By Stan Goodenough
Nov 20, 2008
After years of hammering away at Israeli society in its bloody quest to gouge a state out of the Jews' land, PLO chief and veteran terrorist Mahmoud Abbas resorted Thursday to a nationwide ad campaign in Israel's media pleading with the public to adopt an Arab League "peace" plan.
"Fifty-seven Arab and Muslim countries will forge diplomatic ties and normal relations with Israel in exchange for a full peace agreement and an end to the occupation," reads the ad, according to The Jerusalem Post, citing Arab sources.
Abbas' senior spokesman Saeb Erekat said his boss wanted to talk directly to ordinary Israelis because he felt they did not know enough about the Arab offer.
It calls for Israel to fully abandon and relinquish all aspirations to Judea and Samaria - the land of Israel's founding fathers and the cradle of the Jews' nationhood - including the central and holiest parts of Jerusalem.
Israel is also to hand the Golan Heights to Syria.
According to Israeli Foreign Ministry sources quoted in the Post report, the only point on which Israel is holding back is the question of allowing the Palestinian Arab "refugees" back into what would be left of the Jewish state.