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'''Gamal Abdel Nasser''' (January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) served as president of [[Egypt]] from 1954-1970. Nasser is considered the father of racist Arabism<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/panarabism/ Arabism = racism]</ref> / ''Pan-Arab'' [[socialism]].
'''Gamal Abdel Nasser''' (January 15, 1918 – September 28, 1970) served as president of [[Egypt]] from 1954-1970. Nasser is considered the father of racist Arabism<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/panarabism/ Arabism = racism]</ref> / ''Pan-Arab'' [[socialism]].
==WWII==
During [[World War II]], Gamal Abdel Nasser served as an Egyptian army officer. While his primary military duty involved guarding Nile bridges and teaching at the Cairo Royal Military Academy, he and his associates (which included [[Anwar Sadat]]) covertly established the foundational cells of the ''Free Officers'' movement, actively plotting against British, to help the [[Axis]].
In a 1964 interview to a neo-Nazi publication, Nasser said<ref>Arnoni, M. S. (1968). Rights and Wrongs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: To the Anatomy of the Forces of Progress and Reaction in the Middle East. United Kingdom: Minority of One Press, pp.61-63 [https://books.google.com/books?id=stRtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Placed%20on%20Hitler%22]
(Chapter II : From the history of Arab Nationalism)
<blockquote><small>
The relevance of the political quality of Arab nationalism to the present international dispute was underlined by the Syrian President, Dr. Nureddin el-Attassi, when, in the process of addressing the emergency session of the U.N. General Assembly on June 20, 1967, he fount it profitable to state: 'the Arabs fought both World Wars and contributed to the liberation of Europe from Nazism and the realization of Allied victory.'
Relevant as is this general subject, Dr. el-Attassi did not let historic fact inhibit his imagination.
Otherwise he might have recalled that his own kinsman and a predecessor in the Syrian presidency, Hashim el-Attassi, not only congratulated the pro-Nazi rebels in Baghdad in 1941, but also called on all Syrians to help the revolt prevail. (Which, incidentally, did not disqualify him from another, post-war, term as President of Syria.) He might also have reminded us that Syria as well as Egypt l, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon did not declare war on Nazi Germany until February 1945, when her defeat had practically been accomplished. They acted only days before March 1, 1945, which was the deadline for the status of belligerent ...against the Axis required for membership in the United Nations and participation in its founding conference in San Francisco. (Just the same , the gesture was to be paid for with the life of the Egyptian responsible for it , Prime Minister Ahmed Maher, who was assassinated by the Moslem Brother-hood.)
But the Arab record vis-a-vis the Nazis was not merely one of passivity. On the contrary, throughout the Arab world, hopes had been placed on Hitler, not only because he was an enemy of the British enemy, but also because the ideology and temperament of Nazism were in many ways attractive the Arabs. Already in the 1930's John Gunther found that "Hitler is tremendously popular with the Arabs.... the greatest contemporary Arab hero is—Adolf Hitler."
In a work outstanding for its dcholarship and based on documentation drawn from official German and Arab sources, Lukasz Hirszowicz writes:
'The Arab leaders did not conceal their antipathy to France, their distrust of England and their preference for Germany, even in conversations with the Consul- General of the United States. They did not regard the war in Europe as a misfortune; they pinned their hopes on its weakening the Western Powers... True, certain public figures in Syria, and particularly in Lebanon, held a different point of view, but they were rather isolated in Muslim circles.'
Robert St. John, the renowned correspondent, author and biographer, wrote a sympathetic biography of President Gamal Abdel Nasser after numerous conversations with him and his intimate friends. In it he throws light not only on Nasser's personal attitude toward the Nazis but also on the Egyptian attitude generally:
'The pro-Axis sympathies of most Egyptians at this time were not based alone on the conviction that the Germans and Italians were going to win the war. Nor alone on the Arab proverb: "He who is the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The ideology of the two totalitarian powers was ready-made for a country like Egypt. It reassured the wealthy pashas and beys who were amassing fortunes out of the war and wanted to keep their money. But at the same time the mumbo jumbo of the "socialism" they dispensed fascinated the masses of the poor, the ignorant, and those easily taken in by slogans. There was something in it for every Egyptian. Military men such as young Lieutenant Nasser were impressed by the might of the Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe, by the military genius that had so quickly brought about the fall of Warsaw, Copenhagen, Oslo, Brussels, Paris. Athens, Belgrade.'
Nasser himself has confirmed his biographer's impression of his sentiments. In an interview he granted to and had published on the front-page of the notorious neo-Nazi German weekly Deutsche National Zeitung und Soldaten Zeitung, on May 1, 1964, the UAR President was quoted as saying:
'During the Second World War our sympathies were with the Germans. The mobs in the streets of Cairo were jubilantly shouting, "Rommel! Rommel! Rommel." '
In Nablus, Palestine, crowds were receiving British troops with shouts of "Heil Hitler!"
In the streets of Damascus, Homs, Aleppo, a song was heard:
Bala Missou,
bala Mister Bissama Allah,
oria alard Hitler.
(No more Monsieur, no more Mister In heaven Allah, on earth Hitler.)
Nasser and the Axis.
But the Arabs served Nazi Germany not only with ballads and Hitler salutes. In Arab country after Arab country power plays were taking place in attempts to align them with Germany and / or Italy..</small></blockquote></ref>:
<blockquote>During the Second World War our sympathies were with the Germans. The mobs in the streets of Cairo were jubilantly shouting, "Rommel! Rommel! Rommel.</blockquote>
==Coup==
==Coup==