Yemen: Between Iraq and Somalia

... united Arab force – as seen in the Arab-Israeli wars, in Lebanon of the 1970s, or during the Kuwait crisis – was dominated by one or two countries, with the other participants a mere formality. The establishment of a NATO-style bloc by the Arab League also appears highly unlikely, as the group unites more than twenty states with sometimes utterly diverse interests, as the failure to come to a consensus on such a universally important issue as the Israeli conflict clearly demonstrates. Egypt and Jordan signed separate peace treaties, and prefer to keep themselves to themselves. A union of the likeminded could possibly have been created, as was the mentioned at the Arab Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh. But even the Gulf states failed to establish ...