Arab League chief Amr Moussa predicted on Friday that the latest round of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians will be the last.

Israeli-Palestinian talks resumed in Washington this week and are meant to continue later this month, Haaretz reported.
Speaking at a news conference in Italy, Moussa said Arabs are ready for full peace with Israel in exchange for a pullout from the lands Israel occupied in 1967, including East Jerusalem.
He continued by stressing that Arabs were ready to have normal relations with Israel and that there was no alternative but to achieve a real peace.
Moussa's remarks sharply contrast comments he made this past Sunday, when he said that he had little hope that direct peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians would be successful.
“We are hoping that talks will succeed but we are all very pessimistic about the viability of the peace process because of the past experience,” Moussa told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a political conference in Slovenia on Sunday.
“The only reason (for the hope in the success of the talks) is the sincerity of President Obama and his wish to achieve something good in his presidency,” Moussa said.
He said Obama had given the Palestinians assurances that Israel would stop settling new territory during talks that are due to last for one year.
“If we find that during that year Israel continues to build settlements, there is no use in waiting for the full year (of talks)” Moussa said.
The 10-month freeze is set to expire on September 26. Palestinian officials have declared that talks would break down if Israel resumed construction in the settlements after that date. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained mum on whether or not he would extend the moratorium.
Photo: Arab League chief Amr Moussa