Egyptian policeman Mohamed Salah, who was killed last Saturday after killing 3 Israeli soldiers at a guard post on the Egyptian-Palestinian border, has brought back to the minds of many stories of Egyptian soldiers, officers and volunteers in defending Palestine, and fighting several battles in Jerusalem and its surroundings during the 1948 war (the Nakba). In his book "100 Years of My Life", the Jerusalemite Muammar Muhammad Jadallah documented many of these stories, which began with the "mettle" of the Egyptians in smuggling weapons.