An Arab League summit is planned in Tripoli next month, and the big question is whether Hamas would be allowed to attend as a representative of Palestinian Arabs.
At first it appeared that Hamas would not be permitted to attend as a representative unless there is a reconciliation deal between the two groups.
But Al Quds al-Arabi is reporting that when Mahmoud Abbas went to Libya to make arrangements for the meeting, Libya's leader Maommar Ghaddafi refused to meet with him, and is hinting that he might want to meet with Hamas leaders instead.
Abbas seems to have more prestige in the West than in the Arab world.
