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Nasser helped establish the [[Non-Aligned Movement]] of developing countries in September 1961, and continued to be a leading force in the movement until his death in 1970. When the United States held up military sales in reaction to Egyptian neutrality vis-à-vis [[Soviet Union|Moscow]], Nasser concluded an arms deal with [[Czechoslovakia]] in September 1955.
Nasser helped establish the [[Non-Aligned Movement]] of developing countries in September 1961, and continued to be a leading force in the movement until his death in 1970. When the United States held up military sales in reaction to Egyptian neutrality vis-à-vis [[Soviet Union|Moscow]], Nasser concluded an arms deal with [[Czechoslovakia]] in September 1955.
Egypt under Nasser became a hub for Ex [[Nazis]]. Hundreds of Nazis found a home there.
The [[Grand Mufti]] also facilitated <ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/ex-mufti-brought-van-leers-to-egypt-german-authorities-believe Ex-mufti Brought Van Leers to Egypt, German Authorities Believe], ''JTA'', Aug 30, 1956</ref><ref>Elie Conaim and Maya Karlin, [https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/02/14/mufti-of-jerusalem-holocaust-museum-exhibits/ Has mufti of Jerusalem earned his place in Holocaust museum exhibits], ''ILH'', 2022.</ref><ref>Lyn Julius, [https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-802262 The Nazi-Arab alliance: A neglected aspect of Holocaust education], ''JPost'', May 23, 2024</ref> [[Johann Von Leers]] to come, he continued his polemic [[Anti-Semitism]] he did for [[Goebbels]]. Indeed, he became Nasser's aide. Converted to [[Islam]].<ref name=spectator202>Justin Marozzi, [https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-nazi-influence-in-egypt/ The Nazi influence in Egypt], ''The Spectator'', Aug 6, 2022.<blockquote><small>
Johann von Leers, a key Nazi propagandist and ideologue, honorary Sturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS and a baby-faced anti-hero of Nazis on the Nile. An acolyte of Joseph Goebbels, this was a man who dashed off 27 hate-filled books, including Jewry and Knavery, Blood and Race and Jews are Looking at You, between 1933 and the end of the war.
Having spent several years spewing out anti-Semitic propaganda in Juan Perón’s regime in Argentina, in 1956 von Leers relocated to Cairo, where he served as a political adviser and anti-Israel propagandist for Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt’s firebrand president, until 1965. When a Toronto Star journalist ferreted him out in his office in the ministry of national guidance in 1956, after a few nervous moments the unrepentant Nazi revealed his true self, launching into tirades against American Jews, Zionist-driven press attacks on Nasser and his uncompromising position on the new Jewish state. ‘Israel is abnormal,’ he told the newspaperman. ‘It must go. It causes trouble.’ Like several of his compatriots, he later converted to Islam, and changed his name to Omar Amin.</small></blockquote></ref>
When the U.S. and the [[World Bank]] withdrew their offer to help finance the [[Aswan High Dam]] in mid-1956, Nasser nationalized the privately owned Suez Canal Company. The crisis that followed, exacerbated by growing tensions with Israel over [[guerrilla]] attacks from Gaza and Israeli reprisals, resulted in the invasion of Egypt that October by [[France]], [[Britain]], and Israel. Israel occupied the [[Sinai Peninsula]] while the canal was in the hands of the France and Britain, but all withdrew under U.S. pressure.
When the U.S. and the [[World Bank]] withdrew their offer to help finance the [[Aswan High Dam]] in mid-1956, Nasser nationalized the privately owned Suez Canal Company. The crisis that followed, exacerbated by growing tensions with Israel over [[guerrilla]] attacks from Gaza and Israeli reprisals, resulted in the invasion of Egypt that October by [[France]], [[Britain]], and Israel. Israel occupied the [[Sinai Peninsula]] while the canal was in the hands of the France and Britain, but all withdrew under U.S. pressure.