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October .. the lesson of October .. the lesson of the past to build the future
Hossam Badrawi
As usual, in the month of October, I communicate with the youth of tomorrow’s dreamers, including the youth of my family and those working with me in my civil associations, particularly the Takatuf and Education First Association, and the Association for the Dissemination of Culture and Knowledge, in addition to my students at the university.
In my last interview with them on Zoom, in which we talked about the great October victory, I told them: The sixth day of October is the greatest day of my life, because whoever has not lived the humiliation of defeat (67) cannot taste the beauty, impact, and value (73).
I was in the Bachelor of Medicine in Qasr Al-Aini, and each of us had a brother, father, friend or relative in the army who fought for the country’s dignity. We would gather around the radio, chilling as we heard real, sober military statements, unlike in 67. The media learned from the mistakes of the past and was honest with the people, and the country’s leaders learned from the great Egyptian people and were up to the level of responsibility.
One of the young men who was born more than thirty years after this day told me:
Not so strong, Doctor Hossam. There are books and articles that say that Egypt did not win this battle in the first place. Do we believe who?!
Another said: You did not say that about a war (56) and it appeared in the other that it was not a victory, and that Israel occupied Sinai after that, had it not been for the intervention of the United States, forcing it to withdraw.
I said: This is not true, because the outcome of a war battle is known by the one who imposed his will on the other. In (56) Egypt imposed its will on England, France and Israel, and every country uses its armies and diplomacy to achieve the goal.
At the end of the war, Egypt imposed its control over the Suez Canal and regained the Sinai, so the result of the war was a victory for Egypt, and the resignation of the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
As for (73), we basically believed, and the whole world confirms, the impossibility of crossing the Suez Canal and penetrating the Bar Lev Line, which was considered at the time the strongest defense lines in the history of world war, with the technological and strategic superiority of Israeli aviation. It was the world’s belief that this was an end situation that would not change.
What happened in the end is the crossing of our forces with wise organization and leadership, changing the stable military situation, then negotiating from a position of strength and not defeat.. All that happened after that was the opening of the Suez Canal to global navigation, the return of the displaced people of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez, and the restoration of Sinai.
The October War was part of an integrated strategy to restore dignity and land, in coordination with military action with diplomatic and legal measures to restore the last point in Taba, and Sinai became complete in the possession of Egypt once again.
They said: But the number of our forces in Sinai was determined, and the restoration of Sinai in this way was considered deficient.
I said: You and I go to Taba, Sharm El-Sheikh, Saint Catherine, and every inch of Sinai, and until the ISIS terrorist Brotherhood began after 2011, we used to go to Arish and roam in Sinai as we wanted.
Every gain has a price, and we must understand that and realize that the Golan is still under absolute occupation after nearly fifty years, and the East Bank is likewise. Rather, Israel brazenly announced the annexation of the Golan to it, and the world began to recognize Israel’s ownership of it, and now America is declaring that as well.
Do not let the frustrated, who see nothing but defeat, transfer their negative energy to you.. Egypt won, in war and negotiation, and we have changed a geographical and historical reality that could have become a reality until now.
They said: We are really suspicious of the many outbidding about the events we are experiencing, so how about the events of the past?!.
I said: You have a right, and you have an obligation.
I agree with you that media outbursts, blowing up victory and hiding mistakes as if we are angels and Superman question the facts.
Rather, some of the proposition that shaped victory and attributed it to angels who came down to stand with the army, as if the glory of victory belonged to non-officers who planned and soldiers who executed and a people who produced the best of it to achieve victory.
Our duty is also to search, read the memoirs of our heroes and enemies, and make up our minds. The truth is that our army and our people won after defeat, and we did not surrender, and we regained the land after (6) years of the Israeli occupation.
The truth is that the army sought the highest qualifications from civil society, so its performance level rose, science entered its flanks, and that the people, despite their anxiety, impatience, and the migration of a quarter of its population internally supported its soldiers and overcame their pain and triumphed.
I would like to remind you once again that October (6) is really the greatest day in my life, as we were surprised that our army crossed and achieved a victory, and my feeling of pride and pride will not be forgotten. Everyone volunteered according to their abilities, and Egypt actually won.
Another young man said: Do you believe, Doctor, that many of our colleagues do not even know the map of the lands still occupied by Israel?
I said: Your remark made me remind you that whenever I read a statement about the Arab lands that are still under the Israeli occupation, I find them decreasing in the memory of the daily and periodic media. Only the West Bank, the Golan, and recently all of Jerusalem, the sources of the Jordan River and villages from southern Lebanon and the rest of the villages and valleys of Palestine are mentioned. Unfortunately, the Israeli settlements have expanded and expanded upon – I say – they are almost forgotten by the media. In fact, there is a division taking place in Syria itself between Turkey, Israel and ethnic divisions. The Golan was out of sight, and it could have happened to Sinai as well.
Whoever lived and remembers October 73 must now be over fifty years old, and the teaching of the October War in education curricula must be based on a scientific vision and not rhetorical arguments that make students not believe the facts afterwards.
There are tournaments that are not often talked about, such as the heroism of the Egyptian people, whose army returned with a cruel and humiliating defeat in 67, which forced the country’s president to resign as a result of failure. The people did not accept the resignation, in support of the person, as I saw it at the time, but as a symbol of their non-acceptance of defeat.
I remember jokes and mockery of the Egyptian army in the whole world, and the Arab countries, but became the military uniform
Hossam Badrawi
As usual, in the month of October, I communicate with the youth of tomorrow’s dreamers, including the youth of my family and those working with me in my civil associations, particularly the Takatuf and Education First Association, and the Association for the Dissemination of Culture and Knowledge, in addition to my students at the university.
In my last interview with them on Zoom, in which we talked about the great October victory, I told them: The sixth day of October is the greatest day of my life, because whoever has not lived the humiliation of defeat (67) cannot taste the beauty, impact, and value (73).
I was in the Bachelor of Medicine in Qasr Al-Aini, and each of us had a brother, father, friend or relative in the army who fought for the country’s dignity. We would gather around the radio, chilling as we heard real, sober military statements, unlike in 67. The media learned from the mistakes of the past and was honest with the people, and the country’s leaders learned from the great Egyptian people and were up to the level of responsibility.
One of the young men who was born more than thirty years after this day told me:
Not so strong, Doctor Hossam. There are books and articles that say that Egypt did not win this battle in the first place. Do we believe who?!
Another said: You did not say that about a war (56) and it appeared in the other that it was not a victory, and that Israel occupied Sinai after that, had it not been for the intervention of the United States, forcing it to withdraw.
I said: This is not true, because the outcome of a war battle is known by the one who imposed his will on the other. In (56) Egypt imposed its will on England, France and Israel, and every country uses its armies and diplomacy to achieve the goal.
At the end of the war, Egypt imposed its control over the Suez Canal and regained the Sinai, so the result of the war was a victory for Egypt, and the resignation of the Prime Minister of Great Britain.
As for (73), we basically believed, and the whole world confirms, the impossibility of crossing the Suez Canal and penetrating the Bar Lev Line, which was considered at the time the strongest defense lines in the history of world war, with the technological and strategic superiority of Israeli aviation. It was the world’s belief that this was an end situation that would not change.
What happened in the end is the crossing of our forces with wise organization and leadership, changing the stable military situation, then negotiating from a position of strength and not defeat.. All that happened after that was the opening of the Suez Canal to global navigation, the return of the displaced people of Port Said, Ismailia and Suez, and the restoration of Sinai.
The October War was part of an integrated strategy to restore dignity and land, in coordination with military action with diplomatic and legal measures to restore the last point in Taba, and Sinai became complete in the possession of Egypt once again.
They said: But the number of our forces in Sinai was determined, and the restoration of Sinai in this way was considered deficient.
I said: You and I go to Taba, Sharm El-Sheikh, Saint Catherine, and every inch of Sinai, and until the ISIS terrorist Brotherhood began after 2011, we used to go to Arish and roam in Sinai as we wanted.
Every gain has a price, and we must understand that and realize that the Golan is still under absolute occupation after nearly fifty years, and the East Bank is likewise. Rather, Israel brazenly announced the annexation of the Golan to it, and the world began to recognize Israel’s ownership of it, and now America is declaring that as well.
Do not let the frustrated, who see nothing but defeat, transfer their negative energy to you.. Egypt won, in war and negotiation, and we have changed a geographical and historical reality that could have become a reality until now.
They said: We are really suspicious of the many outbidding about the events we are experiencing, so how about the events of the past?!.
I said: You have a right, and you have an obligation.
I agree with you that media outbursts, blowing up victory and hiding mistakes as if we are angels and Superman question the facts.
Rather, some of the proposition that shaped victory and attributed it to angels who came down to stand with the army, as if the glory of victory belonged to non-officers who planned and soldiers who executed and a people who produced the best of it to achieve victory.
Our duty is also to search, read the memoirs of our heroes and enemies, and make up our minds. The truth is that our army and our people won after defeat, and we did not surrender, and we regained the land after (6) years of the Israeli occupation.
The truth is that the army sought the highest qualifications from civil society, so its performance level rose, science entered its flanks, and that the people, despite their anxiety, impatience, and the migration of a quarter of its population internally supported its soldiers and overcame their pain and triumphed.
I would like to remind you once again that October (6) is really the greatest day in my life, as we were surprised that our army crossed and achieved a victory, and my feeling of pride and pride will not be forgotten. Everyone volunteered according to their abilities, and Egypt actually won.
Another young man said: Do you believe, Doctor, that many of our colleagues do not even know the map of the lands still occupied by Israel?
I said: Your remark made me remind you that whenever I read a statement about the Arab lands that are still under the Israeli occupation, I find them decreasing in the memory of the daily and periodic media. Only the West Bank, the Golan, and recently all of Jerusalem, the sources of the Jordan River and villages from southern Lebanon and the rest of the villages and valleys of Palestine are mentioned. Unfortunately, the Israeli settlements have expanded and expanded upon – I say – they are almost forgotten by the media. In fact, there is a division taking place in Syria itself between Turkey, Israel and ethnic divisions. The Golan was out of sight, and it could have happened to Sinai as well.
Whoever lived and remembers October 73 must now be over fifty years old, and the teaching of the October War in education curricula must be based on a scientific vision and not rhetorical arguments that make students not believe the facts afterwards.
There are tournaments that are not often talked about, such as the heroism of the Egyptian people, whose army returned with a cruel and humiliating defeat in 67, which forced the country’s president to resign as a result of failure. The people did not accept the resignation, in support of the person, as I saw it at the time, but as a symbol of their non-acceptance of defeat.
I remember jokes and mockery of the Egyptian army in the whole world, and the Arab countries, but became the military uniform
Al-Masry is an area of belittling in word and deed, with the humiliation of the migration of citizens living on the canal line into the country in the millions.
Here, a civilized metal appeared for the Egyptian people, who resisted the negative wave directed at the army and raised its morale. Every holder of an educated certificate participated in the army without knowing the time of his departure for civil life, and the people accepted the immigrants of their homeland, in their homes and schools, and this people restored their prestige and position to their army.
This is a battle that no one talks about and no memories of.
The people of Egypt revived their army after the defeat, and the army of Egypt revived its people with its victory in October.
We must know that there are lessons learned to remember and remember in October.
The first: that the army and the people are one organization, and without the civil society’s support for its armed forces, there would be no victory, and all attempts to divide the country by separating the army from the people and dividing the people into ideological, religious and geographical categories will fail with the civilizational awareness of this great people.
Second: If we had entered the October War without a fundamental change in the concept of managing the military institution, and coordination between civil, diplomacy and military action, there would be no victory. We have learned, at that time, that it is not possible to do the same thing in the same way and wait for different results, so the concept of military action that led to defeat changed to a new concept that led to victory.
The third: that there is no victory without mistakes and sacrifices, and what is not documented is as if it never happened. As we analyze defeat, we must analyze victory. The defeat of 67 was harsh, harsh, harsh, but change occurred and experience accumulated, so that victory in 73 occurred.
When the 1967 war happened, I was in high school, and as young people we were under a false sense of power and waiting to enter Tel Aviv at the end of June 5. We were deceived by the hypocrisy of the authority, and the fear of expressing a free opinion deceived us, and the people were in a state of slumber, and a false ecstasy until our horizon and our army returned to escape, and the enemy was in the sky of Cairo.
A lesson I will never forget. It created in my political sentiments a rejection of the singularity of thought, or the belief of what has no proof. It created in my mental structure a rejection of hypocrisy and a desire for transparency and disclosure.
My children, the lesson of October is great, and its results can be applied today by insisting on the plurality of opinions, freedom of media, respect for difference that reveals the truth, construction rather than demolition, positivity, working as a team, and benefiting from the energies of all people.
Happy October. Wish to build the future
Here, a civilized metal appeared for the Egyptian people, who resisted the negative wave directed at the army and raised its morale. Every holder of an educated certificate participated in the army without knowing the time of his departure for civil life, and the people accepted the immigrants of their homeland, in their homes and schools, and this people restored their prestige and position to their army.
This is a battle that no one talks about and no memories of.
The people of Egypt revived their army after the defeat, and the army of Egypt revived its people with its victory in October.
We must know that there are lessons learned to remember and remember in October.
The first: that the army and the people are one organization, and without the civil society’s support for its armed forces, there would be no victory, and all attempts to divide the country by separating the army from the people and dividing the people into ideological, religious and geographical categories will fail with the civilizational awareness of this great people.
Second: If we had entered the October War without a fundamental change in the concept of managing the military institution, and coordination between civil, diplomacy and military action, there would be no victory. We have learned, at that time, that it is not possible to do the same thing in the same way and wait for different results, so the concept of military action that led to defeat changed to a new concept that led to victory.
The third: that there is no victory without mistakes and sacrifices, and what is not documented is as if it never happened. As we analyze defeat, we must analyze victory. The defeat of 67 was harsh, harsh, harsh, but change occurred and experience accumulated, so that victory in 73 occurred.
When the 1967 war happened, I was in high school, and as young people we were under a false sense of power and waiting to enter Tel Aviv at the end of June 5. We were deceived by the hypocrisy of the authority, and the fear of expressing a free opinion deceived us, and the people were in a state of slumber, and a false ecstasy until our horizon and our army returned to escape, and the enemy was in the sky of Cairo.
A lesson I will never forget. It created in my political sentiments a rejection of the singularity of thought, or the belief of what has no proof. It created in my mental structure a rejection of hypocrisy and a desire for transparency and disclosure.
My children, the lesson of October is great, and its results can be applied today by insisting on the plurality of opinions, freedom of media, respect for difference that reveals the truth, construction rather than demolition, positivity, working as a team, and benefiting from the energies of all people.
Happy October. Wish to build the future
