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Summary The Arab League has given a new roadmap for an independent Palestinian state.
The Arab League said that it backed seeking the UN recognition for a Palestinian state, as Qatar proposed at a meeting that the Middle East peace process be suspended until Israel was ready for talks.The Palestinian state will include the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and mostly Arab but Israel-annexed east Jerusalem, with some adjustments and land swaps so that Israel can maintain settlement blocs.At a meeting of an Arab monitoring committee chaired by Qatar, the Arab League said in a statement it supports the appeal to the UN asking that Palestine, within the 1967 borders, becomes a full-fledged state of the international organisation.
