By DPA Last update - 21:54 23/05/2009 www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087547.html

A "57-state solution" to the Arab-Israeli conflict that would see
Muslim-majority countries offer Israel full diplomatic recognition in
exchange for peace "is not on the table," the head of the Arab League said
on Saturday.

Speaking to reporters at the end of a meeting of foreign ministers from the
57 members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in
Damascus on Saturday, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said media
reports suggesting the OIC might offer Israel a joint peace deal were
inaccurate.

"This is not on the table. All talk of this is inaccurate," Mussa said.

Jordan's King Abdullah II, in a May 11 interview with the Times of London,
had spoken of a "57-state solution."

"We are offering a third of the world to meet (the Israelis) with open
arms," King Abdullah said two weeks ago. "The future is not the Jordan River
or the Golan Heights or Sinai, the future is Morocco in the Atlantic to
Indonesia in the Pacific."

"The Jordanian proposal is in accordance with the Arab proposal," Mussa said
Saturday. "The conflict would be finished with Israel's withdrawal from all
occupied territories and the establishment of an independent Palestinian
state."

Mussa said that if Arabs and Israelis struck such a deal, other
predominantly Muslim countries would likely follow suit.

"But we do not see any progress in the current circumstances," he added.
"Though there is a lot of clarity in the U.S. position, which can benefit
everyone involved."

Make no deals and better yet, never sit at the same table with our enemies for we have never received anything good from these acts of good faith only more dead Jews and more pressure for us to weaken Israel.