Next week today, Amman is going to host a huge gathering: The 22-member bloc's annual heads of state summit.From this first Arab Summit of the year you either have high hopes, like the Israeli-Arab Peace Initiative being endorsed, or very low expectations, like all the regional issues being swept under the rug. That depends on from where you look at it. If you happen to be in Tel Aviv, you are probably hoping that the Arab leaders are going to ratify an initiative that will promote the historic peace process in the Middle East. No, not in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, but between the Arab world and Israel.According to Israeli sources, this initiative has been in the works through secret diplomacy for the last five months. Again Israeli sources would like to have us believe that it was launched by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump even before he was inaugurated. When they say "peace between the Arab world and Israel," they do not mean exactly the whole Arab world.They mean only peaceful relations between the moderate Arab regimes and Israel. Again they are not only hoping against hope for the peace between the moderates and Israel, but the relationships between Egyptian leader Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who came to power by overthrowing the democratically elected former President Mohamed Morsi, and other Arab leaders will improve in this summit, as well as a new resolutions will emerge in Israeli-Palestinian relations. Israeli sources strongly indicate that el-Sissi presented this plan to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas who "furiously rejected ... it in Cairo on March 20."You might ask, "Why don't we know anything about that?" That is because it is all happening in secret.Let's open a parenthesis here: That is how this new trend of "fake news" works. You dish out a half-truth depending on "sources," which you of course cannot name because of journalistic ethics of keeping sources anonymous; and the next day another journalist colleague of yours writes the same story, this time referring to your article. Now it is a full-fledged story with sources and everything.This effort, the Israeli websites say, has matured mostly through secret diplomacy." Despite the Middle East being endowed with the gift of the gab, nobody has heard of this diplomatic effort over the last five months. We know everything when a Trump adviser has a shadow of a dream in his head, but not about such an initiative as global Arab-Israeli peace, which has been in the works for the last five months.In case you want to know more of what those Israeli sources would like you to believe, let us briefly mention that President Trump and Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman gave the final shape to that proposal on March 14, during the prince's trip to Washington. Not only on Arab-Israeli peace but the prince and the president also agreed on America's next steps against Iran. Also on the agenda was the U.S. troop deployment in Syria, which has already started happening. After this fruitful meeting, President Trump hosted a dinner that was attended by Vice President Mike Pence, Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, the president's very own strategic adviser, Steve Bannon, and his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner.THE TWO URGENT ISSUES: SYRIA AND IRAQNow we know how things looked when viewed from north of the Dead Sea. From the south, it is not that bright. The host of the summit, Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, made a presentation in the preparatory meeting this week in Amman and said this year's conference comes as the region faces a series of pressing challenges, including violent conflicts, rising youth unemployment and millions of children deprived of the right to education. Safadi articulated a dark picture and he called on member states to come together and urgently confront the crises. "The Arab political system has failed to solve the crises," he said. As he put it, the trust of Arab citizens in the joint Arab institutions has eroded.In other words, the Arab world has urgent issues that need urgent resolutions. Not that the Arab-Israeli peace is not urgent. Quite the contrary. As one of the main sources of the many ills holding back the Arab world, Israel needs to mend its fences with its Arab neighbors. It should go back to its 1967 borders. It should lift the blockade of Gaza. It should start treating Palestinians with dignity. And all this will hasten the peace the Jewish people rightly deserve.But in order to force Israel to an honorable peace, the Arab world has to attend to two very urgent issues: Syria and Iraq.The U.S. and Russia are, with totally different motives, tearing poor Syria apart and the last threads that are holding the country together are about to fail to resist the pressure.Retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters, hoping to be the modern-day Mark Sykes or François Georges-Picot, published in the Armed Force Journal in June 2006 an article titled "Blood Borders" and suggested that a reimagining of Middle Eastern and Asian borders along ethnic, sectarian and tribal lines might ease regional tensions. In short he created a unified Kurdistan, comprising lands in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria, an Arab Shiite state next to Iran and a Sunni Iraq. Among other novelties, the map of the retired lieutenant colonel sought to divide Saudi Arabia into two states: The Islamic Sacred State and the Saudi Homeland.Cooperating with the Kurdish militantsSince then, whatever steps the U.S. military and diplomats took in Syria and Iraq, the logical extension of those moves suggest that the blood map is what these military or diplomatic people have in back of their minds. Case in point: The U.S.'s renewed alliance with the terrorists of the PKK's Syrian wing, the Democratic Union Party (PYD).The so-called alliance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the organization hastily put together when the Syrian people and the coalition forces refused to cooperate with the PYD, appears to be the organization selected by the U.S. as their operation partner in the Raqqa front. This is a group of people who committed ethnic cleansing in non-Kurdish areas, pushing Arabs and those Kurdish tribes who would not accept the hegemony of the Marxist-Leninist organization. The organization has no respect for the tribal allegiances that almost all Kurds and Arabs in the area venerate as valuable societal assets.For those affiliated with Abdullah Öcalan's PKK, these values are archaic feudal beliefs that should be cleansed from the consciousness of all Kurds. The PKK had killed more Kurds in Turkey than Turks because of their hatred of the traditional tribal values, which is the very fabric of the communities and societies in the region. However for the U.S. military and diplomatic corps, these are the "internal issues" of the Kurds and all they need is a fighting force on the ground so that U.S. marines will not have to fight at the front.Hence the Syrian issue is going to be at the top of the agenda in Amman next week. Even though diplomats expect a joint statement at the end of the summit, nobody believes that there will be a unified attitude on the issue of Bashar Assad's role in the future of Syria. The Assad regime was not invited to the summit again. Syria's membership was suspended in late 2011 after anti-regime demonstrations were brutally repressed.Some experts argue that shutting Assad out early on in the war was not good. Some argue that Turkey should have a greater role in reaching a solution, yet they say Turkey's hands are somewhat tied because of the crucial balance between the U.S. and Russia. However these three countries serve as guarantor of the cease-fire between the regime and the opposition, while United Nations talks in Geneva aim to push them to a political transition. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Staffan de Mistura, the U.N. and Arab League envoy for Syria will attend the meeting. Turkish, U.S. and Russian representatives will also be attending the meetings. El-Sissi appears to be playing a larger role this time, but the tension between Egypt and Saudi Arabia over Syria is not going to be eased any time soon.Meanwhile, the PKK, PYD and the People's Protection Units (YPG) or simply put, the Syrian Kurdish militant partners of the U.S., are continuing to dismember Syria. PYD chieftain Salih Muslim is already imagining adding Raqqa to his list of federated states in Syria.