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Draft Text of Arab Summit Resolution - More of the Same Sweet Nothings
MID-EAST REALITIES - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 3/25/2002: Much too weak, fractured, and frightened to actually act in any serious and independent manner -- even in the face of such repeated Israeli and American provocations and humiliations -- the grand "Arab world", meeting in summit in Beirut later this week, is poised to essentially do nothing. Of course the collection of corrupt, repressive, and mostly inept "client regimes" that make up today's Arab league will pretend otherwise; for that has been their habit for quite some time now, and they are quite addicted to it.
The resolution about "peace" begin debated this time in the name of the "Saudi Plan", is actually in reality nothing but a restatement of U.N. resolutions, previous Arab summit resolutions going back some twenty years to the "Fahd Plan" of 1982, and the Madrid Peace Conference of ten years ago which was designed at that time to pacify Arab public opinion in the wake of the Gulf War.
This time the whole exercise is designed to attempt to pacify Arab public opinion one more time, relying on the large media organizations the various Arab "client regimes" have bought and control to spin their terribly weak stand in such ways. What should be so embarrasing is actually being spun as something new and important. But not everyone is blind, has historical amnesia, or has been paid-off and co-opted.
At a time of considerable desperation, when serious and real actions are needed to protect the Palestinian people, to challenge the Israelis in firm and meaningful ways, and to defy U.S. plans to further attack Arab and Muslim countries with the overall goal of even greater domination, control, and exploitation; the grand Arab world, meeting in summit in Beirut later this week, is poised to give still-birth one more time.
The little frightened Wizard of Oz shouting into the megaphone from behind the veiled curtain would understand all this symbolism and pretense.
DRAFT TEXT OF ARAB SUMMIT RESOLUTION
BEIRUT (Reuters - 25 March)- Following is a translation of a draft text obtained by Reuters of a Saudi-initiated peace plan, due to be debated at an Arab summit here Wednesday and Thursday:
The Council of the Arab League, which convenes at the level of a summit on March 27-28, 2002, in Beirut, affirms the Arab position that achieving just and comprehensive peace is a strategic choice and goal for the Arab states.
After the Council heard the statement of Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz in which he called for the establishment of normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace with Israel, and that Israel declares its readiness to withdraw from the occupied Arab territories in compliance with U.N. resolutions 242 and 338 and Security Council resolution 1397, enhanced by the Madrid (peace) conference and the land-for-peace principle, and the acceptance of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state with al-Quds al-Sharif (Jerusalem) as its capital, the Council calls on the Israeli government to review its policy and to resort to peace while declaring that just peace is its strategic option.
The Council also calls on Israel to assert the following:
Complete withdrawal from the Arab territories occupied since 1967, including full withdrawal from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and the remaining occupied parts of south Lebanon to the June 4, 1967, lines.
To accept to find an agreed, just solution to the problem of Palestinian refugees in conformity with Resolution 194.
To accept an independent and sovereign Palestinian state on the Palestinian lands occupied since June 4, 1967, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and with Jerusalem (al-Quds al-Sharif) as its capital in accordance with Security Council Resolution 1397.
In return, the Arab states assert the following:
To consider the Arab-Israeli conflict over and to enter into a peace treaty with Israel to consolidate this.
To achieve comprehensive peace for all the states of the region.
To establish normal relations within the context of comprehensive peace with Israel.
The (Arab summit) council calls on the Israeli government and the Israelis as a whole to accept this initiative to protect the prospects of peace and to spare bloodshed so as to enable the Arab states and Israel to coexist side by side and to provide for the coming generations a secure, stable and prosperous future.
It calls on the international community with all its organisations and states to support the initiative.
The council calls on its presidency, its secretary general and its follow-up committee to follow up on the special contacts related to this initiative and to support it on all levels, including the United Nations, the United States, Russia, the European Union and the Security Council.
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