Israeli peace. The Arab-Israeli Conflict has overshadowed and dominated all other issues in the past six decades. No regional crisis has greater potential to affect other regional conflicts or world peace than their conflict. Neglecting to find a just and comprehensive solution to this conflict provides a suitable environment for the spread of extremism and terrorism and would impose a festering plague that will grow in intensity and complexity with time. As conflicts consume and squander the rich resources and capabilities of our region, they inhibit the modernization, development and reforms needed for this region to play once again a necessary and positive role in World development. Unfortunately, all efforts up to the present have concentrated on partial and piecemeal steps that achieved little, or unilateral measures that have only resulted in worsening the suffering of the Palestinian people. The previous approach of the Quartet has only achieved limited results and effectiveness, for it was characterized by an excess of emphasis on procedural issues, sidestepping the underlying substantive issues which are the essence of the problem and the path for its final resolution, and by the absence of clear and definite steps in accordance with a well defined time table that is monitored, followed up and verified on the ground by neutral observers with deviation from the course subjected to appropriate sanctions, has proved. --More
