Gamal Nasser Official√

15 September 2025.

Auckland, Aotearoa,

History was made.

New Zealand witnessed its largest pro-Palestine protest ever.

Israel is finished.

One of the first and most revolutionary decisions of Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970) was the adoption of a land-reform law, seizing all feudal estates and redistributing lands to the farmers, the fellahin. Large landowners, Egyptian or foreign, were dispossessed, and the nationalizations led to the departure of much of the foreign community.

Another historic step was the acceptance of a Soviet offer for the rearmament and training of Egypt’s forces. The United States subsequently blocked a loan from the World Bank for the construction of the Aswan High Dam. In response, Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal on 26 July 1956. Withdrawal was completed on 18 July 1956.

Britain and France demonized Nasser as the ‘Arab Hitler’. Secretly, they agreed with Israel that it should invade the Sinai on 29 October 1956, providing the excuse for Britain and France to intervene militarily. Washington, fearing that Egypt would be lost to the Soviet Union permanently, pressured Britain, France, and Israel to cease hostilities by threatening them with economic consequences.

Nasser emerged as a champion. His charisma and his ideology of Arab nationalism made him immensely popular among the Egyptian and other Arab masses. Egypt became the frontrunner of anti-colonialism, supporting liberation struggles in northern Africa and the Arab region.