Abbas slighted at Arab Summit?

(From L to R- front line): Mahmoud Abbas, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi pose among other Arab leaderse at the opening of the Arab Summit on March 29, 2008 in Damascus, Syria.

Mahmoud Abbas (L) talks to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika during the opening session of the Arab Summit in Damascus on March 29, 2008. Syrian President Bashar Assad, opened a boycott-hit Arab summit today.

Mahmoud Abbas (R) listens to a Palestinian legal government delegate at the opening of the Arab Summit on March 29, 2008 in Damascus, Syria.

Mahmoud Abbas illegally at the opening of the Arab Summit on March 29, 2008 in Damascus, Syria. The Arab summit will be held in the Syrian capital from March 29-30.

Abbas seems slighted, as he had called on the Syrian-hosted Arab summit, to propagate his collaborated initiatives towards Palestine and from the look on his face, they did not buy.