An emergency session of the Arab League has rejected a July 30 UN resolution calling on the Sudan to reign in Arab militias committing rape, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation against Black Africans. The UN resolution gave the Sudan 30 days to act or face international sanctions. The Arab League wants to give Sudan’s government more time. According to the BBC,

The BBC's Magdi Abdelhadi in Cairo said there were no surprises in the Arab League statement and Khartoum got what it wanted.

The statement welcomed measures already taken by the Sudanese government to disarm the Janjaweed and bring those responsible for human rights violations in Darfur to justice.

The Arab foreign ministers also pledged to assist Sudan and the international community in resolving the conflict peacefully.

Our correspondent says the statement was very much in line with a report by an Arab League fact-finding mission to Darfur earlier this year, which largely exonerated the Sudanese government from responsibility and laid the blame on a combination of factors, including protracted drought, tribal conflict and under-development in western Sudan.

Blah, blah, blah. Same old, same old. A league of brutal dictatorships propping up another brutal dictatorship. What else would you expect from Arab governments? Don’t forget the Arab League labeled “the Holocaust a "false fable" perpetuated by Israel” in 2002. This is the same Arab League that said nothing when Kuwait expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees after the first Gulf War. Same old, same old.