Israel Rejects Peace

Their goal is still the same--destroying Hamas and Hezbullah:

Israeli officials on Thursday refused to accept the revived Arab peace initiative as it currently stands, saying negotiations were needed.

"There is only one way to overcome our differences, and that is negotiation," Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres told Israeli public radio. "It's impossible to say: you must take what we offer you as is."

The blueprint, endorsed at an Arab summit on Wednesday, offers Israel full normalisation of relations if it withdraws from all land occupied in the 1967 war and allows the creation of a Palestinian state and the return of Palestinian refugees.