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Adel Soheil (2018). "The Iraqi Ba'th Regime's Atrocities Against the Faylee Kurds Nation-State Formation Distorted." pp. 55-56. https://books.google.com/books?id=_6tyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA55 Similar to al-Husri, 'Aflaq was an ardent proponent of pan-Arab ideology celebrating the glorious Islamic past and advocating the unity of all Arab states. However, he deviated slightly from al-Husri's though in that he endeavoured to create a synthesis between nationalism and socialism applicable to all Arab states. Apart from 'Aflaq's enthusiasm for Hitler, he also deemed his National-Socialist Germany as a model for the society he wanted to create. When the pro-German pan-Arab nationalists under al-Gilani took power with the support...

The Ba'ath Party's Way to Totalitarianism: Hizb al-Ba'ath al-Arabi...some in this pan-Arabist circle later created the Ba'ath Party, with a branch emerging in neighbouring Syria in the 1940s. The Christian Arab Michel Aflaq and the Sunni Muslim Salah ad-Din al-Bitar were equally fascinated by leftist and fascist ideas when they created their 'Arab socialism', an anti-imperialist compilation of socialist and fascist ideologies. This connection of left and extreme right-wing ideas that seems to be a specific characteristic of Ba'athism is, in fact, not as unusual as it seems. Classic European fascism also partially has its roots in the Left. Mussolini,...