Gamal Abdel Nasser

My recent book is about it.

Between 1961 and 1967, Nasser tried to prevent war against Israel because he realized he's not prepared.

And then radicals in the Arab world, in Syria particularly, more radical than Nasser himself, used the mechanisms that Nasser produced in order to control Arab public opinion, to force Nasser to go to a war where he knew he cannot win.

We have today Jordan of today.

Jordan exists thanks to Israel, also on an everyday basis because the water Israel gives Jordan beyond what we are committed to is tremendously important for Jordan.

Yes, under British tutelage, but it was a multi-party system.

And you could say, based on the 1920s, just let it develop.

And then in 1955-56, It was as if somebody brought poison into the roots of the Egyptian society and Gamal of the Nasser became the most prominent and the most charismatic leader the Arabs have ever had.

Britain and France will issue their ultimatum on the 30th.

NASA will refuse.

On the 31st will begin the airstrikes and then the ground invasion.

They sign the agreement.

It's about strengthening the weakest point in the line against communism.

So you see how the rationale keeps slightly shifting.

Remember, NASA was the new Mussolini at one point.

Now it's about communism.

He was responsible for the coup against democracy in Guatemala in the 1950s.

but he at that point came to Eden at the time of the tripartite aggression against Abdel Nasser's Egypt and said to Britain that they have to pull out and if they don't pull out then Britain won't be able to get the loan from the IMF that they need to stop the collapse of the power and so When Callaghan, if we fast forward to the 76, took the loan from the IMF, what that meant is that the IMF, whenever a state takes loans from it, they come forward and have these SAPs, so these structural adjustment projects, whereby they say, okay, this element of your state function needs to be privatized.

This element of state function needs to be privatized.

And so what happened was you had, you know, while Thatcher and Reagan were the implementers of neoliberalism from the political class.

Now what followed that period was a campaign of bombs placed in positions of importance to Jewish people from synagogues to cafes in Baghdad.

Now, the United States, the Brits and the Iraqis had a consensus that the cause of this campaign was Zionist mercenaries.

It was not completely different from a campaign that was later launched in the 50s in Egypt by Levon, who was the Minister of Defense in Israel, against the Abdel Nasser government in order to cause a wedge between Egypt and the United States at that point.

So there are those that say it's very clear that the people responsible for this campaign in Iraq at the time, in order to encourage people to leave, was the Zionist secret service, really, at that time.