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...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...
...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 leaders...
...proposal to offer normalization of Arab relations with Israel if it retreats to its 1967 borders - a prospect bluntly rejected by Sharon on Sunday as a threat to Israel's security. The Bush administration reportedly wants the Saudis to press for adoption of the proposal at the Arab League summit in Beirut later this month. But having been drawn into the game, the Saudis have an agenda of their own. They indicated Monday that they would not raise the proposal in Beirut unless Arafat was present - a direct challenge to Washington to press Sharon to end the Palestinian leader...
...model for a new approach is Jubilee 2000, which campaigned with great success to reduce developing-world debt. Jubilee 2000 was based in Europe, not the U.S., and its foot soldiers were not liberal activists but churchgoers. I remember covering a huge demonstration at the 1999 G-8 summit in Cologne, Germany, that was led not by black-clad anarchists but by nuns singing hymns. Bono's support for the campaign was critical; he gave a patina of glamour to people who would otherwise have been dismissed as nice but deeply unfashionable...
...notes one E.U. official. It took the E.U. three months to secure the legal basis for the same action "even though everyone wanted it," the official says. And no one wants to revisit the squalid bickering that took place in December 2000 at the European Council in Nice, a summit that degenerated into an undignified tussle between small and large states before finally approving the historic enlargement...