Parting Shots & Random Thoughts on Islamism Now & Tomorrow and Other Some Such Delights
After the 1967 catastrophe, several particularly mean jokes started making the rounds about Gamal Abd al Nasser. Even we, nappies barely dry, would throw them around laughing, as if to usher in the post-Nasser era.
The meanest of the jokes went like this:
After the ’67 defeat, Nasser stood, chastened, on the presidential balcony to deliver a speech to the throngs.