Facts on the anniversary of the departure of Abdel Nasser & Al-Aqsa Intifada

Written by Nasser Kandil,

For forty five years ago on this day, the most prominent man in the history of the contemporary Arab has departed us, through the influence which he has left in the hearts of the Arab people and in the Arab and international politics, and what was aroused about him as a phenomenon of controversy, and how his experience in leading and ruling has presented a matter of discussion. This man is certainly the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, moreover for fifteen years ago on this day the Palestinians have come out in the brightest and purest uprising that the Arabs made in the contemporary history, it is  unequivocal, and there is no doubt about its premises, goals, and the destination of its compass, its pure popular character, or its expression of the collective conscience of the nation either the nation was Syrian, Arab, or Islamic in the definition of who is talking about, this event is the blessed Intifada of the Palestinian people to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque.

It is logical and a duty of all Arabs with the diversity of backgrounds, beliefs, approaches and attitudes to greet these two occasions. Many mixtures have flowed in the Arab and the Palestinian drain which permits of resolving many debates and controversies, clarifying more ambiguities, and having lessons that cannot be neglected after all of what has happened of events and variables.

The history has done justice to Abdel Nasser as well as to Al-Intifada, Abdel Nasser has devoted his life to present an example of the leaders who put the integrity and the ethics as criteria for practicing the politics, his death proved his credibility in this field, after ten years there is no doubt or an ambiguity in the nature of the austere ascetic life which Abdel Nasser has lived as an example of leaders whom the nation is in need of. It is possible for any Arab citizen to start judging on the credibility of any leader to practice the public affairs on the basis of his compliance to the life and behavioral controls, which Abdel Nasser has provided an example about. He has presented as well an example of the leader who is dedicated in his speech, and the extent of his feeling of responsibility, which is shown in his daily schedule that starts from the early morning to meet new dawn hours with a little bit of comfort, food, and sleeping where there is no place for luxury in it, therefore the moment of announcing his stepping down of the presidency after the defeat of 1967 was an example of the commitment to the strict standards of questioning and accountability that is missed in the Arab politics to the extent that the talking about the resignation of an official in a rank less important than the presidency is a confession of the responsibility of a failure or an unachieved dream after a disaster.

At the political level, the history has done justice to Gamal Abdel Nasser first, by making Palestine a compass, where there is no future for the concept of the national and the patriotic security of any Arab country if this compass is missed, second, by devoting the national independence as a criterion of power and a condition to talk about a development, democracy, or a modernity of a regime. These are the summaries and the outputs of the Arab Spring which resolve all confusion about this fact. By the duality of Palestine and the independence it is possible to repeat any slogans of Abdel Nasser, such as what was taken by force, can only be restored by force too, or that the Palestinian revolution has been found to remain and will remain, or there will not be any reconciliation, negotiation, or confession, or raise your head my brother the era of colonialism has passed away.

Concerning the experiences of Abdel Nasser the history has resolved clear answers in favor of Abdel Nasser in the choice of the permanent preparation of the war against Israel, the strategic alliance with Russia, the nationalization of the national wealth as Suez Canal and oil, the investment of building generating economy, and adopting the choice of the welfare state. while the history has determined dual summaries toward the experiences which each one of them has become a subject of confusions and discussions, as the two experiences of the unity with Syria and the war in Yemen. It was certain that the romantic approach of the unity produces something that is contrary to the wishes and hopes as has happened in the unity between Syria and Egypt, and as the coordination and the integration between these two Arab entities was a security valve of the region, whenever they desperate a black era prevails and most notably the Saudi era, while the more convergence was the more of immunity and reasons of power prevail, this is how the experience of the war against terrorism shows what is not in need of clues these days, as in the Yemen war the history says that the war against Israel is not complete without isolating the Arab reactionary alliance and weakening it because it will not stop of conspiracy, collusion, and forming a rear line that integrates with the Israeli danger. The involvement in any wars on the Arab territories even from the position of supporting the right of change, or protecting a national security will turn into an attrition war that consumes the surplus power which grows in the war against Israel, so how if the wars are waged with the integration of Israel as the Yemen war which is waged today by Saudi Arabia.

The history has done a justice to Gamal Abdel Nasser in the problematic issues which accompanied his ruling of Egypt for two decades and which related to the crisis which controlled its relation with the Organization of Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood have got their chance of ruling in better conditions than what Gamal Abdel Nasser has, the members of the Muslim Brotherhood have ruled Egypt, moreover, their Palestinian wing which is represented by Hamas Movement has succeeded in liberating Gaza Strip of the occupation, while the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine has made a deterrence balance against the danger of the Israeli wars, the members of the Muslim Brotherhood have won the ruling of Egypt and Tunisia, while they were governing Turkey at the time when Iran stood against Israel and the American hegemony, thus the result was a disaster twice, once when they failed in retaining the ruling for numerable months as a result of the fragility of the project and the quickness of its revealing, and its decline along with all the claims which were repeated for a whole century. The most important is that the disclosure of their matter as a rear faction that works within the American system which is committed to the priority of the security of Israel was their resounding scandal, starting from their pledge to sabotage each Arab resource of power which stands against Israel, from their role in Syria and their sponsoring of the extremism forces against the resistance in Lebanon, towards their open war against the Egyptian army today.

As the history has done justice to Abdel Nasser as an example of the leaders of the national independence movements, and has gave lessons and an example about his biography inspired by his personal behavior, the history has done justice to Al-Aqsa Intifada as an expression needed by Palestine and the nation equally, because there is no hope in liberating and protecting the rights and the sanctities without being in the confronting arenas, nothing is unifying us, bringing us together, and  putting out the fire of strife which is indented to ignite only by raising the flame of Palestine and its resistance high. This lesson becomes double hundreds of times at the time of the imminent danger of Al-Aqsa and the strife which threatens the nation these days