ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the second of these meanings and more particularly with the Fertile Crescent concept as it appeared in Iraqi perspectives between 1920 and the 1958 revolution. Indeed, the Syrian Assembly's constitutional proposals of 1928 were focused by the dominant National bloc on achieving the political reunification of geographical Syria, on the unification of Syria and Iraq. But the cry for unity, even in Iraq, found no concrete or generally accepted form. In exchange, Britain should evacuate Iraq and Transjordan and persuade France to evacuate Syria. Early in 1954 the Iraqi Prime Minister Fadhil al-Jamali put before the Arab League yet another proposal for Arab federation starting with Iraq, Syria and Jordan, but this was quickly rejected by Shishakli's representatives and other League members as the old Fertile Crescent project in new clothing. Fertile Crescentry as a political project came in several sizes, and several shapes.
