Rarely has an Arab summit been held with as much fogginess as the Khartoum summit -- assuming it will be completed despite the increasing number of no-shows.

It seems they are moving toward agreeing on vague formulas,

Palestinians were hoping that the withdrawal would lead to improvements in their movements, but things have been deteriorating.

There were some improvements over earlier drafts, but the Islamic tendency there is still very strong.

Hopefully these types of meetings in Rabat would be the beginning of more serious kinds of meetings between different Arab leaders and the new Israeli leadership.

Israel has been systematically making life difficult in the Jordan Valley in order to reduce the number of Palestinians living there.