Why the Middle East’s Borders Guarantee Forever Wars

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[@josephleonard6695]

lesson: never let the British draw borders

[@caim3465]

or never get colonized by Western Europe (unless it's Netherlands)

[@GintaPPE1000]

I mean, it was the Turks getting anal about ceding their eastern territories to an independent Armenia and Kurdistan that resulted in that half of Turkey being a complete mess today, and made the ethnic tensions in the rest of the Middle East much worse. Had Armenia and Kurdistan been formed, then the Kurds and Armenians that ended up in modern Iraq and Syria would at least have a place to move to instead of being forced to fight for independence, like how Jews and Christians rapidly concentrated in Israel after WWII. You could argue the British should've tried harder to force the Turkish government to agree to their original plan, but that would've likely just resulted in Turkey being even more expansionist and likely turning out as a Soviet rather than NATO ally. Those tensions would've existed regardless of British intervention too: it's not like the Turks suddenly did a 180 on their tolerance of minorities only after the Ottoman Empire fell.

[@dindin8753]

@@theblindwall3207 that's actually not true the Muslims ottomans never have a major massacre event until the western influence nationalistic young Turks rebel against the sultan and expelled the sultan into exile while installed the puppet sultan so that the nationalist western influence young Turks have powers and they become nationalistic and massacre all of the Armenians plus there's no major war in the middle east ever since the ottomans rule the middle east, they didn't divide them if they do there'll be a lot of war in there but no there's no war same with the balkans the fact that there's still a lot of Europeans after the first Balkan war just show that the ottomans didn't massacre them same with middle east, while we massacre a lot of native Americans so much that we never see them ever again same with Africans, Oceania, Asia, etc, and also we shouldn't ignore the religious thirty years war and major wars in Europe including WW2 and even today in France there's a lot of protest and riots everywhere.

[@theblindwall3207]

@@dindin8753 your informations are wrong, please read more about them and you will find what they truly were

[@dindin8753]

@@theblindwall3207 I have read a lot about it since I'm a history nerd I'm sorry if I hurt your feeling by saying the truth but truth don't care about your feeling.

[@shadowstorm1989]

I think the most concise way to convey the difficulties in the area are to overlay maps of geography, ethnicity, culture, historical claims, and natural resources. Doing this reveals there is no combination that doesn't leave a very large number of people very angry about something.

[@Mukation]

Exactly the same shit we saw with the wars in the balkans in the 90s. Kosovo, Bosnia etc All people there can lay "historic" claims to all those lands, because shit like ethnic cleansing etc was done by the Ottomans there too over the centuries.

[@kosmosXcannon]

I am convinced that if someone made a wish to solve every issue people have in the world. We would immediately start making up new issues.

[@ishansharma1920]

then why do those western countries take refugees from middle east who first come in their countries then do a lot of crime, terror attacks and later start separatist movements?

[@jensenraylight8011]

then just restore the ottoman empire, if they can rule over that vast land over there, then, just let them rule the whole clusterf*ck. the war between them are there to stay but at least they can be grouped into one single country, and not dozen of country making mess around

[@michaelscott5653]

And religious belief keeps the middle east at war.

[@Eurazba]

I'm Syrian-Lebanese on my father's side, I remember first being told that we were Syrian, and then being told we were Lebanese, the answer kept changing depending on the family member I asked. I was very confused why there wasn't a consistent answer and would wonder "are we Lebanese or Syrian?". As I got older and learned more about the Sykes-Picot borders I realized why the inconsistency was there and the answer to which heritage we were was "yes".

[@CastellazziTal]

Syrian, Lebanese and Iraqi. You guys are one people and you needed to unite long time ago. For centuries all this land was Babylon and Assyria. Because of your ego you are Divided and are a playground for Iran, Turkey, Israel and the west and russia.

[@vffa]

Then again, it makes you wonder wether it even matters. I mean, can you live without the knowledge what name to attach to your heritage? If all of a sudden you were told "you are definitely Syrian" - does that change your position on someone who says they are Lebanese (assuming they have the same background)? I think these heritage and origin and 'historical claim' things are stupid and overrated. It creates nothing but conflict. We're you were born, that's where you are from. Nothing more, nothing less.

[@CastellazziTal]

@@vffa you are a typical cosmopolite. Tell me are you supporter of LHBTIQ and BLM movements? Of course you are! You do not Veluwe the importance of culture and heritage. Just because you don’t know your origin, your gender and your religion, does not mean the rest of the world are wrong. For us this is important. Shame on you.

[@sreebuszeebus1343]

As a Lebanese-Syrian I have come to accept that we are one people and we should be united as one state. So yes Lebanon is Syria. Edit: challenge: white people try not to seethe about an Arab man’s opinion on his own country (impossible) I as a citizen can have an opinion of my country. You all are Europeans and have nothing to do with us. Go fuck yourselves with Costco donuts or something idk what u fat Americans do

[@CRneu]

We're all human. Anything other than that exists solely to divide us. You can be proud of where you come from but that pride is often weaponized so it's best to leave that kind of stuff behind.

[@breecebeamer3241]

I like how we kinda just have Oman, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait chillin'.

[@quaintfalopa9724]

kuwait wasnt really chillin'

[@Will_92]

@@quaintfalopa9724 Loll facts

[@Asynca]

Oman just minding its own business lmao

[@Jacaerys1]

It’s hard to believe they were all part of a single empire at one time or another. The Persian Empire, The Byzantine Empire, The Ottoman Empire.

[@jonjohns8145]

that's kind of the point. the ME is such a patchwork of incredibly complex ethnicities and religious traditions that the European idea of a Nation state is anathema to that world. They function best as provinces under over all imperial rule where each are left to live their lives as they see fit. Nationalism is one of the worst ideas to come out of Europe, a place known for its bad ideas.

[@ASLUHLUHC3]

What nationalism does to a MF

[@steyn1775]

You misspelled Eastern Roman Empire

[@zenkrypt6577]

​@@jonjohns8145how is Europe a place of bad ideas?

[@pinkboy1181]

@@jonjohns8145Europe has invented most things

[@tayzonday]

If aliens land and tell humanity that Earth is their “protectorate” - the British have shown us what that means.

[@Spoopy_man]

Chocolate rain

[@Levo_D_Angelo]

Dude the Aliens have allready sent one ship, they brought the religions in like a ruse for us to wipe each other out. I think they come from far away and the transport time is several thousand years so they try to wipe us out with a ruse. (LoOoOoLLLlll)

[@jeffo7799]

@@Levo_D_Angelowtf

[@rohankishibe8259]

​@@Levo_D_Angelo a physical virus would be much more efficient for your imaginary take, if philosophical creeds are you cup of tea, I'd say the aliens empowered the Europeans so these barbarians spread their poisonous ideals and demonic way of life, inhumane way of life, or else, how come such a boring region that even it's people hated with no resources become prominent? Alien help of course, they chose the most loser faction and gave them power so everyone becomes losers as well, that's how you destroy humanity, and would you look at that, extreme capitalism or extreme communism, Fascism, social degeneracy like public sex and same sex, animal sexual abuse, incest, and many demonic shit exported by the Europeans and the Europe 2.0 (USA)

[@angryyoungman66]

Not saying British empire is innocent , but middelesterns have been cutting eachothers throats for religious and political purposes long before Britain even existed , just right after jesus dies, Christians are killed by Romans, jews are killed by Romans, then byzantean splits away becomes christian, and start fighting jews, jews killing christians , christians killing jews then Persians killing jews & christians, then the Arabs muslim killing and getting killed from jews christians and Persians 😂, then Arabs turn on them selves sunnis killing shiyates , then Turks appear killing all of those groups its just a huge mess where every single group is fighting the other 20 groups , when British came this place was already a mess

[@philipzelasko435]

Britain banned most Jewish immigration into Palestìne mandate prior to WW2. Not one mention of Jews forced out arab countries after Israel's birth who are now the majority. 6 day war caused by Nasser's closing of Tiran strait.

[@keremmorgul367]

I am blown away by the quality of this mini documentary. It’s amazing how much valuable information is weaved together in just over 37 minutes under a coherent narrative without overwhelming the audience with details. Respect!

[@umutselimbayr7837]

Ve bu karmakarışık toprakları 400 yıl kadar bir süre karmaşadan uzak bir şekilde yönetebilen Türkler de büyük saygıyı hak ediyor. İngilizler gittikleri her coğrafyayı mahvettiler.

[@feministba]

Yeah to much information 😂

[@ibrahimkucuk9842]

yeah my head was aching after the video.

[@jamierose4088]

Many areas around world have awkward borders. Only one area has Islamic controlled states. 90% of wars today evolve Muslims. Islam is not compatible with democracy or civilized societies. It never will be.

[@SanataniHindu81]

he is not right,,, you may see my comment

[@weamibrahim2146]

As a Syrian, it's nice to see this all explained objectively and with no bias. They did teach us some of this in school, but it had bias, and mainly focused on Syria. Keep it up RLL!

[@edgykoala1732]

So sorry your are Syrian.

[@sterlingmarshel6299]

bias is only created by religious beliefs

[@AyanKhan-ge4fp]

​@@sterlingmarshel6299I disagree. It's created by bias in other humans and a basic tendency of humans rather. Plus everyone experiencing different things also makes them all have positive and negative bias against things depending on their things they experienced. It's possible what was positive experience to some be negative to others.

[@MrCollinGabriel]

This video has a strong western and imperialist bias.

[@Itzorionic]

@@MrCollinGabriel exactly 💯

[@Andy-mt9pl]

As a person who lives in the Middle-East, this is very reassuring! In all seriousness though, politics here are so confusing that even though I've been living here my entire life, I still didn't fully understand it so thanks for the video!

[@ABAddonfromHeLL]

I hope you guys can find peace brothers🤞

[@Andy-mt9pl]

@@ABAddonfromHeLL Thank you brother

[@bikinglikebecker]

Politics there is the "Golden Rule".. The Guy with the Gold Makes all the Rules...

[@oldflipgamer]

@@bikinglikebeckerthat’s pretty much politics in every country. In one form or another it comes down to money.

[@louiekidd251]

The US government has instigated many of these wars

[@chrisfrank2664]

Shutting down the Suez Canal for 8 years is a key detail thats never mentioned during any talks/discussions of the 6-Day War (I wonder how many history books go into details about it, And the impact of it? ). Even in this video he mentions it quickly, but this video is about the whole region and goes over years of history & major events in the region, not about the 6-Day War (plenty other videos on that). That 8 year closure of the Canal impacted economies among many other things for countries in the region and worldwide.

[@JohnDoe-lw2nm]

Egypt closed the canal.

[@alexandarm.9788]

Balkans : We are the most ethnically and religiously complicated area. Middle east : Hold my beer.

[@XY-uc1tw]

Both of them were stolen lands from the Ottomans. Minorities are still arguing for these lands.

[@byron197]

Beer? Probably haram in the Middle East 😂. Say laban maybe (yogurt as a drink)

[@MAG-hd9cr]

​@@byron197hold my coffee

[@Slainz_Editz]

@@byron197 nope beer isnt haram in middle east. middle east isnt all muslim

[@OXIR]

@@XY-uc1twand who did Ottomans take it from? Was it empty? Or the people told them “come here take our land and rule us”? It’s so funny Mongolians claiming the land they invaded and they never belonged to as their “homeland”.

[@michaelmejia8678]

I learned more about the history of the Middle East in this single 37-minute video than I did in all my years at school! Crazy how easy this actually is to learn and understand once you include visuals alongside the words.

[@badnewofficial]

School is BS.

[@pavelimani]

Public schools are just a waste of time because the teachers don't want to be there. They don't give a fuck.

[@انصار_الله_والمهدي29]

The most important thing is to learn Islam and not to learn the politics of people who follow the devil and want money and power and spread weapons on the poor and weak of faith and spread debauchery and corruption looting

[@guus5504]

Yea, everyone likes to bash on school. If this was in school you probably wouldnt even pay attention to it.

[@charlesellis3710]

@@guus5504Maybe maybe not, but I can say 100% this was not taught to me in school… We were never taught why the Middle East is so war torn

[@kairos_fluent]

I think a video about the Balkans geography and how that influenced the history and politics of that region would be very interesting.

[@ivaneurope]

Especially after another conflict is on the horizon between Serbia and the partialy recognized state of Kosovo. And this potential conflict could also influence the much larger conflict in Ukraine given the parties involved - Russia (supporting Serbia) and NATO (supporting Kosovo). And for one Vladimir Putin a distraction for NATO in the Balkans would be perfect as NATO may divert weapons from Ukraine to Kosovo if the conflict there escalates

[@dieauferstehung]

this video proves that multiculturalism is not good for stability so Europe will fall soon too :)

[@munjarez1721]

@@ivaneurope dobra poenta, obrnuto je isto moguce - ukoliko NATOu zafali sredstava, ljudstva i municije, mozda ce ih preusmeriti ka Ukrajini, ili se cak potpuno povuci sa Kosova ukoliko shvate da trace resurse tamo kao sto su se povukli iz Avganistana (mada sumnjam da ce se to dogoditi jer imaju vec dobro ustanovljeno uporiste i vojnu bazu Bondstil)

[@AndrewEvenstar]

been travelling the Balkans for a couple months now. been to a bunch of museums and yours, learned a ton. you can learn so much but still there's yet so much you don't know

[@Sam-lj9vj]

At the end of the day it comes down to religion. We all know who is to blame for that.

[@مجتهد-خ2ف]

Europe fought many wars and lost many lives before it stabilized and prospered, and the same applies to the Middle East

[@G.G.276]

And They Have Blood On Their Hands in GOD’S EYES!

[@diogobarata6346]

@@G.G.276islam invaded Europe first. islam has invaded Europe for longer than Europe has ever invaded islam.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

You can tell this video isn’t gonna be controversial because it has 0 dislikes on it!

[@SmartSalamander]

See this is the type of guy anyone can agree with!

[@mnm5165]

Bot comment

[@SEASON-ONE1]

Most peaceful region of the World

[@cheeksfadays6322]

I really mis the Dislike counter. It always helped me check my own bias. Haven’t watched the video yet but I might agree with all his reasoning. Afterwards notice that it has a 50/50 like to dislike ratio and realize that A lot of people say he got it wrong. And that’s the que to check out the other side/other reasoning.

[@Tran3x72]

39 dislikes

[@TheAidanodian]

I love how RLL is such a good creator he makes even the sex comment bots break character and compliment his vids

[@boas_]

They copy other comments

[@MorrocanDarijaArab]

Lmao

[@pxndaa]

They are bots that copy other comments and they are programmed to like each others comments so they get the top comment.

[@LuisSierra42]

They always compliment videos

[@ailediablo79]

Corrections: Iran is no true Muslim power. They are not Shia at the top and ideology. They are not like Fatimad for example. They are neo-Savid and a neo-Persian Empire. The government is not Muslim. That is their lie. Iraq is majority Suni by a little because most kurds are Suni too. So it is 5050. Saddam invaded Kuwait after it was funny at the least. Also in addition to the funny oile problem they requested Iraq to must right after the war to pay the money. Which it didn't have too. Not to mention they are ones that said the payment is a gift. Iraq could easily pay but Saddam has a nuclear program and it needs funding. It is either one or the other. Especially with Israeli air attacks on nuclear facilities. Kuwaiti was doing what USA wanted because they know Saddam will invade. To use as an excuse to destroy the Iraq military and capabilities to prepare for a proper invation after a siege to remove the will of the people and to change the state of the population. Iran-Iraq war was attacking to defend. It was a must. Iran would have attacked when they get ready anyway. There was problems between Iraq and Iran since 50s. No it wasn't obvious. Infact it was obvious Saddam doesn't want to invade into beyond Kuwait, where he should but he is stuip. Those unites where as a defense after USA words. It took USA forces 6 months to get ready. That is more than enough time for Iraq to take all the land left on Arab west side of the gulf easily in less than a month at min if not faster. Which would make USA mission near impossible. But he didn't. ISIS are like the type of people know as Khwarg. No scholar support them. Also most of their soldiers didn't agree or believe in what they said but moved along for many different reasons. A big chunk of them whom joined later are hidden criminals. Most of the beheading was fake they filmed to scare people. The entire organization is all fake it until you make it type of thing. The suprise attack Isreal did on Egypt was detected by Egyptian intelligence agencies. However, the president didn't inform the military about it and keept a securit. Why? So he can blame airforce commonders whom don't support him and execute them all. Which he did. You forgot to mention those dictators don't represent the people really. The kings are much better overall and represent more but also they don't get it fully. The solution is Islam. Especially for the arabs. Arabs are almost nothing without Islam. Islam is what made the arabs and if mainplated or removed it will destroy them. Same to Muslim world but especially the Arabs. What you see is as arabs Islam believe and knowledge go down the more they be like the arabs before Islam. Divided into hundreds of trabes fighting eachothers over resources like settling nomads and others become nomads. Islam what fixes arabs problems and Islam what makes arabs strong and united. Why despite sharing same language and history? Because that is how the arabs thing. It is a double edged sword. Islam is the balance for that and only balance. Such as there is a higher % of psychopaths intelligent individuals in Arab world are born and middle east, but especially arabs, than other places. The world average is 1%, in Arab it is naturally 10%+. With wars and problems/pressures this goes up to 20%-30% of the population amongst mailes especially. Being a psychopath is not a problem in itself but can be a problem. In Arab world natural leaders are 80% of the population and 75%+ of the conversation is from your words not body language in Arab world. The arab body language sings are mostly for speaking fast in scaret or from long distances. But any real conversation it all go down to your tone and words. Everyone/most wants to be the leader and at the top. Before Saddam there was thousands of leaser Saddam. There is tooooo many Alphas. Because of that language and history that is shared doesn't matter and Islamic brotherhood what only can unite. Otherwise each city provenance can become a city state government of their own and they will go into a threekingdoms like era. Arab world in manythings is like pre-Qing China. Even more like, the 7 waring state period before Qin unification war ending 7 warring state period of the greater Spring and Otom wars era. But of course even far more complicated due to haveing more internal elements and due to foreign interventions and influence. Due to many reasons: most notably are oile/gas and geopolitical location on world map. However, there is another solution. Re-change what is an arab or remove it is importance. That will influence Islam but not much. So arabs no longer arabs. That will after sometime fix things but possibly much harder and meet with alot of resistance. Also NO. That is what west intlgance is trying to do. Remove the word arab from the future. (They are also trying to destroy Islam or liberalized it which is a form of destruction too.) To give u example: Can't we say ISIS is a form of a modern example of a nomadic invention? If it wasn't for USA airforce and intervention against ISIS they would have 100% win and took control over Iraq and Syria + Lebanon. Arabs as they leave Islam they becoming going back to the nomadic division before Islam. We need another desert revolution that is not like 1916 or Spring or 1979 or ISIS/Al-Qaeda, but accurately more like Ottomans or Suljk or Saladin or Morocco against Caseal or Abasised ,or most importantly like the prophet and his combines. 1916 and before that 1908 are the resones for this. In 1908 if Abd-Hamed II wasn't taken down, Ottomans wouldn't have joined WW1 and would be no nationalism in Turks or Arabs and no Arab revolut. Also would have expanded into Persia too and took back Yemen, Oman and Kuwait eventually. Perusing UK in Egypt and India. Joining Japan. Very likely tonplay a significant rule in Russia too. Possibly making Russia a puppet and no Soviet/communist and Marxist (at least in Russian area as a power). Also taking Lybia back from Italy. I don't know though they would join WW2 or not. But very unlikely to join Hitler. Infact this might result in a different Hitler that Ottoman can join.

[@lglstc13]

Being born in Middle East is like starting the life in very hard mode. If you can survive it, you can survive anywhere.

[@ai.manipulator]

Would they survive a drag show? 🤣

[@lglstc13]

@@ai.manipulator Well, they would but not sure about the other people present together.

[@theoriginaltroll388]

😂😂😂😂 their life is very easy if they actually follow the Quran like they say they do....they are so filled with Negativity they cant even tell you exactly what they are mad about

[@GemayelDaniel]

Can confirm From lebanon for 30 years to france. I am now in easy mode

[@murattyngo]

​@@theoriginaltroll388 well, which way of quran? Our way is the best you have to die! they are all muslims but kill each other for minimal differencies.

[@rattinyou]

You have provided one of THE most concise and ethno-graphically accurate depictions of both the static and dynamic socio/geo-political drivers in this tangled region! The mention of the adaptation of Sykes-Picot geopolitical borders from that of the Ottomans and the fact that the Ottoman's version had already disregarded the ethnic diversities in their calculations makes it so much more comprehendible to today's observer! Everyone uses something that's already there rather than taking the adequate time to put something together from scratch! Kudos to your good work!

[@RIZFERD]

As I always state: Anything called religion is superficial including abrahamic judaism/christianity/islam full of scam. Nothing surprising whole Europe, USA, Western world, Middle East and surrounding were and will always be forever real third world, the poorest nature in the world. Real Rich will never colonize other. Thus not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are just the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life and not learning from the past to evolve better. Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country. World map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. In reality Indonesia is huge as Russia including our ocean and even much richer than the rest of the world. Even much bigger before West and Middle East came took our former Australia, Singapore, Malaysia+Brunei, South Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam even Madagascar Africa. Actually countries in Europe are just regencies and provinces in Indonesia. And they're so amateurs because they're just very basic animals. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world. Dutch VOC was much richer than any present day world's richest company. Whole Europe, USA, etc western world in general were built with Indonesia's limitless wealth. Coffee is native in Indonesia not brought by the Dutch. Too many lies they wrote about Indonesia even at formal school books! The fact is whole Europe, USA, western world in general has been built with Indonesia's limitless wealth for centuries long but mentally and intellectually they hasn't changed a bit. But inner the same mediaeval.

[@dindin8753]

There's no way you believe in this bs just Google ottoman empire political divisions then you will know just how different those borders are from the modern borders.

[@dindin8753]

This is a misinformation just Google ottoman empire political divisions than you will know just how different their borders are from the modern borders.

[@dindin8753]

Google ottoman empire administrative divisions that's the actual borders. It looks nothing compare to the modern borders that's created by the British and french.

[@HistoricalAnalysis12]

ALL @@dindin8753

[@raymundbollinger2308]

I return to this video because of the actual situation in Jemen. It‘s because this video explains every conflict in the middle east. The content of knowledge in this video is very big.

[@JustSome462]

Italy did not get the Dodecanese (the islands in the video) from the treaty of Sevres, it got them in the Italo-Turkish war of 1911. What Italy was supposed to get was part of southwestern Anatolia, but it ended up making a deal with Turkey who recognised Italian sovereignty over the Dodecanese in exchange for Italy withdrawing its claim on southwestern Anatolia, which went through and then Italy started to sell Turkey weapons which they needed to fight the British, French and Greeks

[@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014]

Along with the soviet union, italy greatly helped the turkish nationalists, because felt cheated by the british

[@tk5gqj514]

They were angry that UK decided to give İzmir to Greece, which was actually promised to be in the İtalian zone. British did so thus they could use and greatly support Greece to indirectly fight the Turkish nationalist govt.

[@susamekmek3101]

​@@tk5gqj514Also, British thought that they can control Greece more easily then Italy.

[@kingace6186]

The "Rump State" that was originally left for the Turks was a much smaller area, south of the Black Sea, and with no Mediterranean coastlines.

[@Tethloach1]

Imagine: (how history would be different) All nations agree to not sell guns All nations agree to respect intellectual property All people agree to settle things peacefully

[@lovetsky]

As empires carved up territories, they didn't just split the land; they fragmented cultures, histories, and the lives of countless families, friends, and neighbors. This division sowed chaos and destruction beyond their borders, all in pursuit of influence and economic gain. A pattern that continues to this day.

[@feministba]

Very true ...but it is sad despite of knowing history we still chose to live in the chaos than in peace. They can become a single country and accept all ethnicities. But know each ethnicity want to eradicate the other. And you have a handful of then in the region. Ottoman empire had all cultures and ethnicities to flourish....atleast even if you arenot allowed into the palace. Atleast they were part of the empire. Cant middle east bece a place where all the ethnic values survive. They all originated in the same land so they should.learn to coexist.

[@afriedrich1452]

They should have formed borders by mutual agreement, like they did in India with Pakistan. India and Pakistan don't have any border disputes, just nuclear wars, which is far better. (OK, there was one border dispute between East Pakistan and West Pakistan, but that's been settled.) (OK, there is still a problem with Kashmir and China and Nepal, etc..)

[@fahrettinshaneirkilata7678]

Terorist usa UK and EU teror in the face of world. Oil money

[@knighterrant882]

No Diversity is their strength 😁

[@DARIO_S]

Yeah, like there was never wars before that?? It's not the empires that pick the lines - it's local chiefs that see the opportunity to finaly overpower their neighbours WITH THE HELP of the empires. It has always been that way.

[@therinwhitten]

I was deployed to Iraq for a total of three years and I did spend a ton of time chatting with locals. This was by far the best summary of the instability in the region and why. Thank you for this information. 💜

[@garyshan7239]

boil it down modern arab nations have bad borders and those nations operate on a tribal basis usually with one or an alliance of them running the nation which means the tribes not in power are mistreated by those in power-stop imposing a rule of law by an outside power they implode esp when the nation has oil wealth to battle over

[@alphanightfury1416]

Thank you for supporting genocides❤❤

[@Uneldo7]

Dang do you feel it was worth your time?

[@therinwhitten]

Yes. I don't regret spending time over there. @@Uneldo7 People are people, regardless of the country or culture. I can't explain it very well here. But the kids were happy, and the families worked hard to provide for their communities. But you could tell there was very deep-seated grudges across the country. Blood feuds. Lots of deep-seated anger as well. You could tell that atrocities were committed on both sides (Shia and Sunni) and the Kurds not even having a country to call their own. I don't agree with their views. But... I can't judge them. They are dealing with the hands they are dealt. I see deep seated blood feuds across Palestine and Israel. And it was further complicated by borders put down that made no sense. The women and children suffer, and the men think they are in the right. Wrong is wrong, and the people that commit the crimes should pay for them. That goes without being said. A bit of understanding could improve things though.

[@POPS417]

You ignore Islam. Islam is the reason, all others are empty rationalizations

[@omar_the_idiot]

I live in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and our lives here is just… normal, no wars.

[@somedaywellknow1811]

Because islam is not compatible with democracy.Saudi has its powerful monarchy that controls its citizens .

[@kawtarhadi7359]

Can I ask

[@constanzab.centurioncolman1532]

As someone from South American, specifically from Paraguay. It's amazing how ignorant we are related to Middle East and islamic story. In schools youngsters learn about american history, the history of our country ( from the prehistory to the last dictatorship era "1989") and some of european history. So after this extensive introduction, all I wanted to say it's thanks to this video I have learnt more from this region's history than in my entire school years. 😮

[@murtadhaalkenani3876]

So sad to hear that , middle east has rich history with sad parts like siege of baghdad all the way to happy parts like the golden age of babylon , persia and Abbasids and if you love religion then all three Abrahamic religions originated there.

[@omerfaruka136]

İslam'ı araştırmanızı tavsiye ediyorum, herşey rayına oturacaktır.

[@meralEdwtDawlatly]

In American schools They only learn french and UK and US history together that's the only European parts even though they don't tell them the fact that indian Americans and African Americans are the only natives Americans and the others where just English Scottish Irish Australian and Dutch and french coumminty who came to the US land And they learn the Soviet union Russian history which is not Europe

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@meralEdwtDawlatly Uh, African Americans are in no way shape or form "native" to what can be considered the US. Indigenous people were, but they were not the founders of the US either, but were prior owners before being conquered by US settlers.

[@stephenjenkins7971]

@@alejandroldavidlagos Try reading my comment again.

[@Erfanh1995]

I would argue that the partitions were not even based on the Ottoman provinces. Even if you look at the map you see they are not. France and the UK negotiated and picked a border between each other. From there, Britain basically took the region with oil for themselves and said the rest would become autonomous (because they were mostly deserts to them anyway). France took all the important cities in its region and left the rest to become autonomous.

[@OshinAttari]

O

[@RestitutorEuropa]

Mmmmm dessert

[@dunnowhattoputhere7742]

Didn't he say that oil wasn't discovered until after the division?

[@Erfanh1995]

@@dunnowhattoputhere7742 this happened after WW1 and oil was discovered and used at that point. I am not claiming that oil was found in current day Iraq and Kuwait at that point but it was discovered in that region (persian gulf) so obviously there was a high chance of finding oil in the surrounding areas.

[@derrickthewhite1]

Honestly the "Random Lines in the Sand" argument always looks weird when applied to this area, and especially in this video. The various lines things are supposed to be based on and the lines themselves don't match. There are places in Africa where the problem is much much worse, and the original plan even had a Kurdish state in it.

[@desmond-hawkins]

People in the West aren't usually very familiar with the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, but I remember being shocked at hearing it mentioned by some ISIS fighters during their period of territorial conquest (c. 2014). A bunch of them had just crossed from Iraq into Syria and one of them said something like "F- the Sykes-Picot Agreement, this is just a line they drew in the sand". The West might not remember, but for some in the region the resentment is so deep that even 100+ years later these arbitrary choices still have major consequences. *edit:* I found it! It's from Ben Anderson for VICE News, titled "Bulldozing the Border Between Iraq and Syria" and posted on August 13, 2014. Two mentions start at 2:50 in that video: "We don't believe in the Sykes-Picot agreement" and "We've broken Sykes-Picot" as they bulldoze the border (not _exactly_ what I remembered, but same idea).

[@syd5604]

the craziest part about isis is, their leader was kicked out of al qaeda for being too barbaric. i think it’s important to learn about how the boarders were drawn because a lot of it was just stupid. a lot of people in that area are still in their own tribes rather than being under a national identity. i think there are tribes in the hindu kush between afganistan and pakistan, they dont recognize themselves as being afgani or pakistani, they’re just part of their tribe. that’s just one i know of but that’s how it is for a lot of groups of people. there are tribes like that in the amazon too.

[@llllll8144]

I hope you don't think the British drew the borders by accident? Wherever an Englishman touches, expect trouble! Peace will not come until the Anglo-Saxons are expelled from Eurasia.I hope you don't think the British drew the borders by accident? Wherever an Englishman touches, expect trouble! Peace will not come until the Anglo-Saxons are expelled from Eurasia.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

No you see that is what you call a scape goat. Some radicals called ISIS who killed mostly fellow Muslims used that as an excuse for their slaughter. Men who flat out stated they goals were to kill every non Muslim, and rule the world no less. No, the Middle East, Africa, and other countries are using history as an excuse for their own behavior. Why is the Falklands better off than Argentina? Why are so many ex colonies sometimes worse? People need to take responsibility for what they do TODAY, and work for a better tomorrow. Yet they don't... They steal, rape, and kill each other. Look at Africa now? Many Muslims are killing non Muslims or were. Some cultures are just worse off. Anyone who thinks the Ottoman Empire was somehow peaceful is insane too. They slaughtered and converted everything that didn't fight back. Some cultures are just more violent. What is even extra silly about the Middle East is that they should be the happiest, and richest mofos in the planet due to wealth from fossil fuels.

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

ISIS was a USA and Israel group dress in black ​@@syd5604

[@KrGsMrNKusinagi0]

This region has been at war since modern humanity existed LMAO to say its new is EFFING hillarious

[@XYZ_Vu]

Having followed the Middle East as an amateur geopolitician for over 4 decades, this is a great wrapup of exactly what has gone on there and what has led to the current conflicts today. I’m also in agreement with you, that this will be a forever war region. There will always be conflict here.

[@WTH1812]

One point about the Sykes and Pico borders. They used the same reasoning of the Ottoman Empire. A region in conflict with itself can never be at war with the overlords.

[@splintercell5551]

Divide and conquer

[@DegnaDings]

@@splintercell5551 damn 25 seconds ago

[@barittos5585]

fkt bring back the caliphate

[@cqpp]

​@@barittos5585 that would stabilise the region, outside powers can't have that.

[@mathnerd97]

Where do you find out about that? It's presented here as "they just plagiarized the Ottomans", but I'm willing to consider that it might be a fair bit more complicated.

[@daviddavid5880]

Oof. Mideast politics and history makes my head swim. I've taken a few good runs at it too. There's just SO much to keep track of. The backstories of the backstories have disputed backstories. Every twist another rabbit hole. Thanks for a great video. This was really concise.

[@heichiro091]

ffdlll

[@vffa]

Precisely. And I bet more than 80% of the people there who fuel the conflicts and wars, have as much if not less of an understanding of the whole thing, as you do. Tale as old as time, people fighting conflicts they neither fully understand nor fully support. Yet they die for it.

[@soundscape26]

@@IraqieGirl541 Then again you probably know most of it.

[@azaz20244]

@@vffa it also doesnt help that a bunch of people are unemployed and have never known a stable and predictable life. people who have more to lose usually dont make rash decisions and throw their life away

[@ShahWirana-bq9hv]

It is sad and bleak when most of the commenters here only seem to talk of the past that they themselves never lived in...but never would they talk about making the future better for everyone including themselves....

[@MilesKiyaAnny]

Because past make them what they are today. There will never be peace when their history were taken by violet

[@mrchiefbs]

The past shapes the future. It's so idealist to say "lets move on"... No one actually thinks like this.

[@Thurayaz]

As a middle eastern, i appreciate informative videos like this that have no bias. The rest of the world views us in a hostile way and what they teach us where i live is always the glorified and sugarcoated part of history (aka lies) so objective telling of events is always helpful and appreciated.

[@rbanerjee605]

oh, so what kind of history do you learn? I honestly think its pretty much the same everywhere, even in places like the USA, the UK, Japan, and Russia

[@avoxxtea]

As an American, I got no problem with you folks. I am pissed that we went to war for 20yrs there didn't do much but hurt you guys then Biden pulled all our troops out just like that... what was it all for?

[@Thurayaz]

@@rbanerjee605 well i’m omani so they teach us that the omanis went to zanzibar and they spread islam there which made it a better place and that we helped their economy and so on. But they fail to mention that they also took their homes and enslaved them

[@sair9850]

@@Thurayaz not like the british do that to us

[@krisnir1031]

OMG EXACTLYYY!

[@alirezaeftekhary9980]

as an Iranian we tell these stories about our current state constantly, and I'm so sick of it if after centuries we can't get our shit together and we are still struggling its on us, not on Brits or anyone else great video btw but we really need to take some responsibility for our current state

[@dustybrave2540]

I think that's why the west has such a negative opinion of the governments of that area. Yes the brits f*cked you guys up, they f*cked most the world up. But countries such as Canada, NZ, and Australia are slowly starting to work the marginalized Native populations to try and find them more representing. Whilst the middle east seems happy to just shoot instead of talk. Still that being said sorry your in this situation and I hope you and your family stay safe.

[@Mcbignuts]

What about the sanctions placed on Iran by the west on behalf of israel? Accountability is a good trait, but don't own up stuff that was done to u

[@alirezaeftekhary9980]

@@Mcbignuts yes the sanctions are terribl, but in our schools, in our rallies, every year we shout out death to usa death to isreal and death to any other country that we dont like and our leaders would make speechs about how we like to completely destroy those countries and wipe them off the map not that i like usa or isreal but when you publicly announce you want death to a whole nation i expect nothing less than hostility from them the problem with sanctions are that they are hurting normal people much more than hurting those in charge

[@MetalGear1]

@@Mcbignutswhat about Iran’s terror proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and all over the Middle East? What about Iran’s funding of Hizbollah, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad. Iran has been contributing to the destabilization of the middle east for many years. It’s a shock to me that sanctions is the only measure being exacted against them.

[@yarsaz4347]

@@MetalGear1 What's your definition of a "terror proxy"? Iran funds the legitimate Syrian government, it's the Saudis and even the US who funded Islamist terror groups against the government. Also you mention Hizbollah as if they weren't the ones who helped end the Israeli occupation of Lebanese territory.

[@anilalaf]

This video is a ray of light in a dark, confusing world. Thanks for laying out the occurrences and drawing connections objectively. You did a great job with this!

[@RIZFERD]

As I always state: Anything called religion is superficial including abrahamic judaism/christianity/islam full of scam. Nothing surprising whole Europe, USA, Western world, Middle East and surrounding were and will always be forever real third world, the poorest nature in the world. Real Rich will never colonize other. Thus not a complete multiracial not multilingual never been living around the world all alone since childhood are just the same never evolved dumb apes stuck inside your tiny boxes your entire life and not learning from the past to evolve better. Indonesia was not, is not and will never be Islamic country. World map is inaccurate since Mercator projection 1569. In reality Indonesia is huge as Russia including our ocean and even much richer than the rest of the world. Even much bigger before West and Middle East came took our former Australia, Singapore, Malaysia+Brunei, South Thailand, The Philippines, Vietnam even Madagascar Africa. Actually countries in Europe are just regencies and provinces in Indonesia. And they're so amateurs because they're just very basic animals. Egypt isn't the oldest, even Egypt is very poor, very dry, far off the center of the Equator line. Most highest humidity on Earth: Indonesia, meaning many much older artifacts has decayed much faster than just few thousands years Egypt. And Judaism/Christianity/Islam are just the same dumb. Even most of people know nothing about much older ancient modern civilization here in Indonesia before mega eruption of Toba supervolcano of Sumatra 75,000 years ago. Including 25,000 years old Gunung Padang pyramid in Indonesia. Hindu isn't from India either. Original Hindu is Indonesia not in India. Hindu in India and in Bali are totally different Indus, Indo, Hindia, Hindu = Indus Islands = Indo Nesos = Indonesia. The same with Astrology came from Indonesia not by the Greeks, Egyptians nor Aramaic/Arabs/Jews. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just frauds branches of modified Hinduism in India. Real Hindu came from Indonesia not India. Hindu, Hindia, Indus, Indo, etc = Indo Nesos, Indus islands, Indonesia over 17000 islands, exactly on the center of the equator line, the center of all civilization, all Indo around the world came from here especially because of eruption of Toba supervolcano Sumatra 75000 years ago bigger than Yellowstone USA, resulted today world's largest volcanic lake Toba Sumatra. Yet, world map is wrong since Mercator projection 1569, real Indonesia is Huge as Russia and even much richer than the rest of the world. Dutch VOC was much richer than any present day world's richest company. Whole Europe, USA, etc western world in general were built with Indonesia's limitless wealth. Coffee is native in Indonesia not brought by the Dutch. Too many lies they wrote about Indonesia even at formal school books! The fact is whole Europe, USA, western world in general has been built with Indonesia's limitless wealth for centuries long but mentally and intellectually they hasn't changed a bit. But inner the same mediaeval.

[@bertnl530]

At 15:56 You seem to forget that Transjordania also was part of the partitionplan . As a matter of fact Transjordania made up roundabout 75% of the land in the partition plan.

[@iminavegetativestatestudio1730]

It wasnt part of the 1947 partition plan.

[@TazzsFavouriteHoomanTam]

I think I learned more in this 30+ mins than 5 years of polotical science. Respect to you for encompassing all the conflicts & battles from the past to modern era in a single video.

[@skippedbail]

same, but he got one thing wrong. When he highlights the Muslim world in yellow at 34:07 he includes India which isn't remotely muslim.

[@pablomelana-dayton9221]

@@skippedbail14% of India is Muslim

[@aaaa-cc9jk]

​@@skippedbail And many other lands and countries, like Ethiopia which is Christian majority, the map is not based on Muslim majority lands or countries, but the lands that these jihadist and extremist Muslims believe are the rightful and historical lands of Muslims, which is basically almost any lands and countris that was under rule of Muslims at some point in history.

[@MasterGamer6000]

@@skippedbail There are plenty of Muslims there, around 200 million (Even though the majority are Hindus). And I think he was just highlighting the population of Muslims around the world, otherwise he wouldn't have included the Uyghurs of China.

[@ibrahimmahadfarah7510]

Same

[@MediumDSpeaks]

People who didn't watch the video or read the title will claim he "predicted" the war in Israel 3 months early, when he explains how its been non-stop war for like 5000 years there in this very video

[@Moody.Smiruai]

He didn't predict it true , not when the specific "war" happening right now has been happening for decades. Also war is generous if you factually talk about what's going on. Mass extinction of a countrys people is more accurate.

[@MediumDSpeaks]

@@Moody.Smiruai I. Don't. Actually. Care.

[@darthcalanil5333]

Being a Syrian myself, there's a major factor (probably the most important) that is quickly glossed over. And that is just the culture itself. People of different sects or religions or even ethnicities ending up in one country is hardly what breaks the camel's back. After all, most countries have such if not bigger population differences. The culture has been dominated by a rigid Islamic hierarchy for a 1000 years. This meant that there are no traditions of social cohesion or nationhood, let alone democracy or even equality before the law or unbiased objective rights. The only country with a strong sense of nationhood is Egypt because of their long history, but especially in the 19th century with Muhammad Ali Pasha modernisation Egypt and pulling its identity away from the Ottomans. If Sykes and Pico never happened but instead the Ottomans just disappeared, I guarantee you that the region will still find ways to start conflicts with itself. That's basically the history of the past 1000 years when no overarching empire is controlling the whole region.

[@mario-obeid]

Hey mate as a fellow person with Syrian origin I personally find it infuriating how he always shows the golan heights as part of Israel. I’m just wondering how you’re feeling

[@darthcalanil5333]

@@mario-obeid Honestly, couldn't care less. Israel has been occupying the Golan for 60 years now. There were times in the mid-2000s where some degree of border crossing was allowed from the Golan, and a lot of their apples and fruits were imported. However the people there weren't really big on going back to Syria. The main job of any government is to allow its people to live the best lives they can. This usually involves reducing conflicts to a bare minimum. Clearly Syria missed the memo on that.

[@mario-obeid]

@@darthcalanil5333 how did Syria not get the memo? I mean Syria was “relatively peaceful”and stable before the war and the war was and is still being prolonged by outside forces even now the west still tries to prolong the war with sanctions and Americans will keep doing that it’s sad. I mean Syrians have very little access to anything nowadays and how can you blame that on the government I mean no mater on what side you are on the government won and it’s time to rebuild that’s the “natural order” of things no one wants to fight anymore but the us and it’s allies are in control of most of the Syrian oil and imposing crippling sanctions

[@amsakkejha3827]

@@darthcalanil5333 What a load of made up bullshit. Think maybe your white masters who you're pandering to like you a bit more now? نحن ابرياء منك

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

Culture and religion are ethnicity. The definition of ethnicity is "shared cultural background." Ethnicity is the clothes you grew up wearing, the sports you played, the books you read, what days of the week you had off, what language you spoke, etc.

[@machyrij1190]

I love how oman just chills in the corner being neutral

[@Pwn3dbyth3n00b]

European colonialism, Soviet meddling, American meddling, Russian meddling, Islamists and Oil.

[@MyRegularNameWasTaken]

And religious intolerance.

[@spartacus551]

How did North Africa and the Levant become Arab and Turkey Turkish? Spoiler alert: Settler colonialism and forced assimilation!

[@shawnfoogle920]

or just their culture and religion lol

[@tomlewis7898]

People often like to blame outside influences exclusively but don't forget important factors like the Sunni/Shia split and so on

[@sebastianliebmann6014]

Zionists

[@intmshintwintbtfkr9040]

Bro i am in syria and thank you for telling me that wars wont stop , really made my day

[@Harrison13300]

Sorry man but they might not, you can't escape that 😕 hope you're all ok and safe tho

[@cryptosamet3536]

where ? Damascus?

[@jhonklan3794]

You guys need to become civilized.

[@ChinnuWoW]

At least it's kind of fun. Think of it as playing Call of Duty in real life! :)

[@zingu1911]

@@ChinnuWoWthats wild

[@bomdiacolega3081]

Just pointing out that the majority of the territory of the ottoman empire was composed by mixed ethnicities and religions even within the cities itself, making impossible to divide 100% of this land in any kind of boundaries that compose of an homogeneous country for each group. In any point in history, once the nationalism reached this area, this conflicts would emerge anyway regardless of what would be done and massive rearrangement of populations would happen the same way.

[@darkhorse381]

That's why ethnostates and theocracies are generally bad ideas that inherently oppress minorities within them. Honestly I like the idea of a secular, democratic Arab super state. It makes it less likely that Western powers can easily bully the fragmented region and take oil when they want. It also threatens Israel as a a British/American colony and military base in the region. Which is why the West would never allow it to happen

[@sor3999]

Thank you! Almost felt alone in realizing he's casually advocating for ethnostates as a solution which would be impossible anyway since all the groups dot the land. The whole video is bunk since it's his entire argument lol.

[@alvinamontoya4337]

Thanks!

[@masamune2984]

Crazy (but shockingly unsurprising) that this came out BEFORE the most recent massive ramp-up/conflict. Just proves how true it is.

[@oyyosef]

Extremely disturbed by the reality we’re facing today. My family are Jews who came from two corners of the Ottoman Empire, one Balkan and the other Syria and Iraq. The fall of the empire and rise of colonialism, nazism, zionism, and Arab nationalism made it pretty impossible for them to exist where they had for generations, whether they wanted to leave, were religious, weee nationalists, or Zionists. Here I am two generations later, I’ve lost family and friends to this endless conflict, I’m not religious but had to unlearn so much racism nationalism and hate mongering and understand that me and my families existence is at the whim of layers of interest local and foreign, who only care if we survive for demographic purposes and shame us for not fighting to the death to defend something that wasn’t our choice to create.

[@RandomStufLemGD]

I like how Oman, during all the conflicts around them, was (as far as I know) mostly neutral and peaceful as they just chilled in their corner of Arabia

[@abhattab]

Because the sultanate of Oman was independent at the time of the ottomans , significantly lost a lot of land but did not made a fuzz about it ( Zanzibar , UAE , Madagascar, Suqatra …. Etc ) but basically remained the same under the same rule .

[@sa-dr8xy]

they’re not neutral and peaceful. theres multiple evidence of them aiding and supporting terror ist organizations like houthis (they were caught smuggling weapons from their border to yemen) and having a relationship with israel. they’re just secretive and discrete about it

[@نظرياتديجيمونية]

They have their own sect of Islam which is Ibadism.

[@G.G.276]

Ecclesiastes 8:9. All This Waring Over GOD’S Planet!

[@DeeS-nl9yr]

Very good presentation and history of the geo politics of the area. Thank you !

[@invin7215]

The more of these I watch, the more I realize there's a constant game for control going on, everywhere, all the time.

[@williamduke1756]

Same is true in most of Africa. A lot of people keep asking why Africa is still so unstable despite most of the countries being independent for many decades now. Well, this video explains it quite well. Most African nations are completely arbitrary and direct results of colonial partitioning with incredible conflict potential in terms of resource and ethnic distribution.

[@JcLazy1]

Europeans don't want to own up to that. They want to make it seem like Sub-Saharan Africa is incompetent.

[@nicolasleroux5302]

It frustrates me how so many people blame Europeans for creating ethnically/religiously diverse states in the Middle East and Africa while simultaneously arguing that European countries should embrace ethnic and religious diversity in their own countries.

[@JcLazy1]

@nicolasleroux5302 I personally don't think that. I think France should leave west Africa alone and kick out those illegal immigrants in their country and also remove those blecks from their world cup team. 😁

[@ef2718]

@@nicolasleroux5302 as if with other borders peace is guaranteed.

[@Amaling]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@nicolasleroux5302hey’re entirely different situations. One is a diverse set of countries because the current borders make no fucking sense and toss various native groups and ethnicities together based on how European colonizers wanted to sort out resources they extracted ie Zambia cobalt Ivory Coast chocolate. Western European countries generally have borders which make sense. Some regions close to borders like that if France and Germany have had push and pull over time and have a mix of speakers of both languages on them. Spain has the overwhelming majority of Europe’s Spanish people, same for Netherlands and Dutch, Portugal and Portuguese, Romania and Romanians, Norway and Norwegian, you get the idea. There are some mixed language countries like Belgium and Switzerland, but in many ways they have a history of being some sort of negotiator state (Swiss banks, Belgium EU facilities), so it works out. The instances of major conflict from ethnic/oppressed minorities in these areas like Irelands and Catalonia you could count on one hand and in present time they’re doing quite well for themselves. Nobody is forcing these countries to accept immigrants, they do it themselves. Skilled workers from around the world bring in good experience and taxpaying income, bring new perspectives language culture foods etc, and help to soften the blow of native population decline. Those that don’t want as many immigrants (don’t get it twisted every wealthy country in the world brings in some amount of immigrants) simply don’t have as many like Norway. But once the immigrant are in the country what the hell are you gonna do, totally ignore the culture they bring in by putting them in ethnic minority zones or forcefully assimilating them or both? That’s how you get conflict and issues, like Sweden. Countries around the world that do immigration well integrate the population and cultures like Canada Furthermore, you shouldn’t be assuming the people upset about African borders are the same people who encourage more diversity in x European country as an outsider. And to say it’s some unquantifiable “many people”, relax

[@weirdaliennn]

Who knew dinosaurs dying in that parts of the world millions of years ago would create this monumental instability in this region

[@YoutubeEducated]

Sykes & Picot have a lot to answer in the afterlife 😅

[@ambition112]

0:19: ⚔ The modern Middle East is a geopolitically complicated chessboard, with conflicts and wars spanning over a century. 5:36: 🌍 The aftermath of World War One led to the redrawing of borders in the Middle East, creating lasting conflicts and problems that persist to this day. 11:23: 🌍 The Middle East's complicated history of borders, ethnic and religious divisions, and oil discoveries has led to continuous conflicts and foreign influences. 17:30: 🌍 The history of the Middle East from 1948 to 1970, including the creation of Israel, rise of Arab nationalism, and involvement of external powers. 23:37: 🌍 The Middle East experienced significant political and territorial changes in the late 20th century. 29:36: 🌍 The video discusses the historical background of the Middle East and the challenges to the Sykes-Picot agreement. 35:30: 📚 Nebula offers exclusive full-length real-life lore videos and other content from various creators at a discounted price. Recap by Tammy AI

[@DrCruel]

The lasting conflicts are caused by the socialists. Arguments that the present borders are somehow "wrong" and that the socialists ought to redraw them through violence is a common Left fascist refrain.

[@AbdullahHashi-kw3qj]

Now I know where to stop the video 😊 Thnx

[@ladydi7195]

👍

[@MrReese]

It's very interesting that the US (or English speaking countries) call that region Middle East, in German language it is seen as Near East, the Middle East is seen as the region between Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

[@yjlom]

weird, in French the Near East is only those countries on the Mediterranean coast + Jordan, with the Middle East extending from Irak to Pakistan do we all have a different idea of how it works?

[@hmu05366]

I honestly don’t think it’s very interesting at all… it’s just what the brits called it

[@MrReese]

@@yjlom I think when you just look at the Eastern world in general, which is quite agreed upon that it includes Asia and Oceania, and then dividing it into three parts (i.e. near, middle, far) then it makes sense that Eastern Asia is the "far" part, Western Asia is the "near" part and the middle is the middle part.

[@johnhblaubachea5156]

We used to call it tje Near East before the 1970's. Not sure why, common usage changed to a geographically incorrect name.

[@mariotheundying]

​​@@johnhblaubachea5156 how incorrect is it tho? It's in the middle of the east, and connects the old world (Africa, Europe and Asia) also in Spanish we call it the "Medio Oriente" Medio being middle and Oriente being another world for east so if it changed in English cuz of USA then it was because of Hispanic influence prob

[@micz322]

Omg the quality is soooo good

[@cosmo-q4596]

I am from Oman , there is no war here :) at least for 50 years now. They call us the Switzerland of the Middle East.. maybe because we act as mediators between the Arab countries/ US / Iran... " neutrality" is one word to describe the foreign policy of Oman.

[@Proud_Hadrami]

تحية لعمان من اليمن 🇾🇪❤🇴🇲

[@ernestsdzelzitis7567]

what?

[@jaimemint405]

dont tell anybody, love oman because of their low profile.

[@IdentifiantE.S]

Neutrality is the best position during wars

[@ariamehr3339]

remember 3 weeks ago? your pathetic sultan came to Iran and became Khameneii's personal lap dog? you chose side, to be with Terrorist Ayatollahs and be against Iranian people

[@shortshady12]

Are you crazy? How were you able to fit such an informative mini-doc into a sub-40 minute video whilst presenting it in a refreshingly unbiased light? Let this man cook! Netflix sign him!

[@veemon9280]

Who else is here after the news about Israel vs Hamas ?

[@GhaynY]

Me 🇪🇬❤️🇵🇸

[@ChaosEater39]

me, israel wins!

[@GhaynY]

@@ChaosEater39 600 killed 2000 wounded Israel A state based on occupation

[@ChaosEater39]

@@GhaynY are you actually joking or are you dumb? the amount of death does not change that israel is winning, israel was surprised for longer than it should but that does not change anything

[@dany-tj]

@@ChaosEater39 Can you tell me where the country called Israel came from?

[@sambouza]

As a person being born in the middle east, most of the stuff here is actually what they teach us in school! I recognized many words but I had to translate them to Arabic. And I couldn't agree more about the breathtakingly rich political and religious diversity we have here. Turns out if you get colonized a couple of times and spend more than a millinneum of having small groups of different cultures ignoring the existence of others you get the Middle East! The best example I can give is that our main language and religion, being Arabic and Islam respectively, is like a bunch of languages and religions wearing a trench coat. (so basically dialects and sects) Personally I couldn't be more thankful of having to live here; really teaches you a lot.

[@nserekoraymond8593]

Middle East has a lot of history. Respect to you for summarising it in just 30 minutes

[@allred6505]

People forget that Europe was in a ‘forever war’ over its borders and imperial legacy until the EU made conflict between constituent nations obsolete. If the Middle East wants peace, it will need internal cooperation after war kills enough to make it seem like a necessity rather than a convenience

[@Telopead]

Don’t be naive. Unlike Europe, Middle East is a chessboard for people within AND without. Internal or external consensus alone means nothing if the real players won’t stop. Eastern Europe, or specifically Ukraine is an recent example. It’s NOT just about Ukraine and Russia, and what they think. Sometimes the real games is not played on the chessboard you think. And the next is going to be China. If the communist gov collapses, it’s gonna be Middle East all over again. It’s geopolitics. Nothing is easy.

[@allred6505]

@@Telopead I’m not trying to say it’s easy or simple. For europe it took two world wars and a holocaust- and there’s nothing simple or settled about the EU. Eastern Europe in the early 1900s was just as much of an ethnic checkerboard as the Middle East is today. You’re correct that peace in Europe hasn’t really been reached but war in Europe is now an exception instead of the rule.

[@KJ-yises]

Middle East is still 200 years behind when it comes to war.

[@vanman266]

It's the people, not the borders to blame.

[@allred6505]

@@vanman266 I agree and disagree with that statement. Of course borders never killed anyone but its people usually kill because they want different or new national borders. Better people might not fight but better borders (or lack thereof) might give its current people less to fight about.

[@Ganja1974]

Incredible how you described the complexity of the region. Thank you!

[@theoriginaltroll388]

And it is 1,000,000x more complex....it goes down to the tribal level and this video only explains the regions

[@edus.8987]

@@theoriginaltroll388 how can i learn more about it?

[@albrigo]

Great geopolitical lesson explaind with very convincing graphical style and coherence: this explains the 3.9 million views to date!

[@Maliceless100]

One of the most effective and important videos I've seen on KZbin; it imparts so much knowledge of a vast (geopolitical) scape with no bias.

[@micz322]

Agreed entirely

[@davianoinglesias5030]

Lessons from this video: 1. Old maps cause wars, do not open them 2. When two brothers fight a foreigner inherits their father's land 3. Sudden change of boundaries causes wars. 4. Be tolerant of other people, it's the only way you can live in peace 5. If you have to teach history or geopolitics ALWAYS HAVE A MAP. A single map is worth a thousand maps.

[@UnknownZax9oiooa8]

1) the calculations are not correct for Jews rule and inhabitance of the land according to biblical sources Judges(rulers of Jews) ruled Israel for 400 years before the first King of Jews - Saul ruled 40 years that is 900 BC then - you should straight away add 400 years to JEWS( because now Jerusalem is part of ISRAEL - PALASTINE kingdome has more countries including ISREAL) 2) Christians always claim that Jerusalem and ISRAEL belong JEWS - that includes 500 years of Christian rule to JEWS, Christian Bible, says Abrahama is father of Christians. The Bible says to bless Jerusalem. now you need to add total 1000+ years to JEWS. == total 2200 years for JEWS. 3) What is the need for Muhamad to claim Jerusalem in his Quran? it belongs to JEWS 1500+ years already; in Quran Muhamad repeatedly told Allah gave the Torah to JEWS, Muhammad tried to take the essence of JEWS history to ISLAM, and Muhammad repeatedly included Jesus as a Muslim sent by Allah - this is PURE evil starts from here. So I condemn this stealing - Jewish's legacy and their land and their consecrated places; Muhammad tried to steal - Jesus Christ and his legacy by making him as A-ll-ah's messenger; M-u-ha-mad is the trouble maker, the whole violence in the world - the father fo J1HAD1S; just get ridd of his book, peace will com

[@brendonburgess9721]

@@UnknownZax9oiooa8Jerusalem is clearly the world centre of the three major religions. All three tell a similar story. Can't be a coincidence. I see it as three different promoters for the same idea, operating in three different ways.

[@sullyvstheworld]

Being Kuwaiti myself, you don’t know how happy I am to have my country, history, culture, and general region explained so beautifully and in depth, I’d like to think I have a good grasp of the history of my area, but I realize there’s so many details from differing viewpoints that change the perception of things. Hopefully we can all learn from the past for a better future.

[@tughluq8324]

Kuwait and history? Lol😂

[@Altair-221]

لا احد يهتم فيك ياصديقي

[@AhmadMuath-xn2es]

​@@tughluq8324?

[@Dungeonus]

​@@tughluq8324this comment shows us why we can't have nice things. How could you possible say that after watching this vid. The entire region is thrown into chaos, human rights violations and numerous wars because of the colonial past & chauvinism as well as religious intolerance. Gosh.

[@canberk9972]

@@Dungeonus No the only thing quwait has is a king and his fellows draining all the resources. Nothing else, dont think that can be deemed as a nice thing. Really dont get how you can act like citizens have all the human rights and have a say in the nation.

[@MATADORDUBZ]

I need to just pause and say thank you. These conflicts have been so insane to try and piece together, and you do a wonderful job of re-contextualizing so many important facets of this global affair. Props to you man!

[@AnInterestedObserver]

Brilliant. Thank you for such a comprehensive and compelling to watch summation of very complex history

[@OrelBNW]

I really your content and this video. Thank you for that! However, it's a pity tho that you left the Mizrahi-Jews completely out of it when relevant. Especially at the 18th minute when saying: "At the same time, hundreds of thousands of additional Jews would migrate toward Israel, from the shattered communities left behind by the Nazis in Europe, further tilting Israel's demographics more in favor of Jews.". It should be: "At the same time, hundreds of thousands of additional Jews would migrate toward Israel, from the shattered communities left behind by the Nazis in Europe, and the Middle East and North Africa where they lived for more than 2,000 years, further tilting Israel's demographics more in favor of Jews.". In the context of the (rightfully criticized) occupation, alongside the recognition Israel is struggling for in the Middle East, it's important for people to know that we were in this region for years and we are also a part of it. The Europen Zionist movement already left us out. Recognizing us, 50% of the Jews in the region these days, is a crucial aspect in understanding our right to be a part of the MENA (and wish for a Middle Eastern Union, welcoming non-Muslim, non-Arab, and Jewish states - but that's for another time (; ). Please bear us, Middle-Eastern and North African Jews, in mind. Thank you for creating this content once again :) .

[@kenhart8771]

Lebanon (Beirut) was the pearl of the Middle East until extreme Islamic believers swarmed the little multicultural nation.

[@amodi-ld2nt]

Summary: Reason 1- USA. Reason 2- UK

[@aarontheamazing1985]

No it's everyone's fault america uk france and the middle easts fault too

[@mohammedhagag8841]

@aarontheamazing1985 Middle East?

[@aarontheamazing1985]

@@mohammedhagag8841 don't think that these countries are innocent. No country is

[@mohammedhagag8841]

@aarontheamazing1985 Egypt is a neutral country, only Arabs and Muslims want to expel the Americans from their land, and I am Egyptian. After America's intervention in the Middle East, there has always been a war, especially the presence of Israel. After the invasion of Iraq, the Gulf War, the war with Israel, the destruction of Libya, and the emergence of ISIS, I do not deny that our governments are dictatorial, but they are not as bad as America.

[@zorro5235]

Yea cool how you ignored the freaking US INVASION of Iraq in 2003 and skipping right to Isis. But beside that, enjoyed the video

[@jameswalker366]

Good point

[@visualbliss9993]

Oh yeah kinda forgot about this

[@oiyile1971]

And not mentioning the creation of terrorist organisations from supplying and training fighters during proxy wars.

[@nieno9760]

It also completely glossed over how the Shah of Iran was installed after a British/American-backed coup against a "democratically" elected Socialist and the entire shit show that went on in Afghanistan.

[@Tenjooo]

@@nieno9760afghanistan is in south asia

[@solomonlalani]

A great watch--even if you know history and geography well. 200 years of Middle Eastern history well summarized in 35 minutes

[@barrybrevik9178]

This video provides an accurate snd surprisingly unbiased summary of events that are germane to the borders, succession of regimes, wars, oil concerns, and geopolitical situations in the middle east. Every aspect of this region is as complex as a Rubic's Cube, and from my own experience, requires a great deal of research to understand. It is also noteworthy that the data was presented as a coherent series of steps. I watch all of the videos on this channel, and the videos are usually very good. However, I feel that this video rises above!

[@Heavy-Pyro]

Ok i think there is a little bias when talking about the partition plan of israel, the palistinian yes had only 32% of the land, but it was the most fertile, the most populated, the riches, at that point, and most of the land was in the desert.

[@barrybrevik9178]

​@Nathan-hw7fg I picked up on that as well, and thank you for writing back. Of course, you already know what follows, but I am going to type it out for other readers. In addition to what you said, the authors of the partition plan knew that there would be at least a million Holocaust survivors arriving in Israel within a year, severely altering the population ratio. IIRC, the land split was suggested to be close to 46% Arab/54% Jewish, with the Arabs getting the Galilee and much of the Coastal Plain, which was the vast majority of the arable land. There is a difference between land ownership and sovereignty. Any Arabs who *actually* owned land in what became Israel would still have owned that land, had they not immediately conducted an armed invasion of a recognized nation. As it is, most of the Arabs who could *produce documents* that proved ownership were compensated. However, the odd land ownership laws in Ottoman Palestine, which the British accepted as-is, were a major problem for most of the Arab fellahin, who were operating their farms on what was the equivalent of a lease. Pursuant to WW1, the actual land owners all of whom lived primarily in Syria and Lebanon, experienced difficulties in collecting their lease payments, so after 29 years (1947) of non-payment, it is understandable that the fellahin developed the idea that they actually owned the land. After that land was passed to their offspring, the idea that the land belonged to them. This also happened with buildings in the cities, and there were other complex arrangements that obfuscated the issue of who owned the land. I didn't call out this oversight in the video, because the issue is complex, and I didn't want to spend the time to write it out. Indeed, there is much more that I haven't covered here.

[@Heavy-Pyro]

@@barrybrevik9178 i did not know about some of this stuff, thank you

[@SiMeGamer]

Another small detail that I see so many history channels get wrong is using the word "Palestine" and "Palestinians" when these words did not exist until around the end of the 1950s (a day decade after Israel's declaration of independence). The area was always called Palestina and the people of the area were just called Arabs (since they didn't belong to any nation - they were simply part of empires or the British mandate). They were just locals with no proper name at the time. So technically the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began after the founding of Israel because Palestinians didn't exist prior. I find this detail important because it changes a huge perspective - the local people to the area were not part of a nation; they were just there. They had no say in any decision because they had no governance, meaning whatever the last governing body (Britain) had full authority to decide whatever the fk they wanted with no opposition, making the Jews of the area (that were also nationless) completely at the mercy of the British and their independence and founding of Israel, including the charted borders was not their fault; it was all Britain. Semantics in these kinds of discussions are extremely important because it changes the whole dynamic. If Palestinians exist, it means that moving them is basically an act of war by whoever takes their place, completely changing the narrative resulting in false propaganda for many decades to come. Notes: Europe and the US supported Israel's side of the conflict until 1967 (after the six day war) where suddenly Israel looked strong and this did not generate any sympathy anymore. In Christianity there is an idea of supporting the weak and culturally it still exists today for most ("the meek shall inherit the earth"). The media almost immediately shifted and ever since the world has been mostly anti-Israel in sentiment because it is strong and it goes against the weak (despite 100% of active events happening due to a trigger or proactivity against future conflict - finding weapon bunkers or past terrorists). It's clear whose side I'm on but I have a lot to say on the subject and many small details are the reason for this ideological conflict in the first place, not even mentioning the ethical debates surrounding the general cases of the conflict. I'm not a Zionist and I dislike Zionism and people who defend Israel on those grounds are doing it more harm than good imo. It's the ethical case of property rights where a generation gap between thief and owner needs to be reconciled in court with the new owner, the 3rd party. If I steal your wallet and sell it to a stranger, is that stranger now obligated to give you your wallet back despite being an honest procurer of the wallet? This is at the heart of why I dislike Zionist approach to Israel's justification as a nation because it treats the original owner of the wallet as the absolute owner regardless of how many hands pass it along and in what way. I think owning something 2,000 years ago by your great, great, great,...great grandparents as justification is absolutely absurd.

[@Persianversion]

From the word “Phillistim” which means “invader”. Originally applied to the arriving Jews, it was co-opted by Arafat to justify the first intifada.

[@adamkurdi4574]

As a Lebanese, i grew up studying our history and the way our region was formed. But you managed to explain it so well without bias to the point where this makes more sense than what I’ve studied for 6-7 years in school. Great work RLL!

[@playmaka2007]

This video should be included in high school history courses. These events have done more than almost anything else to shape our modern world.

[@theoriginaltroll388]

All this is in your history books and library but most people dont care so they gloss over it and you gotta actually look into it to learn

[@theoriginaltroll388]

@puckered6036 maybe yours was...Everything in this video I learned in high school reading books but not all schools are equal so your expirence might be different

[@dddz961]

please stop talking

[@osmanazabol6904]

In which country you were going to high school?

[@ChibiNyan]

*looks at tension between christians and muslims*. *looks at both WW* , *looks at the french revolution* , *looks at communism* , *looks at the industrial revolution* , *looks at the implementation of the scientific method* , *looks at the humanism movement* , etc ... yeah, more than anything else... not really.

[@jotek5138]

3:28 tiny mistake, Imperial Germany's eastern border covered greater part of Poland than shown. Whoever has read this comment I wish you good day

[@Julian-bg1lh]

strange to think about how big germany was once

[@friedbanana69]

Yeah they forgot to include Poznan area

[@amalgama2000]

The higher they get, the harder they fall. This applies to Germany post WW1/2

[@pimbu936]

This channel is a perfect balance between accessibility and intellectual rigor

[@bocci103]

best lesson : don't let british and french draw your borders

[@farahahmed100]

What I love is that Oman is permanently just minding it's own business 😂

[@ehabl8816]

Lol always has been

[@denniskavanaugh1689]

I am humbled by how complex this history is. Now I am quite hesitant to say anything about the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East. Rather I will pray more often.

[@Apike]

This is tragic. I genuinely hope they can find peace in the future

[@Amaling]

Lack of nefarious western interventionism would help

[@hooplah7612]

@@Amaling true

[@LastBrigadier]

love war.

[@osier769]

@@Amaling Would help, but as history of the region has shown, war and conflict will prevail, especially when there's groups internally trying to weaken their neighbours and conquer, both territorially and religiously, the entire region. It's just days of old in modern times.

[@Fem_V]

Won't happen any time soon. I've seen enough here to tell you, there are deep rooted issues that go so deep it would take total wipeout of all governmental bodies, tradition and religious ideologies to truly restart, in each of these elements there's always an abuser and a power seeker, its a non ending cycle. Maybe it'll heal in time, but i know it wont, propaganda spreads like fire in a dried wheat field here, people are far less educated on modern topics and foreign respect at minimum or the use of critical thinking, funny.. when we're known for our hospitability, not anymore. I'll just fuck off out of this wasteland eventually, it can burn down and i wouldn't care anymore, but not at a full loss, i still admire my Bedouin bloodline's ideologies of kindness and unity, that i will carry with me at least.

[@green3200]

17:15 you forgot to mention that nearly all the israeli lands were dry desserts

[@gabay123vip]

This could have been an excellent review. The problem is that you are totally ignoring the critical role played by the the soviet union in fueling literally all the conflicts in the middle east between 1952 and 1989.

[@Habib_Osman]

Russia has never been more important in terms of geopolitics than the USA. And adding to that, Russia is much less politically connected than the USA. USA has many rich allies that do not mind handing over sovereignty at all, slavishly voting along with their master no matter where said master wanders off too. If its a 10 year war fighting "sand-people", that's OK too. Russia is the opposite of all of that. It is deeply connected to its past and has but a few strong allies of which many decided to align themselves with the richer west. Understandable I guess. Money is simply more important than ideals.

[@wellplayed6061]

Even if the borders were perfect, the different groups would still attempt to conquer each other.

[@snuffeldjuret]

"historical claim" is a helluva drug :P.

[@MAFiA303]

As someone who lived and still lives in this region, this is nicely done. those war memories never left me. just now i head loud noise outside and my brain is ready to take cover in case it's a bomb. what a sad reality we live in

[@Kolektifcs]

Bro that's PTSD and if you are able, seek psychotherapy.

[@MAFiA303]

@@Kolektifcs i dont think it's that bad, normal life is harder XD

[@williamstonesmith7971]

The Angel told Hagar concerning her son-to-be; “he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren”. This implies that he will also fight against his brothers. It's not just the fault of the British -

[@RahimullahMassom]

Racist

[@hunter2442]

Excellent video, I can see that allot of research and effort was put in making it!! This should be played in all schools' history classes!

[@evangelofeghali77]

Can you please do a video next about the Lebanese civil war. It is by far one of the most complex wars fought in the areas with nearly every single factor mentioned in this video playing a role. Thank you keep it up

[@GemayelDaniel]

Try casual historian 3 hour long video. It is very good

[@sandoe41]

They have been fighting each other for long before the British made these borders, it just made more factions.

[@edzanjero353]

The speaker avoids controversy by not mentioning Izlam, the center and source of Mideast conflict.

[@philipp-q5f]

What about Zionism?

[@edzanjero353]

@@philipp-q5f ...apples and oranges. Israel exists to home the Jews, Izlam spreads by a religious mandate, a "manifest destiny."

[@The-Last-Ariya]

@@edzanjero353Islam has united countries and ethnic groups, cope and seethe Jew hope your still alive when the caliphate comes back

[@mirzahamzabaig5667]

@@edzanjero353 Didn't knew there was manifest destiny in Bangladesh, Central Asia, South Asia and South East Asia.. Do tell me more about this mandate.

[@y.l7455]

​@@The-Last-AriyaIslam "united" the ethnics that accepted Islam, those who didn't Islam oppressed. And even those ethnica that accepeted Islam still fought and fight against each other.

[@haidarkanaan756]

As a Syrian i confirm everything has been said in this video, it's very detailed , very accurate and direct to the point

[@arab_apocalypse]

Same as a Palestinian

[@Persianversion]

@@arab_apocalypsethere is no Palestine. Perhaps one day. That identity was artificially applied to the Arabs there so as to claim indigenous status.

[@arab_apocalypse]

@@Persianversion Then there is no America because it was an artificial identity from British people. Your logic here is weak, identity doesn't come from your ethnics, it comes from who you are. You could say South Sudan is an artificial identity by Sudanese people but their not. They are separate people with different beliefs and culture, they may speak the same language and look the same but they are different. South Sudan is a Christian country that wanted their own state to serve their religion while Sudan is a predominantly Muslim country. Lebanon is not an artificial identity, they may be Arabs but they have different beliefs and cultures. They are half Christian, not Muslim like all of them else. Palestine has separate culture from the other Arab countries, they have different influence and culture. Palestine has different history and religion, many Palestinians are Christians unlike other Arabic countries (They are still predominantly Muslim). Palestine also is a very old country that has many old cities such as, Jerusalem, Jericho, Bethlehem, Nablus, Hebron, etc. Palestinian people have a different dialect and way of life, they aren't an artificial identity like you claim.

[@Persianversion]

@@arab_apocalypse some of that is true and well put, but that does not legitimize their identity as a historically indigenous people. This identity is new and an argument for a state is strong, but their is no, nor has their ever been a “Palestine”. The Jews are indigenous and the Arabs choose war and still do. Israel is real and legitimate. War is no longer an option. The world hopes the “Palestinians” make better choices moving forward.

[@shwankoye1990]

Same as a Kurd.

[@Letsbegain]

Isn’t it fascinating how these ‘forever wars’ started after borders were sketched out by colonials with little regard for the region’s complex realities? The legacy of divide and conquer is alive and well.

[@Habib_Osman]

Conflict doesn't only come from colonial powers, ethnic/cultural/religious/historical ties etc. go back thousands of years, further than the bible itself for example (Much further in fact, seeing the bible itself is heavily plagiarised).

[@just-some-dude-on-the-internet]

Yep. Sometimes, I think that the British do this on purpose.

[@nieuwegeljo5645]

From the Netherlands: The basic reasons for the volatility of the region are its geography (e.g. mainly deserts), and lack of basic necessities like water and food. These factors were already causing conflict centuries ago as tribal groups had to fight for their survival. Furthermore, as a consequence of these factors their cultures and religions (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) became rather strict and exclusive, thereby adding another layer of conflict. As these tribes were forced into "countries" (e.g. fixed borders) it added only more reason for conflict.

[@KingsguardMedia]

You don't need to increase your voiceover speed to 1.1x in order to boost retention. Your research and geopolitical analysis is enough!

[@ethanseldiakov7551]

Im an Israeli citizen. The only thing i can say is that the tye politics of the intire middle east is SO complicated that even a lot of the people who live in the middle east for generations, don't know their own identity. Which sadly leads to nore conflicts and wars

[@mikah8998]

I know my identity, I'm Palestinian.

[@PlanB52]

​@@mikah8998 Palestine.. is that a country or a roman name for a small strip of land?

[@mikah8998]

@@PlanB52 I don't follow? What are you hinting at

[@Persianversion]

⁠@@mikah8998he is exposing the fallacy of your claimed ethnicity. Arabs in Israel are Arabs, period. I have been to bothe the West Bank and Gaza, there is no nation, just refugees being used as pawns against Israel. Why no “Palestinian” uprisings in Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan? They have been equally brutalized, without Israel’s stated and often justified position. Because outside of Israel, you do not exist as equals. Your people have been used by outside Arab powers to serve themselves, use you as a open wound to stoke resentment against Israel, and leave you for dead when they failed. Peace with Israel is your only hope. Your “brothers” will only abuse you and encourage death and destruction.

[@AbdulTheV1ogger]

imagine openly admitting to be citizen of the most racist and colonialist country lol

[@Magnus-Insomnium13]

I always get a chuckle out of the sykes-picot agreement. I always imagine the people who decided the borders deliberately designing them to keep them in perpetual conflict as a fail safe if they ever got kicked out. A if we can't have it no one can, it's so amusingly petty.

[@fratseker8158]

This video was just EXCELLENT. Summarizes everything to the point and makes you understand the big picture. I have been a long time sub and all your videos and my readings combined made more sense in the light ot this.

[@ScottHardy-mv4fr]

This was an eye-opener, especially the part about the Kurds. 40 million people with a language and culture going back thousands of years left stateless. Why do people think 6 million arabs who live in Palestine deserve their own country, but ignore 40 million Kurds?

[@ScottHardy-mv4fr]

Language is an important point. While it is not necessary to have your own language to be a nation, if you do have your own language it is a very strong justification for considering yourself a nation. Almost all Kurds speak one or more of the Kurdish dialects, which are not spoken by other people. About 10% speak another language, which is also only spoken by Kurds. Compare that to the Palestinians who speak arabic similar to that of Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese. Maybe you think Palestinians are justified in considering themselves a nation, but whatever metric you use, Kurds are more justified.@@Ghjkoplokkp

[@chy.0190]

The same people who don't want Palestinians to have their own state, are the same people who don't want Kurds to have their own state.

[@daredevilforlife]

@@chy.0190Nope. Turkey so wants Palestinians to have their own state that they are now explicitly pro Hamas. But Turkey really, really doesn’t want the Kurds to have their own state.

[@ghaiththabit5029]

if kurds wanted to have a state out side turkey then turks would be the first to support kurds@@daredevilforlife

[@markushans]

@@ghaiththabit5029turks have nothing to do with south east Anatolia. This is Kurdish region

[@amiraboodi2075]

Thank you very much. So informative and eye opening. 😊

[@Amadeus451]

This is low-key one of the best geopolitics channel on KZbin

[@ChinnuWoW]

More like high-key.

[@Amadeus451]

@@ChinnuWoW Oh definitely, channel has lots of subs; however, stuff like this isn't the "authoritative news source" (read: corporate news network with a bias I don't agree with) that KZbin patently signal boosts. If they left it to pure, unfettered meritocracy-- channels like this would blow the corporations out of the water.