Challenge: Pro-Arab POTUS, Pro-Israel UK PM

The closest IOTL were Bush Sr. and Wilson, but at different times. Have this occur simultaneously with a POD of 1950. Bonus points for sanctions, double bonus for an "Arabist" outlook similar to the FO, triple bonus for making this a cornerstone of US policy.
 
That gave me an idea for a Turkey speech ITTL. Perhaps I should clear some Arabic phrases with Leo, Abdul or Hash, being totally ignorant apart from "salaam aleikum, aleikum salaam."
 
Since the OP specified going all the way back to 1950, I will take a certain pleasure in pointing out that some people need to make themselves more familiar with OTL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis

The Suez Crisis matches the OP's criteria exactly; the US backs Egypt, France and Britain back Israel. It isn't impossible to imagine that the alignment during the Suez Crisis simply remains in place rather than shifting as it did in OTL.
 

Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
In the immediate stages after WW2, the US was trying to allign itself behind the conservative Arab monarchies. Israel was arguably receiving more support from the Soviets than it was from the US. Israel's largest weapons supplier during the War of Independence was Czechoslovakia afterall. The West was trying to make sure weapons didn't get to Palestine. As with later in the Cold War, the US saw the Soviet-backed republican Baathists and similar movements as the enemy and was trying to undercut the Soviet influence by seeming more sympathetic to Arab concerns about Israel.

As the above poster pointed out, the Suez Crisis satisfies the pro-Israeli UK component of the challenge.
 

Ak-84

Banned
Ike was against the Suez OP because he thought (correctly) that it was another example of imperialism (for which he had little time) as opposed to being pro-Arab.

And George H W Bush was hardly pro-Arab, I think it shows how ASB the whole concept is when a US President who only speaks to Arabs is lablled pro-Arab.

Anyway, last I checked, Arabs say "Ahalan Wahsalan" as opposed to Asalam Alaikum.
 
Just one little point, the UK can't afford to throw cash at Israel the way the US does. If the UK, even the UK and France, were staunch Israel supporters the IDF would be smaller and less technologically advanced because the US gives Israel and stack of military gear and Britian and France can't afford to do that.
 
Would this mean the Yanks get a reason to nuke London, end imperialism, and finally bring peace to the world? :) I can see it now, world peace through a new world order under Franco-Russo-American leadership.
 
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Rush Tarquin

Gone Fishin'
Thing is, the best way to keep the initial configuration of US support for conservative Arab monarchies would be to prevent the '52 Egyptian Revolution. But that precludes an Anglo-Israeli alliance and puts the UK and the US on the same side re Egypt. The US making a big commitment in Egypt and succeeding would probably necessarily drive Israel into the arms of the Soviets.
 
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