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This article discusses the role of the Arab League in the Arab-Israeli Conflict . BEFORE 1948 The League was established on March 22 , 1945 . When the League founding pact was signed in Cairo , Egypt , " {Link without Title} he Arab League states collectively put their weight behind the basic demands of Palestine's Arabs but arrogated to themselves the right to select who would represent the Palestinians in their councils, so long as their country was not independent." By the end of World War II , the Palestinian Arabs were left leaderless. The mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin Al-Husayni had been in exile since 1937 and spent the war years in Nazi -occupied Europe , actively collaborating with German National Socialist leadership. As the war ended, he managed to escape to Egypt and stayed there until his death in 1974 . His brother Jamal al-Husayni was interned in Southern Rhodesia during the war. In November 1945, the Arab League reestablished the Arab Higher Committee as a supreme executive body of Palestinian Arabs in the territory of the British Mandate Of Palestine , but it fell apart due to infighting. In June 1946 , the Arab League imposed upon the Palestinians the Arab Higher Executive , renamed into "Arab Higher Committee" in 1947 , with Amin al-Husayni as its chairman and Jamal al-Husayni as vice-chairman. Since 1945 King Abdullah Of Jordan had been negotiating in secret with the Jewish Agency on plans for partition of Palestine between the Jews and Transjordan. At a clandestine meeting on 17 November , 1947 between Golda Meir and Abdullah she confirmed that Transjordan's takeover of the Arab part of Palestine would be viewed favourably. At a second meeting on 10 May , 1948 Abdullah declined to confirm his commitment to the existing agreement, but left Meir with the impression that he would make peace with a Jewish state after the impending war 1948-1949 The day after The State Of Israel Was Proclaimed , six League members, Iraq , Syria , Lebanon , Transjordan , Egypt , and Saudi Arabia , supported by other members (notably Yemen ), coordinated the attack on the State Of Israel in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and explicitly stated the destruction of the newly-formed Jewish state as their goal. On May 15 , 1948, the Arab League Secretary General Abdul Razek Azzam Pasha announced the intention to wage "a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades ." However, despite the rhetoric Arab leaders were disunited. The Egyptians knew of Abdullah's agreement with Meir and were determined to thwart Transjordan's territorial ambitions, "thus the Arab war plan changed in conception and essence from a united effort to conquer parts of the nascent Jewish state and perhaps destroy it, into a multilateral land grab focussing on the Arab areas of the country" . "A key feature of the Arabs' plans was the complete marginalization of the Palestinians... This aptly reflected the political reality: The military defeats of April-May had rendered them insignificant. The Arab League through the first half of 1948 had consistently rejected Husseini's appeals to establish a government-in-exile... Under strong pressure from Egypt, which feared complete Hashemite control over the Palestinians, the League Political Committee in mid-September authorized the establishment of a Palestinian 'government.'" On September 22, 1948, the All-Palestine Government was established in Gaza , and on September 30, the rival First Palestinian Congress , which promptly denounced the Gaza "government", was convened in Amman . 1949-1967 As a result of 1949 Armistice Agreements , the West Bank and East Jerusalem were Ruled By Jordan , while the Gaza Strip was Occupied By Egypt until the 1967 Six Day War . In 1951 , the Arab League established the Office Of The Arab Boycott Of Israel (OABI) based in Damascus in order to boycott companies that do business with Israel from operating in the Arab World . In its heyday, the Arab boycott office blacklisted more than 8,500 companies, including The Coca-Cola Company and Ford Motor Company . {Link without Title} "It was not the Palestinians themselves who decided to create the PLO after their defeat in 1948 ; The Arab League set it up in 1964 to attack Israel. For years, Palestinian independence was off the Arab agenda; now it was back. Inventing the PLO was a prelude to war, not a result of it; the goal was to destroy Israel, not to rectify the misfortune of the Palestinians, which still could have been done by the Arab states irrespective of Israel." 1967-2000 On September 1 , 1967 , in the wake of the Six-Day War , the Khartoum Resolution was issued at the meeting between the leaders of eight Arab countries. The paragraph 3 of the resolution became known as the ''Three No'''s: # No peace with Israel # No recognition of Israel # No negotiations with Israel During the years .) The Arab League immediately recognized the State Of Palestine unilaterally proclaimed on November 15 , 1988 , by the Palestinian National Council . At the time, the PLO was based in Tunis and did not have control over any part of Palestine . AFTER 2000 In 2002, Saudi Arabia offered a Peace Plan in the New York Times and at a summit meeting of the Arab League in Beirut . The plan, based on UN Security Council Resolution 242 and Resolution 338 , but going further, essentially calls for full withdrawal in return for fully normalized relations with the whole Arab world. This proposal received the unanimous backing of the Arab League for the first time. In response, Israeli Foreign Minister ." {Link without Title} , SEE ALSO
Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties
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