Arab report slams U.S. security ideas for Palestine

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Arab report slams U.S. security ideas for Palestine

CAIRO Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:34am EST

(Reuters) - The Arab League on Saturday rejected U.S. proposals that would allow Israeli soldiers to be stationed on the eastern border of a future Palestinian state, underscoring the challenge facing a U.S. effort to wrap up a peace deal by April.

At an emergency meeting called at the request of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said there could be not one Israeli soldier in the territory of a future Palestine.

But a resolution he read at the end of the meeting did not repeat the harshly critical language of a report circulated to the Arab delegates ahead of the gathering.

The report, seen by Reuters, said the U.S. security proposals "achieved Israeli security expansionist demands, and guaranteed (Israel's) continued control of (the Jordan Valley) on the security pretext".

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/21/us-palestinians-israel-arabs-idUSBRE9BK0AH20131221

[oberliner]

1. How is the Arab League still in business?

I thought most of those unelected dictators had been overthrown.