Sadat , October .... It's still our pride

I am still recalling October victory , the month didn't over yet. The Movie " Ayam ElSadat - ايام السادات " was in TV few days ago, Its name means " Sadat Days" I used to translate its name differently "Sadat Era". Yes it was an era , not just days , months or Years it was an Era.

It is fare enough that Time Magazine shares this with me , as Sadat was on Time cover 10 times during his 10 years as Egypt's president, which reflecting the importance of him and his time.

Those years of Sadat as president made a huge difference to our lives now , it deserve to be a complete era. No one can deny that we still living the results of that era effect. I recognized this through my early days , in the matter of fact i thought that it is something within our country only. But the surprising thing that This era affected in the whole world. I didn't get this result from only my readings but also from people from different countries i met , specially outside our Arab world.

In 1994 , The ICPD " International Conference for Population & Development" held in Cairo. During my work in that event, I shared many interesting experiences with different cultures from all over the world, specially in social science and politics.I believe it was my 1st encounter in such interesting ideas of politics and how politics should always be for the benefit of people.
I realized that Sadat Era really made a broad effect to the world, that forced many big countries to look to the middle east and Egypt specific with respect and admiration for its potential , which was underestimated during that time.

During my dinner with some members of the USA delegation in the conference, where they enjoyed one of our Egyptian traditional meals, I was describing the ingredients of the meal, it was "Koshary" by the way, then suddenly one of them asked me " Why i sense that you (people & government) are neglecting any sign of Sadat era ?".
I replied: From Where you got that impression?
She Said: I see no statues of Sadat in any of Cairo Squares or any sign that tells " once upon a time there was a great leader".
I responded: But we do have a city named by him , We have The Memorial of the Unknown Soldier that located in Nasr City,which have Sadat grave.
She responded smartly: A City in the desert between Alex and Cairo ! , A Memorial of thousands of Soldiers !.
She continues: I 've been chosen among this delegation due to my studies and researches , it is worth to mention that my graduation project was about focusing on the middle east conflicts between 1967 to 1973 that results in changing totally the USA strategy towards Arab and Egypt specific. And i can recall one of strategy professors words " We are obligated to have Egypt on our side as we can't afford to have it on the opposite side" .
And she started to tell me things that i were speechless while listening to her.

She continues: Do you know that American satellites where covering every single 500 Meters of the battle field since 1970. all those data were shared with Israeli Decision makers. So all military exercises near the border were recorded observed and shared with Israel.

She concluded: Sadat was the 1st leader in the modern world that managed to deceive the new Satellites ,To be more specific he managed to fool the brains behind those satellites (Americans). The deception concept that Sadat made considered to be the most advanced long term deception strategic technique that ever been used in any military conflict. It is now part of any military deception techniques modern textbooks.

She continues: And not only this but he ( Sadat) was the only Leader that made USA the lifetime Supporter of Israeli To be the guardian of peace making between Egypt & Israeli. So do you think USA would ever change its known policy that been written long time ago because of just a leader who fought war with Israel ! , of course not , it was because of that exceptional thinking ahead leader that came in the unexpected place to make the unexpected moves that later on proven to be the right one.

I was unable to comment on what she said, but inside myself i were saying if she is that believer in us , what about us ! Why we hide our pride , who is gaining the benefit of this. now i recall a friend of mine who told me that long time ago he chat through internet with an Israeli citizen that guy said to him" Man , thank you for helping us to forget Yom Kippur - They name 1973 War with that name- ". Is that Israeli is right ?! , well if we are intending to do this then sure he is right!

Well , It is still our pride to keep every achievement that made by any of our former leaders ,regardless of any other issues. This is part of our history now , and for Sadat his achievement is part of our present and future.