CAIRO — Arab states agreed Saturday to seek an urgent U.N. Security Council meeting to stop Israel from confiscating Palestinian-owned land in East Jerusalem, calling the seizure a threat to Middle East peace.
Foreign ministers reached the agreement at a meeting here of the 22-member Arab League in response to Israel's plan to confiscate 140 acres of land to build 7,000 apartments for Jews. However, they made no decision on a Palestinian request that they pull out of multilateral peace talks with the Jewish state.
