BBC Suez A Very British Crisis 2of3 Conspiracy

[@wavydavy9816]

I'm English and we don't get taught about this episode in British history so well done for putting it up here. It's very interesting.

[@Stophrah]

I was taught about it at grammar school so you are wrong. The year long module was called 'Modern British History, 1951-2005'.

[@Macolicious88]

Excellent documentary. Obviously for quite some time, they don’t make programs like these anymore.

[@Cyb3riano]

Impecable James Fox as Eden.

[@nigelbarrett4091]

I found Perez,s sneering jovial attitude completely in la la land as it was a very serious matter his country invading an independent country and again we saw the cynical conniving attitude of USA and Britain ignoring the U.N.and invading Iraq in 2003.Examples of the casual attitude the big powers take towards smaller nations -there were no weapons of mass destruction as the allies lied.

[@nigelbarrett4091]

Yes it was a rather bizarre posture from Perez but maybe he was as natural as he normally was in other interviews but he appeared jovial and treating the invasion like it was a jolly joke.

[@shelbynamels973]

... and Major Simmerson as Foreign Secretary Lloyd.

[@Mandydailyblog]

Im British and I totally respect and admired Nasser... He had rights to close the canal...its Egypts land he can do what he wants...he was a great president... I spent almost 5 years in Egypt too....nice people and great history

[@Tom-le3yy]

Yeah, nice and hateful.

[@johncronin9540]

Tom This may come as a shock to you, but people are individual human beings. Their psychological make up does not conform to your stereotypical view of them as a group. Human beings are capable of being kind and of being hateful. I have Egyptian neighbors who are very friendly and hospitable. I have never seen anything resembling hatred or resentment, or support of violent terrorism.

[@Tom-le3yy]

@@johncronin9540 stereotypical? They may be nice to you, but just mention the name israel and the tune will change very quickly. Sure, not everyone is like that, but based on the egyptians i met abroad - many are. They are perfectly nice until they hear where you are from. Without any regard btw to anything I as an israeli have ever done - but simply for my nationality. Pity.

[@anthonyburke3428]

@@Tom-le3yy what you forget is that the people of a country are responsible for what their government does!

[@azazelzel6954]

I bet you also voted to remain in the EU as well... eh m8? Nassar was an unelected dictator btw...

[@allanro28]

all i can say is wow....i never knew about this...excellent show...thanks for uploading...subscribed

[@nigelbarrett4091]

Suez was a perfect example of secret diplomacy which President Wilson in 1919 advocated should never be part of world disputes and we were to see secret diplomacy rear its ugly head yet again in the run up to the Iraq war,proving Wilson was correct.

[@granskare]

you could not trust Dulles at all.

[@johncronin9540]

granskare Neither of them.

[@Johnnycdrums]

IKE had problems with Dulles, but the arrogant Anthony Eden took President Eisenhower for a pushover, much like Gen. Montgomery did during the ETO.

[@KimPhilby203]

Love Shimon Peres ❤

[@christopherdennis4280]

And none of these criminal conspirators chuckling over their audacity spent a moment in prison.

[@nemoiudex4996]

A tragic story of how one stupid, profoundly unwell and utterly incompetent old fool Anthony Eden dishonored and disgraced himself and Britain in the Middle East. Just as another stupid and utterly incompetent old fool named Lord Denning later dishonored and disgrased himself and the entire system of the British justice. Both dealt Britain such heavy blows that the country has never recovered ever since.

[@bbmtge]

Being an easily influenced idiot is not very becoming.

[@neilhobson3624]

He got his arse kicked in 67 though. Made a right fool of himself too.

[@Mindfultranslations]

Great example how events are really planned and executed then how they are reported to the “free” press by the good guys ( democratic west) .. bring to mind any recent historic events since sued alone ?

[@nitinkataria1288]

He always thought with his nerves and never with his brain......epic.....how did he become such a senior army officer anyway

[@Fergus-Collington]

Who? Eisenhower? Eden? Nasser? Dayan? Or maybe that French bloke?

[@robertewing3114]

Eden was like him, he resigned in 1938 when in dispute with the PM who had told him go home and take an aspirin

[@vincentconti3633]

Wild times! People believe today is complicated!

[@KOMET2006]

The Suez Crisis was the last time Britain sought to carry out a foreign policy wholly independent of the U.S., and failed. No longer was Britain an imperial power without rival.

[@strongdan1]

all this documentary need to be digitally remaster. dirty politics. still going on today

[@johnjanpopovic4813]

some pages in this story were carefully omitted .. for obvious reasons Conspiracy planning and execution .. nothing has changed

[@dylanroff4205]

i can't watch the can can without thinking of Buster blood vessel and his group bad manners version. People of a certain age from the UK will know what i'm on about.

[@ellaw356]

How ridiculous that Ike was upset that Israel had 60 fighter planes? They were surrounded by enemies everywhere. What else did the US expect.

[@4FYTfa8EjYHNXjChe8xs7xmC5pNEtz]

The more I learn about Ike, the more I realize that he was pretty much of a jackass in a lot of ways.

[@aliceresnick4195]

Learn the English language before you try to compose a sentence in English. Correctly.

[@bearriver666]

where is part 3 ?

[@experimental9017]

Whats Joe Pesci 2:15 got to do with it ? Was that his first role ?

[@johncronin9540]

They really need a better actor for Eisenhower. He looks far too young, and sounds nothing like him. They only thing they had in common was the baldness.

[@shawngilliland243]

@John Cronin - you are right, he looks and sounds nothing like Eisenhower. And the real Eisenhower was much less attractive-looking than the actor.

[@Johnnycdrums]

The actor lacked the presence and gravitas of IKE.

[@nigelbarrett4091]

.Correct me if i,m wrong but the C. I. A. had just orchestrated a secret right wing coup in Guatemala in 1955 so quelle suprise and double standards Eisenhower,s indignation he had not been consulted about the Suez invasions !

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

54:02 - I'm guessing he wasn't much of a fan of British Middle East policy.

[@nigelbarrett4091]

In just 63 years since 1956 the USA has made a complete 100 pc U turn in their attitude to playing by U.N.O. rules !

[@faharoon357]

@Nigel, I don't believe so. The Americans have always been like how they are with their words and acions towards the Near East. When able hope over to the National Security Archives at George Washington University. Have a gander what the Americans did in Iran, all of nations from Morrocco to the borders of China in the last century alone.

[@hibye4228]

That’s was end of the British empire

[@standupG1]

The Egyptians left all of their fighter planes in public view where they were promptly destroyed. They simply do not make smart war time decisions.

[@shawngilliland243]

@G Man - They don't make ANY smart decisions.

[@tamimelyan2056]

@@shawngilliland243 Yes, our corrupt and dictator leadership might have taken stupid decisions but at least Egypt had a fair and just cause. Making stupid decisions is much better than taking shameful and disgraceful decisions to bombard and occupy other nations and commit war crimes and then have our soldiers and officers proudly retell their stories of how they killed people who were just defending their lands and lives and tell us their accounts of how they killed civilians. These people (politicians and soldiers) should have been put to an international war crimes trial not come out with their best suits to tell their savage and shameful stories with a smile on their face. Nothing of this would have happened if "great" Britain has minded its own business and stayed back at its island treating its dummy "glorious" queen :)

[@bhikkubodhi]

They moved them to Luxor in the south, also some to Syria and Saudi Arabia. They were hoping the campaign would be limited or stopped. They had not fully trained there pilots on the MIGs yet and the Soviet block volunteers had not arrived. Given their circumstances their campaign was a good one in the Sinai and the canal.

[@ganvanni]

Glossed over a bit of cold blooded murder in this doc

[@SamuelMproductions]

Where is Part 1 :(

[@Johnnycdrums]

Dancing girl at 31:47.

[@BracaPhoto]

Excellent camera angle 🤣🤣🤣

[@namenotavailable7365]

So ... Ike lied twice re the U2s. Once in 1956 and once when one was shot down over the USSR.

[@davidmaslow399]

Excellent

[@nmp290765]

thanks for uploading

[@frederickmiles327]

Politics is a matter of timing. Eden faced an almost impossible inheritence, Churchill was basically only equipping the British forces for all out nuclear deterence and colonial policing and defensive defence of the UK with RAF fighters. More general improved advanced weapons were being developed for the 1960s not the mid 1950s. No one was expecting for Britain would embark on a major independent ambhibious opeation equivalent to MacArthurs decison to land at Inchon and embark on major conventional land invasion of NK and potentially all out war with the communist powers. The actual reality was that McArthur had twice being driven bakc out of NK into the sea in 1950 the seond time by the full force of the Chinees army and with Russian airforce piltos flyign the NK ground attack and fighter cover, In 1954 Churchill like Eisenhower with the development of huge hydrogen bombs usable or not was looking for excuses for a massive conventional disarmament- the UK spent 10 percent of GNP on defence the USA probably 25 percent and get some growth back into a new more free market post war economy. Both Eisenshower and Churchill were looking to improve their image as quite ocnsiderable warmongers and militarist having waged Ww2 and Korean with possibly too mcuh obvious enthusiasm. Churchill had pretty much hoped the war would go on for ever which party the reason for his caution about D Day and his absurd scheme to invade Germany thu the Alps extending the Italian theatre. Eisenhower after MacArthurs rather shocking but necessary aggression in the Korean war combined with Eisenhowers general assumption of a Geenerals perogative during WW2, basically appearing in public and dinning with his 20 year old mistress during the war, basically deserting his wife for his floozy until convientiently abandoning the mistress for the old bag in September 1945.

[@wolflupus788]

the British were totally wrong.!

[@matthew22nz]

trying to get backs ones stolen property is “totally wrong!” ? Obviously a kid who still lives with his parents and has never owned anything of value in his life....

[@LuisDiuk]

This documentary is biased, 3 hour documentary and not a single mention of the Lease Contract of 99 years that britihs and frenchs hold not to expire before 1968, on that part Egypt committed an aggression and a violation of human rights

[@bhikkubodhi]

They offered to pay market value to the shareholders. Legally Eden felt the UK and France had a weak case.

[@LuisDiuk]

@@bhikkubodhi So I steal your jacket and then I say I pay it to you... that's a violation of the fundamental property rights. Nasser acted as a bully.

[@Anglo-Brit]

You cant even spell British your moron.

[@bbmtge]

Spot on.

[@lcdaevelyngarcia]

Since when the Suez Canal is in the United Kingdom?

[@BijuJDaniel]

Well a quarter of the world was under british empire for long time

[@tomhurdle7289]

Sir Anthony Eden, A great British Prime Minister. Nasser was a great evil. It was shameful the United States abandoned their allies, The United Kingdom, France and Israel.

[@BasedinReality1984]

The USA let us down here. Nowadays they would be leading the way. I love the USA before anyone starts 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇦🇺

[@AdamAdam-ne9ee]

A war crime ... killing all those civilians in Portsaiid and in the Sinai shame on them .... cowards . حسبنا الله و نعم الوكيل في مجرمي الحرب هؤلاء و قتلهم للمدنيين ... و الأن يدعون حمايتهم لحقوق الانسان الخ ... كذب و نفاق ...

[@fareaislam6681]

How that albino bat Eden called so handsome by those British?lol handsome 😁

[@realistbrit349]

Vive La France.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

"Realist Brit" "Viva La France" You takin' the piss out your name or something, mate?

[@realistbrit349]

Fuzzy Dunlop...............Sort of - Yeah. It just amuses me how history hammers the UK for the Suez shambles, but seems to forget the role played by France.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Very much seems to me they were 'partners in crime', so to speak.

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

eden blew it without question. i know nasar was a serios danger no matter moving forward he was going to invade isreal but eden almost pushed him right to the comeys.

[@shawngilliland243]

Nasser WAS a dangerously meddlesome, egomaniacal, cult of personality leader. He was fomenting revolution in Algeria as well.

[@sylestermajor783]

Hmm... very interesting... do you have any firm evidence... or any reliable sources for me?

[@seanflynncontact]

The French once formented revolution for Americans fighting their British Colonizers. The British were acting like Colinizers in the Suez. The French were Colonizers in Algeria. It didn't occur to the French after they'd been granted liberty from German occupation post WW2, that maybe they should do the same to the nations they were occupying. French occupation caused millions to die in Vietnam and Algeria. Here's an idea. Why don't nation's stay within their own borders.

[@nitinkataria1288]

Ghanta good looking man......andhon

[@savagesnayle301]

Can we stop using the countries name and start saying the the countries government. as in British government, Egyptian Government, US government French government. Using just the nations name suggests all the people of that nation supports that governments actions. It is a form of racism.

[@indigohammer5732]

It’s not really, is it?