The Egyptian, Saudi and Syrian foreign ministers hastily called a meeting as Arabs faced pressure to act on the Iraqi and Israeli fronts. The previously unscheduled meeting in Cairo was arranged for Monday, a day after the Syrian-sponsored Hezbollah group shelled northern Israel, killing one Jewish settler and wounding five others, prompting a raid by Israeli warplanes on suspected Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon. The Hezbollah-Israeli skirmishes began Friday with the first exchange in eight months of artillery fire over a disputed area near the confluence of the Syrian, Lebanese and Israeli borders. Israeli officials have held Lebanon and Syria - which dominates Lebanese policy-making - responsible for Hezbollah's actions. Syria's state-run Tishrin newspaper charged in an editorial Sunday that Israel was trying "to expand the circle of its aggression and deliberately provoke and threaten more than one Arab country," in hopes of slowing progress on the "road map" peace plan with the Palestinians. Syrian Minister of Defense Mustafa Tlass, in a weekend interview with the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat, said his Egyptian and Saudi counterparts that Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher told reporters would focus on Israel and Iraq. The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud, was already in Cairo with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak late into the evening Sunday to discuss the same two matters, as well as proposals aimed at reinvigorating an Arab League seen as divided and paralyzed by the Iraq crisis. Last week, the Arab League rejected recognition of a US-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, saying it would wait for the Iraqis to elect their government. Abdullah flew to Cairo on Sunday afternoon from Damascus, where he had talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad. Syria, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the U.N. Security Council, is known to be reluctant to recognize the Governing Council, saying it needs to show it has the support of the Iraqi people. Syria opposed the US-British invasion of Iraq, while Egypt and Saudi Arabia lent US forces logistical support. **PHOTO CATION*** Syrian President Bashar Assad (L), Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah