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Aug 12, 2017, 4:26 PM. Egypt’s crushing defeat at the hands of Israel in the Six Day War created a crisis of confidence in the Egyptian government. Bouncing back from the depths of despair,...
The absence of any significant international reaction to the reimposition of the blockade on the Gulf of Aqaba only emboldened Nasser. In a speech to Arab Trade Unionists on 26 May, he declared his real objective: "The battle will be a general one and our basic objective will be to destroy Israel." Thank you for this initiative.
May 22, 2008 · 31 March 1961, President Nasser of Egypt in a letter to King Hussein of Jordan “I have no doubt that Your Majesty will be pleased to know that the UAR Army has been reinforced in a manner that gratifies every Arab. If Your Majesty will recall that the UAR Defence budget now comes to a figure of 120m.
Nasser's behavior in the 1967 Middle East crisis has been variously explained in terms of decision- making deficiencies, personality-related pathologies, and uncontrolled escalation. This paper argues
- Nasser Tightens His Grip in Egypt
- The Distraction
- A Twist of Fate
- Towards War
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In the absence of American aid, Nasser began to undertake a massive restructuring of Egypt’s economy that began to make his regime look more like a socialist dictatorship than the popular revolutionary government he had promised when he came to power in the 1950s. First, a Supreme Control Committee was established with a purpose ‘to keep a watch on...
A farewell meeting with American Ambassador Lucius Battle, during which Nasser rejected the possibility of any future aid negotiations, became a convenient launching pad for a renewed propaganda campaign against the US Nasser’s mouthpiece at al-Ahram, Mohamed Heikal, released a series of eight articles that critically examined American policy towar...
Then, in a twist of fate, two American workers from the Agency for International Development (AID) were arrested in Yemen on 25 April for allegedly shooting bazooka rounds into an ammunition dump.The incident was symbolic given that AID was the agency through which American foreign aid was administered. Although President Johnson’s National Securit...
On 14 May, Egyptian troops marched through the streets of Cairo and into the Sinai Peninsula. Unlike an earlier mobilisation of forces against Israel in 1960 that was quietly deployed and later withdrawn without incident, the Egyptian press covered the evolving conflict in detail, withal-Ahram noting that Egypt was ‘ready to enter the battle agains...
President Nasser’s Speech at Cairo University on 22 February 1967, FCO 39/245, The British National Archives, Kew, London [henceforth cited as TNA]. Al-Ahram, 23 February 1967, as cited in Ed. Fuad A. Jabber, International Documents on Palestine, 1967(Beirut: The Institute for Palestine Studies, 1970), p. 496 [henceforth cited as Jabber]. President...
Jun 5, 2017 · In the June 1967 war, Israel handily defeated the three Arab nations not simply because of its military prowess, but because it had something that the Arabs didn’t: the certainty and clarity...
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Nasser declared his recognition of the new government and stated that "any attack on Iraq was tantamount to an attack on the UAR". The next day American marines and British special forces landed in Lebanon and in Jordan, respectively, to prevent the two countries from opening up to pro-Nasser forces.
