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00:00A few days later
00:07Don't hold yourself up like that, Ammar
00:09I want to go home, please
00:17Go get dressed
00:27Please, sir
00:29Don't hold yourself up like that, Ammar
00:32What's this?
00:33One second
00:37Go get dressed, Ammar
00:51Don't hold yourself up like that, Ammar
00:52Don't hold yourself up like that, Ammar
00:55I'm the best Englishman in the country
00:57I swear I fell, you son of a bitch
01:16Good evening, and welcome to a new episode of The Sacrifice
01:18In March 2024, the Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, stood in the White House
01:23in front of the American President, Joe Biden
01:25He said, when he travels around the world, he asks the leaders about the secret of the Irish-Palestinian relationship
01:30And they say that the answer is simple
01:32We see our story in the eyes of the Palestinians
01:34A short, peaceful, and patriotic migration
01:36A subject of doubt, denial, and discrimination
01:38And today, the Irish Prime Minister is hungry
01:40He sees that the Irish story is very similar to the Palestinian story
01:44Not only that the Irish people have suffered from colonization for centuries
01:47But there is also the insistence of England all the time
01:50That there is no such thing as Ireland
01:52So it's better to appreciate the care of the British
01:54But not at all like the British people
01:57Our story, my dear, starts in the 12th century
01:59When the Anglo-Norman lineage conquers Ireland
02:01Led by King Henry II
02:03We know this subject
02:04But over time, the English control over Ireland begins to weaken
02:07Which at that time was about money and territories
02:10Until King Henry VIII returns in 1535
02:14And says, I want to conquer Ireland again
02:16And includes it as a part of the United Kingdom
02:19Unfortunately, the British invasion was not easy
02:21And continued to face violent revolutions
02:23Especially in the northern part of Ireland
02:25In the region of Ulster
02:26Which the English could not control at all
02:29In 1594, the resistance in Ulster takes on a much stronger form
02:33When two of the tribal leaders in Ulster are announced
02:36Their names are Hugh Neill and Hugh O'Donnell
02:38These two decide to declare war on the English army
02:41O'Neill and O'Donnell will make amazing successes against the English
02:45And their rebellion will continue for more than nine years
02:48Until in the end, England succeeds in defeating them
02:51And then the Irish leaders are forced to flee
02:54A long flight of flights
02:56Known as the Flight of the Earls
02:58A flight in which the resistance led
02:59And with them the dominant and aristocratic classes
03:01They went to France, Spain, and finally Italy
03:04In one of the most important places of mass flight
03:07This journey, for many years, will be considered
03:09One of the saddest events in the history of Ireland
03:11The Irish leaders, after nine years of resistance
03:14Collapsed and fled their country
03:15No, no, Abu Hamid, leave their country in this difficult situation
03:17My dear, they fled to form an army in exile
03:20They literally, my dear, traveled and formed themselves
03:22The truth is that despite a great effort
03:24They couldn't
03:25The people of the resistance who went to exile
03:27Died one after the other
03:28And the rest of the country is far, far, far away
03:31Today, my dear, the Irish are celebrating the Flight of the Earls
03:34And its long journey
03:35My dear, after the war of these nine years
03:37You can think to yourself
03:38After the impact of their collapse
03:39You contemplate the truth that made the Ulster people
03:41Resist in this terrible way
03:43And their brain tells them
03:44That the main reason for the resistance
03:45Is their Catholicism
03:47Here in Britain, you find a solution
03:48Because these people can't think of anything else
03:50We are praying for the Prophet
03:51We will make a major transformation
03:52For the Irish people
03:53All the youth will go from Catholicism
03:55To Protestantism
03:56Is there a bus going there?
03:57Or how, Britain?
03:58Protestantism, my dear
03:59Is the English majority religion
04:01We will go to the Irish
04:03And make them Protestant like us
04:05My dear, this doesn't work with the Irish
04:07So the English start to think of another policy
04:09A policy that we will call, unfortunately
04:11The Farming of Ireland
04:13There is no other word
04:14The Occupation of Ireland
04:15The English will gather thousands of Protestants
04:17From the south of England, Scotland
04:19They will occupy lands that were taken
04:21From the Irish population
04:22The farm or settlement is created
04:24Isolated, surrounded by walls
04:25Protected from the attacks of the Irish
04:27Who see their lands being taken from them
04:29And given to others
04:30And again, the Irish try
04:32To expel the English from their land
04:34On October 23, 1641
04:36The Irish get angry
04:38And start a new rebellion
04:39They start a military coup
04:41It doesn't fail, yes
04:42But it helps in exploiting
04:44Revengeful acts
04:45By the Irish Catholics
04:46Against the Protestants
04:47And gang wars start
04:48Witnessing acts of racial cleansing
04:50The Catholics do it
04:51In the Protestant minority
04:53And here, the English army says
04:54If you allow us to enter
04:55We have to take revenge
04:56On the people you don't give
04:57What will you do?
04:58You will do mass extermination
04:59For some citizens
05:00You will know
05:01These events later
05:02In the Eleven Years' War
05:03A war that will witness
05:04Wicked massacres
05:05The most famous of which
05:06Is the Dorida massacre
05:07More than 3,000 people were killed
05:08Including women and children
05:10Even after they surrendered
05:11The massacre became
05:12A symbol of the British
05:13Wildness in Ireland
05:15And it's a shame
05:16That this happened
05:17About 400 years ago
05:18But its memories
05:19With the Irish
05:20Are still alive today
05:21The Eleven Years' War
05:22Or the Confederate Wars
05:23Killed up to 200,000 people
05:24But it ended
05:25With the victory of the English
05:26And completely
05:27Controlled them
05:28On the ground
05:29Will England
05:30Stand up to this?
05:31No, they will start
05:32Exploitation policies
05:33They will start
05:34Removing the trees
05:35Of the entire Irish forest
05:36And export the wood
05:37Of these trees
05:38The Irish
05:39Will also take over
05:40The Irish agricultural lands
05:41And export their products
05:42And their produce abroad
05:43England
05:44Will actively try
05:45To change in Ireland
05:46To make new laws
05:47Like the Penal Code
05:48Which was issued
05:49In 1695
05:50This law
05:51Simply says
05:52If a Catholic dies
05:53His inheritance
05:54Is distributed
05:55Between his children
05:56But if one of the children
05:57Becomes a Protestant
05:58He is the only one
05:59Who inherits
06:00And all the wealth goes to him
06:01Of course
06:02The Protestantism
06:03Of England
06:04Is better than
06:05Any other religion
06:06And therefore
06:07The Irish
06:08Are trapped
06:09In many things
06:10Like their studies
06:11For example
06:12The laws
06:13Prevent the Irish
06:14From studying medicine
06:15And the law
06:16And prevent them
06:17From owning the horse
06:18Which is worth
06:19A certain amount
06:20Also dear
06:21The original Irish language
06:22Is present
06:23Which is English
06:24And anyone can speak
06:25This language
06:26And the laws
06:27Also present
06:28The Irish music
06:29For the British
06:30These are clear ideas
06:31That the Irish
06:32Forget that they are Irish
06:33This culture
06:34Must be abandoned
06:35And destroyed
06:36So that we can
06:37Put our liquids
06:38In it
06:39And it is clear
06:40That if we stick
06:41To this hobby
06:42We will live
06:43In a terrible mess
06:44It is strange
06:45That the Irish
06:46Didn't give up
06:47They gave up
06:48Easily
06:49To these plans
06:50Ireland
06:51For three centuries
06:52From the time of the
06:53Earl's trip
06:54To 1893
06:55Will go through
06:56More than 15 revolutions
06:57And uprisings
06:58In fact
06:59The matter reached
07:00That the revolution
07:01Could happen
07:02Far away
07:03Outside of Ireland
07:04For example
07:05In 1871
07:06And the British
07:07Bet that we will
07:08Stop wearing our hijabs
07:09When they declare
07:10The independence of Ireland
07:11They hide
07:12From where they are hungry
07:13The interest
07:14But dear
07:15If the rebellion
07:16Draws the features
07:17Of modern Irish history
07:18There is something else
07:19Scary
07:20It will draw the features
07:21Of the British
07:22Invasion of Ireland
07:23The hunger
07:24From time to time
07:25The bad English administration
07:26And the lack of interest
07:27In the population
07:28Will cause
07:29Famines in Ireland
07:30Like the famine
07:31Of 1740
07:32Which killed
07:33Between 13%
07:34And 15%
07:35Of the population
07:36In Ireland
07:37The great famine
07:38Which started
07:39Because of the
07:40Corruption of
07:41Potatoes
07:42What is this
07:43Abou Ahmed?
07:44I don't need
07:45Potatoes
07:46I am starving
07:47Enough
07:48Don't mock
07:49The people of Ireland
07:50They are in the north
07:51Potatoes
07:52Are the main
07:53Component
07:54Of their food
07:55Abou Ahmed
07:56Forgive me
07:57I forgot about this
07:58The famine
07:59Continued for 8 years
08:00From 1845
08:01To 1852
08:02And killed
08:037%
08:04Of the population
08:05In the modern era
08:06If we go back
08:07To the documents
08:08We can find
08:09A scary reaction
08:10From the English
08:11To this famine
08:12For example
08:13Sir Charles Trevelyan
08:14The person
08:15Who was in charge
08:16Of the British government
08:17At the time
08:18To solve the crisis
08:19Wrote that
08:20This famine
08:21Is only a direct hit
08:22From the divine care
08:23The wise
08:24And the merciful
08:25And that is a sharp
08:26And effective
08:27Relationship
08:28From God
08:29To the Irish people
08:30To save them
08:31From the people
08:33That is why
08:34This great famine
08:35Continued for 7 years
08:36And created things
08:37That they left
08:38The British government
08:39Will contribute
08:40To fuel the famine
08:41By taking
08:42The other crops
08:43That are planted
08:44By the Irish
08:45To make it clear
08:46That the potatoes
08:47Have a problem
08:48We eat them
08:49And these things
08:50Were brought to Britain
08:51To feed the English
08:52While the Irish
08:53Died of hunger
08:54This famine
08:55Will create
08:56What is known
08:57As the Irish famine
08:58About 1.5 million
08:59Irish people
09:00Facing hunger
09:01Which is a big
09:02And terrible
09:03Percentage
09:04Of the immigrants
09:05Of the new world
09:06They ran away
09:07From the hunger
09:08Of the immigrants
09:09And this had
09:10A bad social impact
09:11Because of this
09:12Most of the working
09:13Forces
09:14Emigrated
09:15And left the country
09:16And left behind
09:17Smiles and families
09:18I want to tell you
09:19A surprise
09:20Imagine
09:21That one of the
09:22Grandchildren
09:23Of the Irish immigrants
09:24Who?
09:25Do you know who?
09:26The American president
09:27Joe Biden
09:28While the immigrants
09:29Are starting a new life
09:30Only 14%
09:31In the country
09:32During the 20th century
09:33Ireland
09:34Was in a bad situation
09:35Many of its people
09:36Emigrated
09:37Especially the educated
09:38Educated
09:39And trained
09:40Workers
09:41The British
09:42Ruled Ireland
09:43With an iron fist
09:44Almost everything
09:45Was calm
09:46And surrendered
09:47Until the 24th of April
09:481916
09:49When a group
09:50Called themselves
09:51The Irish Brotherhood
09:52Suddenly spread
09:53In the streets
09:54Of Dublin
09:55And controlled
09:561250 men
09:57By the government
09:58In the capital
09:59The British
10:00Announced
10:01The establishment
10:02Of a free Irish state
10:03So that the next day
10:04The British
10:05Don't call
10:06And bomb Dublin
10:07And thousands
10:08Of the British army
10:09Enter the capital
10:10And start a complete
10:11Operation of
10:12Random bombing
10:13Because of which
10:14500 people
10:15Most of them
10:16Were civilians
10:17In the 7th day
10:18The Irish Brotherhood
10:19That made this move
10:20After the destruction
10:21Of Dublin
10:22Decided to surrender
10:23In order to protect
10:24The civilians' lives
10:25The British army
10:26Says
10:27I will make you
10:28The next day
10:29After a military trial
10:30For 15 of the rebels
10:31They are shot
10:32With bullets
10:33Then
10:34The British government
10:35Starts a large-scale
10:36Arrest campaign
10:37Arresting
10:383500 Irish people
10:39From all over the country
10:40Of course
10:41Most of them
10:42Have nothing to do
10:43With the events
10:44But all of them
10:45Are arrested
10:46And most of them
10:47Go to a detainee
10:48Called Fringo Foyles
10:49Wow Abu Ahmed
10:50Thank God
10:51Now the world
10:52Is calm
10:53And Britain
10:54Concentrates
10:55On the first
10:56Operation
10:57To bring
10:58The Irish people
10:59To England
11:00And gives them
11:01The service of life
11:02To gather them
11:03Under one roof
11:04People
11:05Were coming
11:06From all over Ireland
11:07So instead of
11:08Thinking about
11:09A revolutionary organization
11:10They would
11:11Get on the trains
11:12And break
11:13No
11:14Come here
11:15Come from here
11:16Come from Dublin
11:17Come from
11:18I don't know where
11:19Let's gather
11:20And put them
11:21In one place
11:22Like a conference
11:23In fact
11:24The British prison
11:25Becomes
11:26A political party
11:27Called
11:28The Sheinfein
11:29The Sheinfein
11:30Translated in Arabic
11:31Is us
11:32The party
11:33Will take the British elections
11:34In a very natural way
11:35And behind
11:36The election banner
11:37They will spread
11:38Their ideas
11:39About independence
11:40And in the first
11:41Examination
11:42In 1917
11:43The Sheinfein
11:44Takes elections
11:45In 4 sections
11:46In a strong surprise
11:47They win all of them
11:48And now
11:49Britain
11:50Begins to pay attention
11:51And make
11:52Preliminary steps
11:53For example
11:54We close the newspaper
11:55And one of the party's
11:56Leaders
11:57Thomas Ash
11:58Decided to
11:59Resist his prison
12:00In a strange way
12:01He announces
12:02One of the first
12:03Food strikes
12:04In history
12:05And in a few days
12:06He dies in prison
12:07And his funeral
12:08Gathers a large number
12:09Of people
12:10And fires
12:1121 shots
12:12To say goodbye
12:13And then
12:14Michael Collins
12:15Presents
12:16One of the Sheinfein
12:17Leaders
12:18And says
12:19From now on
12:20These shots
12:21Will be the party's
12:22Response to everything
12:23In 1918
12:24The Sheinfein
12:25Organizes a general election
12:26In Ireland
12:27For the first time
12:28Women over 30
12:29And men over 21
12:30Get the right to vote
12:31And the big surprise happens
12:32The Sheinfein
12:33The party
12:34That is less than 2 years old
12:35Becomes the absolute majority
12:36In Ireland
12:37But this is not
12:38The only surprise
12:39In the first session
12:40Of the Irish Parliament
12:41Members of the Parliament
12:42Are refused
12:43From the Sheinfein
12:44To travel to London
12:45And attend a meeting
12:46In the English Parliament
12:47Instead
12:48They decide
12:49To go to Dublin
12:50And from there
12:51They announce
12:52The independent
12:53Republic of Ireland
12:54To form
12:55A national army
12:56To expel the English
12:57From Ireland
12:58To create
12:59One of the most famous
13:00Military organizations
13:01In history
13:02The IRA
13:03I'm sure you've heard
13:04This name a lot
13:05The Irish Republican Army
13:06The People's Army
13:07To join it
13:08With just its birth
13:09More than 100,000
13:10Irish volunteers
13:11Most of them
13:12From the educated classes
13:13To join them
13:14More than 20,000 women
13:15The biggest step
13:16Of participation
13:17For women
13:18In an armed struggle
13:19In history
13:20In 1919
13:21The Irish Republican Army
13:22Fought against
13:23The British Army
13:24The idea was simple
13:25Yes, we don't have the strength
13:26To defeat England
13:27Or even enough
13:28To make them leave our country
13:29But we can be
13:30Very painful for them
13:31So that
13:32The distance from us
13:33Is better for them
13:34Their army, my dear
13:35Wasn't a military army
13:36But a group of armed men
13:37Who fought against the British Army
13:38Simply
13:39The 100,000 volunteers
13:40All of them
13:41Had 3 guns
13:42That's why
13:43The principle was simple
13:44The idea was simple
13:45Defend quickly
13:46Make your strike
13:47And that's it
13:48And live to fight a new day
13:49Do you remember this?
13:50Do you forget the last line?
13:51After the 700 rebellions
13:52In the British Empire
13:53In Ireland
13:54They were afraid
13:55To continue their strike
13:56Despite the repeated promises
13:57From the British military leaders
13:58That they will destroy
13:59The Irish Republican Army
14:00And take many of us
14:01Within 3 weeks
14:02That means
14:03They start to show
14:04To Britain
14:05Or to us
14:06The time
14:07That the 100,000 soldiers
14:08And the 20,000 women
14:09With 3,000 guns
14:10Which they had
14:11Is a force
14:12That is very hard
14:13To defeat
14:14So then
14:15Winston Churchill
14:16Puts a plan
14:17To find in the British police
14:18Soldiers who fought
14:19In the first Cold War
14:20to form a more brutal Irish police unit, known as the Black and Tans.
14:24And Azizi puts the most famous strategies,
14:26power against power, and terrorism against terrorism.
14:29And he will make his orders, kill and torture them as much as you can.
14:32But Azizi, there is one problem,
14:33that the newcomers from the first labor war,
14:35always had clear lines of contact.
14:37The enemy is here, standing on the other side.
14:38You hit him, he hits you.
14:39But in Ireland, you don't see the enemy.
14:41You don't know who he is.
14:42Is he dressed like this, or dressed like this, or dressed like this?
14:44Today, he can hold a gun and shoot you.
14:46Tomorrow, he can stand next to you in the line of fire.
14:48Because he is a very normal citizen.
14:50The British police, in order to search for Irish soldiers,
14:53had an impossible mission.
14:55To search the houses of Irish people,
14:56house by house, looking for weapons and ammunition.
14:59And this made the hostility against the British increase.
15:01And they made them destroy the houses,
15:03and search them piece by piece.
15:04With time, the British realized that they were in big trouble.
15:07And they made them weaker and weaker.
15:09Until the 4th Zikr,
15:11with the uprising of Eid al-Fizh.
15:12We see, dear world,
15:13the first mass strike on food.
15:1650 prisoners of the Irish army,
15:18are being beaten for food.
15:20The British government says it won't negotiate.
15:21And the masses go down to block the prison.
15:23They block it peacefully,
15:24just to express their solidarity with the prisoners.
15:27And many of them, specifically,
15:28were women, civilians, peaceful people.
15:30They don't have weapons.
15:31They gather around the prison,
15:32get on their knees,
15:33and pray for the beaten prisoners.
15:35The British administration, at the time,
15:36sees a model of a social revolution.
15:38Similar to what happened in Russia in 1917.
15:40So it had to retreat,
15:42and release the beaten prisoners.
15:44But unfortunately, it was too late.
15:46Because the demands are increasing.
15:47They announce, dear world,
15:48the beating of the iron men.
15:49And the merchants stop paying taxes to the English.
15:53And instead, they give it to the Irish Revolutionary Army.
15:55Simply, we're an Irish nation,
15:57and you can't stop us.
15:58At that time, Churchill will appoint
15:59one of the most powerful British generals,
16:02known for the bombardment.
16:02He will appoint a new force,
16:04whose goal is to bring the regime back to Ireland.
16:06General Hugh Theodore.
16:08The idea is to form a military group
16:10of the British police.
16:10Their mission is to walk on the streets of Ireland.
16:12And when they see civilians,
16:13they order them to raise their hands up,
16:15and to be subjected to interrogation.
16:16And the civilians, who refuse to listen to the orders,
16:18it's a simple fear.
16:19It's a shot, either in the head or in the chest.
16:20He chooses.
16:21At that time, the streets of Ireland
16:23will turn into a square of scattered bodies.
16:25And anywhere in Ireland,
16:26will turn into a target.
16:27Animal farms,
16:28rural houses.
16:29At that time, the Irish army
16:31won't stop.
16:31They respond with a formation,
16:32known as the Flying Columns.
16:34Volunteers will form groups,
16:36leave the cities,
16:36and set up in the mountains.
16:37These people,
16:38have only one goal.
16:39To wait for the new force,
16:40which will move between the cities,
16:42and the Irish forces.
16:43And kill them in action.
16:44We'll make them into two.
16:44Dear viewers,
16:45the war of these gangs,
16:46is widespread in Ireland.
16:47And ongoing.
16:48But the truth is,
16:48that the real change that happens in the war,
16:50doesn't come from the cannons,
16:51or the clubs.
16:52But,
16:52through a poet,
16:53and an educator.
16:54And he is,
16:54Terence McSweeny.
16:55This poet,
16:56and the Irish politician,
16:57the British forces,
16:58met him,
16:58and accused him of inciting,
16:59the armed revolution.
17:01McSweeny,
17:01was a playwright.
17:02His fame,
17:03dear viewers,
17:03is international.
17:04After his sentence,
17:05McSweeny will decide,
17:06to beat up the food.
17:07The sentence,
17:08as I said,
17:08guys.
17:09And every time we meet someone,
17:10he beats up,
17:10and I'll tell you,
17:11to get out of prison.
17:12And Britain,
17:13continued its decision,
17:14and McSweeny continued,
17:15to beat up the food.
17:16To turn his sentence,
17:17into an international case.
17:18And he takes advantage of it,
17:19specifically,
17:19the Irish community,
17:21in America.
17:21To spread,
17:22and let the world know,
17:23the disaster,
17:23called,
17:24the British rule,
17:25to Ireland.
17:25Every day,
17:26McSweeny's wife,
17:27stands in front of the prison.
17:27And next to her,
17:28thousands of volunteers,
17:30are silent.
17:30They don't do anything,
17:31but pray for McSweeny.
17:32And dozens of journalists,
17:34gather with them,
17:35to follow the case.
17:35McSweeny's case,
17:36became famous,
17:36everywhere in the world.
17:37And it was published in newspapers.
17:38The whole world,
17:41will he win,
17:42and get released?
17:44Or,
17:44Britain,
17:45will let him die?
17:46And the answer,
17:47comes on October 25th,
17:481920.
17:49After 74 days,
17:50of beating up the food,
17:51McSweeny,
17:52dies.
17:52And his picture,
17:53will be in the newspaper.
17:54Remains of a man,
17:55who beat up the food.
17:57My dear audience,
17:58the whole world was shocked.
17:59Dozens of thousands,
18:00followed McSweeny's body,
18:01which became a symbol,
18:02to show the world,
18:03what Britain is doing,
18:04in Ireland.
18:04The Irish army,
18:06and the Sinn Féin party,
18:07arrived,
18:08through McSweeny's case,
18:08to a very important conclusion.
18:09That the image,
18:10and the story,
18:11are the best ways,
18:12to put pressure,
18:12on the British government.
18:13And after that,
18:14another phase,
18:15of the anti-claims.
18:16The phase,
18:17of publishing the photos of the bodies.
18:18Every crime,
18:19done by the British forces,
18:20is photographed,
18:21the bodies of the killed,
18:22or the tortured,
18:23and circulated around the world.
18:24The photos of the people,
18:24who were burned,
18:25or who were shot in the fire,
18:26circulated all over the world,
18:27and were published in the newspapers,
18:28and left the whole world,
18:29shocked.
18:29How does Britain do this?
18:31How,
18:32is the biggest empire in the world,
18:33doing this evil?
18:34Action, my dear.
18:34The first shocked,
18:35were the British,
18:37themselves.
18:37When they saw,
18:38the real face,
18:39of their government.
18:39That's when, my dear,
18:40Britain realized,
18:41that this is the end.
18:42And they say,
18:42Sir Alfred Cobb,
18:43Ireland's minister of affairs,
18:44in the British government,
18:45there is no solution,
18:46to this problem.
18:47If we want,
18:47to win the war,
18:48we have to,
18:48recruit 400,000 soldiers,
18:50and bring the Irish people,
18:51as a whole.
18:52And of course,
18:52this was an impossible task.
18:54And under the pressure,
18:54of the British public opinion,
18:55which was sympathetic,
18:56to the Irish people,
18:57and on July 15th,
18:581921,
19:00the army of the Irish people,
19:02and the British army,
19:02agreed on a treaty,
19:03so that, my dear,
19:04this war,
19:05would end.
19:06Winston Churchill,
19:06presented,
19:07the peace treaty,
19:08with Ireland.
19:09Britain,
19:09would recognize,
19:1026 Irish provinces,
19:12to form Ireland,
19:14as part of the British Commonwealth,
19:15like Australia,
19:16and Canada.
19:17They would share,
19:17the loyalty,
19:18to the British crown,
19:18but at the same time,
19:19they would rule by themselves,
19:21without the British intervention.
19:22But,
19:22in the Kingdom of Ireland,
19:23there are 6 provinces,
19:25that would remain,
19:26under the British crown.
19:27The provinces,
19:28that form,
19:28the region of Ulster,
19:29and that would form,
19:30Northern Ireland,
19:31which is still,
19:32following,
19:33directly to England.
19:34These provinces,
19:35would have nothing to do,
19:36with the new Ireland.
19:37Because, my dear,
19:37there is a new disaster,
19:38and it could be,
19:40the biggest tragedy,
19:40of all the previous disasters.
19:42The Irish army,
19:43and the Irish people's army,
19:44would be divided into two parts.
19:45One part,
19:45would completely reject,
19:46the peace treaty,
19:47and would say,
19:48not after hundreds of years,
19:49in the war against the British,
19:51would we break our loyalty,
19:52to the British crown.
19:53And then,
19:53the country would be on their side,
19:54and not after all this struggle,
19:55would the British accept,
19:56to take a part of the country,
19:57and give it to them.
19:58But,
19:58the second part,
19:59those who support the peace treaty,
20:00would say,
20:01the peace treaty,
20:02is not the best thing,
20:02but at the same time,
20:03it is the first step,
20:04to investigate our demands.
20:05The division,
20:06increases greatly,
20:07at the level of all the leaders.
20:08For example,
20:08Arthur Griffith,
20:09the founder of the Sinn Féin party,
20:11supports the peace treaty.
20:12Meanwhile,
20:13the head of the party,
20:13Mundy Valeria,
20:14rejects it.
20:15You have, for example,
20:15Michael Collins,
20:16the leader of the Irish republican army,
20:19supports the peace treaty.
20:20Meanwhile,
20:21his men,
20:21and his senior officials,
20:22reject it.
20:23The Sinn Féin,
20:24is divided,
20:24and the republican army,
20:25is divided.
20:26At least a little bit,
20:27but,
20:27it is divided.
20:28Of the 16 leaders,
20:29of the Irish republican army,
20:30only 5,
20:31support the treaty.
20:32And most of the forces,
20:33reject it.
20:33All of this, my dear,
20:34while England is watching the scene,
20:35and withdrawing with relief.
20:36After the explosion,
20:37they are watching,
20:38handing over,
20:38their military bases,
20:39to the new government.
20:40And as we can see,
20:41the difference between the parties,
20:42is growing,
20:43more and more.
20:43On April 14th,
20:441922,
20:46a group of 140,
20:48of the opposition wing,
20:49support the treaty.
20:49And they occupy,
20:504 major courts,
20:51in Dublin.
20:52And they demand the government,
20:53to be independent.
20:53And far away,
20:54from Dublin,
20:55in the countryside,
20:55the men of the IRA,
20:57continue the normal war,
20:58as if there was no agreement,
20:59or anything.
20:59And they continue,
21:00the selection processes.
21:01The British,
21:02and they,
21:02Winston Churchill,
21:03stands in the General Assembly,
21:04and says,
21:05I swear,
21:05if the new government,
21:06in Ireland,
21:07is not able to impose the system,
21:08so be it.
21:09The British are ready to work,
21:10and impose the new system.
21:11And under the British pressure,
21:12the Irish government,
21:14starts to move,
21:14to try to regain,
21:15control over the country.
21:16And indeed,
21:16on June 28th,
21:171922,
21:18the government forces,
21:20that called themselves,
21:20the Irish National Army,
21:23the Republican Army,
21:23they go,
21:24to the 4 courts,
21:25and they strike,
21:26on the former colleagues,
21:27of the Irish Republican Army,
21:29the opposition wing,
21:29of the treaty.
21:30And here, my dear,
21:31the Irish Civil War,
21:33begins.
21:33For 9 months,
21:34the Irish National Army,
21:37fights with weapons,
21:37taken from Britain,
21:38their former colleagues,
21:39from the Irish Republican Army,
21:41who, as we said,
21:42are the opposition wing.
21:43And thanks to the British army,
21:44and because this time,
21:45your enemy,
21:46is actually your old friend,
21:47who knows your secrets,
21:48the Irish National Army,
21:50can strike the Republican Army,
21:53and hold the opposition,
21:54and execute them.
21:54And in a tragic drama,
21:56the Irish Republican Army,
21:58the opposition wing,
21:59kills their former leader,
22:01and their current opponent,
22:03Michael Collins.
22:03After 9 months of fighting,
22:05the conflict,
22:06is slowly calming down.
22:06Especially,
22:07after they arrested,
22:08more than 12,000,
22:09of the Irish Republican Army,
22:11who decides to calm down,
22:13and return to the peaceful situation,
22:14to defeat,
22:15the supporters of the treaty.
22:17With the end of the Civil War,
22:19the Irish Republic,
22:20is declared,
22:21as an independent republic.
22:22It leaves,
22:23the Commonwealth of Britain,
22:24which has nothing to do,
22:25with the British crown.
22:26I was about to say,
22:26good morning,
22:27my dear.
22:27But,
22:28in Northern Ireland,
22:29which is still,
22:29under British rule,
22:31it's still the same.
22:32And even though,
22:32the Commonwealth of Britain,
22:33establishes an independent parliament,
22:35in Ireland,
22:35and establishes its own government,
22:36in Northern Ireland,
22:37but the laws,
22:38restrict those who have the right to vote.
22:40Only,
22:40those who have agricultural lands.
22:42You know, my dear,
22:42since the first episode,
22:43do you remember,
22:44who would take the agricultural lands,
22:45if they were Protestant?
22:46The Protestants!
22:47So,
22:48the Protestants,
22:49controlled Northern Ireland,
22:50and most of the public services.
22:52And unemployment,
22:53spread among the Catholics.
22:54It's true,
22:55things are still stable,
22:56but,
22:57stability,
22:57will be completely destroyed,
22:58with the 60s.
23:00Then,
23:00Northern Ireland,
23:01will be divided,
23:02into Northern Ireland,
23:04for civil rights.
23:05Those people,
23:05will have a simple request,
23:06one man,
23:07one vote.
23:07Let's not call,
23:08the Earth Party,
23:09and the Non-Earth Party,
23:09the Bani Adam,
23:10in the voice of the election.
23:11And with the end,
23:12of the United States government,
23:13in Northern Ireland,
23:14of the protests,
23:15will start, my dear,
23:15the protests of violence.
23:16And a group will be formed,
23:17which will call itself,
23:18the Irish Republican Army.
23:20With the help of the old forces,
23:22which liberated Ireland,
23:2350 years ago.
23:24And a phase will start,
23:24known as,
23:25The Troubles.
23:26Or,
23:26The Troubles.
23:27The war,
23:27wasn't a traditional war.
23:29But,
23:29acts of violence,
23:30like the bombings,
23:31or the subsequent massacres,
23:33which started in the early 70s.
23:34And in 1972 alone,
23:36the Irish Republican Army,
23:38killed no less than 100,
23:39security personnel,
23:40in Northern Ireland.
23:41And carried out,
23:42more than 1,300 bombings.
23:43And from 1969,
23:45to 1994,
23:47they killed,
23:47no less than 3,500 people.
23:49This is a very big number,
23:51because you have a country,
23:52whose population,
23:53doesn't exceed 1.5 million.
23:54And even though,
23:55this civil war,
23:55was a war,
23:56with few casualties,
23:57but at that time,
23:58the world was looking at it.
23:59How could a country,
23:59from the first world,
24:00with its rights,
24:02and freedoms,
24:03get involved,
24:03in such a violent war?
24:05After,
24:0630 years of violence,
24:07the Irish Republican Army,
24:08and the government of the United States,
24:10in Northern Ireland,
24:11reached an agreement.
24:12And in 1998,
24:13the two sides reached a peace agreement.
24:15The agreement,
24:15known as,
24:16Good Friday.
24:17Good Friday.
24:18Which ended,
24:18in the end,
24:19the violence,
24:20in Northern Ireland.
24:21And when my dear,
24:21we reach the year,
24:222022,
24:23in a huge surprise,
24:24Sinn Féin,
24:25Northern Ireland branch,
24:26wins the elections,
24:27and takes the majority of the seats.
24:28And Michelle O'Neill,
24:30becomes the first minister,
24:31in Northern Ireland.
24:32To wait for,
24:33one of Sinn Féin's promises,
24:36the election.
24:36To ask the people of Northern Ireland,
24:38in a ballot,
24:39do you agree,
24:40on the separation from Britain,
24:41and the integration to Ireland,
24:42and the declaration of the Republic of Ireland,
24:44the United?
24:45After many years,
24:46of struggle and pain,
24:47Ireland,
24:48stood by the Palestinian cause.
24:50As a result of the similarity of the two causes,
24:51with each other.
24:52Today, Ireland,
24:53considers the Israeli settlements,
24:55as illegal places.
24:56Because it considers them,
24:57as British settlements,
24:58on its land.
24:59Ireland,
24:59is the most interested country,
25:01in the issue of the Palestinian refugees.
25:03And also,
25:04on the list of foreign priorities,
25:06of Ireland,
25:07in 1967.
25:08In fact, Ireland,
25:09not only demands,
25:10the return of the Palestinian refugee,
25:11it also demands,
25:12to compensate him,
25:13for the period of his captivity.
25:13Because simply,
25:14the Palestinian captivity,
25:15is a model,
25:16similar to the Irish captivity.
25:17When millions of Irish people,
25:19were forced to leave their country,
25:20to emigrate.
25:21As a result of the hunger,
25:22and the constant persecution,
25:23by the British.
25:24Even,
25:24the symbolic division,
25:25is one division.
25:26By the way,
25:26Lord Arthur Belfort,
25:28the owner of the famous Belfort promise,
25:29is at the same time,
25:30a historical division,
25:31of the Irish people.
25:32He,
25:32who issued orders,
25:33to face the protests,
25:35of Pitchelstown,
25:36with bullets,
25:36and to kill the innocent civilians,
25:37in it.
25:38That's why,
25:39the Irish people,
25:39call him,
25:40Belfort the Bloody.
25:41Also,
25:41since 1980,
25:42Ireland has been demanding,
25:43the establishment of the Palestinian state,
25:45and the recognition of it.
25:46And this, because it,
25:46simply,
25:47denied,
25:48its power.
25:49And recently,
25:49in fact,
25:50we saw,
25:50Ireland,
25:51announcing,
25:51its recognition,
25:52of the Palestinian state.
25:53And its prime minister,
25:54in statements,
25:55he directed to the Palestinians,
25:56that this recognition,
25:57is not the end,
25:57but,
25:58the beginning.
25:58That's all, my dear.
25:59Let's not forget,
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