A Question of Arab Unity - Disillusion - 03 Mar 08 - Pt. 2

Video Title :	A Question of Arab Unity - Disillusion - 03 Mar 08 - Pt. 2
Description :	By the late 1950s, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's president, was the Arab world's most powerful and influential leader. With his own brand of socialist ideology and political victories he impressed and inspired the Arabs, giving a new meaning to Arab Nationalism. But Nasser's very success, begged the question -- does unity need a collective effort or could the Arab Nation be built by a single leader? Nasser's drive for unity with Syria would answer that question. Pan Arabists promised that the fusion would bring liberation, stability and prosperity. But in the hands of actual practitioners it seemed to be converted to a tool of domination, wielded in this case by the Egyptians over the Syrians. Disillusion set in. In the end, it was the fragile United Arab Republic that suffered. The merger of Nasser and the Baath turned into a struggle for control within the camp of Arab Nationalism. The union did not release the pent-up potential that only the combining of Egypt and Syria could tap. In the meantime Nasser had come under increasing pressure to confront Israel. Arab leaders began doubting his sincerity in defending Palestine, the cause he claimed to support. Counting heavily on Arab support, Nasser's stated his intention to attack Israel, although militarily stretched to the breaking point with a large part of Egypt's army fighting in Yemen. The Arab Defence Pact was put to the test in 1967, in what became known as the Six Day War. In a pre-emptive strike on June 5, Israel destroyed most of Egypt's air force on the ground. Arabs refer to the Six Day War as the Naksa -- the Defeat. The Arab Defence Pact failed, Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine was occupied and Syria lost the Golan Heights. Nasser was humiliated. The military defeat of 1967 showed lack of coordination among Arab states, Arab land was lost, the common enemy was victorious and it served a big blow to Arab self confidence. In this episode we look at what is left of Nasserism and discuss the implications of the defeat of 1967 which worked its way deep into the collective Arab psyche. Two voices were raised in opposition to Arab nationalism. One spoke the language of allegiance to individual states. The other spoke of loyalty to a universalist Islam.
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Rating :	4.64
Keywords, Tags :	Arab Unity Disillusion al jazeera aljazeera Gamal Abdel Nasser Nationalism
Video Length :	11 : 26

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The greatest obstacle to out unity and invincibility are the spineless leaders of today. InshaAllah, we will continue to witness more great leaders like Gamal Abdel-Nasser.

. As Rumi said,"If you planted roses,roses grew,if you planted thorns,thorns grew!"

Arab unity is th eonly way.

i know chinese people that can speak arabic, are they arabs? loool.

I am glad you made a distinction between Blacks and niggers. I am a yemeni. And to read this at a time when ALL Arabs,muslims, even Christian Arabs, are being profiled racially and live abroad under the gaze of hateful eyes just looking for excuses to attack us. Arabs today are a mixture.Invaders we took our race into spain. Invaded ethiopia and europe added to this. And did not our prophet pbuh encourage intermarriage? and how did he say can anyone claim preference be he araby or 3ajami?

No need to get racist. It neither helps Arabs nor Muslims.

This nigger -as you call me- asks: what criteria makes a RACE? Pleas tell me the genetic makers?

well an arab is someone who descends from qahtan or adnan. So arabs have a forefather. you have not been to yemen nor have u met yemenis so dont talk about us. second, somalis and blacks are africans not arabs, however they do live in arab countries as REFUGEES and they were slaved by arabs. I now hope u understand.

Ok, let's just take that bullshit as truth. Now WHAT IS AN ARAB SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE? Try answering that one buddy. Now, all one has to do is Youtube Yemen and one can see that it looks like East Africa! Your claims of nigger this and nigger that is like the Sudanese saying that they are arab and not African. Yemen and Africa have shared history and people. Is it a wonder why Yemen one of the porrest countries in the world?