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| For an Egyptian teenager like me in 1967, an Israeli victory was inconceivable |
| 2021-06-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] In an excerpt from his [unpublished]​ memoir, a professor of Arabic literature describes the horror at learning his country had lost the Six Day War and the shockwaves that followed the defeat. Egypt’s disastrous defeat in the 1967 war with Israel was the shock of my generation. I was fifteen at the time and the war broke out during our school exams. I was living in Alexandria with my parents, my sister and my older brother, his wife and their children. The family, with the exception of my brother and myself, decided to move for the duration of the war to Biyala, our village in the Nile Delta. The country was gripped with war hysteria. Ahmed Said of Cairo Radio’s "Voice of the Arabs" hurled threats of annihilation at the enemy. "Bushra ya ’arab, (Good news O Arabs!)," he would shout, "the day has come; let us erase Israel from the map!" |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Mr. Wife nearly got arrested in Cairo in 1986 for pointing his camera at a soldier standing guard at a checkpoint in the street, both weapon and sandals picturesquely held together by duct tape. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-13 12:31 |
| #7 By 1966 the Egyptian army, some 55,000 strong, was getting its arse kicked in Yemen. The Arab Socialist Union did everything in its power to disguise the ineptitude of the Egyptian military. However, the wise-guys knew (as did the Israelis) that Nasser's Napoleion, Field Marshall Amr, was a drug addict and an inept field leader. |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-13 10:18 |
| #6 That's gotta be embarrassing, getting your arse kicked by a bunch of Untermenschen. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-06-13 09:51 |
| #5 Many others were not so naive. The first air raid sirens went off in Cairo at approximately 9:10AM. It could be said that by then the war was over. People in Cairo knew that the military airports at Cairo, Helwan, Alexandria, Mersa Matruh had already been bombed and by day's close it was obvious that the Egyptian air force had been destroyed on the ground. In essence, and in fact, the war was over. |
| Posted by: Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-13 09:47 |
| #4 It was worse than war and death; They got their feelings hurt. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-06-13 09:44 |
| #3 The defeat was a personal humiliation for every Egyptian. How did we manage to live with such shame? Abdel "Al-Otter" Nasser: "You fucked up. You trusted us" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-06-13 08:22 |
| #2 the day has come; let us erase Israel from the map They haven't given up, because... 'Some motherfcukers are always trying to ice skate uphill'. - Blade (1998) |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-06-13 05:03 |
| #1 do anything possible to help remove the shame of our defeat and restore the pride of our people Third time ice cream |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-06-13 04:12 |