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Article: Strength in numbers: the Arab League, a toothless tiger or the region's last hope for equanimity and equilibrium?
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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EVERYONE, IT SEEMS, has a solution to the current crises in the Middle East, whether it's the earnest diplomats of the UN, meeting on occasions too numerous to document to discuss Iraq, Iran, Israel, the Palestinians, Lebanon, and Syria, or the bureaucrats of the European Union (EU), with their own plans for peace and stability in this, the hub of civilisation for millennia. It seems the rest of the world is convinced the Middle East is either unwilling or simply incapable of putting its own house in order.
Yet amid the various groups jostling for prominence, the League of Arab Nations or, as it is more commonly known, the Arab League, has been largely ignored. ...