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To: c.hinton who wrote (230323)	5/9/2007 2:44:31 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

With a arrogant wave of your hand you dimiss my statement. When in fact ONLY Syria and Yemen were involved. My, my, touchy, aren't we? Nasser was widely acknowledged to be the leader of the Arab world. This involved far more than conquered Yemen or the shortlived unification with Syria. Nasser had great sway with all the Arab powers, and his influence helped set them on the course of Pan-Arabism and socialism, as the cfr article you linked to said. Nasser's influence declined somewhat after the debacle of the Six Day War (from the Arab point of view), but it was strong enough to talk Jordan into the war on the fourth day of it, and strong enough to preserve Yasser Arafat and his forces in 1970 when he tried to kill King Hussein and take over Jordan. Nasser saw that he was allowed to escape into Lebanon, where he and his forces promptly tipped the country into 15 years of civil war, which suited Arafat just fine.