How Lebanon Descended Into Civil War | Lebanon Documentary

[@HikmaHistory]

Do you think the Lebanese Civil War was avoidable? Making of the Modern Middle East Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLiPhmAD3I2JxEOPIea4qqAwOdn3axtWRf

[@samwill7259]

I think the ratio idea in government was doomed from the start. it's anti democratic and anti meritocratic on the face of it to say that members of one group can only hold this job or that job even if there are members of other groups that could do it better.

[@mdsabahuddin8251]

With such discrimination against the muslims in the government one more civil war is around the corner

[@adma7298]

Impossible. Lebanon was part of bilad al sham. When artificial countries are made like Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan forcefully against geography, demography and history. It's never ending war.

[@kuroazrem5376]

Not really. Even without Israel and the problems it created, sectarian and political tensions would errupt no matter what, especially as the Arab World was always divided thanks to its own internal dynamics and thanks to the Cold War.

[@Za_Hando]

@@kuroazrem5376 that kind of determinism is a little ahistorical don't you think?

[@johngeorgis8723]

I’m a Christian from iraq and I visited Lebanon in 1977 when I was ten and despite all the damage and destruction due to all the bombing Lebanon was STILL amazingly beautiful!!! Habibi Lebanon I cry for you

[@JohnnyChronic18]

It's basically the same fictional story why kill over it

[@bongo351]

@@JohnnyChronic18 humans kill eachother over sports teams, we are just dumb violent apes when you peel back all the politics and theology

[@tadeesegebregzi690]

I was there too in 1977,for a short time,a day or two with a Greek merchant ship and as you have written here,it was still beautiful.

[@malcolmjenkins3585]

Shukraan

[@spidyman8853]

I was on transit in 1977 at Lebanon airport. They kept us in the airport and security was tight

[@Stefan_2003]

My coworker is an Christian Lebanese he escaped when the war broke out ! His whole family has been murdered in the war! I treated him like a brother and he treated me like a brother ! Be blessed Lebanon !

[@donia20252]

I am also Christian Lebanese and I don’t get to hear stories like this, you know they don’t like to talk about anything. Thanks for sharing so I can do my own research. What year did that happen? Terrible news to lose his whole family, that is heart breaking.

[@vedutgr]

Very unfortunate😢😢😢

[@Catmint309]

My home town in Illinois got a TON of Lebanese Christian refugees after the Civil War and I even worked at one of their restaurants growing up. One of our two congressional representatives is Lebanese as well, it’s pretty neat

[@goyimkiller69]

Damn I wanna live illinois

[@theytstowaway1483]

Not sure Aussie would be so enthusiastic about their Muslim Lebanese gangs 🥸

[@randommonkey4900]

@@theytstowaway1483 ?

[@robertmitchell8630]

Peace in the middle east is a mad man's dream Lawrence of Arabia These desert dwellers are the Spawn of Shaytan himself Anyone believing in this desert God of Abraham got to be insane Both Islam and Christianity both built on towers of skulls over ocean of innocent blood I give thanks I am not a middle eastern person P.S. August 12th 2022 Sir Salman Rushdie stabbed multiple times in the great Allah America irony giving a speech on USA being a safe heaven for exiled writers The perpetrators of this heinous I crime a Muslim If a fatwah issued by humans thirty years ago can't be reformed What hopes for Islam 1400 years and issued by Allah himself

[@xxdmoneyxx4968]

As long as they uphold their Christian, American values, they’re always welcomed

[@kuroazrem5376]

Many minorities, like the Druze or the Christians, were usually oppressed by the Sunni Ottomans as well. This is why many (especially Christians) preferred French rule over the Ottoman one.

[@jamilhneini1002]

Ottomans were long dead by then

[@goyimkiller69]

Everytime you write that comment a nose of a longnose tribes grew larger

[@meee6584]

Sad

[@ynwa8835]

Are u from labana

[@stevenv6463]

The Druze got along with Sunni Muslims all the time historically. You must have been educated by the Israeli school system which pretends that they were very set apart from the Muslim world.

[@dxcpt]

I feel so sad for Lebanon, such a beautiful country and wonderful people. I've been there many times now and have extended family out there, no matter who I met it was always a great experience.

[@mamindhive]

They are wonderful people alright

[@muhammadsuleman9328]

The mujartiy people of Lebanon need a power according to population 🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧🇱🇧

[@Hilal99701]

@@mamindhive depends If you insult us, you’re fucked

[@i_likemen5614]

@@muhammadsuleman9328 Palestinians should go to the West Bank or Syria instead

[@arolemaprarath6615]

@@muhammadsuleman9328 Palestinians are the problems

[@mrtaylorhelm]

Thank you for acknowledging the complex culture of Lebanon. Many videos I've seen on this don't give any context and start at the bus incident.

[@HikmaHistory]

Lebanon's modern history is... complex to put it mildly!

[@aadam2695]

@@HikmaHistory as a lebanese, I can quite confirm so.

[@diegoprobaly4990]

1z1+×-×

[@cjpert5286]

My great grand mother has always repeated, that bus was the beginning of the fall. But yes your right, the story from before that is very important for people to understand better

[@XxLIVRAxX]

We have a large lebanese community in Venezuela, predominantly Christians, with Druze and Muslims minorities, in my home city we have a large Church consacrated to Saint Charbel. They are well integrated, educated and enterpreneurial, I appreciate what they have to offer, shame what happen to Lebanon, they always talk of their motherland with fondness.

[@politicallyincorrect2564]

Bloody hell going from Lebanon to Venezuela 😂😂 that must be a disappointment.

[@syedmohammadaanasfarukh890]

7:30 The PLO was expelled because it tried to OVERTHROW the Jordanian government, their hosts. Although what ensued was tragic and regrettable for both sides, the skepticism of the Maronites wasn't at all unjustified.

[@carljalkh9778]

Exactly, this guy is clearly pro palestinian he was just showcasing the events that he likes and hiding the info he doesn't like. The leader of the plo had a very famous statment in which he says "the gate of jerusalem pass by jounieh" this litteraly means that we won't be able to free palestine unless we conquer lebanon. The plo clearly weren't just there for a visit.

[@incogb6696]

@@carljalkh9778 bro what r u tlking abt .. Canaanites r before Israelites!!!!! .. Syria 🇸🇾 Lebanon 🇱🇧 Jordan 🇯🇴 & Palestine 🇵🇸 were all 1

[@carljalkh9778]

@@incogb6696 you didn't seem to understand my comment. I was telling that the goal of the palestinians was to conquer lebanon . Anyways your comment isn't historically accurate.

[@incogb6696]

@@carljalkh9778 That makes no sense as they are brothers & that’s none of your business anyways. Anyways, you failed to provide any rebuttal so I know you’re but hurt wannabe.

[@gadyariv2456]

@@incogb6696 don't know how you got to cannenites. But the Israelites are a myth, the ancestors of the Jews were canaanites, started out as a religious sect that started to worshiped the canaanite deity EL as the only god. Archiolegy confirms that, and genetic studies suggest that the descendants of jews are among the ancestors of the palestinians. So..

[@joeyjoey7972]

As a child i visited Lebanon in 1985 with my family, travelling from the airport to East Beirut, i was in compete shock at all the bombed out buildings, army, militias, checkpoints, etc, the next morning i woke up to the sound of blasts, though none of my Lebanese cousins were phased, they told me to go back to sleep, lol... coming from the peace of Australia to Lebanon i did feel scared, though this only lasted a couple of days. I really did enjoy my 2 months there, all the people were friendly and loved life, the social vibe in Beirut was incredible. its a shame what politics and religion can do, Lebanon is a beautiful country with a very strong resilient people, they have so much potential. one thing the Lebanese have learned is that there are no winners in WAR , everyone loses.

[@Joe-eg7ml]

Have been recently, it's better but u can see old buildings filled with bullet holes, reminiscent of the war.

[@KasAlbums]

You have to go now in 2024. It’s completely different now, looks very modern

[@joeyjoey7972]

not untill hizoballah is gone@@KasAlbums

[@fadelaelzalet8674]

Iam from Libya 🇱🇾 and I remembered my dad ,he talked to me about the civil war (76/89)when Lebanese fought each other BC the different of religions between ppl there !!the civil war was always horrible killed thousands thousands of innocent ppl also it destroyed country and relations between families ,,,so ❤️ best wishes from Tripoli Libya 🇱🇾 to Tripoli Lebanon 🇱🇧

[@htjzckk4788]

Libya attacked christians but they got fucked somalian aswell

[@hanikaram3351]

God bless you

[@Ba-vt4ij]

U prefer Qaddafi Libya or now Libya?

[@myIslamicvideos448]

​@@Ba-vt4ijnot a Libyan, but always Gaddafi's Libya.

[@myIslamicvideos448]

​@@Ba-vt4ijif you are Lebanese, can u tell who was responsible for Beirut explosion??

[@reine2728]

What is so interesting about the war in Lebanon is its effects during and after it. There is a general consensus between people that have lived through it that it was the best time of their lives. Schools were stopped and although Lebanon has always been a known hub for political debate, this was accentuated even more during the war but had transitioned to the arts like music, poetry, film...etc There is a joke that is often passed around, as more kalashnikovs were on the streets, men's pants became tighter, their shirts opened to their chests, and women's skirts got shorter. This state of war created such chaos and destruction yet produced a sense of "'laissez-faire" lifestyle in which a lot of traditional limitations were completely overlooked. More people drank alcohol and people would smoke and sell weed with the authorities mostly ignoring it. Although Lebanon is still libertarian in comparison to other Arab countries, it is weird to hear all the talk about the civil war and see it merge into my reality today. I also have to say something that a lot of people get wrong about the civil war, it wasnt a binary between muslims and christians. It was a lot more of a proxy war between the left and right, but because the left is more correlated to the palestinian liberation, shiias and sunnis connected more to it, and christians saw the west as their saviours due to the mishandling of their communities by the ottoman empire. There were a lot of christians that moved to west beirut during the time because they considered themselves as leftists and were invested in the palestinian movements, but not that many sunnis (a sect that has always been more neutral to these ideas) moved to east beirut as it almost sounded like a betrayal of palestine. And I dont think people that dont live in Arab countries understand how important the palestinian movement is for Arabs. It is almost mythologized through religious retellings of conquests, young people you knew that died as martyrs, and as a symbol of Arab liberation as a whole, definig our identity as a nation. Our last president was a Maronite christian (Michel Aoun) within the Free Patriotic Movement, that although pretty right-winged, still were avid supporters of Hezbollah and palestinian liberation. The sunnis only had one political party which was the Future Movement (although maybe the party least rooted with ideologies) and it was against the syrian regime and supported anti-immigration laws for palestinians. This is what created such a divide between these all these factions, a betrayal of a supposedly agreed upon consensus that we all share a common belief, which turned out to be false.

[@0037kevin]

Do you really think all arabs adopt the Palestinian struggle equally and righteously? Because I get the impression that its more nuanced than that. You bring up alot of good points but overlook this one: some say Palestinians receive the type of proxy support from nearby nations, not to champion their cause but because they are afraid of the type of mass immigration like we saw after '48 '67 '73 the entire Lebanese civil war etc...what do you think? I may be just talking sh!t but ive always wondered about this.

[@truthseeker-nv6ny]

​@0037kevin you're right when you're talking about the government. But the common people in the Arab countries actually are passionate for the palestinian cause. And the governments encourage it further for reasons you've mentioned

[@hotzenplotz7970]

Please don't call it Arab liberation. It's Arab colonialism and genocide attempts to all infidels to propose their death cult worldwide. The Palestinians exploit their alledged "victim hood" (which is false) to persuade the left to support their cause. With Islam and Muslims there will never be peace in the world.

[@ViraL_FootprinT.ex.e]

Civil wars are so messed up. All wars really, but something extra messed up about seeing a nation destroy itself from within hits extra hard.

[@yeshuasage3724]

Nation destroy itself from within? You don’t understand the Middle East, there’s no nations or nationalist, there’s only tribes and factions who shouldn’t have had nations

[@SumeriyaYaxlaka]

Syria is another messed up example

[@mg6md]

Well it was mainly the Palestinians that started massacring Christian’s :/ common denominator is Islam

[@kuroazrem5376]

Thanks for covering such an important part of history, which is so often ignored. Please cover the development of the war, especially as it becomes more confusing.

[@rah9722]

It's not ignored, the rulers are avoiding listing it in school/uni history books on purpose

[@rah9722]

@@stereomachine Am not talking about it being a secret, am talking about future generations being unable to know how it all went down unless they actively search for it, which surprisingly is a small minority

[@rah9722]

@@stereomachine Okay so I get what your point is now, you're talking about the world ye they don't care about lebanon, am talking about the lebanese government itself supressing it IN LEBANON due to how our current leaders (aka the militia leaders) came to be

[@Mohamed-zy6fv]

Lebanon has always been a point of religious diversity in the middle east. It was without doubt that the state would collapse into chaos and instability due to the power- division policy which was catastrophic. I have heard many stories of a beautiful Lebanon from my grandmother, may she rest in peace.

[@robertmitchell8630]

Peace in the middle east is a mad man's dream Lawrence of Arabia These desert dwellers are the Spawn of Shaytan himself Anyone believing in this desert God of Abraham got to be insane Both Islam and Christianity both built on towers of skulls over ocean of innocent blood I give thanks I am not a middle eastern person P.S. August 12th 2022 Sir Salman Rushdie stabbed multiple times in the great Allah America irony giving a speech on USA being a safe heaven for exiled writers The perpetrators of this heinous I crime a Muslim If a fatwah issued by humans thirty years ago can't be reformed What hopes for Islam 1400 years and issued by Allah himself

[@noqwak]

Allah yer7ama

[@arthas640]

It was frankly a hopeless situation in the modern day. Thanks to the Ottomans delayed modernization the muslim world had a delayed adoption of nationalism, and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism thanks to a reactionary response to modernization made sectarian and ethnic conflict pretty much inevitable. The same thing happened across the muslim world where any ethnic or religious minorities often faced discrimination at best and outright hostility at worst. Theres a reason most jews and Christians fled the muslim world en masse, and ethnic conflict wasnt much better with those without an ethnic state being repressed, like the Kurds.

[@robertmitchell8630]

@@arthas640 This Lebanese disagrees kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2POoWCritSAf68

[@wajeehdaouk5150]

@@arthas640 you seem to paint the middle east world as a primitive muslim world vs everyone mindset. which is false. modernization is not required for a better country/nation/anything let alone nationalism. and "Islamic fundamentalism" or the reasonable response to having one's religion being challenged in the name of western 'forwardism', is completely natural. the division of politics, those rifts in laws, are all because of westerns dividing the middle east just for the sole purpose of keeping other in perpetual disagreement, never in a position of power, but always fighting for it

[@eliassd6721]

Lebanon was a victim... a victim of the nationalist ideas of Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt... in the first stage... and the Palestinian militias who wanted an alternative homeland for themselves

[@DeVolksrepubliek]

Palestinian militias didn’t want Lebanon for themseves lol. They wanted to use Lebanon as a base to attack Israel and liberate Palestine. Also, Lebanon refused to unite with the Arab nation and instead turned to the US for aid, so I don’t want to hear about “victim of Nasser,” They rejected Nasser

[@ai7244]

I question the sequence of events in this video. I grew up in South Lebanon and was around 11 years old when the civil war started. I remember Christians were being attacked in Sidon before the civil war.

[@LivebythecodeVJLEE]

likely. Thanks for your opinion, history lies in the heart of the debate

[@donnyjoe123]

Do you happen to have Discord

[@bassemtabet7860]

I'm a Lebanese that grew up during the civil war, congrats for explaining what happened in a non biased way, really rare to see that on internet Subscribed

[@DanielYWoo]

What if there is no religion just like the world described in John Lennon's song "Imagination"?

[@bassemtabet7860]

@@DanielYWoo religion is just a part of the problem, one of the biggest reason of the war, was the social inequalities between the communities. Clearly the maronites (I am one) were privileged and the political and economical system were at their advantage

[@DanielYWoo]

​@@bassemtabet7860 Maybe you are right, the US has so many religions and diversities but it's still a powerful country. Is it safe now?

[@huntercityhunter]

@@DanielYWoo the difference is that the US is a country made of immigrants who left their country for opportunities in hope of a better future. While religious and ethnic groups have lived in Lebanon for thousands of years.

[@chronikhiles]

@@DanielYWoo Society would lose one of its pillars. Religion is a social construct that is one of the bedrocks of social order, just like currencies and countries. Even if it is just a placebo effect, religiosity is correlated with happiness, meaning, and belonging. Taking religion away would lead to even more violence than what is committed in its name today.

[@TacticalVanguard]

Im from the south lebanon i wish all lebanese people unity and a stronger coming back then before i love my country and my people my friends are christans and muslims from all world we are so tired of war generation after generation we need to wake UP

[@spidyman8853]

Wise words

[@markokitzing4291]

I stumbled across this channel just today. I absolutely appreciate the balanced approach in telling these stories, and explaining the conflicts in the middle east. Thank you so much for this!

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you!

[@Raj6M]

It was my luck to serve in this beautiful country in the Golden period from 2005 to 2017 one of the highest position ever held by an Indian in one of the biggest industry of a God fearing Lebanese business man who helped people and society around the industrial area. Pray to the Almighty to help this nation to come out of this crisis also soon and flourish like anything for the Lebanese to live in peace

[@rotemyagel4683]

Lebanon supposed to be a Christian country. But Islamic conquer the country same as the do today in london and paris. Islamic colonialism

[@dheiyomain6775]

Care to explain this one for me comrade?

[@Fundamental_Islam.]

Stfu! It’s Middle Eastern hence belongs to Muslims

[@anonimato1987]

And our politicians are promoting this

[@muhammadafg1126]

Based Islamic colonialims

[@dimisbam7725]

​@dheiyomain6775 it's not to difficult ,it was Christian before Muslims butchered all of them? Happy comrade?

[@sudi_cloud]

What a mistake to build a state based on religion! A country with such a religious diversity as Lebanon should be secular to avoid any "political ambition" based on religious sectarianism. Governments should be made up of people capable of governing for everyone, not just for their religious "fellows".

[@andreikovacs3476]

It had bad luck. Young states are fragile and do not survive crises as well. Albania on the other hand manages its religious diversity well. Had it been stable for a century, it would have worked better.

[@XxLIVRAxX]

Republican style secularism with a plural executive and diplomatic neutrality enshrined in the constitution could still be part of a political solution and drive politics based on ideological platforms and programs and not religion per se, but lets not ignored the historical context, this was the hightide of revolutionary discourse and political radicalism, combine that with ethnic-religious tensions and fragile institutions you get war. Lebananese factions should abandoned hegemonism and build a consesus based politics even though religious affiliation will continue to be a major factor as well as "civilizational" identities.

[@tiberivsgracchvs2393]

That’s not true, people have the right to govern themselves and be governed by their own culture. Just like American blacks should have their own political institutions and govern themselves (not anyone else) so should every other group - Catholics should be able to live under Catholic laws and in communities with their values, Muslims should be able to live under Sharia, Jews under Halaka, Palestinians under Palestinian laws etc etc. This goes for all countries, all ethnicities, all peoples, to not have self rule at governance at some level is imperialism. This doesn’t mean that large multi ethnic or multinational states shouldn’t exist, but they should be loose states with many parallel systems for diverse people.

[@UnholyWrath3277]

@@tiberivsgracchvs2393 ya except thats literally never worked a single time. When someone moves to a country they are agreeing to accept that its a guest to another culture and abiding by its laws. If i wanted to move to north korea it doesnt mean suddenly i can go around shitting on kim jong un even if i do so at home. If you dont like or accept the culture you are moving to then its simple stay where you came from

[@kuchikimakoto]

@@tiberivsgracchvs2393 What a disgusting train of thought. You mention culture yet talk about religion. Culture is not religion. Religion is a disease.

[@aminzqrti7672]

Long before the mandate of France, there was a long history of internal fighting and killing between the different minorities in Lebanon.. in the 19. Century there were many massacres, especially in the wars between the maronates and the druze.. we should start looking for the problems we already had before blaming the imperial forces, which of course also played a role in the conflict.

[@theodoreschindler2372]

Euro/Western Centrism is persistent, unfortunately. The interpretation of global history with Western Imperial forces being the catalyst for every success and problem taints broader understandings. Lebanon is an old place, much older than French colonialism and the CIA. The old historiography often championed the West's intervention in the affairs of the "savages" on other continents, now the overcorrection is to demonize colonists for every single problem the former empire faces, regardless of context--it's the other side of the same coin. Despite what Westerners think, they aren't the center of the universe.

[@thierrynolevaux9268]

@@theodoreschindler2372 I know where the "civilized" live.

[@NP1066]

19th century. Not 18.

[@thanhhoangnguyen4754]

@@NP1066 Sometimes i wonder do the Great power of the time realized the danger type of nationalism if people just based their ethnicity, regilion and skin color. That they will caused the great power lot of problem for long time.

[@Jewzi123]

All of the civil wars in Lebanon was started by Maronite Christians who felt confident to go to war because of the French support , this is why the Maronite Christians are the only violent Christian group in the Mideast, for the sake of power and the desire to ethnically cleans non Christian ( even before Muslims were part of Lebanon the Christian Maronite Church started a civil war with the Druze minority ) Sunni Muslims didn’t want to be part of Maronite Lebanon but they were forced by the French and the Maronite church to be part of Lebanon because of the strategic importance of the Muslim regions but the Maronite Christians wanted an Apartheid system this is why Lebanon has failed ( unfortunately Sunni Muslims became part of Lebanon when the Sunni coast was forcibly made part of Lebanon by “secular” sectarian France which was implementing the political agenda of one group the Maronite Church and Maronite political Christianity , this all started when the Maronite Church labeled the Druze minority as infidels and enemy of the cross and called for the genocide of the Druze but after suffering heavy losses the Druze minority turn the table and defeated the Maronites killing over 15000 Maronite soldiers of the church, this lead the war mongering church to call for peace and coexistence but when they had the upper hand before the conflict started they rejected all of the calls of peace from the Druze who begged the church not to go to war with them , but after the Maronite were defeated the church called on France to intervene this is how French colonization started , and the seeds of civil war in Lebanon then in Syria , secular France originally wanted to establish a Christian state in Mount Lebanon which was Majority Christian with a minority of Druze ( no Muslims were in Mount Lebanon ) this was a good idea for both Maronite and neighboring Muslim regions although it would be unfortunate for the Druze ,,, unfortunately the Church after France arrived wanted to expand Lebanon to include the Sunni coast and the Shiite coast ,,, the French thought it was a bad idea but the church and political Maronite Christianity insisted , to achieve this objective the French had to divide the Sunni coast to insure that Sunni Muslims won’t be a majority in Lebanon to ensure Maronite Christian supremacy and to prevent the Sunni coast from unifying the French gave one part of the Sunni coast to the Christian Maronite this is how Sunni founded them self in Lebanon , and the other part to political Alwaite which was crated by France to be part of the Alwaite mountain state ,it was part of France policy of minorities against the Muslim majority particularly the Sunnis , the Sunni coast stretched from Muslim Beirut to the borders of Turkey with almost 99% of the native population there Sunni Muslims , the French divide the Sunni coast and gave part of it to the Christian dominated government of Mount Lebanon and other part of the Sunni region to the Alwaite mountain state , the Sunni revolted against dividing them and making them a minority ( ironically Palestinian was also divided and a large part of it was given to political Ashkenazi Judaism who came from Europe and Sunni Muslims founded themselves prosecuted by 4 groups political Judaism political Maronite Christianity , political Alwaite , political secularism this lead to the conflicts in the Mideast because political Islamic Sunnism was excluded from politics unlike other groups and they became the victims of the worst type of prosecution from mass killings to ethnic cleaning to discrimination and identity wars and they were also the first victims of terrorism at the hand of political Maronite Christianity and political Judaism and political Alwaitesm , and political secularism in the Arab world , I recommend reading the book by JOURNAL ARTICLE Maronite Hegemony to Maronite Militancy: The Creation and Disintegration of Lebanon Elaine C. Hagopian

[@ayubtube5513]

Everyone I spoke to regardless of religion agreed that the sectarian system and constitution has been the problem

[@misterzgharta7031]

I'm Leb Christian and I agree State should be completely secular One of the reasons why I support SSNP (political party)

[@CataciousAmogusevic]

@@misterzgharta7031 they are literally Fascists

[@misterzgharta7031]

@@CataciousAmogusevic Antun Saadeh literally said "our party isn't Hitlerite nor are we fascist". I can give you the full quote and reference as well.

[@stoneruler]

@@misterzgharta7031 Its impossible. Arab Muslims can never be secular, they will always favor islam in one way or the other.Even Europe is having a hard time dealing with them.

[@_gold_eye_2656]

@@misterzgharta7031 if saying you aren’t fascist means you aren’t fascist then Americans wouldn’t have political issues at all. Fascism often comes in the name of liberalism

[@spidyman8853]

Thank you so much Hikma History. You have certainly given me and the public at large a history lesson. When the war kicked off in 1975, I heard about it and like most people were not aware why such a beautiful country goes through destruction. I knew the war was on religious grounds but was not aware of how it erupted and the cause. Many Thanks

[@HikmaHistory]

Many thanks for your comment!

[@larrybaker9924]

When Christian’s ruled it was the Paris of the Mid East.

[@Aiden_Muslim]

When secularists ruled* And they only prospered because there was no mass refuge crisis.

[@liverpoolanfield50]

@DOOMER312 exactly

[@donniemeister7725]

Lols, what are you on about? The only reason lebanon was the "Paris of the middle East" was because of the political instability in the region at the time. Coups in Egypt and Syria + the gulf states were still in their early years of oil wealth, made lebanon the only safe haven for the rich to stack and invest their wealth in the region taking full advantage of the cheap labour that Palestinan refugees provided. That's why the maronite elite didn't want to accommodate them.. They needed the slave labour to run the whole thing... It was this that eventually led to rising tensions/civil war. It had nothing to do with Muslims vs Christians, take your islamophobic ass elsewhere.

[@theone3555]

True, they can deny the facts and history all they want

[@liverpoolanfield50]

Yupp very true.. it was when the Palestinians arrived from their war in Isreal that they started creating trouble

[@TexterEX]

The muslim turkeys tried the same in Cypress but the cypriots defeated them.

[@nicholascage7546]

Cyprus is now divided so I don't think Greek Cypriots defeated anyone.

[@E001-f8g]

Yes, believe that, as you want. Whoever started to kill Muslims and tried to wipe them out of Cyprus, isn't that the Christian priest and his Christian followers?

[@TexterEX]

@@nicholascage7546 The fact that Cyprus is still Cyprus and not Turkey proves Cyprus won. Cyprus will always be Cyprus and not Turkey. L.

[@nicholascage7546]

@@TexterEX Cyprus is not Cyprus, it's a divided country. So yeah, Turks won.

[@TexterEX]

@@nicholascage7546 "Cyprus is not Cyprus" Do you realize how stupid that sounds? You just called Cyprus Cyprus, while at the same time saying that Cyprus is not Cyprus... Another L. HAHAHAHA TO MUCH TURKEY EDUCATION... The British eat you for thanksgiving.

[@stud28gr]

my best friend, who now lives in Switzerland, always feels like crying when she talks about her home country.

[@enditall9504]

Thank you for the video! Lebanon has always place in my heart. I worked as a peacekeeper there and hoping all the best for the beatiful country.

[@xXNITR0MAN356Xx]

My best friend was adopted in Lebanon by a lovely Christian Lebanese women. Everyday after school I went over to there house to hang out with her sons from 4th grade to high school, (the other son was adopted in Guatemala,) and we became the greatest of friends. She would cook every night for her sons and ALL of there buddies. Some of the greatest food I’ve ever ate in my entire life was made by her. She is an amazing women, strong,sweet, stern, and compassionate lady. I was at that house more then I was at my own. She would always yell and scream words in Arabic at us quite often when her temper was up lol. Yallah, Yallah!

[@joea28]

For all who are watching this video, this is a short summary of the reasons that caused Lebanese civil war: 1- The Cairo agreement in 1969, that let the Palestinians to enter Lebanon with their heavy weapons and artilleries (they were armed even more than the Lebanese army itself) and also without forgetting the fact that the king of Jordan "king Hussein" have declared war against the PLO located in Jordan and kick them out from his country to maintain peace for his people, and of course the King and Jordanian people are Muslims like the Palestinians, so the religion have nothing to do in their case. 2- The leftish movements in Lebanon backed by USSR that were jealous from the Lebanese right wing and liberal regime led by President Camille Chamoun that were so successful and made Lebanon a powerful middle eastern country that had an exceptional relations with the USA and the UK, so they were always seeking to create chaos and revolutions just to thwart the goverment and later they took the Palestinian cause as an argument and backed them and their weapons as an excuse to fight Israel. 3- The majorities of Lebanese Muslims were obsessed with the Nassirrist movement (Jamal Abdel Nasser and his ambitions to achieve "Arabism" in the middle east, his main goal was fighting Israel and erase it from the middle east) so the Lebanese Muslims supported him and preferred Arabism over their own country, so their main ambition as a first step was to fight anyone that was against Arabism. As a result, they considered Christians as enemies because they did not backed up the Arabism movement and the Palestinian cause over their own country. 4- After the huge and overwhelming support from the leftish movements and Muslims to the Palestinians, they entered Lebanon and their main goal was to fight and eliminate Christians from their own homeland to takeover Lebanon and make it as an auxiliary homeland for them. And then the war started, the only reason the Christians fought is to protect them selves and save their lives and their homeland. " We've been attacked for being Christians, but we fought as Lebanese " President Bachir Gemayel.

[@explorermusings6916]

It is irony the Palestine who do not want to get occupied, occupied the Lebanon.

[@saulinglaw6408]

Thank you!! Really needed that information. (School project)

[@politicallyincorrect2564]

That is the truth that noone wants to hear.

[@luandaachoa3763]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@KasAlbums]

Big facts. I’m waiting for this comments to see it. The Palestinians ruined Lebanon. They also created chaos in Jordan as well.

[@jag3596]

Love this! Well, the video, not the civil war. May I ask what sources you used? I'd love to read more

[@MyWissam]

Start with Fisk (I think Robert Fisk), Pity The Nation.

[@aiz4z]

Thank you so much for this video, the script, the way it's presented. Love from Peshawar ❤️

[@HikmaHistory]

Manana

[@Archer-hg9rw]

it's crazy that as a Lebanese I haven't been taught about the civil war in history books.

[@cdbs6562]

@@sicparvismagna5786neither would the iranan overlords.

[@svenv32]

they don't want you to know that palestinians and syrians are your true enemy but keep you loving them, even tho they are plagues to the world

[@GooseGumlizzard]

@@sicparvismagna5786 how would America have any influence over whats taught in Lebanese schools lmao

[@Joe-eg7ml]

Married to Lebanese, I found out and study their history. As she told many stories of her going down to a bomb shelter, days without water and electricity, and the close calls from shrapnel from bombs.

[@micahjohnsonboxing6409]

​@@GooseGumlizzardI'm American and even I know that USA is very influential over Lebanese government.

[@mikebazzi3449]

I'm a Lebanese American I lived all of it before moving to USA . This video took me back to my childhood . Thank you for your awesome work and saying the fact like it happen.

[@alaskaman805]

What's your religion?

[@mikebazzi3449]

@@alaskaman805 muslim

[@happybunny6152]

​@@mikebazzi3449 i hope you are living peacefully there not Spreading Jehad in U.S

[@IndependentUnited25]

@@happybunny6152 really bro

[@joseph317]

The Palestinians wanted the war, they got booted out of Gordan and needed to create conflict to stay there. The amount of complexity in the civil war would be more than all wars combined.

[@DemonetisedZone]

Zionist Entity causes havoc in Middle East and West all their leaders change their names from East European names to Middle East names to cover up their true orogins

[@ae.2222]

I agree with you in part. The PLO has overstepped boundaries and I also suspect that this was a Zionist tactic to destabilize the countries around Israel. It was also tried in Jordan until the PLO was thrown out. Unfortunately, all Lebanese fell for it, Christians and Muslims. I say this as a Sunni Muslim. The best proof of my theory is what the PLO has become today. They are traitors.

[@Full2635]

You’re a Jew, your opinion on this matter is irrelevant.

[@Abo-Galambo]

The Palestinians wanted refuge from being genocided and have their homeland taken by the zionists and the west, the same standard can be applied to the Armenians who also sought refuge in Lebanon due to their similar situation with the Ottomans, also like mentioned in the video the political system is still biased towards christians

[@Sheepybearry]

@@Abo-Galambo Doesnt give them a right to destroy their neighbors and start wars.

[@frenchdonut22]

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL. I can’t believe you uploaded weeks ago and I just noticed, thanks for the great content

[@fistingendakenny8781]

Many irish soldiers served in leb, without issue. Us irish love Lebanon and its people 👌

[@emiliobertoncini1083]

UTR T.A.L 🇵🇸🇮🇪🚀☝🏽

[@FJ-rq6sd]

Thank you my good man

[@sullathehutt7720]

Israelis killed Irish peacekeepers there on multiple occasions. Never were held accountable for it.

[@aga7299]

@@sullathehutt7720 source

[@leo8273]

free palestine free ireland!!!

[@lewezekielbarrameda6699]

This is a good video! Good Thing it got recommended on my feed. Keep up the good work

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you Lew!

[@joshuas1960]

Thanks much to the uploader. It really helps me better understand what occurred. This is great!

[@HikmaHistory]

Thanks Josh!

[@nesmalakku4839]

Before your videos I didn't have much knowledge about Lebanon , your videos are super . a history lover from Kerala

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you!

[@fathah6225]

Evide sthalam. Njan malappuram

[@assemahmed1218]

I feel so sorry to hear that about our paris in our arabian home lands in middle east .... greetings from Egypt to all Lebanese beautiful people 😍😍😍😍

[@bigboyshit1]

Arabian / Arab peninsula does not include Lebanon: Arab-Muslims colonised and stole countries such as Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Isreal and Kurdistan

[@Sidiqi]

Without taking sides in apportioning responsibility for the reasons leading up to the Civil War, my sympathies are with the families, the general population, who had their lives shattered and suffered badly. My knowledge is limited to information given to me by Maronites who had fled the Country and obviously biased. Interestingly though they blamed the Parliament in general for not recognising the signs leading up to the conflict and not taking action to at least attempt to keep control - basically allowing the situation to ‘fester’ and get out of hand. Telling me that questions were regularly asked in Parliament about the build up and arming of militias but a ‘laissez faire’ attitude prevailed resulting from the life styles associated with being ‘the Paris of the Middle East’. They maintained that the public could sense what the Parliament didn’t want to recognise.

[@instadinkdark5052]

The only objection I have to this is that the people in Parliament are often even more hyper aware of these things than the regular people who in these regions are also hyper aware, the only difference is the brown envelope they receive to keep quiet or fuel it even more behind the scenes. The only problem is that in recent times it has been constantly going the opposite way of the people handing out the said brown envelope and going in favour of those who are seeking equality for all and not in favour of the Capitalistic mindset(get as much money as you can and fuck anyone else).

[@shawnbarron2455]

Gotta say that the start of the Lebanese Civil War is as difficult to discuss as Cyprus or Pakistan/India. Kudos to you for making a video that didn't descend into bigotry or conspiracy theories 👏

[@HikmaHistory]

Very difficult to track - modern Levantine history in general is very convoluted and complex.

[@spidyman8853]

Shawn Or Yemen

[@orthodoxouwatje4632]

What started the civil war is when a member from the PLO shot at a church while passing through the Christian suburb of ain al remmeneh which killed 15 people including phalangists. The bus incident was after this happened. Sectarianism is more like what made the civil war worse. Sunnis sided with palestinians because palestinians were sunnis, shias fought palestinians although that was because palestinians attacked them for no reason, and Christians fought shias, Sunnis, druze, palestinians and syrians. This whole thing was done to try to replace Lebanese Christians, they failed Now they are trying to do it again, and they will fail again. PLO did much worse than any Lebanese Militias. Also, before the civil war, PLO also fought the army in 1973. And anyhow, having a foreign armed militia in your country without your government's consent is worth a war.

[@Noxcho-li8pn]

Replace? Hahah there is no need to replace them they will pay the jizya anyway

[@nightprowler6336]

@Redrum357 are u ignoring PLO skirmishes with Lebanon Army in 1969, 1971, 1973, and 1974?

[@orthodoxouwatje4632]

@Redrum357 if you're talking about sabra and shatila, Israel did that

[@orthodoxouwatje4632]

@@Noxcho-li8pn 😂😂😂 try doing that, we'll do a Tel el Zaatar and karantina again

[@orthodoxouwatje4632]

@Redrum357 palestinian Christians did ally with them, doesn't change the fact that the PLO was mostly made up of Muslims.

[@OlvAsterisk]

Labanon: exists France and Syria: it free real estate

[@meee6584]

France,Syria,USA,Iran, and Israel

[@jilanitravels6618]

Assalamualaikum. I'm sunni Muslim from 🇧🇩Bangladesh and hope that Lebanese people ignore secretarian, all faiths live in harmony side by side.

[@somyadas1618]

Arabs whether muslim Christian or jews have brains to increase fights and not for solutions. Pakistan followed the same Arab mindset while killing Bangladeshi, Sindhi and Balochi people. But salute to Bangladeshi people for peace and development and hardwork

[@umaryusuf537]

@@somyadas1618you don’t know anything about Pakistan the persecution of Bengali was done by the military establishment

[@somyadas1618]

@@umaryusuf537 A country education system based on hatred towards all other communities except theirs is bound to produce such military. Military did it with support of civilian leaders. A country is known from its leaders. Is military from some other country, is it not know by Pakistan Army ?

[@umaryusuf537]

@@somyadas1618 Pakistans biggest issue has been it’s military and establishment that discriminates against Muslims Christian’s Hindus Sikhs basically everyone it’s a corrupt society that is almost feudal some people blame Islam for Pakistans issues which is ridiculous

[@AntiIdoloter]

Why don't you practice your advice in your own country pagan

[@VrejHAI]

For Christians, Lebanon was the one place where they could not be persecuted, unlike the rest of the middle east, because there they had enough numbers to fight back. I want to mention as well the Armenians, who are Christians, chose to stay neutral throughout the war and as a result came under attack by both muslims and Christians. Christians attacked them for not taking their sides and muslims attacked them because Armenians were Christian. They had their own militia but only for self defense.

[@AL_AFGHANI1]

That’s all gone now they can go to America or Europe

[@VrejHAI]

@@AL_AFGHANI1 what's gone. Do the world a favor and stay in Afghanistan

[@LL-dl3cw]

christians playing the victim card 😂😂😂

[@jimmystewart3826]

I like libanon , historical culture , colourful diversity n view landscape nature , i love lebanon united as a country , sending smile n love to lebanese people from jkrta

[@ionutandanuta7607]

to understand, the lebanese civil war was started by some palestinians shooting christians, the middle east is the second balkans

[@aiaivivi8286]

Maybe the Balkans is the 2nd middle east?

[@ionutandanuta7607]

@@aiaivivi8286 maybe?

[@russellwestbrook6938]

Pretty much

[@LL-dl3cw]

lebanon was on the brink of civil war before the Palestinians

[@shellydrelly]

Which is probably why none of the surrounding countries are accepting Palestinian refugees

[@DheerajKattula]

Labenon is an example of what happens when you have refugees who do not share your values. It also shows how demographics will alter politics.

[@explorermusings6916]

It is irony the Palestine who do not want to get occupied, occupied the Lebanon.

[@badrivishal9276]

Same in india

[@umaryusuf537]

@@badrivishal9276not true

[@User_29765]

More like what happens if you're an american puppet and have a weak leader

[@kennethblachlyjr3040]

Just stumbled across your channel. I love history and all geo political issues. I'm hooked so far. Saw your Saddam Hussein one. Just subscribed

[@HikmaHistory]

Glad to hear it Kenneth!

[@bweaver760]

Thank you for the historical information of what happened to cause the civil war in Lebanon. So many people do not seek historical references to the struggles that keep occurring in this region! Study brings enlightenment and knowledge!

[@siddude]

Thank. you. This was a very informative and educational video.

[@HikmaHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@solemanali7448]

Always start with Palestinian The civil war in lebanon The civil war in syria 2011 The civil war in Israel Im a Syrien Muslim btw

[@ynwa8835]

Why pelestine

[@ynwa8835]

“Nazi destroyed our home”

[@נדבכוכבי-ע1ר]

@@ynwa8835 The Jordanian government that expelled the Palestinians from Jordan and moved to Lebanon and started the civil war there after the Palestinians tried to kill the king of Jordan

[@ynwa8835]

@@נדבכוכבי-ע1ר sources

[@aiaivivi8286]

@@ynwa8835 source of what?!? Do you not know your own history? Search black September and jordanian -PLO war

[@CodeZero587]

It's way to much oversimplification. I somehow l feel you are absoving plo,(Palestine) which has the most contribution in the lebanon civil war.

[@georgesamuel1991]

I agree. Totaly.

[@stoneruler]

Exactly. PLO was the match thrown onto the fuel.

[@gadyariv2456]

well, the main cause to Lebanon civil war is religious sectarianism...the Palestinian contribution is a by product of Israeli occupation on Palestine. and Zionist settlement of Palestine was a reaction for European religious sectarianism. any way you cut it when you divide people by religious affiliation you get disastrous results.

[@CodeZero587]

@@gadyariv2456 well l agree on the sectarianism part but if you follow the history liniarly Palestinians was given many opportunity but their zealotry got in the way of better judgments. Now they're playing the price as the premier losers of every middle east conflicts. Israelis are at the fault mostly but least they're democratic while Palestine is just as fundamentalist as ever. In the Lebanon l still say it's plo's fault.

[@gadyariv2456]

​@@CodeZero587 the Palestinian deterioration into fundamentalism is a process, that didn't really took off until the aughts. in the 70's and 80's the PLO was actually a diverse coalition of secular Marxist, secular nationalists , Muslim nationals and Christians Palestinians. this unity was perceived as a threat by Israel, and very much like what the U.S did in Afghanistan, Israel started promoting and diverting funds to fundamentalist's schools that opposed Arafat's secular brand of Palestinian nationalism, creating Hamas in the process. but the fundamentalist's really didn't get much traction initially. but after years of Israel, electing hawkish governments who kept stiffing Arafat, and later Abbas in peace talk Israel reluctantly maintained, the position of the plo, and it's successor, the Palestinian authority, was shaken. and with conjunction of the u.s under Bush starting it's crusade on the Muslim world, that gave the Islamic fundamentalist's an edge on their political opponents in Palestine.

[@garioldwin]

Before even watching the video I have a question. Would this conflict happen if muslims didnt became majority?

[@kstarwarsgames8895]

No

[@samueljayrivera2280]

Search Bridgette Gabriel. She was the victim of Palestinian terrorism.

[@TheShalalai]

There would have been no civil war

[@murugan_kovai]

more than 20 percent is disturbing.. 30 percent is dangerous..40 percent is civil war.. more than 50 percent.. then unrest and persecution of other religion... 70 percent.. fighting themselves to death...

[@sting2death2]

When the leaders are assassinating critics and protestors, conflict would have happened eventually. When the country is as fractured as Lebanon where every sect is its own armed clan that settle disputes with each other violently, it would have happened eventually. When you still have people blaming the whole thing on one religious group or another almost 50 years later, it would have happened eventually.

[@anttenna2009]

Good video! It breaks down a very complicated and tragic conflict into a semi unsophisticated explanation of the history of the civil war for someone learning it. However, it probably would’ve been better if you spoke about the Sabra Shatilla massacre and the bombing of the US Marines.

[@Dangledoodleyt]

I appreciate that this video did not have any biasism you gained a like my friend

[@textmachine09]

This is why religion should never meddle in politics.

[@commieking1443]

May god protect Lebanon from ISIS and Islamic terrorist

[@421less1]

I played basketball with a dude from lebanon in high school years ago. Thought he was just another quiet nice shy foreign kid. Got into a little dust up at a party and this dude flew in outta nowhere and stopped these dudes from beating me up. No wonder he wasnt intimidated

[@trickofchess8142]

you should discuss more about the civil war, especially the role of Syria because Syria was considered as the winner and ruled Lebanon until 2005

[@morqesahar]

Not many useful videos can be found on this historical event so I thank you for covering it. I am really fascinated by the Lebanese civil war because a lot of Iranian guerilla fighters and prominent figures like Mostafa Chamran were trained during that time and after the 1979 revolution the IRI was active there in some capacity whilst also being engaged in a war against Iraq. Probably the only way to prevent the civil war would've been to integrate the Palestinian refugees sooners but that would necessitate the changing of the national pact.

[@randommonkey4900]

do you think it could've been avoided if Lebanon had not allowed in Palestinian refugees in the first place

[@morqesahar]

​@@randommonkey4900 That would be more alternative history but I don't think so since you can't "not allow" refugees, especially when they're a neighboring country it's impossible to keep all of them out. Refugees go wherever they feel safe.

[@randommonkey4900]

@@morqesahar wait home come their not allowed to not?

[@morqesahar]

@@randommonkey4900 Aside from the international law allowing refugees to settle wherever, it would not be possible for Lebanon to prevent it even with force short of committing second genocide with the Zionists.

[@Handle0108]

@@morqesahar also, Palestinians are fellow Arabs so letting to be slaughtered by the Zionists would turn the entire Muslim population in Lebanon to turn on the Christians.

[@blueagle-di6is]

Lebanon was primarily Christian county but allowed too many Muslims in and they took over through violence.

[@murugan_kovai]

exactly

[@shawnmonteiro8757]

We gave refuge to Palestinians and they occupied our land. Lebanese maronites will never forget it

[@murugan_kovai]

but the whole world is crying for these animals.. pure propaganda .. unless western media reveals all the truth and educate the world.. bad things will happen

[@ДжейкобКосточко]

You helped Israel, Muslims will not forget

[@ashishsunny7963]

Where there's Islam, there is always conflict. Lebanon, India-Pakistan, Israel,China(Xinjian), Sri-Lanka,Rogingya in Myanmar.🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷

[@palestineball2481]

As if Eu,America,Russia,many others was always friendly countries Even WHEN THEY WHERE CHRISTIANS, NON RELIGION COUNTRIES

[@palestineball2481]

And all these conflicts doesn't have anything with Islam to do.

[@ramumanickam1643]

@@palestineball2481 Lies

[@Aiman-yu6qg]

@@ramumanickam1643 according to who? You?

[@ramumanickam1643]

@@Aiman-yu6qg You liars your religion is the cause of all problems

[@alfonsoportugal6754]

Excellent video!!!! I loved it.

[@HikmaHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@danieltsiprun8080]

Just yesterday i watched casual historian videos on this topic and now i get to watch your video.

[@mxkinist]

CH's videos are zionist garbage.

[@pingupungo3365]

Pause at 4:25 I could have sworn that I saw a nether portal

[@Sidiqi]

I believe the Restaurant on the cliff sea side shown in the video is the one had lunch at in late 1991, on a ‘day trip’ to Beirut. I was told it had survived, whilst other nearby establishments were damaged, because the leaders of the 3 major factions used it as their favourite dining place. Of course precautions were in place to ensure their patronage was not on the same day! It’s where in the ‘good old days’ diners would reward youths diving from the cliff into the sea with tips. Halcyon days for sure.

[@jovansavoya7039]

Islamic Arabs since they invaded the Canaanite-Phoenician Land trying to force their will and the Islamic way like what they did to Spain, that will never happened.

[@GixxerRider1991]

It's insane that anyone thought such a pact would work in the long term. The idea that positions in government should be predetermined based on religion is inherently undemocratic.

[@syedmohammadaanasfarukh890]

Great video brother. No dirt throwing, no biasness. Great stuff. You just might be the first man in history to explain the civil war without angering anyone 😂😂😂😂.

[@HikmaHistory]

Haha thanks man, although I am getting some comments that I didn't highlight the PLO's role in the lead-up to the civil war enough...

[@syedmohammadaanasfarukh890]

@@HikmaHistory 😂😂😂

[@svenv32]

video full of pro palestinian bias ....

[@greatwolf5372]

Lebanon was created specifically as the one Christian country in the Middle East. And now they comprise maybe 20-30% of the population. May this serve as a lesson to others to always be wary of the religion of peace.

[@Steyr32]

Peaceful so long as you don't antagonize it.

[@عزالدينالجولاني-ذ2ق]

Hahaha we’re gonna make them 0% inshallah

[@yonatanmonneler1744]

lebanon became an iranian puppet state after the civil war endded, the christian community there cant become a majority like this

[@culizocolonense]

FACTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AsiaMinor12]

May this be a lesson in French fantasies of the middle east. Lebanon should have just remained part of Syria. The Lebanese Christians would have still been the majority in Lebanon if they were part of Syria today.

[@SunsetNova]

Great documentary keep them coming ♥️🇲🇦♥️

[@HikmaHistory]

Thank you! Will do!

[@markflanagan449]

Lebanon is a warning to us in europe. ☪️ is rapidly spreading in europe through hirjah and the same thing that happened there can easily happen in europe. Its only a matter of time 😭😢

[@CrimsonRaven51]

I served in Beirut back in 1991. Still a dangerous place, we moved between east and west Beirut netting with both Christian and Muslim factions as well as with the Druze in the mountains. Trying to get everyone to lay down their arms and let th Lebanese government take over. In addition to negotiating the release of hostages take from American University of Beirut. Had our wok cut out.

[@browntaint6916]

I appreciate your efforts for this channel.. I'm not a Middle Eastern but I'd like to know more more about modern Middle East.

[@HikmaHistory]

Appreciate it, neither am I! Any topics in particular?

[@browntaint6916]

@@HikmaHistory Can you make one about Hezbollah??.. I can't really find a good video explaining of what Hezbollah is without western Propaganda ruining it.

[@dcanedemboyz7431]

Great video 👍

[@paleasaghost-5799]

What i dont understand is, how these Palestinian rebel groups where even alowed to flee into Lebanon. With them the civil war was inevitable. Somehow i think, that any state in the world would incarcarate them.

[@aiaivivi8286]

Because "freeing palestine" was used as a tool for the Arab countries to fight Israel even tho it was never about "Palestine" but rather about Arab control in the region... So when the PLO (palestinans terror organization) was kicked out of Jordan after starting a war there , the Arab league forced Lebanon to take them. Because Lebanon couldnt resist and because they needed that palestinan liberation story to continue

[@paleasaghost-5799]

@@aiaivivi8286 Understandable. It seems that many countries are not free from foreign influences in a politicals sense.

[@someguy4512]

@@aiaivivi8286 ""Palestine" but rather about Arab control in the region" uhhh palestine is majority arab if not all are arabs wtf are u talking about?

[@aiaivivi8286]

@@someguy4512 Palestine would be counted as an Arab state . And the palestinans were also called Arabs , because they are . The Arab world opposed Israel because it wasn't an Arab state and it's a fact 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@someguy4512]

@@aiaivivi8286 not rly Israel just spawn in with countless European immigrants of non Middle-eastern routes. u Don't except a polish jew to just spawn in Palestine or a german jew do u? unless immigration happened, mass immigration. also u said Arab world didn't support Palestine for the reason of "supporting Palestinian people" but rather because of them being arabs? like Palestinians are our brothers and that been holy lands since countries there is far more reasons u know.

[@RedLisa22]

Heartbreaking. So much suffering for the people living in Lebanon... What is the current situation in the country

[@eyesoftomorrows]

Thank you for sharing this, the Lebanese Civil War is a complicated war and it’s hard to fully explain why it started though this is a great try at that in simplifying.

[@slyjackalkompa4547]

How is it hard to explain..the Muslims and Christians were peacefully living together till the Palestinian refugees showed up...

[@eyesoftomorrows]

@@slyjackalkompa4547 Ethnic tensions, UAR, Christian Nationalism and all the factions within Lebanon tied to it. Lebanon was a ticking time bomb which just can’t be simplified by Palestinian Refugees triggering the civil war.

[@slyjackalkompa4547]

@@eyesoftomorrows they were the trigger...facts

[@eyesoftomorrows]

@@slyjackalkompa4547 I’ll agree upon that, if it weren’t for Palestinians then the civil war wouldn’t have triggered in 1975. It would have been delayed to the 1980s or maybe even 1990s which might be significantly worse as Lebanon wouldn’t have Rafic Hairi to reconstruct it.

[@florinivan6907]

The simplest answer. The system was unable to balance out the various communities anymore and the only solution was all out war.

[@peter-yc7di]

Coming to the west as it becomes more and more multicultural

[@factsunloaded4808]

Peaceful community spreading peace everywhere 🎉

[@An_anonymous_history_lover]

Islam is not called the "Religion of peace" because it's a religion of pacifists. If you had actually done a little bit of research instead of showcasing you ignorance here, you would have known that...

[@gadaboutunited]

The Palestinians tried to overthrow the government and caused civil war, as it did in Jordan.

[@inthendwealldie]

No wonder the Arab countries don’t want them at all, but the politicians and some leaders of the West want them in their countries Western Europe gonna be like France, they are getting swarmed with mus lims from Africa and the ME, and one day in a hundred years or 500, they are gonna be the majority, and turn those countries into an Islamic State under Sharia Law, the next Lebanons 😆

[@dr650senduro]

I grew up in that war, I've seen some crap u can't even perceived in your nightmare. I'm Christian Maronite & I vouched that religious ideology was the catalyst to ignite this turmoil. God Bless Lebanon & its people.

[@brawlerb2299]

In the mid-20th century, Lebanon was one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries in the Middle East. Its capital, Beirut, was once known as the Paris of the Middle East. It was the only state in the Middle East where Christianity was dominant, at one point making up over 60% of the population. Now, Lebanon is Islamic.

[@APS_Rathod]

Every beautiful country spoiled by Islam

[@ДжейкобКосточко]

It wasn’t the Muslims who did Sabra and Shatilla; and who sided with Israel

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Excelente documentário amigo 😀👍🏻

[@HikmaHistory]

Gracias Alan!

[@COMBLOCVZ58]

one issue… this was so much more about Leftism vs Fascism, and Rich vs Poor than it was a simple religious conflict… at least until the fundamentalist Shi’a and Sunni factions got more involved after 1983.

[@mjb2697]

Spoken like someone who truly doesn't know the war. In 1976, the Sunni Supreme Mufti of Lebanon called the PLO "The Army of Lebanese Muslims". It was definitely sectarian.

[@xenahx685]

@@mjb2697 homosexual communists can't stand it when a conflict isn't defined as leftist "workers" vs rich fascist capitalists. 🧐

[@jenedonnepasmonblaseanimpo2781]

@@mjb2697 Right, but it was because of political struggles. How do you explain that the Christian Armenians had the Lebanese citozenship when they fled Turkey ? When there are not even Levantine. How do you explain that the Christian Palestinians had the Lebanese citizenship and not the muslims ? You will say it was sectarism may be. I say it was a decision made by the rich families who wanted to keep Lebanon for themselves. The Maronites suffer the war because they leaders were incompetent bastards. And its still the case my friend. Of course the PLO behave like terrorist also, but they were use as a proxy agaisnt Israel by Lebanese government. And sure the war was religious at the eyes of the people who fought. But at the end, its always because of the 10 families who control Lebanon, and the politicians running for them. I live in Lebanon, so I know that a Lebanese will always disagree with me. But when you really studied the war, and the situation in Lebanon, you understand that the real problem are corrupt elites.

[@TheBluesman511]

Since lock downs in 2020 i i took interest in watching foreign countries on Utube. One of countries i did watch about was Lebanon. Since then i fall in love with Lebanon culture, traditions, art, food, arcitecture and before everything Arab Lebanese music. I love it though i do not know Arab language. The Beirut city is so beautiful and antic. Combination of old and new Beirut. Food is super yummy. I would like one day if possible to visit Lebanon. I am 63. Who knows maybe. I am getting older.

[@westwild75]

لا اعرف لماذا احب لبنان ...🇹🇳🇱🇧🥖🫒

[@arailway8809]

I love Lebanese people. It is sad to see what has happened to their home country.

[@thanhhoangnguyen4754]

the real problem for these people is what is Lebanese nationality. Because by ethnicity and religion they are very different.

[@GooseGumlizzard]

Phoeniecians?

[@ناتمان]

@@GooseGumlizzard technically

[@JEEPERSCREEPERSBEEPERS]

Dang it looked so nice and prosperous in the 50/60s. I would have loved to visit

[@nightprowler6336]

We Lebanese Christians built the country and its culture. What did we get? We got betrayed, ambushed, and attacked by the desert cult of death that has plagued the world from its start.

[@andred7684]

If all the middle eastern countries had stayed away from Islam there wouldn't be so much backwardness and human rights violations

[@slayer_general4243]

@@nightprowler6336 watch your mouth dhimmi

[@nightprowler6336]

@@slayer_general4243 watch your tale infidel!

[@ahmedbassam400]

@@nightprowler6336 The "desert cult" allowed you to thrive for over a millenium without any interference into your religion. Kindly, I ask you to review your biased stance. It is people like you who are the reason these ethnic wars break out. An overzealous and extremely biased view without any evidence to back your claims inevitably leads to ignorance and civil strife.

[@godfathere003]

this is how a country gets screwed up due to communists and islamists😢😢

[@ДжейкобКосточко]

No, it’s actually due to the phalange

[@David-g5t6b]

I just watched a podcast of a Lebanese woman basically saying life was good until they let the Muslims from Palestine in

[@asinthedaysofnoahandlot4632]

Excellent video thanks for sharing this

[@HikmaHistory]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Sports7-u6b]

Very informative....