Zionist Threat and International Policies in The Perspective of ‘’Najib AZOURI’’: A Pioneer of Arab Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century

When the name of Negib Azoury is mentioned at first one thinks of his nationalist ideas and political activity to separate Arab provinces from the Ottoman state at the beginning of the twentieth century. Very few people actually associate Azoury’s name with his views –at such an early period- on the Zionist movement, which was discreetly operating at that time paving its way forward. This Christian Arab educated in the religious French schools in Beirut and later on in Paris absorbed European culture, was amongst the firsts to be aware of the Zionist danger and warn against it, particularly its danger to the Arab nation and to world peace. In his renowned book “the Awakening of the Arab Nation” published in French, he deliberates on the Arab nationalist movement, the Zionist movements and the international policies. The idea of this paper thus comes to better understand the relationship between the aforementioned elements. As well as analysing Azoury’s perspectives to verify the extent to which the Arab elites were aware of the real danger that was threatening the nation, and to what extent the solutions that were proposed to tackle this danger were effective