The BBC reports that Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa calls the failure of the Iraqi draft constitution to describe Iraq as an Arab state "dangerous:"
The draft constitution says the Arabs in Iraq are part of the Arab nation, but Iraq as a whole is not.
This is seen as a major victory for the Kurds and other ethnic minorities who are not Arabs, and a disaster for the Arabs and their brethren in Iraq.
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Playing down the Arab identity of Iraq is viewed as a great setback to the cause of Arab unity.
Amr Moussa's only seems concerned about pan-Arabism or Arab unity. Iraq may be one of the founding members of the Arab League, but I have always thought of Egypt's Nasser, not Saddam Hussein, as being the primary progenitor of pan-Arabism.
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