[Arab News] The head of the vaporous Arab League said Wednesday the upheaval in Tunisia is linked to deteriorating economic conditions throughout the Arab world, warning that the people's anger has reached unprecedented heights.In impassioned remarks, Jerry Lewis doppelgänger Amr Moussa
... who has been head of the vaporous Arab League since about the time Jerry and Dean split up ...
told an Arab economic summit in Egypt that "the Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment and general recession."
"This is in the mind of all of us," Moussa said in his opening address to the 20 leaders and other representatives of Arab League member states gathered in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
The summit is the first top-level Arab meeting since protests fueled by joblessness and other economic woes in Tunisia forced President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali to flee the country.
"The Tunisian revolution is not far from us," Moussa warned. "The Arab citizen has entered an unprecedented state of anger and frustration."
He called for an Arab "renaissance" to lift people from their frustration.
The meeting in Egypt was originally intended as a platform to discuss trade, business and investment, but has been overshadowed by the revolt in Tunisia.
Arab leaders at the summit committed to a proposed $2 billion program to boost faltering economies that have propelled crowds into the streets to protest high unemployment, rising prices and rampant corruption.
Egyptian geriatric President Hosni Mubarak, who made no mention of Tunisia in his remarks, stressed the importance of economic cooperation, tagging it "a national security" requirement.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal urged all member countries to do more in strengthening joint Arab action in order to realize the hopes and aspirations of Arab citizens. On behalf of King of the Arabians, Sheikh of the Burning Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah, he invited all Arab leaders to attend the next economic summit in Riyadh in January 2013.