Word: nasserism
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...countrymen participated in their freest parliamentary elections in more than 30 years, Mubarak's National Democratic Party took 73% of the vote, winning 390 of 448 elected seats. The Wafd, a 65-year-old party that was banned under Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1953, re-emerged five months ago as the New Wafd party. It obtained 58 seats, more than any other opposition group has held in three decades. Said New Wafd Assistant Secretary General Noman Gomaa: "We are happy not because of the seats we have gained, but because we have made the country feel that we exist...
...subjected to centuries of discrimination and sometimes outright persecution unmatched even by Israel's treatment of the West Bank Arabs. If Israel does in fact hale its neighbors, such antipathy certainly cannot be labelled blind. There are still far too many who echo the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser's infamous pledge to drive the state of Israel into the Mediterranean Sea, a vehemence unmatched by any Israeli head of state of state past of present...
...distributed by Columbia Pictures. Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents are often Pakistani rather than Egyptian; some of the garb worn is found in Morocco, not Egypt; Nasser is shown kissing Sadat's wife, an abominated Westernism. Moreover, to the Egyptians the film seems to tilt inaccurately toward Menachem Begin in awarding credit for the Egyptian-Israeli accords. Nonsense, counters Sadat Producer Daniel Blatt. The real reason for the ban lies in the shifting sands of Egyptian...
...then there's 1956, and Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal, effectively cutting Israel off from a major supply route. Taking this to be an act of war, Israel crossed the Sinai to free the canal (with American, French, and British help). Clearly, this, too, is blind, naked aggression. Why Should the Israelis be allowed to trade with other countries, anyway...
...with so many countries born in the past 40 years, Syria's modern history has been a saga of coups and countercoups. In 1958 Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser merged his country with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, but the union lasted only 3½ years. In 1963 the Arab Socialist Resurrection (or Baath) Party overthrew President Nazem Koudsi and seized power in Damascus...