Word: nasser
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...voice was subdued, grim, with none of the usual flamboyant confidence. From his little office in ex-King Farouk's boathouse on the Nile, Gamal Abdel Nasser appealed to 22½ million Egyptians. His words carried also to an enormous Arab audience from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, from Casablanca to Basra...
...Today we face British cunning with a single, united stand," said Nasser...
...reported along the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s 556-mile pipeline to the Mediterranean. Saboteurs may have acted on their own. At least, none of the oil-producing or oil-transmitting Arab nations officially ordered the sabotaging of oil installations. They seemed well aware that they, as well as Nasser's enemies, would be hurt by such destruction...
Unhelpful Allies. For all of Nasser's vaunted Arab nationalism, the most remarkable feature of the Arab world's reaction to the invasion was, in fact, the failure of the dictator's allies to rush to his help with much besides talk. Morocco and Tunisia proclaimed themselves on Nasser's side. So did Saudi Arabia. Iraq's rulers denounced Britain's "aggression." But this Baghdad Pact partner of the British was racked by conflicting emotions -secret satisfaction at seeing its chief Arab rival in trouble, open hatred for Israel. Syria-presumably Nasser...
...eleven days later Israeli armed forces carried out a smash ing raid on the Gaza Strip, in reprisal for acts of individual Palestinian refugees who had crossed the border to their former holdings. This was a turning point, not only for Israel but the Middle East. Egypt's Nasser has since justified a large part of his belligerent actions on the basis of that sudden, crunching blow. "Until Feb. 28, 1955," he once said, "I felt that the possibility of real peace was near. The borders between Israel and Egypt had been quiet since 1952, and I felt...