The content details Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal, the subsequent international crisis, and the covert Anglo-French-Israeli plot to overthrow Nasser and regain control of the canal, ultimately exposing a significant deception of the world.
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in the stifling July heat NASA makes his
way to Alexandria's Mania Square where
he is to deliver his
speech once again his people wait to
hear if he will respond to the West's
denial of funding for the Aswan
Dam at 9:00 p.m. NASA climbs the
podium the speech is long
NASA cataloges the centuries of
humiliations the Egyptians have suffered
at the hands of the [Music]
West his tone is measured but [Music]
angry NASA now reveals to the world what
the employees of the seis Canal company
[Applause]
across Egypt there is
pandemonium it was a bombshell of course
absolute bombshell we listen to this
thing nobody
expected people were rejoicing in the
street I celebrated with all Egyptians [Music]
[Applause]
but Eden has already made his decision
the next morning AAR had a cable from
Eden stating explicitly that the
government had decided that they were
going to get rid of Naser that this was
the only alternative that was a firm
decision they weren't going to change it and
and
uh that was that we all know this is how
Fascist governments
behave and we all remember only too well
what the cost can be in giving in to
Fascism Eden's justification for this is
the belief that NASA is a Soviet puppet
a direct threat to British interests
lucky break's intelligence has told him
so but the intelligence is wrong in
Moscow Nikita Kristof knows nothing of
NASA's plans when he nationalized the
canal it was a surprise for the Soviet
Union also he didn't take the permission or
or
anything even once he had made this
decision a few days before the
announcement he didn't tell the Soviets
and he didn't tell them for an obvious
reason he knew what their reaction would
be Moscow would tell him don't do
it the West Saw Moscow as The Ginger Man
in the story as provoking Nasser to be
more and more aggressive in fact Moscow
was doing the
opposite 14 hours later a ship piloted
by an Egyptian has passed successfully
through the canal once again there are
celebrations in the streets it is beyond any
any
imagination that gave the
confidence to the Egyptians that they
can do what the whole world sort that they
they
cannot it is now almost 3 months since
nationalization and the canal is still
open for business it seems Eden's plans
to overthrow NASA and wrestle back
control of the canal have failed the
then on the 14th of October two visitors
from the French Ministry of Defense
arrived to see a gloomy prime minister
at his country Retreat Checkers the
French had invented the following
scenario that Israel should attack Egypt
thereupon Britain and France who had
forces in the neighborhood should say we
cannot allow this kind of War because it
will interfere with the SE canal and
therefore we are going to intervene and
hold the two countries apart I happened
to be in Paris so the Minister of
Defense called me in and he says did you ever
ever
[Music]
started Eden is enthusiastic about this
French plan not only will he be able to
seize the canal he sees a way to bring
about NASA's
downfall you bomb Egypt you create Panic
within the country you link this to an
invasion Israeli Invasion and uh the new
government will emerge and NASA will be no
no
more the document agreed on here known
as the S protocol puts down in black and
white the covert plan to invade Egypt
and fool the world when this document
finally emerged 40 years later it
confirmed how a British prime minister
had deceived the world and deliberately
[Music]
East on October the 29th the Israelis
land a parachute Brigade deep in the
siai as agreed at
Sev but the Israeli Advanced towards the
Canal is a fake designed purely to
convince the world that the canal is
threatened was about 40 km from the
canal or 45 kilm but when you look at
big Maps then you can say ah the drop
was not far from the canal that was
enough to fulfill the needs of the
threatened we didn't go into the motives
and consideration of France and England
because our aims were clear
the following day Britain and France
issue their ultimatum as planned at Sev
Israel and Egypt are to cease fighting
or the two Western Powers will
intervene Eden knows this is an
ultimatum that NASA cannot accept on the
evening of the 30th of October the
shortly afterwards NASA hears planes in
Cairo as the bombs fall a frightened
Egyptian population rush to join
civilian militias most of us the young
people decided that we're going to
defend the country we really didn't know
what we're going to do because our
training was very cursory it included
one clip of live ammunition when we
joined first thing they did was they
gave us those cases of Kalashnikov
rifles right out out of the boxes with
grease and they said okay here is your
rifle you know this makeshift civilian
Army now waits for the arrival of British
British
paratroopers you hear a lot of fire
people firing rifles and firing in the
air we didn't know what you know
everybody is a parachutist you know any
noise you think somebody had just come
from the sky so it was a very very tense
scared but Cairo where talad badrawi and
other volunteers are waiting is not the
target for the British paratroop assault
Port SED at the mouth of the canal is
where Britain will begin the reconquest of
[Music]
Egypt after 5 days of aerial bombardment
the city quickly finds itself under
occupation but its population is
determined not to give Eden the easy
Victory he has
anticipated and then they
landed the British landed in port s so
of course we wanted to wipe them
out all the
people have arms and guns and machine
guns they shoot at the airplanes and
every people are ready to sacrifice
himself in order to to defend his country
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