First Arab - Israeli War 1948 - COLD WAR DOCUMENTARY
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Previously in our animated historical documentary series on modern warfare we have covered the Six-Day War of 1967, also known as the Third Arab-Israeli War bit.ly/30NfTOy This new 3d documentary will explain the events of the First Arab-Israeli War, which was fought in 1948-1949.
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Efraim Karsh - The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948
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hey do a video about Moroccan history anything
Kings and Generals we reptiles don’t need tanks, as we already have taken over the world.
Although a T.rex in a tank would be awesome....
thanks guys i've been asking this since the six day war
Adversaries equal enemies
@Samuel the British were forced to withdraw due to Israeli resistance
The UN security council is about to draft a resolution for this comment section
It will surely condemn the jewish state somehow
Which will be ignored by everyone.
I’m sure its resolution which is intended to stop the ongoing conflict will cause even more conflict in the comments.
Hans Bass And Israel is gonna blame Iran for it
@Hoàng Nguyên I don't know if this is sarcasm (in that case lol) or genuine (in that case, boo)
Christ theres more people saying the comments are gonna be bad than the actual bad comments
I'd even say that there are more comments complaining about the comments complaining about the bad comments than actual bad comments.
Give it a few minutes
Tactical comment spam to blot out the bad comments from reaching the top.
ohhh no! the comments about the bad comments are going to be bad!
Let's keep it that way
I was expecting spicy comments, instead i get people warning of incoming spicy comments.
You guys actually go looking for those? Do you also self-flagellate?
Same
You should read the replies under the comments
@Bob This way is actually a lot more entertaining for me, the alternative is getting salty and engaging in comment section wars as I belong to one of those factions mentioned in the video.
Hero Kiryu I find there's more people warning me that there are people warning about spicy comments than I have seen people warning me about spicy comments.
I spent several weeks in Lebanon, Jordan, Israel and the West Bank, and Egypt back in 2018. One thing that was amazing to me is how small this whole area is. The area covered in this video is barely the size of New Jersey. For a Texan like me, learning that the distance from Amman to Jerusalem is the same as Austin to San Antonio, or that Beirut is closer to Tel Aviv than Austin is to Waco, is really incredible. I pray that within my lifetime I can take a drive between those cities with something approaching the ease I do within my own state.
Not while religion is a thing.
I hope too. Would be amazing
It's the US and the distances there that are too great :)
@@antonindanek9294 My Swiss wife would agree with you!
@@armyofninjas9055
Right. The arabs will never rest until the entire middle east, birthplace of their prophet, becomes wholly muslim. It matters not to them that Judaism and Christianity also started there. Since everything else is fake to them and their allah commanded them to unite the entire world under islam. But thats in general and the middle east is the immediate concern for now.
Interesting fact: most of the weapons that Czechoslovakia (I apologize if I spelled that wrong) sent to the Israelis were, in fact, surplus weapons that had been manufactured for the Wermacht in WW2. As such many, if not all of them, had improperly calibrated or sabotaged sights, which the Czechs had intended to mess with the Germans, but they forgot to inform the IDF about it until after the weapons had been shipped, issued and the Israelis had found out about the messed up sights. Still, it must have struck several of the Jews as ironic that they were now using Czech Vz. 24s, Kar98ks and other weapons made for the Nazis, to defend themselves, along with a smattering of American, British, Russian and even homemade weapons.
How the turntables
far more ironic how they committed ethnic cleansing against Palestinian people(including Palestinian Cristians) and managed to make themselves look like victims still,due to horrors of Holocaust.
@@nikolaivasilev7371 Let me guess by your name you are the victim of Soviet/Russian propaganda)
When dictatorship sells and gives weapons and even participates (in 1970) in wars against tiny state, Israel, that what they teach their one people.
But it is not an excuse to be brainwashed in 2022.
@@marina12345678911000 the fact you even mentioned that,says you grew up being brainwashed.For one,USSR was one of those that helped create Israel...sadly
3nd Facts are facts....What so you call when immigrants come,exile most of the natives and make for themselves a state?Hell,Israel broke all agreements signed with Palestine people...even nowdays,officially building into Gaza,among other deals it broke(like cutting of fresh water...)
About 30 years ago wandering in a gun shop, I came across a Kar98 with both nazi and Israeli markings. The Israelis had rechambered it for NATO 308. It looked like shit and the store wanted $250 for it. I was too iignorant to realize its long-term value and to this day I kick my ass for not buying it. Todays collector value on it would probably buy me a car.
The comments section is more peaceful than the middle east right now.
Jack lol
You could say that about a lot of things though, can't you?
looooolllolololololol
Actually COVID-19 has tamped down the level of violence considerably.
LMAO
Israel didn't start with tanks, they managed to build the 3 Sherman's after the war started from scrap heaps found at British ordnance yards. The first tanks Israel had was 2 Cromwell, which was liberated from the British forces during their withdrawal with help from sympathetic British soldiers.
We are talking about 1948 the Cromwell was modern for it's time. Plus the Arabs didn't have any.
@@AzizAhmad-n4d wtf are you talking about, cromwell tank already produced at the end of WW2 era
@@AzizAhmad-n4d no, the arabs had alot of tanks
Course mate, rewriting history now as well??
@@teeee8534there were no Cromwell tanks in ww2 🤦🏻🤦🏻
Fun fact: When one of the Messerschmidts was shot down, the american pilot (who couldn't speak hebrew) found himself between the fronts. It was dusk and and his only hope were some Kibbutzniks who didn't even know that Israel had an air force. Afraid that they would shoot at him, thinking he would be an arab pilot, if he approached them, he ran in their direction screaming "gefillte fisch!" (a traditional Jewish meal) Edit: Also he was Pee Wee Hermans dad
That was a fun fact, thank you Gideon very cool
Thanks for the info my dudettes
Gideon03 do you have a link to this or anything?
Thank you I did not even know Hebrew had been reinvented yet at the time of this conflict I thought they still spoke Yiddish
I had a good laugh. Thank you !
There are so many comments about the comment section, that no actual comment section can be seen.
Better to carpet the comment section with comments on the comment section than to actually allow the comments referenced in those comments to dominate the comment section.
To do otherwise would lead to madness.
Commenseception!
That's actually much better than the alternative. Ok in my book.
@@eldorados_lost_searcher Is this Xenon's paradox???
@@Fakeslimshady no your not the only one
I am not gonna lie, I do think this map is a bit chaotic, which is a shame. I personally prefer the style used in your ''Six-Day war'' video. Nice informative video, though.
Yea I agree I like the style in the other video bitter but still a good video.
Aparently the art style and animations cost him $50000. If i spend that much on something ima use it for a while
50000 was a joke and reference to something else :-) it is expensive, buy not that expensive
@@ethank.6602 For real? Big oof
E: Nvm, saw Kings response afterwards
the map is also wrong, Israel was way smaller back in 1948
Refreshing my memory in light of modern events, good video
I know exactly what you mean. Heartbreaking. The Israelis just want to live a peaceful life next to their Arab neighbors.
God help them
The Israeli was in a life and death situation, they had everything to lose in defeat. The motivation of both army was different.
@@PadecMaybeReal Hi, I would like a source on where you got that info, it would help me understand. Thanks :)
I heard that the Muslims let the Jews (and christians) back into the city after conquering it the first time (after Muhammad's time, though he had died decades before conquests for levant even happened) and let them keep their religion. Also heard that the Jews actually thrived under Muslim rule in Asia Minor. Don't think they ever actually forced the other religious peoples to convert to Islam other than a tax that existed later.
@@thekingofmeeps yeah and even during Muhammad's time (peace be upon him) he made a pact in medina that allowed jews to stay there and keep practicing their religion.
Also the jews supported the islamic conquests because they were persecuted in Europe and everywhere else so they thought it was better to live in a islamic country by paying a tax but having the freedom of practicing their religion with their synaguoges etc. While being under the protection of the caliphate
@@mwhd629 - How does that make any sense? There was perhaps more disdain against the J in the middle east than anywhere else. Why do you think even today hostilities continue? If they want their precious land so much they can fight for it themselves than dragging other western nations into forever coddling their religious inspired conflicts.
@@thekingofmeeps The Arabs treated the jews "better" but the bar was do damn low that anything that wasn't constant oppression was seen as good. The muslims tolerated the jews. The amount of antisemitism in the Middle East fluctuated a lot over the years.
@@PadecMaybeReal wtf are you talking about have some shame.
Arabs: We are going to finish you.
Israelis: Our country map is very chaotic, let us make it a bit better and make the lines straight.
These lands were stolen and we have a known example
The stolen thing will get back to its real owner someday
@@dr.albert3441
Indeed, you have spoken truth.
+@@dr.albert3441, Yes, the holy land belongs to christianity.
@@maghribi5371 Thank you brother
@@imgvillasrc1608 I hope that religion and regional geography are not confused
Fun fact: The Avia S-199 was a Bf-109 airframe with the engine and propeller from a Heinkel He-111.
yes if you play as Czechoslovakia in hoi4 you have 2 aircraft companies aero specializing in heavy bombers and avia specializing in fighters
Well after WW2 there were a huge numbers of damaged or unfinished BF-109s in Czechoslovakia which Germans left there. So after the war Czechs used it and made their own plane from it. In 1948 there was a deal between Czechoslovakia and USSR that Czechoslovak army will re-arm to "soviet styled" weapons and equipment so these planes like Avia S-199, Spitfires (which Czechoslovakia had hundreds of pieces) were sold to other countries like Izrael for example which desperately needed it.
Thanks, did not know that
The Avia is now a confirmed Frankenstein's Monster.
Another fun fact: that plane had such a powerful torque that it's more dangerous to the israelis than the arabs
Why Islam says Israel started the war in 1948, when actually Islam was the one who started it.
Because Even david ben-gurion admitted that zionists started the conflict.
It's very simple
European jews wanted to colonize palestina.
According to zionist historian Benny Morris, zionists chose to accept the 1937 partition plan, so they could eventually takeover all of Palestine.
At least zionists were honest back then
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0the state of Israel exists and the Jewish people lives..this conflict will be resolved only when the Arabs recognizes the Jewish state..
@Fijianzion not exactly.
most jewish people live outside of Israel in part because they know zionism is dumb and over ambitious.
''Every population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised.
That is what the Arabs in Palestine are doing, and what they will persist in doing as long as there remains a solitary spark of hope that they will be able to prevent the transformation of "Palestine" into the "Land of Israel." - zeev jabotinsky 1923
@@Fijianzion But Israelis shouldn't recognize Palestine? Got it.
@rappakalja5295 nonsense..Jordan is the true Palestinian state..but they want more?well the Jews gave them Gaza as a second state,but they still want more..well Israel offered them more than half of judea and that includes the temple mount and they rejected it, in fact, they have rejected all seven offers for a state since then..
What these sick people want, is What they know that they will never get and that is what that is causing the conflict, and that is an Arab state on top of the Jewish state and if you were paying attention, you would know that your attempts to eliminate the Jews has failed again..
Why bother listen to Historians, when the "real" experts can be found in a comments section?
Lol yeah highly 1000000% accurate.
The comments have greater entertainment value.
historians < crazy nationalist mental cases
Are you serious?
Mark Zink ah yes keyboard warriors
It amazes me how far this channel has come from its Nurrrik and Phoenix days. Love the work you guys do, yet another fantastic video.
İt was nurrrik and Phoenix
Are nurrik and Phoenix still running the channel?
We are :-)
While the 3D animation is good, I still would prefer a more professional style map view. I am not quite sure where all the fronts are supposed to be in these. If the map instead showed NATO style icons and attack arrows (sort of like hearts of iron with NATO icons on), I think it would make it much clearer.
I agree with you. The content is phenomenal but a few things could be made clearer on the map.
I agree with both sides here. I think the main issue with 3D would be fixed if they just... panned out occasionally, taking a sort of 'birds eye' / tactical perspective.
It would be better if they added a shade corresponding to their color when a territory is captured. But that would take a lot of work
Yeah I think I prefer the Battle of Kursk unit cards to the 3d models. I have no idea what a soldier or tank icon even means in these 3d animations or what their strengths were.
Came here to say this. The switch away from NATO counters has resulted in videos that are visually much less coherent and are more confusing. It is a real tragedy that K&G decided to go in this direction and will hopefully switch back to a better form of visual presentation.
Great video, but I do have to point out an error. The agreement between Israel and Egypt signed in 1948 was not, as a matter of law, a treaty. It was an armistice agreement, which has a lesser legal status. There would not be any treaties between Israel and any Arab state until 1979, when Israel and Egypt did finally conclude a peace treaty.
funny thing to think about is that Israel actually has never seen a day of peace since they didn't have a treaty with the palestinian forces
Seriously guys? I came with popcorn to the comment section. I'm genuinely disappointed. C'mon guys, start fighting. Where are the experts and keyboard warriors?
Lmao same
yeah but, goku would destroy superman
@@SillyWilly17 And Saitama destroys everyone.
@@normalbird1139 except for god.
And you're an Arab thou 😂
I gotta said i much prefer the rectangle to the little soldiers.
Thank you for your work
The little soldiers make more sense, since modern warfare doesn't use large, massed formations of soldiers.
I see what you mean, Chris, but it is a matter of design language. It is hard to use rectangles in a 3d environment
@@KingsandGenerals Yeah, but rectangles would allow you to make more informative graphics. For instance, for motorised infantry and artillery you used the same infantry model. It's hard to understand the deployment of troops as everything is marked the same except for armor and air units.
And with only a couple very large soldier models it's a bit hard to see how the troops are actually laid out. I'd prefer a larger number of smaller soldiers/rectangles/something that would more precisely show the distribution of troops.
Have to agree, very haed to keep track of everything with the toy soldiers
When your very existence is at stake, you will fight with everything you have. This was not the case for Arab states, each guy was happy at home and just threw a few soldiers at Israel to feel a sense of contribution.
@@kingkoi6542 no it’s a pretty well studied phenomenon, people fight to the absolute bone when everything is on the line, that’s why the mongols left gaps in cities they raided, so the inhabitants would sprint out that way and be cut down by horseman later as opposed to feeling completely trapped and fighting to a frenzy… the Jews are in a constant state of entrapment, it’s why they see victory after victory
israel didnt win cuz “everything was at stake”, israel’s position was much better than the arabs, it got help from the british and USA,
especially the british, getting help from these kind of countries alone is enough to win any war.
@@haha-sg9mx have you seen any of the videos? they say NOTHING about Brittish and US support. And what about Soviets? Them supporting the arabs is irrelevant right?
@@ShamriCayia
Jews got support from both Britain and USA in every single way, they also broke the truce, the arabs didn’t get support from the soviets.
@@haha-sg9mx ah yes, that explains why the Arabs used Russian T tank models and MiGs. Or they just stole them right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's hard to imagine the Jews were attacked on so many fronts and without air superiority to start. Now looking at Israel today and it's not hard to see this is one country that will never go down without a complete fight from all citizens. Simply astounding how they managed to get to this point!
They had the backing and endorsement from Great Britain, their militia group, Haganah and Irgun were well trained and equipped
Britain absolutely did not back and endorse Israel, they supported the Arabs opposition to a ceasefire. @@sigitprabowo363
@@sigitprabowo363
The British barely supported them. Israel was hardly equipped.
@@sigitprabowo363that’s not True many in Britain supported the Arabs . The Jordanian forces were led by British officers, they were totally on the Arab side.
@@mikhailv67tvPeople forget local Palestinian Resistance was decimated after the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 which the British crushed alongside the Zionist militias.
*Breaking News: Egypt blame Moses for the Defeat*
Jeremy Lengkong why
Lol
*Egypt blames Snoop Dog for most recent Defeat
Israel confused, asks if they're talking about Rap video on UA-cam*
@Boiled Egg with 100,000 Subscribers weirdly moses is also in Christianity a important person 🤷🏼♂️
@@theranredguardist1949 This is because christianity, Jewish, and Islam are all abrahemic religions.
'...proved incapable of defeating their better-organised opponents...' Sums up the last 70-odd years.
Check out the video "Why Arabs Lose Wars" by the channel "ZaytoonReport" it actually does a great explanation of that very thing. He does a great job explaining how and why Arab armies tend to be so poorly lead.
@@arthas640 Complete crap video and article. Totally biased and every point could be projected on Western superpowers and even Israel.
@@CaesarDicax depends on the western nation in question, and there's only 2 western super powers: the US and EU, and the US military has many flaws but not any that match what they mentioned in the video, and the EU is so diverse that its impossible to make any blanket statements (and they lack a unified military so you'd have to compare each individual nation). The US actually has historically averted the "top down" military structure and one thing many militaries the US has served alongside throughout history, and especially during both World Wars and during parts of the Cold War is that the US military seems chaotic and poorly disciplined from the outside. Part of this is from the US's individualistic nature and also because they've always had a strong focus on giving their men more initiative. Even the Soviets said that "American soldiers do not appear to read their own manuals or battle plans, nor do they appear to feel any need to follow them" and "the Americans are nearly impossible to plan against, they appear to practice controlled chaos".
Israel meanwhile has an extremely well run military that completely averts the pitfall of having an overly rigid and authoritarian military. They focus more on training NCOs and to give their NCOs and lower officers more imitative and leeway in commanding their men, and they also teach their officers to bring up flaws/criticisms in planning so they can point out problems, offer up alternatives, and come up with creative solutions to problems. One thing I've heard from both a friend in the military that served over there and I've read about alot is that foreigners are often surprised by how open the Israeli military is, they're army is alot like many countries air force's in that there's more "equality" among the troops.
The main flaw among Arab militaries, as mentioned in the video is their authoritarian, paternalistic military structure where the orders have to slowly trickle their way down from the top and the men on the front line arent given any leeway or individual initiative. This is a big problem that bit them in the ass when Saddam invaded Iran: the Iranians allowed their men to respond to problems as them arose and allowed them to do what they thought was best rather then just blindly following orders from Tehran. When communications got cut off the Arabs tended to dig in, hunker down, and wait for new orders while the Iranians responded as the situation changed. This was a big part of why Iraq had better equipment, more and better tanks, more and better air craft, and more soldiers in the beginning but ultimately suffered a strategic defeat.
@@arthas640 they damn sure do from ww1 then siding with the Nazis in WW2 around 100 years of losing
It seems you are wrong?
Arab States: You're stuck with us.
After the truce
Israel: You are stuck with me now.
I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!
@@rasengan4597
-Israel
Israel tries to sink USS Liberty, tries to start a war between its allies through false flag terrorism in the Lavon affair, steals nuclear secrets from strongest ally and hands over to their most deadly enemies. Strongest ally responds harshly by handing over $12,000,000 socialised US taxpayer dollars every day. Israel pats loyal ally on head. Good boy.
@@nodarkthings yeah Ik Russia sucks
Matt Hopper USA has had blue on blue before..just saying.
Arab league:
“We have you 7 to 1”
Israel:
“I like those odds”
I still wonder how much losers they have to be to lose for 70yrs with 7v1 odds
@@balaramchowdary9 🤣😆 ikr
@@balaramchowdary9 yeah exactly i laughed when he told there was 35.000 arab troops xD
I was like wtf?? i guess they love Israel and this is PR war ...
If i hate somebody in PC game like CK2 and my full army reach 200-300.000 xD i don't send fu...ing 30.000 xD
@@balaramchowdary9 Bruh it was 7vs1(+the West).
Also, Israel was the only country which had modern weapons based on british standards.
@@abuqadr629 Science build is op, what can I say bro.
UN observer: its look like 5 maybe 6 countries attack israel and try to destroy it !!!
UN: what can we do ? let them fight it out .
UN observer: ty god its look like israel winning .
UN: ceasefire !!! ceasefire !!!
arabs world wide: look at this aggressor country, war crimes war crimes !
Ok
U failed to mention that Israel is an illegal state
@@grateful1310 you failed to mention that Jordan is an illegal state and that it's more or less the original so called "Palestinian" state. If any Arab Muslim or otherwise, wants a "Palestinian" state, then they could just swim across the Jordan river, over to Jordanistine.
@@grateful1310 Palestine is a demon state
@@grateful1310 Palestine is a made up name. Palestine mean invader.
One little nation against all odds and still come victorious. Respect sincerely.
It's supported by USA, UK, and France.
@@zac1976 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 loseer
@@zac1976 Good.
@@zac1976 No at first we didn't support it. We made an UN arms embargo to Israel and sanctioned any Jewish volunteers fighting for the new Jewish state. But they miraculously got arms and weapons from Czechoslovakia and saved their nation. United States saw the new Jewish nation fighting for their survival and existence after the second world war, we promised them our full and unwavering support.
@@zac1976 Palestine is even supported by all Muslim nation 😁😂😂
In 1948 not a single Arab living there called himself a Palestinian. That is a historical fact and must be mentioned.
So does that justify the expulsion and killing of arabs in the region of Palestine
That's why it was called Palestine. Joker
And even if they called themselves aliens it wouldnt matter.
@@iliashornung3178 It's called "Palestine" because that is what the Romans named it after the Jews were expelled during a failed rebellion in the 2nd Century
The general area was called Palestine and has been called since ancient times, thus the people that lived there were in fact, Palestinians.
Really hard to believe that such a small bunch of people were able to repel attacks from multiple far bigger countries. Unbelievable accomplishment. Also, the arabs were fighting as effective as the italians ins ww2 it seems.
I mean they did have russias help, it's not like they did it by themselves, just like they arnt doing it by themselves today. They are getting millions in aid
@@StiffyLongJohnRussia was helping the Arabs you nitwit
@@StiffyLongJohnstill it's super impressive that they outdid many Arab nations at once. The Soviets withdrew their support though. The six day war was also genius. Every time the Arab Muslims loose carelessly despite their numbers lol
Because they are fighting for their homes for their very surivival, to prevent the massacre of their children. Whereas the Arabs never really cared about Palestinian identity because at that point its not yet well established and Egypt and Jordan conveniently just took Gaza and Wedt Bank respectively
@@StiffyLongJohnyet Arabs with all their petrodollars couldn't outdo them?
Arabs countries: starting a war against Israel
Israel: *fighting back*
Arab countries: wait that's illegal
Lmao
@Hamza ForChrist *EXACTLY*
the military occupation of the West Bank is illegal. The apartheid, criminal.
@@mito88 The occupation is not illegal, and Israel is not apartheid.
@@larryjacob6986 agree
"It gives off an impression which is incorrect, that the combined Arab nations drastically outnumbered their enemy"
A few seconds later:
Egypt: 50 tanks, 65 howitzers, 91 aircrafts
Iraq: 20-50 tanks, 70-80 artillery pieces, around 40 combat-ready aircrafts
vs
Israel: 3 Sherman tanks
LOL
But WAIT! THERE IS MORE!
40 entrenched Israeli defenders managed to repel sustained assaults from 1000 Egyptian soldiers supported by artillery and mortar fire.
Ah yes, and incorrect impression indeed... and I can keep going
More equipment does not = more numbers.
Israel had significant military advantages: unified command, internal lines of transit (easier to respond to attacks and mass forces for an assault of their own), significant military experience, and numeric superiority.
Israeli forces also had superior morale and leadership. The one Arab military to perform well was Jordan b/c they had quality leadership and extensive training as well.
The equipment likely factors into why Israel had comparable casualties to the Arab armies in the war.
Now a situation where a group with numeric and technology inferiority that regularly kicks ass would be Hezbollah.
@@simonmabee100 You are ignorant and outrageous at the same time, not even worth my time, but I will comment anyway.
First of all, the numbers Israel had were ALL THAT IT HAD, whilst the Arabs had a force they recruited, but had a way larger pool of manpower behind it.
Second of all, in modern warfare, army vs army, even if you have the same numbers or more, when the other side has more guns, more tanks, more aircraft, more artillery, I hate to break it to you, but that's way worse than just being outnumbered.
The days of one on one, face to face melee combat where numbers made a real difference are long gone.
And lastly, seriously? do you really take one very poorly equipped army that fought for it's survival against 5 other countries and won against odds, and compare this to
a war between a country and a well funded, well trained guerilla terrorist organization?
I bet you didn't know but Hizbullah is one of the richest if not richest terrorist organization in the world today, and it's constantly being trained by Iran.
They are supplied by their allies with the most advanced guns, AA and AT guns in the world.
Hezbollah is a cowardly terrorist organization that only operates through firing missiles at civilians and employs hit and run guerilla warfare against the IDF.
How exactly is this a "numeric and technology inferiority that kicks Israel's ass"?
In open battle Hezbollah would be decimated within seconds against the IDF and they know it.
Their only chance at survival is hiding behind their civilian population.
The jews are holy and have god protecting them.
oh shut up both intially and finally arab armies were outnumbered while zionist millitias were more with more advanced training and weapons
you ever heard of the finnish-soviet war?
Arabs: Thats the end of israel habibi
Israel: hold my bamba
@@oleof635 so how israel won 6 days war? And 1948 war?
@@oleof635 and Arabs would still be fighting eachother lmao
@@dr_wi883 Israel won with help of the us , dumb ass
@@samalma7878 how? I can say the same thing arabs attacked israel with the help of russia
@@dr_wi883 you cant say the same thing because the arabs didnt get help from russia , only isra-hell get help from other countries to survive
So from what ive gathered, the only reason the nakba happened is because the arabs attacked the israeli state upon creation, thus displacing most of their population due to their own loss. This is a major point because the narrative is often spun the other way around, but in reality the overwhelming majority of the arabs would have become israeli citizens, and even now we see that arab muslims are 20 percent of israeli citizens.
The Arabs rejected the 2 state solution in 1948 which could have greatly reduced tensions in the region. We are still living with the fallout of their decision 75 years ago to not tolerate the existence of Jews in the region.
He literally said in this video at 2:36 that there were already Palestinian refugees from flighting with Jewish militias before the creation of the state of Israel and in fact that was part of the reason why the Arab states invaded. Also if you think that if the Palestinians did not fight them they would have been given Israeli citizenship then you know nothing about Zionism. The plan was always to expel the Palestinians into neighboring countries and replace them with Jewish immigrants. 20th century Zionists spoke openly about this. they did not care about PR as much back then.
I'm a huge Israel supporter, but I believe there was some displacement of the Palestinian population prior to the 1948 war, though that too may have been in response to violence. But generally, you're absolutely correct. I'm certain that if the Arabs had stayed where they were, Israel would be a very different country today, with a much higher, but still peaceful, Arab population. If I remember correctly, Palestinian media, prior to the 1948 war, exaggerated the severity of Jewish violence to help convince the Arab states to invade. This worked, but it also had the effect of terrifying the Palestinian population, who fled their homes out of fear (thinking they'd return after the Arab armies finished wiping out the Jews)... Big mistake...
Actually, Its the other way around.
The massacres and expulsion of Arabs is what encouraged the Arab state more to enter the war..
How can Palestinians get expelled if armies fighting for them got defeated? Whats the relation?
As for the possibillity of them staying, well, that also wouldn't have been allowed by the Israelis because then their state wouldn't have a majority Jewish population.
It was percisely for this reason, that Israel planned the attacks on villages and expulsion.
Read about "Plan Dalet" to understand rhe timeline and Israeli Intensions.
the exaggeration you are talking about was actually also one of the reasons many Palestinians just left, because they were afraid it would happen to them as well@@MikeCummings-p7e
For those who care what that kibbutz thing is,
It's an israeli commune, usually agriculture based.
And it also works not as a small town in a mayor or something
Instead there is COMMUNISM which actually worked there
@@alexanderp4115 It functioned well enough, though the fact that working harder than anyone else wasn't really rewarded and that children lived separate from their parents; was probably highly annoying.
@@andrejparunovic It didn't function really well, the majority of them ended up going into debt so they went to the government which told them to f off basically, so their communist-era ended and there are only very few left with the same old commune theme. Most of them are just like gated communities.
Communistic communities tend to do best when founded by volunteers sharing a strong worldview. They don't seem to last in that state for more than a generation, but you find them sprinkled throughout history. When the community gets too big or tries to incorporate folks less enthusiastic than volunteers the system breaks down.
an israeli kolhoz
The US had an arms embargo on Israel. However, some US gangs at the time trafficked arms. I've heard that essentially Frank Sinatra operated as an Israeli agent in involvement with procuring arms from the mafia, and was especially helpful in evading the FBI...
lo and behold, Frank Sinatra is highly revered in Israel and I believe there are several places named after him.
I guess he did it his way.
Bengy nice
The US didn’t supply Israel until AFTER the 1967 war. Once again the Arabs chose unwisely. Some American Jews and other Americans did send money and a few went to Israel to fight.
@@dalemacio1055 Thank you.
So what? The Soviets supplied the Arab Coalition
“It’s over, Egypt! I have the high ground.”
“You underestimate my power!”
"Don't try it"
@@talink6867 *proceeds to lose sinai*
@@itsdatez9661 technically they won it and then gave it back during peace negotiations. Nice try though
@@cratosking2386 he meant that egypt lost sinai
@@itsdatez9661 loved that legit laughed out loud
This doc ends with “The Israeli victory made future conflict inevitable”. It’s the Arab world’s complete unwillingness to live with the result of their military actions that would lead to continual war.
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It's understandable the Arabs became unsettled about Jewish immigration, but the Jews were not coming to the land for no good reason. There was serious persecution happening to their culture and the idea to create a home in the place they held historical praise to is completely justifiable. The Arabs in the local land have every right to question and disagree with the idea but the reality is they are bound by the rules of their empire, the Jews used legal methods to spark their vision. It was the Arab locals that resorted to violence, sparked extremism, and suffered the consequences as such.
@@F8LDragon2Arabs shouldn't have to pay reparations for something the europeans caused.
European jews like herzl wanted a country? Fine, they should've made it in europe. But obviously, they would've been invaded.
Seriously HOW did the Arabs lose this war. They were on the offensive and even took parts of E. Jerusalem before the first truce and then Israel just decided to actually try as hard as they could. It was like Israel just needed some practice before going into full playoff mode.
Thats the thing, israel either wins or their people go through another genocide, when you are faced with either winning or everyone you know dies, you tend to perform better in battle
@@corvus2512 you'd think the Palestinians would have put up a better fight after all this time then. Unless they change tactics they'll all die in refugee camps.
@@geordiejones5618 i mean does the day to day life reflect that statement? Are the majority of Palestinians living in state run concentration camps? Are droves of otherwise healthy people dying from being interred? Your statement seems to suggest that is the case but if so then why do they have so many run ins with the IDF, if they are locked up how do they keep getting out?
@@corvus2512 Another genocide? That's a bit of a strecht, the arabs defiently wanted them out for the ilegimitacy of the jewish state imposed by the UN and pushing out the palestinians out from their land. By the way I'm not supporting sides just saying one of the reasons
well, everyone, has their side of their war storytelling but it was believed that the English puppet king in Egypt was supplied with falsy tanks and weapons. That's why the Egyptians were obliterated by the Israelis who were supplied by the US, France and "UK". The main reason that led to his overthrowing. And FYI most of the English documentaries about the arab-israeli wars are told by ISRAELI veterans only so u are just watching their point of view. Of course, they will show themselves as the superhumans chosen by god that fucked everyone because of their abilities not their superior advantages of supplies and weapons.
The fact that there are more comments about the toxicity of comments on arab-israeli videos instead of actual nasty comments says a lot about the kings and generals audience.
@Bezz80 Mostly cross worshippers who feel the need to support israel because it is in the bible or the guilt from world war 2 or they hate muslims or all of them.
You're under estimating the winds of change and the speed in which they work. What is actually happening, is that Iran is planning to go full steam with its nuclear program and the Arabs suddenly realize that the one and only true ally they can have against Iran, that actually has the weapons and will to counter it, is Israel. Not even the USA can be relied upon to stand it's ground against the Iranians, but Israel has no choice. So the situation on the ground is that we're about to strike peace with many Arab nations and perhaps even form an alliance VS Iran. This is the real and only reason, why suddenly there are relatively few toxic comments here.
@@666Kaca They have no idea, really. Did you knows, there's actually no one in England to acknowledge the fact that Cromwell was a toolbox. A marhano tool box. With all the tools in it...
Ooops! British hidden history... Did you even know the queen of england is actually german?
And what about the fact that all god shave the queen inspired anthems should pay roylaties to Louis XIV of France, as it were?
"Honni soit qui mal y pense..."
Did you know nobody knows, the trouble I see, right inside that quote?
Brian hemsfield Christian Zionism is a modern heresy
@Mike Rommel Roselo And keyboard Crusaders.
It`s so good to hear that my country, Czechoslovakia, was so supportive over the war.
But which one is it? Czechia or Slovakia?
@@kryoruleroftheninthcircleo4151 Slovakia.
Supportive???? Huh, first these plane were crap: they killed more Israeli pilots than Arab ones! The engines were awful.
You may also google for the source of this, but there are many other:
"No one representing Israel liked the deal-or the ersatz Messerschmitt. The price was outrageous: $180,000 for each fighter, including weaponry, pilot training, and support equipment. Meanwhile, the superior North American P-51 Mustang was selling in the United States for a mere $4,000. But the Mustang-and every other modern fighter-was off limits. Israel’s de facto head of state, David Ben-Gurion, personally gave the order: Buy the Czech fighters. Send pilots to learn to fly them-now."
Arms dealers are arms dealers regardless on their nationality.
And most of us still remember that. Jankuye ! (Im sure I butchered it)
One of the French built Renault tanks of the Syrian army still sits outside the main gate of Kibbutz Degania. On the spot where a kibbutznik stopped it with a molotov cocktail. They repaint it from time to time and it's in good condition.
Israel stealing …
Does it run?
Arab Armys: *exist*
IDF: _I'm gonna do what is called a Pro-Gamer Move_
Israel: It's time to *END* Arab's military history career
@Hdye Hdhde Only Czechoslovakia helped (given, with Stalin's encouragement)
@Hdye Hdhde yes they were, they only got equipment from czechs , if we are going by that logic then the Arab League had british help because the majority of their equipment was british
@Hdye Hdhde Israel had no military aid. they received supply aid. that's it.
hell, the British were on the Arab's side as well
Hitler would like to know you're location
6:24 Eight tanks with infantry (military) support get whipped by some guys (civilian) with one Piat Projector and petrol bombs. Just stop and think about that.
Rico Viviers absolute madlad
It’s God I’m telling u guys
The resistance must be hard then.
It’s all about leadership. Especially in modern Arab armies. Their officers led from the back and the junior officers were politically appointed. The British training had long since been phased out for a nepotism and cronyism system in the officer corps that contributed to their defeat. Politically appointed officers had a lot to lose. They were from rich and influential families and had a comfortable life ahead of them. When it’s 25 to 1 odds you think it’s going to be a cake walk but those Israeli farmers just didn’t see it that way. Their very lives, their families and their whole entire existence was on the line. There was no retreat. It was fire, reload and fire till you’re dead for them. Once the officers started taking losses, they ran. Once they ran the lower ranks said, “Fuck this.” And they ran. Rinse repeat till today.
The IRA beat the British in the Irish War of Independence with only 2000 troops against over 10000 WW1 vets
i see our support made some difference. Greetings from Czech Republic
Yep, country to popular belief it was thanks to you not the UK or the US that Israel was able to win the war.
Lubomír Grund you guys are awesome! And you even don't realize how much.
Only one hour after Israel declare itself, the Soviet Union and the USA boycott the tiny newborn nation.
The Soviets wanted to weaken the British empire in the Middle East so they've thought it'll be better to take the Arabic side.
The USA has thought the Israelis will lose and had no attention to upset the Arabs with their big piles' oil.
The whole wide world just stood aside and waited for the new country extermination, except for one country.
Back then the Czech Republic was part of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union didn't allow it. But when it found out they close their eyes because they thought the Israelis will fight the British if they'll come back to the Middle East.
That's not the first time the Czech Republic people helped the Jews.
In WW2. Jews sent to death camps like Auschwitz. They sent in cattle trains.
Czechs throw water and food on the trains to help those were inside.
As a whole. Czechs didn't hurt the Jews in WW2. No matter who fights who.
As an Israeli, I love you Czech Republic!!!
hahahaha
You actually made a lot of difference, without your weapons we would probably have lost the war , thank you!
ehehe beer
Thanks!
The fighting’Jew’ certainly is a ‘beast’ to behold, you certainly have to admire their tenacity, bravery, bravado, brilliance & courage
3:41 Seven Nation Army cannot defeat Israel
I never knew Czechoslovakia was so instrumental in helping Israel
Me neither. I was very suprised.
How were they supported by ALL European nations when it wasz explicitly stated that only the Czechs helped em? And the Brits were helping out the Egyptians from what I can see.
Abadi Alghamdi wasn’t really all of Europe, it was mostly the Czechs from what I could tell from this video
The generals were from different countries of europe. I suppose the soldiers were the same
Carlos Nevarez Brits? Pff dude they gave israel the land how could they not support them?
Only war where the loser is expected to loose nothing 😂😂😂😂😂
Lose nothing. Kids today
Compared with WW2 that just ended, this war was like a kindergarten quarrel. On the other hand, the help from Chechoslovakia was really important, and is strange that USSR allowed this. Yes, the Israeli army had a hard birth. But look where they are today!
Already by 2019 israel was recognized as the 8th most powerful country on earth, with the most powerful western airforce after USA. Amazing how far the Israelis have come. Good on them.
@@11window12 and look how easily they defeated their enemies in six day war
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It's just the support of the United Jews States if you get what I mean!
@Halim Abdullayev maybe because there’s a billion Arabs with another million of those sects hidden in their midst, and a tiny fraction of that (9mil) Jews.
@@shahanshahpolonium So you say that USSR did not kill Jews as well? Only the Germans?
NB Calling the Arabs of Palestine "Palestinians" is historically inaccurate and perpetuates later (1960s) Arab/Soviet linguistic sleight of hand.
Firstly, most of Mandate Palestine was carved off and renamed "(Trans)Jordan".
Secondly, while all residents of western Palestine were technically "Palestinians" between 1920 and 1948, only the Palestinian Jews embraced the name, using it in numerous Jewish institutions, e.g. the Palestine Post, Palestine Symphony Orchestra, or the Palestine national football team.
Excellent job on using both real footage and animations! The footage scenes make the events so much more real.
Nakba: Hey, we tried to obliterate you but we failed, now we are the victims🤭
Even david ben-gurion admitted that zionists started the conflict.
It's very simple
European jews wanted to colonize palestina.
According to zionist historian Benny Morris, zionists chose to accept the 1937 partition plan, so they could eventually takeover all of Palestine.
And even Morris acknowledged that plenty of arabs were ethnically cleansed by zionist paramilitaries.
At least zionists were honest back then
@48Zettlera war the zionists caused
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 No, they didn't. The Jews legally purchased the land they established the modern state of Israel on, from the previous landowners, which is by no stretch of the imagination an instigation of war. The surrounding Arab Islamists didn't want any Jewish state to exist, at any size, and they attacked Israel. That means objectively, the Arab Islamists instigated the war.
@lennardchurch8483 I remember replying to a similar comment like this months ago and u gave up.
Anyway landlords usually aren't allowed to carve out a country, that's why they didn't do it in europe.
literally the opposite learn some history
Nice video, thanks for mentioning the Czechoslovak support of Israel, we were one of few, who supported them during this conflict. As a thanks for this, Israel gifted as an Merkava MK1 tank for our tank museum in Lešany, somwhere in 2000s, making us one of few nations in the world owning an Israeli tank :D
@@Modest-op2vv Czechia, and thank you :)
No thank you czechs! Without you Israel probobly did not exist!
shame
@@grande_macchina no
@@grande_macchina ma shame cosa coglione
"Man Plans and God Laughs" - Jewish Proverb
After being starved and decimated in Europe they had to put up one hell of a fight. Kudos to the Israeli
Surviving holocaust only made their fervor stronger
Not only in Europe but in all Arab lands. Go see Yemen, in 629 AD there were 10k Jews and 0 Arabs, in 1949 there were 52k Jews and 4,3 Million Arabs. Today there are only Arabs and less than 50 Jews.
@@sebastiancalderon3273Israeli Zionists are the worst of animals. Whenever Jews were persecuted in Europe, they sought refuge in Muslim lands and got it. And now this lot is murdering children of the same people that helped them!! May the curse of 8th decade fall on this Cursed state.
So you justify them coming to the Middle East and taking the land? The fook?
Absolutely, every country border is conquered and shaped by war, the Jewish people took back what was theirs. Arabs should take the loss and learn. Their society was based on jihad for centuries
This war was smoke screened if you will by the swift 6 day war. This war is even more incredible in my opinion. How the Israelis only lost 1% of their population after this war whilst surrounded by 15 million Arabs at the time, boggles my mind. The Israelis are, although not perfect and have screwed up, are arguably the greatest fighters in modern history.
Agreed!!
@@extlearia lmao, you are.
I just hope for peace in region and end to hostilities, it is easy to keyboard war here than to be actually there and suffer the dreaded war and horrors. War is terrible...period.
And then we'll all ride unicorns down rainbows into pots of gold!
Trump: r u sure about that
Devil's advocate for a moment... But what if they aren't suffering..
Neither side seem to be in any hurry or have any desire to stop the engagement with the other side in the name of occupying lands they deem their own.
So if people are willing continuing this path... Would they see it as suffering... Or not quitting until they achieve their goal, at any cost.. 🤷♂️
@dom com. what about telling that to the followers of the religion of love who wanna kick start the apocalypse
War will always be synonymous to the very existence of our race, heck even animals go on "war". Ants conquer the weak and take their resources. Being in denial of facts won't benefit whatever higher purpose you believe in.
🇮🇱 Mighty Israel! She is small, but she will not be messed with ♥️🇮🇱🙏
I once thought that the 6 day and Yom Kippur wars were most indicative of Israel's military prowess. But having studied the history, the Israeli independence war was where Israel truly demonstrated its courage and determination. A fledgling unsupported state with many new immigrants, holding its own and eventually kicking ass against massive forces from 7 Arab countries. Though the video sites the number of infantry being more or less on par (since Israel drafted EVERYBODY), still the Arabs were much better equipped, and surrounded Israel on all sides. The only thing that prevented the Arabs from bringing in even more forces they had, was sheer hubris, they were certain they had far more than enough to defeat the "weak" Israelis. Boy were they in for a surprise.
Better equipped? Have you seen their trash used Soviet weapons??
@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel i was referring to 1948. Israelis didn't even have "trash" soviet weapons. They scrapped any surplus they could get their hands on. They stole 3 B17s from the US. They threw Molotov cocktails off crop dusters. People came off the boat from Europe and were directly sent to fight and die. And with that they beat invading armies of 7 states.
@@avshae I was saying the Arabs
@@The-ZebraFinch-Channel Soviet Weapons were never trash, the Vietnamese fought with those weapons as well and quite state of the art technologies.
@@maxanderson9293 they *were* good before they were used. But when the Egyptians used it the weapons started to malfunction.
One important note, back in the day Arabs didn't address themselves as Palestinians. Also, the major conflict about Israeli lands was between Israel and Arab countries.
True- only the Jews were considered Palestinians. The Arab population referred to themselves as Arabs or Syrians but never Palestinians as it was considered an insult to call an Arab a Palestinian.
@@davidroscoe3815 most of them are Jordanians. I remember a quote from a former PLO terrorist named Walid Shoebat that why is that on June 4th 1967 he was a Jordanian and overnight he became a "Palestanian"
A Roman Emperor actually invented the term "Palestine or Palestinian" as an insult to Jews. He based it on Israel's enemy "Philistine"
@@davidroscoe3815 "but never Palestinians as it was considered an insult to call an Arab a Palestinian." This is the first I've heard of this. May I please have the source?
Indeed, the first and second palestinian congress (1919 and 1920) said it explicitely (cf. wikipedia dedicated pages, among other sources)
czechoslovakia: "yo want some weapons?"
israel: "oh cool thx"
france:"i wanna sell weapons too ):"
US: "ummm guys? thats my department, scram!"
@efopo yeah, the only weapons Israel got from the US were from the mafia and Jewish volunteer pilots
I was kinda describing the overall "main weapons suppliers" Israel had over its history: first czechoslovakia (that ended as quickly as it started), then france starting in '56 and ending after the six days war in 1967, and eventually taking over, mainly after the yom kippur war was the US.
@@stormsar6417 And it only happened because the government ignored warnings about Egypt, I wonder how things would've looked like if Israel was prepared for the Yom Kippur war.
Lmfao
@efopo Wait. Why did the US have an embargo on Israel?
Tension is rising
I can feel it
Great coverage as always!
Looking forward to more!
Keep them coming! Wonderful, well scripted and well researched mini documentary.
The LORD was with them.
Who satan? Yeah satan really loves homosexuals
satan love allah. allah and satan is the same@@Fundamental_Islam.
my history teacher made us watch this video for an assignment we had to do
How's that assignment going?
@@ReySchultz121 pretty good its actually already done
Where do you live that they study this?
@@snufkin7169 not gonna tell the country directly but its somewhere in southeast asia
This was an amazing video. Probably the most detailed video I've seen on this conflict
Your modern warfare videos are my favorites, but to be honest I preferred the style of the Six-Days War video. The infantry divisions are oversized on the map and the fact that they pop in and out constantly makes it confusing ! However the narrator is still the best 👌
It's amazing how the UN doesn't intervene when the fight started, but when Israel counter-attack, they come like a savior.
@@LighTsHunTerz apparently sneezing is denying rights to woman and minorities, persecuting groups and even suspected genocidal activities, also supporting terrorists.
@@LighTsHunTerz Israel shouldn't be playing according to the same rules which it's enemies don't care about.
@@LighTsHunTerz
Afghanistan didn't sneeze they attacked the world's strongest superpower then outright refused to hand over the culprits. Im sorry but wtf did you expect to happen? Also how did Israel "broke every rule known to man" but the Arabs didn't? They attacked Israel like 18 times and were proudly advocating for its eradication as well as openly supporting terrorist organisations and casually shelling during peace time. It's always fun when Nations openly claim themselves as enemies of the west or Israel in this case and then they're shocked when treated as such
Well said
an occupied group has the right to fight at any time
This is one of the hardest wars to explain due to the multiple simultaneous fronts going on in the span of a couple of weeks and I wanted to give you guys a shout out for doing it (I know how hard it was since I helped out one of my profs to do a lecture on the topic). I hope that my criticism below won't be taken out of context but I have just a couple things to mention.
First, the Arab Holy Army (the local Arab Palestinian main force) was a large and significant player in the early stages of the war adding nearly 35,000 extra troops to the invading force.
Secondly, Israel having nearly 30,000 troops is slightly misleading considering that it was their total military contingent (not their combat force) when using that number to compare to the 20,000 Arab combat force. It leaves out how many Israeli's were conscripted to simply to work sometimes 18 hour shifts which that state needed them to do (like babysitting, construction, ammunition and weapons production...etc.). It makes no sense to the viewer that Israel would have 30,000 troops but them be completely outnumbered by Arab forces such as how you mentioned in Kfar Doram, Nirim, and Jerusalem. However, it failed to give to full scope of the battles and campaign and just how out numbered the Israeli's were in May in the Negev the Israeli's had an 800 total force to 10,000 Egyptian one, Galilee (Kinerot Campaign Syrian force of 2,100 against 150 Israeli's, Gesher 3,000 Iraqi's against 50 Israeli's), and Jerusalem (Ramat Rachel where nearly 2,000 combined Jordanian, Arab Liberation Army, Arab Holy Army, and Egyptian forces attacked 80 Israeli's), and so on and so forth.
Thidly, logistics (like with any major conflict) was the most important factor of the war. It's important to show Jordanian, Iraqi, and Egyptian supply lines and the inter-Arab conflict that was caused due to Egypt refusing to allow Jordanian bound arms from the UK through the Suez and instead had stolen them for themselves. Due to the UK control of the Suez it also made moving Egyptian forces nearly impossible forcing them to send their supplies from Alexandria to El-Arish and then would bound them to their respective locations. That took two weeks and meant that the destruction of any supplies caused them to have a significant logistical disadvantage over their much smaller foe.
Fourth, it would have been important to mention the geopolitical implications for Britain with supporting Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Syria. The United States, the Soviet Union (until October)
, and most importantly, France backed Israel making the 1948 war a proxy war that had begun the process of the collapse of any British Middle East Empire.
Lastly, civilians were often intentional targets of the war with Iraqi, Egyptian, Jordanian, and other forces intentionally attacking schools, hospitals, while the Israeli's had often massacred villages (specifically during fierce resistance) if civilians had remained inside the villages they would have likely not survived. Massacres on against both sides had occurred and had been covered up until being found out through oral testimony and declassified Israeli documents.
If you guys want to know more about the topic I would strongly encourage you guys to read about it. Though there is a lot of pieces missing from the puzzle most of the commanders of the war wrote their own books on the topic and with a little critical thinking and a lot of time it would offer a clearer perspective on the complexity of this war alone.
@Nouman Ahmed It happened. The 1948 war began as a filthy civil war where both sides mercilessly butchered each other on every occasion they've got. The Jews had Plan D by which whoever agrees to give up his arms, comm equipment and automobiles - and accept the protection of the Hagannah - should be left in peace, but most Arabs did not comply and then what do you do with them? The Arabs, on the other side, didn't even had such a plan. Their plan was to literally throw the Jews into the med. So basically, during this filthy war, massacres happened on both sides and by both sides.
@Nouman Ahmed The Israeli's did the civilian casualties of both sides was 2,300 and Arab Palestinians lost 3,000.
Though a slight majority of those deaths were civilians caught in the crossfire - a large portion of the minority (roughly 800* Arab Palestinians and 400 Jews killed [though its important to mention that some of the Arab Palestinians could have been killed by inter-Arab disputes]). Almost all of these deaths could have been avoidable.
@@johnalexander651 Salam (peace), can you send a list of books on the topic? You seem knowledgeable.
Thanks for the informative comment.
@@abumajhool145 Yes, if you are interested in the war itself Benny Morris '1948' is a good book to start, War in Palestine, 1948 by David Tal, and (though heavily apologetic and distorted) Glubb's 'A soldier with the Arabs' also gives a good run down from the Arab side. Unfortunately there isn't a lot of good history of the war itself from the Arab side of the conflict as a lot of it is inaccuracies involving their side to the conflict. (There are better versions that go in detail such as Rewriting history the war in Palestine 1948; however, it would be very difficult starting off with that one).
If you want to look at ethnic cleansing and violence against civilians I would recommend Ilan Pappe's 'Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine' and 'All that remains:the Palestinian villages depopulated and occupied' by Walid Khalidi (though neither are a military historians so I highly advise when reading their books not to take anything on what they discuss on military battles or about either the Arab or Jewish respective militaries) or Benny Morris 'the Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Crisis'.
@@johnalexander651 Thanks a lot sir, I'm interested in everything about this conflict since I'm living in a war torn country in the middle east.
I’m sure everyone in the comments will have a respectful conversation about a very nuanced issue that will make no one mad at all
I HATE JEWS AND ARABS
tesseract ` I hate u then I guess
@elmer cook I thought Jews didn't believe in hell
It was a really good documentary, I only have one point I'd like to say is that it would have been great to have the map with different colors moving with the fronts moving.
this war was the most humiliating war of the Arab league because we Jews didn't have a military
Fun fact: Jamal Nasser (future Egyptian leader and the person who ordered Egypt to start the six day war in 1967) was actually a soldier trapped in the Faluja pocket durning Israel independance war.
When the war ended Rabbi Goren (the IDF rabbi) came to collect the bodies of religious IDF soldiers the Faluja pockets have killed and Nasser even saluted him despite Rabbi Goren being lower in rank then Nasser.
Nasser didn’t start the Six Day War
Israel started the 6 days war .
h 00 Israel started all the wars . The only war the Arabs started was in 1973 . Israel didn't exist in 1948 the Zionist were coming from Europe and invaded Palestine with the help from British, france and usa .
@@mikestar1137 In 1967 the Egyptians committed numerous acts of war giving Israel a Casus Belli to launch a preemptive attack. They closed the Straits of Tiran, removed the UN peacekeepers, stationed their army on Israels border, and stated that their intentions were to allegedly destroy Israel. Once they did that they became the aggressor. Not only is this the traditional way of how to interpret these events, but it is also international law. No matter how you try to squirm out of this then end result is that the Six Day War was initiated by the Arabs, albeit based on misleading intelligence from the Soviets.
Really, that's a very un-islamic thing to do. The Hadith says, don't greet the Jew or the Christian, until they greeted you first.
Me: *sees title*
also me:
*grabs popcorn and proceeds to comment section*
@Lekky much to my dismay, yes. and I'm disappointed D:
It's not "the first arab-Israeli war" it's Israel's War of Independence, once started by the Arabs as they rejected a two state solution
(History really does repeat itself)
It's both names. Btw Even david ben-gurion admitted that zionists started the conflict.
It's very simple
European jews wanted to colonize palestina.
According to zionist historian Benny Morris, zionists chose to accept the 1937 partition plan, so they could eventually takeover all of Palestine
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0That's not true. Jews have always lived in Palestina. The Romans colonised Jews in Judea, and Judea was renamed to Palestina in the 2nd century by the Romans after Jews revolted. Arabs weren't on the land when the land was renamed to Palestina. Arabs colonised Palestina in the 7th century while Jews were living there, and in the subsequent years, Arabs migrated to Palestina from the Arab peninsula, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan.
Even though the Romans exiled some Jews, Jews never stopped living in Palestine. Jews did not return from Europe alone. They also returned from Arab countries were they were expelled.
In November 29, 1947, Arabs rejected the partition plan and the next day, they started an onslaught on Jewish villages. In 1948, 5 Arab nations invades Israel and lost the war. Israel was fighting a defensive war. They did not start the war.
@thelight537 yes it is true, thats why i said european jews. At least be an honest zionist like ben-gurion and Morris.
it was the homeland of judeans, many thousand years ago. the european jews made europe their home.
wanting most of them out of europe is what the nazis and antisemites before them wanted.
If the european jews that created the Israeli state wanted a 2 state solution, they should've done it in europe, where they had been living for consecutive centuries
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0You are not making any sense. Arabs started a war with Jews because they did not want the creation of a Jewish state. Jews in Arab countries and European countries originate from Judea (Palestine) and they all fled back to their homeland, which is Judea, when they Arabs and Europeans carried out onslaughts on Jews in Europe and Arab countries.
Palestine is not Arab land. Palestine is not a country. It's only a region that has been conquered by various empires. The only reason you see Jews from Europe and Arab countries is because Europeans and Arabs colonised their homeland.
Hundreds of thousands of Arabs settled in Palestine before they British mandate and after. Jews have always lived in Palestine even before Arab colonisers colonised them in Palestine. Arabs have no right to prevent Jews from returning to their homeland, especially, after they expelled Jews from the Arab countries.
Palestinian Jews and Jews who returned from Abroad due to persecution have every right to live and exist as a country in their homeland.
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0Not all Jews returned from Arab countries, and Europe. Jews have always lived on the land. Arabs migrated to Palestine from the Arab peninsula, Egypt Syria, Iraq, and Jordan.
In the early Ottoman period when Jews started returning to Palestine, their were only 300,000 inhabitants, including Jews, on the land. Jews who returned bought land and created better Economic conditions which drove the migration of Arabs to Palestine.
The rectangle representations of warring troops formations in your previous animations, are way way way better than these confusing and distracting grotesque soldier toys. Your 2D is supremely satisfactory in comparison to the 3D. Thanks.
16:33 when you switched from the Geographical map to the Cultural map in Crusader Kings 2
I don't get it... Why would you be on geographical map view?
@@moopara7991 Some people like to suffer
You said the 3D modeling costs a lot more money - yet in looking at this and the "2D" modeling of the Six Day War video, I gather more information from the less-fiddly-and-distracting latter. I would much prefer you take the "cheaper" option of the Six Day War style of video over this one.
i prefer the 3d stuff
Jews: "We demand a state!"
Arabs: "Fuck you!"
British: "Welp, looks like it's time for us to split"
The League of Nations mandated 6 Nation States to be created from formerly Ottoman Turkish Lands which comprised the Mandate for Syria, the Mandate for Mesopotamia and the Mandate for Palestine. 5 of the Mandated Nations were Arab, one was Jewish. And the Arabs have been butt hurt about it since, as Arab/Islamist Supremacists consider Jews (as they do the majority of indigenous MENA Region Peoples as “Less Than”, hence Dhemmi Law.)
Classic Britain, drawing borders that no one likes
@@ThePikminCaptainit was actually the UN partition plan, so many countries took part in that.
@@ThePikminCaptainWasn't it the UN who drew the lines and not Britain?
@@UpcdtdS we blame the Brit’s because they had control over the region and thus a lot of oversight
While I liked this video, I think the viewers would understand the war better with changing front lines. That red line could have moved around as each side pressed their attack and sieges territory.
I still learned a lot though.
White Belt red line to show troop movements of specific divisions
make video on rwandan genocide, 1st and 2nd Congo war, vietnam war, yugoslav war pls
Bhai bhalo asen?
@@twentyonesailors8122 ho valoi
@Adib lol didnt know there were so many history lovers in our country
Rwandan genocide: the first subject covered during my poli-sci course in college in late 90s. Had tears of anger and sadness when I left my class that day!
Agree. I got to watch zaire slowly fall apart after the rwandan war, the major media outlets had their noses so far up the former Yugoslavias ass they basically ignored rwanda and the subsequent collapse of both zaire and burundi.
Arabs still hoping for a win since 1948
The Jews didn't run to the airport clinging to airplanes trying to get out. They grabbed their weapons and fought to the death.
What did those arabs expect? The Israelians just survived the concentration camps and swore to never again be murdered without resistance. And they never will!
So then maybe they should've resisted in europe and create a state there, where they had lived for consecutive centuries
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 Nope. The majority of the land considered part of the "Arab World" was taken through conquest. Don't be crying when someone else comes and challenges you for it.
@@jedimasterbonesno they shouldn't have resisted against european anti-semites? That's ridiculous.
2. U believe in reparations? Blaming arabs for something that occurred in the 6th century?
St.upid L.iberal
@KsM-285 no counterargument about My 2 comments above
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 I bet you say nothing about all the cultures that were destroyed and had to convert to Islam during the early islamic conquest...
Lol the arabs in the comments are saltier then then the dead sea
The antagonistic nature of the Islamic faith makes recognition of military weakness impossible.
so am salty then you must be stupid if you dont kow who i am,am the end of chirtoanity and jews folk hindu and atheists
@@ObaidFaisal
انت عربي ؟ انت باكستاني و صاحب يتحدث عن العرب و ليس عنكم
@armyofninjas9055 antagonist? Sorry but being hateful toward a nation that displaced half a country population in one year and occupied 2nd holiest city in Islam not to mention they are the only non-arabs in that region
this conflicted has lasted so long and effected so many ppl that even the comment section is relatively docile for this one
That's......
Unexpected.
Israel vs arabs gang but the Arabs still lose..im sure the arabs really embarrassed at that time
Because arabs are not the chosen ones.
usa mama helps this is policy to win the world ha
May I suggest covering the Greek civil war 1946-49 next?
That would be nice
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@STORM LORD It was the fist true Cold War proxy. Many former nazi collaborators bolstered the ranks of the National Army while 14.000 bulgarian-speaking slavs helped the Democratic Army. After the war the communists were expelled with the greek ones settling in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (where many of the revolted against the leadership of the Greek Communist Party and were put down, hard). The slavs on the other hand settled in a certain former yugoslav republic that shall not be named ;)
The prelude however is far more interesting: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekemvriana
@@CaptainHarlock-kv4zt Fun fact: it is referred to by right-wingers as the Gang War. The Red Scare that followed was probably the biggest in the western block.
Why not 1919-22 greek-turkish war ? :P
A seven nation army can't hold them back
Didn’t you watch the video? The Arabs had 23,500 soldiers and the Israelis 29,000
@@a.h.tvideomapping4293 don't be salty like the sea
@@YaBoyYeti I’m just saying facts
-also that was a horribly missed opportunity to say salty as the Dead Sea-
@@a.h.tvideomapping4293 nah, it wasn't. at least you got that joke, but you missed the first one.
@@a.h.tvideomapping4293 the Arabs were more trained, and the Arabs had more troops just the israelíes had more troops on the front lines. And yes, it technically was a 7 nation army. If each country sent 1 troop it would still be a seven nation army.
Israel are chosen by God, and this war proves this.. but Arabs refuse to accept it
The end of the arabs will be similar to the Nazis and the Romans, at the end the Jews will always prevail over all darkness in the world..
😂
The same God that let millions of jews die in the holocaust?
Ur pretty insane
Fun fact: the alleged “Arab-Israeli War” is, in reality, named “Israel War of Independence” due to the successful liberation and decolonization of most of the area used to belong to the Kingdom of Israel back in the 10th century BCE.
The state of Israel was created predominantly by immigrants and the arabs sensibly opposed those immigrants
@@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0those immigrants are descendants of those who were expelled by the Romans, they kept their identity for 2000ys and let's be clear, there were jews still living in their ancestral homeland throughout the 2000y exile..
@@FijianzionAccording to french historian henry laurens, palestine wasn't given self determination in 1920 because everyone knew the population would reject zionism.
Just like Australians would later reject the Kimberley plan
I'm a US republican and I wouldn't let immigrant minorities carve out a state the way zionists did.
Oh wait, no majority population would
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 let me ask you a question?how and what can be done to resolve the Arab Israeli conflict?
@closetglobe.IRGUN.NW0 see..you just proved my point, there have always been some Jewish existence in Israel throughout their long years of exile, and the only way for foreigners like the Arabs to finally own the land of Israel is to make it a state..and the first step of every colonization is to weaken the opposition, well in this case, the Arabs knew very well that the Zionists will not allow anyone from taking over the Jewish land..that is the purpose of zionism..but it means patriotic Israelis..
That's a really nice try of trying to demonize Israel..but not good enough.
Have to agree with J Dekkers, the old style in the 6 days war video was alot better, this one is far more chaotic and hard to make out which territory belonged to whom.
Still an awesome video as always, with lots of information, especially stuff people usually tend to forget, like the weapons and armor imports from other countries to the Jewish State.
as an isreali i must say great vidoe
@@thecrusaderhistorian9820 thank you
@@thecrusaderhistorian9820 I might check out your's video
Of course you must, it's selling your made up story
Fuck you 😤
We are you killing the palastians?
Israel’s three Sherman tanks of glory.
@@saguntum-iberian-greekkons7014 yep
you son of bitsh waht a glory!!! This Arab land
EN NS If you dont know how to protect your land then of course someone will come and take it! Don’t you know anything about history? You continue to smoke shisha. Israelians have advanced technology! They are going to take all of you down if you don’t learn how to be powerful. If they took the land it is their land. Nobody cares how they took it. This is the war law. Wake up! Dont live in utopia!
M. A.O.ot.a they speak Jewish so at the moment it is Israel land. If you take it back it will be arabic land. But I don’t see any hope for arabs. They are not even close to develop strong scientific products. Weak armies weak commanders weak generals.
Lol i guess if israel abandon jew language and use english as their language. They can take anything lol. British will say this is good. However they fear israel use Christian to gain power. Lol
Im surprised more Muslims have no lost their faith when clearly the Jews were chosen by god throughout this conflict
Mongolia Solitude Im pretty sure it’s the same god
They did a good job considering the complexity of the war. Good job!