Timeline of Gaza | 3500 BCE to October 7th, 2023

[@UsefulCharts]

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[@bengee4841]

Hello UsefulCharts, im new to your channel and i really enjoy your videos. Im really looking for a video where it shows the changes of our calenders. For i know the Jewish calender is different to the Julian calender as well as the Gregorian calender. Do you have a video on how the world ended up adapting to the gregorian calender? Or what calenders they were using in the past?

[@starcapture3040]

your implementation of terms is wrong. Bronze Age Canaanite are the same iron age Canaanites./ Israel is a term called exclusively for people of a certain religion. which mean the one who struggle with god. Israel is a religious name not a geographic name. jews came from Mesopotamia not from the native Canaan land, Hebrew . were nomadic groups living in the desert of Mesopotamia. their name mean the crossers of rivers, because they used to marauding on trade routs and villages similar to the guti or vandals. Amrits,Mobait,Adomits,Ammonites,Phoenicians are all Canaanites. why you didn't mentioned them? and with your logic are the philistines iron age Canaanites? Israelites literature is extremely influenced by Mesopotamian religion and Egypt more then the Canaanite religion which they despised. there is no such thing as iron age Canaanites called Israelites. this is misleading.

[@NicitoStaAna]

Israeli operation in Gaza is not wrong/illegal. No one called the Allied forces genocidal when they bombed/starved Berlin. Unless it only applies when the victims are non-whites. Is that it? Read a book, More specifically, the rules of war as agreed and legally defined in UN Hospitals/Cultural/Historical places/Schools/places of worship. All lose their legal protection if they put weapons/ammunitions/hostages inside those places. Blame the Nakba on the Arab League who chose war instead of a citizen/land swap. Blame the Destruction of Gaza on those who put missiles/hostages under their children's bed just to score sympathy points.

[@starcapture3040]

@@NicitoStaAna WTF! Israel has no right to defend itself from the people it occupies

[@AduckButSpain]

I am sorry, but that is full of inaccuracies. Like the fact the British didn't sell any land to Jews, but were Arab land owners. Or the fact that the withdrawal from Gaza is not related to the 2nd Intifada, which was almost exclusively in the WB and was decided by the Israelis in 2002. Way before any violence in Gaza.

[@januszbogumil]

what have the mongols Not invaded at this point?

[@jasperchance3382]

Italy

[@phillee2814]

🇬🇧

[@4sythdude549]

The Moon ...not yet at least

[@januszbogumil]

@@4sythdude549 It's only a matter of time

[@4sythdude549]

@@januszbogumil Moongolia shall rise to greatness!

[@firthm2]

Awesome video. Just one suggestion: use a physical map as your base map, or a series of maps corresponding to the time being discussed, rather than showing a map with the modern borders the whole time. This would emphasize the ephemeral, fungible, and arbitrary nature of political borders, and remind us that the modern divisions are far from immutable.

[@ElficGuy]

Nice

[@brutely9718]

You know nice english 🎉

[@yesfredfredburger8008]

Modern divisions are only as mutable as the cultural and religious traditions that have been clashing for millennia

[@firthm2]

@@brutely9718 thank you habibi!

[@ziziroberts8041]

Excellent comment.

[@romanlegion5837]

What a normal and non combative comment section

[@alexandarthedivine]

Because this guy deletes comments. He deleted mine several times.

[@UsefulCharts]

I haven't deleted any comments. However, KZbin automatically deletes some before I even get the chance to see them.

[@fangbozhu7379]

@@alexandarthedivine that's probably yt's doing

[@ntmot]

​@@alexandarthedivineconsidering your public subscriptions, yeah thank god for that

[@alexandarthedivine]

@@UsefulCharts Well okay sorry for assuming then, but let me just say if here. You say that what Hamas did on October 7th is wrong and what Israel is doing right now is also wrong. However you miss the point that Israel is doing unprecedented things to minimise civilian casualties here. Israel dropps leaflets, texts and calls people, uses drones with loudspeakers used by people who speak fluent Arabic to get people out of harms way, while Hamas is doing everything TO KEEP civilians in harms way. Israel allows humanitarian aid to come in and uses high precision rockets to target specific targets. Another fact is that Israel successfully evacuated more than 1 million people from Rafah and established field hospitals and places where these people can temporarily live. To say that Hamas and Israel are equally bad here is not only wrong, it's outrageous. You say you support the protests, but what these mobs are shouting is nothing but death to Israel, death to America. Israels fight is against the Hamas, not the Palestinians. In 2005 Israel withdrew from Gaza in persuit of peace. What did happen then? They elected a government that persues the complete Annihalation of Israel. Israel has a long history of compromising, and as someone with Jewish ancestory as well and has relatives in Israel, I understand this struggle. There clearly can't be peace with terrorists operating in the Gazastrip or the westbank. What they say about themselves is very clear. Hisbollah, Huthies, Hamas, Public Front, Lions Den, Fatah, PLO, PIJ, and all these terror brigades are all terror proxies of Iran that aim to annihalate the state of Israel. And it makes me sad and angry when I see that when Israel is fighting this just war, people really think they can held Israel accountable to not living up to the perfect standard of NO civilian casualties at all. A standard no country in history ever lived up to, and yet it is expected from Israel, while it's also the only country NOT allowed to win a war. Israel doesn't deliberately kill people, this is the crystal clear difference between them and Hamas. But civilian casualties are a sad cost of war - a war, that Israel never first started. Out of the around 30 k people around 14k were combatants. The numbers changed a bit, but not changing the fact that the ratio of killed people is almost 1:1, which is even more impressive in a war like this where Hamas hides beneath civilian infrastructure and tunnels that are embedded in it. The numbers of the Hamas controlled ministry of health keeps lineary growing, which is very questionable and weird because it never occurs in war. As stand 100% with Israel because history has shown that leaving terrorists be that use all fundings from the world to buy weapons to aim at annihalating a neighbour state is a mistake. Doing nothing and standing still while you are getting targeted by suicide attackers, is a mistake. This has to stop, and it has to stop now.

[@Marrow9000]

Mr Useful Charts, thanks so much for your work. I watched several of your videos in late 2022 on this region and then read a book you recommended in one of your videos, and now I am back again watching a few of your videos in 2024. I hope your health has improved and you can enjoy the great investigative and teaching work you do with your channel.

[@ziziroberts8041]

Which book, please? Link to previous video? I will look here on the channel.

[@hellohellohellohellohello-h5l]

7:37 - The Bronze Age collapse didn't lead to the fall of Egypt. In fact, Egypt was the only major power in the region to survive. It hurt Egypt to be sure, but it continued to exist thereafter.

[@saifhazem7164]

Both him and you are correct, he said the bronze age collapse lead to the downfall of Egypt which is true as Egypt did survive it but it was so weakened from the events that it continued declining while new emerging powers kept rising in power till Egypt itself was conquered by foreigners like the Libyan and Nubian dynasties (3rd intermediate period and late period in A. Egypt). So yes you are correct that Egypt did not fall in the bronze age collapse, but he is also correct that the collapse was one of the direct causes of Egypt's downfall. Alongside weak rulers who could at best slow the rapid decline of the Egyptian empire, such as all the Ramsisides from Ramses 5 and on.

[@jlt4219]

yes! it is still survive today!

[@neilturner5211]

Yeah, but I think the important part, as far as the video is concerned, is that Egypt was so weakened by the Bronze Age Collapse that it shrank back to its core territory on the Nile delta, leaving a power vacuum in Canaan that allowed the rise of Philistia, Israel and Judea. Without the collapse, those states would never have existed and the Levant would probably be part of Egypt to this day.

[@saifhazem7164]

@@neilturner5211 exactly.

[@striker121S]

⁠@@neilturner5211 that is incorrect, the sea peoples that attacked Egypt were resettled (by Egypt) into Canaan to become a vassal state. Those sea peoples were called Palaset which later they became known the the Philistens.

[@kreis497]

much appreciated, very good video. reminds me of the quote "if we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it"

[@valerieprice-wn9qb]

I guess it depends on if your history is the truth or just embarrassing nonsense

[@TheMarlinlask]

In this survey timeline, is there any indication of what not to repeat, huh?

[@mostlychimp5715]

"...and if we do learn from history we are doomed to stand helpless as everyone else repeats it."

[@AnonYmous-yu6hv]

Nothing about this is history, this is a Qatari propaganda video

[@andrew_owens7680]

The history we are repeating currently is the barbarism of 19th century colonialism.

[@vincent412l7]

I'd be interested in a similar video for Armenia.

[@bneymanov]

Yes! I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be surprised to learn that in the last 420 years about 270 years the Azerbaijani population was the ethnic majority in what now is known as Armenia.

[@nenenindonu]

​@@bneymanovHistory of Armenia would be like mostly Urartians in the ancient ages, Romans in the first millennium CE with a bit of Arab Caliphates, and Turkic dynasties in the 2nd millennium CE with a tiny amount of Mongol rule

[@gurbanabbasov]

@@nenenindonuarmenians has nothing to do with urartians. Their redorded history started with 5th century AD writings which in itself is borrowed from ephiopians…

[@nenenindonu]

@@gurbanabbasov Yes Urartians indeed have nothing to with Armenians just how Romans & Turks don't, I just mentioned them as a former ruling entity of what is now Armenia

[@mohamedabdukadir3271]

Your charts are informative

[@isisorion1]

Thanks!

[@feynstein1004]

16:55 Minor mistake. The year wasn't 135 BCE but rather 135 CE, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, that the third Jewish revolt was put down and the province renamed as Syria Palestinia.

[@patrickgronemeyer3375]

proof? share link.

[@feynstein1004]

@@patrickgronemeyer3375 The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan

[@Irin31]

@@patrickgronemeyer3375do you know the difference between BCE and CE?

[@Irin31]

@@patrickgronemeyer3375” The Bar Kokhba revolt, also known as the Third Jewish-Roman War, was a large-scale armed rebellion against the Roman Empire that took place from 132-135 CE. Led by Simon bar Kokhba, the Jewish rebels of Judea gained control of Jerusalem and parts of Judaea, establishing an independent state for more than two years. However, the Roman army eventually crushed the revolt, killing bar Kokhba at Betar in 135 and enslaving or killing the remaining rebels within the year. The war had devastating consequences for the Jewish people, with the majority of the province's population killed, enslaved, or exiled. The revolt began with high hopes for a homeland and a Holy Temple, as Roman emperor Hadrian had allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple in 118 CE. However, Hadrian became convinced that the Jewish faith was the driving force behind the uprising and declared a war of annihilation against Judaism. He banned all Jewish commandments, including circumcision, Sabbath observance, and Torah study, and anyone who observed them was executed”

[@garyl5128]

@@patrickgronemeyer3375 It's historically well know, even Life of Brian covers it! Judea became a Roman Province in 6AD and the Romans later renamed it to Palestine as an insult to the Jews/Israelis that kept uprising against them. It was a punishment and insult as the name was taken from the Philistines that had lived along the coast at one point (they were later invaded and defeated by the Babylonians and absorbed into them). Even today, being called a Philistine is an insult.

[@belialord]

2:35 Correction: not just the local population of the southern Levant, but the whole Levant was inhabited by Canaanites, to the point that the most important Canaanite archeological site nowadays is often considered to be the city of Ugarit, which is in modern day Syria. Later, northern Canaanites became known as Phoenicians by the Greeks and Romans, but preserved much of their culture and identity (including religion) until the end of antiquity.

[@habibi_sport312]

Not the entire Levant, just west of the Jordan and Orontes. To the east it was populated by Arameans, and other Arab(ish) groups (edomites, nabateans, moabites, ammonites, so on). To the north there were Assyrians and Hittites and Armenians. The Arameans that migrated north became known as Syriacs.

[@starcapture3040]

@@habibi_sport312 Arameans, amorits,(edomites,Moabits,Ammonits are canaanites too

[@belialord]

@@habibi_sport312 No, they weren't confined like that, they were all over the ancient world. The Canaanites spread across the Mediterranean and founded many colonies that became major cities (e.g., Carthage), even as far as Spain.

[@belialord]

@@habibi_sport312 But I do get the point that the areas you mentioned were _mainly_ populated by these other peoples.

[@mikkisixx3086]

Ba'al Hammon be praised!

[@W4HB]

As an Arab, i found this video very enjoyable and i salute you for not picking sides and just stating facts as they are. Thank you and keep making great content ❤

[@_oaktree_]

As a Jew, same!

[@davidfrager8234]

​@@_oaktree_shalom! I'm with you guys. There is historical information neither of the sides shouldn't deny!

[@samos343guiltyspark]

​@@sunnysuzannait doesn't really matter what you call it, killing people is just that, and many or even most of the deaths are innocents. Genocide or not, that's a horror.

[@moshco23]

@@samos343guiltyspark How convenient that the "Gazan health ministry" which is the Hamas government, doesn't say how many of their own died. Its almost always women and children even though there is so much footage of "kids" actively used in the conflict. If you civilians out of harms way, don't fight from within them dressed as civilians.

[@Bajoou]

@@W4HB You're a liar.

[@unknownmf2599]

The pure neutral standpoint, being loyal to history and not lying about it. Makes me love your channel more and more.

[@zeiadayman777]

Thanks for taking up the time for this video really needed it ❤

[@shannon_kilpatrick]

Wait. I know this is important stuff about things going on but the only thing I really took away from this is that Egypt had colonies outside of it's traditional borders during the pre dynastic period. I didn't know this and it kinda blew my mind a little bit.

[@MrRizeAG]

The Dynasty numbers were decided before the period before Dynasty 1 was well understood. There is a Dynasty 0. That's who this refers to.

[@SarudeDanstorm]

Egypt didn't have "traditional borders" at that time - no country did. What defines colonizing versus settling on its own? Traditional borders weren't really a thing until the Treaty of Westphalia iirc. Until then, it mattered more which cities owed allegiances and where

[@yonimaor1005]

So Gaza was occupied by modern Egypt between 1948-1967?

[@LauraWald]

Interesting take. So, would you say that England, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy did not colonize the Americas because at the time there were no countries with defined borders? ​@@SarudeDanstorm

[@SarudeDanstorm]

@@LauraWald Crossing an ocean to different continents as they were known in those days to settle at the expense of indigenous populations is grounds enough to be considered colonization in my book. As opposed to how, for example, the English controlling Normandy and Aquitaine in France during the 100 years' war would not be considered colonization - that would be conquest. In Egypt's case here, they created a city/settlement that was adjacent to its other cities/settlements - why is that considered colonization instead of just simple settlement as they did anywhere else along the Nile or Mediterranean?

[@colitipal]

Perhaps the least controversial video there is.

[@af8828]

His use of the historical method should quell some of that "controversy". However the more contemporary claims in the video, and the solutions he advocates for are kind of problematic, as addressed below with timestamps: 30:14 "...the (Ashkenazi) Jewish newcomers were fleeing heavy persecution (in Europe) and *didn't really have anywhere else to go*" This is a statement which contradicts your earlier point on them (ie. secular/ atheist zionists) selecting multiple places to establish a nation-state. They had many places they could've gone to where the diaspora was living normal lives. They also had the option of settling other lands which were under colonial administration which may genuinely have been "empty", unlike the land they selected which was inhabited by *indigenous* Jew, Christians, Muslims and other religious groups with the same ethnic background (ie. the "mixed bag" you correctly referenced repeatedly). 30:55 *Worst ever genocide* is again, an objectively false statement. It's a popular talking point which is a form of genocide denial (ie. underplaying the many genocides outside of Europe which were quantifiably worse). Holocaust-esque genocides imposed by the colonial powers were the norm for the global majority - the reason it is (wrongly) portrayed as unique is because the Germans exerted that colonial violence *internally* onto Europe, which was deemed unacceptable by inter-colonial competition. 31:05 "Western countries were reluctant to take in Jews, thus the need for Jews to have their own state" First, the attempts to establish a Jewish state on this land preceded these events by decades via the explicitly *colonial* Zionist movement espoused by Herzl in collusion with the British who sought to use their classic colonial tactic of ethnic division to weaken a land. Second, Jews were living normal lives everywhere outside of ehite supremacist Europe. Third, the UN created a plan with borders which mirrored those of apartheid South Africa, with the indigenous inhabitants relegated to disconnected "bantustans" while the colonially imported population were given land on top of the homes of the indigenous. Out of the thousands of ethnicities most do not have a nation-state, as there are under 200 nations. We already established there have been worse genocides across the global majority, so that can't be the answer. Why should Ashkenazi Jews be the exception, especially given their colonial nation-state would be established on inhabited land? The answer is: they shouldn't. The nation state is an inherently backwards idea which inevitably results in fascistic nationalism in an effort to establish (fabricate) a unified "national" identity, as opposed to the "mixed bag" which has existed in the region forever. 31:20 "The two sides went to war" War is an inaccurate descriptor; it was one side resisting a plan created by an outright colonial/imperialist entity (the UN was a tool of imperialism at this point in history; still is to an extent). They were being expelled from homes they inhabited for dozens of generations so the victims of the holocaust (ie. European victims of European colonial violence turned inwards onto Europe) could settle on top of those homes. It was indiegnous resistance to colonialism. 31:38 "In reponse around the same number of Jews were expelled from the neighboring Arab countries". While the rise of nationalism did occur is *some* regions of the Arab world as the colonial powers lost their grip and created deliberately divisive nation-state borders (recall my point on the trajectory the nation-state inevitably leads to under a diverse society), the major cause of the outflow of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews into the new colonial state of "Israel" was caused by *Zionist extremists* either committing violent acts to stoke further religious division or outright kidnapping their Jewish children to import into "Israel".

[@ChrisHuston.]

This reply should probably be moved to the main level as a Comment. Some important takes/perspectives to consider.

[@jakoboka]

​@@af8828ok so you think you are right?

[@asbu5716]

It is controversial.

[@l4nd3r]

@@af8828 You should make this a main comment (so more people and Matt can see it) with some citations of sources you based your arguments on, i agree with some of your points but i'm ignorant on others (like the pogroms on Jews post UN partition plan).

[@Nikki94here]

Thank you, what a relief to have someone outline everything so plainly and calmly. You never let us down.

[@simmyjester]

22:27 When you got to the Mongols, my mind went directly to the running bit from early Crash Course World History. ^_^

[@grtlyblesd]

Wait for it… the Mongols!

[@JessethebestJesse]

me too!

[@marshalltucker9690]

this running gag never will get old

[@HissoriRenda]

Love it 😊

[@Thenoobestgirl]

Same 😂

[@elijahh-r9883]

for such a comprehensive overview, you really gloss over the reasons why the UN plan just "never happened" and the war began. it's quite a bit more complicated than that!

[@0106johnny]

Which is why it's glossed over, because you'd need another half hour to even begin to get into that topic

[@Quantumwolf45]

Palestine Arabs literally just rejected the offer for statehood. Instead choosing to declare war to finish Hitler's holocaust job.

[@daboss8590]

Basically everything starting post wwii is either completely or partially wrong tbh

[@FingswithFrankie]

​@@0106johnnyIt's glossed over because if you show everything that has happened it puts Israel in a very bad light.

[@yuh861]

@@FingswithFrankie Really? The Israelis were literally willing to accept anything that was given to them at that point. They agreed to the UN partition plan and the Arabs rejected it. Neighbouring states then declared war on Israel with full intention of wiping them off the map completely. They then lost.

[@robhum3z]

A brilliant summary as usual mate. Equally brilliant closing remarks, well done Sir. You are a terrific example of tolerance and empathy. Let's hope the current situation can end quickly and with as little bloodshed as possible 🙏🏻

[@matthewgordon8314]

The fact that this video exists is such a blessing.

[@healthy3074]

29:30 It was not the British who created the Mandate, it was the League of Nations which created similar Mandates for the British in Jordan etc & the French in Lebanon & Syria. Due to the loss by the Turksish Ottomans in WW1. In fact, the British made Jewish immigration extremely difficult (read early Yishuv history ), giving away large land parcels to Arabs, notably all of eastern Mandatory Palestine which became Jordan -- before the proposed “split” by the UN, inheritors of the League’s Mandate terms. Indeed, the British themselves didn’t own much of the swampy land purchased legally by Jews for kibbutzim and towns, those were mostly Ottoman owners. Often it was land that wasn’t too nice to live on but turned out to be great farm land after draining and malaria control. Many Arab villages and traditional towns were located in the stony hills above the now-fertile Valleys in the North or the sandy humid coastal plains in the South of the coastal plain (Tel Aviv), not to mention the brutally dry Negev which was not wanted by Ottomans, British, or any farmer types & was mostly populated by mobile herders.

[@Firefly763]

Correct info, often left out on purpose.

[@yusefkhan1752]

European powers created it, and gave it to Britain. So call it what you want lol but the facts are the facts.

[@Palestine123-t]

The Philistines were mentioned in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, in several places in the context of the story of the Prophet Abraham. The word Palestine referred in the Bible to the land of Canaan or the land inhabited by the Canaanites, so the Philistines, meaning the Canaanites, were mentioned in the twenty-first chapter of the Book of The configuration is in two places as follows: So they made a covenant at Beersheba, and then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. (Verse: 32) Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days. (verse 34)

[@Palestine123-t]

sans les rotchild et les britanniques, puis les USA, la Palestine aurait pu devenir un pays de partage , des cultures et religions en harmonie...le colonialisme est la pire des religions

[@CruzDeusVult]

​@@Palestine123-tdont spread wrong information Philistine is not Palestine, there is no Arab on Philistine, the Philistine has been extinct and wipe out during Babylonian Empire, just because they has almost similar name, doesnt mean it has any relationship 😂 and how come you said it colonialism when you built the temple on top of their temple? who colonize who? when all evidence of relics, books and figures are rest on their land since 3000BC, the only colonise people is the Arab people, Israel has been conquered by many nation, and they taking back whats theirs, its called De-colonization

[@almag4571]

Matt, thank you so much for this video. As a person living in the middle east and inside this conflict, I've been staying away from online content pertaining to it. I'm just sick and tired of people throwing out their hateful and ignorant opinions so carelessly, while living out their comfortable lives millions of mile away and not really understanding what it might be like to be born into this reality. The only thing worse is the hateful and biased of some people who were born into it, and are poisoned by generations of mutual distrust and national animosity. When I saw your video I was very hesitant at first. But you've never let me down before, and you handled masterfully other controversial subjects in the past. I've been waiting for someone willing to just explain the dry facts of this millennia long story, address some of its complexities, and do it in a way that left me unsure of your personal political view (at least until the end, where you presented it with your disclaimer). I could talk about where I agree and disagree with you, but I find it more important to appreciate your honest attempt at looking at both sides and their narratives, and recognizing the pain each one goes through. And to finish with my own prayer - may the extremists on both sides that led us to this mess get to feel all the pain they bring down on us.

[@EH23831]

Praying that our and yours are safe.

[@Robespierre-lI]

You are smart for avoiding online propaganda. There is such a huge political disinformation campaign and they have NO qualms with completely misrepresenting history and emotionally manipulating the public. The world needs far more people like you who simply refuse to engage with that stuff. We are all vulnerable to it, but some of us have a sense for when something is just not right. I always tell my students, "if you're having a strong emotional reaction to the media, its not necessarily because you're learning the truth. Only trust the views you form based on doubt and debating yourself - no matter how uncomfortable those doubts make you. Strong convictions are often a weakness, not a strength."

[@andrew_owens7680]

Here is my read on it from a recent update in my research. Jews were expelled from England in 1290 until 1656. Christian Protestants were more kindly disposed to them, and among Christian philosophies was a seed that grew slowly into Zionism with an idea that Jews were key to the end times and that getting European Jews back to Jerusalem would encourage an end time where most Jews would go to hell and the remainder would pray to Jesus. Orthodox Jews were originally against the idea. For example, at the turn of the 20th century, there were approximately 350,000 Jews living in Britain. The number of Zionists among them was around 8,000. Many Christians were involved in proselytizing Zionism. By the time Balfour wrote his famous declaration there was already a healthy Christian Zionism movement for over a century and Jewish Zionism was not a popular notion until after the First ZIonist Congress in Basel in 1880. In fact, though scheduled originally to be held in Munich, it was due to criticism of Orthodox and Reformed Jews that it wasn't held there. In short, Zionism doesn't go back thousands of years, any more than the nationalism it is based upon does.

[@RuthRandoms]

Great comment. We all think we should get a say in it across the world yet it's not our conflict. Who do we think we are telling people what to do, who are caught up in the middle of it? Prayers for your survival and peace.

[@wadeodonoghue1887]

Can't fight pain with pain, just saying.

[@maheshs4056]

Matt, you deserve a pat on your back for this video and all the work that went into it. Such a historically significant place this is. I wish I had a time machine to go back in time and see how it's people have evolved and grown over the years.

[@veronicaredeemed]

31:17 the way you phrase this says a LOT!!

[@185MDE]

So excited to watch this video!!!! Anytime I am asked "who started the fighting there" my only answer is "it depends when you start the story"

[@TracyD2]

It’s true.

[@185MDE]

@@TracyD2 unfortunately when having to answer the question “who is the aggressor” it’s really going to be whoever is answering that question is going to answer with who they are aligned with. Because there are arguments for both unfortunately.

[@YahiaMansouri]

@@185MDE Both siding a genocide?

[@philo9046]

@@185MDE would you have both sided a genocide if the Palestinians were westerners?

[@185MDE]

@@philo9046 please don’t twist my words

[@ShintarufromdA]

This was very informative and I learned a lot. This has caused me to rethink many things and I thank you for that.

[@veronicaredeemed]

Would you care to mention one of those things? Might be a hard ask, but I'd really appreciate ❤

[@collettelevin3013]

As a fan of Usefulcharts, I have a few of their pieces hanging in my space. The statement at 13:34, 'no longer any one group that can claim to be the undisputed first-peoples of the land', is particularly thought-provoking. It leads me to consider that under this line of thinking, a claim could be made that 90% of all cities could qualify with the same statement. After all, most areas have been inhabited by many cultures (some multiple times) and the original inhabitants have either vanished, been displaced, or assimilated before resurfacing at some point. Even the Egyptians were once conquered.

[@tonyduncan9852]

Humans must allow themselves equal rights no matter the age, gender, or origin, in order to qualify as _homo_ *_sapiens._*

[@glenwolfram1485]

Except that it’s wrong, the Jewish presence is still there as it has been throughout history longer than any other group. Others have come and gone however, the Jewish presence is unique, persisting from the present day back over 3000 years.

[@tonyduncan9852]

@@glenwolfram1485 False. What a surprise. If you want to go back to the original inhabitants - your 'Jewish presence' is, er, *_absent._* Try to be less glib.

[@kaypz]

Thank you so much for this! I really needed to find out the history :)

[@danamiles2071]

Where did you get the information that the Canaanites and the Israelites were the same people?

[@TracyD2]

Scholars and historians. It’s easy to find. I think the Bible says otherwise but you decide

[@whom382]

He has talked about it in previous videos in more detail.

[@arnbrandy]

@@TracyD2 I would say it is an oversimplification. Even the Caananites weren't "one people" in many aspects, and I do believe there were other post-Caananite groups and polities besides the Israelites. I see a point in this simplification: it emphasizes how, from an academic perspective, the Israelites emerged from the local Caananite cultures (unlike the biblical narration). But yet, I find it kind of misleading... But mostly as a detail, the video is great.

[@evancombs5159]

​@@TracyD2the Bible doesn't really say otherwise by modern standards. Have to remember the Bible is written from the view of a very specific group of people, and the way we view things today would not have matched up with how these things would have been viewed back then.

[@Soothe2SleepStoriesStewardess]

Most articulated and developed unbiased video I’ve seen on the internet, without disregard for loss of human lives on both sides of this historical ancient piece of land.

[@ISawABear]

Should have just let the Sea Peoples keep it /s That being said i think this is a really cool format for you guys. You should do this for major cities around the world. i bet people would love posters of the timeline of their city they live in!

[@jasperchance3382]

better still if Rome never fell and Christianity and Islam never came to be.

[@Emcee_Squared]

Ok go tell that the Nebuchadnezzar II

[@محمدالسيدأبومسلم-د5ت]

Ramses lll is the one who make them settle there after a treaty with them those people likely where running from 300 years of drought in the region

[@striker121S]

Egypt was there 3500BCE they should have kept it lol 😂 Also I didn’t expect to see you outside of foxhole videos 😂

[@Carpediem357]

​@@jasperchance3382considering Rome spread Christianity you'd have to make Jesus not die and Roman Polytheism to remain.

[@inspiredone8959]

Thank you for an excellent overview. I appreciate that your perspective is the closest to objectivity in my experience.

[@bramstikkel5713]

I am impressed by the detailed historical information you provide in your videos. To make them more trustworthy, can you make a video about what the sources are of the historical info? Or provide information about the sources per video? Kind regards Bram

[@luisdavidllense2293]

Yes. I, too, would favor sources cited. GDF does a good job in their video essays doing such, setting a good example for all aspirers of historical truths.

[@bramstikkel5713]

Hi ​@@luisdavidllense2293 What is GDF?

[@TactfulWaggle]

@@luisdavidllense2293 i like that GDF posts their sources in the desc, but i find the fact they are a tankie abit iffy

[@harrydestaffano565]

You are WRONG to be impressed with this video. It is full of misinformation. The channel, should now be renamed "Useless Charts" This video misinforms repeatedly. Jordan renamed Judea and Samaria, banned Jews, annexed the area, renamed it the West Bank, in 1949, and they gave everyone living there Jordanian citizenship. Egypt gained control of Gaza in 1949 after the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement was signed in Rhodes. Under the agreement, the armistice line was drawn along the international border (dating from 1906) except near the Mediterranean Sea, where the Kingdom of Egypt remained in control of a strip of land along the coast, which then became known as the Gaza Strip. However in 1959, a year after the Republic of Egypt and the Second Syrian Republic merged to form a single sovereign state known as the United Arab Republic the Gaza strip became part of the United Arab Republic. How and why did Useful Charts ignore these historical facts? The channel, like Judea and Samaria, and like Gaza too, should now be renamed "Useless Charts" A crash course on history that proves there has never been a PALESTINIAN STATE: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state. 8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state. 13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state. 14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state. 15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state. 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. 20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE.

[@Rajkumar-dz5ov]

You are not telling everything truthfully. Especially from 1948. Israel had occupied all of the land up to half of Egypt and Jordan. But they always gave it back and they even left Gaza but Palestinians never agreed to the two-state solutions. 1)1947 UN Partition Plan, The UN proposed a partition of British-ruled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states, with Jerusalem as an international zone. The Jewish leadership accepted the plan, but Arab leaders rejected it, leading to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. 2)1967 Aftermath of the Six-Day War, 3) Camp David Accords (1978), 4) Oslo Accords (1993-1995), 5) 2000 Camp David Summit, 6) 2001 Taba Talks, 7) 2008 Olmert-Abbas Talks, 8) 2013-2014 John Kerry’s Peace Talks. Every time Israel accepted and Palestinians rejected. Why?? Because they say "River to the Sea Palestine will be free". They want to annihilate all Jewish people. Narrator Matt Baker why are you not mentioning that?? You are leaning on one side. Because you don't want to accept The Biblical accounts that are matching with the history and archeological findings... People are not fools Baker. FREE PALESTINE BACKER, FREE PALESTINE. Israelis had been saying this since 1947 man!!!

[@bearlogg7974]

From hill of ash in 3500 BC to pile of ash in 2025 AD

[@aptimap461]

The statement "IDF has been far too indiscriminate, with at least 20,000 women, children, and seniors, 329 journalists and aid workers, and millions of Palestinians starving and living as second class citizens" is missing a few key points: (1) Hamas has embedded its military in key civilian areas such as mosques, schools, and hospitals (2) no one wants civilians to (or combatants) to die or be injured in war; however, sadly, it is known that this is a consequence of war, and (3) why did Hamas steal the aid that was sent to Gaza and charge civilians money for it. Where is your point that Hamas should stop hiding amongst the civilians and stop stealing aid that is sent to Gaza?

[@sivanjoseph5665]

I agree this sentence immediately ruined for me the entire attempt to portray the video as “unbiased” as possible

[@jamesrobert7002]

excellent summary of Gaza! and very objectively told. respectfully understanding our differences is the first step toward peace.

[@ErixSamson]

Samson died in Gaza?

[@etgarmoyal]

yea, he died killing plishtim (Hebrew pronunciation) and the romans later names Israel Palestine to discourage jews (by naming the land after their biblical enemies)

[@ezesolomon3996]

Sampson was a myth after Hercules

[@shokoshokoshoko73]

​@@ezesolomon3996 It makes more sense for it to be the other way around, because the story of samson was written long before greek mythology came to be... So Hercules might be a greek version of Samson, but not the other way around...

[@methanial73]

You're an honest Jew, I can appreciate that. Since no one really "belongs" to Israel or Gaza I wish both would cease hostilities and just become either one state or two state. Peace should be their primary focus.

[@ahmednibra89]

So … the Egyptians were there first and they also named it? Give it back?

[@wordart_guian]

It would make the most sense, but they really do not seem to want it anymore.

[@Jeremyisthings]

Israel offered it and they said no

[@Domebuddy]

Egypt doesnt want it lol

[@jonathankriesler2037]

I mean modern Egyptians are not at all the same as antiquity Egyptians But I’m sure Israel would nonetheless be happy to give it to them

[@ahmednibra89]

@@jonathankriesler2037 but the modern Israelis are the same as the ancient ones?

[@nabilferikh6483]

Nice video, well illustrated and well explained. So between 2007 and 2023 nothing happened ?

[@welcometonebalia]

Thank you (and good luck).

[@ImDenny_]

Excellent video! ❤

[@XercinVex]

4:39 “later I’ll be discussing things that are difficult and polarizing” right after he talks about whether or not the Exodus is meant to be taken literally or as literary fiction. 😅 oh boy this is going to get extra fun

[@roboparks]

The Exodus has to be explained in Theological Terms . Which the narrator is not a Theologian.

[@breensprout]

He has already talked about the historical view of the exodus multiple times on this channel.

[@veloboy1]

Incredibly accurate information and non biased, thank you

[@nit-d6y]

31:22 two sides go to war ?…… No, the Arabs together with five Arabs countries opened a war……you are not objective at all in this video

[@Mr9Guns]

That's still only 2 sides as all of the Arab armies were on the same side.

[@joaocoelho8320]

No he is not!

[@nit-d6y]

@@Mr9Guns the focus is that the Arabs started the war . It was started as a Silvil war and move d to full war against the jaws

[@Koser_meg]

arabs together with arabs in other words, arabs

[@oliverrevis4190]

Dude nothing about saying there were 2 sides is not objective

[@tamyuv]

31:16 you forgot to mention that the jews agreed to the plan and arabs dont

[@motilevi]

I was looking for such a comment, you are correct, and this is sagnificant! Israel never started the war it was imposed on it. The Arabs that lost thier homes could have remain, no nakba if there was no war. The war was initiated by the neighboring Arab countries and after the results of the their failed attempt added more complications by refusing to help the population they encouraged to fight or leave their homes! Things could have been much different without this attempt to destroy Israel and the murder of the Jewish population.

[@Matzu-Music]

I wonder why they wouldn't agree to their lands being cut in half.

[@stevenbaksh5545]

They only agreed becuase in the future they knew they can get all of the land what they were afraid of is if the Palestinians would also agree to the plan

[@DanaWhiteMMA]

what? why would i agree to give you half of my house? get a job

[@asawanted]

Can you make a video on history of Americas starting from crossing of the land bridge to moments before colonization?

[@lIIllIlIII]

Would be difficult to make an accurate timeline with the Americas

[@wilcowen]

That would be awesome but unfortunately a lot of dates would only be approximate with the exception of the Maya and last century before Columbus

[@JeffinBville]

The "crossing of the land bridge" WAS a colonization.

[@dorderre]

@@JeffinBville Colonization of uninhabited land, yea. Or is it your opinion that there were humans (or otherwise intelligent beings) living in the Americas even before the first humans arrived?

[@krl970]

Read Origin by Jennifer Raff. You will learn that there was no original people, just wafts of various peoples over time. It is based on DNA and she correlates with folklore.

[@acultofpersonality7162]

You never fail me

[@beschutzer42]

Please start making the distinction between "archaeological record" and "archaeological theory." The record contains artifacts that explicitly indicate something. Such as an inscription, definite material evidence, etc. Theory pertains to ideas, perhaps mainstream, that COULD be supported by findings. Archaeologists won't love you but historians certainly will!

[@sonicgoo1121]

Wouldn't that be hypothesis then?

[@beschutzer42]

@@sonicgoo1121 not necessarily. An hypothesis comes earlier in the process before any research has been done.

[@tilik13]

A lot of inaccuracies of propagandistic value. While the arabs 'colonized' Palestine only in the 18th century and NEVER called themselves palestinian until 1960s, jews continuously lived in Palestine since biblical times and lare the oldest people living people today indigenous to that land. This is why UN decided to create a Jewish state amongst a bunch of arab states they created including Jordan, which takes up about 80% of historical Palestine.

[@emmavik-fredriksson640]

Great video!

[@SuperMovieLvr933]

Amazing video. What an incredible channel.

[@raquelhoffmann4]

Matt, this is amazing!

[@saltyyankee5149]

very well presented. Thank you, I learned a LOT from you.

[@lisayakobi1117]

The Palestinians and Gaza are living a second class citizens only because their government of Hamas has made them so there’s been no issues there since 2005.

[@Weesperbuurt]

Thank you!

[@RaquelRogosnitzky-qy2fi]

You completely skipped the years that the Israelites ruled this area. The kingdoms Judah and the tribes and the first temple. They were established as a people and as a religion before the Babylionan/persian conquest. How is your timeline credible

[@marilepine1]

🙄

[@diyema3434]

​@@marilepine1 accept that it is in fact relevant

[@sveabryan9126]

It’s not-and it became obvious when he said Jews were actually Canaanites and the exodus from Egypt was a myth. You can’t give a genuine answer without being willing to compare other timelines and historical events/data

[@veronicaredeemed]

33:38 "softened it's initial position" I don't recall if you mentioned what their position was...

[@ahmadburhanhabibi]

I say this is 100% british fault

[@emuccino]

It all makes sense now 😂

[@jasperchance3382]

Well, it was a mess before the British got there, too, but yeah, they should have kept their promise to the Arabs for a great Arab Nation, with all the different people living in it, but the French got in the way and then the Jewish tragedy was going on, too, so the British screwed up.

[@AlexFogarty-g5h]

I blame Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus

[@hydra70]

You could say that about any geopolitical problem in the world right now and be correct about 50% of the time.

[@alimanski7941]

Good god, if you could inject any more bias here, the video would probably explode. The 1947 UN plan simply "didn't happen"? It was accepted by one side. Guess which one. "Both Hamas and the IDF are wrong"? Really? "Palestinians have been living as second class citizens for decades"? Which ones? The ones who are citizens of the PA? Because the Arabs who are citizens of Israel have the same exact rights as any Jew. Either you present this video as an op-ed, or as historical facts - but claiming the latter while injecting the former is completely wrong.

[@healthy3074]

You are correct. Thank you for stating it so clearly. The video is a non-factual op-ed not historical documentary.

[@janicekociol7702]

To bring things to the present, Gaza should belong the Arabs in Gaza. They could have enjoyed their own sovereign state since 2005. Just leave Israel alone.

[@ivanalvarezlopez7532]

This is why, as a chicken, I support KFC

[@doctorsin1431]

That’s called being human…supporting a people who’ve been robbed out of their homes and denied a homeland for decades…it’s common sense…your logic makes no sense learn history

[@ivanalvarezlopez7532]

@doctorsin1431 There is no humanity in Hammas, there is no humanity in radical Islam, there is no humanity in a regime who hang homosexual people and jews.

[@zwiebelface185]

@@ivanalvarezlopez7532 back in the say the palestinian resistance used to be secular.

[@arnbrandy]

What a wonderful video! Thank you for the excellent research and presentation. One point I find a bit simplified is equating Caananites with Israelites. It is a great way to show how the Israelites were mostly local Caananite tribes, in contrast with the biblical narrative of migration and conquest. But there were others, no? Like the Moabites and Phoenicians?

[@UsefulCharts]

True

[@evarovner4365]

Moabites and Phoenicians are essentially canaanite. Their languages are canaanite languages and genetically Phoenicians Israelite etc are canaanite genetics

[@twylie2590]

Yes, the Jews themselves were a mix of many different tribes, quite clear if you read the Bible correctly. Originally Babylonians, since Abraham's tribe came from Ur, Egyptians who joined them, as the biblical exodus story points it out, and eventually by absorbing the various Canaanite tribes of the area. Ruth, King David's grandmother herself was a Moabite. Every nation on Earth, no matter how nationalistic they are, claiming to be pure blooded, are a healthy admixture DNA-wise. It is the individual's own sense of identity, as well as the non-acceptance by others around you [as in the case of the Jews] that makes you who you are.

[@cronnosli]

A Jew is not a Jew purely by its genetics. Being a Jew is a part of a spiritual-cultural continuity, the Torah does not hide the mixture of other ethinics groups that was welcome into the People. Even adopted non-jewish children, properly accepted into the community is 100% Jew. There is the Jew by the Halacha, there is no such thing as pure genetic Jew!

[@johnnypunish]

GREAT JOB! I am PALESTINIAN. Family from Haifa, Palestine since at least 1700s. Victims of Al-Nakba. Refugees in Lebanon for 12 years. My kids and theirs are now ethnically cleansed living in MEXICO. PEACE TO ALL PEOPLE!

[@samuelross9884]

Hmm ... ?

[@m0nZt3r]

You didn't watch the video did you? It's Jewish.

[@samuelross9884]

@@m0nZt3r Frustrated by confusing & contradictory information, I researched the history of the land we call Israel and Palestine today. Who lived on it first? Israelites lived in this land 1,658 years before the ancestors of Palestinians. Palestinian ancestral land is the Arabian Peninsula. ‘Palestinian’ is a modern word from the 20th century. "Syria Palaestina” was the name given by the Romans to Judea after the Bar Kochba revolt, although the name's origins go back even further, being based on the term 'Philistine', the name for a land that at the time belonged to a people who were no longer extant, not as a people nor a political entity Only the Canaanites and Philistine predate the Israelites. The descendants of Canaanites and Philistine is complex and not entirely resolved The Israelites arrived C1300 BCE and established the Israelite Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BC, while the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Next the land changed hands many times, until Arab Muslims conquered it in 638 CE and established an Islamic Caliphate. The Arab population, increasingly identifying as Palestinian particularly in the 20th century, has been a significant part of the social and cultural fabric of the area, especially during the periods of Islamic rule and the Ottoman Empire. A timeline: Canaanite Period (c. 3000 - 1200 BCE): The earliest known inhabitants were Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people. Philistine Period (c. 1175 - 604 BCE): Philistines settled along the coastal areas, mostly in the Gaza Strip. Israelite Kingdoms (c. 1020 - 586 BCE): The Israelites, also a Semitic-speaking people, established the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (722 - 539 BCE): Assyrians and Babylonians conquered the region. Persian Period (539 - 332 BCE): Persia conquered the Babylonian empire, including this area. The Persians later reinstated Israel as a country. Hellenistic Period (332 - 167 BCE): Conquest by Alexander the Great, followed by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rules. Hasmonean Kingdom (167 - 37 BCE): Jewish rule restored after the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids. Roman Period (63 BCE - 324 CE): The area became a part of the Roman Empire, with Israel remaining a kingdom within that empire, with Rome appointing the king, until AD 44. Bar Kochba Period (132 CE - 136 CE): Simon bar Kochba let a Jewish revolt and for a short time revived Jewish sovereignty over land, until it was brutally crushed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove any trace of Jewish connection to the land. Byzantine Period (324 - 638 CE): Christian rule under the Byzantine Empire. Islamic Caliphate Era (638 CE - 1099 CE): Arab Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE, introducing Arab rule and Islamic culture to the region. Arabic gradually replaced Aramaic and Greek as the dominant language. Crusader Period (1099 - 1187 CE): European Christians captured Jerusalem and established the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (1187 - 1516 CE): Saladin, a Kurdish Muslim leader, defeated the Crusaders. The Mamluks, who were of various ethnicities including Turkic and Circassian, succeeded the Ayyubids. Ottoman Period (1516 - 1917 CE): The Ottoman Turks controlled the region, and the Arab populace lived under Ottoman rule. British Mandate (1917 - 1948 CE): British control after World War I. Increased Jewish immigration leads to tensions between Jews and Arabs. State of Israel (1948 - Present): Established in 1948, leading to ongoing conflicts with Arab Palestinians. The ‘West Bank' is in fact ancient Judea, the land of the Jews. The 'Philistines' lived along the southwest coastline, nowhere near the Judean hills. But with all this, there has never been a Palestinian state.

[@nuqwestr]

1.9 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel. They serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in the IDF. Not ethnically cleansed. What was wrong with Trans-Jordan or Egypt?

[@coraltitan6225]

You were not ethnically cleansed because: A. Palestinians are not an ethnicity. B. You are not clean. Your parents simply LOST the war that they started.

[@robertleib3646]

Thank you so much for this great video you are realy doing great and important work hope your crones gets better and keep up the great work on putting out informative and captivating content.

[@mkzhero]

The Torah actually mentions the Canaanites a lot, and that a lot of them integrated into the Israelites/Jews by adopting Judaism... But some that didn't where driven out, and some weren't even offered a chance because they attacked before that and where at war. But yeah, largely i'd say a lot of them are indeed the same as Israelites. Idk why you keep the modern map up btw, when talking about the Philistines, it would be much more helpful to show a map of Philistia (basically a bigger Gaza). later on of the other forces and eventually of the Ottoman empire, those maps are widely available too, so why not use them..? Also why do you focus so much on the Israeli bombs hitting those sites, but NOT on the Jewish holy site you whiff over, without even mentioning what happened to it? And insist on saying 'PEACEFUL takeover of Gaza by Muslims', while for other groups you didn't go out of your way to say it..? Also if it was so peaceful, and the Israeli bombs are so bad, why is the conversion of the surviving churches to mosques also just whiffed over..? You also failed to mention that the invading Muslims took in a lot of slaves and forced converts, traded and shuffled them around like crazy, so they dramatically displaced and shuffled up the local inhabitant composition wherever they went, so it was hard to tell who was what after them, plus they weren't 'all Arab'. And no, the identity of the 'Palestinian' wasn't "formed by the end of the late 1800's or early 1900's", because if you read Arabic, British AND JEWISH texts from back then, you'll hear them ALL refer to the locals and themselves as 'Palestinians', aka, just 'the people living in the region' without distinction. When distinctions ARE made however, its split up to Arabs (Muslims) and Jews, who ALSO refer to themselves in that way, without no 'distinct group' calling themselves 'Palestinians'. When the Arabs where refusing a state there, or rather refusing a JEWISH state and insisting on only a Muslim state the Jews would have to integrate into, they also referred to themselves as Arabs, and the stated reasoning was, and i quote "for THE ARAB WORLD homogeneity". Its only MID 1900's, after their loss in the civil and total wars that said identity started and finished to form, arguably with the help of the USSR who helped Israel establish itself but where pissed off with it refusing to become a Soviet colony and instead cooperating with the US, so they fabricated and formed the identity and a separate UN body for them to make sure the local US ally is always under fire. Don't know how much i believe the latter, but it does make sense... Plus the Palestinian identity absolutely formed then and not half a century earlier as you claim. "The British continued to sell even more land to the Zionists"..? Now that's a flat out lie, the British didn't allow ANYONE to buy land in Israel. The Muslims owed about 15% of Israel before ww1 and after it, and the Jews about 5%. Under the British, Jews could ONLY buy OWNED lands, which they did, bringing up their ownership % to 7-8%, and the Muslim ownership % to 12~% due to the sales. Furthermore, they greatly limited the immigration of Jews to the land they promised them as a national home despite the persecutions and ww2, yet allowed MORE MUSLIMS than Jews to immigrate in! This, along with the unhidden antisemitism of some of the British commanders and governors at the time, and the growing Arab anti Jew movement that was somewhat quietly encouraged by these people was a big part to the Jews starting to revolt against the local British forces. So no, the map you bring up has NOTHING to do with the British and everything to do with prior land purchases from both sides, and post brit deals to shuffle those lands around a bit, with Jews buying out a few more. And calling them 'Zionist newcomers' sounds too bias, given that WAY LESS of them came than Arab immigrants. "The British, being a colonial power didn't have a right to give out any lands"..? Okay, at this point you hit the crackpipe full swing i guess... First of all, as i mentioned, they didn't even GIVE AWAY any lands, well, outside Jordan, which yeah, they had no rights giving to the Arabs given the league of nations allocated it as land for the Balfur declaration (lands allocated to make 'a Jewish national home). Second of all, they ABSOLUTELY had the right, given that any country/empire ruling an area had the right to do so. Israel was all OTTOMAN land save for the 20~% of owned lands in Israel, with the Ottoman empire, and others before it FULLY FREE to do as they pleased with the 80% of the unowned land, and the owned land too really, given empires didn't really care about property all that much. So the British, as the victors that took over said empire, ABSOLUTELY had the rights to do with those lands as they please, which to their credit, outside they tiny Israel they didn't and mostly returned it to the locals with a questionable degree of accuracy and fairness, but hey, its up to the locals to settle anyway since it was given back to them anyway and if they really where as peaceful and wise as many progressives seem to think they are, they'd have no problems doing. "Tensions between Jews and Arabs where already high, because they demanded independence"? Another lie/highly inaccurate statement, they DIDN'T demand independence, they DEMANDED THE LAND, and by that i mean ALL land, INCLUDING the lands legally bought and owned by Jews from the Ottomans and other Arabs, as ONE state. They didn't 'want independence', they wanted, as i quoted before 'Arab world homogeneity', with NO possibility of a Jewish state anywhere, easily proven both by their statements, and refusing the Peel commission, in which they refused a deal that'd land them with 80% of Israel (that's on top of the previous 80% which was Jordan, which would account for a total of 95~% of the mandate for Palestine), only vaguely promising they'd keep the rights of the local Jews. But you completely skim all over that and the previous ones to the UN deal for some reason..? You also completely fail to mention the Arab revolt was also in large part due to religious reasons, and the fact that the local Arabs where Hitler's allies, making this conflict an extension of ww2 and the Genocide against the Jews, which the Arabs of Israel and their mufti indeed swore and shook over it with Hitler. More bias after that with 'the two sides going to war' instead of 'the Arabs going to a civil war in 1947, taking lands, getting pushed back, losing, then joining the invading Arab states in ANOTHER multi state war on a single newly declared state', which sounds FAR less favorable and completely discredits the whole 'Nakba' narrative, especially when coupled with the fact that the Arabs that DIDN'T go to war with the Jews got to stay with the Jews in the newly formed Israel, and continue to be a part of it to this day, and the only ones displaced are those that went to war against their neighbors, or at least left their lands by the request of the invaders to help an easier invasion and not get in the way, which is almost the OPPOSITE of your claim that they where 'forced out of their homes'. And not 'in response', but Jews where being dislocated from the Arab world BEFORE 1948 too! And not 'just as many' but MORE (900k~). And yet another lie about 'not being welcome' in other Arab states, because they WHERE accepted by Jordan, Lebanon and others, where, in turn, they started revolts and coups to take over, and ONLY AFTER THAT they weren't welcome! Also Gaza didn't "remain in Jewish hands", but Jordan and Egypt DIDN'T WANT THEM after their coups and shenanigans! And yes, while the PLO softened a bit, its not by much, and NO, their goal is not 'independence side by side with Israel', but their constitution still reads 'DESTRUCTION OF ALL JEWS'. "The Jews became more right wing and expansionist"? Shown by WHAT..? They didn't EXPAND a single inch over the existing settlements... And yeah, i'd understand why they wouldn't want to leave after they left Gaza and pulled out all settlements lol... Are you just talking randomly..? So, as usual, EXTREMELY bias.

[@alanbeasy1775]

Very good historical explanation. The only thing I did not understand was your comment about how the Palestinians also need to have a state where they are free to exist. They have had Gaza and the West Bank for decades. The only reason for the current conflicts is because Israel keeps getting attacked.

[@ignagalindo]

A historiographic argument much-needed in its patience, balance, nuance and deeply humanistic rigor. Thanks Matt, once again.

[@spaghettibird5135]

A bit of a problem: you said that Palestinians were not accepted by their neighboring countries but Jews were by Israel following the 1948 war. This just isn't exactly true. Jordan and Lebanon specifically became home to many many Palestinian refugees, who are still there today. Overall, great video. Very informative! Just wanted to correct this record as it is a very misunderstood issue in the region.

[@simonpedersen5398]

they aren't accepted though, they are denied citizenship

[@DMG020]

By far the best explanation on the matter, excellent work

[@Qeewee8500]

As someone originally from Gaza and St Porphyrius is my church. It wasn't hit directly, it was a neighboring building that hit and the impact damaged a church outer building which unfortunately killed members of our community. just for context. Hamas would use the church cemetery to hide weapons

[@smartian143]

May God show mercy on us all.

[@blmm47]

why are youtrying tointerject emotion in a very alm respectful discussion group

[@CK1000ism]

Thank you for giving real life context to the presentation. And so sorry for your family members.

[@djvincekline7338]

Can you also tell how Hamas treated the Christians in Gaza?! Because that is something that I miss in your story.... You already mentioned that the Christian church was clearly not touched (destroyed) by Hamas.

[@garybuck6535]

Thank you for the much needed honesty, many online are saying Israel intentionally harmed the church and are sharing fake information. I hope you and your family are safe, have a good day!

[@TemujinKojiro]

1099-1187 crusaders. You continently left out that they butchered every Muslim and Jew in Jerusalem

[@mustaphastjules1194]

what were the reasons for the crusades?

[@sirenesoteric]

The crusades happened because of Arab aggresion towards Europe and the Levant lmao.

[@myoptimumpride5178]

​@@sirenesotericReligious wars are like fighting which fantasy best friend is the best. They have learned to dehumanize people because of their belief and the lies of afterlife.

[@daryl94]

warlord pdfile muhammed police be upon him

[@Johnny-jg2xp]

@@sirenesoteric where both invadors the same? i highly recommend you do research and see how both conquered. Hint Muslims were 150 times more peaceful only fought armies and didn't grpe butcher everyone like the christians

[@ivanrogel1439]

Matt, thank you, from the bottom of my peace seeking heart!

[@KAZVorpal]

The section about the two states not being formed is wrong. The war was in RESPONSE to the Nakhba, not the other way around. Starting right after the UN partitioning, the Hanagah, Irgun, and Lehi started ethnically cleansing the majority Palestinians in Israel, to create an ethnostate. When he says "the two sides went to war", he means the ethnic cleansing started, and IN RESPONSE first the Palestinian Arabs and then the neighboring countries fought back. The Nakbah started BEFORE that war. It's what DROVE that war.

[@AlexFogarty-g5h]

Another good video. Being pedantic though, you say that it wasn’t until Roman times that the land was referred to as Palestine. I’ve just finished Herodotus’ Histories, and he definitely calls this region Palestine, several centuries before the time period you mention. Before even the Macedonian period. I’m not an expert on ancient translations or etymology or anything, so maybe this doesn’t contradict your statement after all. Anyway, really appreciate your work generally, thanks a lot and keep it coming!

[@sauronthemighty3985]

The usage didn’t become common until the roman times, as far as I’m aware

[@mauricehalfhide3982]

True.

[@noamnoam16]

Herodutes traveled the coasts of the Mediterranean. And was a Greek. As said in the video, the coast was mostly ruled by the Philistines and the inner body of the land by the Israelites. And Herodouts was a Greek communixating with Greek settlers therefore they probably told him the region is Philistine, hence being refered by him as Philistine. I doubt the word Palestine as we know it today mentioned there.

[@lanre007]

The video has commentary that is rather out of place. Even if we accept the video claim that the modern "Palestinian national identity"" is over a century old ,the fact is that the newly formed identity DID NOT bring with it sovereignty over ANY territory in the region least of all Gaza . The narrative of "Palestinian people" being "victimized" or "colonized" on their own land is therefore unsustainable. Before the British/ league of Nations mandate, sovereignty belonged to the Ottoman empire not to any yet to be formed Palestinian national identity.

[@KAZVorpal]

No, Egypt did not fall during the Bronze Age Collapse. I mean, that's a pretty basic thing to get wrong. Egypt, unlike the Hittite kingdom and Mycenaean city states, survived intact, though it did undergo a decline.

[@user-kp5uy8vd8o]

What an informative, unbiased, amd fair video. I understand the current situation much better. Subscribed

[@Fai9albinKhalid3]

3:20 I really want to know how did your source reach to the conclusion of the Israelites dominance over the culter of Canaanites while aldo being a branch of the Canaanite themselves? Even though Canaanites were very influential over the region, doesn't nake enough sense to me I would LOVE to see a full breakdown of Modern Jews who are living in Israel and Palestinians, it would be so clarifying ❤❤

[@Fai9albinKhalid3]

also the mixture of civilizations in these 2 groups DNA is quite interesting

[@arnbrandy]

I felt that specific statement was quite an oversimplification. But I believe Matt has another video about that here and, if you haven't seen yet, Dr. Justin Sledge's ESOTERICA channel has an awesome video about it from a few weeks ago!

[@Fai9albinKhalid3]

​@@arnbrandy Thanks! I will check it out ❤

[@etgarmoyal]

Israelites had 2 kingdoms who were spread over most of Israel territory (Judea and Israel kingdoms both of which were jewish)

[@TheEzzyMaster]

All Jews left Gaza in 2005

[@marilepine1]

They kept a blockade, they control all the borders by Land, Sea and air, they control everything that goes in and out. And some times they shot at civilians (check How many gazans were killed by Israel since 2005)

[@cadds8055]

yet they build hundreds of thousands of settlements every year in bethlehem and the west bank?

[@robinei.moraes]

Captured by "Muhammad Ali" LOL He definitely fought his way in.

[@TheBandit025Nova]

The Greatest Boxer of all time

[@mikemin5]

You should post the timeline chart as a pdf we can view, so that it is easy to share.

[@michaelmanus7765]

This is the biggest piece of propaganda garbage I've seen trying to pass itself off as legit. Naqba - isn't the tragedy of the Arabs and their dramas, the original meaning was that the Arab tragedy was that they didn't succeed in wiping out all of the Jews. Go look up the original term, who coined it, and what it meant. You say that the British should have any say yet you are okay with the Ottoman Empire, another foreign power? Is it because they are Muslim? Well pay attention - Ottoman Empire looked down upon the Arabs and rarely let them own land but could only do long term lease. 1864 census showed that Jerusalem was over 80 percent Jews. What happened? An on going occupation by Arab Muslims to tip the scales. This guy who put this together isn't much of a Jews and is 100 percent clueless to the real facts. Israel's history is not pretty but the Arab one is much much much worse, with lies, deception, violence and more.

[@healthy3074]

You are right in each of your points. The only claim the Palestinians can make to the Land (Gaza or Judea/Samaria/coastal plain) is it was once Muslim (Caliphate/Ottoman) and/or my great grandfather lived there in the 1800’s - no texts, no native kings, no native language and a religion that was delivered by conguerors from

[@darylmorse]

You glossed over the part about the Ottomans siding with Axis powers and as a result, they were on the losing side. Normally, when one picks the losing side in a war, it's not them, but rather the winners who divide the spoils. The winners in this case were the British and they received a MANDATE to create a Jewish state, not to colonise the region. While the arabs living there didn't like this outcome, they (and you) seem to have glossed over the fact that THEY LOST THE WAR. Also, if you look at any map of the area during the Ottoman period, there is no mention of "Palestine". Also, the population of the area was very sparse before the period of the Mandate. The idea that the arabs have a centuries old claim to the land is nonsense. Most of them migrated there in the period leading up to the formation of Israel. You also failed to mention that the Jews agreed to the UN resolution to share the land with the Arabs, but the Arabs refused. This was the first of many times where the Arabs refused to create their own state. Unless or until the Arabs agree to live in peace with Israel, there will never be peace. As for the response of Israel being "immoral", that is nonsense. No army has ever gone to such great lengths to avoid civilian casualties. The Arabs brought this on themselves. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[@Hallow1]

ottomans didnt exist when the axis powers were around

[@darylmorse]

@@Hallow1 Ah, no. The Ottoman empire collapsed after WW1, because they sided with Axis which lost. (It didn't collapse because of WW1. It was going to collapse anyway. Being on the losing side in WW1 was just the final stake through the heart.)

[@idoszamet889]

When you lose a war you can't expect to have your own country...

[@itaypeleg]

true when you lose you lose

[@j.d4559]

Unless you win it back. It works both ways until one side is eradicated entirely and then a new challenger enters the fray.

[@StFuPl0x3]

@@j.d4559 did you just challenge to completrly erase a race ?

[@dsaikon]

Amazing Video as always!

But Canaanites includes Israelites, Judeans, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, Phoenicians and maybe more. Also near the Canaanites there are the Ugaritics and Arameans and Amorites and other Northwest Semites. Anyway I'm gonna continues watching

[@bella-hi4oo]

Maybe the creator chooses the largest population or the current ruler..

[@bella-hi4oo]

Canaan was a huge land..

[@natybar-yosef9931]

The name israel dont mean a clan The name was an agreement between tribes in cnaahan to form a kingdom The name of the kingdom was israel

[@ErixSamson]

That sounds like "Game of Thrones" to me

[@a.munroe]

Well. AOIAF is based on history. 😢

[@bella-hi4oo]

Exactly..

[@somethingfunny6867]

game of thrones was the war of the roses.

[@davidladuke7039]

I appreciate you're trying to be diplomatic, but calling Palestinians in Gaza "second class citizens" is really a disservice. They have no rights of citizenship, real or pretend.

[@fyukfy2366]

I thought their whole point was that they didn't want to be Israelis? Israel left in 2005 and now they're complaining that they don't have the rights of Israeli citizens?

[@a.deen.7842]

Thanks Matt. That was some much needed clarity.

[@eppie4102]

The partition was not specifically for zionists, it was for jews.

[@abotariq257]

Herodotus called this area Palestine before romans

[@jasperchance3382]

this is dubious. The Philistines were there and the reference is to the people, while the Romans referred to the geographical area.

[@fyukfy2366]

So what? Just because Palestinians use an old name that doesn't mean it's actually theirs

[@SocialistMark]

Thank you for this, plain and easy to understand, just history and I love it

[@gheller2261]

Except it's not. Why are so many people so easily manipulated?

[@MN-lj6jy]

good vid, but except the genetics there's also the cultural aspect of the people. Your Pro-Palestine political leaning between and outside the lines isn't objective as well. (Israel bombing sites, without mention they are under ISIS-like control that is the main cause, also ur tone on "zionist" which today became as another word for patriot in Israel- more than 50% of the current population of Israel are Mizrahi refugees that are referred as well with that term today) and when u speak about Israeli settelments- they are not even close to the radical Palestinian ideology of terror so take a break man. Israel is the one who have that ancient native costumes, which shaped Judaism as we know it. Whether Arab or "Arabized" the Palestinians are another symptom of Arabization that destroyed many native cultures and people in the Middle East and other parts. If Judaism carry inside some Canaanite costumes, Islam is mainly focused on the Arabic one, and based itself on the roots of Judaism while denying that aspect (=Arabization of the Tanakh). Suppurting the current Hamas pro protests that sharing Hamas way of "Free Palestine" isn't only a bad take but an Evil one.

[@marwaqoura7804]

Great video ,I am Egyptian and history freak was even eligible to study it and Egyptology at the Uni.but I choose English language instead . This video was by far the most accurate and unbiased ,even better completely secular about the ' Cause of Causes ' as we call it in this part of this world which affects everybody on earth if not settled ...Shukran شكرا 💐❤🙏

[@jstdr4774]

Question: why are the British a colonial power with no right to sell land but it is assumed the Ottomon Turks had proper authority and were not similarly a colonial power ? Answer: because the Ottomons are not Western.

[@DebPercy]

The point was about selling the land, not about colonial powers. The British sold the land and it is questionable whether they had the right to do so.

[@anonpers0n]

I agree that noth sides are in the wrong, but i also know a bit about how war works. Overall i am hugely impressed with how well the Israelites have managed to avoid mass civilian casualties. The realities of war is that many die. But with an enemy that tries to blend in with the civians i would have expected 10-15x that number just 15 years ago. Israel needs to not let the same situation pop up in 10 years. The gazans need to police their own if they want a nation... Until then the resources would be turned into war aide to keep fighting or more likely fight again. Sucks for them being a havenot instead of a have, but ya cant help soneone whos trying to stab you.

[@Anthony-lk5dm]

buddy did you even do final editing on this theres so many errors

[@mxfxndom]

this is wonderful, thank you❤

[@sauravchaudhuri2893]

Thanks for this video Sir