be unbiased, being that this Documentary Series covers the Suez Crisis from both the British Point of View ("Suez: A Very British Crisis") as well as the Egyptian Point of View ("The Other Side of Suez"). This is probably the best Documentary I've seen on the subject.

WHITE PEOPLE 🤡

I seen this quite a while ago on TV. This is the first documentary I seen about Suez and by far the best. It was as captivating as a movie as I didn't know much about it.

Ahhh, all the things we never knew, and now we do.. 🤮😡🤮😡🤮

was mr.eden ever consigered an international terrorist by the Onu...

What a sobering lesson to imperial foreign policy. Historian Tim Snyder has argued that an empire cannot become a nation state until it has given up all of its former claims on the rights of the indigenous peoples that it has oppressed, colonised, exploited by force, invaded, &c.

No hay subtitulos!

You are always a product of the world 20-30 years after you were born. Anthony Eden was born in 1897 and if WWII had never happened, might have become PM in 1942 or so. The world of the late 50s came as a complete surprise to him.

Our leaders are mindless insane and cruel. Always the wrong men seek power.

They didn't have the power then Usa and ussr were super powers Britain lost its by blundering Into two world wars while usa Stayed neutral at first!

But nasser he won good battle u idiot

Eden was a moron.

In realities middle eastern runs by thirsty animalistic power sick mullahs and Pattinson and Chinese dictatorial that don't care about own people. None of these governments have people majority. Look British and other westen power runs by multinationals companies who don't care about anyone other money. What world need is people rolling people and removal of dictatorial regime by own people and wo Chinese or Puttin or westen influences , bbc should only report the news not helping these cartels inhumane animal to spreading Mullahs or Puttin or Chinese or zcartels Agenda, middle eastern have wealth and Brian to be rightful partners of democratic countries. Stop supporting dictatorial regime like Chinese Puttin Mullahs in Iran and other idiots that will in the end brings atomic destruction of world ..

AN AFRICAN LEADER SAY ONCE ''IF WE ARE UNITED THE ENEMY OUTSIDE CAN DO US NO HARM'' WELL ...........

The chief military strategist and genius behind Viet Nam's victory over the French Foreign Legion ( Dien Binh Phu) and USA is Giap - a high school teacher. The commander of the French Foreign Legion committed suicide inside his bunkers - many of them named after his mistresses. Hey nobody committed suicide in Johnson's and Nixon's cabinet in 1975.

I've watched another "similar" corroborating documentary: thanks BBC. How long did it take Britain to find out PM Eden lied to Parliament? However, Blair got away with lying and bowing to AMerican pressure on Iraq's weapon's of mass destruction. And look how quickly Boris J voted out of power. Did Israel, upon the instigation of Britain, and France pay war reparations to Egypt??

Eden called people who end colonialism and exploitation fascist 🤣🤣, the British are the biggest fascist of them all

BBC always been and now more than ever biased left pro-communist piece of garbage. British version of CNN

The year might be 2022 but the world is still run by Eden's, Eisenhower's and Ben-Gurion's fair play to Nasser, stick to your guns mate.

When George W decided to go back into Iraq because his Pop hadn't taken Saddam out ,he told the Iraqi people to rise up and they did and Bush 41 stood by and watched Saddam crush the uprising and condemned many to death and torture , GWB knew damn well Saddam was a spent force he lost most of his army and Iraq was was no longer a Mid-east superpower , W lied and lied ,it was proven Saddam hadn't any WMD ,And when he addressed Congress and had UK PM Tony Blair he said "British Intelligence had the evidence " And the camera panned in on Blair and you could see by Blair's look and body language that he knew it was a lie. The U.S and the coalition had more than enough firepower to go right into Bagdad and either arrest or kill Saddam. And I remember Gen Al Haig calling Bush 41 a wimp and he was right and that's the only reason W lied through his teeth to go back in and oust Saddam because that's what cost Bush 41 to lose the 1992 election.

Ah yes, Eden, a man of peace, striving for peace: a piece of Egypt.

Excellent documentary !!

If Eden was an idiot, how much of a bigger idiot was Nasser in 1967? So drunk on his own wartime “victory”, which was not even a military one, and required a US intervention, that he thought he could win versus Israel on the strength of it?

Incredibly informative and amazing documentary !!

Nasser was such a plagiarist !!!!!

As usual, the BBC had to include some fake history. Britain is not America's oldest ally. France is. France helped the Americans defeat Britain in the Revolutionary War.

Few individuals realise when fundamentals changes occur in history, since, the Owl of Minerva, spreads its wings and flies only with the falling of dusk.

Wow! No biased reporting here.🤣🤣🤣

Eden was a dangerous idiot. He worked closely with Churchill all through the second World war, & would have known how General Alan Brooke had to persuade Churchill not to carry out crazy plans. Did Eden learn nothing from those years?

The world, particularly the US and Britain, didn't learn anything from the Suez Crisis

While I agree that this aggression was wrong, this documentary seems overly biased against the Eden. 40:56 Eden's speaking of peace was interlaced with images of the battle. That type of film editing is consistent with propaganda films that seek to demonize an enemy. 43:47 "Eden's invasion has obstructed the very waterway he was trying to save." Nasser ordered the obstruction of the waterway as a consequence of the invasion. And the UK population was quite enraged when the canal was nationalized. A few months later they accepted it as fait accompli, but this program implied that the Brits were cool with it the moment it happened.

Who designed and built the Canal? Who discovered the oil? Who built the drills, and the rigs, and the refineries, and the pipelines that allow that oil to be extracted and sold? Just curious.

britain is a disgusting nation!