4/15/2010

I never paid attention to Egypt before this class. I faintly remember reading about Egypt and Israel not getting along with eachother in an essay we had to write about for the CAPT test in New Haven CT. I never knew that a man by the name of Nasser sought arab unity. Unfortunately, Nasse failed to gain Arab unity, but at least he tried. He was kind of a greedy leader because he launched a coup to overthrow existing Egyptian government, and gained power. Then he wanted even more power by uniting all Arab nations, and he would attempt to be the ruler of the united arab nations. Egypt and Israel were bound to go to war with one another because by attempting to unite, Nasser also inherited problems other middle eastern countries faced with Israel. Israel was in many ways unassailable, and I cannot believe that such a small independently established country like Israel could forge its name into the place of existing countries. They had a brilliant leathal army to back up its indeavors, and clearly their army was something not to be reckoned with because they demolished Egyptian forces along with other arab forces. Why can't middle eastern countries be civilised like the United States and Britain? Things would be alot easier for them I believe.