Monday, October 8, 2012

Egypt Celebrates 1973 Victory

By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:

Yesterday Egypt celebrated their victory over Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Egyptians refer to this war as the "October War."

This is an annual event and it is not an isolated commemoration. Monuments to the Egyptian victory over Israel in 1973 are displayed all over the country.

So, what is the big deal here? This celebration reveals much about how the Arabic world sees reality. You see, Egypt did not win the war in 1973.

Israel won that war. Egypt was so miserably defeated that Cairo, the Egyptian capital, was entirely encircled by Israel under the leadership of General Ariel Sharon.

Israel could have captured the city. They did not. They did not because they could never have policed and controlled Cairo.

How then could Egypt celebrate a victory that never happened? The answer lies in the Arab mindset. The Arabic world has difficulty understanding how they can lose to Israel - the interloper, the outsider, a non-Arab, non-Muslim country.

The Arab world cannot accept that Jews won and the great Arab nation lost. So they simply transformed the loss into a victory. And now they celebrate.

Micah@MicahHalpern.com 

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