Arab League to reason assembly on Jerusalem subsequent month

CAIRO – The Arab League will accommodate on Feb 1 to plead how to opposite U.S. President Donald Trump’s pierce final month to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Egypt’s state news group MENA pronounced on Wednesday.

Six Arab unfamiliar ministers who met in Amman final week pronounced Arab states would embark on a tactful expostulate to convince a United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as a collateral on domain prisoner by Israel in a 1967 war.

Arab unfamiliar ministers pronounced in an puncture assembly hold following Trump’s preference on Dec 6 that a pierce would coax assault via a region. They described Trump’s proclamation as a “dangerous defilement of general law” that had no authorised impact.

In recognising Jerusalem as a Israeli capital, Trump topsy-turvy decades of U.S. policy, imperilling Middle East assent efforts and upsetting a Arab universe and Western allies comparison .

The standing of Jerusalem – home to sites holy to a Muslim, Jewish and Christian religions – is one of a biggest obstacles to reaching a assent agreement between Israel and a Palestinians.