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Article: Arab League official to Israel: Don't call us
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- Jerusalem Post
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- February 8, 1995
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Tom O'Dwyer
Jerusalem Post
02-08-1995
THE FOLLOWING excerpts are from a recent interview given by Adnam Amram, assistant on political affairs to the secretary-general of the Arab League:
Q: What is your opinion of [Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon] Peres's call for Israel to join the Arab League?
A: There is no possibility of accepting this call for many reasons. The most important among them is that Israel does not meet the criteria for joining.
This is because the Charter of the Arab League requires in the first section of the conditions for membership that countries accepted for membership be a part of the Arab people, from the standpoint of culture, history and language.
Naturally, ...