| The Arab Peace Initiative: The Necessities of Reviving the Initiative and the Risks of Stagnation |
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Saudi Prince Abdallah’s peace initiative endorsed at the Beirut Arab League summit in March 2002 raises a number of issues and questions that the Arab world must address: Can the Arab states enter a new age of economic, political, and social development without a just peace that puts an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab lands and relieves the region of a state of war that offers only a desolate future? Can armed resistance be sustained until Israel withdraws from the occupied territories or should Palestinians and other Arabs fundamentally reevaluate the continued use of this method? Should Arab efforts concern only territories occupied by Israel in 1967 or also include the rest of historic Palestine on which Israel was established in 1948? What are the positions of the Islamic movements and the Arab street vis-à-vis peace within the framework of establishing a Palestinian state and a comprehensive Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands? Can the initiative for peace endorsed by the Arab League summit in Beirut provide the basis of a united Arab position?
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Common Ground News Service,
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Saudi Prince Abdallah’s peace initiative endorsed at the Beirut Arab League summit in March 2002 raises a number of issues and questions that the Arab world must address: Can the Arab states enter a new age of economic, political, and social development without a just peace that puts an end to the Israeli occupation of Arab lands and relieves the region of a state of war that offers only a desolate future? Can armed resistance be sustained until Israel withdraws from the occupied territories or should Palestinians and other Arabs fundamentally reevaluate the continued use of this method? Should Arab efforts concern only territories occupied by Israel in 1967 or also include the rest of historic Palestine on which Israel was established in 1948? What are the positions of the Islamic movements and the Arab street vis-à-vis peace within the framework of establishing a Palestinian state and a comprehensive Israeli withdrawal from Arab lands? Can the initiative for peace endorsed by the Arab League summit in Beirut provide the basis of a united Arab position?
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