A Question of Arab Unity - Disillusion - 03 Mar 08 - Pt.1

Video Title :	A Question of Arab Unity - Disillusion - 03 Mar 08 - Pt.1
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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Keywords, Tags :	Arab Unity Episdoe al jazeera aljazeera Nasser
Video Length :	11 : 28

Comments :

i dream that one day there will be a sovereign country called " Arabia "

The Arab League is involved in political, economic, cultural, and social programs designed to promote the interests of its member states. Fucking shits Somalia is in the arab league because of economic and cultural reasons. Yes, Somalis do have arab roots but now we are simply Somalis, not Arabs. And ELHAJAJI is arabs are so good, they would of freed Palestine, helped Iraq, Sudan and Lebanon. So fuck you!

Arabism is dead. There is no such thing as arab unity. The only uniting factor that is still a possibility is Islam and only Islam.

I send my love to all saudis and egyptians except their kings and Hosni Mubarak.. I SEND MY LOVE TO MY ARAB BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

Fuck Egypt they are not part of our arab world they are just poor beggers Egyptians are shit and they should stick to their shithole and take their stupid Egyptians out of our rich countries , stupid poor masrijin

Saudiroyal<< how can you saudi dare talk about our brothers in Egypt,ITS YOUR FUCKING KINGS WHO ARE NOT A PART OF OUR BRAVE ARABIC WORLD,we arabs love eache other and respect eache other,you people are shame to the arabs see how dirty your kings are,real dirty,I dont saying you but your kings are a shame so before talking about egypt remove your kings.People are not good just becuse they have money,,, the greatness is how you behave and how you think, not how rich or poor

WE the khaleejis are better than all of you worthless stupid poor arabs,. its a shame for u to be an arab. go away u poor dumb egyptian donkey and leave our lands

i am a saudi and i say proudly FUCK YOU i am saudi and i am proud but i am an ARAB first SAUDI second :) and you ought to thankx the egyptions for the help they gave us when we had no oil i am ashamed from you dont listen to this cunt

You are a stupid shelh. Morocco is an Arab country.

I am an Arab Moroccan and Morocco is Arab. Berbers are minority in Morocco and many of them are mixed with Arabs.