Arab leaders meeting in Khartoum are incapable of resolving any of the major conflicts that have plunged the Middle East into huge uncertainties, Ghassan Tueni opined in an editorial Monday.

The commentary compared between the increasing engagement of powerful regional and international states in Arab disputes and the reluctance of Arabs to play an active role to deal successfully with these issues.

Tueni said the Arab summit should work on stopping the war that is tearing Iraq apart to preserve the country's Arab identity and unity. But he highlighted the paradoxical situation that has linked Iraq's fate to any progress made between the United States and Iran over the Islamic republic's nuclear program.

Such a situation must raise eyebrows, according to Tueni. "How come no one is criticizing such internationalization while many are opposing Security Council resolutions on Lebanon?" he asked.

The veteran journalist considered the international community's authority as higher than the Lebanese local authority.

"What's the crime of internationalizing the Lebanese problem especially that Arab efforts have failed to develop a rational initiative?" asked An Nahar's editor-in-chief, referring to the unsuccessful Saudi and Egyptian attempts to ease tensions between Lebanon and Syria.

Tueni attributed the failure of Arab efforts to resolve the Lebanese-Syrian conflict to their insistence on making reconciliation between "the criminal and the victim."

Every time Arabs committed a mistake in Lebanon, the Arab League would hold the Lebanese responsible, pressuring it to accept a solution that would save the wrongdoer while restoring no rights whatsoever to Lebanon, the author wrote.

He cited the example of how the Arab League protected the 1968 Palestinian revolution against Israel that was staged in the streets of Beirut and turned a blind eye on calls by the Lebanese to preserve the security of their land.

"How come Arab failures to resolve conflicts are permitted, while international interventions are doomed before they even start?" Tueni asked.

The legislator condemned the Arab inability to prevent the massacring of hundreds of thousands in Darfur, saying that desperate Sudanese demanding an internationalizing of the conflict to stop the grave human rights violations there would definitely be accused of being traitors.

Tueni ended his article with a call on Arab leaders not to prevent Hamas from reaping the fruits of the victories it have scored through its resistance against the Israeli occupation and through democracy by winning the majority of seats in the Palestinian legislative elections.