Tuesday, September 29, 2020

'Old soldiers never die–they just fade away'

 I don't know what happened to Daniels Pipes, but he seems to have been gripped by a sudden urge to tell the American people he'll ejaculate his moral syphilis into their hearts, heads and souls because it makes him feel good when he does that. He then went ahead and relieved himself of the urge.

 

He did so in the article he wrote under the title: “Anti-Zionist Gamal Abdel Nasser lives on in Egypt,” published on September 27, 2020 in The Washington Times. Pipes went on to describe Nasser's character as intimately as only his psychiatrist and fellow traveler would know him … if only what Pipes had said were true. To make the lies he piled against Nasser's character stick, Pipes had no choice but to express contempt for his readers by telling them a lie that can easily be verified. It is this: “Gamal Abdel Nasser, ruler of Egypt … during his 18 years in power, 1952-70 dominated the Middle East”.

 

Well, my friend, anyone that pretends to know Nasser as Pipes wants you to believe he does, would know that Nasser did not begin ruling Egypt until two years after King Farouk was told to abdicate. This would make it that he ruled Egypt during the 16 years (not 18) that span the period 1954-70; not 1952-70. The importance of correcting the mutilation of history committed by Daniel Pipes resides in the fact that knowledge of the historical events which unfolded during the two years 1952-54 completely contradict the description that Pipes has given of Nasser's character.

 

The truth of the matter is that Gamal Abdel Nasser was the consummate soldier who became the reluctant president of Egypt. He always conducted himself in accordance with the military code of honor, duty and service to the nation. To quote a saying by Douglas MacArthur, Nasser was one of the “Old Soldiers [that] never die–they just fade away.” Here is what transpired between 1952 and 1954 in Egypt:

 

Ruled for centuries by foreigners, the last one being a frivolous king of Albanian descent, Egypt was clamoring to see a change of the paradigm that was determining its fate; a fate that Egyptians did not like. This is what motivated Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser to plan a bloodless change of the system of governance from monarchic to republican. Nasser did not think of himself high enough in ranking to go tell King Farouk to abdicate the throne. Instead, he asked his colleague General Mohammed Naguib to head the delegation that eventually went to the king and asked him to abdicate and leave the country.

 

Naguib did exactly that, and Farook's son Fouad II ruled Egypt as a “ceremonial” king for a few months during which time the appropriate protocols were put in place to turn Egypt into a republic. This happened in 1953. During that Time, Mohammed Naguib served as Prime Minister. But when Egypt became a republic, he became its first “caretaker” President and held office till April 1954 when Nasser took over.

 

Nasser saw that Egypt's immediate need was to tame the unpredictable Nile that was bringing floods in some years and droughts in other years since before antiquity to the land of Egypt. The way to tame the river was to build a dam at Aswan, thus regulate the flow of the Nile. Since it was decided that this was going to be done, might as well build a hydro power station and give Egypt two extra gigawatts of power that will serve as kernel for the country's effort to rejoin the Industrial Revolution.

 

Yes, that was to rejoin the Industrial Revolution because Egypt had become a part of the original Industrial Revolution when, at the same time as Britain, and before the rest of Europe, Egypt became the second nation to have a railway system. It was to be extended to Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, and from there to the rest of Africa so as to do peaceful commerce with the rest of the Continent.

 

Unfortunately, the rivalries in Europe between the nations that were now producing guns and bleeding each other like savages, decided to turn their savage energies against the nations that did not have guns to protect themselves. The latter were in Africa and Asia, and that's where the warring Europeans ceased killing each other and went looking for easy prey in other parts of the World. Instead of becoming partner with Europe, Egypt became a prey like the others. Two components of the European colonial scheme for the Middle East were the Sykes-Picot plan to redraw the borders of the Levant nations, and the implantation of a Jewish entity in the heart of the Arab world.

 

Because Nasser was preoccupied with building Egypt to where it would have been had there not been a colonial interruption, he did not care about Israel. He only began to pay attention when the Jews pressured America to pressure the World Bank to deny Egypt a loan to build the Aswan dam and hydroelectric station. And of course, he could not ignore the 1956 invasion of the Suez Canal zone by the two colonial powers, Britain and France who brought Israel with them to show it how to plan and execute savage sorties so as to disrupt the lives of its neighbors, thus create demonic chaos in the region.

 

Because of his confidence in the tenacity of the Egyptian people, Nasser stood up to the colonial powers of the day, and this earned him the admiration to the Arab World, the Non-Aligned World, and the Third World that was still fighting to liberate itself. Nasser did not seek to be loved by these people, they loved him unconditionally because of the content of his character.

 

Now my friend, read the Daniel Pipes article, and you'll be able to spot the contradictions that will tell you this man is both ignorant and a lying devil. Once you've established this reality to your satisfaction, ask yourself one question: Does this Jew ever read the Bloomberg News publication or does he not? If he does, he would know that Bloomberg has become a fan of Egypt's economic performance.

 

After all, now that most countries are registering negative growth, Egypt is registering robust positive growth. And this repeats the performance of a dozen years ago when the near-depression that was created by W. Bush sent the economies of the world into a tailspin, whereas Egypt kept registering positive growth quarter after quarter.

 

Come to think of it, the people of Egypt have Nasser to thank for this performance because it was the choices that he made, and the reactions of his enemies that put Egypt on the path to becoming an economic powerhouse.