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Arab Countries Step Back From Saudi Initiative Push, Send In Egypt and Jordan Instead

So the AP article this morning is all about how the Arab League has dispatched Egypt and Jordan to negotiate with Israel over the Saudi Initiative. That sounds all well and good, except for the part where the Saudi plan calls for Israel to commit suicide, but let's ignore that for now. The really stunning thing here is that this news is being presented as if it's a sign that the Arab countries are serious about making peace, when in fact it's the opposite:

The Arab League has backtracked from its much-heralded offer to create a regional working group that would include Israel and representatives of Arab states. On Wednesday, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, reading a statement from the league, said that Jordan and Egypt, "the two Arab parties which retrieved their land [from Israel], will undertake efforts to revive the Arab peace initiative and facilitate direct negotiations." It will be up to Jordan and Egypt to convince Israel to accept the Saudi peace plan, and only when Israel meets specific conditions will the larger working group be initiated.

The self-declared Arab peacemakers were supposed to form a working group of all the nations that were going to make peace with Israel and then approach Israel together. Think of it as kind of like the concessions that Israelis are always supposed to be giving to the Palestinians to show that they're serious about peace (well, except for the freeing homicidal terrorists part... that only Israel has to do). The working group was supposed to show that Israel's Arab enemies were serious about getting over their half-century of rejecting the Jewish State.

And they couldn't even stomach that much.

Really a fantastic, long lasting, serious peace deal they're working out there. Definitely something that they seem ready to accept - and no way it would ever be reversed at the slightest change in the geopolitical or military winds.

References:
* 2 Arab League nations to approach Israel
* Arab League Stalls on Working Group with Israel

Previously:
* The Saudi Peace Initiative: A Discrete Way to Destroy Israel, Based on an Ethical Lie
* Chomsky Declares Saudi Initiative Truly Awesome. Neglects To Mention "Mandatory Israeli Suicide" Clause.
* The Changes To the Saudi Peace Plan Still Suck

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