(townhall.com) Amir Taheri - A conference of Arab foreign ministers, representing the 22 members of the Arab League, was held recently in Cairo. The league, created by the British as an instrument of their strategy in the Middle East and later transformed into an arm of pan-Arabism wielded by Egypt, serves little or no purpose today. The league's bureaucracy, led by Amr Moussa, a former foreign minister of Egypt, presented its own reform project that envisages the creation of an Arab parliament, and half a dozen "councils" dealing with social, cultural, economic, and technological issues. If implemented, the project will turn the Arab League into a gigantic paper-pushing machine modeled on the EU but without the latter's mission and mandate.
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