AHC: Unified Arab League

The idea of this challenge is to take the Arab League and unite it into one single country. How you do so is not important, so long as that it meets the goal of creating a united Arab League.

Any takers?
 
The idea of this challenge is to take the Arab League and unite it into one single country. How you do so is not important, so long as that it meets the goal of creating a united Arab League.

Any takers?
Given the incredible difficulty of merging even 2 or 3 countries into the UAR (which failed miserably each time it was tried), and given the massive egos of the leaders of most of the countries involved, and further given the split between Republics and Monarchies, on the one hand, and between Dynasties (Hashemite vs Saudi, say), and between republican philosophies, it's really, really difficult to imagine.

Hmmm... Saddam takes Kuwait without effective American response. Then takes Saudi. Then uses the oil money to buy enough arms and/or politicians to take out the rest of the Arab nations one by one?

Probably not QUITE ASB....
 
Given the incredible difficulty of merging even 2 or 3 countries into the UAR (which failed miserably each time it was tried), and given the massive egos of the leaders of most of the countries involved, and further given the split between Republics and Monarchies, on the one hand, and between Dynasties (Hashemite vs Saudi, say), and between republican philosophies, it's really, really difficult to imagine.

Hmmm... Saddam takes Kuwait without effective American response. Then takes Saudi. Then uses the oil money to buy enough arms and/or politicians to take out the rest of the Arab nations one by one?

Probably not QUITE ASB....

that actually is quite ASB. With Saudi oil fields under threat (assuming America doesn't intervene immediately), there's going to be a panicked response from the international community, which will respond with force if need be. And taking out the rest one by one? Not gonna happen, for various reasons.
 
Have Faisal I live longer, say into into his 60's ~1953. He seems to have been realistic, modernising and pro western/ pro british which would be critical in WW2. Butterfly away the 41 attempted coup and have Iraqi troops involved in the conquest of Vichy Syria which is rewarded after plebiscite, with the sunni majority provinces incorporated in the Iraqi/Syrian kingdom with a better name.

He had a claim on the Syrian throne and was consulted by the French between the wars so there is some influence. End of WW2 there is a larger Lebanon but also a larger Syria/Iraqi. Family ties with Jordan and a generally friendlier history with Israel, not entirely amicable but not outright hostility.

The northern royal states (Iraq/syria/Jordan/Kuwait maybe the gulf emirates) develop in the 50's as reasonably cohesive quasi federal state/alliance counterbalance to Egypt, Saudi in cultural terms with clear Arab nationalist goals and intermarriage with the other muslim royal families Morocco, maybe SE Asia.

Saudi stays with the Oil Money and Wahabism, Iran does its thing and greater lebanon is more clearly a multiconfessional state with stronger ties to Israel - 48 borders.
 
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