US allies among Arab states urging Donald Trump to reconsider Jerusalem move.
Twenty-two Arab states including close US allies have urged Donald Trump to reconsider a "dangerous" decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
The Arab League warned the move "deepens tension, ignites anger and threatens to plunge region into more violence and chaos," in a strongly critical statement issued following an emergency meeting attended by the foreign ministers of each member nation.
The White House announcement about Jerusalem this week overturned decades of US neutrality on one of the Middle East's most sensitive issues, sparking violence in Gaza and protests elsewhere in the region. The US President's endorsement of Israel's claim to all of Jerusalem as its capital reverses Washington's stance that the city's status must be decided in negotiations with the Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.
The Arab League statement described the decision as a "dangerous violation of international law" which had no legal impact and was "void". It said it would seek a United Nations Security Council resolution rejecting the US move.
The decision has no legal effect... it deepens tension, ignites anger and threatens to plunge region into more violence and chaos," the statement, issued at 3am local time after hours of meetings that began on Saturday evening in Cairo.
Lebanon's foreign minister Gebran Bassil suggested Arab nations should also consider imposing economic sanctions against the United States to prevent it moving its Israel embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
"Pre-emptive measures [must be] taken ... beginning with diplomatic measures, then political, then economic and financial sanctions," he said.
But the Arab League statement made no mention of economic sanctions and included no other punitive actions against the US, such as a boycott of American products or downgrading of ties with Washington.
Arab criticism of Mr Trump's plan contrasted sharply with the praise Washington's traditional Arab allies heaped on him at the beginning of his administration in January.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan have each issued individual statements criticising the Jerusalem decision.
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