Opinion of Gamal Abdel Nasser

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"No person, not even the most simple one, takes seriously the lie of the six million Jews that were murdered" - Nasser in 1963

I can totally see why an Egyptian might like him - there's a small army of similar "strongmen" who weren't remotely good people but were associated with good times and national pride (Kemal, Sukarno, Nkrumah, Peron etc). But nasser is nothing to emulate.

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Even aside from the anti semitism, he ended up victim of the fatal flaw that 99% of strongmen leaders end up having: completely buying their own hype and believing they are the only true representative of the people, that nobody else could possibly understand the populations' wishes and only they are qualified to make decisions on their behalf. If he hadn't died in office, you'd have probably seen him go the way of Sukarno or even Gaddafi.