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CAIRO, Egypt: Cairo's 'Summit for Peace' was meant to be a diplomatic breakthrough towards a ceasefire in Gaza, but its failure revealed what one analyst called the 'fault lines' between Arab and Western states on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In their opening addresses Saturday, Arab leaders and Western delegates agreed on the need for aid to reach Palestinians in Gaza, besieged and under Israeli bombardment.But after hours of discussion, they found common ground on little else, with the meeting ending without a concluding statement.'The disagreement was over condemning Israel, which Western states refused to do,' an Arab official told AFP, requesting anonymity because they are not authorised to speak to the media.

The summit, Bitar told AFP, 'perfectly illustrates the deepening fault lines between the West and the Arab world, and the Global South more broadly,' as decades have not dulled 'the persistence of the Palestinian question'.'No to normalisation'Though the list of Arab states with ties to Israel has grown in recent years, popular anti-Israel sentiment has remained strong.

 

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