Amr Moussa: U.S can’t lead peace process

CAIRO – 12 December 2017: Former Secretary of the Arab League Amr Moussa said that the United States cannot lead the peace process after it aligned with Israel, adding that the U.S. administration’s involvement in the peace negotiations over the past decade did not result in any progress.

Addressing Palestinian factions in a call-in to Al-Arabiya satellite channel, Moussa advised the factions to unite and to end any divisions.

He suggested that all trials of negotiations done during the last decades were in vain and therefore he called for a new approach to the peace process. Moussa also urged Israel and the U.S. to recognize Palestine as a state.

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