The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 92)

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The Arab Nationalists Movement 1951-1971: From Pressure Group to Socialist Party (ص 92)

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parties in the Northern Region as "an important step to build
a viable political organization to defend the union". 27 The
Arab Nationalists may have not been as naive as the Ba'thists |
have been in supporting the decree which brought an end to
party life in Syria. After all they had very little to lose
and much to gain. Unlike the Ba'th, the ANM never had the
opportunity to build a grass root movement in Syria before
the establishment of the Union. They were latecomers to the
scene, and their general ideas did not attract more than a
few high school and university students. With the dissolving
of the Ba'th and the other major political parties, the Arab
Nationalists dynamic youth could stand on a par with the
elder politicians. Surprisingly, few of them rose to the
higher organs of the newly found National Union.
If the domestic policy of the U.A.R. was favorable
to the ANM, its Arab and foreign policy was even more so.
Indeed the late ‘fifties could be described as the heyday
of the Arab Nationalists for they could depend on the support
of the U.A.R. whether they were fighting the pro-West
government of Sham'un in Lebanon or the Communist supported
regime of Kassem in Iraq. Thanks to Col. Abdul Hamid
al-Sarraj, the Arab Nationalists did not lack the weapons
needed in those hot spots. Moreover, the Northern Region
became a sanctuary and a training ground for ANM members
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from the neighboring Arab states.
1] opid.
18-tatement by Col. Abdul Hamid al-Sarraj, personal
interview, June 28, 1970.

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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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