Ahmadinejad urges Arabs to pressure Israel

The Iranian president says the Arab world can resolve the world’s “most important” problem by pressuring Israel into stopping its crimes against Palestinians.

“Palestine is the most important and determining issue in the world,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in a Wednesday meeting with Oman’s visiting Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah.

“If Arab states pressure Israel into stop committing crimes against the Palestinian people, all problems will be solved. I hope that this is the course of action they will decide to take,” said the Iranian president.

“Israel’s current actions are not a sign of power. The extreme measures that it is taking indicate its weakness. Israel will reach the end in no time, if it meets some resistance,” Ahmadinejad added.

He called on regional countries to stand together in foiling enemy plots. Ahmadinejad said that by standing together, Middle Eastern states could prevent enemies from “taking advantage of divisions between brothers.”

Alawi for his part said that Arab countries had reached the conclusion that negotiation between Palestinians and the Israeli regime would yield no result.

“Arab states have reached a dead-end as a result of what Israel has been doing. So, they must start looking for a new way out to free themselves from the current situation,” he said.