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Article: Arab League chief says Middle East future depends on Israel and United States, not Arafat
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- November 10, 2004
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CIARAN GILES, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
11-10-2004
Dateline: MADRID, Spain
The future of the Middle East depends on the commitment of the United States and Israel to a Palestinian state, not on the life or death of Yasser Arafat, the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amre Moussa, said Wednesday.
"It depends on the attitude of the Israeli government whether there will be a real moving ahead and offering to reach peace or not," Moussa said on being asked how Arafat's death would affect the Mideast peace process.
"President Arafat was never an obstacle to peace," Moussa told a conference at the Hotel Ritz in Madrid. "He was sometimes a pretext (for others) not to move toward ...