The Angel

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Great movie! Gamal Nassar, Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir & Jimmy Carter all enter into this story.

Near as I can make out, we have two factions duking it out in Egypt: the ones backing Nassar and the ones backing Sadat. Nassar was the president, but he dies and now Anwar is in charge, and he pushes the old crowd out. The old crowd wants to go to war with Israel to reclaim the Sinai peninsula that Israel conquered in the Six Days War. The new crowd realizes this is a futile endeavor. They got their asses kicked the last time they went to war with Israel, there is no reason to believe a repeat engagement would go any better. But if Anwar doesn't get the lost territory back, there will be a coup and the old crowd will force their way back  into power. So he comes up with a scheme to get Israel to give back the Sinai pennisula.

Seems to me Egypt got a lot of press when I was a kid. I wonder why that was. You don't suppose the fact that Russia was backing them at the time, and Israel was a potent political force had anything to do with it do you?

There is something I don't understand about the Muslim countries in the Mideast. They have been howling for Israel's head for as long as I can remember, which is like 60 years. They've had several conflicts and they have pretty much gotten their asses kicked every time. What is wrong with them? I would think they could find something better to spend their energy on. I suspect it is because they don't believe in the real world.

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