Colonialism In The Middle East

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There are number of reasons why multiple people see it beneficial for the Nations of the Middle East to Unite into one state. To notice the first of them, one does not need to look far. As it was mentioned in the section of the article above, unification of the Middle Eastern countries would break the boundaries that were put by the Colonizing western powers. The shadow of colonialism has been shading over the region for almost 100 years, and as many other regions, the Middle East still does seem to have a lot of sensitivity towards this certain period of time. Numerous times, from the TV channels of BBC to Al Jazeera one can hear people chanting anti-American and Anti-Western chants. This can precisely identify the sensitivity to these countries…show more content…
Being a much more important actor in the global arena would allow the United Arab nation to be more resistant to the external influence. This is essential for nationalistic movements, as according to Kamrava, „Nationalist sentiments may also be awakened by developments elsewhere. Nationalism can at times assume an antithetical nature, being formed and expressed in opposition to something. That something is often the expressed identity of another nation—another nationalism—or an external development that awakens, or reawakens, a sense of national pride and self-assertion“ (Kamrava, 2005, p 69). This is extremely important for the Arab world as attempts for this has already been made in the 20th century by the pioneers of the Arab Nationalism, such as Nahas Pasha, Egyptian Prime minister, who established Arab Union Club in order of to protect the “Interests and Rights” of the Arab Nations from the outside influence and develop the road of Arab…show more content…
Another significant issue that would not be apparent in United Arab States would be movement of the people. Although according to Arab ideologies Arabs belong to a wider Arab nation which goes above the modern nations and their state boundaries with shared language, culture and history, their mobility and connectivity is still challenged trough the mentioned borders. According to Peteet (as cited by Mason, 2011), in reality, the movement of the people of Arab nations is largely constrained, due to such factors as borders and citizenships. In this case the Palestinians are particularly noticeable, having less trouble traveling abroad in contrary to the Arab world. This case has been extremely evident with the cases of refugees traveling during the conflicts in the region, such as 2003 Iraq war refugees in Jordan. As until 2005 the refugees were able to arrive into the Jordan whit out authorization, later the boundaries of the nation became harder and stricter to go by, as it resulted in even more burden for the refugees. This was the result of the same artificial boundaries in the Arab nation created by outsiders, and brings another argument for the Arab Nationalists. Another social factor that would benefit from the unification of the Arab state would be the resource and wealth distribution in the region. Since the discovery
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