It's Time to Dust Off Arab Peace Initiative

According to Nassif Hitti, the Arab Peace Initiative is the most comprehensive initiative in addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Lebanese workers fix the symbolic of the Arab League and flags at the main conference hall at the Phoenicia hotel in Beirut March 22, 2002. Syria is poised to jump on the bandwagon of the Saudi Middle East peace proposal at next week's Arab League summit in Beirut. REUTERS/ Jamal Saidi js/ - RTR2TS6
Lebanese workers adjust the symbol of the Arab League and flags at the main conference hall at the Phoenicia hotel, site of the Arab League Summit, in Beirut, March 22, 2002. - REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
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Nassif Hitti

The end of this month will witness the 11th anniversary of the Arab Peace Initiative (API) adopted at the annual Arab League Summit meeting held in Beirut in March 2002. The API came as a political but also as a psychological breakthrough in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

It reflected and confirmed the major change that occurred, and not easily, in the Arab perception of the conflict and its settlement.

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