Word: nasserism
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...annals of history," Nasser has written, "are full of heroes who carved for themselves great and heroic roles, and played them on momentous occasions. It seems to me that in the Arab world there is a role wandering in search of a hero." Nasser volunteered to be that hero...
Teaching to Riot. So dangerously did Nasser play his game, so recklessly did he challenge the West that he was driven more and more into inextricable commitments to the Russians. Each time he said to Western diplomats: "But you forced me to do it." Doubtless he would justify his flight to Moscow last week in the same terms. The West has never figured out quite how to deal with him, having tried persuasion, flattery, gifts, threats, boycotts, bombs. Usually the West has asked of him what his ambition cannot allow. He was asked to restrain himself, which was asking...
...gambler in a hurry, Nasser has missed few tricks in conspiracy and demagoguery. Every sleazy political fugitive in Asia and Africa finds a place on his international bandwagon. He has so far converted Islam into his personal political instrument that the Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, who is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope, seems to spend much of his time looking up Koranic passages to justify Nasser's policies. Nasser's hold on the Arab unity movement is further tightened by some 3,000 Egyptian schoolteachers...
...illiterate Middle East, radio propaganda is Nasser's strongest single weapon. If he himself is no Hitler, he has a palace full of little Goebbelses. His controlled press freely advocates assassination, as did Cairo's Al Ahram last week: "Chamoun will have no better fate than that of Nuri asSaid or any other traitor who betrayed his country." And Nasser's Damascus radio shamelessly spread the lie early last week that Lebanese rebels had killed ten U.S. marines...
Gunman Diplomacy. Chanting Arab unity, impoverished, discontented people can be taught to condemn their own lawful Arab rulers as "traitors" merely for entering into agreements with "foreigners." To this persuasive passion, Nasser adds the helping hand of subversion. An Israeli statistician who has been keeping score says that since Nasser came to power, every Arab country has kicked out at least one Egyptian military attache. Such is the menace of Nasser's penetration in other countries that when the Libyans caught their Egyptian attache handing out guns last year, they passed a law expelling all North African military attaches...