Arab nationalism failed concretely on unity, Palestine, and economics
Evidence
Both Nasserism and Ba’athism failed to achieve Arab unity and to resolve the problem of Israel and the Palestinians. Nowhere was economic performance brilliant, and Nasser’s Egypt in particular sank into destitution and cultural decline. The new classes in power were often painfully reminiscent of the old. The June 1967 fiasco raised the question of the adequacy of old ideas for solving the pressing problems of the day. Every major problem, every failure, every crisis that arose … led to feelings that something was lacking in nationalist ideology, that other important ideologies should be looked to as sources of fresh ideas. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 329
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1691; Unity among rival nationalist factions proved fragile and brief — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 122; Saudi Wahhabism displaced Arab secular nationalism after the 1973 war — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 235 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Islamism rose from secular nationalist failure, left weakness, and economic crises
#expands(0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 323 - Egyptian nationalist empire-building co-opted British instruments of hegemony yet still failed
#exemplifies(0.60) - Political Islam’s rise depended on the collapse of secular nationalism
#corroborates(0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 312 - Arab regimes in the 1970s deliberately backed Islamists against secular nationalists and the left
#expands(0.55) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 372 - Egypt’s nationalism embodies a colonized-colonizer paradox the binary model misses
#complicates(0.50) - Plan Dalet was aimed at the seizure of most of Palestine.
#exemplifies(0.40) — David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch The Roots…, 552