23/02/2006 (Agence Europe) - At a meeting with MEPs in Brussels (see EUROPE 9137), the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, said the time had come for Israelis and Palestinians to make peace but this would not be achieved by pushing the future Palestinian government to deadlock (he called the new Palestinian government to distinguish between the Hamas movement and its earlier beliefs). Moussa said the Palestinian government would evolve and had to be helped to do so. He said he himself had suggested to the winners of the 25 January elections to accept the '2002 Arab initiative' recognising the rights of all sides and supporting a two state solution and respect of the commitment made by the Palestinian Authority. But Moussa said people couldn't ask the government to evolve and then leave them facing the Israelis who are continuing with their settlement policy and are building a wall. He said the new Palestinian government had to start to receive aid granted to the Palestinian people for the suffering they are enduring, and to compensate for loss of income and the precarious situation caused by the occupation which is seizing funding, destroying fields and destroying ports.