Word: arabization
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Their strategic position at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, flanking Suez, the Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb gave the Arab possessors of Asia's oil lands an importance beyond their numerical or political strength. India's position in Asia and in the British Empire made the Indian question not only Britain's but the world's problem...
Like a muezzin's cry, a realization was quivering through the dusty air of the Middle East last week: The war in Europe was almost over. The Arab peoples still had done next to nothing to win favors at the peace table. And Pan-Arabia was still a mirage...
There had been Pan-Arab parleys aplenty but no action. Every race-proud Arab knew that the time was long overdue for telling the world that Pan-Arabia wanted to play a greater part in fashioning her own future. From the Tigris to the Nile the desert air was sultry with more than summer heat...
...forum and a plan for Pan-Arabia. They were: Egypt's Premier, cagey, ambitious Mustafa El Nahas Pasha; Syria's President, handsome, able Shukri Kuwatly; Iraq's ex-Premier, shrewd, far-seeing General Nuri Pasha Es-Said. Nahas Pasha had finally fixed the much-postponed Pan-Arab talks to open in Alexandria's garden-girdled Antoniades Palace after Ramadan (which ends Sept. 17); Kuwatly and Nuri Pasha had produced a joint plan to turn the mirage of Pan-Arabia into a reality...
...Kuwatly-Nuri plan was less spacious, more workable, stood a better chance of success. It aimed to reunite into a Greater Syria Federation four countries-Syria, the Lebanon, Palestine, Trans-Jordan-that had formed part of the old Ottoman Empire. Arab unity would be achieved in two stages: 1) the Greater Syria move under an agreed form of government; 2) a larger League of Arab States, to which the new Greater Syria and Iraq would immediately adhere. Other Arab States might come in when they wished...