Silence Prevails in Arab Summit Leaders Decide to Rehash 2002 Peace Proposal

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Changes are sweeping the Middle East, but you would hardly have guessed it from Arab leaders this week. At their summit in Algiers, they were wary of putting a spotlight on any issue that might call attention to problems in their own regimes.

Rather than join the international push to get Syrian troops out of Lebanon, the summit closed with a statement backing Syria against U.S. sanctions. The best the leaders could do on peace with Israel was reheat a proposal that went nowhere when they first made it in 2002. And there was no real sign that they want to be engines for democratic reform.

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Silence Prevails in Arab Summit Leaders Decide to Rehash 2002 Peace Proposal

The sole break in the atmosphere of silence - a spat between Presidents Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Ba...

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