Gamal Hemdan .. The June 1967 Revolution
Written by: Shahdi Attieh
Many names were given for what happened on June 5, 1967 and what followed, from a setback to defeat, disaster, tragedy, etc.
One of the names that describe the reality of what happened to the Arab nation on that date, but Dr. Jamal Hamdan, in an important study entitled “Constant Objectives and variable Means,” which he published in Al-Kateb magazine in August 1967, described it as the “June Revolution of 1967.” This important and dangerous study, which exceeded 25 pages, was the first thing Jamal Hamdan wrote after the setback revealing the extent of Jamal Hamdan’s awareness of the nature of the American-Zionist aggression against the Arab nation, which is the destruction of the progressive revolutionary leadership in the homeland, and that the masses’ exit on June 10th quickly and spontaneously has failed the aggression to achieve the essence of its purposes, and the days have proven the validity of Jamal’s theory Hamdan, Israel could not feel that it had won and achieved its full goals from the aggression of 1967 except after the absence of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Gamal Hamdan moves in his study, describing the masses’ revolt against the global counter-revolution.
If the 1952 revolution was a revolution against the local counter-revolution, then the June 1967 revolution was a revolution against the counter-revolution on the international level, Jamal Hamdan says in his study, “there is absolutely nothing to compensate us for the military setback except for it to be a counter military victory of greater weight, and perhaps no one understood the significance of the military setback as the steadfast fighter hero Abdel Nasser realized it on the evening of June 9, but no one also did not realize the significance of the entire conflict as the masses of the Arab nation realized it.
On June 10, between this and that, the Arab struggle against the colonial complicity missed with an amazing immediacy and spontaneity, its main and fundamental goal, which is the destruction of the progressive revolutionary leaders in the great homeland. From this point, there is no doubt that the aggression has failed to achieve the essence of its purposes.
In fact, we until now did not realize yet the purpose of 9, 10th of June. We think that they will be recorded in the history of the Arabs as a great turning point and a major sign on the road.
The battle of complicity was nothing but the counter-revolution that came in military clothes and its goal was to bury the Arab revolution and bury it forever, whether in Egypt or Syria, but what happened is the exact opposite, as it was renewing the youth of the progressive national revolution and sending it to the fullest extent.. Indeed, we may not exaggerate much if we say that it is a new revolution that is complementary to the national revolution and a revolution against the counter-revolution. If the July 1952 revolution was a revolution against the local counter-revolution, the June 1967 revolution was a revolution against the global counter-revolution.
The first was an armed revolution in the interest of the people and the second was a popular revolution in the interest of the armed leadership. The first came out of the barracks to protect the street from internal danger and the second came out of the street to protect the barracks from external danger.
Therefore, -if the logic and the analogy are correct- a revolutionary cycle took place like a closed electric circuit, and the people and the army met with a revolution twice: in the first, the army was the leader and in the second, the people were the leader..."
Personally, I do not know whether this study was reprinted within what was re-collected from Jamal Hamdan’s articles on the occasion of the exhibition and his selection as the Person of the Year or not. Jamal Hamdan called for isolation later in the mid-seventies when he saw and witnessed that the revolution was destroyed and the aggression achieved all its purposes more than Hamdan himself expected after the absence of the revolutionary leadership from the region.
