Middle East Conflict Primary Sources | The Alexandria Protocol

The Alexandria Protocol (October 7, 1944)

Issued by representatives of Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and
Transjordan
Reprinted in The Arab States and the Arab League
Edited by Muhammad Khalil
Published in 1962

"A League will be formed of the independent Arab States which consent to join the League....The object of the League will be...to insure their [Arab States] cooperation, and protect their independence and sovereignty against every aggression by suitable means"

When the British took control of Palestine—first with a military government following the end of World War I (1914–18; war in which Great Britain, France, the United States, and their allies defeated Germany, Austria-Hungary, and their allies) in 1920, then with a civilian government authorized by the League of Nations after 1922—they did so with the intention of creating...