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Sharon ready to discuss Saudi peace initiative
By Ross Dunn, Herald Correspondent in Jerusalem
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, has asked the United States to help arrange
a meeting with Saudi officials to discuss their initiative to end Middle East
hostilities.
Saudi Arabia has floated a proposal for Israel to withdraw its forces to its borders
before the 1967 Middle East War, in exchange for full diplomatic relations,
normalised trade and guarantees of security from Arab states.
The Saudi plan calls for Israel to hand over the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east
Jerusalem, which have remained under occupation since the 1967 war.
Mr Sharon told an Israeli Cabinet meeting on Sunday that he had asked the US
Administration to tell Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah that if the Saudis were serious, he
would be willing to meet them and discuss the plan.
The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, has endorsed Prince Abdullah's proposal.
Officials in the Prime Minister's office said after the cabinet meeting that the
proposal
was a "trial balloon" intended to improve relations between Saudi Arabia and the US.
Another official said its importance should not be undervalued: "The fact of the
approach and their willingness to make such a declaration prove to us that they
understand that the situation in the Middle East is changing and they must move with
the trend."
Mr Sharon's spokesman, Mr Ra'anan Gissin, welcomed the Saudi initiative. He said
that in the past the Saudis had not been helpful in promoting better relations between
Israel and the Palestinians.
The Israeli Defence Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, was unashamedly enthusiastic
about the prospects for a breakthrough.
"If we are dealing with a new process that could change the make-up of the Middle
East, we cannot say no," he said.
Crown Prince Abdullah yesterday continued to promote his plan. However, he would
not confirm whether it would be formally presented at a summit of the Arab League,
scheduled for Beirut next month.
In an interview published yesterday, the prince conceded that the Israelis and
Palestinians were both suffering from the terror and violence raging in the region. At
the same time, he repeated his view that Mr Sharon bore responsibility for the
continuing conflict.
In the latest clashes, Israeli soldiers yesterday shot dead two Palestinians at
military
checkpoints in the West Bank, and wounded a Palestinian woman who was on her
way to hospital to give birth.
Palestinian officials said the troops had opened fire on a car at a roadblock near the
city of Nablus, where they killed the woman's husband and wounded her father-in-
law.
In a similar incident on Sunday, another pregnant Palestinian woman who was
slightly wounded gave birth only a few hours later, Palestinian officials said.
Meanwhile, Israeli tanks pulled back from outside Mr Arafat's headquarters in
Ramallah, but the Israeli Government said they would still not allow him to leave the
city's limits.
The decision has outraged the Palestinian leadership, which says that it
demonstrates that Mr Sharon is not interested in ending the violence and resuming
negotiations.
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