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Abbas calls on Obama to enact Arab peace plan as soon as he takes office
By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent, and The Associated Press
Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, Israel News 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is asking U.S. President-elect Barack Obama to implement an Arab peace plan as soon as he enters office.

Abbas spoke at an economic conference in the northern West Bank town of Nablus on Saturday.

It is the first time the Palestinian President has asked Obama to adopt the Arab peace plan.
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The plan is referred to as the "Arab Initiative." It calls on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank, Gaza and parts of Jerusalem. It also calls on Israel to settle the issue of millions of Palestinian refugees.

In return, Arab and Muslim states will recognize Israel and have full relations.

This week Abbas took his case for peace directly to ordinary Israelis, assuring them that the Arab peace plan would bring them benefits.

Peace Now buys ads in Palestinian newspaper
Peace Now, the Israeli leftist movement, published advertisements in a widely circulated Palestinian newspaper on Friday declaring its support for the Saudi peace plan.

The group paid for the ads to appear in Al-Quds, the popular Palestinian daily which is published in East Jerusalem, reciprocating a similar gesture made by the Palestinian Authority. On Thursday, the PA took out ads in Israeli newspapers urging the public to support the Saudi initiative, which calls for an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines in exchange for normalized ties with the Arab world.

Peace Now secretary general Yariv Oppenheimer said the goal of the advertisement is to strengthen the peace camp on the Palestinian side. "We are of the mind that it is very important to respond to the Palestinian ads in Israeli newspapers with an advertisement of our own that will resonate on the Palestinian side," Oppenheimer said. "Both peace camps can feed off of each other."

MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List - Ta'al), who assisted the PA in arranging for the ads to appear in the Israeli print media, said similar notices were planned for newspapers across Europe and the United States. Tibi said the idea for the ads was initially proposed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The goal of the campaign was to ignite a public dialogue and to bypass the mainstream Israeli press which the Palestinians felt did not devote enough attention to the peace initiative, Tibi said.

"There is a sense that the public in Israel and the decision makers did not read the initiative and that the media did not give it a chance nor did it give it proper exposure, and so it was decided to publish advertisements," Tibi said.

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      1.   How Ludicrous! Israel`s enemies are pro Saudi Plan & "Peace" Now. 11:36  |  EL 22/11/08
      2.   Saudi Plan is Peace for Only Now - who cares about tomorrow? 13:54  |  x-ray 22/11/08
      3.   They say the word Peace but never mean it 14:54  |  Genuine Tosefta 22/11/08
      4.   Peace Now, NOT ! ! ! 15:35  |  George Kaplan 22/11/08
      5.   Wonderful specificity, wonderful action, wonderful moment! 15:38  |  Ivar 22/11/08
      6.   Palestinian for Bibi 16:01  |  james 22/11/08
      7.   Arab Peace plan 16:13  |  Bruce 22/11/08
      8.   Can you expect anything more from Peace Now? 16:22  |  Dolly 22/11/08
      9.   Abbas Is Giving Obama An Order... 16:34  |  Jeff Northridge 22/11/08
      10.   but EL,all lefties are dedicated to the destruction of the West. 16:41  |  Jon 22/11/08
      11.   Sounds like a Sarah Palin gaffe, EL 16:46  |  gahgeer 22/11/08
      12.   Hope springs eternal Ivar... 16:52  |  BBSNews 22/11/08
      13.   In return Arab and Muslims States wll have full recognition 16:53  |  Dagma 22/11/08
      14.   Arabs still dictating 16:55  |  utagawa 22/11/08
      15.   Why does Haaretz misrepresent Saudi "Peace" plan? 17:02  |  Dr. L. Brnd 22/11/08
      16.   Message to Abbas....Our President elect 17:13  |  Lynn 22/11/08
      17.   #4 james......what an unbelievably racist 17:20  |  Lynn 22/11/08
      18.   What is foolish headline . . . 17:34  |  Jackie 22/11/08
      19.   Quaking in their Jackboots? 18:04  |  Mark Lincoln 22/11/08
      20.   How about introducing accountability in the peace process? 18:16  |  Mladen Andrijasevic 22/11/08
      21.   So far, so good 18:20  |  Afikoman 22/11/08
      22.   Ivar, your olive branch looks more like a Trojan horse 18:38  |  ME 22/11/08
      23.   Arab for Likud to power 19:00  |  Fakestinian 22/11/08
      24.   The Clinton plan was a lot more realistic 20:05  |  SDHD 22/11/08
      25.   james is right 20:36  |  Zed 22/11/08
      26.   Arab Peace Plan - YES 21:27  |  Bill 22/11/08
      27.   Jeff Northridge #7 needs help comprehending 22:28  |  Palestinian Prince 22/11/08
      28.   Not so fast 22:37  |  Chrisona 22/11/08
      29.   How appropriate 23:58  |  Baz Mann 22/11/08
      30.   First Abbas MUST stop terror and all fronts by the time 00:05  |  BF 23/11/08
      31.   Ivar - Peace is not the answer. Its the solution to the 00:13  |  Ben 23/11/08
      32.   Bill - Arab Peace Plan - NO.... 00:14  |  Ben 23/11/08
      33.   Bill - Arab Peace Plan - NO.... 00:14  |  Ben 23/11/08
      34.   Enact Pal peace plan or else they will go out+kill people 00:23  |  Sam 23/11/08
      35.   ABBAS is a lame duck.! Hamas rules and Abbas is on the way out 03:10  |  PETER SM 23/11/08
      36.   Peace for Land brought wars . 03:28  |  Joseph.E 23/11/08
      37.   OBAMA IS SERIOUS ABOUT THIS 06:07  |  indrajaya 23/11/08
      38.   Arab peace crap 14:08  |  Brod 23/11/08
      39.   #37 Indrajayayaya 17:53  |  * BEN JABO 23/11/08
      40.   #9 Repeating it does not make it true, Jeff 03:01  |  Johnboy 24/11/08
      41.   #40 Johnboy - you might keep that in mind 22:55  |  * BEN JABO 24/11/08
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