ARABS CALL FOR FINAL STATUS PEACE TALKS

Of course the Arabs want to move to final status negotiations. They don't want to deal with terrorist attacks against israel first, as the Roadmap requires. They don't want the Palestinians to show good faith by stopping incitement in textbooks and on television. Why should Israel make peace with a people who don't even recognize its right to exist and seem to lust to kill Israel's children? Maybe if the Saudis and other Arab countries so interested in peace would recognize Israel's right to exist I might take their suggestions even half seriously.

Key Parties Reaffirm Commitment to Mideast Peace Process (Fox News)
UNITED NATIONS — Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Thursday there is a new "very significant" consensus among Arab countries for restarting the stalled Middle East peace process.

"We have found for the first time probably a consensus that is very significant about the need for restarting the peace process," Prince Saud al-Faisal told The Associated Press.

He said the Arab League foreign ministers would meet Thursday, but their idea is to take "stock of the past failures that prevented peace from happening and urging a new look and approach to the peace process."

He said the Arab countries wish for a restarted peace process that would "concentrate on the important issues, rather than the process itself. In other words, the final status negotiations, the border, Jerusalem, Palestinian rights and so on."

Those nations are hoping to revive efforts to end the Arab-Israel conflict during a Security Council ministerial meeting on Thursday. The meeting comes a day after the architects of the "road map" to peace have also reaffirmed their commitment to the plan.