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...given money lavishly to the other nations, drawing on Libyan oil revenues, which now reach $2 billion annually. What Gaddafi got for his money is still uncertain. The last union between Egypt and Syria, which lasted from 1958 to 1961, ended unhappily because Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser dominated it. Even Arabs doubt, therefore, that the new union will ever become absolute...
...Israelis realize full well that their relative strength has increased during the past year, if only because of the setbacks suffered by the Arabs. Two events overshadow all the others in the Arab world: the death of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arabs' only supranational leader, and the crushing by Jordan's King Hussein of the Palestinian guerrillas who long operated freely within his country's borders. Only last month, in a continuing display of disunity, Syria and Iraq closed their borders with Jordan in protest against Hussein's routing of the guerrillas...
That has been true from the first. In the early 1920s, Moscow was on excellent terms with Turkey's Kemal Atatürk. But this did not prevent Atatürk from killing off the leading Communists in his country. Egypt's late Gamal Abdel Nasser accepted Soviet money, advice and, in some areas, decisionmaking. But in 1959 he clapped hundreds of Communists into prison. Throughout the Middle East, the Communist Party is legal only in Lebanon-and, ironically, Israel. In Sudan, where it is technically banned but has operated openly, its continued existence is now threatened...
Shortly afterward, the head of Sudan's Communist Party was also found guilty of treason. Abdel Khalek Mahgoub denied that he had advance knowledge of the plot. Again Numeiry stepped in to play prosecutor. He held up a sheet of paper listing Cabinet choices in a post-Numeiry government and asked Mahgoub if the handwriting were his. The Communist leader admitted that it was. The military court quickly found Mahgoub guilty of treason and hanged...
Arabs applauded after the Libyan coup when Gaddafi expelled 25,000 Italian coloni, ousted U.S. and British military forces, converted the Catholic Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus to the Mosque of Gamal Abdel Nasser (with Gaddafi's picture plastered on the crucifix), nationalized foreign banks, and squeezed higher royalties out of 36 foreign oil companies...