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<p>Gaza City -- In a startling move, the militant Islamic movement Hamas has accepted the terms of the Saudi peace proposal and is willing to stop attacks on Israel if it returns to pre-1967 borders, a Hamas spokesman told The Chronicle.</p>

Saudi Peace Sham By Charles Krauthammer Wednesday, March 6, 2002 In 35 years of studying the Middle East, I have rarely seen anything to rival the Saudi "peace plan" for cynicism (of those pushing the plan) and gullibility (of those buying it). If it were not so tragic it would be comic. Israeli civilians are being blown up almost daily in restaurants, at bus stops, at prayer. Retaliatory attacks are launched by the hour. A new "peace plan" is then floated whose essence is this: When peace is achieved between the two parties killing each other on the ground, the...

(21:05) Knesset Speaker calls for adopting Saudi initiative By Nina Gilbert In a meeting with European Parliament faction leaders today, Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg said that any international peace conference must be based on the Saudi peace initiative. Burg said the implications of the bold initiative are "full peace and normalization between Israel and all Arab states in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from the territories." Burg, who was attending the EU gathering in Brussels, said a peace conference should be convened soon in the same format as the 1991 Madrid conference. Burg suggested that the conference be dubbed...

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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Hamas, the Islamic militant group that said it was behind a lethal suicide bombing in Israel this week, rejected the Arab peace initiative to Israel on Thursday and vowed to continue ``all kinds of resistance.'' ``The summit resolutions are below the aspirations and the sacrifices of the Palestinian people. The resolutions ignored a lot of the Palestinian people's demands,'' Osama Hamdan, Hamas' representative in Lebanon, told The Associated Press. The overture, endorsed Thursday by the Arab League at a two-day summit in Beirut, offered Israel peace, recognition and ``normal relations'' in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal...

Waiting for Saudi Arabia to present a new Mideast peace initiative, Arab leaders fell back on their long-held stance Tuesday, drawing up a list of demands for Israel ahead of a key summit. After the two-day gathering opens Wednesday, the leaders were expected to deal with the Saudi peace plan, which has heightened interest because it would offer Israel full peace in return for a complete withdrawal from Arab lands it has occupied since 1967. In the meantime, foreign ministers gathered here were drawing up a draft final statement similar to those produced by past summits -- demanding a withdrawal...

PRESIDENT George W. Bush has urged Arab nations to approve a Saudi peace offer to Israel, and called on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to let Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat join the Arab League summit in Beirut, where the initiative is to be considered. "The President believes it is time for Arab nations in the region to seize the moment, to create a better environment for peace to take root," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said yesterday of the summit, which opens in the Lebanese capital today. Mr Bush welcomed the proposal by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz,...

CONSERVATIVE TRUTH 03/17/02 - THE COMING HOLOCAUST By Tom Barrett Editor@ConservativeTruth.org There is nothing new about the "New Peace Plan" put forward by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah recently. That's the terrible thing about it! This cynical charade has been going on for decades while thousands have died and the stability of the whole world has been endangered. The real goal of this plan is the same as that of every other Arab plan, whether secret or public, since 1948 - the death of every Jew in the region and the abolition of the State of Israel. America needs to...