The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.

In May 1948 after the end of the British mandate and army withdrawal King Farouk sent the Egyptian army into Palestine with Nasser serving in the 6th Infantry Battalion. That same day Egypt closed the canal to Israeli shipping. Abdel Nasser Hussein had six brothers and one sister.

He is well known for his nationalist policies and version of pan-Arabism also referred to as Nasserism which won a great following in the Arab World during the 1950s and 1960s. Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر حسين‎ IPA: [ɡæˈmæːl ʕæbdenˈnɑːsˤeɾ ħeˈseːn]; 15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. The imposed ending to the Suez Crisis made him a hero throughout the Arab world.