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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 February 2017
At an emergency Arab meeting in Amman, preoccupation with the Arab-Israeli conflict gave way to concern over the Iran-Iraq war. Until then, the permanent emergency of Palestine had been the basic raison d'etre for Arab summitry. But in Amman, the emergency was the Iran-Iraq war. It was shortly after the Amman meeting that the uprising in the occupied territories began. Therefore the Algiers summit meeting, also called “the intifadah (uprising) summit” returned the Palestinian issue to the top to “the Arab agenda and put the Arab-Israeli conflict back at the center of world attention
* [Reproduced from the English translation provided by the League of Arab States, Arab Information Center, Washington, D.C., and edited by Nassib G. Ziade’ from the official Arabic text. The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by Nassib G. Ziade”, I.L.M. Corresponding Editor for the Middle East.]