Summit's Collapse Puts Arab Leaders in Disarray

NY Times ^ | 3/29/04 | NY Times

[CatOwner]

" Not only that, but president Bush has managed to sow disarray among the entire arab world. This is a wonderful thing from the western standpoint."

"From disarray comes revolution and true reform."

Let's just hope that people in the US are willing to wait it out, as that will be more turmoil and uncertainty when it happens.

[CatOwner]

as that = as there

[GretchenEE]

The very idea of reform remains too divisive, and many nations' governments have yet to decide how to deal themselves with issues like elections.

Got to get one's own house in order before telling the neighbors how to keep theirs, or forming neighborhood patrols.

[CurlyDave]

Let's just hope that people in the US are willing to wait it out, as that will be more turmoil and uncertainty when it happens.

If the turmoil and uncertainty keeps the islamics focused on saving their own @sses instead of making war on us, that will be a welcome relief.

With any luck (and a push from the US), the militants will lose and the rest of the arabs will embrace civilization.

[sarasmom]

Never underestimate the lengths an organised group of loosely related tyrants will go to preserve power.

OTOH, USA Marines are openly deployed in large numbers in the region.

They are not there as UN peacekeepers.
LOL!

[Betaille]

"Wake up, it's 1987 in the Middle East. Two more years until 1989."
Yeah... lol. Sometimes It strikes me that we already lived through this decade. Alot of similarities with the 1980's... however, I think we're closer to 1984 than 1987

[FreeReign]

The Arab League is infamous for its fractious gatherings, but even its most experienced bureaucrats described the cancellation as extraordinary. Some commentators thought the collapse inevitable from the start. The very idea of reform remains too divisive, and many nations' governments have yet to decide how to deal themselves with issues like elections.

Elections, while being a divisive issue for the Arab League nations, is not the most divisive issue. Elections may even be a bad idea right now in such a place as Saudi Arabia -- not that the NY Times would agree with that.

Anyway, the most divisive issue in the Arab League remains that a few members are still aligned with the terrorists. For instance Lebanon, "Palestine" and Syria are still are on the wrong hump.

This is why the meeting was canceled and this is what the NY Times hides.

IMO.

[Betaille]

One thing I can't figure out is why the legendary Mossad hasn't been able to deal the terror states a blow. Hamas has kept a constant terror war on Israel for years, and the Mossad still hasnt infiltrated them sufficiently to stamp them out. Whats up with that?

[okie01]

You have to get down to the bottom of it to see that "Tunisia pulled the plug, announcing that it would not preside over a gathering willing to make what it called only a tepid commitment to reform."

Only then does one understand the gravity of the decision -- and the direction they are pushing.

This was a development of profound importance. Yet, there is not so much as a hint of what the story is really about until one sifts through all the chaff and digs out the kernel for one's self.

The Times is a shadow of what it once was and should be (and still believes it is).

[Southack]

"Their lines have broken. Now we charge."

[BurbankKarl]

their booth can be between Richard Clarke's and Hans Blix.

[BurbankKarl]

Hamas Expresses Regret At Postponement Of Arab Summit
Mar 28, 2004

Gaza - The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has expressed regret over the indefinite postponement of the Arab summit that was scheduled to be held in Tunisia on 29-30 March.

Hamas issued a statement, a copy of which was made available to PIC, expressing deep regret for putting off the summit that was supposed to adopt "daring resolutions" to check the Zionist aggression on the Palestinian people, to condemn the assassination of martyr Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, to support the Palestinian people's steadfastness and to boost joint Arab endeavor.

The statement said that the Arab governments should live up to the challenges of the current stage and to forge better cohesion with their peoples in face of the all-out aggression on the entire Ummah.

Meanwhile, observers opined that the summit's postponement meant giving Sharon a green light to continue in his policy of assassination against Palestinian leaders.

[archy]

Khairallah Khairallah, a political commentator and former editor in chief of Al Hayat, a London-based Arabic newspaper.

I think he's related to Duran Duran. I'll have to check.

Give him a call at his office in Walla Walla.

[q_an_a]

this is another example of jerk journalism. except for the "book fair" in germany, do you see any specific topics mentioned? how do thiese people make a living writing so little and filling so much space?