Israel condemned at Arab summit

Regional leaders meeting in Libya have been united in their condemnation of Israel's settlement activity in occupied Palestinian land. The Arab League summit began on Saturday in the Libyan city of Sirte, with Amr Moussa, the Arab League chief, warning that continued Israeli settlement building would end efforts to revive the Middle East peace process. "We have to study the possibility that the peace process will be a complete failure," Moussa said in his opening speech to the two-day annual summit. "It's time to face Israel ... We have accepted an open-ended peace process but that resulted in a loss of time and we did not achieve anything and allowed Israel to practise its policy for 20 years." Jerusalem, which the Palestinians want as a joint capital for a future state, has been a particular point of focus for delegates.