Many Arab governments would like to see Hamas gone
And they worry that the war in Gaza will upset their economic plans
THEY all want the war to end. And they all want someone else to end it. That was the message, at once banal and controversial, from the leaders of the 22-member Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation (OIC), a grouping of 57 mostly Muslim-majority states. It was all to show from an extraordinary summit on November 11th in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The region reacts”
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