refusal to ask for , and refusal of recieving the requester.

Saudi Arabia offered a proposal in the Bierut Summit in the Spring of 2002 to recognize Israel and have mutual diplomatic, trading and normal relations between Israel and all the Arab countries, if a peace deal based on UN resolutions is reached. Ariel Sharon chose to ignore the proposal becuase he does not want to pay the price for real peace.

The Saudi peace plan suffers from two great faults from Israel's and my perspective: Israel (i) will never accept the right of return because it would be sealing its own death as a Jewish state and separate country, and (ii) should never relinquish the Golan Heights (its high ground is far too important strategically) or most of the West Bank. The W.B. also is far too important strategically -- under Israel's pre-1967 borders, in the area just north of Tel Aviv running eastward, without the W.B. territory, Israel would be only 9 miles wide. If the Arabs (or Iran) were willing to incur a sufficiently huge number of casualties, they (it) could mass at Israel's post-peace (per the Saudi plan, pre-1967) eastern border and cut the country in half. I visited Israel in June, and it is a tiny country. You must travel around Israel to understand just how small it is. It must retain virtually all the territory it won in 1967 (except for the Sinai, which it returned to Eygpt) to have a sufficient buffer to protect its citizens from the inevitable terrorist attacks and post-peace wars. The land Israel controls has never known long-term peace, and it likely never will.