Word: nasserism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is nothing to justify pinning the badge of courage on Hussein. On the eve of the Arab-Israeli war, Hussein cringingly entered into a military alliance with his archfoe Nasser. The basis for this groveling was Hussein's miscalculation that Egypt this time would surely annihilate Israel, in which event Nasser would emerge as the supreme master of Arabia. Hussein figured that he had better end his hostility with his master-to-be. This does not show courage; instead, it shows sniveling opportunism...
...privately pleaded for some sort of accommodation with Israel-but got nowhere with his fellow Arabs. After he flew home to Amman, the leaders of the Arab left all converged on Cairo; Syria's Noureddin Attassi, Iraqi Strongman Abdel Aref and Sudanese President Ismail el Azhari joined Nasser and Boumediene for two days of nonstop talks in ornate Kubbeh Palace...
Among such irrational hawks as Aref and Boumediene, Nasser sounded almost like a dove. He counseled against a renewal of fighting with Israel, the skirmishing at Suez notwithstanding, until the Arabs were rearmed and united-a condition that is not imminent. Nasser realizes, however, that he cannot coo too loudly without running the danger of being brushed aside as leader of the Arab left by someone like Boumediene. Even the most hawkish leader at the Cairo conference must have known deep down a horrifying thing: that if full-scale fighting broke out again, the Israeli army could undoubtedly occupy Cairo...
...failure to catch up has been projected into hatred of dynamic Israel and all the "Western" attitudes it represents. In the Arab case, self-contempt has not been a goad to positive achievement, as it sometimes can be, but rather to self-destruction. Today it is often forgotten that Nasser's 1952 revolution began as the most promising event in modern Arab history. Here was a completely secular government devoid of Islamic hobbles, one that stopped barefoot wretches from sleeping in the Cairo streets and moved them into high-rise apartments. Here was a leader who asserted that...
...first amused by the reaction to the buttons. The statement that they were merely a joke was given all the credence given to Nasser's generals. The Summer News adopted the phrase to embody all the ills of the school; once an editorial even imputed that the Administration, through its parietal rules, was in sympathy with what the Summer News had made of the phrase. Sales of the buttons rose, but the buttons themselves disappeared; if they were ever worn by the people who bought them in droves, they were worn only in bed. It became almost fashionable to have...