Nasser's Pan-Arabism and Israel

He wanted to recreate this Islamic colonialism.

For Nasser, was his big ambition to bring all Arabs

together under his communist rule that he called

Pan-Arabism. He needed to unify Arabs, but it's impossible to

unify Arabs, so he thought that, "Okay, let's find

a common enemy to unify them." And who was the easiest common

enemy you can find in the 1950s? Of course, the

newborn Israel. He pointed at Israel and said, "This

newborn state is an agent to Western

imperialism." And this was the first time this

framing of Israel happens, which actually appealed very

much to the communists of his era because it

also appeared like an extension to the war that was

waged against the Jews already in other places in the world,

especially in Europe and in Russia, of course.