Abstract
Gamal Abdul Nasser was a great dynamic personality of the
twentieth century. For almost a decade, Nasser was not only
chief, boss and in charge of Egypt but of the whole Arab world1
whether the rulers of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and their
supporters in the Western World liked it or not. He was the first
Arab leader who truly understood the Arab mind; he shrewdly
energized them and succeeded in renewing their pride by putting
his message across in almost every capitol in the Arabian
Peninsula through his net-work of spies, staff of Egyptian
Diplomats and his secret agents. He was also the first Arab
leader who had given Arab nationalism a new name by following
an aggressive foreign policy, and succeeded in establishing a
solid platform against Israel and her supporters in the West.
Nasser denounced the expanding Western imperialism in the
1950s when it was unbelievable that a leader of the third world
would ever antagonize the leaders of Britain2
, France and the
United States. He was also the first leader of the Arab world to
have forged links with the Socialist bloc and within a short
period of time reached along with Jawahar Lal Nehru of India,
Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia and Soekarno of Indonesia at the
top rung of the ladder so far as the Non-aligned Movement was
concerned.
Qalb-i-Abid, Massarrat Abid. (2009) JULY REVOLUTION AND THE REORIENTATION OF EGYPT’S FOREIGN POLICY, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 46, Issue 1.
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