'Boycott Israel again because it is an enemy,' Kadhafi tells Arab states

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi has called on Arab states to take a firm stand and boycott Israel because of its onslaught on the Gaza Strip, the official JANA news agency reported on Wednesday.

Speaking to foreign ministers of the five North African Maghreb states in Tripoli late on Tuesday ahead of an Arab League meeting in Cairo on Wednesday, Kadhafi also branded a league peace plan a "plot" and a "masquerade."

The league adopted a Saudi proposal in 2002 which called on Israel to withdraw from territory it occupied in 1967, in return for diplomatic relations with Arab states. The plan was relaunched at a Riyadh summit in 2007.

"We must close this door firmly and boycott Israel again because it is an enemy," JANA quoted Kadhafi as saying. "We have found that negotiations serve only the Zionist programme on the path to our extermination."

"We could give Israel a deadline and say to them 'you have one month and after that the door to peace talks will be firmly closed. We will be in a state of war and Israel will be boycotted."

He threatened to turn his back on the Arab world and focus fully on Africa, saying he intended to travel on Wednesday "to resolve the problems of Guinea, Somalia, Congo and Chad." More

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