Training ANYONE who isn't "religiously aligned" is too difficult. We tried. Some even took to it, but far far too few learned how to war. Without assurances of an afterlife and brainwashing, they just wanna live. It's good and bad. It makes them sheep, but at least sheep don't stab you in your sleep. I lament the average middle eastern living peaceful soul. It can't be easy.
@@apooru241 my assumption will be Due to the country being a 3rd world dictatorship, military leadership is full of corruption, nepotism and low IQ people.
@@apooru241 Example, I worked with some officers in the Egyptian Airforce, who were trained to understand and be in charge of AH-64A flight simulators. Most put very little effort in learning the electronics, because it wasn't what was truly important. One major learned enough so that he could fix PCs and some basic electronic equipment. He used that to be the Generals on call guy, to fix stuff for him, including non-military equipment off base. His skills in fixing the actual military equipment he was suppose to work on was very limited, but the base commander loved him. Personal connection, not skill is the most important talent.
One Egyptian general famously said: "Israel won, because Israel prepared for war. While we the Egyptians prepared for parades through the streets of Cairo".
So is that also the same in October 7?where the border all the Gazian(Egyptian)or Hama's broke in and killed many and raped as they can?So many said that Israel lost that time and exactly the same what you've said so now Israel not prepared for the attacked but it shows Gazian doing something pretend that they not do anything or they're not planningto attacked but Soldiers already notice that they are planning to attack they don't believe Gaza people believe will do something like that.Too much confidence.
@@SC1288 I had a fucking stroke trying to understand what you just wrote there, mate. ffs go learn this language a bit better before causing headache with your word salad.
We were learning about this war in school the other day when the janitor walked into the class, he is an old guy and after talking to him for a bit he told us that he actually fought in the six day war and was a part of the 55th parachute brigade, he is a very interesting person and it was fascinating to get the story from one of the soldiers directly!
@@hadarweil7131 you didn’t mention if he served with Israel in your previous. That’s all I wanted to know so I don’t research the wrong brigade by accident
You've certainly been expanding your number of channels and subjects, Simon, and all of them seem good. I think this one and Decoding the Unknown are my favorites of your newer channels. I've been watching for several years, and recently got my brother hooked on your shows, as well.
@@warographics643 I always have this image in my head of a spider with Simons head and beard chilling in the middle of a giant net catching all the different viewers with all those channels
There are many Arab countries but only one Israel, if they lost, Israel ceased to exist, so they had to win for all Jews in any country so that there was a safe country for all Jews where never again would there be any selections and left and right and as, an old British soldier, I fully understand that and with leaders of the calibre of Moshe Dayan and outstanding armed forces, I hope that there never will be, but I also hope that Israel can come to terms with the Palestinians so that both nations can grow and prosper.
@@seandobson499 🤔. Your perspective is better than mine, as you have military experience, but is pretty much exactly the same that I have!🙂 I am glad that Israel is an absolute beast militarily, and they knew they had to be, considering their location, and considering why Israel was created by a race/religion/ideology whose people were literally running from a genocide, or had family members victims from the genocide. That's not even touching the *thousands of years* of historical genocide, murders, harassments, and exile they faced, ESPECIALLY being put in a hot bed of the location the majority of the history of it happened. I'm also glad even with all of their reasons, you can still see that the Palestinians still should have their lives, and homes. Now how that all will come about, *IF* and that is a *BIG IF* it comes, how will it happen & what the consequences &/or progression it hopefully is brought forth from it. Hope you have a good day/night. 👍🙃
@@Planet_Xplorer It's sad how the only war some of them see as a victory is one they lost with at least 4 times the casualties by the lower estimates and gained no ground
@@jabbathetrump187 You have no clue what you're talking about. First, the Israeli casualties per capita were far higher than the Egyptians. Second, the Egyptians had to destroy Bar Lev line that Israel has been fortifying for years. Compare that with the US casualties in Normandy in WW2. Third, Egypt forced Israel to abandon Sinai and it is now under Egyptian sovereignty forever 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬.
@@Planet_Xplorer The ignorance in your comment.. Okay, I've actually spoken to Arabs, and I was extremely astonished to hear how much propaganda you guys get brainwashed with. First of all, casualties per capita mean nothing. Egypt had a population 4-5 times that of Israel. The most biased death toll (in favor of Egypt) shows that 2 Egyptian soldiers died for each Israeli one (in the whole war, including the fronts against Syria and Jordan). And about the Sinai? Where the hell were you told Israel was "forced to abandon" it? Israel made a peace agreement, in which it gave back the Sinai for a long-lasting peace with Egypt. I recommend you read some non-Arab sources on the war, since those sources are heavily biased, trying to show that war as an Arab victory despite having many more casualties and failing to achieve any meaningful goal.
@@Planet_Xplorer This comment is laughable at best. 1) You claimed that Israel lost more people per capita, I simply responded to that statement. Regarding the bar lev line - it's ironic that you tell me that my wisdom is from my "KG1 years" when you're trying to compare the Bar Lev line to Normandy. They're incomparable in every way. The Bar Lev crossing wasn't a beach landing. The Egyptian army crossed the canal on bridges in a surprise attack when both countries weren't technically in war. Furthermore, the Bar Lev line was only manned by 450 defenders, rendering it undermanned. To add Insult to injury, the extremely lighty armed strongpoints that made up the Bar Lev line were manned by inexperienced and undertrained immigrants, as the elite troops who usually manned them were fasting. Last but not least, the Bar Lev line was a major departure from the Israeli doctrine of quick, agile and dymanic assaults. Israeli generals had limited experience with utilizing static defenses. These strongpoints weren't even a line, they were poorly armed and unable to defend each other. This is why many in the Israeli high command opposed their creation and utilization in the first place. I think we should stop this conversation here. I won't be able to persuade you since you clearly went through quite a lot of indoctrination regarding this war. On that note, I recommend you watch a documentary or even a short video on this war from a non-Arab source. After that, feel free to reach whatever conclusion you'd like regarding this war. I personally recommend this video:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-82-lmGuTl_I.html
Perhaps it's because I've never fully understood conflicts with Isreal, but I never understood the international condemnation of Israel for turning a defensive war into an offensive one. When you strip away the complexities of the situation, it essentially boils down to the international community being upset at Israel for being really bad at losing. "We wanted to wipe you off the map completely, but now we are upset at you for taking land from us after initially defending the land we were going to take from you upon completely exterminating you". Generally the way war has worked over human history is if you provoke a war, and then lose, those losses are just something you kind of have to deal with. I do understand that the counter-argument is that Israel was never supposed to be there in the first place. Now that they are though, if you continue to lose to them after provoking a new stage of war with them, you can't really be upset about the land losses you've incurred in a failed war..
If someone breaks into and occupys my house the only moral outcome is for the intruder to leave immediately and pay for damages, and be prosecuted for criminal trespassing. The home owner is perfectly in their right to resort to all means including lethal force to eject the criminal element. Isreal did to Arab lands what the US did to indigenous American land except Israel did its crime _after_ it became illegal to acquire land through conquest and_after_ Nazis were hanged for instigating wars of aggression and ethnic destruction. No one is made that isreal can use Western weaponry and training good.
It's not complicated: during WWI, the UK promised that land to the Arab peoples (now referred to as Palestinians) that lived there if they revolted against the Ottoman Empire (which they did). During the same period they turned around and promised the Jewish leadership (at the time stateless) the exact same land (or sections therein) in support of the Balfour Declaration in 1917. It's the equivalent to renting a beach villa for a week and on the third day getting and email that someone else has been rented the villa during the same time. Worse yet, not only will you not be compensated for the loss of the section of the house, but the world is going to sit and watch as the new tenant comes in and claims your razor, your cellphone and all the food in the fridge while property owner stands outside laughing while eating popcorn. Fast forward to today and we now see the Palestinians in their very own "gated community" complete with poor access to basic humanitarian needs... the mental gymnastics required to look at what's going on there right now and be fine with it are simply astounding. The argument that that's their ancestral homeland is, frankly, flimsy at best given that Torah states they conquered the "Jebusites" living there in the 11th Century. By their own words, it wasn't theirs to begin with. Claiming that "God" gave it to them is the equivalent of American Manifest Destiny. Here's the reality of the situation: Mainland Europe (Christianity) has been at war with the Arab nations (Muslims/Moors) for nearly millennium due to both ethnic and religious bigotry so to say that the general European perspective of the middle east has historically been "poor" is putting it mildly. The only group that was as villainized as Muslims were Jews (the Spanish inquisition lasted almost 400 years). The only reason the middle east holds ANY sway or interest today is due to oil, a fact that was recognized even during the Arab uprising/Balfour Declaration period. It's not a coincidence that the year that oil was discovered in now Israel and the year that jewish refugees made it there are the same: 1947. This is all not to say that the Jewish people don't deserve a land of their own. I mean, if anyone does, it's certainly them considering the ethnic bigotry they've endured. I'm simply pointing out that the world powers (US/UK/France) used a marginalized group (Jews) to establish land ties directly in the middle east to further line their pockets *AND* assist with the pushback on communism.
To be fair, every country tries to use the justification of lost land, even from offensive wars, as a justification for further wars. The contested land Germany lost to France from WW1 was a big topic by Hitler for example. For Israel, though, it gets more eyebrow raising when you remember the Gaza Strip and West Bank were occupations from the first war... That Israel was ready to surrender in exchange for a peace deal that the Arab Alliance never signed. To the Israel mindset, those lands were just being illegal occupations since those losses were never acknowledged. Of course, this is only for the case of going with them inheriting the territorial sovereignty of the entire mandate.
@@Evocatorum I mean, to use your metaphor, two guys got promised the same house, who trying to honor both agreements tries to split it into a duplex for both to have their own homes. One side agreed to the plan, the other said no, so the first decided to say fuck it and started setting up in the house anyway. So the second guy's "friends" gang up together in an attempt to either kill, or at the very least drive the other guy out of the house entirely and back out onto the street. First guy manages to not get the shit kicked out of him completely and manages to stay mostly within the half of the house he was offered by the seller, while the second guy's friends squat in the other half of the house - refusing to work out an agreement to split the house, and not giving the half they took to their 'friend' either. Decades later after living in the house, he notices the gang preparing to make another go at murdering or evicting him from the house entirely, so he strikes first this time, roundly kicks their ass and takes over the entire house and some of their lawn as well. Which leaves the first guy left in a half ruined house with someone else and a lot of bad blood. Certainly Israel isn't faultless in a lot of ways especially as a reaction to what they went through has made them feel justified in abusing back, but I can't really look at the situation and see them as the 'guys in the wrong' here.
@@Evocatorum Look it's even simpler than that. This basic fact goes above and beyond anything you could say. It's only yours till someone else takes it. This basic fact of life is evident in all creatures of this world.
My dad was in the army and stationed in Germany at the time, working in intelligence. He remembers looking at documents stating how the top brass in our military thought for sure Israel was going to be overrun
Either you dad isn't telling you the truth or German intelligence was completely out of the loop; www.cia.gov/static/7834b09e425d6034ee204969a28785fb/CIA-Analysis-1967-War.pdf
when you think about the fact that jordan and egypt held the gaza strip and the west bank for 19 years but never thought of giving those areas to the palestinians (as they considered for them as part of "palestine"), it shows another angle of this conflict. it makes you wonder if they (and basicly the entire arab world) realy wanted to have a palestinian state or maybe the palestinians were and still are nothing but pawns and tools for them in order to continue their conquest campaign from the seventh century. in my opinion, the arabs wanted the land for themselves, the palestinian cause is just an excuse to take over Israel.
There has been a huge fund, available for use by any of the arab countries could use, for getting the "palestinian" refugees (they are just ARABS, in reality).....into better conditions. ALL the arab countries chose instead to keep them in camps...
Irrc, it's even worse. After the first war when Israeli managed to halt their advance (losing gaza and the west bank from the original mandate to occupations), they tried to sign peace treaties to fix the borders there, but the Arab states refused to sign any treaty that would acknowledge Israel as a state. A free and Independent Palestine could have been established then and there.
@@amorencinteroph3428 Link to a video...Debunking the Palestine Lie An interesting video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O7ByJb7QQ9U.html
@@leeshackelford7517 There was a legal agreement, in either '54 or '58 (I can;t remember the exact year) between Arab countries to NEVER take in ANY of the refugees that THEY helped create!
all of my grandparents fought in the war, so did my grand grand father, everyone I know who was born between 1940-1949 in my family has fought in that war.
I would really like Simon to take a crack at the Sri Lankan Civil War. It's fascinating to me how it was a war that began in the late 80s and it only ended back in 2009. 2000s was a time of great musical hits, video game releases, movies and a boost in technology in the western world all the while Sri Lanka was fighting a bloody civil war that ended only 13 years ago. Just like the Second Congo War. It was a bloody war that wasn't televised, talked about or even mentioned in the Western World.
Yes, I'd agree with that, and definitely like to see it given some coverage here. I do remember it being mentioned in the news here in the west (UK), however it was almost as an afterthought, an ''and in other news'' item. I think that's a good call.
@@threestepssideways1202 I grew up in the UK and even though I don't remember if the news ever mentioned the ongoing Sri Lankan Civil War during the 2000's. My guess is that it was just something along the lines of "Civil War in Sri Lanka still ongoing. Next."
1:35 CORRECTION. The British DID NOT OPEN UP IMMIGRATION to Jews. The gates of Palestine remained closed for the duration of the war, stranding hundreds of thousands of Jews in Europe, many of whom became victims of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” After the war, the British refused to allow the survivors of the Nazi nightmare to find sanctuary in Palestine. On June 6, 1946, President Truman urged the British government to relieve the suffering of the Jews confined to displaced persons camps in Europe by immediately accepting 100,000 Jewish immigrants. Britain’s foreign minister Ernest Bevin replied sarcastically that the United States wanted displaced Jews to immigrate to Palestine “because they did not want too many of them in New York.” "American Presidents and the Middle Eas"t, (NC: Duke University Press, 1990), p. 23.
Few inaccuracies: 1. No arab population was displaced from it's lands by Jewish refugees prior the war of 48' 2. Jewish population existed, lived and owned lands in the region, no different then the arab population. 3. Arabs in the region didn't identify them self as "palestinians" and the region was a british mandatory palestina - not an independent suveraighn political entity of any sort. 4. Arab population that lived in the area had no right to all the lands in the region in the borders created by the winning powers of ww1 in san remo conference in 1920. 5. The partition plan was land ownership based with no population or land swaps required.
In addition And the arabs that chose to stay in israeli zone are now (or their decendants) israeli citizens. The arabs that "lost" their lands LEFT those lands under the promise of getting it back after destroying israel. They lost. And worse, lands meant for paletine was taken by jordan and egypt.
@@chuckysmaria6466Exactly, they twisted the narrative to call this the Nakba and say they were forced out of their homes, but the term Nakba or catastrophe was about how the arab armies fell in such a pathetic fashion
@@noahmontgomery9902 And to add to that, despite losing in 1948-49 war, Israel took only 20% of lands meant for new state of Palestine (and I consider that spoils of war). The rest was taken by Egypt and Jordan. Essentially wiping the proto-Palestine state of the map. That's why the Nakba BS narrative sounds BS. It's not the Israeli that screwed them, it was there fellow arab countries.
when all the world thought Israel was domed Dyan appeared calmy at a press conference. When asked by BBC if Israel can defend itself he replied matter of factly "we don't need your boys - we can look after ourselves". And so it came to pass. Israel has never needed or wanted foreign soldiers to help them
@@tomvandijk9706 It's probably more like 20-30% (actively) but I'm sure if you looked through all the comments you'd find the video being suggested somewhere :)
@piebit so what the population has been growing? The jewish population has been growing since 45 and they had genocide committed against them, Palestinian identity has existed for centuries saying it didnt is literally part of the act of genocide they tried to make factual, their justification was that the culture they we’re destroying didnt exist it’s literally what russia is trying to claim with ukraine.
It wasn't exactly a surprise - the CIA under LBJ predicted pretty much this exact outcome (Israeli victory). None of the Arab states ever seriously posed a threat to Israel in 1967, but Israel called their bluff anyways
one small correction though, for the beginning: when the ottoman empire collaped, Jews were a large minority in the region, with a plurality in some cities and even majority in some towns. while many Arab tribes lived in the region, there was a large immigration to the region of Arabs, as the development brought by the British and Jews created many new jobs. the constant migration is why so many "Palestinian" tribes carry names of places in Egypt, Syria, etc. the mandate was also established for the formation of a Jewish state, however three quarters of it's territory were given to the Arabs to form the kingdom of Jordan.
@@SafetySpooon The British don't have the right to control it even if they won the war. It's the local powers that have the right to administer the land
@@Anverse-14 The British made a mess of things, yes. But that didn't mean the local countries had to scream like petulant children. It was the Arab League who refused to work for peace after the fact.
@@Anverse-14you don’t just get to keep land. You need to defend it too. The Arab world can’t take over a tiny country in the literal center of all these arab “powers”. Win the war next time
There's a book about this war that is really good. It's quite detailed but so well written that you're hanging on the edge of your seat, even through the political scenes; "Six Days of War" is the title. I can't remember the author, but I'm sure it can't be too difficult to track down on the interweb
@@LordGrantius yes, thank you! I put my copy in one of the Little Free Library cabinets that are dotted around the city I live in a while back to share the love lol
Everyone in Israel is proud TBH, heck I due to my health can voulanteer and I won't need to serve if I want, but in Israel it has become a national duty somewhat to serve, it doesn't look like a scary trap that you will die in, it's always looked on as a heritage and national inheritence.
1:32 I know it was a politically sensitive area but, shamefully, the British only allowed a maximum of 5,000 Jewish refugees per year leading up to the beginning of WW2. After WW2 around 12, 000 Jewish refugees per year moved to Israel leading up to 1948. The existing Jewish population in the Palestine mandate in 1939 was 450, 000 (roughly a 1/3rd of the entire population). These people had been emigrating to Israel in fits and starts since the latter part of the 19th century. So it's a myth that it was Jewish refugees of the Holocaust who created the State of Israel. The main contribution the Holocaust played in the establishment of Israel was to influence the UN to endorse the partition plan. (I applaud you for tackling this war as any topic related to Israel generally attracts a plethora of vitriol)
@@vulpes7079 True, but it's impossible that a 20 minute video would be able to encompass all the complexities. For example, the problematic attitude the original ruling class had in Israel toward the Holocaust refugees. Israelis wanted to define themselves as strong and proactive and these refugees didn't fit into that narrative. Another interesting aspect of Israeli society are the ultra orthodox jews, many of whom, don't recognize Israel as a s State. For them, Israel will only exist when the Messiah comes.
@@stevenalper3890 well, these are surely important factors, but they aren't vital to the story. Meanwhile, the expulsion of Mizrahi Jews from every single Arab country of the time gave Israel a massive boost in population and all the problems that accompany it. Simon just mentioned how Arabs in the area of the Mandate had been "displaced"
@@vulpes7079 True, but those expulsions happened in the 1950s so weren't a factor in the establishment of the State. The ruling class in Israel are Ashkenazi because they got there first. Fun fact: Israel is covered in pine trees because the early emigrants wanted to be reminded of home (Poland). Needless to say pine trees are a poor choice in a hot country.
Irrc, the Ottomans had been allowing Jews to return to the levant for 100+ years before their collapse. Jews expelled from Europe by the likes of Spain fled there.
What you might have pointed out is that the UN proposed both a Jewish and Arab homeland. The Jews accepted the proposal and the Arabs refused instead embarking on an attempt to destroy all the Jews in the former mandate. Most of the so-called displaced Palestinians were settled within Israel until Arafat ordered them to leave whence they went on a grand tour of the Middle East and North Africa causing trouble everywhere and being told to leave even by their most loyal supporters including Jordan, Egypt an Libya. Now, with increasing peace treaties between Israel and actual Arab nations rather than invented ones, I wonder how many wish they had ignored Arafat, stayed, and enjoyed the rights and opportunities they could have had within Israel
Lets divide up America into two countries and see how that goes, one can be for americans and one can be for the millions displaced by americas imperialism. Would you support your country being stolen?
Yup, would you prefer to be a refugee in destroyed/poor lands or live in a prosperous country of a different religion? Bad choice, but how blinded people can get it, when they are told to hate another people group. Also blame the Allies of WW1 and WW2 for a lot of the upheaval and political minefields we have today. Those "decisions" still haunt us to this day.
@@lukeclarke267 you're ignoring the 10 massacres israel and the hagenah committed against palestinians in 1948 forcing 700,000 or 85% of the total population of the territory israel captured to flee or they were expelled from their homes by israeli forces.
@@lukeclarke267 you're ignoring the 10 massacres israel and the hagenah committed aganst palesinians in 1948 forcing 700,000 or 85% of the total population of the territory israel captured to flee or they were expelled from their homes by israeli forces.
I was in the 7th grade when this war happened I knew nothing of reasons for the war . When i looked at the map and saw the size of Israel and their army , and looked at the size of the forces allied against them, I didn't think Israel had a chance . Boy was I surprised
@@theawesomeman9821 It was prep, prep, prep, prep against "Duh! We gon roll ovar dem like nutting!"-attitude. It's a case study in every military academy, and it drove the focus on intelligence gathering and training even higher.
Arab leaders were bought in advance, Many of them were Masons and reached the top with the help of Masons in preparation for these kinds of wars, At the start of the war King Hussain of Jordan who is a Mason ordered the Jordanian Army to pull to the east of the Jordan, cut all supplies to the units in the west bank and forbade the population from owning weapons, even a kid can tell he is a traitor, I am an Exorcist I can see by the power of God the other side he is in Hell now let the bribery money benefit him now.
2:00 It would have been only fair to mention that the Mandate for Palestine included what is Jordan today. In 1921, Britain decided to split up the Mandate and give 73% of it to the Arabs, leaving the rest as part of the original Mandate to establish a Jewish state. The map you are showing is the UNs attempts to split the the remaining areas up even more. Despite this, it is important to note that the Jewish leadership in Palestine agreed to this, if only to establish a Jewish state no matter how small. The Arabs however rejected it out of hand, demanding 100% of the land.
Yes they rejected it, and rightfully so. The map is from 1947, pre-civil war, when Arabs constituted the majority of people living in Palestine. It was no wonder it was rejected because the map splits up Arab populations and leaves the Israelis with disproportionately more land.
it would be fair to also say the British Mandate (to turn over the land to the Jews) was established in 1920 at the San Remo Conference and became part of the League of Nation and is part of the UN charter. The general asembly vote was an opinion resolution without legal standing. The British were trustees in the Mandate system and they abrogated their legal duty when they closed the gates in 1939 to Jewish immigration.
@@1czechit1 They didn't want a shit-storm in their rear tying down essential troops with war on the horizon In the meantime Jewish refugees were housed on Cyprus
The Mandate of Palestine's borders were just lines in the sand drawn up by Sykes-Picot and don't relate to the actual historical region of Palestine which is much smaller
@@stephenchappell7512 That's cute... anyway there was a treaty they had to abide by, and the Jews helped the British fight the Arab_Nazi alliance in what is today Iraq, and Syria. The Jewish refugees in Cyprus was after the war. During the War and just before the war the Jews were not allowed to enter what was supposed to be a Jewish State because of British Malfeasance. The shit storm in "their rear" was fought by Jews early in the war and just before the war.
a point on the 1956 conflict - Israel had to contend with constant state-backed terrorism coming from Egypt and Jordan + the Tiran straights were closed for Israeli shipping before that conflict as well (actually, Egypt restricted Israeli shipping through the straights for years before, but a complete shutdown took place a bit before October 1956)
Power is useless if not wielded properly. You can give my beagle a deagle but I doubt she can fire it… at least I hope not.. hold on I’m going to go check on my dog (and Gunz?)
I'm at 1:17, and there's an inaccuracy. "displaced many arab populations living there at the time": That is incorrect. The lands on which Jewish settlements, cities, and villages were established (until 1948) were not occupied but were paid for in full. They were purchased by Jews from Effendis and Arab landowners. It’s worth noting that the latter often took advantage of the refugees' predicament and demanded sums higher than market prices. No arab land was encouched on until the arab attempted to annihilate the Jews in 1948. 2:21: "The establishments of israel drove away large populations of arab-palestinians." Once again, there's no mention of the true reason for this, being the the 8(!) Arab armies trying to annihilate the Jewish settlement.
As was often the case, the land owner was not the occupant. It'd easier to blame the buyer than the rich landlords especially when these families are still connected or related to other Arab nation's ruling families.
An important point he completely (intentionally?) glossed over. Arab tenant farmers lived on Ottoman-owned land, sometimes for generations. Jews would purchase the land from the Ottoman owners and when they moved to settle that land, the Arabs were understandably displaced. Having to vacate a rental because the new owners are converting the two-family house you were living in, into a high-rise condo doesn't mean "your land was stolen."
we say Free Palestine because israel is an apartheid state and the occupying power over the gaza strip, therfore responisble for its population. bombing the population u are responsible for is just outrageous.
@@deltazeroks They are only responsible for Israel. Israelis are Israel's primary concern above anything else. Any attempts to disrupt their campaign to destroy Hamas and other terror groups will not be appeased. The Israel-Palestine conflict is a history of Israel being surrounded by aggressors who wish to destroy their country and its peoples. Israel offering peace to Palestinians, which is then responded with terrorism.
How such a small country smacked several other countries like they were a child throwing a temper tantrum is awesome! Conquest is a humanity, to the victor goes the spoils, they have no argument because they did the same thing 100’s of years before.
the shortened build-up you explain is very one-sided. Jewish immigration into the levant increased steadily from the middle of the 19th century, and so did arab immigration into the area. I wouldn't deny there was a lot of displacement of arabic population during the 1947-1949 war, some of which deliberate and some not. but there was no displacement beforehand. however, a displacement of jewish people leaving in arab states was of similar magnitude. the fact that we absorbed these refugess happily while arab nations stuck their refugees in camps and never ket them out properly should be held against the single jewish state in the world.
Just imagine, How a tiny nation was able to defeat those giants. Today I believe Israel is much well equipped. You will be playing with fire. Long live Israel.
RIP To the 776-983 Israeli soldiers, 9,800-15,000 Egyptian (UAR) soldiers, 1,000-2,500 Syrian soldiers, 696-700 Jordanian soldiers, 20 Israeli civilians, 15 UN peacekeepers, 34 US Navy, marine, and personnel, and 17 Soviet marines who were killed in the Six-Day War
This war was the prototype for the First Gulf War. And The Yom Kippur War showed the grit of the IDF, despite the Syrians and Egyptians learning nany lessons from the Six Day War.
there were plenty of jews in israel long before WW2. also the mandate for "palestine" also included jordan which constitutes about 80% "palestinians" today. those arabs who were in the jewish part of the land and did not fight against israel now constitute 20% of israel's population. many of those arabs who were "displaced" chose to flee before the war at the behest of their own leadership which stated they could return soon after they murder all the jews.
And more Jews were displaced by Arabs from 1948 onwards than Arabs displaced because of the Arab war on Israel. Israel took in hundreds of thousands of Jews from across the Muslim world. Meanwhile, the weaponized the Palestinian refugees by keeping them in camps and making their lives miserable so they would become terrorists.
I would recommend following up with the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when we were invaded on the most solemn Jewish holiday and which the country was not at all prepared for. Israel just barely survived and it leaves a profound mark on Israelis of my parents generation to this day. I’m sandwiched between those traumatized from the 2006 Invasion of Lebanon and those just younger than me who served in Su Kaitan (2014).
In 1948, Palestinians were not exiled...they were instructed to leave by their own leaders and the leaders of the Arab nations and promised that they would soon return with the victorious Arab armies. Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurion originally asked the Arabs in Israel to stay and not participate in war...they ignored him.
Not arab leaders and not return with the arab army. They were told by king hussein of Jordan to leave for 1 week to avoid bloodshed and they would return within 7 days
Don't forget that there were always Jews living in Israel, and the vast majority of Jews, including refugees, immigrated to Israel and bought the land they lived on legally.
nope. it was not just bought land. many massacres were committed in 1948 to force palestinians out. there is a list of israeli massacres against palestinians on wiki.
@@zombieat intresting comment. now lets talk about the way- long list of massacares commited by palestinians, including failing attempts to massacare, and any attempt to take Israeli lives. the fact that Israel won that war does not mean that Israel is the bad guy here, it just shows how determined it is to survive
I salute and admire the martial discipline of the Israelis, that the Ukrainians take Israel as an example because it is thanks to the Spartan discipline of the Israelis that they were able to defeat armies larger than theirs.
Israeli people either support Russia against the disgustinng ottoman regime, or are neutral. So the fact that putin didn't recruited them in mass, despite the military ranking of Israel, is a priori that putin is a complete moron who wasted ressources, men and money on an critical military campagn.
Very inaccurate, Jew-washing intro. So full of holes, I'm wondering whether to bother to watch the rest of it. Being balanced doesn't mean being inaccurate to save one side's feelings.
@@jezalb2710 true, it is interesting when you start to see Stalin listen to his generals a lot more in world War II from 1943 armor that they start to have more and more success as opposed to just hey let's just throw our men at the Germans and hope it works out with our Superior numbers
@@jezalb2710 yep and it would only increase as the war goes on in 1944 will you see stuff like Bagration. But I would say that to both of our points they can have all the resources in the world but if they keep squandering them stupidly then it won't matter so much so numbers and intelligent application of them is definitely important. Speaking of the US with only 10% of its total population in the military fought a two front war and kept the factory's fully stocked and producing equipment to win the war at a rate that of all of its enemies combined couldn't match it's pretty insane
Simon, you failed to mention the thousand and thousand of Jews who were forced out Arab countries, that by far exceeded the Arabs that had to leave Israel.
My grandfathers and grandmothers survived the holocaust, came to israel and fought every war to make the statement “never again” a reality. I’m proud of them and my country 🇮🇱💪🏻
@Drooman Kass yea exactly, poor arabs bad jews. Unfortunately unlike the germans we’re bad at holocausting because the arabs population is increasing. Thankfully we’re better than them with our economy
As an American, I stand with Israel. That is THEIR land. And they have the right to exist. The jews called that part of the world home long before the Arabs... also Israel's neighbors constantly call for its destruction and do all in their power to hinder Israel's development. Thankfully the Israelis are very smart and capable and rarely lose. I wish the US was more devoted to our Israeli ally.
Not to mention that, after Jews, Arabs want to kill Americans next. I prefer the company of those who don’t want me six feet under, but to each his own, I suppose.
As a South Korean, I agree with u too, it's a land of Jews both historically and fully deservedly. Jews made the wasteland the most prosperous country in the entire region also successfully defended against their oppressors who tried to steal all their land, property and lives. I got enormous repect for Israel and Jewish people after looking for their history and survivals. Hopefully, Israel will keep prospering upcoming future too
I might be against Israel being there, but you got to give it to them, they consistently beat the crap out of everyone against all odds.People sometimes wonder why their pilots are so good, they are so good because they HAVE to be.Their very existence depends on it.
You forgot to mention that Israel offered to give back the Sinai peninsula a few days after the war finished, but never got the chance to bring the offer to the Arabs because of the 3 "No"s
I love Israel so much, it’s insane! I admire their resilience, positive attitude, rich culture, ingenuity, and kind-heartedness. All nations should look up to Israel. Israel and its people is a true light for the rest of the world 😍
I'd curb that love just a little considering they are enacting a systemic apartheid state against Palestinians, assassinating journalists and killing those that fight back against the aggression. The old Israel is dead and the worst part is those that defend such actions and fund them.
Hitler opened only two fronts simultaneously. The Jews he so much hated did a lot better here. Though of course, Egypit in 1967 was not the USSR in 1943, and Nassar was no Stalin.
My dad was stationed at Langley Air Force base in 1967. And he was placed on alert. Just in case of the war didn't Israel's way. The United States was going to go and help out. And I was in my mother's belly at the time. And what my father told me is. It took the focus of the Vietnam War. To the Middle East. Mr. Dyan a tough but cool Under Fire leader. Who became later prime minister of Israel
Interestingly, Dayan gave the chance of success in the war on June 04 at a mere 50-50. Israel was actually worried about how the war would progress. But that story would require another video!
10:42 What capabilities do you think Mosha Dyan has in his eyepatch? X-ray vision and a laser beam are my top two. Or maybe t enables him to see what his ememy is looking at. Idk for sure. But whatever it is, it is damned effective, as he had an extraordinarily successful military career.
I'm just about old enough to remember hearing about the six day war on radio and tv news. I was 8, almost 9 years old at the time, so could not understand the reasons for the conflict. By coincidence, we had been learning about that part of the world at school at the time in a religious {Christian] context. The teacher called the land Judaea [which is what it was called in New Testament times] although she mentioned that the names Palestine and Israel referred to the same region. I also remember the Yom Kippur War in 1973, by which time I was a teenager. I visited the Holy Land in 1982 and 1999.
It’s truly amazing that a small country like Israel can win a war against a coalition of Arab/Muslim and communist countries. Perhaps it’s true what people say that when a country is fighting for its survival there’ll be heroism and courage coming from its people.
A few comments, if you please: 1. Before '48 no Arab population have been displaced. The Jews bought land where they could - where it was both sod in the first place, and where they could afford it - as the Arabs were really gouging the prices. As a result, the Jews more or less settled where the Arabs were least interested. 2. The establishment of Israel did not drive away large populations of Arab Palestinians. The invasion of Israel by the combined armies of 7 Arab states - along with expeditionary forces from various other Arab and non-Arab Muslim countries, with the local Arabs fleeing to get out of their way, as well as the war of terror and atrocities against the Jews started by the local Arabs against the Jews back in 1947, leading to fears of retaliations which lead to the Arabs fleeing, is what drove those populations off. 3. The State of Israel did expel some Arabs, mostly Arabs who lived in key strategic positions whose villages served as bases for attacks on the Jews, and whos populations were particularly hateful and cruel and murderous and barbaric. Even then, more often than not, since it was the State of Israel which expelled them, the State of Israel also went to the effort to resettle them elsewhere - in Israeli territory. The ones who have left on their on their own accord, however, Israel simply barred from returning on the grounds that they were enemy aliens. Over the following decades, hundreds of thousands were nevertheless allowed to return. 4. Also they were not Arab Palestinian. Not back then. The Jews, before the founding of Israel were regard as Palestinian Jews, and even though its an anti-Semitic name, they went along with that, as they had plenty of experience with anti-Semitism. Th Arabs, on the other way, very much did not regard themselves as Palestinians at all and wouldn't be caught deadening referred to as such. The Arab Fellahs in Jordan were the first to refer to themselves as such; they wanted to distinguish themselves from the Bedouins, and their allies, the newly-come Hashemites, and their kingdom of Jordan, and refused to be known as Jordanians, so, since Jordan (Transjordan, back in the day) represented about 75% of the territory of the British Later, in 1960, the KJB would adopt that name and apply it to Arabs in or from west of the Jordan river. 5. "A majority of which" aren't "still exiled from their home today". "A majority of which" long since have died from old age. Only roughly 35,000 refugees (according to the UN's universal definition for refugees) were still alive 5 years ago. 6. As part of the 1956 ceasefire agreement, Egypt committed to not block Israeli shipping through the Red sea and the Straights of Tiran, ad the US committed to guaranty Israel's freedom of shipping there. A commitment which Egypt broke, and a commitment the US forgot about - when the Israelis complained to the US, they White House had no idea what they were talking about, they couldn't find the written records and actually had to look former president Eisenhower in his regiment and ask him about it. When he concurred, the US decided to creatively interpret it as meaning the freedom of shipping to Israel - by other flag operators, not by Israeli shipping. Only they were unable to do even that and told Israel they were on their own. By the way, Israel has, in turn, committed to all sort of things in the ceasefire, too, including not flying reconnaissance over Egyptian territory. Which is why Israel built up its eInt and especially SigInt beyond proportions, paving the way to today's "Startup Nation". But anyway, that seriously hurt Israel's intelligence gathering operations on Egypt before over the decade before the war, which is one reason Israel was caught by surprise in the first place. 7. You mention inaccurate intelligence delivered by the Soviets. Only it wasn't intelligence, nor was it inaccurate. It was an outright lie, told deliberately. This comes within the greater geopolitical context of the Cold War, which you've kind of ignored. You see, when Khrushchev came to power, he realized his navy really really sucked. The strategic arm of his air-force wasn't much better off. The US navy, on the other hand, as large and strong and most alarmingly, going nuclear. And the USAF strategic command was an absolute nightmare. What to do? How to deter the West? Well, first he bluffed with launching the Sputnik to space, making the Americans fear the Soviets could launce missiles that would reach America, at a moment's notice - they couldn't, not back then, they could only barely reach Western Europe required about 24 hours to set up for launch - and then garrisoned the missiles he did have - with a much shorter range, right next door to America, in Cuba. When the Americans found out about it, it precipitated the Cuban Missiles Crisis In the end, Khrushchev had to back off. He folded and removed the missiles from Cuba. Publicly humiliating the USSR in the process. Sure he got some concessions in return in the US pulling its short-rage missiles from Turkey in exchange, but that was done in secret, and this was a public humiliation. Also, he lost in his strategic gamble. The US still had long-range missiles, and especially those scary nuclear-tipped submarine launched ICBMS. And He had nothing. He couldn't do it in the north - the water was frozen most of the time. And the Baltic sea was full of European NATO-members' navies to contend with. Couldn't do it in the far east - it was way too far from Russia and the USSR's industrial base and population centers needed to build, run and maintain such a force. Also the Pacific is very big, it'll require a very large navy that would alarm the US and may bring about a new crisis. So he decided to do it in the south. He had the Black Sea mostly to himself, with convenient bases in the Ukraine, near its industrial base and large population, and mostly surrounded by USSR and Warsaw Pact territories. And more importantly, it lead to the Mediterranean Sea - a strategically important body of water, where the Red Navy could threaten both Western Europe and the US Sixth Fleet - including its strategic nuclear deterrence mission threatening the USSR. And bordering any number of countries friendly to the USSR. The Soviets built up such a force, but now they needed to get him out from the Black Sea and into the Mediterranean - without causing a major backfiring reaction from the US and NATO. Also, they wanted basing rights in Egypt, but Egyptian president Nasser refused them. So they lied and told Nasser Israel was planning to wage war on Syria as part of the War Over Water, has amassed its forces and was ready and poised to strike. This way, the Soviets hoped to cause a crisis with somebody else as their stalking dog instead of them being in the focus and drawing all the fire. They could use it as a prefix to invade the Mediterranean Sea with their new naval force, They also hoped to scare Nasser into requesting Soviet protection, thus necessitating Egypt providing the Red Navy with basing rights on its sores. And it worked! The crisis began, the US moved its 6th fleet to the Med. Sea astern basin, and since thy moved their naval forces there, the USSR moved its own 40-ship large force into the same area also, without the US saying a word about it. And once it was there, it stayed. This supposedly Ad-Hoc force was quickly formed as the Soviet 5th Mediterranean Flotilla, and it's there still today. Also, after the war, the Egyptian armed forces were in shambles, and Nasser went to Moscow, hat in hand, and asked the USSR to provide him with a new army. The Soviets agreed, but demanded - and received - basing rights on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Continues in next comment...
Reply continues: 8. Nasser wasn't just carried with events, as he's sometimes portrayed. He orchestrated the defense pat to attack Israel. He could have stopped it had he wanted to, with a rather convenient excuse, even. Iraq wouldn't sign on to the pact unless Jordan did to, and Jordan wasn't keen on it. Its leadership wasn't particularly keen on war, and was definitely not keen on placing its armed forces under Egyptian command. So Nasser could have sank the hole thing then and there, blaming Jordanian recalcitrance, with the Jordanians saving face claiming they were protecting their sovereignty, independence and national honor by refusing to surrender their armed forces into foreign hands. And that would have been the end of it. Syria only joined the pact after it saw everybody else getting in on the game, and did not wish to be left out of the Jew-killing party. Had Nasser wished, the whole sordid affair would have come to an not-so-bloody end and quickly make its way inti history's trash bin. But he didn't. He pushed and pressured Jordan until it had no choice but to sign on and start the engine on the whole thing. 9. The Israeli National Unity Government did not unite all parties of the legislature. Two opposition parties - The Israeli Workers List and the Liberty-Liberals Block (today's Likud party) have joined the existing ruling coalition to form the NUG; The other opposition parties remained in opposition. 10. The official Arab alliance only numbered 4 countries, nut unofficial-like, they once again also had expeditionary forces from other countries, in this case Saudi Arabia and Morocco. Lebanon also eventually joined the War officially declared war on Israel, but only ever sent one attack plane that was quickly shut down. 11. Your pronunciation of both Hebrew and Arabic names and places is so bad I don't know where to even start commenting oi it. So I won't. 12. Firing on your own army isn't so difficult to do. There have been numerous cases in this was where the IDF units shot each other, and more so at each other. I remember hearing of one unit that actually came under friendly fire on no fewer than 3 occasions. The Israelis even managed to attack an American ship by error, mistaking it for an Egyptian destroyer. This has haunted the IDF in previous combat as well as future ones and is still a major problem to this day. Just a few weak s back a friendly fire event saw onw IDF special forces officer killed - this time not that wasn't even in combat, but in training only! 13. The Israeli military government today control only Area-C and has done so since the Oslo Accords. Area-A and Area-B are controlled by the Palestinian Authority.
Something he didn't mention: In his point #7 A day or so before Israel pre-empted ......Nassar KNEW ...100% KNEW that Russia had lied about an Israeli buildup.........but CHOSE to continue down the path to war, NOT back up and cool things down A very good documentary on this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GSkchepSHxw.html
With respect, I wish you would not keep repeating the idea that Israel was created by Jewish Holocaust survivors arriving from Europe (and displacing native Palestinians). The fact is that there had been a well-established Jewish presence, and proto-state, in the region for decades by 1948. It was that Jewish proto-state and its inhabitants that fought for independence against the British, and then against the Arabs. Mainly they did so to defend their self-determination and self-government from an Arab leadership committed to depriving them of their existing rights. They also sought to control their borders and immigration policy so that they could welcome Jewish survivors from Europe into their new state. But it is very inaccurate to conflate the Holocaust survivors with the Israelis in 1948.
The Arab historians tell us that when Omar the 3rd Caliph first arrived in Israel (the land the Romans renamed Palestine) in the 7th Century he was greeted by tens of thousands of Jews who had been living there for many centuries . In the modern period Jews from all over the world joined up with the ancient Jewish communities . The modern Jews improved agriculture housing and education. Some Arabs were pleased with the improvements and would have worked cooperatively with the Jews if not for the Mufti Husseini who poisoned the minds of the average Arab with hatred and a call for violence .
I don't think I've heard of it before. Maybe they just don't cover it in most American schools. Sounds interesting though, I'm gonna look it up right now and see if they have any good documentaries on the topic. Thanks.👍
A key reason the golan heights went so well to for the israelis was the uzis. As a cqb weapon in the height and all of its defensive and concrete bunkers and trench networks, it was far better to wield in those areas than the syrian aks and battle rifles
