Israel rejected a revived Arab peace overture. The Arab League, meeting in Algiers, said Wednesday it was extending anew a Saudi peace proposal first approved at its 2002 summit. Known as the Arab Peace Initiative, it calls for comprehensive normalization of ties with the Jewish state if it withdraws from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and agrees to a “just solution” to the problem of Palestinian
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