Arab leaders are set to meet in the Algerian capital on Tuesday for their first summit since a string of normalisation deals with Israel which have divided the Middle East. The 22-member Arab League held its last summit in 2019, prior to both the coronavirus pandemic and the UAE’s historic US-backed deal establishing diplomatic ties with Israel. The agreement, only Israel’s third such deal with an Arab state, was followed by similar accords with Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco, deepening the kingdom’s decades-old rivalry with its neighbour Algeria. The host of the November 1-2 summit, a steadfast s…