The problem is not forming the nation...is that nation lasting more than a week before internal pressure sink it
The problem is not forming the nation...is that nation lasting more than a week before internal pressure sink it
Good point. And in today's atmosphere there would be not way to get the Sunnis and Shiites together. But back in the "Arab nationalism" days it might work at least for a while. The leadership could invoke common external enemies (Israel, the West) and try to use that as a glue to hold things together.
Exactly. I dunno where people get the idea that “The Arabs” are some sort of cookie-cutter clones with only slight differences in religion and moustaches.Forget Sunnis and Shiites, in the 60's - 70's, Egyptian and Syrian union lasted a couple of years as both side were not able to work together...or better the Egyptian decided that they were the head honchos but the Syrian had a different opinion; add at this mix, Jordans, Iraquis...and other leaders and you see that any big version of the RAU will be quickly non functional.
Look at the EU, as a templates, any 'quick scheme' it's basically destinated to fail after some years
Exactly. I dunno where people get the idea that “The Arabs” are some sort of cookie-cutter clones with only slight differences in religion and moustaches.
Its like someone handwaving into existence a United European Superstate where >90% of the economy is based on pooling export revenues and then having a bunch of autocratic leaders carving it up among their followers. And then assuming it will all work because they are after all Europeans with a shared Christian heritage.
Libyans and Saudis and Kuwaitis are going to just sit there watching the revenues from THEIR oil being poured into the slums of Cairo, and get nothing in return except a warm nationalist glow? Proper desert Arabs sharing not just their money but leadership with flea-bitten bazaar dwellers and Shi’a dogs? Funds going not into feeding the most historic and populous countries in the Middle East but instead building roads and power lines in the empty desert for a handful of uneducated nomads who happened to inherit oilfields from the Turks/French/British? The number of fracture lines are endless, which is why no-one has ever taken it further than some empty political posturing.
Several wars against Israel have signally failed to develop much unity between Egypt, Syria and Iraq. I am personally deeply sceptical about the equivalence of two relatively homogenous European states covering very small territories to the sort of enormous political construct which is being proposed.They do have a common language and a common sense of being "Arabs" - before 1870, people could point to all sorts of reasons that Italy and Germany would not become unified nations. And the Arabs are almost all Muslims. But you are correct that there are fissures. What unified Germany was the Franco-Prussian War. Perhaps, a war of all the Arab states against Israel might pull them together.
Wouldn't bother to get authorization , it would just start trying to get them with Soviet and Pakistani help