Britain, France, and Israel’s War Collusion | The Suez Crisis | Prelude 2

Britain and France are becoming increasingly worried about the growing threat of Egypt to the Middle East and Africa - they are not alone - Israel is also worried. Israel's close proximity to Egypt makes them a valuable secret accomplice in finding justification for a war that will seek to remove Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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[@TimeGhost]

"And now for our second prologue episode on the Suez Crisis. This one is all about a conspiracy where three countries believe they can fool the US, USSR, and entire UN all at the same time. Hindsight is of course 20/20, but it really is astounding that Britain, France, and Israel thought they could start a war with another member of the UN with a completedly engineered casus belli. This isn't the first or last time something like this has happened in the history of international relations. Still, the pure audacity of Britain and France in their plans here really does seem quite unique. Can you guys think of any other examples of this kind of thing? " Cheers, Francis. Before you comment, read our rules: community.timeghost.tv/t/rules-of-conduct/4518s

[@cuzimmoody6470]

thats how the "west" brings democracy to the world i guess. through lying and manipulating

[@arispanagiotopoulos2533]

Nothing so unique about this, so many wars and military operations have happened before and after the Suez issue on fake pretexts, the second Iraq war is a great example which involved not three nations but many more plus the UN giving its blessing and left Iraq in a dire destabilized state from which it has yet to recover! The French direct military involvement and in this case without even a pretext or France having any reason to do so, in Libya supporting rebels against Gaddafi with the US, UN and the rest of Europe’s direct or indirect approval which led to civil war and has left the country in tatters. The US and Britain’s direct involvement in the civil war in Yugoslavia which was an internal affair they had no real reason to interfere and led to the dissolution of the country, destruction and creation of some unstable states with serious ethnic issues. So many examples sadly!

[@TimeGhost]

Aris Panagiotopoulos what’s unique about it is not the fact that it happened per se. But the level of collusion, the complexity of the plan, and the fact that two major powers went against other major powers who were their allies to orchestrate a war against a country that was also an ally to one of the colluding powers. False flag, or provocative actions are usually far simpler and much less collaborative.

[@fredaaron762]

From the other side, Hungary in '56, Prague in '68, Afghanistan in '79, Vietnam in '79....

[@arispanagiotopoulos2533]

TimeGhost History Well, Egypt first and foremost although an “ally” conspired against its “alllies” and grabbed the Suez canal without informing anyone of course and Nasser steadfastly refused to negotiate any alternative solution as you pointed out in the video. So nothing necessarily bad about the behavior of the three “conspirators”. Egypt conspired in the first place. You almost make the three looking bad and Egypt the good poor guy who was innocently attacked which is far from the case.

[@fredaaron762]

I bet Nasser, Ike and Nikita were shocked that three countries that couldn't agree on a menu for lunch would be able to get together on a pretextual "casus belli" invasion.

[@Alonkis251]

This taken form British - France prespective, form Israel prespective close Suez Canal and Tiran Straits is real thret. Isreal is an Island contry, beacuse her war with her Aarb neighbors, no to mention we didn't in love in europe either, Soviet bloc close his ties with Israel, France, also later as de Gaullel rise, thier realtioship detetriote and USA preferd British connection in the Middle East over Israel, until the "war of Six days" in 1967. at that state so we really was closed for the world. which "force" Israel to sell weapon and more uneticel stuff to African and Latin American states. For Israel this was real casus belli, Israel already peprare herself for a war., the british and france just jumped along.

[@fredaaron762]

@@Alonkis251 In Israel's defense, they were in a state of war with Egypt, a situation that would exist at least on paper until Sadat and Begin signed the Camp David Accords. Some of the worst fighting would occur during the War of Attrition, one of the bloodiest and least known conflicts during the period of animosity between Israel and Egypt.

[@fredaaron762]

@@amitsharon8858 I think it is fairly simple, actually. Every nation bordering Israel has at one time or another announced to the world its stated goal of wiping Israel off the map. As such, Israel's leadership understands that any and all wars are existential in nature: their neighbors can lose the war, but Israel cannot. As such, Israel has needed to maintain both a tactical and strategic military advantage over its neighbors. This is enhanced by the fact that the neighboring countries have larger populations and had in the past drawn funding from the wealth provided by the petroleum businesses in nations that at one time or another supported the endeavor of destroying Israel like Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, Libya and Iran.Hopefully, the recent deal between UAE and Israel will begin a new era of peace in the region so that we will see an overall paradigmatic shift on both sides.

[@Nmax]

​@@fredaaron762Absolutely Israel being surrounded by genocidal Muslim nations has been very successful in defending itself and surviving.

[@Uberdude6666]

3:01 Who imagined Nasser sitting in the conferance like Consuela in Family Guy going "Noo no, no..."

[@zombiegameruk]

Well, what do you need us to do inorder for you to un nationalize the canal Nasser: We need more lemon pledge 🙈🤣🤣🤣

[@yorick6035]

3:05 sidenotes like this are one of my favourite things of Indy's presentations. For me little things like this make historical people and history itself feel more alive and "real" (of course I know they are real). I also liked the aluminium "rant" in a World War Two episode and when he flaunts his baseball knowledge. I wonder how much of these sidenotes are scripted or wether he just wings them. Regardless I love them and gunfingers to all of you!

[@Southsideindy]

The side notes are 100% unscripted! Glad you like it. Gunfingers back at you!

[@yorick6035]

@@Southsideindy That makes them even better, keep being awesome

[@lewisirwin5363]

Anyone who pronounces Menzies as "Men-zees" is a Denzies.

[@gianniverschueren870]

This looks like such a great tie, but I'ma need a better background to check! 4/5 for now

[@Janvt01]

The legend

[@kirbyculp3449]

Its a really nice tie.

[@WayneMoyer]

England and France are working together and everything needs to go perfectly. No one stops to look at any history books to see that this is a bad idea. Awesome! Let's do it!

[@yorick6035]

I mean what could go wrong? The last time England and France planned something Middle East related in Sèvres it went extremely well for them, didn't it?

[@alioshax7797]

WW1 kinda worked out for them, am I wrong ? So did Crimea War, Boxer revolt, and, to a lesser extend, WW2.

[@Altrantis]

@@alioshax7797 They have extremely good performance working together. Imagine if they'd started at the 100 years war time rather than after Napoleon.

[@moritamikamikara3879]

Fuck that. I don't want to work with the French. Even now.

[@peletsoivre9110]

@@alioshax7797 Victorious cooperation during the third crusade. Three successful alliances against Spain in 1593/1598, 1654/1660 and 1718/1720. Fruitless alliance against the United Provinces in 1672/1674 (though France won alone later in 1678). Many conflicts as allies in the XIXth century including the help out to Greece in 1827, the quelling of the Rio mutiny in 1829, the first carlist war in Spain, the Rio de Plata conflict of 1845/1850, the Crimean war from 1854 to 1856, the Opium war of 1856/1860, the Marabout war... Both nations fought on the same side during the world wars except this awkward moment from 1940 to 1942. Of course, the Suez blunder of 1956. Nominally allies as part of NATO or just the western bloc, we can add the Gulf war or Afghanistan though they didn't really "met" each other. However they've also made recent close joint operations like the destruction of the libyan navy in 2011. And so on and on...

[@erikdohme1097]

“Before you correct how I pronounce this name, understand we’re both right. You’re just wrong.”

[@michaelmutranowski123]

This is some straight up mustache twirling levels of evil plan; like tying a woman to railroad tracks kinda evil. This sounds like a Sean Connery James Bond villain kind of plan. Dr. Evil would be proud of just how complicated this plan is.

[@jjeherrera]

Actually Eden was a good friend of Ian Fleming.

[@TimeGhost]

Fun fact of the day goes to...

[@mmacutgirl8]

Lol. Well said

[@Yora21]

@@NeoConNET7 And African people would still be under colonial occupation today? Hooray...?

[@MattBiden]

@@Yora21 colonial occupation is still better than being ruled by blacks. Did you notice how everything went to shit after the imperial powers left?

[@lewisirwin5363]

"The spice must flow"

[@cobbler9113]

“The first casualty in any battle is the plan”. Pity Britain and France didn’t realise that until it was too late and came away from it with their reputations ruined. I don’t think the UK actually recovered from this until the Falklands War. Still not sure if France has or whether time has softened the humiliation.

[@cobbler9113]

Noobster Just to clarify, when I say “pity”, I mean they should have realised it wasn’t really going to work. I agree that it was illegal and it went against many of the principles that Britain and the Free French fought for in WWII. I suspect given that the war only ended just over 10 years before is why Eden in particular was more or less thrown out of office by his party due to public outrage.

[@oreroundpvp896]

It wasn't a military humiliation though, Britain and France were making good progress and would have no doubt deposed Nasser. It was a huge diplomatic embarassment though, especially since the US didn't back us.

[@TimeGhost]

@Simon Turner. It's important to note however, that the Conservative party was generally pro-intervention at the time of the crisis. Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Eden's successor, even encouraged Eden to act. It was only when American and international opinion shifted that the party withdrew from its position and Eden presented as the scapegoat

[@cobbler9113]

@@TimeGhost Definitely, and its only very recently when that general policy shifted. Prior to the Syrian Civil War, they were usually keen to support military intervention to boost the UK's role as a global peacekeeper. Since then and with more recent interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya not going well, many are sceptical and want to limit what Britain does in the world. Whether it will be for better or worse, we shall see.

[@TimeGhost]

Joshua Condell it’s a fair deal more complicated than that, as you will see.

[@mikhailbychkov5042]

Munich Syndrome is my new favourite term for appeasement

[@richbarr5959]

I believe that in context "Munich Syndrome" isn't appeasement; it's the fear of looking like you are appeasing, and therefore encouraging Hitler-like further aggression.

[@YousefAlghadouri]

I’m gonna replace appeasement with Munich Syndrom in my vocabulary😂

[@holidayhouse03]

That was a rather intense buildup to the ending. Ya got me on the edge of my seat waiting for the next episode now.

[@LionKing-ew9rm]

The one thing that contributed to the whole story of Suez Nationalization, was Iran's oil nationalization, would love to hear about it more!

[@morisco56]

After this could you do 6 day war day by day please?

[@dweis217]

Holy hell, this whole thing was so preventable so easily.

[@jonbaxter2254]

And the death of the Empire began...

[@AndrewMitchell123]

Indy: check out this vid about Cuban missile crisis... this pops up instead :D but thanks for the early upload anyway, was waiting for this eagerly

[@NeriaUzan]

There were two main points that convinced Ben Gurion to agreed to this enterprise despite his initial hesitation: 1. Dayan promised he can get it done with less than 250 casualties 2. The France government had agreed to help Israel build nuclear site

[@Nmax]

Fascinating. Given how the brave Israeli people won against the attacking Arab nations in 1948 , it makes sense that Israel would take every opportunity to secure the nation

[@arslanehamzacherif3466]

Thanks for this very nice serie !!! As an Algerian, we heard about it during our History classes, but to be honest I never thought that the connection between the Algerian Independence & the Suez Crisis was so tight !!! The French pretext/justification/motivation for the invasion was not totally clear for me, so thanks for this ;)

[@TimeGhost]

Glad you learned something here! It was a very close connection indeed. Even in Britain, Nasser's funding of the FLN was a topic of great fear.

[@hojoj.1974]

!! Your delivery... Awesome.

[@Southsideindy]

thank you very much. I really had "fun" hosting this one.

[@ComedyJakob]

It's insane that they thought this would go over fine

[@TheBreadB]

Love this new series, can't wait for more. I think it would be interesting to see other conflicts from this era like the Malaysian Crisis, War in Algeria and maybe even The First Indochina War.

[@lordmaur180]

This video made my day, keep on the great historical content fellows, good job

[@TimeGhost]

Thank you!

[@yugoslaviaist]

Fun fact,my grandfather was a colonel in Yugoslavian army at the time and he told me that Yugoslavia as well supplied Algeria with arms in 1950’s

[@Sturminfantrist]

My Father is born in Constantine Algeria, thx for your countrys support in our struggle for independence, greets to BiH, i was in 1992 in Travnik area ;)

[@user-hq6vc2cv5g]

Hello Yugoslavian comrade from Egypt.

[@alphaprawns]

Heh, I appreciated the sidebar about the pronunciation of 'Menzies'. I'm from a part of Scotland where some places bear the name, and the correct pronunciation is one of those weird links to the old world that just kind of gets passed along orally even though the language has changed so much.

[@adaw2d3222]

I always wanted to understand this conflict better. Good work, thanks!

[@guyh9992]

Menzies who described himself as British to his bootstraps did his best to keep the Empire alive throughout the 1950s for old times sake. At the same time he was pragmatic enough to realise that the US was Australia's most ally. He disappointed Churchill in the early 1950s by not acknowledging that Britain had a place in the ANZUS alliance.

[@sonofrivadin3684]

3:38 well, that is surprising.

[@Darwinek]

@@RandomHistoric Some natural gas, crude oil not so much.

[@Tecmaster96]

Bros mad even Switzerland has declared more wars than the USA. Stay mad warmongers. And to you, Happy America, grow.

[@chrislea1000]

Another great series - I love this stuff

[@februarywhiskeys]

I think you guys accidentally linked this in the luftwaffe part 2 end screen. You might wanna check that.

[@danielweiss7396]

Fixed it, thanks :)

[@Jasona1976]

Another FIRST CLASS presentation and learning experience! thanks

[@TimeGhost]

You're welcome. There's more where that came from!

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Indie - *Master* of Many Trades: Musician, Brilliant Narrator, Set Designer, Historian, Fashionisto. 🏆

[@Southsideindy]

You forgot ballroom dancer.

[@robotslug]

Excellent so far! I hope this gains more traction out there and we start seeing 7 digit views. You all deserve it.

[@Bagster321]

"Fun" fact about Robert Menzies. Prior to the start of the Second World War, he sold iron ore to Japan....who used that to fuel their invasion of the Pacific and attack Australia.

[@stefanjoeres7149]

IrOnY cAn Be PrEtTy IrOnIc...

[@tando6266]

Everyone was, the Americans, British, china, soviet union, they all did.

[@tristandavies9597]

Menzies was also pretty strident in his time as attorney general on shutting down any 'anti-german' plays, protests or literature from communists, socialists, or just anyone who had escaped Nazi Germany, and generally had a great public view of Hitler and mossoulini right until war was declared

[@wtfbros5110]

Stalin: you are like a baby

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Welcome back, Love. Looking great, set amazing. I'm ready.

[@FreakG.M.O]

Another great episode, thank you Nigel!

[@billyjesus5442]

its crazy how casual we are about these global crimes. Nothing more evil then occupation and theft.

[@sandiucukertz93]

Most coolest thumbnail ever! Keep up the good work

[@austina701]

"Nigga, is you taking notes, on a criminal fucking conspiracy?" ~ Eden

[@kemarisite]

Thank you Stringer Bell.

[@iamnolegend483]

The writing presentation and all of these is always fantastic. I could watch hours hours of this sort of content. I stumbled upon great war series earlier this year and binged watched it for a very long time. Well done Time Ghost.

[@JoramAppel]

Thanks! Much appreciated!

[@SJ23982398]

Your set design is on point as usual.

[@Airman1121]

I am sure you get tons of suggestions on topics, but the Algerian War of Independence would make a great series.

[@Prosegoldmusic]

whaaaat !! a new series !!! amongst my fav channels on you tube . anything you guys do. top five for sure.

[@somerandomguy9942]

On part 2 and this is excellent! Love the series you're great at telling history keep it up!

[@beachboy0505]

The Suez Canal was built Egyptian labour, that's why the Egyptian ruler went into serious debt. The British stole the canal from the Egyptians and the Egyptians stole it back.

[@maximilianbeyer5642]

To be fair, the canal was built by a french architect and with money from both Britain and France. Now I'm not saying for britain to own the canal was right, but it's not as inherently Egyptian as you might think

[@beachboy0505]

@@maximilianbeyer5642 go to proper French historical sources: The plan and management was deLesseps All the labour and construction was paid for by the fat ruler of Egypt and he bankrupted the country GB came later as an 19th century imperialist and took most of it in a garage sale. There were many Egyptian uprisings was was crushed in the Imperialist way. But Eden handled the whole situation badly. Churchill would have done it better.

[@Youssef-iq4wq]

@@maximilianbeyer5642 Many different countries were involved in the Suez canal, it's kinda impossible for 1 country alone to build THE SUEZ CANAL, Greece sent 800 workers, Britain had workers, France had builders, Egypt spent the most money and the most workers, It's Egypt's Canal tho

[@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by]

The worker do not own the business. In any successful economic system.

[@hebamohamed2739]

@@Youssef-iq4wq well 120 thousand Egyptians died digging it They were enslaved in their own country, kidnapped by the authourities at that time, and worked in the worst conditions ever 😏😏😏

[@DavidKutzler]

Groucho Marx: "Say the secret word and you'll divide $100." Contestant: "MARE."

[@ShinobiHOG]

"Nasser is literally Hitler......" Anthony Eden(probably)

[@maximumpleasuregaming]

Amazing how such a significant event was never mentioned, not even once during my time in school in the UK. Thanks so much for this series! Great work as always!

[@maximumpleasuregaming]

@Superdude70 I'm sure you're right... It's no wonder so much of the British public is so ignorant as to why the world sees them differently to how we see ourselves.

[@kenoliver8913]

But all countries teach their children a "patriotic" version of history designed to support the current powers that be. The nasty bits by those powers get passed over in silence. The US is no exception to that, BTW.

[@randomchannel-px6ho]

It seems that that The Cold War Channel is not related to Time ghost. There videos aren't bad but it does give me such an appreciation about the depth and the amount of research behind every single video you make. Keep it up!

[@Southsideindy]

It is absolutely NOT related to us.

[@elmersbalm5219]

this was the fastest time I upvoted anything

[@Quesoeighty]

What a cliffhanger at the end

[@aasante3437]

11:56 When you go back and watch season one and you see the main character as an extra

[@snowmanflo]

"Hey, kid, wanna learn something about politicians?"

[@richardglady3009]

Great video. I find it interesting that Britain and France could assemble 7 aircraft carriers in 1956. That number would decline precipitously in the future. Thank you for the video.

[@kenoliver8913]

It declined because their empires disappeared. Aircraft carriers are built to maintain an empire by projecting power (certainly how the US uses them). They are very inefficient in bang for buck when you're just playing defense.

[@nageeb96]

great job on this one Indy . i was a kid in Egypt then and i remember how the evil 3 attacked Egypt to steal the suez canal . Eisenhower and Naser are my heroes in this part of history . thank you for telling what most shy away from for political reasons.

[@pika87]

:D 5:43 behind John Foster Dulles it's the Hungarian Parliament and the Kossuth Bridge which was built on the Danube after the devastating 50-day long siege during WW2, in which the retreating German troops blew up all the bridges leading from Pest to Buda to slow down the Soviet forces. (I'm not sure about the next shot with the destroyed trams, they might be GANZ trams from Budapest as well, but it's hard to tell.) Well, as the Suez Crisis was the reason the USA refused to help in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution against the invading Soviet troops, these images seem almost OK :) Anyways, great work as always, I can hardly wait to see how the events unfold. 😉

[@stargazer4683]

Great video

[@robert48044]

nice shirt and tie. the set looks great!

[@Johnnycdrums]

Bad timing, the Soviets were on the March. Eden ignored the big picture, and IKE was already mad at London for "The Cambridge Five", who were suspected of, but not proved to be triple agents.

[@indianajones4321]

Great episode

[@TimeGhost]

Thank you Indiana Jones Glad you liked.

[@kemarisite]

12:57 and the French battleship Jean Bart.

[@LightxHeaven]

The Suez crisis truly was the last gasp of the British Empire.

[@kenoliver8913]

The whole problem of it was that the British and French Empires were already dead - killed by WW1 and WW2 - but Eden and his ilk simply wouldn't acknowledge that. As GWB found, in war you pay a heavy price for believing your own propaganda.

[@oisnowy5368]

How many of them were brought before a Nuremberg trial and sentenced for war crimes?

[@nurielyap]

yea, of course it's exactly like ww2, no difference at all (except everything)

[@astrobullivant5908]

I think the Mau-Mau revolt influenced Eisenhower's opinions on the Suez Crisis: Eisenhower was afraid that the British Empire continuing in a meaningful sense would encourage more people to acquire Communist sympathies. @1:51, Eden's maneuvers were equivalent to a Chess player playing his heart out when he doesn't realize that his opponent has already set up a checkmate. Eisenhower's Cold War strategy involved diminishing the role of the British Empire, and the British Empire was already financially dependent of America. Nasser was exceptionally clever at playing the US and Soviet Union against each other. The only way Eden's administration was going to triumph in this situation was to persuade the US to support the move as a way to check Communism, but Nasser was too skilled a diplomat to let that happen. Britain could have used its soft-power more to persuade the US to keep loaning money though, and eventually, Britain recovered as a political force by using its soft-power to influence the US.

[@oreroundpvp896]

The US was Britain's biggest enemy from the Atlantic charter onwards, we just never realised it.

[@oreroundpvp896]

@ايجون تارجاريين Dunno man, Islamic Empires weren't exactly honest and good

[@rxy228]

wow.. what a tie

[@gaslitworldf.melissab2897]

Isn't this how news ought to be reported, just the facts?

[@beachboy0505]

Eden was always outsmarted by Eisenhower but he didn't know it. Nasser was supposed to get a loan from the World Bank for funding of the Aswan dam. At the last moment, Eisenhower cancelled the loan. This forced Nasser to nationalise the Suez Canal. Nasser was short of money. He needed the passage fees from the canal.

[@geordischmidt]

Sadly, Eisenhower and Dulles outsmarted themselves. First, they sought to sell weapons to Egypt, but only under American supervision. Then, they called Nasser's "bluff" to go to the Soviets for weapons, only for Nasser to call that bluff. Then, Ike, in a bid to bring Nasser under control, cancelled funding of the Aswan Dam. Nasser nationalized the canal, in response. Ike was prepared to wait it out, but England felt that Nasser could close the canal to British oil, which set off the events leading to the Suez Crisis. This is why wars are not spur-of-the-moment things. There is always some kind of paper trail, even with Russia's current war.

[@Cancun771]

Thumbs up for the pronunciation side note.

[@gogrape9716]

One of the last gasps of a failing Empire.. Colonialism and imperialism is no longer popular in the modern world.

[@sankarchaya]

imagine thinking giving Egyptians back their canal is the same as selling out Czechoslovakia

[@Darwinek]

It wasn't "their" canal in the first place.

[@Darwinek]

@@Youssef-iq4wq No, built by the French and owned by the French and British until 1956.

[@Darwinek]

@@Youssef-iq4wq So the USSR paid in the 19th century? Okay, I am out of here.

[@theholyone6]

The brazen colonialism by the French and British on display during this crisis was crazy. The lie that any superpower or colonial nation cares about freedom is always laughable.

[@lylissmorrinz8361]

Blimey! This picture of Sèvres at 10:16! It's a 10 min drive from where I grew up! I've walked on that island :O It's been a car factory later that is now transformed in a big venue called "La Seine Musicale". I had seen pictures from the past of the area but never one like this, it feels like time travel, I'm impressed on how the neighborhood changed so much in so few decades... What is exactly the date of this picture? Do we know? Thank you very much! And thank you for the amazing work you're doing! I absolutely love the decor for this series, it's very atmospheric :)

[@ScooterWeibels]

I really like this new series

[@JoramAppel]

Thanks, Scott!

[@onefastcyclist]

Political intrigue well explained!

[@John-pn4rt]

Part of Eden's personal problem was that he 'wanted' to be prime minister and annoyingly for him, Winston Churchill would not go! It has some parallels to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in that respect! I think he had spent so long in Churchill's shadow that he wanted to be seen to do something - again there are parallels with Brown and Blair!

[@deathsheadknight2137]

what an interesting era of intrigue... any chance this channel will touch on the Lavon affair?

[@fredleckie5880]

Superb digression on one of the lost letters of the English alphabet Yogh!

[@morisco56]

If nasser had fallen then no UAR, no north yemen civilwar, no 6 day war, no attrition war,no yom kippur. Wow.

[@user-hq6vc2cv5g]

Actually, things would have been wore, both the French and British intelligence were plotting with the Muslim Brotherhood to come to power after the fall of Nasser. If you do your home work, the Muslim Brotherhood is an extremist right wing fundamentalist religious group, which gave birth to all terrorist gropes, including Al Qaeda and I.S.I.S. Basically Nasser was the enlightening way to both modernize and secularize the middle east. He Gave the Egyptian women the right to learn, work and both vote and be candidates even before the same rights were given to the Swiss women. He also gave all Egyptian free Medical care, national social insurance, distributed the farm land, free education to every Egyptian in all education levels, building Egypt's first Atomic research plant and industrializing Egypt.

[@MGustave]

I hate this, because of how it embarrasses Britain, but then I'm grateful, because it hastened the end of our imperialism. Whaddya gonna do?

[@dylanrussell4949]

It is great to see this covered as I was in the dark as to what actually happens during this and it peaked my interest as my granda fought in this and has lots of interesting tales from malta to the beaches and his time in the middle east

[@baky582]

Unlisted gang.

[@docvideo93]

Would it be fair to say this was the last gasp of European imperialism?

[@podemosurss8316]

2:35 So a convention that was made before Egypt was independent and of which Egypt wasn't a signatory...

[@kaleonaehu-gutierrez1000]

I love history so much you learn so much about humanity

[@malekibrahim2818]

I read that some of the convoys refused to pay for using the canal and Egypt let them pass and sent the bill to their embassies. US ships were involved in trying to jam the canal as well.

[@trapezeable]

You would think that this level of conspiring is where Tom Clancy gets his inspirations from. What a shameful affair

[@GrandMoffTarkinsTeaDispenser]

To @SuperBadadan (and I'm okay with you removing my comment if you don't want it to drag through mods): I like how your lunacy turns my "english and french imperial ambitions are bad" into "only America is allowed to hold an empire".

[@shamshassan1008]

Indy is Amazing at Dramatization

[@pnutz_2]

14:04 remember to put number of copies on each page if you need something destroyed like this

[@seeyouchump]

1:20 comparing the Nazis foreign policy to Egypts 3:30 "we don't even speak the same language"....less then 4 minutes into the video and I am already boiling with rage. It's like they're forcing the Arabs to hate them! BTW, I hope you cover the Korean and Vietnam war day by day. That would be a wet dream to come true!

[@Difcar]

"we don't even speak the same language" Is not to be understood in a literal sense, he means that their worldviews are so far apart that it is very difficult to find common ground. Speaking the same language: To share and/or understand one another's opinions, values, beliefs, tastes, etc.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

could see the korea war at some point going to be nothing but a bunch of patrol that still go on today lol

[@markhenley3097]

Yes indeed the British Prime Minister had experienced the failures of ''Appeasement'' with Hitler, and thought of Nassar in the same way.

[@joachimb9305]

All the "ifs" that Eden is posing as the existential threat to Britain is a bit far fetched tough. For one; it includes middle eastern oil being denied to Britain for a year or two to deplete the gold reserves. So during a full year or two without oil shipments, they could start a war. And would start a war in such a case. So the whole thing is very much a product of the Cold War era fear of "what ifs" I think.

[@4Before4]

@@Difcar doesn't make it any better though

[@matt3rd647]

I had no idea about the correct pronunciation of Prime Minister Menzies. He has always been referred to with the z pronounced. A recent tv special where historians and political figures in Australia discussed his political life did not explore at all this controversy regarding his name.

[@jimmacyckas5850]

you should do a series about the invasion of Cyprus

[@chrictonj9503]

Leaving with a cliffhanger. Hurry please with what happens next. :)

[@dolin2012]

If I not mistaken, the Soviet pilots helped to navigate through Suez Canal when Brits left.

[@kenoliver8913]

You are mistaken. Piloting the canal took (and still takes) specialist knowledge of the canal - a Soviet harbour pilot would be useless. That's exactly why Eden thought withdawing the British pilots would be a killer blow. He didn't realise that Nasser had earlier persuaded the Suez Company to take on Egyptian trainees ...

[@lisakeitel3957]

For empires is pretty logical and reasonable that they own the world and everyone else should follow orders. So when someone says no they talk about an "evil regime" that endangers peace. And "axis of evil".

[@titanuranus3095]

Did this just get reuploaded? Or was the notification I just got simply mysteriously delayed?

[@luxembourgishempire2826]

Your youtube is messed up I think.

[@naveenraj2008eee]

So much conspiracy... Thanks time ghost for explaining to us..

[@TimeGhost]

Your welcome Naveen, Glad you enjoy it.

[@stephen9869]

What's the meaning of *MARE* in the background??? I must be missing a trick here!

[@JoramAppel]

It means ‘sea’ in Latin

[@Alexandroslav]

yep, they linked this video by mistake instead of the cuban missile crisis one. this video is unlisted as of now.

[@Max_Flashheart]

Signed Collector's Edition "Secret Protocols" available from the merch store soon I hope?

[@TimeGhost]

Then they wouldn't be secret anymore,