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Hello UsefulCharts, im new to your channel and i really enjoy your videos. Im really looking for a video where it shows the changes of our calenders. For i know the Jewish calender is different to the Julian calender as well as the Gregorian calender. Do you have a video on how the world ended up adapting to the gregorian calender? Or what calenders they were using in the past?
your implementation of terms is wrong. Bronze Age Canaanite are the same iron age Canaanites./ Israel is a term called exclusively for people of a certain religion. which mean the one who struggle with god. Israel is a religious name not a geographic name. jews came from Mesopotamia not from the native Canaan land, Hebrew . were nomadic groups living in the desert of Mesopotamia. their name mean the crossers of rivers, because they used to marauding on trade routs and villages similar to the guti or vandals. Amrits,Mobait,Adomits,Ammonites,Phoenicians are all Canaanites. why you didn't mentioned them? and with your logic are the philistines iron age Canaanites? Israelites literature is extremely influenced by Mesopotamian religion and Egypt more then the Canaanite religion which they despised. there is no such thing as iron age Canaanites called Israelites. this is misleading.
Israeli operation in Gaza is not wrong/illegal. No one called the Allied forces genocidal when they bombed/starved Berlin. Unless it only applies when the victims are non-whites. Is that it? Read a book, More specifically, the rules of war as agreed and legally defined in UN Hospitals/Cultural/Historical places/Schools/places of worship. All lose their legal protection if they put weapons/ammunitions/hostages inside those places. Blame the Nakba on the Arab League who chose war instead of a citizen/land swap. Blame the Destruction of Gaza on those who put missiles/hostages under their children's bed just to score sympathy points.
I am sorry, but that is full of inaccuracies. Like the fact the British didn't sell any land to Jews, but were Arab land owners. Or the fact that the withdrawal from Gaza is not related to the 2nd Intifada, which was almost exclusively in the WB and was decided by the Israelis in 2002. Way before any violence in Gaza.
Awesome video. Just one suggestion: use a physical map as your base map, or a series of maps corresponding to the time being discussed, rather than showing a map with the modern borders the whole time. This would emphasize the ephemeral, fungible, and arbitrary nature of political borders, and remind us that the modern divisions are far from immutable.
Mr Useful Charts, thanks so much for your work. I watched several of your videos in late 2022 on this region and then read a book you recommended in one of your videos, and now I am back again watching a few of your videos in 2024. I hope your health has improved and you can enjoy the great investigative and teaching work you do with your channel.
@@UsefulCharts Well okay sorry for assuming then, but let me just say if here. You say that what Hamas did on October 7th is wrong and what Israel is doing right now is also wrong. However you miss the point that Israel is doing unprecedented things to minimise civilian casualties here. Israel dropps leaflets, texts and calls people, uses drones with loudspeakers used by people who speak fluent Arabic to get people out of harms way, while Hamas is doing everything TO KEEP civilians in harms way. Israel allows humanitarian aid to come in and uses high precision rockets to target specific targets. Another fact is that Israel successfully evacuated more than 1 million people from Rafah and established field hospitals and places where these people can temporarily live. To say that Hamas and Israel are equally bad here is not only wrong, it's outrageous. You say you support the protests, but what these mobs are shouting is nothing but death to Israel, death to America. Israels fight is against the Hamas, not the Palestinians. In 2005 Israel withdrew from Gaza in persuit of peace. What did happen then? They elected a government that persues the complete Annihalation of Israel. Israel has a long history of compromising, and as someone with Jewish ancestory as well and has relatives in Israel, I understand this struggle. There clearly can't be peace with terrorists operating in the Gazastrip or the westbank. What they say about themselves is very clear. Hisbollah, Huthies, Hamas, Public Front, Lions Den, Fatah, PLO, PIJ, and all these terror brigades are all terror proxies of Iran that aim to annihalate the state of Israel. And it makes me sad and angry when I see that when Israel is fighting this just war, people really think they can held Israel accountable to not living up to the perfect standard of NO civilian casualties at all. A standard no country in history ever lived up to, and yet it is expected from Israel, while it's also the only country NOT allowed to win a war. Israel doesn't deliberately kill people, this is the crystal clear difference between them and Hamas. But civilian casualties are a sad cost of war - a war, that Israel never first started. Out of the around 30 k people around 14k were combatants. The numbers changed a bit, but not changing the fact that the ratio of killed people is almost 1:1, which is even more impressive in a war like this where Hamas hides beneath civilian infrastructure and tunnels that are embedded in it. The numbers of the Hamas controlled ministry of health keeps lineary growing, which is very questionable and weird because it never occurs in war. As stand 100% with Israel because history has shown that leaving terrorists be that use all fundings from the world to buy weapons to aim at annihalating a neighbour state is a mistake. Doing nothing and standing still while you are getting targeted by suicide attackers, is a mistake. This has to stop, and it has to stop now.
As an Arab, i found this video very enjoyable and i salute you for not picking sides and just stating facts as they are. Thank you and keep making great content ❤
@@sunnysuzannait doesn't really matter what you call it, killing people is just that, and many or even most of the deaths are innocents. Genocide or not, that's a horror.
@@samos343guiltyspark How convenient that the "Gazan health ministry" which is the Hamas government, doesn't say how many of their own died. Its almost always women and children even though there is so much footage of "kids" actively used in the conflict. If you civilians out of harms way, don't fight from within them dressed as civilians.
Yes! I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be surprised to learn that in the last 420 years about 270 years the Azerbaijani population was the ethnic majority in what now is known as Armenia.
@@bneymanovHistory of Armenia would be like mostly Urartians in the ancient ages, Romans in the first millennium CE with a bit of Arab Caliphates, and Turkic dynasties in the 2nd millennium CE with a tiny amount of Mongol rule
@@nenenindonuarmenians has nothing to do with urartians. Their redorded history started with 5th century AD writings which in itself is borrowed from ephiopians…
@@gurbanabbasov Yes Urartians indeed have nothing to with Armenians just how Romans & Turks don't, I just mentioned them as a former ruling entity of what is now Armenia
A brilliant summary as usual mate. Equally brilliant closing remarks, well done Sir. You are a terrific example of tolerance and empathy. Let's hope the current situation can end quickly and with as little bloodshed as possible 🙏🏻
Matt, thank you so much for this video. As a person living in the middle east and inside this conflict, I've been staying away from online content pertaining to it. I'm just sick and tired of people throwing out their hateful and ignorant opinions so carelessly, while living out their comfortable lives millions of mile away and not really understanding what it might be like to be born into this reality. The only thing worse is the hateful and biased of some people who were born into it, and are poisoned by generations of mutual distrust and national animosity. When I saw your video I was very hesitant at first. But you've never let me down before, and you handled masterfully other controversial subjects in the past. I've been waiting for someone willing to just explain the dry facts of this millennia long story, address some of its complexities, and do it in a way that left me unsure of your personal political view (at least until the end, where you presented it with your disclaimer). I could talk about where I agree and disagree with you, but I find it more important to appreciate your honest attempt at looking at both sides and their narratives, and recognizing the pain each one goes through. And to finish with my own prayer - may the extremists on both sides that led us to this mess get to feel all the pain they bring down on us.
You are smart for avoiding online propaganda. There is such a huge political disinformation campaign and they have NO qualms with completely misrepresenting history and emotionally manipulating the public. The world needs far more people like you who simply refuse to engage with that stuff. We are all vulnerable to it, but some of us have a sense for when something is just not right. I always tell my students, "if you're having a strong emotional reaction to the media, its not necessarily because you're learning the truth. Only trust the views you form based on doubt and debating yourself - no matter how uncomfortable those doubts make you. Strong convictions are often a weakness, not a strength."
Here is my read on it from a recent update in my research. Jews were expelled from England in 1290 until 1656. Christian Protestants were more kindly disposed to them, and among Christian philosophies was a seed that grew slowly into Zionism with an idea that Jews were key to the end times and that getting European Jews back to Jerusalem would encourage an end time where most Jews would go to hell and the remainder would pray to Jesus. Orthodox Jews were originally against the idea. For example, at the turn of the 20th century, there were approximately 350,000 Jews living in Britain. The number of Zionists among them was around 8,000. Many Christians were involved in proselytizing Zionism. By the time Balfour wrote his famous declaration there was already a healthy Christian Zionism movement for over a century and Jewish Zionism was not a popular notion until after the First ZIonist Congress in Basel in 1880. In fact, though scheduled originally to be held in Munich, it was due to criticism of Orthodox and Reformed Jews that it wasn't held there. In short, Zionism doesn't go back thousands of years, any more than the nationalism it is based upon does.
Great comment. We all think we should get a say in it across the world yet it's not our conflict. Who do we think we are telling people what to do, who are caught up in the middle of it? Prayers for your survival and peace.
His use of the historical method should quell some of that "controversy". However the more contemporary claims in the video, and the solutions he advocates for are kind of problematic, as addressed below with timestamps: 30:14 "...the (Ashkenazi) Jewish newcomers were fleeing heavy persecution (in Europe) and *didn't really have anywhere else to go*" This is a statement which contradicts your earlier point on them (ie. secular/ atheist zionists) selecting multiple places to establish a nation-state. They had many places they could've gone to where the diaspora was living normal lives. They also had the option of settling other lands which were under colonial administration which may genuinely have been "empty", unlike the land they selected which was inhabited by *indigenous* Jew, Christians, Muslims and other religious groups with the same ethnic background (ie. the "mixed bag" you correctly referenced repeatedly). 30:55 *Worst ever genocide* is again, an objectively false statement. It's a popular talking point which is a form of genocide denial (ie. underplaying the many genocides outside of Europe which were quantifiably worse). Holocaust-esque genocides imposed by the colonial powers were the norm for the global majority - the reason it is (wrongly) portrayed as unique is because the Germans exerted that colonial violence *internally* onto Europe, which was deemed unacceptable by inter-colonial competition. 31:05 "Western countries were reluctant to take in Jews, thus the need for Jews to have their own state" First, the attempts to establish a Jewish state on this land preceded these events by decades via the explicitly *colonial* Zionist movement espoused by Herzl in collusion with the British who sought to use their classic colonial tactic of ethnic division to weaken a land. Second, Jews were living normal lives everywhere outside of ehite supremacist Europe. Third, the UN created a plan with borders which mirrored those of apartheid South Africa, with the indigenous inhabitants relegated to disconnected "bantustans" while the colonially imported population were given land on top of the homes of the indigenous. Out of the thousands of ethnicities most do not have a nation-state, as there are under 200 nations. We already established there have been worse genocides across the global majority, so that can't be the answer. Why should Ashkenazi Jews be the exception, especially given their colonial nation-state would be established on inhabited land? The answer is: they shouldn't. The nation state is an inherently backwards idea which inevitably results in fascistic nationalism in an effort to establish (fabricate) a unified "national" identity, as opposed to the "mixed bag" which has existed in the region forever. 31:20 "The two sides went to war" War is an inaccurate descriptor; it was one side resisting a plan created by an outright colonial/imperialist entity (the UN was a tool of imperialism at this point in history; still is to an extent). They were being expelled from homes they inhabited for dozens of generations so the victims of the holocaust (ie. European victims of European colonial violence turned inwards onto Europe) could settle on top of those homes. It was indiegnous resistance to colonialism. 31:38 "In reponse around the same number of Jews were expelled from the neighboring Arab countries". While the rise of nationalism did occur is *some* regions of the Arab world as the colonial powers lost their grip and created deliberately divisive nation-state borders (recall my point on the trajectory the nation-state inevitably leads to under a diverse society), the major cause of the outflow of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews into the new colonial state of "Israel" was caused by *Zionist extremists* either committing violent acts to stoke further religious division or outright kidnapping their Jewish children to import into "Israel".
@@af8828 You should make this a main comment (so more people and Matt can see it) with some citations of sources you based your arguments on, i agree with some of your points but i'm ignorant on others (like the pogroms on Jews post UN partition plan).
@@TracyD2 unfortunately when having to answer the question “who is the aggressor” it’s really going to be whoever is answering that question is going to answer with who they are aligned with. Because there are arguments for both unfortunately.
7:37 - The Bronze Age collapse didn't lead to the fall of Egypt. In fact, Egypt was the only major power in the region to survive. It hurt Egypt to be sure, but it continued to exist thereafter.
Both him and you are correct, he said the bronze age collapse lead to the downfall of Egypt which is true as Egypt did survive it but it was so weakened from the events that it continued declining while new emerging powers kept rising in power till Egypt itself was conquered by foreigners like the Libyan and Nubian dynasties (3rd intermediate period and late period in A. Egypt). So yes you are correct that Egypt did not fall in the bronze age collapse, but he is also correct that the collapse was one of the direct causes of Egypt's downfall. Alongside weak rulers who could at best slow the rapid decline of the Egyptian empire, such as all the Ramsisides from Ramses 5 and on.
Yeah, but I think the important part, as far as the video is concerned, is that Egypt was so weakened by the Bronze Age Collapse that it shrank back to its core territory on the Nile delta, leaving a power vacuum in Canaan that allowed the rise of Philistia, Israel and Judea. Without the collapse, those states would never have existed and the Levant would probably be part of Egypt to this day.
@@neilturner5211 that is incorrect, the sea peoples that attacked Egypt were resettled (by Egypt) into Canaan to become a vassal state. Those sea peoples were called Palaset which later they became known the the Philistens.
Wait. I know this is important stuff about things going on but the only thing I really took away from this is that Egypt had colonies outside of it's traditional borders during the pre dynastic period. I didn't know this and it kinda blew my mind a little bit.
Egypt didn't have "traditional borders" at that time - no country did. What defines colonizing versus settling on its own? Traditional borders weren't really a thing until the Treaty of Westphalia iirc. Until then, it mattered more which cities owed allegiances and where
Interesting take. So, would you say that England, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy did not colonize the Americas because at the time there were no countries with defined borders? @@SarudeDanstorm
@@LauraWald Crossing an ocean to different continents as they were known in those days to settle at the expense of indigenous populations is grounds enough to be considered colonization in my book. As opposed to how, for example, the English controlling Normandy and Aquitaine in France during the 100 years' war would not be considered colonization - that would be conquest. In Egypt's case here, they created a city/settlement that was adjacent to its other cities/settlements - why is that considered colonization instead of just simple settlement as they did anywhere else along the Nile or Mediterranean?
I am impressed by the detailed historical information you provide in your videos. To make them more trustworthy, can you make a video about what the sources are of the historical info? Or provide information about the sources per video? Kind regards Bram
Yes. I, too, would favor sources cited. GDF does a good job in their video essays doing such, setting a good example for all aspirers of historical truths.
You are WRONG to be impressed with this video. It is full of misinformation. The channel, should now be renamed "Useless Charts" This video misinforms repeatedly. Jordan renamed Judea and Samaria, banned Jews, annexed the area, renamed it the West Bank, in 1949, and they gave everyone living there Jordanian citizenship. Egypt gained control of Gaza in 1949 after the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement was signed in Rhodes. Under the agreement, the armistice line was drawn along the international border (dating from 1906) except near the Mediterranean Sea, where the Kingdom of Egypt remained in control of a strip of land along the coast, which then became known as the Gaza Strip. However in 1959, a year after the Republic of Egypt and the Second Syrian Republic merged to form a single sovereign state known as the United Arab Republic the Gaza strip became part of the United Arab Republic. How and why did Useful Charts ignore these historical facts? The channel, like Judea and Samaria, and like Gaza too, should now be renamed "Useless Charts" A crash course on history that proves there has never been a PALESTINIAN STATE: 1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state 2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state. 4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state. 5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state. 6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state. 7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state. 8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state. 9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state. 10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state. 11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state. 12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state. 13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state. 14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state. 15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state. 16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state. 17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state. 19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state. 20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
Matt, you deserve a pat on your back for this video and all the work that went into it. Such a historically significant place this is. I wish I had a time machine to go back in time and see how it's people have evolved and grown over the years.
16:55 Minor mistake. The year wasn't 135 BCE but rather 135 CE, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, that the third Jewish revolt was put down and the province renamed as Syria Palestinia.
@@patrickgronemeyer3375” The Bar Kokhba revolt, also known as the Third Jewish-Roman War, was a large-scale armed rebellion against the Roman Empire that took place from 132-135 CE. Led by Simon bar Kokhba, the Jewish rebels of Judea gained control of Jerusalem and parts of Judaea, establishing an independent state for more than two years. However, the Roman army eventually crushed the revolt, killing bar Kokhba at Betar in 135 and enslaving or killing the remaining rebels within the year. The war had devastating consequences for the Jewish people, with the majority of the province's population killed, enslaved, or exiled. The revolt began with high hopes for a homeland and a Holy Temple, as Roman emperor Hadrian had allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple in 118 CE. However, Hadrian became convinced that the Jewish faith was the driving force behind the uprising and declared a war of annihilation against Judaism. He banned all Jewish commandments, including circumcision, Sabbath observance, and Torah study, and anyone who observed them was executed”
@@patrickgronemeyer3375 It's historically well know, even Life of Brian covers it! Judea became a Roman Province in 6AD and the Romans later renamed it to Palestine as an insult to the Jews/Israelis that kept uprising against them. It was a punishment and insult as the name was taken from the Philistines that had lived along the coast at one point (they were later invaded and defeated by the Babylonians and absorbed into them). Even today, being called a Philistine is an insult.
2:35 Correction: not just the local population of the southern Levant, but the whole Levant was inhabited by Canaanites, to the point that the most important Canaanite archeological site nowadays is often considered to be the city of Ugarit, which is in modern day Syria. Later, northern Canaanites became known as Phoenicians by the Greeks and Romans, but preserved much of their culture and identity (including religion) until the end of antiquity.
Not the entire Levant, just west of the Jordan and Orontes. To the east it was populated by Arameans, and other Arab(ish) groups (edomites, nabateans, moabites, ammonites, so on). To the north there were Assyrians and Hittites and Armenians. The Arameans that migrated north became known as Syriacs.
@@habibi_sport312 No, they weren't confined like that, they were all over the ancient world. The Canaanites spread across the Mediterranean and founded many colonies that became major cities (e.g., Carthage), even as far as Spain.
You're an honest Jew, I can appreciate that. Since no one really "belongs" to Israel or Gaza I wish both would cease hostilities and just become either one state or two state. Peace should be their primary focus.
for such a comprehensive overview, you really gloss over the reasons why the UN plan just "never happened" and the war began. it's quite a bit more complicated than that!
@@FingswithFrankie Really? The Israelis were literally willing to accept anything that was given to them at that point. They agreed to the UN partition plan and the Arabs rejected it. Neighbouring states then declared war on Israel with full intention of wiping them off the map completely. They then lost.
Should have just let the Sea Peoples keep it /s That being said i think this is a really cool format for you guys. You should do this for major cities around the world. i bet people would love posters of the timeline of their city they live in!
They kept a blockade, they control all the borders by Land, Sea and air, they control everything that goes in and out. And some times they shot at civilians (check How many gazans were killed by Israel since 2005)
4:39 “later I’ll be discussing things that are difficult and polarizing” right after he talks about whether or not the Exodus is meant to be taken literally or as literary fiction. 😅 oh boy this is going to get extra fun
Please start making the distinction between "archaeological record" and "archaeological theory." The record contains artifacts that explicitly indicate something. Such as an inscription, definite material evidence, etc. Theory pertains to ideas, perhaps mainstream, that COULD be supported by findings. Archaeologists won't love you but historians certainly will!
Most articulated and developed unbiased video I’ve seen on the internet, without disregard for loss of human lives on both sides of this historical ancient piece of land.
The video says that "sometime in the latte 1800s and early 1900s Gazans stopped thinking of themselves as Ottomans and instead thought of themselves as Palestinians". What evidence can I use to support this claim?
@@UsefulCharts The Google results certainly do support use in that time frame, but they fall spectacularly short of the claim in your video, which is that the population actually changed how it self-identified. It is pretty easy to show that in the 1947 time frame, the Arab population in the Mandate overwhelmingly used Arab, and that Palestinian in the absence of the word Arab was disproportionately used to describe Jews. Was there a period of time prior to this in which the Arab population in the area actually called itself Palestinian to a greater degree than we see post-WW2? What was the nature of the shift in self-identity (if any) between 1880 and the end of Ottoman rule, and was this shift anything more than the actual political end of the Ottoman empite?
@aum1040 i dont have a scholarly article but i have my family stories. im palestinian christian. My grandfather was born in nazareth and had a palestinian passport. Thats just an example of one pre world war two
@UsefulCharts If that's the case, why did they overwhelmingly deny the word "Palestine" in the Peel Commission that was even after the dates you mentioned? "There is no such country! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. 'Palestine' is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it." -- Awni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee, before the Peel Commission in 1937. Every other member of the Arab Higher Committee and the rest of the tribes living there said exactly the same. They still had the desire to become part of Greater Syria.
As a fan of Usefulcharts, I have a few of their pieces hanging in my space. The statement at 13:34, 'no longer any one group that can claim to be the undisputed first-peoples of the land', is particularly thought-provoking. It leads me to consider that under this line of thinking, a claim could be made that 90% of all cities could qualify with the same statement. After all, most areas have been inhabited by many cultures (some multiple times) and the original inhabitants have either vanished, been displaced, or assimilated before resurfacing at some point. Even the Egyptians were once conquered.
Except that it’s wrong, the Jewish presence is still there as it has been throughout history longer than any other group. Others have come and gone however, the Jewish presence is unique, persisting from the present day back over 3000 years.
@@glenwolfram1485 False. What a surprise. If you want to go back to the original inhabitants - your 'Jewish presence' is, er, *_absent._* Try to be less glib.
GREAT JOB! I am PALESTINIAN. Family from Haifa, Palestine since at least 1700s. Victims of Al-Nakba. Refugees in Lebanon for 12 years. My kids and theirs are now ethnically cleansed living in MEXICO. PEACE TO ALL PEOPLE!
@@m0nZt3r Frustrated by confusing & contradictory information, I researched the history of the land we call Israel and Palestine today. Who lived on it first? Israelites lived in this land 1,658 years before the ancestors of Palestinians. Palestinian ancestral land is the Arabian Peninsula. ‘Palestinian’ is a modern word from the 20th century. "Syria Palaestina” was the name given by the Romans to Judea after the Bar Kochba revolt, although the name's origins go back even further, being based on the term 'Philistine', the name for a land that at the time belonged to a people who were no longer extant, not as a people nor a political entity Only the Canaanites and Philistine predate the Israelites. The descendants of Canaanites and Philistine is complex and not entirely resolved The Israelites arrived C1300 BCE and established the Israelite Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BC, while the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Next the land changed hands many times, until Arab Muslims conquered it in 638 CE and established an Islamic Caliphate. The Arab population, increasingly identifying as Palestinian particularly in the 20th century, has been a significant part of the social and cultural fabric of the area, especially during the periods of Islamic rule and the Ottoman Empire. A timeline: Canaanite Period (c. 3000 - 1200 BCE): The earliest known inhabitants were Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people. Philistine Period (c. 1175 - 604 BCE): Philistines settled along the coastal areas, mostly in the Gaza Strip. Israelite Kingdoms (c. 1020 - 586 BCE): The Israelites, also a Semitic-speaking people, established the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (722 - 539 BCE): Assyrians and Babylonians conquered the region. Persian Period (539 - 332 BCE): Persia conquered the Babylonian empire, including this area. The Persians later reinstated Israel as a country. Hellenistic Period (332 - 167 BCE): Conquest by Alexander the Great, followed by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rules. Hasmonean Kingdom (167 - 37 BCE): Jewish rule restored after the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids. Roman Period (63 BCE - 324 CE): The area became a part of the Roman Empire, with Israel remaining a kingdom within that empire, with Rome appointing the king, until AD 44. Bar Kochba Period (132 CE - 136 CE): Simon bar Kochba let a Jewish revolt and for a short time revived Jewish sovereignty over land, until it was brutally crushed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove any trace of Jewish connection to the land. Byzantine Period (324 - 638 CE): Christian rule under the Byzantine Empire. Islamic Caliphate Era (638 CE - 1099 CE): Arab Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE, introducing Arab rule and Islamic culture to the region. Arabic gradually replaced Aramaic and Greek as the dominant language. Crusader Period (1099 - 1187 CE): European Christians captured Jerusalem and established the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (1187 - 1516 CE): Saladin, a Kurdish Muslim leader, defeated the Crusaders. The Mamluks, who were of various ethnicities including Turkic and Circassian, succeeded the Ayyubids. Ottoman Period (1516 - 1917 CE): The Ottoman Turks controlled the region, and the Arab populace lived under Ottoman rule. British Mandate (1917 - 1948 CE): British control after World War I. Increased Jewish immigration leads to tensions between Jews and Arabs. State of Israel (1948 - Present): Established in 1948, leading to ongoing conflicts with Arab Palestinians. The ‘West Bank' is in fact ancient Judea, the land of the Jews. The 'Philistines' lived along the southwest coastline, nowhere near the Judean hills. But with all this, there has never been a Palestinian state.
1.9 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel. They serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in the IDF. Not ethnically cleansed. What was wrong with Trans-Jordan or Egypt?
You were not ethnically cleansed because: A. Palestinians are not an ethnicity. B. You are not clean. Your parents simply LOST the war that they started.
Another good video. Being pedantic though, you say that it wasn’t until Roman times that the land was referred to as Palestine. I’ve just finished Herodotus’ Histories, and he definitely calls this region Palestine, several centuries before the time period you mention. Before even the Macedonian period. I’m not an expert on ancient translations or etymology or anything, so maybe this doesn’t contradict your statement after all. Anyway, really appreciate your work generally, thanks a lot and keep it coming!
Herodutes traveled the coasts of the Mediterranean. And was a Greek. As said in the video, the coast was mostly ruled by the Philistines and the inner body of the land by the Israelites. And Herodouts was a Greek communixating with Greek settlers therefore they probably told him the region is Philistine, hence being refered by him as Philistine. I doubt the word Palestine as we know it today mentioned there.
The video has commentary that is rather out of place. Even if we accept the video claim that the modern "Palestinian national identity"" is over a century old ,the fact is that the newly formed identity DID NOT bring with it sovereignty over ANY territory in the region least of all Gaza . The narrative of "Palestinian people" being "victimized" or "colonized" on their own land is therefore unsustainable. Before the British/ league of Nations mandate, sovereignty belonged to the Ottoman empire not to any yet to be formed Palestinian national identity.
29:30 It was not the British who created the Mandate, it was the League of Nations which created similar Mandates for the British in Jordan etc & the French in Lebanon & Syria. Due to the loss by the Turksish Ottomans in WW1. In fact, the British made Jewish immigration extremely difficult (read early Yishuv history ), giving away large land parcels to Arabs, notably all of eastern Mandatory Palestine which became Jordan -- before the proposed “split” by the UN, inheritors of the League’s Mandate terms. Indeed, the British themselves didn’t own much of the swampy land purchased legally by Jews for kibbutzim and towns, those were mostly Ottoman owners. Often it was land that wasn’t too nice to live on but turned out to be great farm land after draining and malaria control. Many Arab villages and traditional towns were located in the stony hills above the now-fertile Valleys in the North or the sandy humid coastal plains in the South of the coastal plain (Tel Aviv), not to mention the brutally dry Negev which was not wanted by Ottomans, British, or any farmer types & was mostly populated by mobile herders.
The Philistines were mentioned in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, in several places in the context of the story of the Prophet Abraham. The word Palestine referred in the Bible to the land of Canaan or the land inhabited by the Canaanites, so the Philistines, meaning the Canaanites, were mentioned in the twenty-first chapter of the Book of The configuration is in two places as follows: So they made a covenant at Beersheba, and then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. (Verse: 32) Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days. (verse 34)
sans les rotchild et les britanniques, puis les USA, la Palestine aurait pu devenir un pays de partage , des cultures et religions en harmonie...le colonialisme est la pire des religions
@@Palestine123-tdont spread wrong information Philistine is not Palestine, there is no Arab on Philistine, the Philistine has been extinct and wipe out during Babylonian Empire, just because they has almost similar name, doesnt mean it has any relationship 😂 and how come you said it colonialism when you built the temple on top of their temple? who colonize who? when all evidence of relics, books and figures are rest on their land since 3000BC, the only colonise people is the Arab people, Israel has been conquered by many nation, and they taking back whats theirs, its called De-colonization
Thank you UsefulCharts for such a wonderful video! The history of Gaza and the Israeli-Hamas conflicts are very well explained. I like the fact that UsefulCharts does not take side in the Israeli-Hamas conflicts.
What a wonderful video! Thank you for the excellent research and presentation. One point I find a bit simplified is equating Caananites with Israelites. It is a great way to show how the Israelites were mostly local Caananite tribes, in contrast with the biblical narrative of migration and conquest. But there were others, no? Like the Moabites and Phoenicians?
Moabites and Phoenicians are essentially canaanite. Their languages are canaanite languages and genetically Phoenicians Israelite etc are canaanite genetics
Yes, the Jews themselves were a mix of many different tribes, quite clear if you read the Bible correctly. Originally Babylonians, since Abraham's tribe came from Ur, Egyptians who joined them, as the biblical exodus story points it out, and eventually by absorbing the various Canaanite tribes of the area. Ruth, King David's grandmother herself was a Moabite. Every nation on Earth, no matter how nationalistic they are, claiming to be pure blooded, are a healthy admixture DNA-wise. It is the individual's own sense of identity, as well as the non-acceptance by others around you [as in the case of the Jews] that makes you who you are.
A Jew is not a Jew purely by its genetics. Being a Jew is a part of a spiritual-cultural continuity, the Torah does not hide the mixture of other ethinics groups that was welcome into the People. Even adopted non-jewish children, properly accepted into the community is 100% Jew. There is the Jew by the Halacha, there is no such thing as pure genetic Jew!
Great video ,I am Egyptian and history freak was even eligible to study it and Egyptology at the Uni.but I choose English language instead . This video was by far the most accurate and unbiased ,even better completely secular about the ' Cause of Causes ' as we call it in this part of this world which affects everybody on earth if not settled ...Shukran شكرا 💐❤🙏
2 misleading things you lied about: 1 - Several places did offer refuge to the palestinians, in all 3 places the PLO faction of the population turned on their host country either causing a civil war, trying to instigate a violent coup or supporting a foreign government's invasion. Not sure there's any evidence they've moderated their attitudes since then. 2 - Some arabs were pushed out of their homes during the nakba, many also left because the invading arab armies told them to leave so they could cleanse the land of the jews. So for many the tragedy of the Nakba is that the arabs failed to genocide the jews so they could go back to their homes.
History is our current story too…. Throughout history, until today.. the Same “clean shaven” “civilized” “people”.. waging inhumane, unjust, “barbaric” wars on indigenous populations of Family Men, Fathers, Brothers, Sons, Farmers, Fishermen, and Believers!!! While calling the victims “Barbarian”.
As someone originally from Gaza and St Porphyrius is my church. It wasn't hit directly, it was a neighboring building that hit and the impact damaged a church outer building which unfortunately killed members of our community. just for context. Hamas would use the church cemetery to hide weapons
Can you also tell how Hamas treated the Christians in Gaza?! Because that is something that I miss in your story.... You already mentioned that the Christian church was clearly not touched (destroyed) by Hamas.
Thank you for the much needed honesty, many online are saying Israel intentionally harmed the church and are sharing fake information. I hope you and your family are safe, have a good day!
@@sirenesotericReligious wars are like fighting which fantasy best friend is the best. They have learned to dehumanize people because of their belief and the lies of afterlife.
@@sirenesoteric where both invadors the same? i highly recommend you do research and see how both conquered. Hint Muslims were 150 times more peaceful only fought armies and didn't grpe butcher everyone like the christians
also that map of the "west bank" misrepresents how much land palestinians actually own. Israel has annexed and controls 61% of the area outlined as the west bank. So less than half thay are you outlined is actually "the west bank" They have built walls that seperate palestinian villages from each other but connects israeli illegal settlements together. Palestinians in the west bank have to go through israeli checkponts to travel to see family, neoghbors and to work and checkponts can deny you entry arbitrariliy, they also unalive palestinians for fun there and usually after claim they were "trrrst" an ovcupation soldier emptied his rifle into the body of a 9 yr old palestinian girl who was only trying to get to school and afterword claimed she was "acting suspicious" the occupation soldier recieved no punishment
The Palestinians must change thier education system from the ground, they must understand we are going nowhere and they need to stop fighting us, they need to build thier life along side a Jewish state. It’s all start at the mosque, Islam needs to grow up, needs to remove the radicals out of the system and support the other side which want a peaceful and prosper Middle East
Thank you- as an Afghan after doing my genetic test- I was surprised that I had 1% Greek and 13% Persian 1% from Oman, the rest is central Asia. some of my 10th cousins are Scottish, Slavic and even Jewish- I always thought I was an indigenous Afghan- the reality is that we as humans are all connected - we move around and mix and mangle- there is no such a thing as pure race- pure jew, Arab, English Bla - I connected the dots after watching your wonderful work. I couldn't believe how Alexander the Great changed the world as we know it- The Seleucid people and empire in today's Iraq and the Greeco Bactrian empire with its capital in Balkh (Bactria) todays Afghanistan blew my mind! American invasion for 20 years, Taliban history connection to Gazan-Persians Israelites -some of my ancestors will be living in Greece, Gaza, Israel, Russia, England, and we are in Australasia! We all pray for peace and Civilization.
"didn't really have the right to give away any land" ? By that logic Lebanon shouldn't exist. Syria shouldn't exist. Pretty much every country on the planet shouldn't be existing, shouldn't be taken or "given" to anyone. "but it never happened. Instead the two sides went to war" ? One side accepted, they were happy with anything -whatever, just to have a place they could call it home. But it never happened because one side rejected ANY version of a jewish state, no mater how big or small. Two sides went to war? One side started the war ! One side attacked one side defended itself. "living as second class citizens" ? Like 2 million Arabs living in Israel proper as Israeli citizens? Second class citizens like supreme court judges? Or Palestinians in Gaza? Living in a practically sovereign state, ruled and controlled by Hamas. Were they treated as second class citizens by other Palestinians -fellow citizens ? Or is it only in the West Bank?
@@Alex-ck1bw It's just that jews were ALSO the people inhabiting those lands - since forever. Small number. Tiny, microscopic number, whatever. And before there was Israel "strangers from Europe" were moving there in large numbers for decades. It's called migration. Which you don't mind I presume, when strangers are moving to Europe, illegally. The point is: It's not as if the land was taken from one group and given to the other -total stranger. That's distorted -false narrative. The larger group was given most of the land. Smaller group was given a tiny patch of desert, swamp, no oil. They accepted anything, they were happy just to have a country. The other group rejected. Not b/c the land was given to some strangers from another continent. They rejected the existence of ANY jewish state. That was the problem and still is to this day.
@@Alex-ck1bw By that logic your apartment shouldn't be taken away if you stop paying rent..? Inhabiting =/= own. The Muslims owned only 15% of Irsael during the Ottoman rule, and 12% by 1947, the 3% being sold to the Jews, who owned 5~% by the end of Ottoman rule via purchases, and 7-8% by 1947, again, by purchasing those 3% from the Muslims. The other 80% where NEVER OWNED by anyone aside the state/empires that came through! So it'd literally be a GIFT to actually FULLY and LEGALLY get them for confirmed use. Its like some stranger bought your house, and literally GIFTED you your rental apartment, but you refuse and go to war because you want the neighbor's apartment too.
😔 Before this video, i trusted Matt to be unbiased, objective, and factual in his presentations. I’ve shared this channel with others numerous times in places where i can connect with people who agree with my stance against bias, and for truth and fairness. I absolutely loved many previous Useful Charts videos and series over the past couple of years. He gained my trust, so i fully expected this to be the best and most fair video i’d seen on this issue. But it was far from it. I honestly think this was even more biased than the Real Life Lore video, which is shocking. The significantly imbalanced language and selection & omission of critical information was honestly egregious in this video, and it’s sad that so many people in the comments are acting like or somehow not seeing these issues and saying it’s fair or unbiased… It absolutely isn’t. Yes there are worse examples online of more severe bias, but his video beating the low standard of awful channels doesn’t make this okay. This wasn’t enuff to make me completely lose all of my respect for Matt Baker / Useful Charts, but the way this was handled has definitely made me more skeptical of the integrity behind the channel. It is in fact still better than many other channels, but that’s no excuse. And while i can offer grace because we all mess up and like everyone i too have said the wrong things and misled online before. But we all need to improve and hold each other accountable. And i hope to see this channel fulfill it’s potential in a more responsible way. I know people will respond with strawman defenses, acting like i’m making an unreasonable demand to include every relevant detail ever, and that’s not the case. It’s a matter of heavily distorting perceptions through intentional wording and on/screen imagery, trying to make things look a certain way that is extremely inaccurate. In other words, bias. That’s the problem here. :/ I like you, Matt. But this is dangerous. So many people are gripped by evil, tribalistic ideologies revolving around this issue (and many other issues), and this is was a an opportunity to dismantle that tribalism in favor of waking people up to the fact that people are not homogeneous groups but instead individuals and that human life is equally valuable independent of arbitrary, superficial, and in ate characteristics that are irrelevant to their worth and character. And you in some things you said got close to showing that. There are things i appreciate in this video like in all the videos of yours that i saw before it, which i loved across the board until now. So i’m not saying this was all bad. But i truly believe that several key moments, worse as it went on, made the overall package of this video ultimately one that does harm by creating misunderstandings, misconceptions, and fueling of biases, that truly seem intentional. At first i was thinking maybe you were overcompensating for the anticipated accusations of Jewish bias, by trying too hard to seem “balanced” by trying too hard to make the so-called Arab “side” look as good as possible, but eventually it became clear that you are biased in this issue just in the opposite way one might expect. The proper lesson here should be that there is no Arab “side” or Jewish “side” in this things, that masses of millions of unique people don’t operate as homogeneous hive-minds, but that instead it’s all about individuals, and their own character and actions. That our identity is actually simply who we choose to be, and that nonsensically trying to tie our sense of identity to superficial things and abstract concepts outside ourselves which we have no control over like countries and perceived ethnic groups is always dangerous. And that there’s no reason to try to make any people look better or worse than they are; we should just be honest and use consistent, fair standards. And realize that CONTEXT matters significantly. We shouldn’t downplay the suffering of certain innocents or artificially amplify those of others because of where they’re from or anything like that. People are people. Everywhere. All people deserve to be able to defend themselves but intentionally targeting innocents who have no fault at all should never be misconstrued as somehow defensive or retaliatory. And such noble ideas are undermined by editing decisions like concealing the circumstances of the 1948 war, and the Khartoum Resolution, and strangely going out of your way to mention “only” targeting soldiers once Arab armies were doing the conquering yet completely glossing over the intentional slaughter of neighborhoods of innocent families carried out by a government that explicitly outlined its religiously sanctioned, anti-Jewish genocidal motivations in its founding charter, instead just saying it’s “wrong” without saying what happened and while immediately showing pictures of destroyed buildings in Gaza and emphasizing the evil of carelessness for collateral damage by “Israel” (more accurately, IDF leadership and pilots - most Israelis have nothing to do with that) but not showing any images of, say, a bullet-ridden kibbutz or bloody cribs in Israel caused by intentional targeting of civilians by Hamas and other Islamist terror groups. Apparently when an Arab army allegedly aims to adhere to the standard practice of “only” targeting soldiers, it’s worth an honorable mention, but when Arab armies specifically target civilians it’s not worth mentioning at all, even while people are still suffering from the latter. It’s just really disappointing, man.
Really really disappointed in this channel. I guess z indoctrination is just impossible to un learn esp when people don't call it out for the hateful ideology it is and pretend it's something else
@@Alex-ck1bw It’s definitely not impossible to “unlearn”. Many people do change their views & beliefs via breaking away from their indoctrination. I eventually learned my way out of the confirmation bias filters i looked at the world thru when i was younger which i’d learned from Christianity. Many prominent conservative voices today were once leftist activists. And Matt has gone thru a journey out of his original religion, into some others, was atheist for a while and landed on some semi-secular, symbolic, kind of deistic form of Judaism. Here’s clearly willing to have his views changed, which is why i haven’t lost all respect for him. I think this is just a matter of bias, which i think is something we all need to “unlearn” eventually, as it’s a natural instinct until we realize that we have it and why we need to let go of it. And he’s at least not as far on the extreme as many people out there. I have hope, i think he just is making some mistakes in his worldview, which we all do at some point or another. None of us are perfect.
Don't forget that Matt, before he's a historian, before he's a Jew - IS AN AMERICAN. He lives American life, fed by American media, exposed to foreign criticism about Israel. And as "a good American" he thinks that a piece of paper and an ounce of ink will do the job to create that desired "peace in the Middle East" many Westerners obsess about. But, if he were an Indigenous Jew (ethnically, not a convert) he would do the work as a historian and acknowledge that borders are made with blood and culture, wars and pain that'll be remembered for generations. As an example - the war that's going on today.
I agree that noth sides are in the wrong, but i also know a bit about how war works. Overall i am hugely impressed with how well the Israelites have managed to avoid mass civilian casualties. The realities of war is that many die. But with an enemy that tries to blend in with the civians i would have expected 10-15x that number just 15 years ago. Israel needs to not let the same situation pop up in 10 years. The gazans need to police their own if they want a nation... Until then the resources would be turned into war aide to keep fighting or more likely fight again. Sucks for them being a havenot instead of a have, but ya cant help soneone whos trying to stab you.
The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe. Though the finding may seem intuitive, it contradicts the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.
@@JeffinBville Colonization of uninhabited land, yea. Or is it your opinion that there were humans (or otherwise intelligent beings) living in the Americas even before the first humans arrived?
Read Origin by Jennifer Raff. You will learn that there was no original people, just wafts of various peoples over time. It is based on DNA and she correlates with folklore.
Well, it was a mess before the British got there, too, but yeah, they should have kept their promise to the Arabs for a great Arab Nation, with all the different people living in it, but the French got in the way and then the Jewish tragedy was going on, too, so the British screwed up.
There was already communal tension before the British mandate. The British in fact bent over backwards trying to please both sides and getting nowhere as neither was prepared to compromise (sound familiar?). Broke and exasperated they handed the problem to the UN in 1947. Even if it Britain’s fault as you claim, that was 70 years ago. There have been ample opportunities to settle this since then and neither side has agreed to it.
The Palestinians and Gaza are living a second class citizens only because their government of Hamas has made them so there’s been no issues there since 2005.
This is the first thorough understanding of the land that I’ve seen. Historically factual, humane. Also, addressing the mutual guilt of Hamas (not all Palestinians) and the state of Israel.
I appreciate you're trying to be diplomatic, but calling Palestinians in Gaza "second class citizens" is really a disservice. They have no rights of citizenship, real or pretend.
@@TracyD2 I would say it is an oversimplification. Even the Caananites weren't "one people" in many aspects, and I do believe there were other post-Caananite groups and polities besides the Israelites. I see a point in this simplification: it emphasizes how, from an academic perspective, the Israelites emerged from the local Caananite cultures (unlike the biblical narration). But yet, I find it kind of misleading... But mostly as a detail, the video is great.
@@TracyD2the Bible doesn't really say otherwise by modern standards. Have to remember the Bible is written from the view of a very specific group of people, and the way we view things today would not have matched up with how these things would have been viewed back then.
Excellent video! I haven't watched your videos in some time, but I fully realized what I have been missing. Non-biased and informative review of a hot topic (to put it mildly) is very refreshing to see. Keep up the wonderful work!
No, Egypt did not fall during the Bronze Age Collapse. I mean, that's a pretty basic thing to get wrong. Egypt, unlike the Hittite kingdom and Mycenaean city states, survived intact, though it did undergo a decline.
It's so much easier to look at charts and timelines about ancient or medieval history, it's easier to forget that those people were actually people, with the same hopes and fears that we have today. It's easier to judge the past rather than take responsibility for the present.
You completely skipped the years that the Israelites ruled this area. The kingdoms Judah and the tribes and the first temple. They were established as a people and as a religion before the Babylionan/persian conquest. How is your timeline credible
It’s not-and it became obvious when he said Jews were actually Canaanites and the exodus from Egypt was a myth. You can’t give a genuine answer without being willing to compare other timelines and historical events/data
"Indigenous peoples" in the contemporary school of thought means a group of people that has a special relationship with their traditional territory and experience subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model. Therefore, "indigenous peoples" in Israel nowadays are Palestinians.
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But Canaanites includes Israelites, Judeans, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, Phoenicians and maybe more. Also near the Canaanites there are the Ugaritics and Arameans and Amorites and other Northwest Semites. Anyway I'm gonna continues watching
yea, he died killing plishtim (Hebrew pronunciation) and the romans later names Israel Palestine to discourage jews (by naming the land after their biblical enemies)
@@ezesolomon3996 It makes more sense for it to be the other way around, because the story of samson was written long before greek mythology came to be... So Hercules might be a greek version of Samson, but not the other way around...
3:20 I really want to know how did your source reach to the conclusion of the Israelites dominance over the culter of Canaanites while aldo being a branch of the Canaanite themselves? Even though Canaanites were very influential over the region, doesn't nake enough sense to me I would LOVE to see a full breakdown of Modern Jews who are living in Israel and Palestinians, it would be so clarifying ❤❤
I felt that specific statement was quite an oversimplification. But I believe Matt has another video about that here and, if you haven't seen yet, Dr. Justin Sledge's ESOTERICA channel has an awesome video about it from a few weeks ago!
You glossed over the part about the Ottomans siding with Axis powers and as a result, they were on the losing side. Normally, when one picks the losing side in a war, it's not them, but rather the winners who divide the spoils. The winners in this case were the British and they received a MANDATE to create a Jewish state, not to colonise the region. While the arabs living there didn't like this outcome, they (and you) seem to have glossed over the fact that THEY LOST THE WAR. Also, if you look at any map of the area during the Ottoman period, there is no mention of "Palestine". Also, the population of the area was very sparse before the period of the Mandate. The idea that the arabs have a centuries old claim to the land is nonsense. Most of them migrated there in the period leading up to the formation of Israel. You also failed to mention that the Jews agreed to the UN resolution to share the land with the Arabs, but the Arabs refused. This was the first of many times where the Arabs refused to create their own state. Unless or until the Arabs agree to live in peace with Israel, there will never be peace. As for the response of Israel being "immoral", that is nonsense. No army has ever gone to such great lengths to avoid civilian casualties. The Arabs brought this on themselves. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
@@Hallow1 Ah, no. The Ottoman empire collapsed after WW1, because they sided with Axis which lost. (It didn't collapse because of WW1. It was going to collapse anyway. Being on the losing side in WW1 was just the final stake through the heart.)
Amazingly, you omitted the fact that Israel accepted the two-state solution in 1948, but the Arabs did not and instead initiated wars against Israel. There is no moral equivalence between Islamic barbarians and the IDF. "From the river to the sea, Jewish people will be free!!!", I said.
good vid, but except the genetics there's also the cultural aspect of the people. Your Pro-Palestine political leaning between and outside the lines isn't objective as well. (Israel bombing sites, without mention they are under ISIS-like control that is the main cause, also ur tone on "zionist" which today became as another word for patriot in Israel- more than 50% of the current population of Israel are Mizrahi refugees that are referred as well with that term today) and when u speak about Israeli settelments- they are not even close to the radical Palestinian ideology of terror so take a break man. Israel is the one who have that ancient native costumes, which shaped Judaism as we know it. Whether Arab or "Arabized" the Palestinians are another symptom of Arabization that destroyed many native cultures and people in the Middle East and other parts. If Judaism carry inside some Canaanite costumes, Islam is mainly focused on the Arabic one, and based itself on the roots of Judaism while denying that aspect (=Arabization of the Tanakh). Suppurting the current Hamas pro protests that sharing Hamas way of "Free Palestine" isn't only a bad take but an Evil one.
To bring things to the present, Gaza should belong the Arabs in Gaza. They could have enjoyed their own sovereign state since 2005. Just leave Israel alone.
You forgot to mention who started the war of independence…the Arabs. Arabs back then weren’t known as exclusively Palestinians as they preferred the term Jordanian as they didn’t want to be put under the same generic term Palestinian as that meant more Jews Palestinians at the time. Not until Arafat coined the term Arab Palestinians in the early 1960s. You also forgot to mention Jews never left, they always had a presence. Arabs haven’t been denied anything they’ve made poor decisions, rejected every peace deal and now rejected ceasefire deals. Gaza could have been the Singapore of the Middle East but they chose to built terror tunnels out of billions of dollars worth of aid money. They indoctrinate their kids to kill Jews…another poor decision. I think Gazans need to understand investment in productive decision making skills. No ceasefire, bring back the hostages, Hamas must surrender.
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Hello UsefulCharts, im new to your channel and i really enjoy your videos. Im really looking for a video where it shows the changes of our calenders. For i know the Jewish calender is different to the Julian calender as well as the Gregorian calender. Do you have a video on how the world ended up adapting to the gregorian calender? Or what calenders they were using in the past?
your implementation of terms is wrong. Bronze Age Canaanite are the same iron age Canaanites./ Israel is a term called exclusively for people of a certain religion. which mean the one who struggle with god. Israel is a religious name not a geographic name. jews came from Mesopotamia not from the native Canaan land, Hebrew . were nomadic groups living in the desert of Mesopotamia. their name mean the crossers of rivers, because they used to marauding on trade routs and villages similar to the guti or vandals. Amrits,Mobait,Adomits,Ammonites,Phoenicians are all Canaanites. why you didn't mentioned them? and with your logic are the philistines iron age Canaanites? Israelites literature is extremely influenced by Mesopotamian religion and Egypt more then the Canaanite religion which they despised. there is no such thing as iron age Canaanites called Israelites. this is misleading.
Israeli operation in Gaza is not wrong/illegal.
No one called the Allied forces genocidal when they bombed/starved Berlin.
Unless it only applies when the victims are non-whites. Is that it?
Read a book,
More specifically, the rules of war as agreed and legally defined in UN
Hospitals/Cultural/Historical places/Schools/places of worship. All lose their legal protection if they put weapons/ammunitions/hostages inside those places.
Blame the Nakba on the Arab League who chose war instead of a citizen/land swap.
Blame the Destruction of Gaza on those who put missiles/hostages under their children's bed just to score sympathy points.
@@NicitoStaAna WTF! Israel has no right to defend itself from the people it occupies
I am sorry, but that is full of inaccuracies. Like the fact the British didn't sell any land to Jews, but were Arab land owners. Or the fact that the withdrawal from Gaza is not related to the 2nd Intifada, which was almost exclusively in the WB and was decided by the Israelis in 2002. Way before any violence in Gaza.
Awesome video. Just one suggestion: use a physical map as your base map, or a series of maps corresponding to the time being discussed, rather than showing a map with the modern borders the whole time. This would emphasize the ephemeral, fungible, and arbitrary nature of political borders, and remind us that the modern divisions are far from immutable.
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much appreciated, very good video. reminds me of the quote "if we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it"
I guess it depends on if your history is the truth or just embarrassing nonsense
In this survey timeline, is there any indication of what not to repeat, huh?
"...and if we do learn from history we are doomed to stand helpless as everyone else repeats it."
Nothing about this is history, this is a Qatari propaganda video
The history we are repeating currently is the barbarism of 19th century colonialism.
what have the mongols Not invaded at this point?
Italy
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Bermuda
The Moon
...not yet at least
@@4sythdude549 It's only a matter of time
Mr Useful Charts, thanks so much for your work. I watched several of your videos in late 2022 on this region and then read a book you recommended in one of your videos, and now I am back again watching a few of your videos in 2024. I hope your health has improved and you can enjoy the great investigative and teaching work you do with your channel.
What a normal and non combative comment section
Because this guy deletes comments. He deleted mine several times.
I haven't deleted any comments. However, UA-cam automatically deletes some before I even get the chance to see them.
@@alexandarthedivine that's probably yt's doing
@@alexandarthedivineconsidering your public subscriptions, yeah thank god for that
@@UsefulCharts Well okay sorry for assuming then, but let me just say if here.
You say that what Hamas did on October 7th is wrong and what Israel is doing right now is also wrong. However you miss the point that Israel is doing unprecedented things to minimise civilian casualties here. Israel dropps leaflets, texts and calls people, uses drones with loudspeakers used by people who speak fluent Arabic to get people out of harms way, while Hamas is doing everything TO KEEP civilians in harms way. Israel allows humanitarian aid to come in and uses high precision rockets to target specific targets. Another fact is that Israel successfully evacuated more than 1 million people from Rafah and established field hospitals and places where these people can temporarily live. To say that Hamas and Israel are equally bad here is not only wrong, it's outrageous. You say you support the protests, but what these mobs are shouting is nothing but death to Israel, death to America. Israels fight is against the Hamas, not the Palestinians. In 2005 Israel withdrew from Gaza in persuit of peace. What did happen then? They elected a government that persues the complete Annihalation of Israel. Israel has a long history of compromising, and as someone with Jewish ancestory as well and has relatives in Israel, I understand this struggle. There clearly can't be peace with terrorists operating in the Gazastrip or the westbank. What they say about themselves is very clear. Hisbollah, Huthies, Hamas, Public Front, Lions Den, Fatah, PLO, PIJ, and all these terror brigades are all terror proxies of Iran that aim to annihalate the state of Israel. And it makes me sad and angry when I see that when Israel is fighting this just war, people really think they can held Israel accountable to not living up to the perfect standard of NO civilian casualties at all. A standard no country in history ever lived up to, and yet it is expected from Israel, while it's also the only country NOT allowed to win a war. Israel doesn't deliberately kill people, this is the crystal clear difference between them and Hamas. But civilian casualties are a sad cost of war - a war, that Israel never first started. Out of the around 30 k people around 14k were combatants. The numbers changed a bit, but not changing the fact that the ratio of killed people is almost 1:1, which is even more impressive in a war like this where Hamas hides beneath civilian infrastructure and tunnels that are embedded in it. The numbers of the Hamas controlled ministry of health keeps lineary growing, which is very questionable and weird because it never occurs in war. As stand 100% with Israel because history has shown that leaving terrorists be that use all fundings from the world to buy weapons to aim at annihalating a neighbour state is a mistake. Doing nothing and standing still while you are getting targeted by suicide attackers, is a mistake. This has to stop, and it has to stop now.
As an Arab, i found this video very enjoyable and i salute you for not picking sides and just stating facts as they are. Thank you and keep making great content ❤
As a Jew, same!
@@_oaktree_shalom! I'm with you guys. There is historical information neither of the sides shouldn't deny!
@@sunnysuzannait doesn't really matter what you call it, killing people is just that, and many or even most of the deaths are innocents. Genocide or not, that's a horror.
@@samos343guiltyspark
How convenient that the "Gazan health ministry" which is the Hamas government, doesn't say how many of their own died. Its almost always women and children even though there is so much footage of "kids" actively used in the conflict.
If you civilians out of harms way, don't fight from within them dressed as civilians.
@@W4HB
You're a liar.
I'd be interested in a similar video for Armenia.
Yes! I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be surprised to learn that in the last 420 years about 270 years the Azerbaijani population was the ethnic majority in what now is known as Armenia.
@@bneymanovHistory of Armenia would be like mostly Urartians in the ancient ages, Romans in the first millennium CE with a bit of Arab Caliphates, and Turkic dynasties in the 2nd millennium CE with a tiny amount of Mongol rule
@@nenenindonuarmenians has nothing to do with urartians. Their redorded history started with 5th century AD writings which in itself is borrowed from ephiopians…
@@gurbanabbasov Yes Urartians indeed have nothing to with Armenians just how Romans & Turks don't, I just mentioned them as a former ruling entity of what is now Armenia
Your charts are informative
A brilliant summary as usual mate. Equally brilliant closing remarks, well done Sir. You are a terrific example of tolerance and empathy. Let's hope the current situation can end quickly and with as little bloodshed as possible 🙏🏻
Matt, thank you so much for this video.
As a person living in the middle east and inside this conflict, I've been staying away from online content pertaining to it. I'm just sick and tired of people throwing out their hateful and ignorant opinions so carelessly, while living out their comfortable lives millions of mile away and not really understanding what it might be like to be born into this reality. The only thing worse is the hateful and biased of some people who were born into it, and are poisoned by generations of mutual distrust and national animosity.
When I saw your video I was very hesitant at first. But you've never let me down before, and you handled masterfully other controversial subjects in the past. I've been waiting for someone willing to just explain the dry facts of this millennia long story, address some of its complexities, and do it in a way that left me unsure of your personal political view (at least until the end, where you presented it with your disclaimer).
I could talk about where I agree and disagree with you, but I find it more important to appreciate your honest attempt at looking at both sides and their narratives, and recognizing the pain each one goes through.
And to finish with my own prayer - may the extremists on both sides that led us to this mess get to feel all the pain they bring down on us.
Praying that our and yours are safe.
You are smart for avoiding online propaganda. There is such a huge political disinformation campaign and they have NO qualms with completely misrepresenting history and emotionally manipulating the public.
The world needs far more people like you who simply refuse to engage with that stuff. We are all vulnerable to it, but some of us have a sense for when something is just not right.
I always tell my students, "if you're having a strong emotional reaction to the media, its not necessarily because you're learning the truth. Only trust the views you form based on doubt and debating yourself - no matter how uncomfortable those doubts make you. Strong convictions are often a weakness, not a strength."
Here is my read on it from a recent update in my research. Jews were expelled from England in 1290 until 1656. Christian Protestants were more kindly disposed to them, and among Christian philosophies was a seed that grew slowly into Zionism with an idea that Jews were key to the end times and that getting European Jews back to Jerusalem would encourage an end time where most Jews would go to hell and the remainder would pray to Jesus. Orthodox Jews were originally against the idea. For example, at the turn of the 20th century, there were approximately 350,000 Jews living in Britain. The number of Zionists among them was around 8,000. Many Christians were involved in proselytizing Zionism. By the time Balfour wrote his famous declaration there was already a healthy Christian Zionism movement for over a century and Jewish Zionism was not a popular notion until after the First ZIonist Congress in Basel in 1880. In fact, though scheduled originally to be held in Munich, it was due to criticism of Orthodox and Reformed Jews that it wasn't held there.
In short, Zionism doesn't go back thousands of years, any more than the nationalism it is based upon does.
Great comment. We all think we should get a say in it across the world yet it's not our conflict. Who do we think we are telling people what to do, who are caught up in the middle of it? Prayers for your survival and peace.
Can't fight pain with pain, just saying.
Perhaps the least controversial video there is.
His use of the historical method should quell some of that "controversy". However the more contemporary claims in the video, and the solutions he advocates for are kind of problematic, as addressed below with timestamps:
30:14 "...the (Ashkenazi) Jewish newcomers were fleeing heavy persecution (in Europe) and *didn't really have anywhere else to go*"
This is a statement which contradicts your earlier point on them (ie. secular/ atheist zionists) selecting multiple places to establish a nation-state. They had many places they could've gone to where the diaspora was living normal lives. They also had the option of settling other lands which were under colonial administration which may genuinely have been "empty", unlike the land they selected which was inhabited by *indigenous* Jew, Christians, Muslims and other religious groups with the same ethnic background (ie. the "mixed bag" you correctly referenced repeatedly).
30:55 *Worst ever genocide* is again, an objectively false statement. It's a popular talking point which is a form of genocide denial (ie. underplaying the many genocides outside of Europe which were quantifiably worse). Holocaust-esque genocides imposed by the colonial powers were the norm for the global majority - the reason it is (wrongly) portrayed as unique is because the Germans exerted that colonial violence *internally* onto Europe, which was deemed unacceptable by inter-colonial competition.
31:05 "Western countries were reluctant to take in Jews, thus the need for Jews to have their own state"
First, the attempts to establish a Jewish state on this land preceded these events by decades via the explicitly *colonial* Zionist movement espoused by Herzl in collusion with the British who sought to use their classic colonial tactic of ethnic division to weaken a land.
Second, Jews were living normal lives everywhere outside of ehite supremacist Europe.
Third, the UN created a plan with borders which mirrored those of apartheid South Africa, with the indigenous inhabitants relegated to disconnected "bantustans" while the colonially imported population were given land on top of the homes of the indigenous. Out of the thousands of ethnicities most do not have a nation-state, as there are under 200 nations. We already established there have been worse genocides across the global majority, so that can't be the answer. Why should Ashkenazi Jews be the exception, especially given their colonial nation-state would be established on inhabited land? The answer is: they shouldn't. The nation state is an inherently backwards idea which inevitably results in fascistic nationalism in an effort to establish (fabricate) a unified "national" identity, as opposed to the "mixed bag" which has existed in the region forever.
31:20 "The two sides went to war" War is an inaccurate descriptor; it was one side resisting a plan created by an outright colonial/imperialist entity (the UN was a tool of imperialism at this point in history; still is to an extent). They were being expelled from homes they inhabited for dozens of generations so the victims of the holocaust (ie. European victims of European colonial violence turned inwards onto Europe) could settle on top of those homes. It was indiegnous resistance to colonialism.
31:38 "In reponse around the same number of Jews were expelled from the neighboring Arab countries". While the rise of nationalism did occur is *some* regions of the Arab world as the colonial powers lost their grip and created deliberately divisive nation-state borders (recall my point on the trajectory the nation-state inevitably leads to under a diverse society), the major cause of the outflow of Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews into the new colonial state of "Israel" was caused by *Zionist extremists* either committing violent acts to stoke further religious division or outright kidnapping their Jewish children to import into "Israel".
This reply should probably be moved to the main level as a Comment. Some important takes/perspectives to consider.
@@af8828ok so you think you are right?
It is controversial.
@@af8828 You should make this a main comment (so more people and Matt can see it) with some citations of sources you based your arguments on, i agree with some of your points but i'm ignorant on others (like the pogroms on Jews post UN partition plan).
So excited to watch this video!!!! Anytime I am asked "who started the fighting there" my only answer is "it depends when you start the story"
It’s true.
@@TracyD2 unfortunately when having to answer the question “who is the aggressor” it’s really going to be whoever is answering that question is going to answer with who they are aligned with. Because there are arguments for both unfortunately.
@@185MDE Both siding a genocide?
@@185MDE would you have both sided a genocide if the Palestinians were westerners?
@@philo9046 please don’t twist my words
Thank you, what a relief to have someone outline everything so plainly and calmly. You never let us down.
Thanks for taking up the time for this video really needed it ❤
7:37 - The Bronze Age collapse didn't lead to the fall of Egypt. In fact, Egypt was the only major power in the region to survive. It hurt Egypt to be sure, but it continued to exist thereafter.
Both him and you are correct, he said the bronze age collapse lead to the downfall of Egypt which is true as Egypt did survive it but it was so weakened from the events that it continued declining while new emerging powers kept rising in power till Egypt itself was conquered by foreigners like the Libyan and Nubian dynasties (3rd intermediate period and late period in A. Egypt). So yes you are correct that Egypt did not fall in the bronze age collapse, but he is also correct that the collapse was one of the direct causes of Egypt's downfall. Alongside weak rulers who could at best slow the rapid decline of the Egyptian empire, such as all the Ramsisides from Ramses 5 and on.
yes! it is still survive today!
Yeah, but I think the important part, as far as the video is concerned, is that Egypt was so weakened by the Bronze Age Collapse that it shrank back to its core territory on the Nile delta, leaving a power vacuum in Canaan that allowed the rise of Philistia, Israel and Judea. Without the collapse, those states would never have existed and the Levant would probably be part of Egypt to this day.
@@neilturner5211 exactly.
@@neilturner5211 that is incorrect, the sea peoples that attacked Egypt were resettled (by Egypt) into Canaan to become a vassal state. Those sea peoples were called Palaset which later they became known the the Philistens.
Wait. I know this is important stuff about things going on but the only thing I really took away from this is that Egypt had colonies outside of it's traditional borders during the pre dynastic period. I didn't know this and it kinda blew my mind a little bit.
The Dynasty numbers were decided before the period before Dynasty 1 was well understood. There is a Dynasty 0. That's who this refers to.
Egypt didn't have "traditional borders" at that time - no country did. What defines colonizing versus settling on its own?
Traditional borders weren't really a thing until the Treaty of Westphalia iirc. Until then, it mattered more which cities owed allegiances and where
So Gaza was occupied by modern Egypt between 1948-1967?
Interesting take. So, would you say that England, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy did not colonize the Americas because at the time there were no countries with defined borders? @@SarudeDanstorm
@@LauraWald Crossing an ocean to different continents as they were known in those days to settle at the expense of indigenous populations is grounds enough to be considered colonization in my book. As opposed to how, for example, the English controlling Normandy and Aquitaine in France during the 100 years' war would not be considered colonization - that would be conquest.
In Egypt's case here, they created a city/settlement that was adjacent to its other cities/settlements - why is that considered colonization instead of just simple settlement as they did anywhere else along the Nile or Mediterranean?
I am impressed by the detailed historical information you provide in your videos. To make them more trustworthy, can you make a video about what the sources are of the historical info?
Or provide information about the sources per video?
Kind regards
Bram
Yes. I, too, would favor sources cited. GDF does a good job in their video essays doing such, setting a good example for all aspirers of historical truths.
Hi @@luisdavidllense2293
What is GDF?
@@luisdavidllense2293 i like that GDF posts their sources in the desc, but i find the fact they are a tankie abit iffy
You are WRONG to be impressed with this video. It is full of misinformation.
The channel, should now be renamed "Useless Charts"
This video misinforms repeatedly.
Jordan renamed Judea and Samaria, banned Jews, annexed the area, renamed it the West Bank, in 1949, and they gave everyone living there Jordanian citizenship.
Egypt gained control of Gaza in 1949 after the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement was signed in Rhodes. Under the agreement, the armistice line was drawn along the international border (dating from 1906) except near the Mediterranean Sea, where the Kingdom of Egypt remained in control of a strip of land along the coast, which then became known as the Gaza Strip.
However in 1959, a year after the Republic of Egypt and the Second Syrian Republic merged to form a single sovereign state known as the United Arab Republic the Gaza strip became part of the United Arab Republic.
How and why did Useful Charts ignore these historical facts?
The channel, like Judea and Samaria, and like Gaza too, should now be renamed "Useless Charts"
A crash course on history that proves there has never been a PALESTINIAN STATE:
1. Before Israel, there was a British mandate, not a Palestinian state
2. Before the British Mandate, there was the Ottoman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
3. Before the Ottoman Empire, there was the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, not a Palestinian state.
4. Before the Islamic state of the Mamluks of Egypt, there was the Ayubid Arab-Kurdish Empire, not a Palestinian state.
5. Before the Ayubid Empire, there was the Frankish and Christian Kingdom of Jerusalem, not a Palestinian state.
6. Before the Kingdom of Jerusalem, there was the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, not a Palestinian state.
7. Before the Umayyad and Fatimid empires, there was the Byzantine empire, not a Palestinian state.
8. Before the Byzantine Empire, there were the Sassanids, not a Palestinian state.
9. Before the Sassanid Empire, there was the Byzantine Empire, not a Palestinian state.
10. Before the Byzantine Empire, there was the Roman Empire, not a Palestinian state.
11. Before the Roman Empire, there was the Hasmonean state, not a Palestinian state.
12. Before the Hasmonean state, there was the Seleucid, not a Palestinian state.
13. Before the Seleucid empire, there was the empire of Alexander the Great, not a Palestinian state.
14. Before the empire of Alexander the Great, there was the Persian empire, not a Palestinian state.
15. Before the Persian Empire, there was the Babylonian Empire, not a Palestinian state.
16. Before the Babylonian Empire, there were the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, not a Palestinian state.
17. Before the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah, there was the Kingdom of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
18. Before the kingdom of Israel, there was the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, not a Palestinian state.
19. Before the theocracy of the twelve tribes of Israel, there was an agglomeration of independent Canaanite city-kingdoms, not a Palestinian state.
20. Actually, in this piece of land there has been everything, EXCEPT A PALESTINIAN STATE.
Matt, you deserve a pat on your back for this video and all the work that went into it. Such a historically significant place this is. I wish I had a time machine to go back in time and see how it's people have evolved and grown over the years.
16:55 Minor mistake. The year wasn't 135 BCE but rather 135 CE, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian, that the third Jewish revolt was put down and the province renamed as Syria Palestinia.
proof? share link.
@@patrickgronemeyer3375 The History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan
@@patrickgronemeyer3375do you know the difference between BCE and CE?
@@patrickgronemeyer3375”
The Bar Kokhba revolt, also known as the Third Jewish-Roman War, was a large-scale armed rebellion against the Roman Empire that took place from 132-135 CE. Led by Simon bar Kokhba, the Jewish rebels of Judea gained control of Jerusalem and parts of Judaea, establishing an independent state for more than two years. However, the Roman army eventually crushed the revolt, killing bar Kokhba at Betar in 135 and enslaving or killing the remaining rebels within the year. The war had devastating consequences for the Jewish people, with the majority of the province's population killed, enslaved, or exiled.
The revolt began with high hopes for a homeland and a Holy Temple, as Roman emperor Hadrian had allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple in 118 CE. However, Hadrian became convinced that the Jewish faith was the driving force behind the uprising and declared a war of annihilation against Judaism. He banned all Jewish commandments, including circumcision, Sabbath observance, and Torah study, and anyone who observed them was executed”
@@patrickgronemeyer3375 It's historically well know, even Life of Brian covers it! Judea became a Roman Province in 6AD and the Romans later renamed it to Palestine as an insult to the Jews/Israelis that kept uprising against them. It was a punishment and insult as the name was taken from the Philistines that had lived along the coast at one point (they were later invaded and defeated by the Babylonians and absorbed into them). Even today, being called a Philistine is an insult.
2:35 Correction: not just the local population of the southern Levant, but the whole Levant was inhabited by Canaanites, to the point that the most important Canaanite archeological site nowadays is often considered to be the city of Ugarit, which is in modern day Syria. Later, northern Canaanites became known as Phoenicians by the Greeks and Romans, but preserved much of their culture and identity (including religion) until the end of antiquity.
Not the entire Levant, just west of the Jordan and Orontes. To the east it was populated by Arameans, and other Arab(ish) groups (edomites, nabateans, moabites, ammonites, so on). To the north there were Assyrians and Hittites and Armenians. The Arameans that migrated north became known as Syriacs.
@@habibi_sport312 Arameans, amorits,(edomites,Moabits,Ammonits are canaanites too
@@habibi_sport312 No, they weren't confined like that, they were all over the ancient world. The Canaanites spread across the Mediterranean and founded many colonies that became major cities (e.g., Carthage), even as far as Spain.
@@habibi_sport312 But I do get the point that the areas you mentioned were _mainly_ populated by these other peoples.
Ba'al Hammon be praised!
You're an honest Jew, I can appreciate that. Since no one really "belongs" to Israel or Gaza I wish both would cease hostilities and just become either one state or two state. Peace should be their primary focus.
This was very informative and I learned a lot. This has caused me to rethink many things and I thank you for that.
Would you care to mention one of those things?
Might be a hard ask, but I'd really appreciate ❤
for such a comprehensive overview, you really gloss over the reasons why the UN plan just "never happened" and the war began. it's quite a bit more complicated than that!
Which is why it's glossed over, because you'd need another half hour to even begin to get into that topic
Palestine Arabs literally just rejected the offer for statehood. Instead choosing to declare war to finish Hitler's holocaust job.
Basically everything starting post wwii is either completely or partially wrong tbh
@@0106johnnyIt's glossed over because if you show everything that has happened it puts Israel in a very bad light.
@@FingswithFrankie Really? The Israelis were literally willing to accept anything that was given to them at that point. They agreed to the UN partition plan and the Arabs rejected it. Neighbouring states then declared war on Israel with full intention of wiping them off the map completely. They then lost.
Should have just let the Sea Peoples keep it /s
That being said i think this is a really cool format for you guys. You should do this for major cities around the world. i bet people would love posters of the timeline of their city they live in!
better still if Rome never fell and Christianity and Islam never came to be.
Ok go tell that the Nebuchadnezzar II
Ramses lll is the one who make them settle there after a treaty with them those people likely where running from 300 years of drought in the region
Egypt was there 3500BCE they should have kept it lol 😂
Also I didn’t expect to see you outside of foxhole videos 😂
@@jasperchance3382considering Rome spread Christianity you'd have to make Jesus not die and Roman Polytheism to remain.
Thank you for an excellent overview. I appreciate that your perspective is the closest to objectivity in my experience.
22:27 When you got to the Mongols, my mind went directly to the running bit from early Crash Course World History. ^_^
Wait for it… the Mongols!
me too!
this running gag never will get old
Love it 😊
Same 😂
All Jews left Gaza in 2005
They kept a blockade, they control all the borders by Land, Sea and air, they control everything that goes in and out. And some times they shot at civilians (check How many gazans were killed by Israel since 2005)
yet they build hundreds of thousands of settlements every year in bethlehem and the west bank?
4:39 “later I’ll be discussing things that are difficult and polarizing” right after he talks about whether or not the Exodus is meant to be taken literally or as literary fiction. 😅 oh boy this is going to get extra fun
The Exodus has to be explained in Theological Terms . Which the narrator is not a Theologian.
He has already talked about the historical view of the exodus multiple times on this channel.
Incredibly accurate information and non biased, thank you
Please start making the distinction between "archaeological record" and "archaeological theory." The record contains artifacts that explicitly indicate something. Such as an inscription, definite material evidence, etc. Theory pertains to ideas, perhaps mainstream, that COULD be supported by findings. Archaeologists won't love you but historians certainly will!
Wouldn't that be hypothesis then?
@@sonicgoo1121 not necessarily. An hypothesis comes earlier in the process before any research has been done.
Most articulated and developed unbiased video I’ve seen on the internet, without disregard for loss of human lives on both sides of this historical ancient piece of land.
The video says that "sometime in the latte 1800s and early 1900s Gazans stopped thinking of themselves as Ottomans and instead thought of themselves as Palestinians".
What evidence can I use to support this claim?
Just google "first use of the word Palestinian". There's some debate over when exactly that was but it was sometime between 1880 and 1920.
@@UsefulCharts The Google results certainly do support use in that time frame, but they fall spectacularly short of the claim in your video, which is that the population actually changed how it self-identified.
It is pretty easy to show that in the 1947 time frame, the Arab population in the Mandate overwhelmingly used Arab, and that Palestinian in the absence of the word Arab was disproportionately used to describe Jews.
Was there a period of time prior to this in which the Arab population in the area actually called itself Palestinian to a greater degree than we see post-WW2?
What was the nature of the shift in self-identity (if any) between 1880 and the end of Ottoman rule, and was this shift anything more than the actual political end of the Ottoman empite?
@aum1040 i dont have a scholarly article but i have my family stories. im palestinian christian. My grandfather was born in nazareth and had a palestinian passport.
Thats just an example of one pre world war two
@lmarsh5407
Yea but EVERYONE living in the Mandate had a Palestinian passport, because that's the name of the Mandate. It wasn't independent.
@UsefulCharts
If that's the case, why did they overwhelmingly deny the word "Palestine" in the Peel Commission that was even after the dates you mentioned?
"There is no such country! 'Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. 'Palestine' is alien to us; it is the Zionists who introduced it." -- Awni Bey Abdul-Hadi, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee, before the Peel Commission in 1937.
Every other member of the Arab Higher Committee and the rest of the tribes living there said exactly the same. They still had the desire to become part of Greater Syria.
Thank your for the video, and specially for being a moderate and empathetic jew. The world needs it!
As a fan of Usefulcharts, I have a few of their pieces hanging in my space. The statement at 13:34, 'no longer any one group that can claim to be the undisputed first-peoples of the land', is particularly thought-provoking. It leads me to consider that under this line of thinking, a claim could be made that 90% of all cities could qualify with the same statement. After all, most areas have been inhabited by many cultures (some multiple times) and the original inhabitants have either vanished, been displaced, or assimilated before resurfacing at some point. Even the Egyptians were once conquered.
Humans must allow themselves equal rights no matter the age, gender, or origin, in order to qualify as _homo_ *_sapiens._*
Except that it’s wrong, the Jewish presence is still there as it has been throughout history longer than any other group. Others have come and gone however, the Jewish presence is unique, persisting from the present day back over 3000 years.
@@glenwolfram1485 False. What a surprise. If you want to go back to the original inhabitants - your 'Jewish presence' is, er, *_absent._* Try to be less glib.
GREAT JOB! I am PALESTINIAN. Family from Haifa, Palestine since at least 1700s. Victims of Al-Nakba. Refugees in Lebanon for 12 years. My kids and theirs are now ethnically cleansed living in MEXICO. PEACE TO ALL PEOPLE!
Hmm ... ?
You didn't watch the video did you? It's Jewish.
@@m0nZt3r Frustrated by confusing & contradictory information, I researched the history of the land we call Israel and Palestine today. Who lived on it first?
Israelites lived in this land 1,658 years before the ancestors of Palestinians. Palestinian ancestral land is the Arabian Peninsula. ‘Palestinian’ is a modern word from the 20th century.
"Syria Palaestina” was the name given by the Romans to Judea after the Bar Kochba revolt, although the name's origins go back even further, being based on the term 'Philistine', the name for a land that at the time belonged to a people who were no longer extant, not as a people nor a political entity
Only the Canaanites and Philistine predate the Israelites. The descendants of Canaanites and Philistine is complex and not entirely resolved
The Israelites arrived C1300 BCE and established the Israelite Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BC, while the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.
Next the land changed hands many times, until Arab Muslims conquered it in 638 CE and established an Islamic Caliphate. The Arab population, increasingly identifying as Palestinian particularly in the 20th century, has been a significant part of the social and cultural fabric of the area, especially during the periods of Islamic rule and the Ottoman Empire.
A timeline:
Canaanite Period (c. 3000 - 1200 BCE): The earliest known inhabitants were Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people.
Philistine Period (c. 1175 - 604 BCE): Philistines settled along the coastal areas, mostly in the Gaza Strip.
Israelite Kingdoms (c. 1020 - 586 BCE): The Israelites, also a Semitic-speaking people, established the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (722 - 539 BCE): Assyrians and Babylonians conquered the region.
Persian Period (539 - 332 BCE): Persia conquered the Babylonian empire, including this area. The Persians later reinstated Israel as a country.
Hellenistic Period (332 - 167 BCE): Conquest by Alexander the Great, followed by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rules.
Hasmonean Kingdom (167 - 37 BCE): Jewish rule restored after the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids.
Roman Period (63 BCE - 324 CE): The area became a part of the Roman Empire, with Israel remaining a kingdom within that empire, with Rome appointing the king, until AD 44.
Bar Kochba Period (132 CE - 136 CE): Simon bar Kochba let a Jewish revolt and for a short time revived Jewish sovereignty over land, until it was brutally crushed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove any trace of Jewish connection to the land.
Byzantine Period (324 - 638 CE): Christian rule under the Byzantine Empire.
Islamic Caliphate Era (638 CE - 1099 CE): Arab Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE, introducing Arab rule and Islamic culture to the region. Arabic gradually replaced Aramaic and Greek as the dominant language.
Crusader Period (1099 - 1187 CE): European Christians captured Jerusalem and established the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (1187 - 1516 CE): Saladin, a Kurdish Muslim leader, defeated the Crusaders. The Mamluks, who were of various ethnicities including Turkic and Circassian, succeeded the Ayyubids.
Ottoman Period (1516 - 1917 CE): The Ottoman Turks controlled the region, and the Arab populace lived under Ottoman rule.
British Mandate (1917 - 1948 CE): British control after World War I. Increased Jewish immigration leads to tensions between Jews and Arabs.
State of Israel (1948 - Present): Established in 1948, leading to ongoing conflicts with Arab Palestinians.
The ‘West Bank' is in fact ancient Judea, the land of the Jews. The 'Philistines' lived along the southwest coastline, nowhere near the Judean hills.
But with all this, there has never been a Palestinian state.
1.9 million Arabs living as citizens of Israel. They serve on the Knesset, the Supreme Court and in the IDF. Not ethnically cleansed. What was wrong with Trans-Jordan or Egypt?
You were not ethnically cleansed because:
A. Palestinians are not an ethnicity.
B. You are not clean.
Your parents simply LOST the war that they started.
Captured by "Muhammad Ali" LOL
He definitely fought his way in.
The Greatest Boxer of all time
Amazing Video as always!
Another good video.
Being pedantic though, you say that it wasn’t until Roman times that the land was referred to as Palestine. I’ve just finished Herodotus’ Histories, and he definitely calls this region Palestine, several centuries before the time period you mention. Before even the Macedonian period. I’m not an expert on ancient translations or etymology or anything, so maybe this doesn’t contradict your statement after all.
Anyway, really appreciate your work generally, thanks a lot and keep it coming!
The usage didn’t become common until the roman times, as far as I’m aware
True.
Herodutes traveled the coasts of the Mediterranean. And was a Greek.
As said in the video, the coast was mostly ruled by the Philistines and the inner body of the land by the Israelites.
And Herodouts was a Greek communixating with Greek settlers therefore they probably told him the region is Philistine, hence being refered by him as Philistine.
I doubt the word Palestine as we know it today mentioned there.
The video has commentary that is rather out of place.
Even if we accept the video claim that the modern "Palestinian national identity"" is over a century old ,the fact is that the newly formed identity DID NOT bring with it sovereignty over ANY territory in the region least of all Gaza
. The narrative of "Palestinian people" being "victimized" or "colonized" on their own land is therefore unsustainable. Before the British/ league of Nations mandate, sovereignty belonged to the Ottoman empire not to any yet to be formed Palestinian national identity.
Excellent video! ❤
29:30 It was not the British who created the Mandate, it was the League of Nations which created similar Mandates for the British in Jordan etc & the French in Lebanon & Syria. Due to the loss by the Turksish Ottomans in WW1. In fact, the British made Jewish immigration extremely difficult (read early Yishuv history ), giving away large land parcels to Arabs, notably all of eastern Mandatory Palestine which became Jordan -- before the proposed “split” by the UN, inheritors of the League’s Mandate terms. Indeed, the British themselves didn’t own much of the swampy land purchased legally by Jews for kibbutzim and towns, those were mostly Ottoman owners. Often it was land that wasn’t too nice to live on but turned out to be great farm land after draining and malaria control. Many Arab villages and traditional towns were located in the stony hills above the now-fertile Valleys in the North or the sandy humid coastal plains in the South of the coastal plain (Tel Aviv), not to mention the brutally dry Negev which was not wanted by Ottomans, British, or any farmer types & was mostly populated by mobile herders.
Correct info, often left out on purpose.
European powers created it, and gave it to Britain. So call it what you want lol but the facts are the facts.
The Philistines were mentioned in the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Old Testament, in several places in the context of the story of the Prophet Abraham. The word Palestine referred in the Bible to the land of Canaan or the land inhabited by the Canaanites, so the Philistines, meaning the Canaanites, were mentioned in the twenty-first chapter of the Book of The configuration is in two places as follows:
So they made a covenant at Beersheba, and then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines. (Verse: 32)
Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines for many days. (verse 34)
sans les rotchild et les britanniques, puis les USA, la Palestine aurait pu devenir un pays de partage , des cultures et religions en harmonie...le colonialisme est la pire des religions
@@Palestine123-tdont spread wrong information Philistine is not Palestine, there is no Arab on Philistine, the Philistine has been extinct and wipe out during Babylonian Empire, just because they has almost similar name, doesnt mean it has any relationship 😂 and how come you said it colonialism when you built the temple on top of their temple? who colonize who? when all evidence of relics, books and figures are rest on their land since 3000BC, the only colonise people is the Arab people, Israel has been conquered by many nation, and they taking back whats theirs, its called De-colonization
Thank you UsefulCharts for such a wonderful video! The history of Gaza and the Israeli-Hamas conflicts are very well explained. I like the fact that UsefulCharts does not take side in the Israeli-Hamas conflicts.
What a wonderful video! Thank you for the excellent research and presentation.
One point I find a bit simplified is equating Caananites with Israelites. It is a great way to show how the Israelites were mostly local Caananite tribes, in contrast with the biblical narrative of migration and conquest.
But there were others, no? Like the Moabites and Phoenicians?
True
Moabites and Phoenicians are essentially canaanite. Their languages are canaanite languages and genetically Phoenicians Israelite etc are canaanite genetics
Yes, the Jews themselves were a mix of many different tribes, quite clear if you read the Bible correctly. Originally Babylonians, since Abraham's tribe came from Ur, Egyptians who joined them, as the biblical exodus story points it out, and eventually by absorbing the various Canaanite tribes of the area. Ruth, King David's grandmother herself was a Moabite. Every nation on Earth, no matter how nationalistic they are, claiming to be pure blooded, are a healthy admixture DNA-wise. It is the individual's own sense of identity, as well as the non-acceptance by others around you [as in the case of the Jews] that makes you who you are.
A Jew is not a Jew purely by its genetics. Being a Jew is a part of a spiritual-cultural continuity, the Torah does not hide the mixture of other ethinics groups that was welcome into the People. Even adopted non-jewish children, properly accepted into the community is 100% Jew. There is the Jew by the Halacha, there is no such thing as pure genetic Jew!
A historiographic argument much-needed in its patience, balance, nuance and deeply humanistic rigor. Thanks Matt, once again.
Great video ,I am Egyptian and history freak was even eligible to study it and Egyptology at the Uni.but I choose English language instead . This video was by far the most accurate and unbiased ,even better completely secular about the ' Cause of Causes ' as we call it in this part of this world which affects everybody on earth if not settled ...Shukran شكرا 💐❤🙏
very well presented. Thank you, I learned a LOT from you.
Matt, this is amazing!
2 misleading things you lied about: 1 - Several places did offer refuge to the palestinians, in all 3 places the PLO faction of the population turned on their host country either causing a civil war, trying to instigate a violent coup or supporting a foreign government's invasion. Not sure there's any evidence they've moderated their attitudes since then. 2 - Some arabs were pushed out of their homes during the nakba, many also left because the invading arab armies told them to leave so they could cleanse the land of the jews. So for many the tragedy of the Nakba is that the arabs failed to genocide the jews so they could go back to their homes.
Palestine is not a territory or people. It doesn't exist.
History is our current story too….
Throughout history, until today.. the Same “clean shaven” “civilized” “people”.. waging inhumane, unjust, “barbaric” wars on indigenous populations of Family Men, Fathers, Brothers, Sons, Farmers, Fishermen, and Believers!!! While calling the victims “Barbarian”.
Amazing video. What an incredible channel.
Thank you so much for this! I really needed to find out the history :)
As someone originally from Gaza and St Porphyrius is my church. It wasn't hit directly, it was a neighboring building that hit and the impact damaged a church outer building which unfortunately killed members of our community. just for context. Hamas would use the church cemetery to hide weapons
May God show mercy on us all.
why are youtrying tointerject emotion in a very alm respectful discussion group
Thank you for giving real life context to the presentation. And so sorry for your family members.
Can you also tell how Hamas treated the Christians in Gaza?! Because that is something that I miss in your story.... You already mentioned that the Christian church was clearly not touched (destroyed) by Hamas.
Thank you for the much needed honesty, many online are saying Israel intentionally harmed the church and are sharing fake information. I hope you and your family are safe, have a good day!
1099-1187 crusaders. You continently left out that they butchered every Muslim and Jew in Jerusalem
what were the reasons for the crusades?
The crusades happened because of Arab aggresion towards Europe and the Levant lmao.
@@sirenesotericReligious wars are like fighting which fantasy best friend is the best. They have learned to dehumanize people because of their belief and the lies of afterlife.
warlord pdfile muhammed police be upon him
@@sirenesoteric where both invadors the same? i highly recommend you do research and see how both conquered. Hint Muslims were 150 times more peaceful only fought armies and didn't grpe butcher everyone like the christians
also that map of the "west bank" misrepresents how much land palestinians actually own. Israel has annexed and controls 61% of the area outlined as the west bank. So less than half thay are you outlined is actually "the west bank"
They have built walls that seperate palestinian villages from each other but connects israeli illegal settlements together. Palestinians in the west bank have to go through israeli checkponts to travel to see family, neoghbors and to work and checkponts can deny you entry arbitrariliy, they also unalive palestinians for fun there and usually after claim they were "trrrst" an ovcupation soldier emptied his rifle into the body of a 9 yr old palestinian girl who was only trying to get to school and afterword claimed she was "acting suspicious" the occupation soldier recieved no punishment
The Palestinians must change thier education system from the ground, they must understand we are going nowhere and they need to stop fighting us, they need to build thier life along side a Jewish state. It’s all start at the mosque, Islam needs to grow up, needs to remove the radicals out of the system and support the other side which want a peaceful and prosper Middle East
Thank you- as an Afghan after doing my genetic test- I was surprised that I had 1% Greek and 13% Persian 1% from Oman, the rest is central Asia. some of my 10th cousins are Scottish, Slavic and even Jewish- I always thought I was an indigenous Afghan- the reality is that we as humans are all connected - we move around and mix and mangle- there is no such a thing as pure race- pure jew, Arab, English Bla - I connected the dots after watching your wonderful work. I couldn't believe how Alexander the Great changed the world as we know it- The Seleucid people and empire in today's Iraq and the Greeco Bactrian empire with its capital in Balkh (Bactria) todays Afghanistan blew my mind! American invasion for 20 years, Taliban history connection to Gazan-Persians Israelites -some of my ancestors will be living in Greece, Gaza, Israel, Russia, England, and we are in Australasia! We all pray for peace and Civilization.
Great video!
"didn't really have the right to give away any land" ?
By that logic Lebanon shouldn't exist. Syria shouldn't exist. Pretty much every country on the planet shouldn't be existing, shouldn't be taken or "given" to anyone.
"but it never happened. Instead the two sides went to war" ?
One side accepted, they were happy with anything -whatever, just to have a place they could call it home. But it never happened because one side rejected ANY version of a jewish state, no mater how big or small. Two sides went to war? One side started the war ! One side attacked one side defended itself.
"living as second class citizens" ?
Like 2 million Arabs living in Israel proper as Israeli citizens? Second class citizens like supreme court judges? Or Palestinians in Gaza? Living in a practically sovereign state, ruled and controlled by Hamas. Were they treated as second class citizens by other Palestinians -fellow citizens ? Or is it only in the West Bank?
Those lands were "given' to the people already inhabiting them not some strangers from Europe
@@Alex-ck1bw It's just that jews were ALSO the people inhabiting those lands - since forever. Small number. Tiny, microscopic number, whatever. And before there was Israel "strangers from Europe" were moving there in large numbers for decades. It's called migration. Which you don't mind I presume, when strangers are moving to Europe, illegally.
The point is: It's not as if the land was taken from one group and given to the other -total stranger. That's distorted -false narrative. The larger group was given most of the land. Smaller group was given a tiny patch of desert, swamp, no oil. They accepted anything, they were happy just to have a country. The other group rejected. Not b/c the land was given to some strangers from another continent. They rejected the existence of ANY jewish state. That was the problem and still is to this day.
Bingo
@@Alex-ck1bw You're not making any sense, kiddo.
@@Alex-ck1bw By that logic your apartment shouldn't be taken away if you stop paying rent..? Inhabiting =/= own. The Muslims owned only 15% of Irsael during the Ottoman rule, and 12% by 1947, the 3% being sold to the Jews, who owned 5~% by the end of Ottoman rule via purchases, and 7-8% by 1947, again, by purchasing those 3% from the Muslims. The other 80% where NEVER OWNED by anyone aside the state/empires that came through! So it'd literally be a GIFT to actually FULLY and LEGALLY get them for confirmed use. Its like some stranger bought your house, and literally GIFTED you your rental apartment, but you refuse and go to war because you want the neighbor's apartment too.
What a good and important video. I hope the world in general will find the path of peace and giving everyone a life worth living. ✌️
Thank you (and good luck).
😔 Before this video, i trusted Matt to be unbiased, objective, and factual in his presentations. I’ve shared this channel with others numerous times in places where i can connect with people who agree with my stance against bias, and for truth and fairness. I absolutely loved many previous Useful Charts videos and series over the past couple of years. He gained my trust, so i fully expected this to be the best and most fair video i’d seen on this issue. But it was far from it. I honestly think this was even more biased than the Real Life Lore video, which is shocking. The significantly imbalanced language and selection & omission of critical information was honestly egregious in this video, and it’s sad that so many people in the comments are acting like or somehow not seeing these issues and saying it’s fair or unbiased… It absolutely isn’t. Yes there are worse examples online of more severe bias, but his video beating the low standard of awful channels doesn’t make this okay.
This wasn’t enuff to make me completely lose all of my respect for Matt Baker / Useful Charts, but the way this was handled has definitely made me more skeptical of the integrity behind the channel. It is in fact still better than many other channels, but that’s no excuse. And while i can offer grace because we all mess up and like everyone i too have said the wrong things and misled online before. But we all need to improve and hold each other accountable. And i hope to see this channel fulfill it’s potential in a more responsible way.
I know people will respond with strawman defenses, acting like i’m making an unreasonable demand to include every relevant detail ever, and that’s not the case. It’s a matter of heavily distorting perceptions through intentional wording and on/screen imagery, trying to make things look a certain way that is extremely inaccurate. In other words, bias. That’s the problem here.
:/ I like you, Matt. But this is dangerous. So many people are gripped by evil, tribalistic ideologies revolving around this issue (and many other issues), and this is was a an opportunity to dismantle that tribalism in favor of waking people up to the fact that people are not homogeneous groups but instead individuals and that human life is equally valuable independent of arbitrary, superficial, and in ate characteristics that are irrelevant to their worth and character. And you in some things you said got close to showing that. There are things i appreciate in this video like in all the videos of yours that i saw before it, which i loved across the board until now. So i’m not saying this was all bad. But i truly believe that several key moments, worse as it went on, made the overall package of this video ultimately one that does harm by creating misunderstandings, misconceptions, and fueling of biases, that truly seem intentional. At first i was thinking maybe you were overcompensating for the anticipated accusations of Jewish bias, by trying too hard to seem “balanced” by trying too hard to make the so-called Arab “side” look as good as possible, but eventually it became clear that you are biased in this issue just in the opposite way one might expect.
The proper lesson here should be that there is no Arab “side” or Jewish “side” in this things, that masses of millions of unique people don’t operate as homogeneous hive-minds, but that instead it’s all about individuals, and their own character and actions. That our identity is actually simply who we choose to be, and that nonsensically trying to tie our sense of identity to superficial things and abstract concepts outside ourselves which we have no control over like countries and perceived ethnic groups is always dangerous. And that there’s no reason to try to make any people look better or worse than they are; we should just be honest and use consistent, fair standards. And realize that CONTEXT matters significantly. We shouldn’t downplay the suffering of certain innocents or artificially amplify those of others because of where they’re from or anything like that. People are people. Everywhere. All people deserve to be able to defend themselves but intentionally targeting innocents who have no fault at all should never be misconstrued as somehow defensive or retaliatory.
And such noble ideas are undermined by editing decisions like concealing the circumstances of the 1948 war, and the Khartoum Resolution, and strangely going out of your way to mention “only” targeting soldiers once Arab armies were doing the conquering yet completely glossing over the intentional slaughter of neighborhoods of innocent families carried out by a government that explicitly outlined its religiously sanctioned, anti-Jewish genocidal motivations in its founding charter, instead just saying it’s “wrong” without saying what happened and while immediately showing pictures of destroyed buildings in Gaza and emphasizing the evil of carelessness for collateral damage by “Israel” (more accurately, IDF leadership and pilots - most Israelis have nothing to do with that) but not showing any images of, say, a bullet-ridden kibbutz or bloody cribs in Israel caused by intentional targeting of civilians by Hamas and other Islamist terror groups. Apparently when an Arab army allegedly aims to adhere to the standard practice of “only” targeting soldiers, it’s worth an honorable mention, but when Arab armies specifically target civilians it’s not worth mentioning at all, even while people are still suffering from the latter.
It’s just really disappointing, man.
Really really disappointed in this channel. I guess z indoctrination is just impossible to un learn esp when people don't call it out for the hateful ideology it is and pretend it's something else
@@Alex-ck1bw It’s definitely not impossible to “unlearn”. Many people do change their views & beliefs via breaking away from their indoctrination. I eventually learned my way out of the confirmation bias filters i looked at the world thru when i was younger which i’d learned from Christianity. Many prominent conservative voices today were once leftist activists. And Matt has gone thru a journey out of his original religion, into some others, was atheist for a while and landed on some semi-secular, symbolic, kind of deistic form of Judaism. Here’s clearly willing to have his views changed, which is why i haven’t lost all respect for him. I think this is just a matter of bias, which i think is something we all need to “unlearn” eventually, as it’s a natural instinct until we realize that we have it and why we need to let go of it. And he’s at least not as far on the extreme as many people out there. I have hope, i think he just is making some mistakes in his worldview, which we all do at some point or another. None of us are perfect.
It’s a very biased video and reveals a lack of ability to learn history, let alone doctoral level knowledge.
Don't forget that Matt, before he's a historian, before he's a Jew - IS AN AMERICAN. He lives American life, fed by American media, exposed to foreign criticism about Israel. And as "a good American" he thinks that a piece of paper and an ounce of ink will do the job to create that desired "peace in the Middle East" many Westerners obsess about.
But, if he were an Indigenous Jew (ethnically, not a convert) he would do the work as a historian and acknowledge that borders are made with blood and culture, wars and pain that'll be remembered for generations. As an example - the war that's going on today.
@@coraltitan6225 If i remember correctly, i think he’s Canadian. 🤔
Main item missing in the timeline is that in all those centuries of empire and colonial rule only one people had an independent nation in the region.
Thank you for this, plain and easy to understand, just history and I love it
Except it's not. Why are so many people so easily manipulated?
Thank you!
I agree that noth sides are in the wrong, but i also know a bit about how war works. Overall i am hugely impressed with how well the Israelites have managed to avoid mass civilian casualties. The realities of war is that many die. But with an enemy that tries to blend in with the civians i would have expected 10-15x that number just 15 years ago. Israel needs to not let the same situation pop up in 10 years.
The gazans need to police their own if they want a nation... Until then the resources would be turned into war aide to keep fighting or more likely fight again.
Sucks for them being a havenot instead of a have, but ya cant help soneone whos trying to stab you.
The origin of the Ashkenazi Jews, who come most recently from Europe, has largely been shrouded in mystery. But a new study suggests that at least their maternal lineage may derive largely from Europe.
Though the finding may seem intuitive, it contradicts the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.
Matt, thank you, from the bottom of my peace seeking heart!
Can you make a video on history of Americas starting from crossing of the land bridge to moments before colonization?
Would be difficult to make an accurate timeline with the Americas
That would be awesome but unfortunately a lot of dates would only be approximate with the exception of the Maya and last century before Columbus
The "crossing of the land bridge" WAS a colonization.
@@JeffinBville Colonization of uninhabited land, yea. Or is it your opinion that there were humans (or otherwise intelligent beings) living in the Americas even before the first humans arrived?
Read Origin by Jennifer Raff. You will learn that there was no original people, just wafts of various peoples over time. It is based on DNA and she correlates with folklore.
I say this is 100% british fault
It all makes sense now 😂
Well, it was a mess before the British got there, too, but yeah, they should have kept their promise to the Arabs for a great Arab Nation, with all the different people living in it, but the French got in the way and then the Jewish tragedy was going on, too, so the British screwed up.
There was already communal tension before the British mandate. The British in fact bent over backwards trying to please both sides and getting nowhere as neither was prepared to compromise (sound familiar?). Broke and exasperated they handed the problem to the UN in 1947.
Even if it Britain’s fault as you claim, that was 70 years ago. There have been ample opportunities to settle this since then and neither side has agreed to it.
I blame Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus
By far the best explanation on the matter, excellent work
*Very informative and its amazing to see a Jewish perspective in this whole debacle*
31:22 two sides go to war ?…… No, the Arabs together with five Arabs countries opened a war……you are not objective at all in this video
That's still only 2 sides as all of the Arab armies were on the same side.
No he is not!
@@Mr9Guns the focus is that the Arabs started the war . It was started as a Silvil war and move d to full war against the jaws
arabs together with arabs in other words, arabs
Dude nothing about saying there were 2 sides is not objective
The Palestinians and Gaza are living a second class citizens only because their government of Hamas has made them so there’s been no issues there since 2005.
When you lose a war you can't expect to have your own country...
true when you lose you lose
Unless you win it back. It works both ways until one side is eradicated entirely and then a new challenger enters the fray.
@@j.d4559 did you just challenge to completrly erase a race ?
This is the first thorough understanding of the land that I’ve seen. Historically factual, humane. Also, addressing the mutual guilt of Hamas (not all Palestinians) and the state of Israel.
The partition was not specifically for zionists, it was for jews.
I appreciate you're trying to be diplomatic, but calling Palestinians in Gaza "second class citizens" is really a disservice. They have no rights of citizenship, real or pretend.
They’re their own group. They aren’t citizens and don’t want to be. Why would they get the rights to citizens?
Where did you get the information that the Canaanites and the Israelites were the same people?
Scholars and historians. It’s easy to find. I think the Bible says otherwise but you decide
He has talked about it in previous videos in more detail.
@@TracyD2 I would say it is an oversimplification. Even the Caananites weren't "one people" in many aspects, and I do believe there were other post-Caananite groups and polities besides the Israelites.
I see a point in this simplification: it emphasizes how, from an academic perspective, the Israelites emerged from the local Caananite cultures (unlike the biblical narration). But yet, I find it kind of misleading... But mostly as a detail, the video is great.
@@TracyD2the Bible doesn't really say otherwise by modern standards. Have to remember the Bible is written from the view of a very specific group of people, and the way we view things today would not have matched up with how these things would have been viewed back then.
Excellent video! I haven't watched your videos in some time, but I fully realized what I have been missing. Non-biased and informative review of a hot topic (to put it mildly) is very refreshing to see. Keep up the wonderful work!
No, Egypt did not fall during the Bronze Age Collapse.
I mean, that's a pretty basic thing to get wrong.
Egypt, unlike the Hittite kingdom and Mycenaean city states, survived intact, though it did undergo a decline.
So … the Egyptians were there first and they also named it? Give it back?
It would make the most sense, but they really do not seem to want it anymore.
Israel offered it and they said no
Egypt doesnt want it lol
I mean modern Egyptians are not at all the same as antiquity Egyptians
But I’m sure Israel would nonetheless be happy to give it to them
@@jonathankriesler2037 but the modern Israelis are the same as the ancient ones?
That sounds like "Game of Thrones" to me
Well. AOIAF is based on history. 😢
Exactly..
game of thrones was the war of the roses.
It's so much easier to look at charts and timelines about ancient or medieval history, it's easier to forget that those people were actually people, with the same hopes and fears that we have today. It's easier to judge the past rather than take responsibility for the present.
You completely skipped the years that the Israelites ruled this area. The kingdoms Judah and the tribes and the first temple. They were established as a people and as a religion before the Babylionan/persian conquest. How is your timeline credible
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@@marilepine1 accept that it is in fact relevant
It’s not-and it became obvious when he said Jews were actually Canaanites and the exodus from Egypt was a myth. You can’t give a genuine answer without being willing to compare other timelines and historical events/data
"Indigenous peoples" in the contemporary school of thought means a group of people that has a special relationship with their traditional territory and experience subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model. Therefore, "indigenous peoples" in Israel nowadays are Palestinians.
But Canaanites includes Israelites, Judeans, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, Phoenicians and maybe more. Also near the Canaanites there are the Ugaritics and Arameans and Amorites and other Northwest Semites. Anyway I'm gonna continues watching
Maybe the creator chooses the largest population or the current ruler..
Canaan was a huge land..
The name israel dont mean a clan
The name was an agreement between tribes in cnaahan to form a kingdom
The name of the kingdom was israel
What an informative, unbiased, amd fair video. I understand the current situation much better.
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Samson died in Gaza?
yea, he died killing plishtim (Hebrew pronunciation) and the romans later names Israel Palestine to discourage jews (by naming the land after their biblical enemies)
Sampson was a myth after Hercules
@@ezesolomon3996 It makes more sense for it to be the other way around, because the story of samson was written long before greek mythology came to be... So Hercules might be a greek version of Samson, but not the other way around...
3:20 I really want to know how did your source reach to the conclusion of the Israelites dominance over the culter of Canaanites while aldo being a branch of the Canaanite themselves? Even though Canaanites were very influential over the region, doesn't nake enough sense to me
I would LOVE to see a full breakdown of Modern Jews who are living in Israel and Palestinians, it would be so clarifying ❤❤
also the mixture of civilizations in these 2 groups DNA is quite interesting
I felt that specific statement was quite an oversimplification. But I believe Matt has another video about that here and, if you haven't seen yet, Dr. Justin Sledge's ESOTERICA channel has an awesome video about it from a few weeks ago!
@@arnbrandy Thanks! I will check it out ❤
Israelites had 2 kingdoms who were spread over most of Israel territory (Judea and Israel kingdoms both of which were jewish)
You glossed over the part about the Ottomans siding with Axis powers and as a result, they were on the losing side. Normally, when one picks the losing side in a war, it's not them, but rather the winners who divide the spoils. The winners in this case were the British and they received a MANDATE to create a Jewish state, not to colonise the region. While the arabs living there didn't like this outcome, they (and you) seem to have glossed over the fact that THEY LOST THE WAR. Also, if you look at any map of the area during the Ottoman period, there is no mention of "Palestine". Also, the population of the area was very sparse before the period of the Mandate. The idea that the arabs have a centuries old claim to the land is nonsense. Most of them migrated there in the period leading up to the formation of Israel. You also failed to mention that the Jews agreed to the UN resolution to share the land with the Arabs, but the Arabs refused. This was the first of many times where the Arabs refused to create their own state. Unless or until the Arabs agree to live in peace with Israel, there will never be peace. As for the response of Israel being "immoral", that is nonsense. No army has ever gone to such great lengths to avoid civilian casualties. The Arabs brought this on themselves. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
ottomans didnt exist when the axis powers were around
@@Hallow1 Ah, no. The Ottoman empire collapsed after WW1, because they sided with Axis which lost. (It didn't collapse because of WW1. It was going to collapse anyway. Being on the losing side in WW1 was just the final stake through the heart.)
Amazingly, you omitted the fact that Israel accepted the two-state solution in 1948, but the Arabs did not and instead initiated wars against Israel. There is no moral equivalence between Islamic barbarians and the IDF. "From the river to the sea, Jewish people will be free!!!", I said.
Herodotus called this area Palestine before romans
this is dubious. The Philistines were there and the reference is to the people, while the Romans referred to the geographical area.
good vid, but except the genetics there's also the cultural aspect of the people. Your Pro-Palestine political leaning between and outside the lines isn't objective as well. (Israel bombing sites, without mention they are under ISIS-like control that is the main cause, also ur tone on "zionist" which today became as another word for patriot in Israel- more than 50% of the current population of Israel are Mizrahi refugees that are referred as well with that term today) and when u speak about Israeli settelments- they are not even close to the radical Palestinian ideology of terror so take a break man. Israel is the one who have that ancient native costumes, which shaped Judaism as we know it. Whether Arab or "Arabized" the Palestinians are another symptom of Arabization that destroyed many native cultures and people in the Middle East and other parts. If Judaism carry inside some Canaanite costumes, Islam is mainly focused on the Arabic one, and based itself on the roots of Judaism while denying that aspect (=Arabization of the Tanakh). Suppurting the current Hamas pro protests that sharing Hamas way of "Free Palestine" isn't only a bad take but an Evil one.
Best documentary about the present conflicts and help me as an Asian understands the history of it. Thanks
Thanks Matt. That was some much needed clarity.
To bring things to the present, Gaza should belong the Arabs in Gaza. They could have enjoyed their own sovereign state since 2005. Just leave Israel alone.
As a Palestinian, I applaud your objectiveness !! Keep up the great work !!! ✨🤲🏼
Thanks!
You forgot to mention who started the war of independence…the Arabs. Arabs back then weren’t known as exclusively Palestinians as they preferred the term Jordanian as they didn’t want to be put under the same generic term Palestinian as that meant more Jews Palestinians at the time. Not until Arafat coined the term Arab Palestinians in the early 1960s. You also forgot to mention Jews never left, they always had a presence. Arabs haven’t been denied anything they’ve made poor decisions, rejected every peace deal and now rejected ceasefire deals. Gaza could have been the Singapore of the Middle East but they chose to built terror tunnels out of billions of dollars worth of aid money. They indoctrinate their kids to kill Jews…another poor decision. I think Gazans need to understand investment in productive decision making skills. No ceasefire, bring back the hostages, Hamas must surrender.
Thanks for this video, it answers a lot of questions.
Excellent as usual.
What a very informative documentary about a very complicated history. Thank you.
❤❤❤ Thank you so much for this insight/background information! 💖