What will happen at the Tunis summit?
Adnan Abu Odeh The Palestine war of 1948 was the event that most impacted on Arab politics and their development in the second half of the 20th century. For in the three years that immediately followed the war, two prime ministers, those of Egypt and Lebanon, and one head of state, the king of Jordan, were assassinated; added to that, two heads of state, the king of Egypt and the president of Syria, were toppled in military coups. Fifty-five years later, 37 years after the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and after two Arab countries singed peace treaties with Israel, the Palestinian problem is still where and as it was, leaving its large imprint on the Arab political scene both on the regional and international levels. Now, it seems that the Anglo-American-led occupation of Iraq, 54 years after the Palestine war, will be the next biggest event in modern Arab history to leave its imprint on Arab politics for the next half century, if not longer. The fallout from
