Arab League Quotes
The British were trying to enlist the aid of the Arabs in fighting against the Ottoman Turks who had controlled all of the Middle East in the name of Islam. There was another clause in the letter excepting the areas that Britain had agreements with France and Russia. However, unknown to the Sherif there was the Sykes-Picot treaty which had secret clauses giving Syria, Damascus and other prime areas to the French. The English could not guarantee independence to much of the Arab Mideast.
when Saddam Hussein led Iraq in an Invasion of Kuwait in 1990 the Arab League was split. While most Arab countries condemned the invasion, they split on whether or not to cooperate with United States leadership in a broad coalition of nations including Saudi Arabia and some other Arab nations. Having the United States, British, French and other Western troops as the strongest military force on Arab lands was anathema to some nations. Maksoud, a veteran Arab Diplomat and Representative for most of his professional life, could not rationalize the different Arab points of view.
Western Saudi Arabia. Although his claim to rule all Arabs was never recognized by other nations and he was deposed by other Arabs in 1924, his sons Feysal I and Abdullah ended up ruling Iraq and Transjordan.
