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@andtheycallhimdamned

4 күн бұрын

Proverb 24 (Septuagint/Nicholas King) Verse 11; Deliver those who are being led to death and buy back those who are being killed; do not spare [yourself] - I might be wrong but there appears to be a certain amount of prophecy going on.

@bengee4841

3 күн бұрын

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

@starcapture3040

3 күн бұрын

your implementation of terms is wrong. Bronze Age canaanite are the same iron age cannaits./ israel is a term called exclusively for people of a certain religion. Israel is a religious name not a geographic name. jews came from Mesopotamia not from the native canaan land. Amrits,Mobait,Adomits,Ammonites,Phoenicians are all canaanites. israelites literature is extremely influenced by mesopotamian religion not by canaanite religion. there is no such thing as iron age canaanites called Israelites.

@NicitoStaAna

3 күн бұрын

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

@starcapture3040

3 күн бұрын

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

This might be the most balanced and accurate history of Israel and Palestine I've seen on social media

@angelao1133

5 сағат бұрын

It's riddled with errors

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

@valerieprice-wn9qb

3 күн бұрын

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

@TheMarlinlask

2 күн бұрын

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

Perhaps the least controversial video there is.

@af8828

4 күн бұрын

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

@ChrisHuston.

4 күн бұрын

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

@jakoboka

3 күн бұрын

​@@af8828ok so you think you are right?

@asbu5716

3 күн бұрын

It is controversial.

@l4nd3r

3 күн бұрын

@@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).

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 ❤

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

@bneymanov

3 күн бұрын

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

@nenenindonu

3 күн бұрын

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

@gurbanabbasov

3 күн бұрын

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

@nenenindonu

3 күн бұрын

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

@mohamedabdukadir3271

3 күн бұрын

Your charts are informative

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

@EH23831

2 күн бұрын

Praying that our and yours are safe.

what have the mongols Not invaded at this point?

@jasperchance3382

3 күн бұрын

Italy

@phillee2814

3 күн бұрын

🇬🇧

@sdrawkcabUK

3 күн бұрын

Bermuda

@4sythdude549

3 күн бұрын

The Moon ...not yet at least

@januszbogumil

3 күн бұрын

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

As a Malay Muslim from Malaysia I've found this video is less biased if not unbiased at all. Thanks Matt Baker.

@exploratorize7703

4 күн бұрын

As educated rational people, we only care about facts and research, not blind beliefs. I can confidently say, as a Malay you are no way related to this area or the Arabian dogma. You are just fed this since childhood. Connect to your real Malay roots.

@faiznaaman

4 күн бұрын

@@exploratorize7703 You don't need to teach me about my roots. You just need to respect Muslims and what their belief as we respect others. It is not about Arabian dogma or any race. It is about Abrahamic Religions and world's geopolitics. So if you are an atheist, that's your life, not mine.

@exploratorize7703

4 күн бұрын

@@faiznaaman define muslim beliefs?

@faiznaaman

4 күн бұрын

@@exploratorize7703 Based on our 5 pillars of Islam and 6 pillars of faith. You can Google it yourself and read.

@foxinaround1220

4 күн бұрын

​​​@@exploratorize7703 What does him being a malaysian have to do with anything? So you have to be a certain race to talk about political subjects?? For example do i have to be ukranian or russians to talk about that war ?? M cofused

Bro, as a Palestinian I admire every line in this video. well researched and absent of ideologies. This narrative is what we need today for a just peace in this area. Thank you!

@nicks0alive

9 сағат бұрын

Can you explain what makes the "Haifa" accent of Palestinian Arabic so different? I see a lot of comments talking about how everyone can tell someone is from Haifa just by the way they speak, but no one gives any further details

It's worth noting that even though it only began in the 1850s, the origin of a unified Palestinian national identity isn't especially recent in the grand scheme of things. The Italian Reunification and Greek war of independence happened at around the same time. Before each of those events the modern concept of an Italian or a Greek didn't exist, despite their extensive ancient history. Pre unification Italians would only identify with their region, as a Venetian, Genoese, or Sicilian etc. Before Greek independence from the Ottoman empire, Greeks identified themselves in censuses as Romans, because of their millennia long association with the Eastern Roman Empire.

@davelonghi8229

4 күн бұрын

This comment should be pinned

@kfiraltberger552

4 күн бұрын

Ethnicity in general is a modern idea. Just like Zionism, which is simply ethnicity with extra steps.

@SuperMovieLvr933

4 күн бұрын

Exactly. Nationalism itself didn't begin until the 17th Century at the earliest.

@GiuseppePipia

4 күн бұрын

Not true with your concept of Italy. As Italia it existed already in Roman times, although languages evolved differently, but they all were Italian in a way or another. It was just the single noble houses, along with international affairs (French and Austrians in the North, Spanish in the South, with the Pope in the center), that would keep it apart.

@seanclark2085

4 күн бұрын

Ethno states have existed in all recorded history , Nationalism is nothing new, conquest, colonisation and settlement was the norm .

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

@saifhazem7164

2 күн бұрын

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

@jlt4219

2 күн бұрын

yes! it is still survive today!

Sir, I object to you calling the Nabateans Arabs, they were not. They were descendents of Achaemenids that were abandoned when the Seleucid Empire collapsed. There was no "arab empire", there was the Sasanian Empire that fell to the Rashidun Caliphate, but the Caliphate were not Arabs. Arabs as a group did not emerge until the end of the Ottoman Empire. The Arabs were a group that formed primarily at the urging of Hussein bin Ali al-Hashimi who led what he called the great Arab revolt. Prior to this 'Arab' was a Greek exonym for the people of the Arabian peninsula, which also happened to be a Greek exonym. Arabs as a group did not exist until the Great Arab Revolt in 1916. And they're only called Arabs due to the hellenization of the region convincing the hellenized people that lived there two thousand years later that the ancient name for their peninsula was Arabia, which it was not.

Wonderful video, thank you for laying out this history so clearly, I’m gonna show this to my family so they can have context.

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

@TracyD2

4 күн бұрын

It’s true.

@185MDE

4 күн бұрын

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

@YahiaMansouri

4 күн бұрын

@@185MDE Both siding a genocide?

@philo9046

4 күн бұрын

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

@185MDE

4 күн бұрын

@@philo9046 please don’t twist my words

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

@habibi_sport312

3 күн бұрын

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

@starcapture3040

3 күн бұрын

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

@belialord

3 күн бұрын

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

@belialord

3 күн бұрын

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

@mikkisixx3086

3 күн бұрын

Ba'al Hammon be praised!

Wow! Very balanced and enlightening. It's easy for people to look at what's happening using a limited scope. But clearly a lot has happened before 7th October going centuries that needs to be recognised. Thanks a lot for this Matt!

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

@grtlyblesd

Күн бұрын

Wait for it… the Mongols!

Amazing how history crystallizes insight. Great video.

I am so so happy to find an unbiased video on Gaza's history, especially for the more recent history. You did your research, and you pointed out the parts that were your personal opinions. This is why I'm subscribed to you.

I completely agree with many of the comments - your overview and descriptions of events were well-prepared and thoughtful. You focused on informing the audience and excluded the contentious and destructive details that would have detracted from the educational aspect of the timeline. It's very impressive and incredibly well done Matt 👏

This video sold me the impression that you are very reasonable and unbiased. Thank you so much for the great video.

@figrollin

Күн бұрын

Unfortunately, this is a veneer. We are all biased, and Matt's fundamentally pro-Israeli stance reveals itself here in his contemporary statements, as alluded to in other high ranking comments.

@NielsHoogvliet

Күн бұрын

​@@figrollin He's not that fundamentally pro-Israel right? In the end he says he supports the current protests against what the Israeli government is doing.

This should be mandatory viewing for anyone discussing this conflict. I disagree with some things you say here and there, but I think that we must all put our differences behind us and work together, united towards peace.

@benclark4823

4 күн бұрын

You can’t have “peace” if one side refuses to actually accept your existence and wants to eradicate you from existence. 😒

@benclark4823

4 күн бұрын

You can’t work together towards “peace” if one side doesn’t want to. 😒

@snomcultist189

4 күн бұрын

@benclark However you can if a majority of people want peace and it’s just the keyboard warriors, such as yourself, polarised people and radicalised people who believe that their side is just.

@kfiraltberger552

4 күн бұрын

@@snomcultist189 Which isn't the situation currently in Palestine, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank.

@benclark4823

4 күн бұрын

@@snomcultist189 funny how I never said that one side was actually “just” lol. 😒 also do you REALLY think that the side who ALWAYS refuses peace when it’s given to them is the one who actually wants it? 🫤

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.

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

@MrRizeAG

3 күн бұрын

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.

30:00 During British Palestine it's not the Brits who were selling (or "giving away") the land to Jews to settle, Jewish migrants (and their organizations) were buying land from the big landowning families - Arab, Lebanese, Greek, or Turkish. For example one of the biggest purchases was the so called Sursock Purchases, where huge amounts of land were bought from the Sursock family, a Greek family who owned really large amounts of lands there.

@adrianblake8876

4 күн бұрын

The key word is "selling". Every Jewish owned land up to 1945 has been legitimately owned by them. They didn't commit any land theft, and that meme has to stop...

@levantineking98

4 күн бұрын

@@adrianblake8876 lol by 1947, they owned less than 7% of the land.... and then in 1948, they were awarded about 55% by the imperial powers to form their state, at the expense of the native population ofcourse. Cut the bull.

@yakov95000

4 күн бұрын

​@@levantineking98 If I am not mistaken Arabs have around the same Precentage of ownership ~10%,Jews lived and migrated to Israel since beginning of recorded history before Arabs even been there so saying they "Native"(while they came ad conquering empire)is dumb

@levantineking98

4 күн бұрын

@@yakov95000 modern day palestinians aren’t descendants of peninsular Arabs, they were just conquered by them lol. And you are mistaken, Arabs owned around 35 percent of the land and the rest was state owned, and besides, the land ownership system was different as they had communal ownership, before the European colonizers arrived. What you’re saying sounds like “well native Americans didn’t technically own the land according to our European standards/laws, they just lived there.”

@cometmoon4485

4 күн бұрын

​@@adrianblake8876Approximately 15% of all land in israel is owned by the JNF, a private organisation that explicitly REFUSES to sell land to non-Jews. In 2004, the JNF proudly declared in the Supreme Court of israel that it does not have a duty to practice equality to all citizens of the country. israel is a vile apartheid state built on ethnic supremacy.

This is how you approach this topic, we should all learn from Matt.

@hanojo6098

3 күн бұрын

The information in this video are not all accurate. Not historical nor religious accurate .most of information provided in this video Contradict with the archaeological and genetic informations.

@juanfervalencia

3 күн бұрын

Can you suggest academic material that proves your point?

@juanfervalencia

3 күн бұрын

guess not, I read it in your comment

@andrewbecker1013

3 күн бұрын

​@@hanojo6098 How so? What archeological and genetic evidence contradicts anything in the video? I'm not aware of any.

Matt, this is amazing!

Thank you (and good luck).

Excellent work. Always blown away by your research and of course, graphics! Everyone should watch this.

Very well done. Fair and balanced. Thank you!

As an individual coming from the Middle East I appreciate you did not pick sides and just stated facts

Matt, your video is both informational and hopeful. Thank you for treating the subject with the respect it deserves. Never again for anyone, anywhere.

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

@jasperchance3382

3 күн бұрын

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

@Emcee_Squared

2 күн бұрын

Ok go tell that the Nebuchadnezzar II

@user-zr9ze7sm4b

2 күн бұрын

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

Thank you!

YES!!!.Thank you Matt...you had my respect as an excellent youTube presenter...you have now earn my respects as a Human being❤❤...well done..thank you for a very balance presentation on this very contentious topic!!. You have proven that you can present controversial issues in an unbias manner

Matt, you forgot that 2005, all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and four Israeli settlements in the West Bank were unilaterally dismantled. Israeli settlers and army evacuated from inside the Gaza Strip, redeploying its military along the border.

@Firefly763

Күн бұрын

He didnt mention a lot of important things.. So many misinformation, and information leaving out the most important details are spread on the internet. And then when it fits their narrative, people thank for the 'unbiased info.

Matt, I think. The Palestine election in 2006 is an essential story to tell in this timeline.

@Uulfinn

2 күн бұрын

The election where the winning party had publicly declared they would hunt all of the jews around the planet? No, palestinians would never vote for something that openly violent and hateful.

I can't wait for this comment section to be perfectly calm, rational, and respectful :)

@NeilEvans-xq8ik

4 күн бұрын

Hello there. How do you do? A very intelligent comment. I respect you for it.

@ksorabbit

4 күн бұрын

Totally calm as forecasted.

@duduchannel6729

4 күн бұрын

There are more of these comments than controversial ones

@Rakettivuori

4 күн бұрын

Honestly I can't see any crazy comments

@sammysamlovescats

4 күн бұрын

@@duduchannel6729 In my defense, I wrote this like 2 minutes after the video came out, but hey, I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than not!

I admire you way of teaching us history and appreciate how much work goes into leaving any biases out. I'd genuinely have the time of my life just hearing you speak about any topic at a conference or something IRL.

Great video!!

Agreed with your thoughts thanks for sharing this history

Excellent! Informative and well-balanced. Thank you. I pretty much agree with your final thoughts

Timely video Good looks, matt, and thank you

I can only say thank you for making the video the way that you did.

Wonderfully informative video - thank you. If you ever decide to update this, may I suggest showing the appropriate boundaries of the various rulers of the areas shown?

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

@sonicgoo1121

3 күн бұрын

Wouldn't that be hypothesis then?

@beschutzer42

3 күн бұрын

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

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

Thank you so much, I hope your voice can spread

I'm glad to see a video on Palestine that isn't just propaganda.

Thanks for this video. Looking from afar it seems to me until both sides accept the others right to exist and govern there selves freely and independently, these atrocities will not stop. All people should have the right to live in peace.

Very nice video that explains all the Empires and Cultures that passed by Gaza!

LOVE this chart/video. The Middle East history and politics is so complex ...it's easier to understand it when it's laid out this way in a timeline with explanations. I also love how you incorporate the biblical and archeological sides to the inhabitants of the areas. ❤

Now there is a big question.. how come the people who've always been there in palestine (the mixed bag) can't be called native, and the people who came from europe in 1948 (another mixed bag) are supposed to be the natives with all right to the land according to the british and the americans?..

@MeepBeepBeep

Күн бұрын

The ppl who have always been there are no longer there/no longer exist/ were not established there long enough to be considered natives. No one who lives there now is REALLY native. Their ancestry can be connected really far back in history, but no one who was there first stayed there for long enough to be native. And also, the British and other ignorant westerners were a huge cause of a lot of the current problems now, so why are you believing everything they are saying and taking them seriously?

@camquest6108

Күн бұрын

Maybe because we’re (Americans) aren’t calling them natives? Idk where you heard that from 😂. Point is, most Israeli Jews are Mizrachi (native Jews/ descendants of the Cannanites) so if anything they could be deemed “native” I guess. Most didn’t come from Europe. Also I think when you fight your opponent and win the spoils of war go to the victors (as we’ve seen happens throughout the humanity). They won, they rule it. Just like when the Muslims empires colonized it in the past.

Matt, I was scared for a moment on how you would land this. Well done.

@muhammadsyed49

3 күн бұрын

why Baker has always been straight

@darthparallax5207

3 күн бұрын

In an imperfect world where nobody is completely straight, he sticks landings with more consistency than many/most. I seem to recall one time I was annoyed with a take of his in a different video. It should definitely be noted that of all the history and news sources I watch, I think I can say quickly off the top of my head he has annoyed me the least number of times and the count still stands at only once in quite a few years and perhaps hundreds of videos. Not perfect technically but I'd challenge others to do better than that and I wouldn't expect them to succeed.

@darthparallax5207

3 күн бұрын

If Hamas is too popular and Arafats legacy has withered and died too much, then unfortunately Baker essentially stopped talking right at the important moment. By the arguments he himself makes for what he supports, Hamas is beyond the pale. At the very least Israel is far more sympathetic than Hamas, and there either will be or won't be a restoration of Arafat. It would be significantly important to give more indication of how strong Hamas is and whether there's anything left of the version of Palestine that would work. Arab Spring matters. Afghanistan matters. Did the radicals remove obstacles in their way helping to bring the war to an escalated peak forcing Israel to fight in an existential matter. I am concerned about the possibility of it being up to that bad while struggling to find clear minded sources willing to sift through report honestly reveal what they know and make clear what the situation truly is, whether it is too late to go back or not. It would seem like Israel is frightened that if it does not do what it is doing they will be extinguished. And when Jews bring up that they are afraid of extermination it pays to listen. I can't find a lot of people willing to bring up Yasser Arafat at all Which worries me that Hamas has obliterated and replaced that option with a much more impossible situation than was present as recently as the 90s. It's an important issue to untangle. If Hamas cannot, does not, and should not represent all Palestine, most of the way things are being reported needs to change. But it seems like Hamas desires to be all Palestine and has taken steps to try to achieve that. None of that was addressed in the video at all and that was really the only part that would have been mysterious to basically anyone with an internet connection in the past 20 years.

@buttershy_

3 күн бұрын

​@@darthparallax5207it's your third to last paragraph that really hits me because when you get accustomed to it, you can tell when a lot of journalism/press has to be approved by hamas or fall into the "party line" (for lack of a better term for my knowledge) of hamas to be allowed out into the world. it has been so harmful. as someone with close ties to israel i just want peace. regardless of arguments about who got there first or everything that happened in the past, the solution should never be to keep killing each other, but it seems that any glimmer of stability was destroyed in October. most of the activists I see on either side, especially the popular ones, believe all the land is theirs and the other must be taken out. it really hurts. I want future generations to grow up in a safe and free environment, but the more this goes on, everyone is just going to be radicalised to the point where it really never ends. I am so sad about it. what could have been a brilliant place is getting destroyed

@joshme3659

3 күн бұрын

@@darthparallax5207ive read the words of Israel’s goverment ministers ben givir and Shimoltrovich and they have pretty clear genocidal intent towards the Palestinians, they want to take all their land and dont want to give the Palestinians citisenship, so where are they meant to go?

Love this video. Thank you, Matt ❤

Absolutely phenomenal video as always. Balanced, factual, not missing out any information. As someone who has come to the same balanced conclusions as you through my own research, this video still taught me a lot. Another landmark reference video on this most extraordinary channel. 🧡

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

@UsefulCharts

3 күн бұрын

True

The comments will definitely be civil for this one.

@cometmoon4485

4 күн бұрын

Why the sarcasm? The comments are civil.

@Marcus-nn6js

3 күн бұрын

Indeed they are.

@phlezktravels

2 күн бұрын

@@AxlTCU 🔥🇮🇱🔥

@rakeantl6730

2 күн бұрын

@@cometmoon4485 the comments ARE civil, the replies however...

Thank you for this fantastic review of history. Much appreciated.

This is an absolute masterpiece! Well done matt!

this is obviously very interesting

Excellent video! ❤

Very well done. Sensitive, fair and well researched.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for making this video.

PEOPLE NEED TO SEE THIS!

Amazing video. What an incredible channel.

Thank you for creating this video. It is very informative.

the charts+animations you are making are so good i could follow properly the topics according to events+time+place+people and etc. just like what somehow terrence howard's introduction of a proper "periodic table" should be, thanks sirs 💪😉

A two-state solution sounds great in theory but your map here actually is a great example of why it would be extremely difficult. Nobody is going to agree on the borders, and in particular who should get control over East Jerusalem. You put it as Israeli here, but the Palestinians absolutely do not agree.

Thank you for an amazing video!

Every video of yours enlightens. Thank you, Matt.

Good to note that many of the arabs that had to flee in the "Nakba" were sent letters by Egypt that they were going to war. 1/3 didn't leave and many of those people still live in Israel today.

@buttershy_

3 күн бұрын

thank you

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

@roboparks

3 күн бұрын

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

@breensprout

3 күн бұрын

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

Great work - As always!

thank you so much, this video has been extremely informative :)

Thanks Matt. A very unbiased and historical look at the current situation.

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

@wordart_guian

3 күн бұрын

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

@Jeremyisthings

3 күн бұрын

Israel offered it and they said no

@Domebuddy

2 күн бұрын

Egypt doesnt want it lol

A well balanced summary in my opinion. Thanks.

This video is just AWESOME!!

8:17 : The word phillistines came from the word plishtim meaning invaders in Greek/hebrew

@katrinam6795

Күн бұрын

Greek invaders called themselves invaders in their own language Really

i hate what is happening and i think netanyahu, ben gvir, smotrich etc should be kicked out and trialled. i also think the settlers in the west bank are very unhelpful in terms of peace, and just exacerbate the conflict. but the protests in the west worry me. so many people calling it a genocide when it's the lowest civilian to combatant ratio in any modern urban warfare is bordering on blood libel. people have called it that for years even though the population keeps increasing, and even israel keeps sending humanitarian aid and treating them in israeli hospitals (genocide is supposed to be a deliberate extermination of people group, and additionally, 2 million of those people live in israel). i am not trying to downplay the death and destruction by mentioning these things, i think people should not use the term genocide so lightly, it is offensive to those who have lived through it. i can understand saying such things due to how widespread it is, but people are even being led into supporting hamas, which is the absolute worst decision anyone could make if they want to support peace and stability. for that reason i am uncomfortable to join protests, while i understand the pain and grieving of a lot of these people, there is a significant number of extremists, especially where i live, who make me feel unsafe (i didnt want to be disrespectful by not naming the people im talking about but i have been flagged before for using the name, ridiculously)

@npgibson69

Күн бұрын

Sorry that you are flagged, everyone should be able to express themselves. Genocide is a difficult term, the statutory definition is vague and broad. Israel deHaan was killed 100 years ago today. So we can say that there is a tragic history of violence aimed at creating a Jewish ethno-state, with no regard for decency to anyone who stands in the way.

Matt, this video, and especially your conclusion at the end sits really nicely with me. Thank you for your amazing video.

This is extremely useful

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

@bella-hi4oo

3 күн бұрын

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

@bella-hi4oo

3 күн бұрын

Canaan was a huge land..

@natybar-yosef9931

2 күн бұрын

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

30:05 - land was bought from it occupants, not from the brits. the ottoman land management system continued under british control.

@bella-hi4oo

3 күн бұрын

That's true, they sold their land that's why Arafat never accused Israel for stealing lands..

@skbanda4573

3 күн бұрын

no, it was bought from the landlords. when the Ottoman empire moved to a more European-style system of "whoever has the money can own the land" (as opposed to the earlier, habitation-based model), suddenly rich people who didn't even live there could own the land in the empire, including Palestine. the actual occupants often owned nothing under this system and therefore frequently suffered when the supremacist zionists came in and evicted Palestinians so they could hire Jewish labor.

@CleHasToSayIt

3 күн бұрын

@@bella-hi4ooso the illegal settlers we have today ?

@99EKjohn

3 күн бұрын

​@@CleHasToSayIt are not illegal settlers. The biggest so-called settlement in Hebron, an area the Arabs genocide the Jews out of in 1929. They have every right to resettle the Jewish quarters.

@bella-hi4oo

3 күн бұрын

@@CleHasToSayIt They are illegal settlers of course they are putting their house in a Palestinian government own land..I do believe that PLO and Arab league refers only to the Israeli citizens before 1948-1967..Muslim countries exiled many Mizrahi Jews that's why, they settled in East Jerusalem and Westbank.. Israeli Government removed all Jews in Gaza, then they can or will remove the Settlers in Palestinian territory. The problem is most of the settlers are Arab Jews.

That was amazing. Thank you for your work. I'm sure the majority of people today have NO IDEA this is all so complicated, and goes back so far. Maybe learning all this, new ideas can arise to solve the seemingly never-ending problem.

This was brilliant. Thank you.

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

@lIIllIlIII

4 күн бұрын

Would be difficult to make an accurate timeline with the Americas

@wilcowen

4 күн бұрын

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

@JeffinBville

4 күн бұрын

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

@dorderre

4 күн бұрын

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

@krl970

3 күн бұрын

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.

Samson died in Gaza?

@etgarmoyal

3 күн бұрын

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

3 күн бұрын

Sampson was a myth after Hercules

Very good and informed video that everyone should see

Great video

Herodotus called this area Palestine before romans

@jasperchance3382

3 күн бұрын

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

"His Majesty's Government have thus been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles. There are in Palestine about 1,200,000 Arabs and 600,000 Jews. For the Jews the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish State. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine." Ernest Bevin, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Speech in the House of Commons (18 February 1947)

@jasperchance3382

3 күн бұрын

yep, that is what the conflict is all about. Guess who is the intollerant side?

@mauricehalfhide3982

3 күн бұрын

And any people anywhere would have felt the same. Especially since they were promised control of the area after the fall of the Ottomans.

@ubblegubble

3 күн бұрын

​@@mauricehalfhide3982were they? Heijazy Arabs collaborated with Britain and sons of Hussein Abdullah and Feisal got Jordan and Iraq. They would like to have all the land they might try to overthrow turks all on there own but one who participate in campaign gets a part of game. Why is it not fair?

@npgibson69

Күн бұрын

@@jasperchance3382there were a lot more than two sides from 1920-50. There were plenty of Arabs willing to accept Jews, plenty of Jews willing to compromise on the Balfour Declaration. Unfortunately, extremists used violence to consolidate control. Still going on today.

Well done! Excellent video!

This is amazing I always live your historical videos and as always you live up yo expectations!!!

Well done Matt. Less controversial discussion on Gaza of late. You kept it simple without offending either side of the conflict.

@VesnaVK

4 күн бұрын

Except for the parts where he said "war broke out" instead of "Israel was attacked."

@aj.a1845

4 күн бұрын

@@VesnaVK go back and have a better listen Sweetheart.

@phlezktravels

4 күн бұрын

❤️🇵🇸🍉

@phlezktravels

4 күн бұрын

​Correct. Israel is the one that started this in 1948

@VesnaVK

4 күн бұрын

@@aj.a1845 please be specific.

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

I love these videos and the clear, intelligent use of maps and charts to explain complex issues and history. Huzzah! In this video I would have found it easier to 'see' the region in the period if the extent of empires in the time you were talking about were an overlay instead of just the current Gaza and West Bank map, i.e, the area of control of the Philistines and proto/early Isrealis or Babylonian control in the region. I believe it would help depict the fluidity of power in the region. A humble suggestion and many thanks for videos!

If Hamas really wants the “complete destruction of Israel”, why does its latest charter (2017) state “Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus”? This 1967-bordered Palestinian state would leave the other 80% for Israel in a 2 state solution.