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| What is wrong with these Arab leaders?? |
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| Saleema |
| 11/10/00 at 15:58:52 |
| Muslim Leaders to Urge Cutting Israel Ties Reuters Nov 10 2000 2:55PM DOHA (Reuters) - Muslim foreign ministers approved a draft resolution on Friday calling on the 56-member Islamic Conference Organizati to sever all ties with Israel for what they said were war crimes against Palestinians. Delegates said the draft would be presented to leaders of the 56-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) at a three-day summit starting in Qatar on Sunday. "The draft has been approved by the ministers and it calls for a total boycott and breaking all ties with Israel," said Nabil Shaath, minister for planning and international cooperation in the Palestinian Authority. But the delegates said the draft resolution was a compromise between radicals led by Iran and Syria, who demanded immediate action against Israel, and moderates led by Egypt which has argued against a total break with the Jewish state. Shaath told Reuters Television that Egypt and Jordan, the only two countries with peace treaties with Israel, have approved the draft resolution. Delegates said Egypt and Jordan were committed to internationally recognized peace treaties. "The decision invites all members to cut their relations but it gives the right to chose," he said. "They have accepted it as a real expression of the sentiment of all Muslim countries about the enormity of the Israeli military aggression." At least 193 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed in six weeks of Israeli-Palestinian violence. EGYPT WANTS "GRADUAL PUNISHMENT" The delegates quoted Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr. Moussa as having told the closed ministerial meeting that Cairo wanted a "gradual punishment against Israel that could eventually lead to a break-up in ties." Asked if Egypt had approved the draft, Moussa told reporters: "We are angry because of what is going on and we shall implement the resolutions of the Arab summit for sure." The Egyptian minister was referring to Cairo''s summit last month which called for a cut in ties with Israel. Four moderate Arab countries -- Morocco, Tunis, Oman and Qatar --have obeyed the Cairo summit resolutions and delegates said the onus was now on Mauritania, which set up full ambassadorial relations with Israel in 1999. "All the messages that came out from here, even from countries that have links with Israel, fully condemn the Israeli behavior," he said. "Israel has lost all that it had built over seven years," he added in reference to the 1993 Oslo peace accords between the Jewish state and the Palestinians. Despite the harsh words against Israel, the ministers toned down criticism of the United States, which many Muslims view as biased toward the Jewish state, after pressure from moderate Arab countries. "The leaders deplore the widescale and systematic violations of human rights perpetrated by Israeli occupation authorities, particularly the acts of mass killings, collective punishment such as the destruction of houses and closures of Palestinian territories," said the draft resolution. ACCUSES ISRAEL OF WAR CRIMES "These measures are tantamount to war crimes...and crimes against humanity," it added. The summit was saved from collapse after host Qatar bowed to pressure to cut ties with Israel. The decision to close Israel''s trade office in Doha paved the way for the attendance of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. In the draft communique, the leaders urged Washington to take a "humanitarian and honest stance against Israel''s bloody aggression and call upon the United States to shoulder its responsibility to stop this aggression." The delegates said the ministers agreed to set up a committee to lobby the five permanent members at the U.N. Security Council -- the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France -- and seek support for a resolution setting up a U.N. force to protect Palestinians against what they say is excessive Israeli force. Israeli officials oppose any international peacekeeping force. |
| Re: What is wrong with these Arab leaders?? |
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| hermit |
| 11/15/00 at 12:01:58 |
| Assalam-u-Alaikum, Hmmm...I don't get it. Did the Arab leaders agree or not? |
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