Friday, September 10, 2010

Sadat or Nasser?

If you were to ask me who was more influential in the 20th century Arab world, Nasser or Sadat?  I would say without hesitation that it was Sadat.  Nasser left no lasting effect while the Sadat's (lousy) path was pursued by all Arab regimes without exception, and he successfully planted the seeds of narrow Egyptian nationalism which has been a great gift to Zionism.  I said it in Arabic before, but I say it again here: Israel should display portraits of this anti-Semitic dictator in Israel alongside portraits of Herzl.  Of course, once we liberate Palestine, we would take all those portraits down.