RIYADH, January 28, 2007 (WAFA) - King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz, invited Palestinian leaders for urgent talks in holy city of Mecca to putan end to the current internal fight.

"I invite them all ... for an urgent meeting in brotherly Saudi Arabia at the sacred house of God (Mecca's Grand Mosque) to discuss disputes in a neutral (environment) without intervention from any other side," King Abdullah said in press statement.

King Abdullahh also said Palestinian internal fighting could jeopardize efforts to create a Palestinian state.

"Unless the wise in Palestine put a decisive and immediate end to the dispute . . . it would deny the steadfast Palestinian people any hope in ridding itself of the hell of the Israeli occupation and (block) the creation of an independent free state of Palestine," he said.

"What is happening in the land of brotherly Palestine serves only the enemies of the Islamic and Arab nations and puts question marks in the minds of the international community which respects our just (Palestinian) cause."

King Abdullah said the invitation was based on an Islamic rule that Muslims must solicit rapprochement if fighting erupts among followers of the faith.

"The government and people of Saudi Arabia do not accept to stand silently and watch with deep sorrow and pain as brothers, who share a cause, fight . . . our hearts bleed," he said.
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