The Arab League decided on Saturday to seek full U.N. membership for a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with East Jerusalem as its capital, according to Reuters. The Arab League's peace process committee, meeting in Doha, said it would request membership for the state of Palestine at the U.N. General Assembly's meeting in New York in September. "The committee decided to go to the United Nations to request full membership for Palestine on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital," it said in a statement. The 1967 borders refer to Israel's frontiers as they stood on the eve of the 1967 Middle East war in which it occupied the Gaza Strip from Egypt and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan.