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Peace Process

Israelis reject another prejudicial peace plan


By Stan Goodenough
December 16, 2008

The enemy states around Israel may have proposed it, a majority of the Palestinian Arabs may support it, western leaders may have applauded it, and the international community may be behind it, but the majority of Israelis oppose the so-called Arab peace plan.

According to a new poll conducted among the Israeli public, nearly two-thirds reject the plan put forward by the Arab League in 2002. It calls for Israel's surrender of the strategic Golan Heights and its biblical heartland, which is the cradle of its nationhood, in return for promises of peace and pledges that relations between Israel and all the Arab states will be "normalized."

Last month, according to The Jerusalem Post, PLO chief and veteran terrorist Mahmoud Abbas ran adverts in Israeli newspapers dangling the promise of recognition from 57 Arab and Islamic countries in front of Israeli readers if Israel withdraws from all the territories it "occupied" in the Six-Day-War.

The new poll results from war weary Israelis whose governments have for years shown a readiness to pay an extra-ordinary price for real peace sends the clear message to Abbas and the Arab world: 'We don't believe you and we don't trust you.'

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