There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

In May 1948 after the end of the British mandate and army withdrawal King Farouk sent the Egyptian army into Palestine with Nasser serving in the 6th Infantry Battalion. That same day Egypt closed the canal to Israeli shipping. Abdel Nasser Hussein had six brothers and one sister.

He is well known for his nationalist policies and version of pan-Arabism also referred to as Nasserism which won a great following in the Arab World during the 1950s and 1960s. Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (Arabic: جمال عبد الناصر حسين‎ IPA: [ɡæˈmæːl ʕæbdenˈnɑːsˤeɾ ħeˈseːn]; 15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. The imposed ending to the Suez Crisis made him a hero throughout the Arab world.