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Syria needs mediation, not a push into all-out civil war | Jonathan Steele (Comment is free)
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/17/syria-mediation-arab-league-assad

Syria is on the verge of civil war and the Arab League foolishly appears to have decided to egg it on. The spectre is ugly, as Qatar and Saudi Arabia, the hawks of the Gulf, are joined by the normally restrained King Abdullah of Jordan in taking sides with opponents of Syria’s Assad regime. Where common sense dictates that Arab governments should seek to mediate between the regime and its opponents, they have chosen instead to humiliate Syria’s rulers by suspending them from the Arab League. (...) Source: Comment is free