Word: iraqization
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...British Foreign Office deliberately carved the Arab Middle East into artificial chunks, maneuverable as so many chessmen. Near the end of World War II, when the xenophobic Arabs began dreaming of union, the Foreign Office forestalled it by inventing the Arab League, a loose forum in which Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen systematically demonstrated that they had a common religion and a common culture but little common ground...
Last week, with the West now trying to make them realize a common need&#defense against Communism-the Arab League states broke into a noisy quarrel. The uproar was provoked by Iraq's decision to join a defense alliance with NATO member Turkey. Iraq's pact collided with the league's strictures against members joining in outside alliance. More to the point, it meant that Iraq, second strongest of the Arab nations, was openly challenging Egypt's position as the presumed leader of the Arab world...
...Sides. Convened in angry haste by Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser, the league's leaders gathered in Cairo. Iraq argued that the Arabs could not safely refuse to seek the protection of the West. As ex-Premier Mohammed Fadhil Jamali once put it: "We have many complaints against the West...But this should not blind us to the fact that the West today needs us as much as we need the West...The Arabs do not have the force to stand against international currents and have no alternative but to depend on others for their own defense...
...state uncommitted. In the quarrelsome and weak Arab League, neutralism is not hard to sell since it is negative: the Arab states are united chiefly by a common antipathy to Israel and a general indifference to the Cold War. But last month, meeting in Cairo, three Arab League members (Iraq, Syria and Lebanon) openly rebelled against Nasser's neutralism. They pointed to his own deal with London, whereby the British agreed to get out of Suez and the U.S. followed through with $40 million in aid. The three states insisted on an open discussion of the economic and military...
...week's end Gamal Abdel Nasser was in a spot. If he reversed himself and approved Iraq's move, he risked trouble with his own mercurial and frequently xenophobic people. If he disapproved, but could not stop the falling away of other Arab states, Egypt might find itself no longer the leader in the Arab Middle East. Fretted Nasser: "Sometimes politicians are not patient enough. This action has come too soon. Now it will be complicated...