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See also: 2002 Arab League summit and 2007 Arab League summit
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The Arab Peace Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السلام العربية; Hebrew: יוזמת השלום הערבית), also known as the Saudi Initiative (Arabic: مبادرة السعودية; Hebrew: היוזמה הסעודית), is a 10 sentence proposal for an end to the Arab–Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit and re-endorsed at the 2007 and at the 2017 Arab League summits.[1] The initiative offers normalisation of relations by the Arab world with Israel, in return for a full withdrawal by Israel from the occupied territories (including the West Bank, Gaza, the Golan Heights, and Lebanon), with the possibility of comparable and mutual agreed minor swaps of the land between Israel and Palestine, a "just settlement" of the Palestinian refugee problem based on UN Resolution 194, and the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.[2] A Palestinian attack called the Passover massacre took place on 27 March 2002, the day before the Initiative was published, which initially overshadowed it.[3]
The Palestinian Authority led by Yasser Arafat immediately embraced the initiative.[4] His successor Mahmoud Abbas also supported the plan and officially asked U.S. President Barack Obama to adopt it as part of his Middle East policy.[5] Initial reports indicate that Islamist political party Hamas, the elected government of the Gaza Strip, was deeply divided,[6] while later reports indicate that Hamas accepted the peace initiative.[7][8] The Israeli government under Ariel Sharon rejected the initiative as a "non-starter"[9] because it required Israel to withdraw to pre-June 1967 borders.[10] In 2015, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed tentative support for the Initiative,[11] but in 2018, he rejected it as a basis for future negotiations with the Palestinians.[12]
^Time to Test the Arab Peace Offer. By Scott MacLeod. Time. January 8, 2009.
^Terje Rød-Larsen; Nur Laiq; Fabrice Aidan (2014). The Search for Peace in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Compendium of Documents and Analysis. Oxford University Press. pp. 484–. ISBN 978-0-19-921610-9.
^"'Passover massacre' at Israeli hotel kills 19" Archived April 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. CNN. March 27, 2002.
^"Support for the Saudi Initiative". The New York Times. February 28, 2002. Archived from the original on November 11, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2016.
^Stern, Yoav (November 22, 2008). "Abbas calls on Obama to enact Arab peace plan as soon as he takes office" Archived December 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Haaretz. Associated Press.
^"Hamas' al-Zahar: Arab peace initiative impractical" Archived July 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Ynet News. Associated Press. June 1, 2006.
^Roy, Sara (2013). Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza. Princeton University Press. p. 210. Hamas voiced support for the Arab League's Beirut Declaration of March 2002, in which all Arab states including Palestine offered Israel permanent peace and normal diplomatic and economic relations in re-turn for Israel's compliance with international law by returning to its internationally recognized pre-1967 borders.
^Yitzhak Reiter (2011). War, Peace and International Relations in Islam: Muslim Scholars on Peace Accords with Israel. Sussex Academic Press. p. 35.
^"Arabs offer Israel peace plan". BBC News. March 28, 2002. Archived from the original on December 14, 2006. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
^Hoffman, Gil (March 4, 2002). "Sharon warns Saudi plan may be Arab plot". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on February 3, 2004. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
^"Netanyahu backs 'general idea' behind Arab Peace Initiative". Times of Israel. May 28, 2015. Archived from the original on May 30, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015.
^Cite error: The named reference haaretz2018apr10 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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