More of AL’s Waiver: Ready for Land Swaps with "Israel"

Local Editor

More and more of the Arab League's surrender in front of the Zionist entity appears.

And this time the Arab oil decided to swap the Palestinian cause.

From Washington, the AL issued a statement in which it accepted a land swaps as part of an "Israeli"-Palestinian agreement on the basis of the pre-1967 lines.

Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani said Monday, following a meeting he and a delegation of Arab League foreign ministers had with US Secretary of State John Kerry, that any agreement "should be based on the two-state solution on the basis of the 4th of June 1967 line, with the possibility of comparable and mutual agreed minor swaps of the land."

Al-Thani's statement appeared to carry more waivers than the so-called 2002 Arab Peace Initiative which called for a two-state solution based on a complete "Israeli" withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines and making east al-Quds the Palestinian capital, in return for "normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace with "Israel"."

The 2002 initiative also called for the "achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem to be agreed upon in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194."
For his part, US Secretary of State John Kerry hailed Tuesday "the shift in the Arab League position to accept for the first time the idea of land swaps between the Palestinians and "Israelis" in any peace deal."

"This is literally a statement by the Arab world that they're prepared to make peace, providing the Palestinians and "Israelis" reach a final status agreement," he told reporters Tuesday at the State Department after meeting Spain's foreign minister.
"I don't underestimate the significance of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Arab Emirates, the Egyptians, the Jordanians and others coming to the table and saying, `We are prepared to make peace now in 2013,'" he said. Still, he said much more was left to do."

"We have a lot of homework to do, a lot of tough hurdles to get over, but each step forward is the way you get there," Kerry said.
Meanwhile, "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office declined requests for comment Tuesday. But Cabinet minister Silvan Shalom, a senior Likud member, played down the Arab League's decision, saying, "there is nothing new here."

"In principle, I support renewing the process. Of course, I don't accept the 1967 lines," he told "Israel" Radio. "If the Arab League wants to be a partner to this process, then we welcome it, but this is not negotiations."

Tzipi Livni, while acknowledging that "Israel" had concerns about some of the details of the Arab initiative, said "Israel" must nonetheless respond positively. "It's good news that should be welcomed," she said in a Facebook post.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org