Gamal Abdel Nasser Quotes

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The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
We are awaiting aggression by Israel and any supporters of Israel. We will make it a decisive battle and get rid of Israel once and for all… This is the dream of every Arab.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
Our path to Palestine will not be covered with a red carpet or with yellow sand. Our path to Palestine will be covered with blood… In order that we may liberate Palestine, the Arab nation must unite, the Arab armies must unite, and a unified plan of action must be established

Gamal Abdel Nasser
We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
If the refugees return to Israel – Israel will cease to exist.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
Let them kill Nasser! What is Nasser but one among many? I am alive, and even if I die, all of you are Gamal Abdul Nasser!

Gamal Abdel Nasser
We knew that by closing the Gulf of Aqaba it might mean war with Israel. [If war comes] it will be total and the objective will be to destroy Israel.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

Gamal Abdel Nasser
If the Jews win this battle, then the Arabs had better go bury their faces in the mud!

Gamal Abdel Nasser
Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Gamal Abdel Nasser