Arab Leaders gather in the Libyan town of Sirte on Saturday for their annual summit.
On Thursday, the Arab League's foreign ministers put together a proposal on an action plan on Jerusalem where Israel continues its settlement activities in defiance of the international community.
But the Arab public opinion remains unconvinced that this annual gathering will solve any of the problems facing the region.
The summit is held annually but that's just about as much as Arab leaders can agree on.Previous summits have failed to excite Arab public opinion, prompting many to wonder - why bother holding this summit every year?
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa agrees with these concerns.
"I don't blame them," he told Al Jazeera.
"The public opinion needs more and needs clear positions. I believe we are heading in that direction… especially on these clear challenge [posed by Israel] to the international legitimacy... so yes indeed… we should do more," he said.
Last year in Qatar, the leaders promised they would iron out their differences in order to achieve consensus on a number of regional challenges and issues.
The result so far? Literally nothing.
The gap remains wide between Washington's ally Egypt on the one hand, and Syria and Qatar on the other.
This simply means the Arab world remains divided even on the most central issue: the Palestinian cause.
Efforts to reconcile Palestinian factions have failed. Gaza remains under blockade. And with Israeli defiance to international calls to freeze settlement activities in Jerusalem, Arab leaders face the toughest of challenges to rescue the Holy City amid reports that even the Palestinian president won't attend.
Most Arab governments had backed his request to engage in indirect talks with the Israelis earlier this month. But Israel pressed ahead with more settlement activities in Jerusalem. It's another slap in the face of those Arab leaders who supported the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative which still looks like going nowhere.
But they've agreed what's called a rescue plan for the Holy city.
The plan includes:
*Urging the UN's Security Council to condemn what Arabs consider as Israel's Judaisation of Jerusalem
*Suing Israel in courts round the world to curtail the ability of Israeli officials to travel abroad
*Calling on Unesco to protect the al-Aqsa mosque, which Arabs fear will collapse due to Israeli excavations in occupied Arab East Jerusalem
*Raising half a billion dollars to support Palestinians in Jerusalem
*And forming a legal committee to document Israeli confiscation of Palestinian lands and homes in the city.
Sudan is yet another challenge facing Arab Leaders. President Omar al-Bashir is still wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes in Darfur.
And despite framework agreements signed with Darfur rebels in Qatar and millions of dollars pledged in Cairo, in reality, issues of displacement, reconciliation and accountability remain.
The Arab leaders' inability to solve problems is also evident in Yemen, where the Houthi crisis continues, and in Somalia where the interim government is under attack from armed opposition.
To compound the task of this gathering, perhaps the main challenge that should be addressed is one that's long been a dividing factor: Iran. The fallout from Tehran's escalating confrontation with the West over its nuclear aspirations would affect this region first.
There are reports that the Arab League's chief will urge the gathering to engage in direct dialogue with Iran, but it remains to be seen if Sunni heavyweights Egypt and Saudi Arabia will be keen on engaging with the Persian, Shia power.
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