where's the love...

Aren't Arab Summits great? When you don't want something accomplished, you have an Arab Summit. How can any Arab Summit agree on something when you have some countries who are purely attending out of self-interest, and others attending for the interests of the United States and Israel, all undermining any progress that is attempted at by the few countries that are actually there for Arab Unity. Take Egypt for instance... with their "democratically" elected president/dictator who's been in office for over 25 years. If there was one good reason cloning of humans should be banned, it would be because this guy is probably funding research for it in order to extend his presidency. And if there a country ever in need of a coup de tat, it's Egypt, I hope it happens soon but who knows... it's Egypt.

Egypt's role during Operation Cast Lead seemed harmless enough with their seemingly sincere calls for a truce, attempting to bring both Hamas and Israel to the negotiating table. But the big question is why the Rafah border crossing opened to allow the flow of casualties out of Gaza and aid supplies in? Egypt is on a tight leash being held by the US and Israel. The only reason the Rafah crossing was opened the last time is because the Palestinians were able to blow it up. Everything Egypt does is under the approval of both Israel and the US. Their calls for a ceasefire were no different from what other countries were also doing... making lots of noise but taking no action. In the end, the calls for a ceasefire were merely a diversion, a song and dance to appease the world community with an alleged effort at peace while Israel hammered away at Gaza. The failures of the meetings along with their repeated reinitialization were just stalling tactics that Egypt was put up to by the US and Israel in order to allow more time to devastate Gaza while it looked like a conscious effort was being made to solve the conflict. What did you expect, Egypt is one of the rare breed of Arab countries that has ties with Israel.

Let's not forget Saudi Arabia's ties to Israel and the US as well. Kudos to them for donating one billion dollars to rebuild Gaza as they did for Lebanon as well after the war with Lebanon and Israel. All I can say is, did it really have to take 13oo deaths for you oil rich bedouin decadents to get off your bling and actually do something constructive with it? I mean, the Palestinians have been suffering just as much before this latest onslaught as they are now.

Wait!...this just in... the politicians at the Arab Summit have... just agreed that... there IS indeed a problem in Gaza. That they actually were able to agree on that is a feat in itself...