That's a bit risky. When members join or leave it's relatively easy to change number of simple items like stars. This flag would require a serious redesign.
Arab League Joint Defence Pact (1950): Already exists on paper, but never functioned as a NATO-style defence system. Members rarely agreed on a common threat.
Baghdad Pact / CENTO (1955): Tried to unite Iraq, Iran, Turkiye, Pakistan, & UK against the USSR; collapsed when Iraq withdrew in 1959.
Peninsula Shield Force (GCC, 1984): Exists, but is small (~40k men) & rarely deployed except in Bahrain 2011.
These show the deep difficulty of sustaining collective Arab / regional defence beyond symbolic levels.
The Peninsula Shield exists for the GCC countries. Though it's only ever been used to quell protests in Bahrain and prop up the unpopular government in 2011.
They would definitely settle for a more neutral city. Mecca or Medina would be great options, but the lebanese president is christian and thus would not be able to enter.
Quds is pretty neutral and unifying. all other options make it seem like one country dominated the alliance. except for Makkah or Medina, but you already named another reason against that.
Mecca and Medina are religiously significant cities but not political centers, I don't think that they would be picked for something like this. Even the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the Islamic Development Bank are located in Jeddah and not in either of these two cities for example.
(10, 3) decagram, intersection with (10, 4) decagram.
The decahedron has wonderful symmetry. The central angle of 36° means that the radius is the golden ratio with respect to a side. And if you nest one (10, 3) decagram inside another, it is exactly 0.618.. [1/phi] smaller than the first.
(m, n) m-gram syntax means you make a polygon with m sides, then make a star by skipping n sides at a time as you draw from one point to the next.
The general shape is called a decagram (a 10-pointed star), but there are other "star polygons" that have a different amount of points.
u/Araucaria is saying that OP's final star design is made up of two different decagrams (one where each point is connected at every third one and then another where each point is connected at every fourth).
This specific star pattern does not have a dedicated name, but is simply two base decagrams remixed and tweaked for aesthetics.
Arabic is a language. And yes, Syria and Lebanon speak Arabic. This would be enough for 99% of people to consider them Arab.
A good comparison for the background is to the French (Language), 170+ Million Africans in 30+ African countries speak French, but not because they are originally from France, but because France occupied and colonised them.
So, people who hate the Arab/Muslim conquest that imposed its identity will look for their original ethnic identity instead.
That's interesting what if world war 2 happened in Arabian territory an alt history variable if so whom would have been Hitler & please don't say it was Israel.
Most of their weapons are Western-made, meaning they could be controlled, sanctioned, or blocked by the West should military action prove detrimental to Western interests—a significant risk.
Probably either because of the Iranian influence (Hezbollah in Lebanon) or the fact that a former jihadist runs things (Syria).
I do notice that Iraq is a member of the organization, and they are currently subject to increasing Iranian influence as well. You'll have to take that up with OP I guess.
I would say the Iranian influence in iraq is waning with Iraq moving more towards America and iran itself weakening on top of US pressure on the Iraqi government
Yeah, irani officials understand what's happening and have been using more patriotic rhetoric and nationalist appeals, seemingly trying to unite Iran and gain their people's approval and support, they're changing the strategy and are trying to make healthy relationships with the region through pragmatic diplomacy and cooperation
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u/Immediate_Guest_2790 Sep 16 '25
The Arab Defence League flag from my alt designs