Brotherly Salutations. I was reading the official statement of the Arab foreign ministers. (Don't think that any Arab actually reads those statements. Please.) It is clear that the House of Saud had to humiliatingly retract from the early statement by "an official Saudi source" which blamed Hizbullah for this conflict. The official statement today stated that the Arab ministers lay "the full responsibility on Israel for this aggression and its consequences..." The statement was very careful about how it referred to Hizbullah. In Arab popular sentiments, and in Lebanon, Hizbullah is referred to as "the resistance." That would have been difficult for House of Saud to accept, and would have angered the masters of Sauds. Some Arab ministers wanted to categorically support the resistance, but House of Saud would not agree to that. The final statement merely sent "salutations to the resistance of Lebanon". But the original phrasing in the preamble was phrased in such a way as to imply that the resistance is not by Hizbullah, but some general and ambiguous reference to a resistance by all Lebanese, i.e. the "resistance" by Jumblat and Ja`ja`. Oh, ya. And notice that House of Saud insisted on hosting the Arab summit in Mecca--only to prevent Lebanese president, Emile Lahhud (a Christian) from attending. (House of Saud does not allow non-Muslims into Mecca).