Arab League torn between ground reality and propaganda spin

Western and Gulf daily newspapers watch the Arab League squabbling over its monitors. For some, they failed in their mission since the blood continues to flow. However, their assignment was to report the facts, not to restore peace. For others, on the contrary, they have succeeded since there is no evidence of repression in the places visited, including Homs.

The second reading is mainly endorsed by the UAE press. It would allow the curtain to come down on this psychodrama without having to answer the question: if the monitors detected no sign of repression, did it really ever exist?
While it is possible that the Assad government may have pulled out its troops and tanks from Homs on the eve of the monitors’ arrival, it is highly unlikely that it managed to fill up the trenches allegedly encircling the city or to rebuild overnight the houses that had reportedly been bombarded for days and destroyed.