Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Obama pressing Arabs for better peace offer?


Arabs Formulating New Peace Plan

A group of Arab leaders led by Jordan's King Abdullah II [pictured above] is formulating a new peace offer at the behest of U.S. President Obama, the London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported. Arab diplomats said this week that the US has asked the 22-member Arab League to amend a 2002 peace initiative to make it more palatable to Israel.

The offer will reportedly call for the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state with borders [to] be resolved with land swaps.

Some of the descendants of Palestinian refugees from Israel's War of Independence in 1948 will reportedly be allowed to return to the Palestinian state, while others will be naturalized in their countries of residence in the Arab world.

The report said Obama had requested that the plan...
(Jerusalem Post)
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