Senators sign AIPAC-backed letter on Mideast Seventy-six senators have signed an AIPAC-backed letter to President Obama urging that “every effort should be made to realize” an Arab-Israeli peace and laying out certain “key principles” to achieve it.
Arab states revising Saudi plan Arabs states are revising the Saudi peace initiative to make it more palatable to Israel, according to an Arabic-language newspaper.
Pope offers hope before Mideast trip Pope Benedict XVI said he wanted to share the “aspirations and hopes” as well as the “pains and struggles” of people in the Middle East.