Israel think tank seeks to revive Arab Peace Initiative to push forward peace process

An Israeli think tank is seeking to resuscitate the Arab Peace Initiative in the minds of the public and decision makers to help promote the revival of the peace process, chairman Nimrod Goren told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday.

 

“We seek to revive the initiative in public [discourse] and with government officials since Israel has not officially replied to the offer and is not interested in paying the price,” said Goren, founder and chairman of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies.

 

The project to promote the Arab Peace Initiative is also being supported by local NGO AJEEC-NISPED (the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation – Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development) and German NGO, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.

 

The plan, which Saudi Arabia put forward at an Arab League summit in Beirut in 2002, offered full recognition of Israel, but only if it gave up all land seized in the 1967 war and agreed to a “just solution” for Palestinian refugees.

 

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