the Six-Day War

“A Misguided Preacher with No Faith in His Own Sermons”
By Mark Mondalek
The last few years of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s life, he took to repeating a saying over and over again, not silently to himself in prayer, but right out loud for anyone to hear.
“People like me,” he’d tell his compatriots, “do not live long.”