US In Dangerous Territory By Endorsing Arab Peace Plan
Posted in Newsroom on August 9, 2007 – 5:44 pm
WASH—Thursday, August 9, 2007 —The United States is playing a dangerous game in the Middle East by penning agreement on a Saudi Arabian peace plan to curry Arab help in stabilizing Iraq. This turn of events began earlier this year when the US State Department signaled that the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative was an acceptable framework for beginning peace negotiations with Israel and establishing a Palestinian state. Now Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has actually put her signature on the plan forwarded by the Arab league, all nations who are sworn enemies of Israel.
The plan is being promoted in the media as one that is reasonable calling for an end to Israeli occupation of the land won in the 1967 war, in which Israel pre-empted a massive attack by Arab nations against the tiny Jewish nation. The plan, however, also calls for Israel to give up East Jerusalem to be the capitol of a new Palestinian state.
The Arab Peace Initiative essentially says give up Jerusalem, the strategic Golan Heights, the West Bank (which are the traditional Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria), allow the Palestinians complete repopulation of the sovereign nation of Israel, and the establishment of a Palestinian State.
In return, Israel receives recognition of its right to exist and a guarantee of peace from Arab nations.
