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Arab League chief says Mideast talks off
Marwa Awad
CAIRO
Wed Mar 10, 2010 7:01pm EST
Amr Moussa, chief of the Arab League, talks to reporters after a meeting with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh at the Defence Compound in Sanaa in this October 6, 2009 file photo.
Credit: Reuters/Khaled Abdullah
CAIRO (Reuters) - Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Wednesday that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had told him he would not enter indirect talks with Israel, only days after the Palestinian side had agreed to the contacts.
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The about-turn puts on hold U.S. efforts to bring together Israel and the Palestinians in so-called proximity talks. The proposed talks, the Palestinian chief negotiator said this week, were a "last chance" to keep the Middle East peace process alive.
The decision came after Israel announced on Tuesday it would erect 1,600 settler homes in an area of the occupied West Bank it annexed to Jerusalem. Abbas had only agreed to the talks on condition that Israel imposed a Jewish settlement freeze.
"The Palestinian president decided he will not enter into those negotiations now ... the Palestinian side is not ready to negotiate under the present circumstances," Moussa told a news conference following an urgent meeting of Arab delegates at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo.
He said Abbas had conveyed the decision to him by phone.
"The talks have already stopped," Moussa told Reuters later.
No immediate comment was available from Israeli or Palestinian officials.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden publicly scolded Israel on Wednesday over the settlement plan, saying it was undermining peace efforts after Palestinians agreed to U.S.-mediated talks.
Israel also this week approved construction of 112 new Jewish homes in the Beitar Ilit settlement in the occupied West Bank, on land Israel captured in a 1967 war.
Arab League delegates said the resumption of the talks hinged on Israel halting settlement expansion in East Jerusalem and occupied territories.
Moussa said the Arab League's backing, won last week, for four months of proximity talks was now under reconsideration and Arab ministers would meet in a few days to make a decision.
"In case of the failure to halt Israeli actions which are changing the population structure and geographic composition of the occupied Palestinian territories including East Jerusalem, and to withdraw the announcement for the construction of hundreds of settlements in occupied Jerusalem, the committee concludes that the proposed talks are irrelevant," Moussa said.
Abbas broke off peace talks with Israel after Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip in December 2008.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November ordered a 10-month halt to new housing starts in West Bank settlements but exempted areas Israel considers part of Jerusalem and projects for Jewish homes in the eastern sector of the city, captured in 1967.
(Writing by Yasmine Saleh; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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Mar 10, 2010 7:36pm EST
The US needs to stop supporting Israel and let them deal with things on their own. We need to stop policing the world
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Mar 10, 2010 8:32pm EST
Thr Zionists do not want peace. If you say
anything against them you are anti-semetic.
However I thought Biden would take a more
positive stand and stop the U.S. from
vetoing the many legitimate sanctions
that have been voted against them. They
call it settlements. Hitler called the same thing, in the beginning “lebensraum.”
The oppressed quickly became the opressor.
And no one raises a hand to stop them.
Our congress and further ups are financed
by the Jewish lobby. Who controls this
country? And how long before Israel
starts a full scale war with the weapons
we supply them and use again the outlawd
phosporus bombs on mid-east civilians?
gany1
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Mar 10, 2010 8:43pm EST
Surely the Israelis can’t suppose they can conduct themselves as they have been indefinitely?
ehross
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Mar 10, 2010 9:39pm EST
Israel thinks Uncle Sam’s name is Uncle Matt.
CitizenArt
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Mar 10, 2010 10:56pm EST
Way to go Joe. Nice job with the international diplomacy. Did barack send you on this trip to avoid another personal embarrassment?
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Mar 11, 2010 1:43am EST
The Arab nations are famous for denying the Holocaust – they may not say so outright like Iran, but they believe so deep in their craven hearts.
Personally, I think the Persian Empire was a grandiose myth. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon never happened. The cultural explosion of the Moors in Hiberia (Spain) was mere propaganda. The Fertile Crescent was never the cradle of civilization. Vlad the Impaler was a hero because he singlehandedly stopped the Islamic invasion into Europe by simply using their own barbaric tactics against them.
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