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Palestinians to publish first-ever ads in Hebrew explaining Arab peace plan
By Avi Issacharoff
Tags: Israel news, peace plan 

The Palestinian Authority is publishing for the first time on Thursday advertisements in the Hebrew-language Israeli press that present the details of the Arab peace plan.

The Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee, Yasser Abed Rabbo, said Wednesday that the ads are aimed at explaining the details of the Arab League initiative to the Israeli public in an effort to persuade Israelis to support it.

Abed Rabbo added that Israelis are totally unfamiliar with the details of the plan, which is also known as the Beirut plan. He said they have heard only partial, distorted explanations of it from senior Israeli officials who have in the past attacked every peace initiative, Arab or Palestinian.
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According to Abed Rabbo, the PA will make it clear to anyone in Israel who desires normalization with the Arab world that the initiative requires an end to the Israeli occupation, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and an agreed resolution of the refugee issue in accordance with United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194.

Palestinian sources stated that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas views the Arab peace initiative as the best tool for resolving the Arab-Israeli problem. But PA officials felt that not all of the Israeli public, or even all of its politicians, are familiar with the details of the plan.

After consultations in Ramallah, MK Ahmed Tibi, United Arab List-Ta'al Knesset whip, was charged with overseeing the project. A decision was made to place advertisements in the four largest Hebrew-language newspapers as well as in the Palestinian press. The ad will contain the text, in Hebrew, of the initiative, surrounded by the flags of the 57 Muslim states and the logos of the Organization of the Islamic Conference and of the Arab League, which approved the initiative. 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.

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