Destiny Disrupted

316 DESTINY DISRUPTED bordering the Persian Gulf. By the time the supercompany was ready to drill, the area in question was part ...

16 ~ The Crisis of Modernity 1357-1385 AH 1939-1966 CE T HE BLOODIEST OUTBURST in the history of violence started in 1939 and ra ...

318 DESTINY DISRUPTED up during the war years among virtually all colonized people, both Mus- lim and non-Muslim, now hit the br ...

THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY 319 east and west oflndia. The partition of the subcontinent sent tidal waves of frightened refugees acr ...

320 DESTINY DISRUPTED The most problematic single territory for the competing claims of na- tionalism versus nation-statism was ...

THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY 321 and during World War II in Palestine resembled what happened earlier in Algeria when French immigran ...

322 DESTINY DISRUPTED In 1946, the underground Jewish militant group Haganah bombed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing n ...

THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY Mediterr·anean Sea Israel and Palestine Pa lestine: U.N. P;utitio n Plan ( 19 4 Arab State -Jewish Stat ...

324 DESTINY DISRUPTED armies of its three Arab adversaries, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt, and so it was Palestine, not Israel, that ...

THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY 325 need for army officers opened up places for lower class boys in the coun- try's elite military schoo ...

326 DESTINY DISRUPTED global trade and wreck the world economy. These two European countries colluded with Israel in a complicat ...

THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY 327 Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, had been as- sassinated before Nasser's day, ...

328 DESTINY DISRUPTED his status among Arabs, claiming that they were the real pan-Arab nation- alists. Then there were Egypt's ...

17 ~ The Tide Turns 1369-1421 AH 1950-2001 CE I N MAY, 1967, Nasser began to spout martial rhetoric at Israel; to prove he meant ...

330 DESTINY DISRUPTED when Israel won the most decisive victory in the history of modern war- fare, it wasn't clashing with a mo ...

THE TIDE TURNS 331 worshipping nationalism. After the Six Day War, disgruntled army offi- cers flooded into this new Ba'ath, giv ...

332 DESTINY DISRUPTED Then there was the Muslim Brotherhood. When Nasser lost face in the Six Day War, the Egyptian masses simpl ...

THE TIDE TURNS 333 short, the Six Day war was a crushing setback for world peace, a disaster for the Muslim world, and not much ...

334 DESTINY DISRUPTED Allies, the wonderful Allies, had removed him during the war for flirting with the Nazis. The stage was se ...

THE TIDE TURNS 335 held true throughout the Middle World, and these two sets of issues con- tinued to intertwine throughout Dar ...