Arab League to visit Israel
"The Arab League is to send envoys to Israel for the first time to discuss an Arab peace initiative and how it might support the embattled Palestinian president.....
Jordan's foreign ministry said its minister, Abdul-Ilah al-Khatib and Egyptian counterpart Ahmed Aboul Gheit would arrive in Jerusalem on Thursday for talks with the Israeli prime minister and other senior officials.....
Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli foreign ministry, said the foreign ministers would lead an Arab League mission to Israel to discuss the Arab peace plan, which would trade full Arab recognition of Israel for an Israeli withdrawal from all lands captured in the 1967 Middle East war and the creation of a Palestinian state. "They will be talking about how the Arab peace proposal can help energise the rapprochement between Israel and the Palestinians," Regev said. "This is the first time the Arab League is coming to Israel. "From its inception the Arab League has been hostile to Israel. It will be the first time we'll be flying the Arab League flag."
Amr Moussa, the Arab League secretary-general, said on Sunday: "The upcoming visit of Egypt's and Jordan's foreign ministers to Israel upon the request of the Arab committee of peace initiative is to conduct necessary contacts with Israel."......"
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