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TIME.com: All the power players in the Middle East turn their attention tomorrow to Jordan, where representatives of all Arab governments are to attend a major Arab League summit. What can we expect from the summit on the region's two primary crises - Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...Scott MacLeod: Symbolically, the states attending the summit will say that the Palestinians are the primary focus, partly because that's an issue on which they'll find it easy to agree. But the most important thing happening at the summit is redefining the Arab world's relationship with Iraq. Over the last year, in particular, Iraq has made a very aggressive effort to rehabilitate itself in the Arab world. They've lobbied the Arab street, highlighting the conditions of ordinary Iraqis under sanctions. And they've also given high-profile support to the Palestinian cause during the intifada, which...
...Presumably, though, there's considerable debate over how to ease sanctions, and which sanctions to maintain. The U.S. has been pushing recently for modifications to the sanctions regime designed to tighten controls on access to military equipment, while lifting most economic sanctions. Will this approach win Arab support...
...should not be necessary to remind America that these beliefs were not only written in the Qur'an, but Muslims also practiced them. The most powerful Muslim empires to have existed--the Arab dynasties, Mughal India and the Ottoman empire--all allowed minority religions to flourish. Non-Muslims living in the Arab dynasties even reserved the right to be tried under their own religious laws--a feature not duplicated in any other system...
Other lists that received the the memo included Let's Go, the Society of Arab Students, UC General and many House lists...