Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many years, the best friend and trusted confidant of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser was the chief of his armed forces, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer. But the two had a serious falling out after Egypt's disastrous defeat by Israel in June, and in September, while under house arrest for allegedly plotting a military coup, Amer either committed suicide-the official version of his death -or was killed. After his death, intelligence agents of another Arab state obtained in Cairo a 14-page document said to be Amer's last testament. Though the Middle East makes...
...that is, perverse in a flip, hippie sort of way. This translates into articles like the one Peretz calls "the most carefully selective and skewed history of the conflict to come from any source save possibly the propaganda machines of the respective parties." The article "occasionally takes note of Nasser's calculating politics," says Peretz, but "settles the burden of tragic events squarely on Israel." All of this fits what Peretz says has become the New Left's Middle East dogma: that "Israel and Israel alone must bear the blame for the past and the responsibility...
...Moscow for the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Abdullah Sallal, the President of Republican Yemen, stopped off in Cairo to see his erstwhile benefactor, Gamal Abdel Nasser. He could hardly have expected a warm reunion. Nasser had grown tired of propping up the unpopular Sallal, whose refusal to make peace with the Yemeni Royalists had cost him the support of even his own followers. Even so, Sallal was unprepared for the reception he got. In a brief and chilly meeting, Nasser advised him to resign and go into exile...
Sallal refused to take Nasser's advice; moreover, he declined to heed the implicit warning. Instead of returning home to fight for his job, he flew off to Baghdad, hoping to round up support from other Arab Socialist friends. Hardly had his plane left the runway of Cairo Airport, when Nasser fired off a cable to the Yemeni capital at San'a. The cable did not actually tell the Republican army to overthrow Sallal, but it instructed Egyptian troops still in Yemen not to block a coup-just in case the army might be planning...
...army immediately turned over power to a Republican Council of three civilians-ex-Premier Ahmed Mohammed Noman, 65, and former Acting Presidents Abdul Rahman Iryani, 67, and Mohammed Ali Othman, 65. All three had recently returned to Yemen after a year of political imprisonment in Cairo, where Nasser had held them at Sallal's behest for demanding peace talks with the Royalists. Speaking for the triumvirate, Iryani made it clear that the new regime intended to get together with the Royalists. He pardoned more than 3,000 political prisoners, called a conference of all major Republican tribes to discuss...