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Arabs Looking Backward
(Boston Globe) Editorial - If liberal forces eventually replace the authoritarian political order that prevails in most Arab states, future generations in those countries will look back on the Arab League summit meeting last week in Algiers as a display of extraordinary obtuseness by rulers who refused to heed the tremors under their feet. The league rejected a proposal from King Abdullah II of Jordan to begin establishing normalized relations with Israel. He had argued that by recognizing Israel now, Arabs could help extract meaningful concessions from Israel, thereby hastening the creation of a Palestinian state and a peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.