The Arab League between the unity content and the reality of fragmentation

Abstract

With the outbreak of World War II, Arab leaders were divided into two teams, one team declared its support for the Allied countries in their struggle against the Axis powers in the hope that the Arabs' hopes for independence and unity would be fulfilled after the end of the war, and the second team blamed the Allies for neglecting the Arabs and saw that the opportunity was ripe to take advantage of the international situation by adopting a neutral position between the two warring blocs until the situation became clear and the Arabs knew which of the two blocs would help them gain independence and achieve unity. After the Allied victory in the Battle of El Alamein, the Iraqi government found the opportunity ripe to take action, so it invited Colonel (Stuart Newcomb) to discuss Arab unity with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Said, but the first (Stuart Newcomb) explicitly declared that Arab unity was impossible due to the circumstances of the war.