Tariq Al-Basha – tariqalbasha@outlook.com

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Abdel Nasser was and still a hero [15 January 1918 – 28

September 1970] (Amman – Jordan) Abdel Nasser lost his mother when

he was 8 years old due to the bad health care system,

moved around Egypt with his father and his stepmother

as his father was forced to relocate as a clerk working

for the government, left his home several times to live

with his uncle at an early age as he couldn't stand living

with his stepmother and was rejected to attend the

military college as his father wasn't rich or didn't own

lands.

However, Abdel Nasser fought his way to attend the military college, became a soldier in the

Egyptian army and fought from the front lines and led an army battalion in the first Arab-Israeli

War (1948 War) where he witnessed giving a land without a people for a people without a land

and felt the suffering of the Palestinians and their catastrophe of losing their homeland.

Abdel Nasser was besieged for four months from Zionist gangs in Palestine and the Egyptian

Military Leadership betrayed him and his fellow soldiers. However, he did not surrender and

fought his way out of the siege.

Abdel Nasser, unlike the others, based his ideology, Arab Nationalism, on his personal

experience during 1948 War as he fought shoulder to shoulder with Palestinians, Syrians,

Iraqis, Saudis, Jordanians, Yemenis and other Arabs against Jewish Settlers and saw the

possibility to have a united Arab World where there is a common cause.

As Abdel Nasser felt and experienced the unfairness and the inarguable injustice through the

death of his mother, the inequality of treating poor Egyptians, the lost land of Palestine and the

betrayal of his leadership. Abdel Nasser became determined to change the status quo.

Abdel Nasser was and still a hero

May Allah rest his soul in peace