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Israel Dismisses Saudi Peace Plan Revival
[Jerusalem Post] Herb Keinon - Senior Jerusalem officials dismissed on Sunday a sudden surge of interest in the Arab Peace Initiative. "Whenever the process stalls, there will be those who will pull out the Saudi plan," one senior official said. "And the Saudis have an interest in pushing this out there now, to put on a 'constructive face' with which to greet the new U.S. president." The Arab Peace Initiative, based on the Saudi peace plan of February 2002, calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from all territories taken in the Six-Day War, including eastern Jerusalem, in exchange for normalizing ties with the Arab world. It also calls for the return to Israel of Palestinian refugees and their descendents.