I'm surprised. All the reports emphasized how even-handed and forceful Obama's Cairo speech was. How could Israel's eliminationist enemies remain unswayed:

When he meets in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, with King Abdullah, he should be prepared for a polite but firm refusal, Saudi officials and political experts say. The Arab countries, they say, believe they have already made their best offer and that it is now up to Israel to make a gesture, perhaps by dismantling settlements in the West Bank or committing to a two-state solution. "What do you expect the Arabs to give without getting anything in advance, if Israel is still hesitating to accept the idea of two states in itself?" said Mohammad Abdullah al-Zulfa, a historian and member of the Saudi Shura Council, which serves as an advisory panel in place of a parliament.

Under some interpretations - say, the ones that were offered as incentive for Israel's Gaza withdrawal - the disengagement was what Arab nations were getting in advance. And without this post turning into a fisking of the NYT's article, here's the next paragraph:

While not dismissing the possibility of some movement on the peace process, the Saudis say the Arab world made substantial concessions in the Arab Peace Initiative, which was endorsed by a 22-nation coalition during an Arab League summit in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2002. That proposal offered full recognition of Israel in exchange for Israel's withdrawing to its 1967 borders and agreeing to a "just settlement" to the issue of the Palestinian refugees.

That's all very true. Even the part where the Saudi Initiative includes phrase "just settlement." The part that's left out is where "just settlement" is defined as the demographic destruction of Israel, an interpretation that Israel's Arab enemies have refused to budge on. And why should they, having already made a bunch of other concessions to a state that will by destroyed by the rest of their oh-so-generous proposal?

References:
* Arab States Cool to Obama Pleas for Peace Gesture [NYT]
* The Saudi Peace Initiative: A Discrete Way to Destroy Israel, Based on an Ethical Lie [MR]
* White House: Arab States Will Tone Down Their "Israel Has To Commit Suicide" Demands. Arab States: No We Won't. [MR]

Previously:
* Obama: We Must Achieve Peace By Forcing Israel To Give Up Jerusalem And Open Its Borders
* Saudi Arabia: Hey, Remember Our "Peace Plan" Where Israel Gets Overrun And Destroyed? How About It?
* Debate On Saudi Peace Plan I - Arab States Still Committed To The Slow Destruction Of Israel