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TEL AVIV, Israel, May 14 (UPI) -- Arab leaders should back Palestinian moderates, but not the Arab League's initiative, a top Israeli official says.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was referring Monday to the peace initiative adopted by the Arab League at its last summit meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in March. It offers Israel peace and normal relations with all Arab states providing Israel withdraws from all the territories it occupied during the 1967 war, agrees to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital and reaches an agreement on how to solve the refugee issue.
An Arab League delegation comprising the Egyptian and Jordanian foreign ministers is due in Israel within a few weeks to promote the initiative.
In a briefing to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Monday, Livni said: "We are not negotiating a final settlement (of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute) with the Arab League. We seek a dialogue with the Palestinians."
Livni who discussed the issue last week, in Cairo, said Israel was telling the Arab League to "put the initiative's details aside for a moment."
"If you table it today ... Israel will ... say it is not an option ... The Arab narrative really doesn't represent any kind of a compromise" and the Arab League's position would prevent the Palestinians from compromising.
Instead Livni wanted the Arab League's readiness for peace to be "translated ... into supporting the Palestinians when the time for compromises will arrive."
She indicated she had discussed this with her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts, adding: "If this is not the way in which they perceive their role, they maybe they will have no role."
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