From the Arab Foreign Ministers' meeting at the Cairo-based Arab League:
The Arab Foreign Ministers' pronouncements during the meeting were fraught with conflicting points of view reflecting the disintegrated overall Arab standing towards what is going on now in heavily-battered Lebanon.
Most divided of all were the Foreign Ministers of both Saudi Arabia and Syria who locked horns during the closed session of yesterday's meeting over Hizbullah.
"Some states have taken hasty decisions that weakened the Arab position," Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mualem moaned in an apparent reference to Saudi Arabia which criticized the timing of Hizbullah operation, which took two Israeli soldiers prisoner and killed eight others, and held it responsible for the escalation.
"This is a blatant interference into the internal affairs of my country, something I totally reject," his Saudi counterpart Saud Al-Faisal groaned.
"Your dreams are devilish," Saud sniped.
"No, his dreams are rosy as the current Arab situation has no room for any uncalculated adventures," Mohamed Al-Sabah, Kuwait's Foreign Minister, jumped into the fray.
"Arab unity is the best thing we can reach," Mualem kicked back, "I feel deeply sorry for what has been expressed now."
Arab diplomatic sources said that the Arab Foreign Ministers were divided into two groups: one, containing Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, Iraq and the Palestinian Authority.
This first group voted for calming down tensions between the Lebanese and the Palestinians, on the one side, and Israel, on the other. They liked to label Hizbullah's position as "irresponsible".
The other group contained Syria, Algeria, Lebanon, Sudan, Yemen and Qatar. This group was for standing by the side of the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance, who are struggling for the attainment of the legal rights of their peoples.
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