The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 57)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 57)

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of Salih Jabr and the abolition of the Portsmouth Treaty.7°
Moreover, their interest in change was stirred by the smashing
success of the Communists in China. Hence they saw in the
Communists a revolutionary force that should not be ruled out
of the national struggle. On this premise the Arab
Nationalists entered into discussions with the Communists
with the objective of working out a formula for cooperation.
However, the discussions broke out very soon because the
Communist group would not waver on the Palestinian problem.
Following the official line of the Communist parties the
Communist students were all in favor of the United Nations
Partition Plan. The Arab Nationalists who were adament on
this issue could hardly find any common ground to share with
the Communists.?/
The Syrian Social Nationalists were the second most
important group on campus. The Arab Nationalists ruled out
the possibility of working with this group off-hand. They
regarded the doctrine of Syrian nationalism as utterly
incongruent with their national ideology. In fact they
viewed Syrian nationalism as the most "sinister" manifestation
of racial and cultural anti-Arab thought [Shu'ubiyah] which
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threatens the drive of the Arabs toward total unity.
26 se Walter Laqueur, Communism and Nationalism in the
Middle East (New York: Praeger, 1956), p. 193.
27 statement by Dr. George Habash, personal interview,
June 24, 1970.
28 cee Labib Zuwiyya Yamak, The Syrian Social Nationalist
Party (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966), p. 3.

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party

تاريخ

1971-02-07

المنشئ

Basil R. Al-Kubaisi

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