Arab League Tries to Restart

Voice of America reports the Arab League is trying to get its act back together for an end-of-May meeting at Tunis. A previous meeting had been called off because of snagged preliminary talks between various foreign ministers. But Arab League spokesman Hossam Zaki says Egypt will try to unsnag the preliminary discussions. Pressure to unify is intesified by the lingering US occupation of Iraq, the assassination of Palestinian Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, and Bush’s capitulation to the Israeli settlements on the West Bank.