Arab Ministers to Meet after Jerusalem Clashes
Arab League foreign ministers will meet in Cairo early next month to discuss clashes involving Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, a senior Palestinian official said Monday.
Sunday's incident saw Israeli police enter the mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites, as they clashed with Palestinians angered by Jews' access to the compound on an annual day of Jewish mourning.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told reporters that foreign ministers from 15 Arab states will meet on August 5 to discuss what he called the "dangerous development" in Jerusalem.
They will discuss "Israeli escalations at Al-Aqsa mosque, continuing settlements, extra-judicial arrests and assassinations and forced displacements" of Palestinians, he said after meeting the league's chief Nabil Al-Arabi at its Cairo headquarters.
Erakat said the meeting had been called by Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.
The 15 ministers represent Arab countries involved in the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative that calls for an Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories in exchange for full normalization of ties with the Arab world.
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks have been comatose since a failed U.S. diplomatic effort in April last year, and a war in the Gaza Strip last summer killed about 2,200 Palestinians.
The meeting will also discuss Palestinian reconciliation efforts and a new Arab bid to end the Israeli occupation through the United Nations, Erakat said.
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How interesting to read about the Arab Ministers meeting about the clashes in Jerusalem, in which NOONE was even injured.
Where were they when a quarter of a million Syrians were killed in their civil war? Where were they when thousands of Yemenis were killed in their civil war?
Where were they when thousands of Libyans were killed in their civil war?
Where were they in the dispute between Morocco and Saharawis who want they own state?
Where were the Moslems when the Jews of the Bible walked the streets of Jerusalem? where were the Moslems when Christ was cruxified in Jerusalem? They didn't even come into existance until over 600 years latrer, and ever since then there has NEVER been an Independent Palestinian State, something that Rabin offered but Arafat and then Abu Mazen refused
