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| Palestinians push Arab peace plan in Israel media |
| 2008-11-21 |
| The PLO took the unprecedented step of placing advertisements in Israeli newspapers on Thursday to promote a six-year-old Arab peace plan for the region. Yediot Aharonot, Maariv and Haaretz, the three leading Israeli dailies, printed the advertisement, which is headed by the Palestinian and Israeli flags. "Fifty-seven Arab and Islamic countries will establish diplomatic ties and normal relations with Israel in return for a full peace agreement and an end to the occupation," the text of the add read, under Palestinian and Israel flags set side by side. According to Haaretz, the direct appeal by the Palestinian Authority to the Israeli public, over the heads of the Israeli leadership, is being seen by observers as an extraordinary event. Senior Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabbo said the campaign was meant to inform Israelis about the peace initiative, which until now has been "misinterpreted by the extreme Israeli right wing as an Arab conspiracy against Israel and its future". The advertisement, bordered by the flags of dozens of Arab and other Muslim states, also ran in Arabic in three Palestinian papers. Similar ads were published in Palestinian media and, according to Rabbo, in some European newspapers. The Arab League proposal offers Israel peace and normal relations with all Arab countries in return for its withdrawal from all territory the Jewish state captured in the 1967 Middle East war -- the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. The Saudi-inspired peace plan was presented at an Arab summit in Beirut in 2002 and re-launched at a Riyadh summit in 2007. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I believe the Germans did the same in the Polish press. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-21 08:15 |
| #1 A free train raid for every Jew. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-11-21 08:14 |