force right yeah no almost immediately as in within weeks a rival integration project was announced between the hashemite kingdoms of iraq and jordan the arab federation and the primary purpose of this new union was to have a united front to stand against the nazirite advance across the arab world as those of you watching who have brothers or sisters already know there is no rivalry quite like sibling rivalry the arab federation had the backing and support of the countries in the west wanting to use it as a tool to contain the threats posed by both communism in the region as well as nasser for his part nasser publicly congratulated iraq's king faisal on the founding of what he called a blessed union but the mouthpiece of the egyptian regime voice of the arabs was quick to criticize the arab federation as an imperialist tool aiming to divide the arab world both the uar and the af began to seek partners to join each of their new countries with both focused on oil-rich saudi arabia and kuwait in march of NUMBER_TOKEN the sheikh of kuwait hinted that they might join the uar but then follow this with a visit to baghdad in may which sent the rumor mill spinning that kuwait might instead join the af at the end of the day kuwait joined neither just like saudi arabia and no further opportunities to expand the arab federation ever occurred because in july of NUMBER_TOKEN king faisal ii of iraq and his prime minister nuri al-sayed were overthrown by the iraqi free officers movement led by abd al-karim qasim himself a nazirite pen arabist it didn't take long for the new iraqi government to announce that it was withdrawing from the af but that it instead would be joining the uar this was on the heels of a declaration by the kingdom of yemen that it too would be joining the uar as a federal state to be called the united arab states unlike syria however yemen was to join on the condition it retained absolute control over its own domestic affairs it was on the heels of all of this that the NUMBER_TOKEN lebanon crisis emerged with many lebanese wanting to join the uar in the face of equally wide opposition to the idea for an in-depth look at this subject please check out our video on the NUMBER_TOKEN lebanon crisis now interestingly it was actually nassar that brokered the end of the lebanon crisis he recognized that lebanon was a unique region with a very complicated political situation and wasn't confident that the inclusion of lebanon into the uar would be the best course of action so clearly we can see that pan-arabism was not only popular as an idea but its implementation had momentum so what happened well the structure of the uar itself is what happened the syrians disillusioned by their unequal share of power and the autocratic rule of nasa grew restless the continued implementation of socialist policies in syria upset enough groups that steps were taken the syrian bath party the same bath party that had opened the door to nassar in the
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