Egypt is reeling because it's Islamic, which can do nothing other than what it was designed to do - destroy everything it touches, including it's own people.
Hell, they’re still angry they got kicked out of Spain 500+ years ago.
do not expect to ever have peace with such people.
Maybe if Egypt had left the Jews alone they wouldn’t have had to cry over losing.
And Israel will kick their ass again, should they try anything.
This essay claims Sadat used Islamist movements to fight leftists in Egypt. I think he’s got it reversed. Sadat used Muslim imagery to calm the troglodyte Islamist masses whose numbers had expanded massively even as the irreligious cosmopolites populating the cities were having too much fun to procreate in significant numbers. A shifting demography is why we’re now having to deal with the dominance of Islamists across the Muslim world. Could the country’s economy have been managed better under a democracy? Who knows? India was a basket case for most of the period since independence despite being a democracy. China has lapped India in economic development despite being near the bottom of the per capita GDP rankings when economic reform began in 1979.
The writer’s point is a valid one - that man does not live on bread alone. Pride is important. He suggests that when the secular military establishment that ruled Egypt was unable to properly chastise Israel in retaliation for the 1967 defeat, Egyptians turned to Allah, seeking divine intervention. I think the writer’s wrong to say that Sadat emphasized Islamism to help fight leftists. It was Islamists, not leftists, who repeatedly tried to assassinate Sadat. Sadat was merely throwing them a few crumbs to appease them. He found out, too late, that they are religious sociopaths and essentially unappeasable. I think the author of this piece also understates the effects of secular city-dwellers having far fewer children than the religious zealots out in the boondocks.
The war you started and lost was almost half a century ago. Just look at you, sitting there crying like a little wuss. I have a good mind to slap your face. Get over it, learn something new, and DO something with your lives you lazy sacks of crap.
Signed,
Japan.
1. Sadat's brilliant attack across the Suez Canal through the Bar-Lev defensive line and his subsequent repulsion of the Israeli counterattack was a significant revival of Egyptian self-esteem. It took Ariel Sharon's penetration back across the Suez Canal toward Cairo to finally end hostilities.
2. It was rabidly militant Islamists who were furious at Sadat's peace with Israel who murdered Sadat. Sadat didn't found a religious government, he was assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood and their coreligionists.
3. Gamal Abdel Nasser wasn't interested in a Republic of Egypt: he wanted to be the Great Arab Leader, hence he founded the United Arab Republic with himself as the sovereign leader.
Creative fiction is a specialty of that part of the world.
Even today, “Arab East Jerusalem” is used to obscure the fact that the millenia-old Jewish community there was murdered in 1948.