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...recent Saudi Arabian peace initiative, first published in a New York Times column last month, has brought a spark of hope in the midst of chaos. Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah has said Saudi Arabia and its Arab neighbors would fully normalize relations with Israel in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories in accordance with past U.N. resolutions, and the creation of a Palestinian state. Prince Abdullah plans to ask the 22-member Arab League to back the peace offer at the next summit meeting beginning on March 27 in Beirut...
...willing to agree—it does have the potential to end the current stalemate and bring the parties back to the negotiating table. With few alternatives in sight, the Saudi initiative appears to represent a serious attempt to broker peace in the region by a major Arab power, and it should be pursued with all possible effort...
...this peace proposal to be more than just an empty public relations effort by the Saudi government to improve its standing with the United States, the Saudis must make concrete efforts over the next month to move the plan forward. First they must bring the proposal before the Arab League summit meeting at the end of the month. Saudi Arabia, of course, cannot make peace with Israel alone; it must convince the other Arab states to follow its lead. This requires wide consultation and firm commitments by all other Arab nations, as well as the cooperation of Palestinian and Israeli...
...have any meaning, a clearer definition of “full normalization of relations” to which all the parties can agree must be given in order to ensure the future health and security of the region. Part of any normalization of relations between members of the Arab League and Israel requires the Arab states to rid their states of pervasive anti-Semitism, both in schoolbooks and in media reports; there cannot be a true move toward a “New Middle East” if Arab states continue to perpetuate hatred towards Israelis...
...international peacekeepers, as the rising toll of child casualties on both sides raises the danger of a descent into uncontrolled savagery; and It stokes a brushfire that will ultimately force the U.S. to renew its mediating role, not least because of the Bush administration's own need for Arab support in any campaign against Iraq...