When Grobba reported that the Iraqis as Arab nationalists saw the British and the Jews as their enemies and wished to ally themselves with Germany against their common foes, Ribbentrop was delighted and become obsessed with the idea of an Iraqi-German alliance.

The strategic location was also attractive ; it was used either as a defensive position against enemies approaching the Arab hinterland or as a stepping-stone toward Lebanon's neighbors.

Pan-Arabism is an ideology espousing the unification – or, sometimes, close cooperation and solidarity against perceived enemies of the Arabs – of the countries of the Arab world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea.

While his traditional Arab enemies ( Saudi Arabia and Jordan ) still conspired to reduce his prominence or remove him altogether, Nasser maintained good relations with them following the Khartoum summit, partly because of financial dependence on Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

Greek fire, used primarily at sea, gave the Byzantines a substantinal military advantage against enemies such as members of the Arab Empire ( who later adopted the use of Greek fire ).

* Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A think tank affiliated with the Arab League ended its meeting in Cairo by calling Jews " enemies of all nations ", by claiming that Arabs, as Semites, cannot be anti-Semitic, and by claiming that the events of September 11, 2001 were concocted by the United States government.

The Vijayanagar rulers ' capacity for gaining victory over their enemies was contingent on ensuring a constant supply of horses — initially through Arab traders but later through the Portuguese — and maintaining internal roads and communication networks.

Interestingly, very few of the war songs are marching songs, and none denigrate the Arab enemies.

A low level conflict continued for the next 15 years, with the government co-opting and arming Arab Janjaweed militias against its enemies.

The Soviet Union had broken off diplomatic relations with Israel a decade earlier, and politically and militarily backed Israel's Arab enemies.

Yet the desert is full of Zanj married to Arab wives, and they have been princes and kings and have safeguarded your rights and sheltered you against your enemies.

In response to the dramatic events and opportunities of the Arab Spring, in March 2011, Reporters Without Borders moved Tunisia and Egypt from its " Internet enemies " list to its list of countries " under surveillance ".

" John Esposito writes that Muhammad's use of warfare in general was alien neither to Arab custom nor to that of the Hebrew prophets, as both believed that God had sanctioned battle with the enemies of the Lord.

Nor do I allow any of their Muslims ' enemies who come by land to penetrate as far as Derbend an Arab city, was the gate through which the nomads of eastern and southern Europe hoped to rush through and raid the rich towns of Asia Minor.

Turki went on to criticise Zionism, which “ instead of adopting, as it should, a neutral attitude, or one of support for the Arab struggle for national and socialist liberation, it has stood beside this movement's enemies, beside the Americans who are persecuting the Vietnamese people, beside American imperialism which is exploiting the peoples of Latin America and the peoples of Asia and Africa, and setting the Jewish people against the Arab people forever.

The event was framed within the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict with Arab demonstrators defined as enemies, rather than citizens making demands of their government.

The Soviet Union had broken off diplomatic relations with Israel a decade earlier, and politically and militarily backed Israel's Arab enemies.

Juet had made plentiful enemies, several men stepped forward.

He strikes enemies blind and deaf but when his own men fight they go berserk and cannot be harmed.

Consequently, these 30, 000 men flocked to Alaric's camp, clamouring to be led against their cowardly enemies.

Even men who had been bitter enemies were allowed to not only return to Rome but assume their previous positions in Roman society.

So many Englishmen and Gascons came to that part, that perforce they opened the king's battle, so that the Frenchmen were so mingled among their enemies that sometime there was five men upon one gentleman.

The natural consequence of all this was that these men, to the number of 30, 000, flocked to the camp of Alaric I, King of the Visigoths, clamouring to be led against their cowardly enemies.

The prophecies of kind but overprudent friends, who did not understand his self-sustaining energy, had proved untrue ; the malicious hope of his enemies, for even the gentle lover of nature has enemies, had been disappointed ; he had secured a commanding place in the respect and gratitude of men.

St. Paul in opposing his enemies in Galatia names John explicitly along with Peter and James the Just ( the brother of Jesus ) as a " pillar of the Church ", and refers to the recognition which his Apostolic preaching of a Gospel free from the law received from these three, the most prominent men of the old Mother-Church at Jerusalem ( Galatians 2: 9 ).

At close range such large weapons were of little use, but an intact phalanx could easily keep its enemies at a distance ; the weapons of the first five rows of men all projected beyond the front of the formation, so that there were more spearpoints than available targets at any given time.

Apart from noting that both men were already married, he reminded them of their promises to previous popes, that they would consider the pope ’ s enemies as their enemies, and that they had promised to Saint Peter to resist the Lombards and restore the rights of the Church.

In Iliad I, Nestor numbers Pirithous and Theseus " of heroic fame " among an earlier generation of heroes of his youth, " the strongest men that Earth has bred, the strongest men against the strongest enemies, a savage mountain-dwelling tribe whom they utterly destroyed.

Paul, in opposing his enemies in Galatia, recalls that John explicitly, along with Peter and James the Just, were referred to as " pillars of the church " and refers to the recognition that his Apostolic preaching of a gospel free from Jewish Law received from these three, the most prominent men of the messianic community at Jerusalem.

Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory and crush the oppression and wickedness of our enemies, and establish Thy justice among men and nations.

The men stayed two or three weeks, hunting and fishing when they were not planning the murder of their enemies.

He habitually preserved the skulls of the enemies he had killed — those of the meaner men to use as flower-pots, while those of the princes he kept in special chests.

To all who were present with them either in prison or at the place where the sentance was executed, they owned that having engaged in the cause of God and their country, they were not at all ashamed to suffer in the manner their enemies thought fit, openly avowing the inward satisfaction of their minds when they reflected upon the actions for which they had been condemned, not doubting the revival of the same cause ; and that a time should come when men would have better thoughts of their persons and proceedings.

Undaunted, the two men endure a rigorous training period, where they go from being enemies to best friends.

The men of many of these cities are granted citizenship and, as a result, Rome gains friends rather than enemies.

She persuades the chieftain Ospakar Blacktooth to woo Gudrida, making the two men enemies.

Let a power be given to the Secretary to establish and maintain free schools in every city, village and township in the United States ; ... Let the youth of our country be instructed in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and in the doctrines of a religion of some kind ; the Christian religion should be preferred to all others ; for it belongs to this religion exclusively to teach us not only to cultivate peace with all men, but to forgive — nay more, to love our very enemies ....< p >

Being something of a usurper, he tried to put his own men in power, which only increased the number of his enemies.

Soon afterwards the cavalry tactics employed by the State of Zhao forced their enemies in the other Warring States to adopt the same techniques in order to mount any effective attack against their swift movements on the battlefield.

" Fundamentalism " has been often used by a political group to attack their political enemies.

If the affair did not dissipate before, one side might find enough courage to mount a sustained attack, driving off their enemies.

In North America releases of the Mega Man Zero games, enemies and bosses killed with a saber attack would not gush blood as they did in the Japanese versions.

But as this practice only attaches to certain ( major ) sacred days, others posit the extra day may have been added to accommodate people who had to travel long distances to participate in communal worship and ritual practices ; or the practice may have evolved as a compromise between conflicting interpretations of Jewish Law regarding the calendar ; or it may have evolved as a safety measure in areas where Jews were commonly in danger, so that their enemies would not be certain on which day to attack.

The missile weapons constitute the bulk of the entire available arsenal in the game, and are usually powerful enough to attack groups of several enemies.

An example of a powerup is the God Mode, which makes the player invincible plus gives them an attack that homes in on and disintegrates enemies instantly, and the Mercury Mode, which enables the player to fly.

* are living statues or suits of armor that come to life and attack enemies when touched.

There are fire and ice variants, which can respectively use fire and ice to attack enemies.

* are land-dwelling, octopus-like enemies that attack by shooting rocks from their mouth.

* In Persona 3 and Persona 4, there is a skill that the Personae can use called " Akasha Arts ", a Strike attack skill that inflicts damage on all enemies.

While some military historians point out that leaving enemies in your rear is not generally wise, the Mongols proved that indirect attack, and bypassing weaker foes to eliminate the strongest first, is a devastatingly effective mode of invasion.

Tamora ( as Revenge ) tells Titus that she will grant him revenge on all of his enemies if he can convince Lucius to postpone the imminent attack on Rome.

Fortunately the plague left Gondor's enemies in no better condition than the realm itself, and Gondor was therefore allowed over a century of respite from attack.

After Morgoth's defeat, Sauron extended his influence over the Easterlings, and although Sauron was defeated by the Last Alliance of Elves and Men at the end of the Second Age, the Easterlings were the first enemies to attack Gondor again in.

The city recovered quickly from the attack and occupation by Drake and kept growing, and continued to attract attention from its enemies.

And on one side of the harbor they built a massive fortified palace for Mausolus, positioned to have clear views out to sea and inland to the hills — places from where enemies could attack.

* Scorch has a fireball attack which damages enemies and can trigger certain switches.

Rather than bounce a ball to attack static objects, players are given the ability to fire projectiles at their own discretion to attack moving enemies.

Valentinian meanwhile tried to persuade the Burgundians – bitter enemies of the Alamanni – to attack Macrian, a powerful Alamannic chieftain.

Nevertheless, rumors of a Roman alliance with the Burgundians did have the effect of scattering the Alamanni through fear of an imminent attack from their enemies.

Often, but not always, RTS games require the player to build an army ( ranging from small squads of no more than 2 units, to literally hundreds of units ) and using them to either defend themselves from a virtual form of Human wave attack or to eliminate enemies who possess bases with unit production capacities of their own.

He crossed to Ireland, where Peter des Roches had instigated his enemies to attack him, and in April 1234, he was overpowered and wounded, and died a prisoner.