Why INDIA is scared about ISRAEL-PALESTINE conflict? : ISRAEL-PALESTINE EXPLAINED

the violence between israel and palestinians has escalated rapidly hamas is launching rocket attacks on israel israel is carrying out airstrikes in gaza egypt and syria are at war with israel today for the first time since the six-day war of 1967 11 arab countries cut off all oil shipments to the united states we are heading toward the most acute shortages of energy since world war ii [Music] in practice in july 2017 and since then the relationship has really taken off [Music] hi everybody the israel palestine conflict is one of the longest and one of the most critical geopolitical conflicts in the world and while most of us might ignore it thinking it to be yet another conflict i got to tell you that every time this conflict escalates it literally shakes up the economy of every single country on the planet including india uk france and even the united states of america and in india some of the most critical events were influenced or caused due to the arab israeli rivalry including the emergency of 1975 and just like india was at the crossroads to choose a side in russia ukraine conflict we have been on the crossroads of israel palestine conflict for 70 long years and just like the russia situation even a slight diplomatic miscalculation here and there could threaten both our defense and our economy so in this episode today let's try to understand what exactly is the israel-palestine conflict all about why is this conflict so critical for the world economy and most importantly why is this extremely critical for india in the 21st century this video is brought to you by coding invaders but more on this at the end of the video this is a story that dates way back to early 1900s during this time israel did not exist as a nation and the jewish community did not have a specific country for themselves so they were scattered all around the world and this region that we know today as israel gaza and west bank had both jews and arabs people living now if you look at the world map before world war 1 you will see that the world was actually ruled by empires we had empires like the british empire the french empire the prussian empire and the ottoman empire but after world war 1 and 1918 the british took control of both palestine and the jordan region and while palestine remained under the control of the brits other countries in the middle east eventually became independent nations this was when the brits decided to give a separate country for the jews under something called the balfour declaration of 1917. so from 1922 to 1947 when the jews were being persecuted in europe millions of jews started migrating to palestine under the allowance of the brits and this is where the tensions between both these communities started rising but soon enough world war ii started in 1939 and lasted till 1945 and because of the holocaust in nazi germany again millions of jews migrated to british palestine and this further increased the conflicts between the arabs and the jews so when things started going out of control the united nations decided to partition the region so that both arabs and israelis have their own nation but the catch over here was this region called jerusalem for those who don't know jerusalem is a sacred place for three major religions that is for christians muslims and jews so the united nations proposed to partition this land into three parts the arab regions a jewish region and the city of jerusalem was to be kept under the united nations as an international city this is how the nation of israel was formed on 14th of may 1948 but while the jews were setting with whatever they got the arabs were not at all happy about it so you know what to protest against this move five arab countries that is egypt iraq jordan lebanon and syria all of them together attacked israel but guess what these armies were so bad with their coordination that the israelis did not just defeat them but also went on to conquer more lands of the arabs including the western half of jerusalem and if you look at the map after the war the israelis capture the western part of jerusalem the eastern part of gaza and even the northern region of aker so this is how the map of israel changed after the first arab israeli war and then gaza still got occupied by egypt and east jerusalem and the west bank got occupied by jordan so again just like any other war millions of people fled from israel to the arab countries and people from the arab countries came to israel this is when the second part of the story began with something called the swiss crisis for those who don't know swiss canal is one of the most important choke points in the world and if you look at the map it's a narrow canal of just 193 kilometers that connects the mediterranean with the red sea and the reason why the swiss canal is considered to be super super important is because if this canal is choked the ships going from europe to asia would have to go all the way around africa which would add another 20 extra days of travel time and this would eventually increase the cost of shipping and then the cost of goods in fact because of the swiss canal the distance between india and europe has been reduced by 7000 kilometers and it saves 23 days of shipping time on average today approximately 12 percent of the global trade passes through the swiss canal representing 30 of all global container traffic and over one trillion dollars worth of goods per annum and we also what happened when a ship got stuck at swiss canal last year this is one of the biggest container ships in the world 20 000 of those containers that you see on the back of 18 wheelers there's 20 000 of those on this the worst case joe is the suez canal we all know one of the most important waterways transit points pubs whatever in the world could be closed for weeks the urgent effort to dislodge a cargo ship stuck in the suez canal blocking a key global trading route peter long cargo's ship the ever given is stuck in the suez canal and it is fouling up global trade this is a traffic jam like no other so basically swiss canal was super super important to europe but since it fell in the egyptian territory in 1956 the egyptian president gamal nasir decided to nationalize a swiss canal company which was owned by the brits and the french so then egypt was about to make a lot of money out of shipping traffic in the swiss canal so this is fantastic right the swiss canal fell into the egyptian territory and they could become super rich by charging a premium tool for its access so what's wrong with it well as it turns out the only thing wrong about it was that the brits and french did not like it and apparently the brits and french were scared that egypt might actually close this canal and cut off shipments of petroleum flowing from persian gulf to western europe and if this had happened the european trade would have been in a catastrophe and obviously if any other country rises to power the brits don't like it and just because the brits don't like it it automatically becomes wrong right so guess what britain and france secretly prepared a military action to regain control of the swiss canal and to overthrow the president of egypt and their ally to fight this war was none other than israel now the question over here is why did israel jump in over here and what does egypt have to do with israel well as it turns out egypt had actually blocked israeli ships from passing through the swiss canal and also began to block traffic through the straits of tiran and if you look at the map it is another important narrow passage of water linking the israeli post to the red sea so if this passage is blocked it cuts off israel's sole outlet to the red sea and the indian ocean as a result both foreign ships carrying goods to and from israel had to travel a long and costly route from the atlantic to israel's mediterranean ports this is what gave rise to the second arab-israeli war which was fought by british french and israeli forces against egypt in 1956 [Music] and in just five days the israeli army captured gaza rafa and al-arish taking thousands of prisoners and occupying most of the sinai peninsula to the east of the swiss kennel but soon enough uncle sam came to the party and the united nations asked the british french and israeli forces to pull out now although israel did not win the freedom to use the swiss canal it got shipping rights in the strait of tiran so again the tensions between jews and arabs remained by the way back then we were close allies to the arabs why because they were the supplies of oil and we could not mess with them i'll give you a link to how actually nehru ji handled this situation in the description and then came the third arab israeli war in 1967 which was fought by egypt iraq syria and jordan on one side and the israelis on the other side this war broke out due to multiple reasons like terror attacks attacks on farms and water projects and even this time the israelis somehow emerged victorious and in just six days israelis captured and took control of the kaza strip golan heights and the sunny peninsula from egypt on top of that they drove the jordanian forces from the west bank and more importantly the israelis were left in sole control of jerusalem now do you see what happened if israel was in control of the sinai peninsula they could then go on to take control of the super critical swiss canal itself this is a reason why egypt blocked swiss canal for eight long years from 1967 to 1975. so again the entire world's trade was disrupted because one of the most important trade routes was choked causing an economic crisis all across the world this was the impact of the arab israeli conflict and between this time in 1973 on the holiest day of the jews egypt and syria again attacked israel starting the fourth arab-israeli war but by this time the most important thing that had changed in the world was the power of the arabs and if you remember by this time all the oil producing countries had formed the opec in 1960 and the middle eastern countries commanded extraordinary leverage of the world with oil so you know what during this time in 1973 while the americans supported the israelis the arabs got so annoyed at the americans that they purposefully decreased the production of oil and quadrupled the price of oil and because of this the price of oil went from less than three dollars a barrel to almost 12 dollars a barrel in 1974 and this again sent shockwaves all across the world [Music] egypt and syria are at war with israel today for the first time since the six day war of 1967 the shooting stopped the delicate equilibrium was restored but the arabs made an economic power play as punishment for this country's support of israel 11 arab countries cut off all oil shipments to the united states [Music] we are heading toward the most acute shortages of energy since world war ii with the oil embargo an existing gasoline shortage became worse heating oil also was in short supply there was a dire shortage of fuel in the us and in india our oil bills went from just 500 million dollars to 1.3 billion dollars which is from 20 of our exports to around 40 percent of our potential export earnings as a result our food production slowed down and while we were still recovering from our war with pakistan in 1971 we had already had two failed monsoons and all these events put together along with the political turmoil in india eventually landed us in an emergency in 1975 [Music] [Music] all these events almost crippled the entire indian economy this is the impact of geopolitics in the lives of ordinary people like you and me now coming back to israel with the support from the united states of america the israelis were able to defend their land against the egyptians in the south and syria from the north and then finally the war came to an end with the signing of a disengagement agreement in 1974 after which israel gave back sinai to egypt some parts of the golan heights were given to syria and egypt opened the swiss kennel now after these wars multiple events happened sunni organization called hamas started rising which wanted to liberate palestine then they got categorized as terrorists by many countries and on the other side the israeli citizens started moving into jerusalem in the 1990s peace talks began in 1995 there was an agreement for a palestinian authority to be established in the west bank and gaza strip and then after another decade of violence that did not lead to war hamas came to power in gaza and from then onwards israel has been in conflict with gaza till 2022 now even after 25 years there are four questions that remain unanswered number one what should happen to palestinian refugees number two whether jewish settlements in the occupied west bank should stay or be removed number three whether the two sides should share jerusalem or not and perhaps the most tricky of all is whether a palestinian state should be created alongside israel or not and although peace talks have been taking place on and off for more than 25 years so far the conflict has not been resolved so now while a group named palestine islamic jihad has a hold over the west bank and some parts of gaza gaza is mostly controlled by the hummus so israel and these groups keep on having conflicts from time to time and the reason why i am not giving you a concrete reason is because nobody really knows what is the reason while media houses favoring israel say that pig was about to attack israel the ones supporting the arabs say that the israeli government is doing this to regain power in the upcoming elections and regardless of who's right or not one thing for sure is that innocent people are dying and the number of refugees has kept on increasing this is the story of the hundred year israel palestinian conflict now the question over here is what does india have to do with all of this and why should we be concerned about this conflict before we move on let me thank our partners of this episode and that is coding invaders people the indian economy has got over its bad days and it is now one of the world's fastest growing economies but even then this growth is still not translating into enough jobs for the waves of educated young people who enter the labor force each year and that's where coding invaders come in they help you switch from a non-iit profession to id for high paying jobs within six to 8 months as a data analyst and their current placement stats stand at 93 the best part is before you enroll for the courses they provide you guaranteed job agreement with a money back guarantee so basically if you do not get placed you will get a 100 refund their courses have real business case studies job oriented projects and assignments which are designed by industry experts from amazon philips deloitte and others even a civil engineer like me with a non-i.t background will be 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arms with orders worth 1 billion dollars per year this is the reason why in 2017 modi ji became the first indian prime minister to visit israel so if we go against israel it is going to affect our defense partnership with one of the most powerful nations in the world and lastly we cannot go against the arabs because they could choke our oil imports and that could cause an economic nightmare this is the reason why i said that even a slight diplomatic miscalculation could affect our economy and defense severely so as a citizen of india do keep an eye on what is our stand on the arab israeli conflicts that's all from my side today guys if you learned something valuable please make sure to hit the like button in order to make cutie baba happy and for more such insightful business and political case studies please subscribe to our channel and also don't forget to check out coding invaders from the link in the description [Music] you

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Length: 17min 22sec (1042 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 19 2022