0:11 in the stifling July heat NASA makes his
0:13 way to Alexandria's Mania Square where
0:15 he is to deliver his
0:17 speech once again his people wait to
0:19 hear if he will respond to the West's
0:22 denial of funding for the Aswan
0:27 Dam at 9:00 p.m. NASA climbs the
0:30 podium the speech is long
0:32 NASA cataloges the centuries of
0:35 humiliations the Egyptians have suffered
0:36 at the hands of the [Music]
0:46 West his tone is measured but [Music]
0:56 angry NASA now reveals to the world what
0:59 the employees of the seis Canal company
1:09 [Applause]
1:11 across Egypt there is
1:14 pandemonium it was a bombshell of course
1:17 absolute bombshell we listen to this
1:19 thing nobody
1:23 expected people were rejoicing in the
1:27 street I celebrated with all Egyptians [Music]
1:46 [Applause]
1:49 but Eden has already made his decision
1:56 the next morning AAR had a cable from
1:59 Eden stating explicitly that the
2:00 government had decided that they were
2:03 going to get rid of Naser that this was
2:06 the only alternative that was a firm
2:09 decision they weren't going to change it and
2:10 and
2:14 uh that was that we all know this is how
2:16 Fascist governments
2:21 behave and we all remember only too well
2:25 what the cost can be in giving in to
2:28 Fascism Eden's justification for this is
2:30 the belief that NASA is a Soviet puppet
2:33 a direct threat to British interests
2:36 lucky break's intelligence has told him
2:39 so but the intelligence is wrong in
2:42 Moscow Nikita Kristof knows nothing of
2:45 NASA's plans when he nationalized the
2:48 canal it was a surprise for the Soviet
2:50 Union also he didn't take the permission or
2:51 or
2:53 anything even once he had made this
2:55 decision a few days before the
2:57 announcement he didn't tell the Soviets
2:58 and he didn't tell them for an obvious
3:01 reason he knew what their reaction would
3:04 be Moscow would tell him don't do
3:09 it the West Saw Moscow as The Ginger Man
3:11 in the story as provoking Nasser to be
3:13 more and more aggressive in fact Moscow
3:14 was doing the
3:18 opposite 14 hours later a ship piloted
3:20 by an Egyptian has passed successfully
3:23 through the canal once again there are
3:27 celebrations in the streets it is beyond any
3:28 any
3:31 imagination that gave the
3:34 confidence to the Egyptians that they
3:39 can do what the whole world sort that they
3:41 they
3:44 cannot it is now almost 3 months since
3:46 nationalization and the canal is still
3:49 open for business it seems Eden's plans
3:51 to overthrow NASA and wrestle back
3:54 control of the canal have failed the
4:04 then on the 14th of October two visitors
4:06 from the French Ministry of Defense
4:08 arrived to see a gloomy prime minister
4:11 at his country Retreat Checkers the
4:15 French had invented the following
4:19 scenario that Israel should attack Egypt
4:21 thereupon Britain and France who had
4:24 forces in the neighborhood should say we
4:26 cannot allow this kind of War because it
4:29 will interfere with the SE canal and
4:31 therefore we are going to intervene and
4:35 hold the two countries apart I happened
4:39 to be in Paris so the Minister of
4:42 Defense called me in and he says did you ever
4:43 ever
4:52 [Music]
4:59 started Eden is enthusiastic about this
5:01 French plan not only will he be able to
5:04 seize the canal he sees a way to bring
5:06 about NASA's
5:11 downfall you bomb Egypt you create Panic
5:13 within the country you link this to an
5:17 invasion Israeli Invasion and uh the new
5:19 government will emerge and NASA will be no
5:20 no
5:23 more the document agreed on here known
5:26 as the S protocol puts down in black and
5:28 white the covert plan to invade Egypt
5:31 and fool the world when this document
5:34 finally emerged 40 years later it
5:36 confirmed how a British prime minister
5:39 had deceived the world and deliberately
5:48 [Music]
5:51 East on October the 29th the Israelis
5:53 land a parachute Brigade deep in the
5:56 siai as agreed at
5:59 Sev but the Israeli Advanced towards the
6:02 Canal is a fake designed purely to
6:04 convince the world that the canal is
6:06 threatened was about 40 km from the
6:09 canal or 45 kilm but when you look at
6:12 big Maps then you can say ah the drop
6:14 was not far from the canal that was
6:16 enough to fulfill the needs of the
6:23 threatened we didn't go into the motives
6:26 and consideration of France and England
6:30 because our aims were clear
6:32 the following day Britain and France
6:35 issue their ultimatum as planned at Sev
6:37 Israel and Egypt are to cease fighting
6:40 or the two Western Powers will
6:43 intervene Eden knows this is an
6:46 ultimatum that NASA cannot accept on the
6:48 evening of the 30th of October the
7:03 shortly afterwards NASA hears planes in
7:11 Cairo as the bombs fall a frightened
7:14 Egyptian population rush to join
7:17 civilian militias most of us the young
7:19 people decided that we're going to
7:21 defend the country we really didn't know
7:23 what we're going to do because our
7:25 training was very cursory it included
7:28 one clip of live ammunition when we
7:29 joined first thing they did was they
7:31 gave us those cases of Kalashnikov
7:34 rifles right out out of the boxes with
7:36 grease and they said okay here is your
7:39 rifle you know this makeshift civilian
7:42 Army now waits for the arrival of British
7:43 British
7:46 paratroopers you hear a lot of fire
7:48 people firing rifles and firing in the
7:51 air we didn't know what you know
7:53 everybody is a parachutist you know any
7:55 noise you think somebody had just come
7:58 from the sky so it was a very very tense
8:05 scared but Cairo where talad badrawi and
8:07 other volunteers are waiting is not the
8:10 target for the British paratroop assault
8:13 Port SED at the mouth of the canal is
8:15 where Britain will begin the reconquest of
8:21 [Music]
8:25 Egypt after 5 days of aerial bombardment
8:35 the city quickly finds itself under
8:37 occupation but its population is
8:39 determined not to give Eden the easy
8:42 Victory he has
8:44 anticipated and then they
8:47 landed the British landed in port s so
8:50 of course we wanted to wipe them
8:52 out all the
8:55 people have arms and guns and machine
8:58 guns they shoot at the airplanes and
9:01 every people are ready to sacrifice
9:03 himself in order to to defend his country
