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Arab leaders gather for peace summit

Mahmoud Abbas - 'A last chance for peace'
Mahmoud Abbas - 'A last chance for peace'

Arab leaders are meeting in Saudi Arabia for a summit aimed at reviving a five-year-old Saudi-sponsored land-for-peace offer to Israel.

The two-day meeting of the Arab League is set to offer Israel normal ties with all Arab countries if it fully withdraws from land it occupied in 1967, accepts a Palestinian state and agrees to a 'just solution' for Palestinian refugees.

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged Israel to take up the offer, calling it a last chance for peace with Muslims.

Israel has objected to key elements of the plan including the proposed return to 1967 borders, the inclusion of Arab East Jerusalem in a Palestinian state and the return of Palestinian refugees to homes in what is now Israel.