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What if, after the First World War, instead of paritioning the conquests from the Ottoman Empire into English and French zones and creating numerous nations out of it, what if the English and French had worked to create a single nation? It would comprise of modern Saudi Arabia, Oman, Yemen, the UAE, Qatar, Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel (Palestine).

I know the Imperialist attitudes of France and England are going to be hard to wave away, but perhaps if the Arab army had seized Damascus and/or the French and English couldn't come to an agreement to divide it up and the Arabs played them off one another. Or they just agreed to have it as a protectorate.

I don't know, not terribly interested in how it happens, but what happens then? If it could survive, how would it impact WW2? The post-war years? The Cold War?
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