British support for Arab unity aimed at securing imperial interests, not Arab aims.

Evidence

It followed significantly after the declaration by Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, in May 1941 in favor of Arab unity. … Before long, however, the situation changed again. The new British govern­ ment showed that it would not give way to sympathy or pressure in favor of Jewish emigration to Palestine and that, though the threat of German compe­ tition had for the time being disappeared, it intended to continue its policy of supporting pan-Arabism as the best security for British interests in the Middle East. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 902

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Reinforces the connective thread to the ‘immodesty’ and Islam-West representation cluster by showing imperial strategic rationale as a driver of how ‘Arab unity’ was constituted and narrated.