Arabs are rejectionists

To claim otherwise is simply delusional, as is the claim that Israel wants peace while the Arabs reject it. Even short memories should be able to remember the momentous Arab peace proposal of 2002, which was endorsed unanimously by the 22-member Arab League (including the Palestinians) and resurrected since.

It calls for a "comprehensive peace" and "normal relations" with Israel, "security for all the states of the region," and "a just solution to the Palestinian refugee problem" in accordance with UN resolution 194, in return for a full withdrawal from Arab lands occupied in 1967. The text is at:

http://www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/league/peace02.htm

"We envision a relationship between the Arab countries and Israel that is exactly like the relationship between the Arab countries and any other state," said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal, whose country proposed the plan. "All the neighborhood...will be at peace with Israel, will recognise their right to exist. If this does not provide security for Israel, I assure you the muzzle of a gun is not going to provide that security."

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/03/28/arab.league/

This totally just proposal, in accordance with international law, was rejected by Israel, and the US predictably refused to endorse it. Dore Gold, adviser to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said the plan "does not offer anything hopeful to Israel."

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=339752002

The Arab peace offer brings to mind former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's famous words: "If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country...There has been anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?" (Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar)

Who, then, are the rejectionists?