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The Yom-Kippur War, Fifty Years on: The Conflict Which Ushered In Neoliberalism and Changed Our World Forever..
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The world has been in a perpetual state of war since my mother was born in 1945.
There was the second world war, Korean and Vietnam wars, which took place among rival imperial powers.
And you also had the wars of independence in Algeria, Mozambique, the Nigerian civil war, which arose from the peculiar mess of European countries which were profoundly unwilling to give up the privileges, to which they had become dangerously addicted.
And while it is easy to point the finger at the former colonial powers in Europe and the United States of America for the mess they have made in the last 80 years, I think that it is pertinent to cast a glance at the war which I do believe changed the world forever.
And no, I am not talking about the Suez war nor the six day conflict for that matter.
I am referring to the Yom-Kippur war.
When a coalition of Arab states(Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia) got together to attack Israel on the 6th of October 1973, they did so with a profound sense of history and a deep sense of grievance stemming from what took place when Egypt…