Dotting the I’S & Crossing the T’S
Men & Attitudes
Written by Nasser Kandil,
In a presence in Port Said, and exactly before sixty years, Gamal Abdel Nasser told the American ambassador through the crowded people in order to inform the Minister of Trade who has carried a protesting message about the policy of Cairo, and has threatened that he will stop the American aids to Egypt: “The Egyptians are impatient, they do not bear the advice of anyone, your aids will be dispensed with through simple procedures, we will drink tea twice instead of five times a day, and we will eat chicken once instead of twice a week “.
In the negotiations of 1974 about the disengagement in Golan Heights and nearly a year after the war of attrition, and after the going of Egypt away from the war, the American Foreign Minister Henry Kissinger has come to have a negotiation with the President Hafez Al-Assad, waving with the economical capabilities of America, and showing that the chaos afflicts the countries in the state of wars, so the President Hafez Al-Assad whom we are celebrating with the reminiscence of his Corrective Movement has taken a file that includes statics of the crime rate during the wars, compared with the previous years and said: Look, according to you, when the electricity turned off in a country, then thousands of the crimes of murder, robbery, and rape happened. We had ten months of war and the normal crime was zero. Do you know why? Because the nationalism of the thief and the criminal is exceeding his addiction to crimes, he will be ashamed of himself while the countries are in war. The President Al-Assad stretched his hand to the second file, in which Syria was rare among the countries which did not import American wheat. He added our people are satisfied with the national bread; they do not barter on their dignity and sovereignty. Kissinger commented while he cited what has happened, this leader was as if he already knew what I was going to offer, and what I was going to tell him, so he prepared for me the suitable answers supported by the documents. He was a rare leader with intelligence and courageous.
In 1960, Khrushchev the leader of Soviet Union stood one day on the platform of the United Nations to have a speech of his country, when the West ambassadors and their delegations started disturbing and making fun, commenting on the attitudes of Khrushchev, which were demanding the right of Popular China to join the United Nations, he has taken off his shoe and hit with it the platform of the General Assembly of the United Nations, he continued his speech while his shoe was on the pulpit, he left the platform leaving his shoe, moreover, he walked on to his seat with one shoe.
In one of the nights in 2000, and while the Lebanese and the international teams had measured the line of the boundaries to fix the Israeli withdrawal points according to the international boundaries line. Lebanon recorded his objections and reservations. It refused the resolution of the Security Council, since the withdrawal was accomplished and the resolution 435 was attained. The Lebanese President Emile Lahoud has received a call from the American Secretary of State Madeleine Albright through which she asked him to accept, since the Israeli withdrawal was accomplished, but after hours of debate, she did not hesitate to say that “you are talking to the Secretary of State of the United States” then the President Lahoud replied “ You do not pay attention that you are taking the time of my sleeping” and he hanged up.
At the dawn of 8th of July 1949 the national leader Antoine Saade was executed, but the priest who met him before the execution has transferred words which Saade had wanted to deliver to the history” It does not matter how I will die, but for what I will die, I do not count the years which I lived but the acts which I have done, this night they will execute me, while the people of my faith, will win and their victory will come in retaliation of my death, everyone of us will die, but few will have the honor of death for their faith, Oh shame on this night of history, of our grandchildren, of our emigrants, of foreigners. The independence which we irrigated with our blood when we endeavored to have it, now it irrigated our veins again. Nowadays the scholars of Saade and his party are celebrating the founding of their party. The history of 16th of November in 1970, which is the date of the Corrective Movement of the President Hafez Al- Assad coincided with the founding of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in 1932, and the day in which Saade and his friends were arrested in 1935 by the French Occupation forces.
In the early of 2010 the Syrian President Bashar Al- Assad has greeted the former Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos, A Spanish journalist has reported that the meeting was to transfer an American warning, its content was that Syria has delivered breaking –balance weapons to Hezbollah, and the sensitive part of these weapons have not delivered yet, the Spanish journalist explained that the intention was an aerial defense weapon, and the sensitive part was the radars. The American offer is that the non – delivery of the sensitive part will secure a convenient background for Syria politically and economically, but the insistence to deliver this part is like the announcement of a war, so the response of the President Bashar Al-Assad as the Spanish journalist said; It seemed that the American Intelligence is no longer like its previous efficiency”, he laughed and said “Tell them what they have called as a sensitive part has arrived before the other parts”.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin has participated in the twentieth summit, and has got verbal attacks that trespassed his supportive attitude towards the people of the eastern Ukraine; he heard the threat of sanctions on his country, so he held a quiet press conference, he did not wait for the distribution of the final statement, moreover he went to his plane in order to depart, meanwhile, he picked up souvenir photos with the policemen and the security officers at the airport, he smiled and when he was asked about his early leaving without shaking hands with the participated presidents and saying farewell to them , he said “ I have missed a lot of sleep hours “.
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