BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 31: An Iraqi man burns Israeli and American flags as Iraqi women take part in a protest against Israel's attacks on civilians in Lebanon on July 31, 2006 in the Sadr Shiite city in Baghdad, Iraq. In the deadliest Israeli attack since hostilities began, more than 50 people were killed in Qana yesterday, many of them children, when the house they were sheltering in was bombed by Israeli war planes. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images)
Three hundred Iraqi leaders gathered at a conference calling for the normalization of ties with Israel, but after facing arrest warrants and death threats, many retracted their remarks. What should we make of this story?