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Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=18757
The Lessons of the Arab League Summit
(Israel Hayom) Zalman Shoval - Despite the intentions of several members of the Arab League, which met in Jordan last week, to make changes in the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002 so that it might become relevant and implementable, in the end a decision was taken to accept PA President Mahmoud Abbas' call to endorse the 2002 version, which demands a complete Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines and the establishment of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Thus, the Palestinian leadership is continuing its strategy of not conducting real peace talks with Israel, which means Israel does not have a real partner for peace on the Palestinian side. The writer is a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.