Posted on 03/29/2010 2:55:35 AM PDT by Scanian
Arab leaders were mostly tending to yesterday's news (Israel) during their week end summit in Sirte, Libya -- but today's main issue (Iran) kept creeping in.
Sure, on the surface the summit was all about Israel: The hardliners, including the Libyan host, attempted to dissuade the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, from entering into negotiations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to return to "armed struggle" instead.
Western-backed "moderates" called for America to pressure Israel for further concessions, to make it easier for Abbas to restart talks with Jerusalem.
But while Libya's "eternal colonel," Moammar Khadafy, poses as "king of kings," the real leader of the hardliners is Iran. It was Tehran's most reliable Arab surrogate, Syrian President Bashar Assad, who told Palestinians yesterday that "the price of resistance is not higher than the price of peace."
Iran has stalking horses across the region, with its sponsorship and funding of Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon -- and military instructors and religious indoctrinators in Iraq, Yemen and Somalia.
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