{"id":12869,"date":"2025-10-06T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/?p=12869"},"modified":"2025-10-06T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T18:02:06","slug":"october-memories-the-pride-of-achievement-by-dr-hossam-badrawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hossambadrawi.com\/en\/october-memories-the-pride-of-achievement-by-dr-hossam-badrawi\/","title":{"rendered":"October Memories: The Pride of Achievement By Dr. Hossam Badrawi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As is my habit every October, I reach out to young people \u2014 among them my family\u2019s youth, colleagues in public work, and especially members of the Takatoff Association<\/em>, the Education First Foundation<\/em>, and the Culture and Knowledge Promotion Society<\/em>, as well as my university students.<\/p>\n

The 6th of October<\/strong> remains one of the greatest days of my life.
For those who did not live through the humiliation of the 1967 defeat cannot truly taste the beauty, impact, and worth of the 1973 victory.<\/p>\n

I was a medical student at Qasr Al-Aini, and each of us had a brother, father, or friend in the army fighting for the nation\u2019s dignity.
We gathered around the radio, shivering with emotion as we listened to the steady, truthful military communiqu\u00e9s \u2014 so unlike those of 1967.
The media had learned from its past mistakes and spoke honestly to the people, and the country\u2019s leaders had learned from the great Egyptian nation \u2014 rising to the level of responsibility.<\/p>\n

One of the young men, born over 30 years after that day, once said to me:<\/p>\n

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\u201cNot so fast, Dr. Hossam. There are books and articles saying Egypt didn\u2019t really win that war. Who should we believe?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Another added:<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou said the same about the 1956 war, and that turned out not to be a real victory either \u2014 Israel still occupied Sinai until the U.S. intervened.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I replied:
\u201cThis is not true. A military conflict\u2019s result is determined by who imposed their will on the other. In 1956, Egypt imposed its will on Britain, France, and Israel. Every country uses what it has \u2014 armies and diplomacy \u2014 to achieve its goals.
By the end of that war, Egypt controlled the Suez Canal and regained Sinai \u2014 therefore, the war\u2019s outcome was an Egyptian victory, followed by the resignation of the British Prime Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs for 1973,\u201d I continued,
\u201cthe world believed that crossing the Suez Canal and breaching the Bar Lev Line \u2014 then considered the strongest defensive fortification in military history \u2014 was impossible.
Israel had overwhelming technological and strategic superiority. Everyone assumed the situation was permanent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut what happened was that our forces crossed \u2014 with organization and wise leadership \u2014 and changed a long-standing military reality. Then negotiations came from a position of strength, not defeat.
What followed was the reopening of the Suez Canal to global navigation, the return of displaced people to Port Said, Ismailia, and Suez, and the restoration of Sinai.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe October War was part of an integrated strategy to restore dignity and land.
The military effort joined hands with diplomacy and law until even the last inch of Taba was regained \u2014 and Sinai became wholly Egyptian again.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut the number of our forces in Sinai was limited \u2014 so the recovery was incomplete.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I said:
\u201cI \u2014 and you \u2014 travel to Sharm El-Sheikh and Saint Catherine, and until the rise of ISIS terrorism, we used to visit Al-Arish freely. Every gain has its price.
Remember that the Golan Heights has been fully annexed by Israel for 53 years, and the world is gradually recognizing that occupation. The West Bank and Gaza are still under control as well.
Do not let the defeatists transfer their negative energy to you. Egypt won<\/em> \u2014 in battle and in negotiation \u2014 and changed both geography and history.\u201d<\/p>\n

They said:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThen why do we only hear exaggerated claims in the media that make us doubt everything?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I replied:
\u201cYou are right \u2014 and you have a duty.
Yes, the overblown propaganda and inflated glorification breed doubt.
And we must resist the false narrative that \u2018angels descended to fight for us,\u2019 as if our victory were divine magic and not the product of intellect and courage.
We must read \u2014 the memoirs of our heroes and even of our enemies \u2014 and use our minds.
The truth is that our army and people did<\/em> win after defeat. We never surrendered. We regained our land six years after occupation.
And we repeated the same civic maturity when the people rejected the Brotherhood\u2019s rule in June 30, ending another attempted occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur army rose because the educated joined its ranks. Science entered its core. The people endured displacement and fear, yet stood by their soldiers \u2014 and together they triumphed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why October 6th remains one of the proudest days of my life.
We witnessed our army crossing and winning \u2014 the pride and elation are unforgettable.
Everyone volunteered as they could, and Egypt truly<\/em> won.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Those who lived through October 1973 must now be over fifty, and the teaching of the October War in schools must be based on scientific understanding<\/em>, not exaggerated rhetoric that later causes students to doubt the truth.<\/p>\n

There are heroic stories rarely told \u2014 like the people\u2019s heroism after 1967:
The army returned defeated and humiliated, the president resigned, and yet the people refused to accept it \u2014 a symbol of their refusal to accept defeat.
The world mocked our army, our uniform became a target of ridicule, millions fled from the Canal Zone.
And yet, the Egyptian people \u2014 in an act of cultural greatness \u2014 lifted their army\u2019s spirit, accepted the displaced, and restored the nation\u2019s dignity.
This was a silent battle never commemorated \u2014 the people resurrected their army, and the army, in turn, resurrected its people.<\/p>\n

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We must remember the lessons of October:<\/p>\n

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    The army and the people are one system.<\/strong>
    Without civilian support, there could have been no victory.
    Every attempt to divide the army from the people, or the people into factions, will fail \u2014 for our civilization\u2019s consciousness unites us.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Victory came only through change.<\/strong>
    Had we entered the war with the same mindset as 1967, we would have lost again.
    We learned that you cannot repeat the same action and expect different results.
    We changed our strategic and leadership philosophy \u2014 and thus achieved victory.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    There is no victory without mistakes and sacrifice.<\/strong>
    What is not documented is as if it never happened.
    We must analyze victory just as we analyze defeat.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The 1967 defeat was bitter \u2014 painfully so \u2014 but transformation followed, and experience accumulated until the 1973 victory was achieved.
    When the 1967 war happened, I was in high school, under an illusion of power, expecting our army to reach Tel Aviv in a day.
    We were deceived \u2014 by flattery, fear, and false triumph \u2014 until our army returned in retreat and the enemy flew over Cairo.
    That experience engraved in my soul a permanent rejection of one-minded thinking, falsehood, and hypocrisy \u2014 and a desire for transparency and truth.<\/p>\n

    My children, the lesson of October is immense \u2014 and its wisdom applies even today:
    insistence on diversity of opinion, free media, respect for difference (for it reveals truth), construction not destruction, teamwork, and mobilizing the potential of the entire nation.<\/p>\n

    Happy October to you all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He is the former head of the Gynecology Department, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. He conducted his post graduate studies from 1979 till 1981 in the United States. He was elected as a member of the Egyptian Parliament and chairman of the Education and Scientific Research Committee in the Parliament from 2000 till 2005. As a politician, Dr. Hossam Badrawi was known for his independent stances. His integrity won the consensus of all people from various political trends. During the era of former president Hosni Mubarak he was called The Rationalist in the National Democratic Party NDP because his political calls and demands were consistent to a great extent with calls for political and democratic reform in Egypt. He was against extending the state of emergency and objected to the National Democratic Party's unilateral constitutional amendments during the January 25, 2011 revolution. 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