The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 154)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 154)

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. The experience of the rise and fall of the United
Arab Republic had a great impact on the ANM. When the U.A.R.
was established, the ANM allied its fortunes to the fortune
of the new state. In fact it aspired to become the striking
force of the U.A.R. in Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. Again when
the U.A.R. collapsed, the ANM wanted to play the role of the
savior of that state. The ANM failed in both roles: the
Striking force and the savior.
The. ANM failed to play the roles it was set to perform
not because of its weakness, though’ it was not that powerful,
but more importantly it failed because the prevailing cir-
cumstances were not conducive to the emergence of an Arab
unionist force. Both local forces and foreign powers were
then working to subdue the U.A.R.
The fall of the U.A.R. lead to the disintegration of
the Nasserite movement throughout the Arab World. The ANM
could not escape the cross fire. The division between the
nationalist and the leftist factions surfaced at a party
congress held after the secession of Syria from the U.A.R.
Further defeats in Iraq, Syria and Jordan accentuated the
divisions within the ANM. Finally the June war shattered
the few remaining ties that held the different factions
together.
In the meantime there emerged three trends: the
first upheld the old line travelled by the movement, the
second repudiated the old line as wholly responsible for the

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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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