Many reports on Arab newspaper, analyse the reasons behind Egypt’s Mubarak absence from the Arab summit. Most of these reports came to this conclusion: Egypt feels that its historic role has been targeted.
But this one reported on Lebanese Al-Akhbar is the most interesting:
Egypt obtained information from French and Palestinian officials say that Qatar wanted to pay an unspecified amount of money to persuade the Israeli soldier’s (Shalit) kidnappers to extradite him to Qatar instead of Egypt, in an attempt to influence the Egyptian role.