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Article: Arab Nations, Relations with
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ARAB NATIONS, RELATIONS WITH
ARAB NATIONS, RELATIONS WITH.
The Arab world is today divided into eighteen states plus a proto-state, the Palestinian Authority, but it is united in language, culture, and religion (more than 90 percent Muslim). All of the Arab world, except Morocco, Mauritania, and parts of the Arabian peninsula, was for centuries loosely united in the Ottoman Empire. All of the Arab world, except inner Arabia and northern Yemen, was subsequently divided by European imperial rule.
American relations with this vast Arab world fall into two periods of unequal duration:
From the late eighteenth century until World War II, marked by a few years of sporadic conflict with the ...