The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict explained on a map 

I'm back! Sorry for the long delay. Due to the sensitivity of this topic, I spent more time on research. Also, the video is longer than usual, which means more editing work. I hope this video helps you to understand better this complex and controversial topic! Stay respectful in your comments, please. See you soon!

Important to note: the Phillistines were Greek people, not the present day Palestinians who are arabs.

This is going to be a very civil and respectful comment section

This video doesn’t mention Egypt was offered Gaza back with the Sinai Peninsula and they didn’t want it.

And yet another point that is missing is that when Israel made peace with Jordan and Egypt, they refused to take West Bank and Gaza respectively under their control even though they used to occupy these territories before.

99% of the comments about how bad the comment section is gonna be lol

as an Israeli who went to public school, the Idea that Israel only teaches bible stories as history is ridiculous, we had bible class and history class and they were totally separate.

It’s really funny that people say that this is Pro Israel and others that its Pro Palestinian 🤣

15:56 it's incorrect to use this flag while representing Palestinians before the creation of Israel this flag was only adopted in 1964

Man was missing for half a year now i get it he was cooking

Egypt: Palestinians are our brothers in language & faith. Also Egypt: co-blockades.

If you’re gonna pick a side, do it based on facts. I truly don’t care what side you fall on. Just form your alliance based on truth.

Yoseph Hadad, an israeli arab activist shared that when israel came to be according to his grandmother who was actually there at the time, anyone who was in israeli designated territory could choose to stay right where they are and become israeli citizens, some chose to do so (and the fact is theres 2mil arabs in israel atm, full rights and no apartheid bs) and some hated the fact there would be a state for jews and chose war from the very beginning, and when given the choice (many times mind you) to make a Palestinian official state, they declined, not because they didnt want a state, but because they didnt want Israel to be. Otherwise they might as well would have made a state while it was Jordanian occupation, or Egyptian.

Slight correction. The northern kingdom of Israel was conquered by the Assyrians. Only later did the southern kingdom of Judah get conquered by Babylonia. So they were not conquered at the same time and not by the same people. Other than that a very objective and unbiased video.

Love that this channel isn't afraid to just state facts as they are with a simple animation that's easy to follow.

People saying that this is “pro-israel” or “pro-Palestinian” just proves the fact how neutral this video is

2 important things to mention: Palestinians aren't Philistines, while the Philistines were a Greek tribe the Palestinians are Arabs aka originated in Saudi Arabia. Secondly, the name Palestine was originally Philistia and it was given to the land of Israel after the defeating of the Bar Kohkva revolt in the 2nd century as a way to mock the Jews as the name Philistia as you might have already guessed is derived from the Philistines who were one of the biblical enemies of the Israelites (Jews). At the time of the Ottoman empire the land wasn't called "Palestine" but it was ruled under the governing of the Egyptian region of the Ottoman empire, after the Brits conquered the land of Israel they called both Jordan and Israel "the British mandate of Palestine (or Palestina) א"י, א"י means the land of Israel (ארץ ישראל in Hebrew). Thank you for a great video!

small correction, around 800K jews were exiled from arab countries (Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Egypt...), 200k more than the arab refugees.

everyone's talking about the argument in the comment section but I don't see one

19:00 since you didnt say so i felt obligated, they were told to leave because the arab told them they will win the war. And the 150:000 didnt left at all.

In a recent genetic study jews from several diaspora were examined. The research was done to learn how to treat diseases that are characteristics of a certain ethnic group in israel. For the purpose of the study people were selected whose both parents are from the same country. Ashkenazi jews, jews from marocco, jews from irak and Iran, and jews from italy and Yemen participated in the study. The result of the study showed that all the participants in the study are third cousins from the father side. That means a genetic match of 2%, between two complete strangers there is genetic match of 0.2%. between two brothers for example there is a genetic match of 50%. The study shows that Ashkenazi jews and jews from marocco and jews from irak and Iran and jews from italy and from Yemen they all share a common ancestor from the father's side.

10:45 the flag introduced in this part was yet to be invented in 1936. This is the PLO flag created in 1964. But so far that’s the only inaccurate thing Iv’e noticed. Really factual and accurate!

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It's a surprisingly neutral representation of the conflict. Both sides will not be happy about it.

Thanks for uploading again @GeoHistory!

I love how there is absolutely 0 bias in this video. This is how history should be taught.

You left out the 1949 Lausanne conference-it's not true that Israel refused to allow refugees to return. Rather, they wanted formal peace from the Arab states and recognition of their borders based on the 1949 armistice. In return, Israel offered to either annex Gaza and grant citizenship to all its inhabitants or to compensate all refugees for their displacement as well as accepting 100,000 refugees into Israel. The Arab states refused.

No word on the jewish refugees from arab countries?

“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide ? The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now.” - Aaron Bushnell, US soldier.

99% of the comments are about how bad the comment section is going to be while 1% of them are actually related to the topic.

This is probably the most informative video i'll see on the topic. You did too good for the comment section to be bad.

This video combines handy graphics with a level of detail and complexity that is often overlooked in most brief summaries of the conflict. Well done. Perhaps the best introduction to the subject I’ve seen.

Just for context - the offical flag of the Houthis, displayed at 33:25, reads "Allah is the Greatest, Death to America, Death to Israel, A Curse Upon the Jews, Victory to Islam"

Oh boy I'm sure these comments are gonna be very civil

Very solid attempt at covering the conflict. Being an Israeli, I managed to find some details that were missing. But of course the same thing could be said by Palestinenians. Peace

This channel is a masterclass in fair, unbiased analysis of history. Good work!

I'm amazed that you left the Comments section open for this video but from the looks of things everybody is staying chilled and respectful at the moment. Hope it stays that way. 🙏 (P.S. Thanks for all the work you do with putting these videos together. Would still love to see your take on the colonisation of New Zealand, particularly the land wars between the native Maori tribes vs the British & colonial forces.)

I haven't seen many videos that talk about the conflict in such an unbiased manner. Good job

This video contains numerous lies and inaccuracies: The territory was never referred to as Palestine by the Ottomans; it was called South Syria. The Palestinian flag was only invented in the 1960s. No mention is made of the Husseini family's affiliation with Hitler. There is no mention of the numerous massacres of Jews by Arabs under the British mandate. No mention of the persecution of Jews in Arab states other than Iraq and Yemen and their ethnic cleansing. The terrorists who killed the Olympians are referred to as a commando squad? The video downplays the raids and massacres of Jews by Arabs during the War of Independence but emphasizes the Deir Yassin incident. It fails to mention Arafat's KGB connection. There is no mention that Israel and the international community left civilian infrastructure in Gaza for the Palestinians to use, but the video stresses the destruction after Hamas attacks. Palestinians are casually referred to as refugees three generations after the war. Are the Germans expelled from Czechia and France after WWII still considered refugees? There is no mention of Hamas being an Iranian proxy organization spreading radical Islam and aiming to commit genocide against all Jews. This video is, at best, a very mediocre historical account and, in fact, extremely biased and full of lies.

awesome information. People need to know the history before commenting on the conflict. context is everything.

saying the muslim colonizers "tollerated" jews is like saying white people in the south tolerated black people in Jim Crow America also, didn't mention al-Husseini ended up siding with the nazis, lived in nazi germany doing propaganda work for them, and had significant support in Palestine, egypt, Iraq etc

I'm sorry how we in Russia treated Jews!

This was really well researched! Very fair and balanced too. Fantastic work!

Video:is about Israel and Palestine *Sighs, opens the comments section*

Such a lot of information - will need to rewatch a couple of times - Great Job!

A very detailed video regarding the confluct. However, when addressing the refugee issue, you forgot to mention that by UN definition a refugee status is only available for the first generation and their decendents must be intergrated into their host countries. The fact that Arab countries are unwilling to intergrate the Palestinians and keep naming their towns of residence 'refugee camps' tells you all you need to know for how the conflict is kept alive. Also, Jews weren't just expelled from Iraq and Yemen, but from the entire middle east.

As a Canadian wasp, I think I should chime in here with facts I made up.

Massacre of Granada in Al-Andalus killed 4.000 Jews in one day (which is 3000 Jews more than in the entirety of the Portuguese inquisition, which killed 1100). Massacre of Fez (1033 AD) killed 6000 Jews in one day, which is way more than the Jews that died in the entire history of the Spanish Inquisition. Don’t forget the great number of massacres against the Jews in the Islamic world (occurred until 20th century) and that the muslims expelled the Jews from Medina. This video is romanticizing the muslims.

Learned a lot here, well done.

the beat dropped harder than my grandma down the stairs

israel:*exists for 1 day* arab league:and i took that personally

My favorite history channel when it comes to war is back! I have yet to watch the video, but I expect no sugarcoating like the videos before.

This is a somewhat biased video.. there is supposedly a basic summary of Jewish history but no mention of constant Jewish presence in the holy land and the many Jewish attempts to return to it throught history. Jews in the holy land were central to Jewish life as is obvious from the great importance of many works from the area - the Mishnah (3rd century) Jerusalem Talmud (5th century), the work of the Tiberian Masorah (10th century), Shulchan Aruch (16th century), Lurianic Kabbalah (17th century), and many more. Jews in diaspora constantly tried to return to the holy land, such as the Jewish revolt against Gaius in the 4th century and against Heraclius in the 7th century which both led to Jews in the holy land being massacred and expelled. Until being massacred and expelled by the christian crusaders in the 11th and 12th centuries, Jews were likely a majority of the population, especially in the north of what is now Israel. After the Christians were defeated Jews continued moving back, such as in the Tosafist Aliyah (13th century), and the vilna gaon aliyah (17th century) and many of the most important Jewish writers and thinkers of the time worked or moved to the area, such as Nachmanides, Maimonides and R. Yehuda Halevi among others. Jews might have still been a majority in the region until increased arab immigration in the 18th-19th century, after which there was increased Jewish immigration in the 19th and 20th century. The video, as many people do, began with this, ignoring over a millenia of Jewish presence and constant attempts at returning to the land, as if 19th century zionism was some revolutionary moment, which it was not. It just enjoyed more success than previous movements. The video rightfully mentions Jewish terrorism, singling out the King David Hotel bombing and the Deir Yassin massacre, which were indeed horrific and consequential, and therefore worth noting, but fails to mentions years of Arab terrorism which directly or indirectly led to these attacks, such as the riots in 1920-1921, in 1929, in 1936-1939 and the attacks in 1947-1948 in which thousands of Jews were murdered, such as in the Hadassah Convoy attack and many many others. The video mentions that Israel refused to accept the 2002 peace plan but not that Arab countries refused that same exact plan in resolution 242 in 1967. Ariel Sharon visiting the temple mount was not a significant provocation, as hundreds of Jews go there every day. It was an excuse by Arafat to launch terrorist attacks on Israel (the second intifada). The video mentions the terrorist attacks but does not mention any of them, such as the massacre at Park Hotel killing 30 jews at a passover seder, which led to the subsequent invasion of the West Bank. The video also declines to mention that of the Palestinians killed in the current conflict, between a third and half were armed combatants of terrorist groups. This is not as biased a video as many of the ones you can find, so at least there's that. But omitting important facts can still paint a false version of events. The many questionable decisions made in this video to include or not include various events make clear that the creator is not familiar enough with the topic to genuinely speak authoritatively about it.

A few historical inaccuracies. Egypt was part of the British Empire and had full control of the Suez Canal from 1885-1954(56).

A well made video and for the most part, balanced, compared to a lot of other channels. 32:05 you failed to mention the special refugee status that is passed down. No other refugees have this privilege, inflating that number.

Imagine a video about the conflict in Cyprus starting with "Zeus fucked a bull, and then the titans besieged mount Olympus..."

Thank you for stating the history and plainly as possible. No spin, just facts as best as your research is and clear maps. I’m sure there will be disputes about some facts but all in all you did an amazing job and I learned a lot more than I knew.

Thank you for this outstanding summary.

It's a miracle that Israel become a state in this region and managing to keep the economic and quality of living in western standards. Why neighboring countries like Lebanon, Syria and Jordan stay have such big difference in the economic aspect ?

Well Done ! IMO this is a Great video Effort.

Thank you, learnt so much from this video

Very well done. Documentation, flow. Congratulations!

Awesome summary, doc!

Cool vid bro

Great presentation. Thank you.

Thank you your video added some great information to me to understand whats going on ❤

Thank you for the well researched, balanced explanation of the history. Well done.

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Well explained, and thorough.

So ive read comments that this video is bias towards Palestine and comments that its bias towards Israel. I would take that as a compliment

ONe of the most neutral video on the topic, amazing, great job!

Good explanation!

Thank you for explaining that... I never understood it before 🙏 Explains agreat deal

Very interesting! Thankyou.

Rick was right, this is such a complicated topic.

So you made this again? Nice

Thank you for this video

All I've learned is today is just another page in the book. We're just here now but who knows how long it will go.

Great job Geo History! This can't have been an easy one

Your best video yet ❤

for some reason it seems that many of the comment sections here seems to be respectful to each other 🙏

Thank you for this clear explanation

And I thought Palestine was the evil emperor in Star Wars.

I found the video very interesting to watch.

Great video!

you dismissed a lot of parts like the Jewish that lived in Arab countries such as Morocco Egypt Tunisia Iraq Yemen. another mistake when the Turkish and the British after them seize the land of Israel the name Palestine was not exist.

Fantastic video. Thanks for the slice of history.

Who else went straight to the comments (ps this is a good video thats not biased)

Thank you for the history lesson.

No matter how much research you do, there’s always gonna be that same group of people that’s like where’s this where’s that

Geo History is the best!

Great video. Although I would have like to see a bit more coverage of the northern Israelis who were conquered by the Assyrians a couple hundred years before the the southern Israelis were conquered and taken to Babylon. The southern were returned to Israel when the the Persians conquered the Babylonians, but the northern Israelis; the 10 "lost tribes of Israel", were scattered throughout Mesopotamia and were not returned

Thanks for the explanation

The progression of this map between 1947 to this day speaks for itself as to who is the colonizer.

as a jew calling the first aliyah the old yishuv is stupid, the old yishuv is the jews that were there before 1881 not after

This channel has the word History in it's title, though the history given here is lacking at best. There's so much information missing or skewed from the truth, and I get it, this is a vast subject which is almost impossible to cover in a 30 min video. But with that, one must understand that telling half truths is worse than lying. more than that the choice of words in this video is highly tendentious.

There is little to no evidence of the Kazar theory

THE MOST ACCURATE HISTORY ON RU-vid! Thank you so much.

The 11th commandment says: fight with random ppl in yt comment section with a bad arguments and do mothing to resolve the problems

This was really, truly one of the best videos I have ever seen on this subject. Fantastic work as always! The only notes I felt compelled to make were that at 19:30 there were also Jews from Morocco, Iran, etc. to a total of more than 500,000 that came to Israel. Also, the negotiations at 26:40 didn't merely "fall apart", implied to be by mutual stubbornness. Israel offered Palestinians a state in more than 95% of the West Bank, all of Gaza, and 30 billions dollars in reparations. No counter offer was made, an plans for another intifada were made and eventually acted on.