Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has a “last chance to save his political fate,” said Israeli Arab Knesset Member Taleb El-Sana (United Arab List – Ta’al) on Tuesday, if he accepts the 2002 Arab peace plan.
If Olmert agrees to Israel’s withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders and allows hundreds of thousands of former Arab residents’ descendants, who are thought to number several million, to return to Israel," said El-Sana, he will “enter the books of history, not as a prime minister who led a failed war, but as a leader who cashed in on a historic opportunity to advance peace in the region.”
Israel rejected the plan outright in 2002, but it has recently been revived as a way of creating a final settlement between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and surrounding Arab nations.
If Olmert agrees to Israel’s withdrawal to the pre-1967 borders and allows hundreds of thousands of former Arab residents’ descendants, who are thought to number several million, to return to Israel," said El-Sana, he will “enter the books of history, not as a prime minister who led a failed war, but as a leader who cashed in on a historic opportunity to advance peace in the region.”
Israel rejected the plan outright in 2002, but it has recently been revived as a way of creating a final settlement between Israel, the Palestinian Authority and surrounding Arab nations.