Jordan's Islamic Action Front (IAF) on Monday urged the Arab states to withdraw the Arab Peace Initiative, which offers Israel normal ties with the Arabs, ahead of direct Palestinian-Israeli talks scheduled to start in Washington on Thursday, Xinhua reported.
In a statement posted on its website, the IAF, the political arm of Muslim Brotherhood, called for giving up negotiations and urged the Arab regimes to withdraw the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, describing it as "useless."
Adopted by the Arab leaders in 2002 in Beirut, the peace overture offers Israel collective Arab recognition in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from the territories it occupied in the 1967 war. It also calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and finding a just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees.
The IAF labeled the direct talks as "a waste of time," calling on the Arab states to support the Palestinian resistance in the face of the Israeli occupation and settlement activities.
"Rushing to the negotiations in spite of the continued crimes by the Zionist entity, the judaization of Jerusalem, expelling of Palestinians from Jerusalem and continued Israeli raids and arrests, represents an underestimation of the Palestinians, the Arab and the Muslim nation and the holy issue," the IAF said in its statement.
The IAF also called for lifting the siege imposed on Gaza Strip and called for reconciliation among the Palestinian factions.
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