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By Youssef Chaitani
The complicated courting among Syria and Lebanon is the political fulcrum of the center East, and has ruled headlines because the withdrawal of French colonial forces from the Levant in 1943. one of many nice paradoxes of this courting is how such very assorted political platforms emerged in what many Syrian and Lebanese humans see as one society. on the time of independence, it used to be assumed that simply the divide-and-rule techniques of overseas powers stored the Arab peoples artificially separated. during this significant new publication, Youssef Chaitani examines how, regardless of the superiority of Arab nationalism and the regression of imperial interference, Syria and Lebanon grew to become extra divided, instead of extra built-in within the post-independence interval. Drawing on untapped assets from the documents of Western overseas places of work and the neighborhood press, Chaitani uncovers the recommendations and motivations of either international locations' elites in this interval, and produces conclusions that have significant implications for our realizing of Arab nationalism, in addition to the complexities of the Syrian-Lebanese dating.
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The right of each independent state of the Arab League to sign agreements with any party. 4. 70 However, in spite of government assurances, which materialised in the Lebanese proposals to the Cairo conference, radical Lebanese nationalists were convinced that unity schemes were being secretly harboured. They substantiated their claims by a number of statements, made by Syrian and Arab politicians such as Jamil Mardam Bey, who declared that an Arab state was in the making. These declarations were coupled by the incessant demands of Prince ‘Abdallah for a Greater Syria.
These fears were reflected in the proposals carried by the Lebanese delegation that left for Cairo during February 1945 to take part in deliberations on the Arab League’s statutes. The delegation was headed by Foreign Minister Phar‘oun, who carried the new Lebanese proposals. They were the following: 1. The absolute recognition of the independence of each Arab League member. 2. The freedom of each member to withdraw from the League. 3. The right of each independent state of the Arab League to sign agreements with any party.
35 At noon, on 4 January 1944, a ceremony took place in Beirut in which representatives of France, Syria and Lebanon signed an agreement marking the transfer of the Common Interests. The Syrian and the Lebanese delegations were headed by the Minister of Finance, Khaled al-‘Azem, and Prime Minister, Riad el-Solh. On the occasion, the Lebanese Prime Minister gave a speech in which he addressed the concerns of the radical Lebanese and Arab nationalists. Solh emphasised that Lebanon and Syria were two independent states and that cooperation with Lebanon’s Arab brothers or the West did not diminish the sovereignty of the two states.