Andres Oppenheimer goes a little overboard with his opinions on the summit declaration, saying that it will break the long-lasting piece between Arabs and Jews in South America.
I'm pretty offended by the language in the declaration too, but it's a piece of paper. The ambiguity of the declaration was meant to allow the summit to move onto other topics, not to show the support of South American nations for suicide bombers. Most of these nations don't believe that the declaration will really matter, and in a week we'll have forgotten it. Had South America condemned all Palestinian suicide bombers, would the summit have gone better? It would have been nice to see, but it would have simply blocked out other topics.
Just for kicks, I went to Al Jazeera's special report on the Arab-South America summit. I was surprised by the level of interest in the economic issues. I would have guessed they would have focused more on the terrorism declaration, but for that they only pull wire reports.
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