Requiem for Arab Nationalism

I stumbled on this great article from Middle East Quarterly.

Had Syria or Jordan, or even both, lost the (1967) war, it would not have been the unmitigated disaster for Arab nationalism that it proved to be. But Arab nationalism could not survive the abject humiliation inflicted on its acknowledged prophet, who, through his shrill and overzealous propaganda machine, had promised a fabled triumph in al-Ma‘raka al-Masiriya, the battle of destiny. Indeed, Cairo’s radio station “The Voice of the Arabs,” in a baffling act of self-deception, continued to proclaim victory after victory on the Sinai battleground long after the summary defeat of the Egyptian army.