Word: nasserism
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...misfortune of contemporary history is that any leader who tries to establish Arab unity in his own lifetime seems driven to make anti-Western emotion his main tool, and the more frenetic his outcry the more successful he is likely to be. Such is the destiny of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Arab in Western clothes...
...Sudan. Two years ago an Egyptian embassy "messenger" was convicted of trying to assassinate Iraqi leaders. Last year an Egyptian colonel named Ali Khashaba organized and financed a plot to kill Saudi Arabia's King Saud. Last week the U.S. Government published a sheaf of intelligence reports of Nasser's doings in Lebanon, where Moslem rebels have been getting instructions by open telephone wire from Damascus. Items...
...overriding is the appeal of Arab unity, and so inflammatory is Cairo's radio propaganda, that Nasser probably has little need to spend vast sums on paid agents to keep things popping. He can often leave it to local plotters to do the dirty work-as he may have done in Iraq -providing them with arms, money and technical advice when needed. But Nasser is an inveterate instigator, and the plot against Jordan, which King Hussein broke up at the last moment by arresting 60 army men, was entirely directed from Cairo. Washington is pretty sure that Nasser...
Flood Tide. For a long time the West was divided and confused in its response to Nasser. It recognized justice in Arab resentment against past foreign domination; it felt sheepish about some of its Arab allies (though few are as feudal as Nasser's partner, the Imam of Yemen, and Nasser himself has yet to allow democracy). The West has incurred Arab hate by its Israeli policy. It also acknowledged Nasser's genuine popularity, and hesitated to risk a showdown. With Iraq's abrupt fall, there was no longer a peaceful balance of tensions in the Middle...
...Suez, not one ruler pledged to the West remained in power last week except by the presence of Western troops. Whatever existing boundaries might be, there was no blinking the fact: the most elemental force in the Middle East is the unifying passion of Al Umma al Arabia, and Nasser symbolizes...