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Completely agree, but to them palestinians are a scourge and I never knew the history as to why.
Anybody have the cliff notes on this?
Cliff notes? No but it helps to keep in mind that Arabs and North Africans are tribal. (Like Afghanistan) The notion of statehood is not a concept to them. And by statehood I mean a government agreed to by the people. They instead have kingdoms and dictatorships. There's a reason for that.
Egypt had a leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser who came up through the military and became the second elected President of Egypt in 1954. Nasser believed in Pan-Arab Nationalism, a way to unite the tribes, for lack of a better term. That was earthshattering and truly a large concern not only for the West but of the longstanding kingdoms, monarchies and dictatorships. very controversial. He was also a modernist and socialist and envisioned a world where the Pan-Arabs had seats at the big tale with other world leaders.
He was assassinated in 1970.
ETA: Or "died" in 1970. Historians disagree on the cause of death. Better?