Arab League chief: We will not change Saudi peace initiative
Secretary General of the Arab League Amr Moussa announced on Sunday that there will be no changes to the Saudi Peace initiative, despite protestations made recently about the initiative by Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Ha'aretz newspaper has covered the story by stating:Israel was expecting the Arab League to adopt an improved version of the Saudi peace plan at the summit meeting, senior government sources told Haaretz last week.
I love the notion that adopting an Israeli version of an Arab peace proposal would be "an improvement".
"The Arab peace initiative expresses an Arab consensus and will not be redrafted as demanded by some foreign powers," Moussa told the ministers, who were meeting in Cairo ahead of the two-day Arab League summit later this month.I am pleased that the Arab League have stood firm here. As I have argued before, the Israelis were attempting to implement the George Bush style of negotiation, where your opponent has to concede all his main points of argument before negotiations can even begin.
It was a ludicrous stance and Livni has, as expected, been ignored. I suppose we can now expect to be told that the Saudi's are "not serious" about seeking peace.
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