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A Poorly Attended Arab League Summit
(Jerusalem Post) Zvi Mazel - Of the 22 members of the Arab League, only 13 came to its yearly meeting in Tunis on March 30. The Arab League was created in 1945 by the British with a view to perpetuating their control of these states, but the union never coalesced and the yearly heads of states summits became less and less relevant. The traditional final declaration of the meeting started with a lengthy condemnation of Israel's many crimes as well as a rebuke to the U.S. for recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan. Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel by America was roundly denounced. One is left wondering how to interpret the harsh condemnations of Israel in view of the fact that Israel has relations at various levels with most Arab countries. The writer is a former ambassador to Romania, Egypt and Sweden and a senior researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.