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'Arabs unable to agree on Gaza statement'

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Arab countries have been unable to agree on a unified statement about the Gaza Strip following Israel's devastating three week offensive, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday at the end of an economic summit dominated by Gaza.
The crisis in Gaza has divided Arab countries into two camps - one supporting I lamas' hard-liners, die other hoping to lure die Palestinian militant group toward more moderation. The political division could affect the stability of the fragile cease-fire in Gaza, which was in its third day Tuesday.
"Unfortunately, we didn't reach a final result because of time limits and because some are entrenched in their positions," Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told state-owned Kuwait Television at the end of a two-day Arab Economic summit in Kuwait
He did not name any countries, but stressed that "everybody has to make concessions" and efforts were still ongoing to reach agreement.
Zebari's comments come a day after Saudi King Abdullah urged the deeply
divided Arab countries to end their rift and warned Israel that an Arab peace initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia would not remain on the table forever.
The king, who along with Egypt have been pressuring Hamas to be more moderate, even invited his Arab rivals - the leaders of Syria and Qatar - to lunch at his Kuwait residence.
Following the meal, Qatar's prime minister expressed optimism that both camps could work together, and local media praised the gathering as a historic "Arab reconciliation."
But Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak took a veiled swipe at Syria by criticizing Iran's tics with some Arab leaders - indicating that the two sides were still divided. The Persian country and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are two of Hamas’ main backers and both have strong relations with Syria.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both staunch US allies, initially blamed Hamas for the Gaza crisis. Later, as the Gaza death toll increased and public pressure in the Arab world to support Hamas mounted, the two Arab powerhouses shifted their
accusations toward Israel.
More than 1,250 Palestinians and 13 Israelis have been killed during three weeks of combat in Gaza, which Israel said it launched to halt Hamas rocket fire.
But the divisions between Arab countries grew deeper last week when Qatar hosted a summit on Gaza. Egypt and Saudi Arabia led a boycott of the gathering, which Qatar had called to lake a united stance on Gaza but ended up being domi-natedbysupportersofHamas.
The two sides also are divided about what should be done with the Arab peace initiative - first proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and relaunched in March 2007.
At the summit in Qatar, Syria called for putting the peace initiative on hold - a more radical position than the one outlined by Abdullah on Monday.
The Arab peace initiative offers Israel collective Arab recognition in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from territory it occupied during the 1967 Mideast war, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and a just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees.