The estimable MEMRI blog brings us news of an Arabic language commentary in the London daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, by moderate scholar Dr. Mamoun Fandy. In he decries the arab world's approach to the Palestinian issue as having drained the Arab world of vitality for half a century, always placing obstacles to peace. The so-called Saudipeace plan, with its insistence on a right of return is but the latest example oif a failure to have the will to peace."For 50 Years the Arabs Have Been Walking Around the Palestinian Issue" "King 'Abdallah Bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz's initiative has traveled the breadth and width of the Arab states and the world since 2002, until they [i.e. the Arabs] returned to it once more in Riyadh in 2007. "It was inevitable that the initiative, like every Arab dossier, would tour like this... [The Arabs] have become convinced today that this tour is no solution, and have returned to the land of the 2002 initiative for the Riyadh summit... [But] the basic...(Read Full Post)