'There is no honour in seeing Arabs rush towards normalisation during its presidency,' Maliki said [File: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]
Posted on 09/22/2020 11:50:55 AM PDT by SJackson
'There is no honour in seeing Arabs rush towards normalisation during its presidency,' Maliki said [File: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters]
Palestine was meant to chair Arab League meetings for next six months, but FM Riyad al-Maliki has declined the position.
Palestine has quit its current chairmanship of Arab League meetings, the Palestinian foreign minister said on Tuesday, condemning as dishonourable any Arab agreement to establish formal ties with Israel.
Palestinians see the deals that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed with Israel in Washington a week ago as a betrayal of their cause and a blow to their quest for an independent state in Israeli-occupied territory.
Earlier this month, the Palestinians failed to persuade the Arab League to condemn nations breaking ranks and normalising relations with Israel.
Palestine was supposed to chair Arab League meetings for the next six months, but Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki told a news conference in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah that it no longer wanted the position.
"Palestine has decided to concede its right to chair the League's council [of foreign ministers] at its current session. There is no honour in seeing Arabs rush towards normalisation during its presidency," Maliki said.
In his remarks, he did not specifically name the UAE and Bahrain, Gulf Arab countries that share with Israel concern over Iran. He said Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit had been informed of the Palestinian decision.
The Palestinian leadership wants an independent state based on the de facto borders before the 1967 war, in which Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and annexed East Jerusalem.
Arab countries have long called for Israel's withdrawal from illegally occupied land, a just solution for Palestinian refugees and a settlement that leads to the establishment of a viable, independent Palestinian state, in exchange for establishing ties with it.
In a new move addressing internal Palestinian divisions, officials from West Bank-based President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction and the Gaza-based Hamas movement were due to hold reconciliation talks in Turkey on Tuesday.
Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in 2007 from Fatah forces during a brief round of fighting. Differences over power-sharing have delayed implementation of unity deals agreed since then.
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I'm sure the Arab League is very upset.
Wait, I thought “Palestine” was waiting to exist?
Now it exists as a state?
Then it has nothing to complain about.
Let the Arab League get on with legitimate business, like Terrorist suppression.
Missed it by that much! GMTA!
Bye Bye Birdie!
What? Were you expecting the other countries to beg you not to leave? Ha!
The spoiled child wants out—good and get lost. Palestinians are nothing more than southern Syrians living high on the hog off of other people’s money. They don’t want a state, they want the extermination of Israel. Thank you phony prophet, epileptic child abuser, adulterer, thief and murderer, Mahomet.
So they're taking their ball and going home? Feels like a win...
Perhaps they can team up with FelchiFa, and. Burn Loot Murder, and create the worlds largest tanty
LOL.
Things are not going well for them, and they may regret dropping out. It’s going to make it a lot easier for non-Iran-aligned companies to leave them behind.
I think a lot were Jordanians, or even Egyptians.
It isn’t a real country, is it?
They can be represented by Jordan or Egypt. Or, join the civilized world and be represented by Israel.
They haven’t left. Yet. They are merely throwing a temper tantrum, which was to be expected.
They haven’t left. Yet. They are merely throwing a temper tantrum, which was to be expected.
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