Posted on 03/31/2010 5:05:55 PM PDT by Masti
Lebanon-Libya Arab summit spat - a tip of the iceberg
Analysts say multiple internal divides weaken effectiveness of league
Regardless of whether Lebanese officials attend the upcoming Arab league summit in Libya, the roiling Libyan-Lebanese summit spat underscores deep and ongoing Arab divides that render nearly all such gatherings inconsequential...
“The way the invitation was handled is definitely adding to the row,” he said, adding that Tripoli was responding to earlier verbal provocations by Amal politicians. “The Arabs are mean when it comes to inter-Arab relations.”
...Libya and Lebanon can trace their twisting history to the beginning of Lebanon’s 1975-90 Civil War, when Gadhafi forcefully backed the leftist-Palestinian coalition of the Lebanese National Movement in an attempt to “replace” Egypt’s Gamel Abdel Nasser as the paragon of pan-Arabism, Khashan said.
Libya sent mercenaries to Lebanon and Gadhafi espoused mouthfuls of inflammatory rhetoric against Lebanon’s Christians, as the Phalange Party stood as a main opponent to the leftist-Palestinian alliance, Malik said. “Gadhafi and Libya were pretty vocal and pretty active on the side of the Palestinian-leftist coalition that was fighting against the Christians,” Malik added.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.com.lb ...
There will never be a united Arab nation even if it is Obama’s wet dream.
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