How Nasser Defeated Israel, Britain & France

Despite the Suez Canal being located in Egypt, it was owned and controlled by the British and the French for the first 9 decades of its existence. Shortly after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, the charismatic Gamal Abdel Nasser rose to the forefront to lead Egypt. In 1956, Nasser would make the most important decision of his career when he nationalised the foreign-owned Suez Canal; his power and the legacy he would subsequently carve out for himself all hung in the balance as the British and French colluded with Israel to bring him down.
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0:00 Intro
1:14 Context
3:14 Nationalization & Aftermath

[@HikmaHistory]

Was Nasser right to Nationalize the Suez Canal? Modern History Playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLiPhmAD3I2Jz6goEJlQ1zh6KkbeBWZ2pP

[@zayedbinimran957]

Yes

[@willgibbons1733]

@@zayedbinimran957 no. Call it what you want but it's theft.

[@daringdare5078]

It brought more pain than pleasure for the Egyptian people.

[@zayedbinimran957]

@@willgibbons1733 I actually have no idea what were talking about🙂

[@YahyaHautamaki]

I’d say yes, considering the circumstances.

[@Idontknow-ov5qx]

Suez crisis was a political crisis with Nasser a clear winner. He withdrew the Egyptian army thus protecting it from direct confrontation with the invading superpowers. Nasser handles the crisis extremely well and used West / East balance to his advantage. He deserved to become a world hero as he did

[@daringdare5078]

Truly the greatest win by default in history.

[@mrbritannia3833]

If you forget the fact he was saved the USA and the Soviet union

[@skytheguyhigh2284]

@@mrbritannia3833 the soviet fighters were completely bombed, and the US helped israel

[@mrbritannia3833]

@@skytheguyhigh2284 And in this specific incident the USA and the Soviet union worked(trying to stop each other from gaining more power in the arab world but you can forget that) together to stop Britain and France That doesn’t mean every incident although I doubt that’d get through your ballon head

[@moustafagamel]

@@mrbritannia3833 Yes sir, the Americans wanted an ally in the region, in the end the 1956 war was the end of the great power status of the UK.

[@mrbritannia3833]

@@moustafagamel But it wasn’t Nasser who won it was the US and Soviets that won.

[@suckassmork2972]

Nasser lost the battles but won the war eh?

[@mrbritannia3833]

Nasser lost the battles would’ve lost the war but got saved by the bloody us and soviets

[@itsblitz4437]

He won the Cold War on top if anything.

[@Pakistani-Islamist]

@@mrbritannia3833 good

[@James-ip8xs]

@@Pakistani-Islamist good for Egypt in the short to medium term yes. But ensured that Soviets and US dominated world affairs, meaning Islam states had less agency.

[@Pakistani-Islamist]

@@James-ip8xs true

[@zackseverns4326]

Thank you for giving me a little education through your videos about Arab and Islamic historical events and political attitudes, I value learning of different cultures and alternative perceptions as an American and a Christian. I really enjoy your videos and I feel as if you're very knowledgeable, well educated in the subjects that you speak on.

[@shapursasan9019]

The word “defeated” is an overstatement.

[@thatguynoonelikes4865]

least based & unstoppable Egyptian:

[@JediSimpson]

5:07 - I was actually there when this video was uploaded, at a resort in Sharm el-Sheikh. You could see Tiran Island from the cost, it was pretty mountainous. So many ships going passed, I assume from Israel and Jordan, but could’ve been from higher north on the Sinai Peninsula, even Saudi Arabia.

[@HikmaHistory]

I've heard great things about Sharm el-Sheikh

[@JediSimpson]

@@HikmaHistory - It was a very nice place. We mostly stayed at the resort, which was great, very friendly staff. We went to the Old Market, a lot of the shopkeepers do try to get you to buy a lot of their stuff, of course, but they weren’t too pushy with it. We went on a boat to snorkel, which was fun. The blokes who worked there were very nice, very quick to act when anyone got in any trouble. Definitely somewhere I’d recommend for a week family holiday.

[@giuseppersa2391]

I've just finished the autobiography of Anwar Sadat. How great to receive your video thank you 🌻

[@mingyuhuang8944]

Best middle east history channel on KZbin!

[@HikmaHistory]

Thanks I appreciate that!

[@Evemeister12]

Nasser didn't win a military victory, but a diplomatic one. His forces were routed by those of Israel, UK and France. Political intervention from the USA and USSR forced UK and France to pull out their troops. Israeli forces remained in the Sinai peninsula until 1957 when UN forces moved in. Nasser never won any military engagements.

[@theunbeatable6598]

Lol cope but nah, israel was booted outta suez snd lost to egypt regardless of the political propaganda. Ask any vet from Egypt and they acknowledge how their casualties are exaggerated

[@Mixcoatl]

@@theunbeatable6598 Well, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Israel was not booted out of Suez or Sinai. It withdrew later after negotiations.

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@Mixcoatl They lost suez, they gave up Sinai after talks. Whyd they do that? They lost leverage Ur ignorant

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@theunbeatable6598 they gave back sinai after Egypt normalised relations with Israel. You know how big this was? This led to anwar assassination. Same thing happened with sudan where the famous triple no were proclaimed. You guys in Egypt have lot of nationalist narrative but can't blame you

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@ShubhamMishrabro Lol nice try im not an egyptian though. Anyway, let me educate you. Israel was bleeding resources regardless of whatever usa threw in and losing soldiers (many west loyalists haven't been told about the latter and i can't blame you). Why do u think israel agreed to peace? Lol They were booted out of suez and eventually had to give in Sinai when they signed peace.

[@unusualhistorian1336]

Great video!

[@kerryannegarnick1846]

Nasser is truly one of the most based men of the 20th Century.

[@mohamednazirbasharat913]

Fascinating

[@kaeso101]

I like reading about the suez crisis..really captures my imagination how Nasser was not only able to successfully nationalize the suez but also able to keep it in spite of foreign attack..thats some stuff

[@Saber23]

He was a repulsive man Socialism is an evil anti-Islamic ideology

[@owenhess6562]

The events from the outcome of the crisis are grand for countries that were involved. The US would have for the last major time have to use of oil supply for diplomacy on other major world powers. Pan-Arabism would grow under Nassar, leading the alliances with other arab nations. Israel's actions would help increase the myth of Jewish global control. OPEC would be formed as a economic/political alliance on the globe. Most importantly, both France and Great Britain would lose a voice on any major future crises, along with their decolonization of their own empires.

[@tompegorinno5141]

The moment I saw Nasser. I smiled and just said yes.

[@user-fz3gz5ck4v]

He was a dictator

[@thevozhd9846]

@@user-fz3gz5ck4v Better than Mubarak and El-Sisi though

[@user-gn7oo2ws8h]

He was a dictator who lost every war he fought while being the aggressor everytime there is nothing to like about him

[@joeshmoe8345]

Amazing

[@Trendkanal]

Well it’s actually pretty impressive how egypt achieved political victories in 1956 and 1973 even though they have been the inferior side. They didn’t even need a single military victory to come out victorious. While Israel relies on its military capabilities the Arabs try to outsmart their opponents. It was always very hard for outsiders to remain a foothold in the Arab world😮

[@Evemeister12]

In other words, Egypt hid behind its bigger friends when it couldn't fight for itself. That's called cowardice.

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@Evemeister12 Nope, Egypt clapped the USA backed apartheid called shitrael

[@Trendkanal]

@@Evemeister12 Well that’s just propaganda. In politics it’s only about achieving goals and not about morality. I mean Israel is doing the same thing right now with Iran. If they wouldn’t get support by the US Iran would occupy the north of israels territory. Israel tries to avoid a one on one confrontation with Iran by dragging the USA into this conflict. So everyone tries to play his cards as good as possible. Right now I would say that the Israelites can only protect themselves because of their superiority in technology and economics and the Arabs/Persians are much stronger when it comes to geopolitical strategies. Lets just hope that this will never end in a nuclear conflict

[@umaryusuf537]

@@Evemeister12 they invaded Israel in 73 that doesn’t make them a coward

[@James-ip8xs]

By Arabs 'outsmarting' is losing to a country of a few million in a few days....

[@londonbudgetgardner5205]

Excellent video The winds of change, the French and British won the battles but lost their empires.

[@craigjovanovich6450]

So, why did Israel get involved? You slid in there cutting off the open sea routes. So, a combination of aggressive nationalization (for political capital) and cutting off the recognized open sea lane by Egypt, and it was "collusion?" Pardon for saying but, your language usage seems to indicate a bias toward one side.

[@ruggedindividual708]

Great thumbnail

[@tunperak228]

He lost the war but at the same time he won his people's hearts?

[@69columbus]

He last the battle, not the war. Egypt ended up keeping the canal for ever. So he won the war.

[@tunperak228]

@@69columbus but didn't the objective to give back Palestine to the hand of Arabs?

[@69columbus]

@@tunperak228 That is a different issue. There were other wars for Palestine. The 1956 war took place because Nasser/Egypt took control of the Suez Canal.

[@tunperak228]

@@69columbus ohh okay,thanks

[@kalord1251]

For those who see that nasser lost the military battles , you are right but you talking about Egypt in 1956 who only have ww2 Aircrafts , tnks in low numbers. The only thing they had is troops the manpower but thats not enough aginst the brttish, french and isreali armies which all attacking using bombers, their battleships and tanks all together and somehow they couldn't enter cairo to remove nasser from power Maybe for you thats a victory but for the Egyptian people who lasted the days of the bombing and raids every day and still fought the occuiption for years its a victory.

[@user-ls4tf7wl8s]

He won because he told the teacher

[@user-xr2jt7ss4o]

Nasser had participated in 4 wars, lost 5 of them 😂😂😂

[@thekinghmimidou7001]

still came out based

[@joe_mama92]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bisoahmad9067]

LoL u are making the king of failing a hero ! 😂🤣

[@zainmudassir2964]

Nasser was a true Chad of Chads.

[@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija]

Yugoslavia helped Egypt with troops 🇷🇸🇲🇪🇲🇰🇭🇷🇧🇦🇸🇮🤝🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬

[@cd5433]

1:41 Freemason gesture with one hand in his coat over his heart

[@Khairulzaman96]

during nasser & sadat era egypt lost sinai to israel during six-day war & October war until camp david accords (1978) signed which withdrawal of israel troops from sinai & give sinai control under egypt

[@theunbeatable6598]

Why do u think israel gave the Sinai? They lost in the yom Kippur war

[@mizrahiwithattitude2733]

@@theunbeatable6598 no they won in the yom Kippur war they gave it for peace and the demilitarization of the sinai

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@mizrahiwithattitude2733 Nope, they lost. Sources vary but they lost bad from a weak Egypt. Suez canal was taken by Egypt and eventually Sinai was given after

[@mizrahiwithattitude2733]

@@theunbeatable6598 what u know nothing about the war

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@mizrahiwithattitude2733 i know reality

[@beachboy0505]

2:01 Strange deal, Egypt 🇪🇬 provided the land , all the manpower to create the canal yet : Egypt went into debt to own only 44%

[@69columbus]

It's neither strange nor unique. It's called European Colonialism.

[@indefiniteabyss1257]

French provided, money, resources, and blue print to construct the canal. without european, backwards egyptians wouldn't build it themselves

[@69columbus]

@@indefiniteabyss1257 yeah right. French money which was stolen from their african colonies. Moron!

[@beachboy0505]

@@indefiniteabyss1257 the French only made the plans. So the Suez canal was built 🤔? The Egyptians ened up owning none of it . Also the Egyptians seemed to have lost all their country to the J**ish financiers of London and Paris. Brilliant trick.

[@Yatagurusu]

@@indefiniteabyss1257 the canal existed in the past 3000 years ago, and many times people wanted to remake a canal that cuts the Sinai, but it was too dangerous when Constantinople could send a navy to mecca, and when they had Constantinople they no longer needed it

[@jibraani10]

4.00 come on guys 🤔 Once Britain gets it's foot in do you think they will leave This is how they get their foot in the country by helping and offering gifts and blondies that is how they conquer the world

[@StoicHistorian]

Who did more for Egypt, Nasser or Ali Pasha?

[@blacksheep6174]

Ali Pasha for Sure

[@mrbritannia3833]

Britannia

[@skytheguyhigh2284]

@@mrbritannia3833 britannia did nothing, nasser completely industrialized workers, made the industry 20x powerful, and made the army even stronger

[@KSalem32]

@@mrbritannia3833 Britannia my ass 😂

[@mgigachad3170]

​@@mrbritannia3833 can you feed my ancestors they are starving.

[@bigsarge2085]

✌️

[@powasjington4262]

Nasser = Daddy*

[@TheRealEnclave]

Haram

[@jackjohnson2101]

The Americans and the Soviets made the British and the French to stand down.

[@UnitedPebbles]

I thought trade with China at some level is good for everyone?

[@techbit7607]

Nasser had a diplomatic victory he lost miserably militarily.

[@WuTangClan-og5ml]

Lmfao he didn’t defeat shit, it was the United States that told the three countries to leave Egypt

[@rolex6170]

yeah, bt nobdy got balls these days. all sellin 'em for money or life

[@mrbritannia3833]

Everyone are eunuchs?

[@rolex6170]

@@mrbritannia3833 willful.

[@moviesformoshedaniel9031]

You know what Israel got out of this? Nukes

[@jordengg3629]

He didnt "Win" against israel, israel won in every combat engagment and in the end got what it wanted, an open canal

[@heshamhero6149]

nope Egypt got what it wanted an ownership

[@UnitedPebbles]

Otherwise, he goes to America and then thru the Panama and then the whole East Coast to Uk and then the Chanel.

[@williamromine5715]

Let me see if I have this right: 1. France provides the expertise to build the canal. 2. France and Egypt agree 55% ownership for France, 45% for Egypt. 3. Egypt sells its interest to England. 4. Egypt gets England to remove its troops from the canal. 5. Egypt aligns itself with the Soviet Union. 6. Egypt decides it doesn't like all of its agreements of the past, and says the canal belongs entirely to Egypt. I've got this right don't I? In effect, Egypt stole the Suez Canal from its legal owners. It repudiated all of its agreements that benefited it greatly, an d says Kings X. What's worse is that Eisenhower backs Egypt.n(don't give me this desire to repudiate some revolution in Russia. America did nothing to help that revolution, except to tell the Soviets they shouldn't be so mean.) I don't know how England has ever forgiven the U.S. for stabbing it in the back.

[@Jakraful]

I think the video left out an important part. The parties later agreed to a payment to buy out the investors at a pretty fair price and Egypt agreed to guarantee the Europeans access to the canal.

[@williamromine5715]

@@Jakraful And Egypt's promises are so reliable! However your point is well taken. If I remember right, a lot of pressure was put on Egypt, but I don't remember who the U.S. President was at the time. Thanks for jogging my memory.

[@theunbeatable6598]

Egypt stole? More like took back

[@williamromine5715]

@@theunbeatable6598 That is an emotional response. Remember, France and Egypt AGREE to building the canal. Under the agreement, France owns 55% and Egypt 45%. Egypt sold its 45% to Britain. Egypt no longer owns any of the canal. Decades later, Egypt kicks both France and Egypt off the canal, claiming Egypt now owns the canal. If I sold you my car, and years later that car is considered a classic car, and worth way more than you paid for the car, can I just take the car back. Isn't that stealing? Tell me the difference.

[@theunbeatable6598]

@@williamromine5715 Naw, its egypts territory and the French and brits already stole hella from them. Good riddance they took it back

[@JoeSmith-sl9bq]

He cried constantly to the Soviets and Americans as his troops were melted away like butter on a hot pan

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

Still his the best leader egypt had

[@aristolovaristolova3972]

Still he obtained what he wanted,which Is the Onlus things that matters

[@thevozhd9846]

Chad Nasser, he was a comrade to my motherland, India 🇮🇳♥️🇪🇬

[@Alruwaili11]

It’s all political games he defeated nothing. And the War of 1967 was a proof of that

[@huseinjasic8319]

Trojan horse.

[@biranfalk-dotan2448]

Imagine selling something, taking it back by force and then saying the person who bought that thing from you is the aggressor. Also, saying that Israel was an aggressor against Egypt when the Egyptian Fadayun had only recently killed 32 civilians at a wedding in Israel is a bit of a stretch, no? Nasser wasn't just “anti-colonial”: he sought to increase his power by force, he broke international law, and he only got the canal back because of US political considerations

[@TheLoveBomberz]

They sold their share because of loans they took out to build it. Who do you think gave them those loans?

[@biranfalk-dotan2448]

@@TheLoveBomberz So what you're saying is that the canal was built with European resources in the first place, so it was not totally Egyptian to begin with? How does that change things? To me it seems that, no matter what kind of financial mistakes you've made in the past, once you sell something it's not yours

[@heshamhero6149]

@@biranfalk-dotan2448 they didn't sell canal and the loans were paid with Suez canal income that they nationalized it.

[@ramkikrishna1462]

How 7 days almost arab lost and begged isreal🤣🤣🤣

[@heshamhero6149]

how Israel surrendered the entire sinai?

[@thebigone6071]

Nasser was definitely the greatest man to ever live!

[@corinthian2500]

If this is all Arabs can offer, then too bad for arabs😂

[@user-np7cp5vx7l]

Yes, the leader Nasser was the best departure from the rule of the Arabs in modern history and his enemies are many so far, and most of them are ignorant, idiots and agents.

[@69columbus]

​@@corinthian2500I'm guessing your Greek grand parents were amongst those that were forced to leave Egypt post Nasser's rise to power. Am I right? I just hope that you're stupidity isn't an inherited trait.

[@corinthian2500]

@@69columbus I’m from Iran moron. This guy was supposedly the “strongest Arab leader”, & yet he couldn’t unite two countries & lost every confrontation against the jews. Shame for him shame for Egypt, shame for arabs, shame for Islam & ummah that this guy is your hero

[@69columbus]

@@corinthian2500 oh...you're from Iraaaan. Well that explains everything! I apologize to my Greek brethren for assuming you were from the respected Greek Egyption community. And no he's definitely not my hero. The guy's a politician. No politician will ever be a hero I'm my eyes. Nor do I care about your ...what was it ...ummah? I just recognise genius when I see it. In one single master stroke, he lost a short battle to far superior forces, but managed to put the final nail in the coffins of both the British and french empires...and... took control of the most strategically important commercial waterway in the world - for ever!

[@bestgeze]

Are you kidding , in the history of Egypt never win any battle from any abroad country. Egypt starting a war but it is beaten . Example Ethiopia defeated Egypt 11 times

[@factytop10s45]

classical mulims always make up their own history ))

[@theunbeatable6598]

Haha cope n seethe 🤡

[@saladinmustafa]

@@theunbeatable6598 fr

[@YasinVanDoorsen]

Cope harder

[@ConservativeArabNet]

Mild account, nothing interesting!! Sorry

[@samwill7259]

A big hard slap across the face that made it clear that colonialism in its old form would not longer be accepted. Now if only we could have killed neocolonialism ahead of time, then maybe we would have actually gotten somewhere. Oh well, at least it indirectly helped to normalize relations between Israel and Egypt.

[@mrbritannia3833]

Colonialism generally civilised the world although I do not agree with it or disagree with it. I will say however, the east, south and west would look very different without it, for better or for worse. And I don’t think anyone has the right to say it would be better as it is impossible to know but the world outside of Europe was alot less civilised in the modern sense before the colonial era.

[@69columbus]

@@mrbritannia3833 LOL OMG...seriously? How about you ask the Congo when the Belgians were there? Or Churchill's response to the famine he engineered in India during WW2?! Or the Algerians during the French period. Would you like more examples?

[@mrbritannia3833]

@@69columbus And who’s to say the famines in India wouldn’t have happened if we weren’t there and just because something is civilised in the modern sense doesn’t mean there won’t be problems like famine and anyway we needed the food it’s not our fault (well not entirely but lets ignore that) that they couldn’t produce enough food for themselves as well

[@69columbus]

@@mrbritannia3833 come on mate, surely you can see the hypocrisy in your own words. Look I'm in no way pro cancel culture. Far from it. I can't digest this neo liberal woke culture we live in. You can't change history and I accept that..good and bad parts. However, past wrongs were committed by Brits and Europeans - some with actual evil intent and malice - against whole nations, people and resources, and that legacy left a bad taste in people's mouths which will never be forgotten. Unless of course people recognise their past misdeeds and everyone can move on.

[@mrbritannia3833]

@@69columbus I don’t think they should be blamed generally on the British Empire or state and if they are you might as well blame whatever created humans because most of the actual atrocities committed that people say were ordered or supported by the British empire happened because idiotic individuals thought they knew best. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre is one example people blame the British empire and British state about it but even the war and air secretary at the time a staunch imperialist Winston Churchill later prime minister of course condemned it along with the British state. And the commanding officer of the massacre was sacked in disgrace although I personally think he should have been hung in the street in-front of the families of those he killed just to show we condemned the massacre and also because he threatened British rule in India.

[@johnsonsmith3421]

Great victory but Nasser wasn’t a good leader

[@anasevi9456]

5:56 lmao sadly no, they just learned to live with being giant pants on head geopolitical hypocrites.

[@wanderingnomad1]

Misleading title, he didn’t win militarily, the Egyptian military was defeated. He won a diplomatic victory later due to US and USSR pressure. But again it’s an Islamist propaganda channel.

[@aristolovaristolova3972]

A victory Is when you obtain what you wanted,how you obtain that doesn't matter

[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

And then tried to jump Israel and got completely demolished

[@shinningstarsinthedarknight1]

thats because nasser was zionists. He allowed israeli army to take delta region. He could have easily destroyed zionists illegal state

[@theunbeatable6598]

Naw, Egypt clapped a super backed sh*trael in the 70s. No cooe changes that

[@umaryusuf537]

Nasser wasn’t in power in 73 it was Sadat. But Egypt did achieve there goal regain control of the Sinai. But yeah they got clapped by Israel in the actual war. But Israel faced heavy casualties and decided the Sinai isn’t worth it.

[@salahali2710]

It’s okay better luck next time

[@nathanworthington4451]

Israel?

[@angelcabeza6464]

The only reason the brits French and Israelis left Egypt was because the US and the Soviet Union forced them to leave Egypt but Egypt was losing as they had lost control of the cannel

[@TheLoveBomberz]

Okay? That's literally what was said in the video......

[@heshamhero6149]

Israel had USA and Israel wanted Sinai sooooo

[@Yatagurusu]

Big dumb dog is understanding why bigger stick diplomacy isnt always the only or best way to get what they want