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...Behind The Plan" [WORLD, March 11]: If the disposition of Jerusalem is a major sticking point in Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's effort to forge a peace plan in the Middle East, is the solution so simple that no one has suggested it? As important as Jerusalem is to the Israelis and the Palestinians, doesn't the city qualify for global status? Why can't Jerusalem be governed by an arm of the U.N., so that it is part of neither Israel nor a new Palestine but rather a city for everyone? That way, the Israelis and the Palestinians would...
Columnist Charles Krauthammer is right that Israel cannot accept Saudi Prince Abdullah's peace-for-land plan, but he omitted the strongest reason: the proposal is founded on a discredited idea [VIEWPOINT, March 11]. The 1947 U.N. partition plan suggested the same trade-off. Idealistically, Israel accepted. In response, the Arabs started a war. The 1993 Oslo agreement too was based on the idea of land for peace. Naively, Israel handed over not only land but also money and weapons. The Palestinians used them to create a terrorist state, complete with arms shipments from Iran and the blatant refusal...
...Crown Prince Abdullah meets President Bush this month. What are Saudi expectations...
...resolved, Cheney's Arab hosts informed him, the U.S. won't get their help against Iraq. Senior Administration officials worked hard to contain their dismay as the Israeli-Palestinian issue trampled the Vice President's agenda. At a joint press conference in Yemen with Cheney and President Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni leader lambasted Israel and opposed U.S. action against Iraq. But when a U.S. interpreter briefed reporters on Saleh's remarks, he omitted the harsh details. U.S. officials blamed Sharon for inciting the Arabs just as Cheney was trying to woo them. "Let's just say," a senior official...
...hasn't yet thrown its weight behind the most ballyhooed recent peace initiative--Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's offer of normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab states in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from all land seized in the 1967 war. Some version of the proposal will almost certainly be endorsed at next week's Arab summit in Beirut, but squabbling between Syria and the Saudis over the language of the plan could dilute it. While Abdullah says he is offering "full normalization"--meaning official trade, political and cultural relations between nations--Syrian officials want to change the language...