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Saudi official presents new Israeli-Palestinian peace plan
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Palestinian, peace plan 

Turki al-Faisal, the former Saudi intelligence director and a member of the royal family, presented a proposal for Israeli-Palestinian peace at a conference yesterday.

Arab, Palestinian and Israeli political figures attended the conference, organized by the Oxford Research Group, which seeks to promote the Saudi Peace Initiative of 2002.

Al-Faisal, who heads the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, expressed the kingdom's support for a comprehensive peace and the rights of the Palestinian people.
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Al-Faisal also said that both sides must condemn violence together, and called on Israel to stop targeted assassinations and arrests, the construction of the West Bank security barrier and the expansion of settlements and separate roads. The Palestinians, he said, must stop all suicide bombings and rocket fire at Israel.

He also called on Israel to release all Palestinian prisoners, and for captive Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to be released from the Gaza Strip.

Among the participants in the conference were Nabil Fahmy, Egypt's former ambassador to Washington; Hisham Youssef, the Arab League secretary-general's chief of staff; and former Palestinian national security adviser Jibril Rajoub.

The Israeli delegation included Avi Gil, former director general of the Prime Minister's Office and Foreign Ministry, as well as several other former government figures and academics.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that Israeli leaders have recently discussed pursuing the Saudi peace plan.

Peres to press peace concerns with Egypt

President Shimon Peres will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Thursday to discuss regional peace efforts and Egyptian-mediated contacts to extend a Gaza truce, a government official said on Monday.

Mubarak invited Peres by telephone and the two will meet in the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the official said. There was no immediate comment from Cairo.

The official said Peres wants to explore the possibility of extending a June truce between Israel and Gaza militants that that has largely calmed the volatile border with the Hamas-ruled coastal terrority. Hamas says the deal mediated by Egypt could expire in December.

Peres also plans to propose widening the circle of Israel's peace talks beyond the Palestinians and Syria to include other Arab countries, the official said.

Peres envisages negotiating a comprehensive deal with Arab countries rather than pursuing separate agreements with either the Palestinians or Syria, with which Israel has held some indirect talks in the past year, the official said.

Egypt in 1979 became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, followed by Jordan in 1994.

The talks at Sharm el-Sheihk come at a transitional phase for Israel. Outgoing prime minister Ehud Olmert is presently serving in a caretaker capacity since he resigned last month in the shadows of a corruption probe.

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      1.   No where fast! 03:24  |  GHook93 20/10/08
      2.   Peace Proposal 03:44  |  Jasper 20/10/08
      3.   Where is the author Thom Friedman? 04:05  |  Bo Jangles 20/10/08
      4.   Look at it politically, not practically. 04:47  |  Fortuna Benmayor 20/10/08
      5.   Jasper, ethnic cleansing is a War Crime... 04:52  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      6.   "GHook93" you are incorrect.. 05:03  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      7.   What "new" in the new plan? 07:32  |  Sarah 20/10/08
      8.   It Leaves Too Much Out 08:03  |  Ron 20/10/08
      9.   According to the former head of Israel`s Foreign Affairs and ... 08:34  |  Jean Van Daem 20/10/08
      10.   #5 bbs michael has problems with words 08:37  |  victor hardman 20/10/08
      11.   ANYONE CAN SUBMIT A PEACE PLAN 09:04  |  Steve 20/10/08
      12.   The Saudi Peace Plan. 09:06  |  Stephen. 20/10/08
      13.   To racist GHook93 09:08  |  IsraeliArab 20/10/08
      14.   nothing new 10:13  |  observer 20/10/08
      15.   Maybe SA should stop ALL boycots of Israel first?!!! 11:34  |  John 20/10/08
      16.   Hey Kids, let me point out... 12:24  |  FOX 20/10/08
      17.   SINCE WHEN IS SAUDI ARABIA THE BOSS? 14:11  |  PETRA 20/10/08
      18.   MAny concentration camps for pals in muslim nations. 14:21  |  PETRA 20/10/08
      19.   # 16 FOX okay but the article does point out THEIR agenda. 14:26  |  PETRA 20/10/08
      20.   Reading between the lines 14:29  |  Walter 20/10/08
      21.   # 5 YOU MENTION `ETHNIC CLAENSING`? 14:32  |  Petra 20/10/08
      22.   what about the refugee problem.. 14:42  |  paulo2005 20/10/08
      23.   a study in history should disillusion 14:53  |  victor hardman 20/10/08
      24.   Where did this conference take place??? Hello Haaretz! 15:23  |  B`Galil 20/10/08
      25.   BBSNews #5 15:38  |  Gee 20/10/08
      26.   Petra my dear #19 16:27  |  FOX 20/10/08
      27.   Well, SA has come further then I expected 17:26  |  Lynn 20/10/08
      28.   Turki is talking Turkey & Here is my advice to the Prince. 17:59  |  Akram Zekaria 20/10/08
      29.   Gee, see Security Council res 1397... 18:00  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      30.   Saudi official presents new Israeli-Palestinian peace plan 18:04  |  ben keziz 20/10/08
      31.   Wahhabist Crap 18:14  |  Brod 20/10/08
      32.   whats in it for us other than the arabs saying hey Israel exists 18:38  |  zionist forever 20/10/08
      33.   Nu, what`s the plan? 18:42  |  peter 20/10/08
      34.   To Jasper, the dreamer!! 18:43  |  B.Saleem 20/10/08
      35.   Assad (Junior) peace solutions 18:56  |  Israeli citizen 20/10/08
      36.   Yes to Saudi`s plan who won`t allow Jews 19:05  |  Lee 20/10/08
      37.   Can Israel trust Saudi King? 19:38  |  Jewboy 20/10/08
      38.   BBSNews #29 better learn to read then 19:42  |  Gee 20/10/08
      39.   The Israel First Crowd will surely be fulled of Rejectionists. 19:44  |  Ibrahim 20/10/08
      40.   Israeli citizen, look to your own history... 20:01  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      41.   My own history is this: 20:21  |  Israeli citizen 20/10/08
      42.   Where is the ISRAELI peace plan? 20:31  |  Axel 20/10/08
      43.   # 41 israeli citizen 20:54  |  Axel 20/10/08
      44.   Is there consensus in the Arab world? 20:54  |  Avi 20/10/08
      45.   Gee, an education about comprehension... 20:57  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      46.   #5, BBS, ethnic cleansing of 1 million Jews is war crime 21:06  |  David 20/10/08
      47.   Avi- nice trick, but quite transparent... 21:12  |  Ibrahim 20/10/08
      48.   About Resolution 242... 21:23  |  Walter 20/10/08
      49.   BBSNews #45 wrong again 21:42  |  Gee 20/10/08
      50.   Avi, you can`t be serious... 21:44  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      51.   Axel #43 21:44  |  Gee 20/10/08
      52.   #37 is right 21:45  |  Chaim 20/10/08
      53.   axel 21:53  |  american 20/10/08
      54.   # 44 avi 21:54  |  Axel 20/10/08
      55.   David, not so fast... 22:07  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      56.   #50 michael at bbs bad news thinks that 22:09  |  victor hardman 20/10/08
      57.   Uhhh Gee? Dispute this... 22:21  |  BBSNews 20/10/08
      58.   # 49 gee 22:25  |  Axel 20/10/08
      59.   5 BSnews - Since we have your word on it 22:37  |  IIbn Musa 20/10/08
      60.   # 53 american 22:39  |  Axel 20/10/08
      61.   BSnews - Unlike yourself 22:39  |  Ibn Musa 20/10/08
      62.   BSnews - Give BS a chance 22:43  |  Ibn Musa 20/10/08
      63.   42 Axe; - Israel ACCEPTED the UN Partition 22:45  |  Ibn Musa 20/10/08
      64.   Have the Saudis given any thought to the following: 23:06  |  Alicia 20/10/08
      65.   BBSNews #55 not so fast yourself 23:18  |  Gee 20/10/08
      66.   #49 Gee is off with the pixies..... 23:29  |  Johnboy 20/10/08
      67.   IF the refugees may return 23:29  |  Alicia 20/10/08
      68.   BBSNews (#55) They have a homeland 23:42  |  Gil 20/10/08
      69.   since arab aggression caused 23:54  |  alan 20/10/08
      70.   #58 Axel 00:07  |  Moshe 21/10/08
      71.   # 61 ibn musa 00:19  |  Axel 21/10/08
      72.   BBS - #45 00:27  |  Michael D. 21/10/08
      73.   Nevermind Gil... 00:58  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      74.   Ibrahim-#39-Arab and Muslim fundamentalists will also reject this 00:59  |  Daniel Leopold 21/10/08
      75.   Michael D. Incorrect... 01:02  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      76.   Going, Going..... 01:05  |  Gray 21/10/08
      77.   Gil to BBS News 01:40  |  Edgar 21/10/08
      78.   # 39 Ibrahim....there will be peace 02:26  |  Lynn 21/10/08
      79.   The saudi logic 02:31  |  Arie 21/10/08
      80.   Those paying attention in 2006 02:33  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      81.   Right of Return 04:34  |  Jasper 21/10/08
      82.   Saudi Peace Plan 05:04  |  Paul hatgil 21/10/08
      83.   Edgar: "...no such thing..Palestinian" etc 05:09  |  Gray 21/10/08
      84.   BBSNews 05:10  |  Proud Jew 21/10/08
      85.   Squirming? Surely you jest Proud Jew... 05:40  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      86.   Let me spell it out for you Jasper... 05:54  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      87.   #65 Gee is off with the pixies again.... 06:12  |  Johnboy 21/10/08
      88.   #81 Jasper seems to be confused. 06:24  |  Johnboy 21/10/08
      89.   #86 BBS you are talking about the Native 07:07  |  Adrian de Klerk 21/10/08
      90.   BBS News - I challenge you 07:10  |  Adrian de Klerk 21/10/08
      91.   Johnboy (#88) Speaking of compensation 08:38  |  Gil 21/10/08
      92.   Johnboy (#88) Speaking of compensation 08:40  |  Gil 21/10/08
      93.   #80, MarkL, "Saudis need stability in the region" 08:57  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/10/08
      94.   suggestion to saudis 08:59  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/10/08
      95.   to Steve, There are many Sadat in the Arab world but 10:14  |  gus 21/10/08
      96.   To cipora, arrongance and ignorant at its best 10:20  |  gus 21/10/08
      97.   Axel # 43: Is Wall Street successful? Are you? 11:25  |  Israeli citizen 21/10/08
      98.   Right of Return 11:25  |  Jasper 21/10/08
      99.   #81 Jasper, everything is relative 12:05  |  Alicia 21/10/08
      100.   #91 Why, exactly, Gil? 12:07  |  Johnboy 21/10/08
      101.   Britain, UN, Arabs are responsible for the refugee problem 12:38  |  Alicia 21/10/08
      102.   Maze 13:25  |  Baz Mann 21/10/08
      103.   Cipora - I realize you don`t pay attention 13:55  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      104.   gus # 96 It`s Not What It Includes; It`s What It Omits 14:05  |  Jeff Northridge 21/10/08
      105.   Alicia - what planet do you live on? 14:11  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      106.   71 2ND TRY AXEL 14:17  |  Ibn Musa 21/10/08
      107.   Lunacy Jasper 14:27  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      108.   Where do they get their `information"? 14:38  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      109.   Johnboy-#88-Jasper confusion on the Right of Return 15:08  |  Daniel Leopold 21/10/08
      110.   Johnboy # 100 The Linkage 15:15  |  Jeff Northridge 21/10/08
      111.   Mark Lincoln-#103-About Saudi Arabia 15:17  |  Daniel Leopold 21/10/08
      112.   BBSNews #57 I do dispute that 15:30  |  Gee 21/10/08
      113.   Axel #58 15:39  |  Gee 21/10/08
      114.   #88 Johnboy; Israel owes nothing to people, who acted on hatred 15:44  |  Alicia 21/10/08
      115.   Daniel Leopold? And in the meantime? 16:02  |  Ibrahim 21/10/08
      116.   #105 Lincoln: the invited ones raised the number of "Pal-Arabs" 16:03  |  Alicia 21/10/08
      117.   Ibn Musa Israel and Nazis? 16:11  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      118.   Johnboy (#100) No Johnboy 16:17  |  Gil 21/10/08
      119.   Northridge, you`re all wet buddy... 16:45  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      120.   # 106 ibn musa 16:46  |  Axel 21/10/08
      121.   Mark Lincoln # 105 The Fact Remains That... 16:47  |  Jeff Northridge 21/10/08
      122.   # 101 alicia and her urban legends 16:50  |  Axel 21/10/08
      123.   Lincoln re Pals 17:10  |  Jasper 21/10/08
      124.   Cipora Julianna Kohn on Shi`ites and Sunnis 17:29  |  Mark B. 21/10/08
      125.   #105 no light at the end of marks tunnel 17:46  |  victor hardman 21/10/08
      126.   BBSNews 17:48  |  Proud Jew 21/10/08
      127.   Nice try Johnboy - I bet you`re a good lawyer 18:28  |  Jewboy 21/10/08
      128.   Uh, MarkLincoln 18:39  |  R`fael Moshe 21/10/08
      129.   Jewboy: #117 So, in other words.... 19:47  |  Gray 21/10/08
      130.   TO Lincoln and Axel 19:54  |  Alicia 21/10/08
      131.   "Proud Jew" obviously, you are merely a troll... 20:05  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      132.   Gray (#125) You are Absolutely correct, why should anybody 20:24  |  Gil 21/10/08
      133.   To Johnboy 20:25  |  Proud Jew 21/10/08
      134.   Alicia on Palestinian history... 20:34  |  BBSNews 21/10/08
      135.   BBSNews # 119 Can`t You Read? 20:50  |  Jeff Northridge 21/10/08
      136.   # 113 gee 21:08  |  Axel 21/10/08
      137.   103# Mark Lincoln : I realize you pay attention only to yourself. 21:14  |  Akram Zekaria 21/10/08
      138.   #103, MarkL, who thinks I read nothing 21:51  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/10/08
      139.   Keep thinking Daniel, you will get to the 21st century 22:07  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      140.   # 130 alicia 22:38  |  Axel 21/10/08
      141.   The Arabs that were not in Palestine before the 1930s 22:40  |  Mark Lincoln 21/10/08
      142.   More Palestinian History BBS 23:06  |  Joe Frazier 21/10/08
      143.   TO BBS and Axel; under a Moslem 600 year long occupation 23:17  |  Alicia 21/10/08
      144.   #117 Mark Lincoln and his speciousness 23:32  |  Israeli 21/10/08
      145.   Northridge on the "excruciatingly obvious"... 00:41  |  BBSNews 22/10/08
      146.   Alicia, tries to wriggle out of her claim... 00:59  |  BBSNews 22/10/08
      147.   #109 Daniel Leopold displays breathtaking ignorance. 01:03  |  Johnboy 22/10/08
      148.   BSNews and ethnic cleansing 01:13  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      149.   Ibrahim-#115-Please read this article again carefully 01:15  |  Daniel Leopold 22/10/08
      150.   Mark Lincoln-#139 - I Agree 01:18  |  Daniel Leopold 22/10/08
      151.   BBSNews - one dumb bunny 01:20  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      152.   #133 That`s still not gonna fly, Proud Jew 01:21  |  Johnboy 22/10/08
      153.   BBSNews and encyclopedias 01:22  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      154.   The curious un-history of Palestine 01:33  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
      155.   State of Israel is OVER 01:35  |  XXX 22/10/08
      156.   #127 Jewboy displaying his insight 01:38  |  Johnboy 22/10/08
      157.   Johnboy-#147-Semantics and spin 01:46  |  Daniel Leopold 22/10/08
      158.   #110 Jeff sits on his butt 01:49  |  Johnboy 22/10/08
      159.   #145 Tell me Johnboy,Who said you were the most learned here? 01:50  |  Israeli 22/10/08
      160.   The mirror image of holocaust denial 01:50  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
      161.   Reality to Alicia, Reality calling Alicia 02:05  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
      162.   BBS new ignorant and wrong again 02:24  |  Adrian de Klerk 22/10/08
      163.   Johboy advances claims 02:24  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      164.   Israeli on Johnboy... 02:27  |  BBSNews 22/10/08
      165.   Denial of Palestinians by Mark Lincoln 02:41  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      166.   NO DIRECT TALK WITH ISRAEL 03:08  |  indrajaya 22/10/08
      167.   Mark Lincoln, Two major Holocaust deniers 03:26  |  Bruce 22/10/08
      168.   Bruce 03:45  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
      169.   Oh,and by the way Bruce 03:47  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
      170.   Speaking of reality denial - Indrajaya 03:52  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
      171.   That many pathologically opposed to peace 03:58  |  Mark Lincoln 22/10/08
      172.   # 170, MARK LINCOLN (IT IS AN HONOUR) 04:14  |  indrajaya 22/10/08
      173.   Indrajaya -- spewage has no basis in reality 04:26  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      174.   #157 Go back and read it again, Daniel..... 04:35  |  Johnboy 22/10/08
      175.   #165 SDHD and his confusion 04:39  |  Johnboy 22/10/08
      176.   Mark Lincoln, What about other places of Palestine? 04:42  |  Bruce 22/10/08
      177.   Mark Lincoln, Thanks for your reminder 04:49  |  Bruce 22/10/08
      178.   Where is Johnboy? In the ozone? 05:03  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      179.   Johnboy sovereignty and property -- thinks it`s relevant 05:06  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      180.   Gil,#132 Still confused after all of my help.... 05:59  |  Gray 22/10/08
      181.   Anti-Gray matter -- the myth of centuries of peace 06:13  |  SDHD 22/10/08
      182.   A `NO-GO` from the start...... 08:21  |  Dolly 22/10/08
      183.   #161 Lincoln on thin ice 09:36  |  Alicia 22/10/08
      184.   To Ghook93 09:54  |  John 22/10/08
      185.   To Ghook93 09:54  |  John 22/10/08
      186.   #146 BBS; read #153 SDHD - you forgot something 09:59  |  Alicia 22/10/08
      187.   Too Gee 10:00  |  John 22/10/08
      188.   Too Gee 10:03  |  John 22/10/08
      189.   UN Partition Plan was legalization of ethnic cleansing 10:05  |  John 22/10/08
      190.   #183, Alicia 11:36  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 22/10/08
      191.   #178 SDHD starts to channel David Teich 11:38  |  Johnboy 22/10/08
      192.   #190 Thanks Cipora, I appreciate your feedback 12:40  |  Alicia 22/10/08
      193.   Mark Lincoln on Pal History 23:34  |  FOX 22/10/08
      194.   #179 2nd try to respond to this nonsense from SDHD 00:25  |  Johnboy 23/10/08
      195.   #194 Johnboy talking about Australia? 09:59  |  FOX 23/10/08
      196.   BSbews - Your attempt to present yourself 16:45  |  Ibn Musa 23/10/08
      197.   #194 Johnboy, follow the red thread 17:03  |  Alicia 23/10/08
      198.   Game plan by saudia for end of Israel 17:05  |  Bhaskar 23/10/08
      199.   196 BSnews a correction 17:17  |  Ibn Jabo 23/10/08
      200.   #128 : R`fael Moshe To Mark Lincoln.SIMPLY Put,Perfidious Albion! 19:14  |  Kathy 23/10/08
      201.   #164 bbs news...johnboy..Where You go wrong.. 19:52  |  Israeli 23/10/08
      202.   # 164 bbs fantasises.on JB.. 20:09  |  Israeli 23/10/08
      203.   BBSNews is Hamas 01:31  |  Gary 24/10/08
      204.   #195 FOX trolls again.... 02:34  |  Johnboy 24/10/08
      205.   #197 Alicia is another who uses words like... 02:47  |  Johnboy 24/10/08
      206.   Peace between Israel and WHOM? In their own words: 09:19  |  Yaakov K. 24/10/08
      207.   #195 Actually, no, FOX is talking about Australia 09:22  |  Johnboy 24/10/08
      208.   #195 And, of course, FOX acts the puffed-up jackelope 09:30  |  Johnboy 24/10/08
      209.   #201 Israeli sticks it to BBSNews 09:33  |  Johnboy 24/10/08
      210.   #197 Gosh! Alicia asks me a question! 09:43  |  Johnboy 24/10/08
      211.   #203 Gary is asking everyone to play the Silly Game 09:52  |  Johnboy 24/10/08
      212.   Johnboy the self proclaimed land thief and squatter 14:49  |  ME 24/10/08
      213.   #210 Gosh! Johnboy the dot-polisher still does not get it! 17:54  |  Alicia 24/10/08
      214.   Johnboy - The gasoline bottle went through your ears 18:08  |  Ibn Musa 24/10/08
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