Egypt still abides by Article II of the 1979 Egyptian / Israeli Peace Treaty which states the following:
"The permanent boundary between Egypt and Israel is the recognized international boundary between Egypt and the former mandated territory of Palestine... without prejudice to the issue of the status of the Gaza Strip. The Parties recognize this boundary as inviolable. Each will respect the territorial integrity of the other, including their territorial waters and airspace."
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, PhD, President of Iran, at a Oct. 26, 2005 conference titled "The World Without Zionism," said:
"The establishment of the Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of a war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land. As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map."
Kamal Kharrazi, PhD, Iran's Foreign Minister, in a Sep. 21, 2002 Washington Post interview titled "The War and Iran," stated the following:
"We do not recognize Israel as a government. We believe that eventually Palestinian refugees have to return to their homeland. Under the supervision of the United Nations, there should be a referendum and the original inhabitants of that land, including Palestinians, Jews and Christians, should decide about any political entity to be established."
Ayad Allawi,
MD, Iraqi Interim Prime Minister, in a July 26, 2004 Associated Press article titled "Allawi: No
normalization with Israel," stated the following:
"Future relations with Israel are
determined by two issues: international resolutions and a just and
comprehensive peace that has been adopted by Arab leaderships,
including the Palestinian leadership. Iraq will not take any unilateral
action on a settlement with Israel outside those two frameworks."
The first three general principles in Article II of the 1994 Israeli / Jordanian Peace Treaty, stated the following:
"They [Israel & Jordan] recognise and will respect each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence;
They recognise and will respect each other's right to live in peace within secure and recognised boundaries; They will develop good neighbourly relations of co-operation between them to ensure lasting security, will refrain from the threat or use of force against each other and will settle all disputes between them by peaceful means."
Abdullah bin Al Hussein, II, King of Jordan addressed a joint session of the US Congress on Mar. 7, 2007 in Washington, DC, and said:
"It must be a peace that makes Israel a part of the neighborhood, a neighborhood that extends from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, across the breadth of the southern Mediterranean, to the coast of the Indian Ocean...
On behalf of all those who seek and strive for peace in my part of the world, I ask you now to exert that leadership once again. We ask you to join with us in an historic effort of courage and vision. We ask you to hear our call, to honor the spirit of King Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin, and help fulfill the aspirations of Palestinians and Israelis to live in peace today."
Jean Obeid, Lebanese Foreign Minister, at the 58th session of the U.N. General Assembly on Sep. 24, 2003, stated the following:
"It has become certain to everyone, except to the arrogant in Israel, that there can be no security without a political solution, and no partial, peaceful, political solution without the comprehensive peace that embodies the spirit of the [1991] Madrid Conference and the integrated [2002] Arab peace initiative of the Arab Summit in Beirut.
Such a solution is based on the relevant international resolutions which return to Lebanon the remaining territory still under Israeli occupation, including Shebaa Farms; which return to Syria its territory up to the line of 4 June 1967; and which allow the Palestinian refugees to exercise their legal, humanitarian, and moral right of return to their homeland. Such a process should ensure the establishment of a sovereign, independent, stable, and viable Palestinian state with al-Quds al-Sharif as its capital."
Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi Foreign Minister, made the following statement after an Aug.1, 2007 meeting with U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, according to the Guardian reporter Mark Tran:
"I said before that we are interested in a peace conference that deals with the substantive matters of peace, the issues of real substance and not form or insubstantive issues. If that does so, it becomes of great interest for Saudi Arabia and should we then get an invitation from the secretary [Ms Rice] to attend that conference we will look very closely and very hard at attending the conference."
Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, at the 2002 Arab League summit in Beirut, stated the following:
"I propose that the Arab summit put forward a clear and unanimous initiative addressed to the United Nations Security Council based on two basic issues: normal relations and security for Israel in exchange for full withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories, recognition of an independent Palestinain state with al-Quds al-Shareef (East Jerusalem) as its capital, and the return of refugees."
Farouk al-Shara, former Syrian Foreign Minister,at a Jan. 27,
2000 convention of the Arab Writers Association, stated the following:
"The Ba'ath party, to which I have the
honor of being a member, understands that restoring Palestine in its
entirety is a long term strategic goal, that cannot be achieved in one
stage. I am talking about the party's [position], not about the
negotiations. Even the Ba'ath party's ideology for more than thirty
years now sets stages for the liberation [of Palestine]. The first
stage is the stage of restoring the occupied lands [of 1967] and of
guaranteeing the national inalienable right of the Palestinian Arab
people."
Bashar
Al-Assad, President of Syria, at an Apr. 2006 meeting with German
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Damascus, Syria, was quoted
as saying:
"Israel is our enemy and does not want peace. Peace would mean that
Israel would have to return the occupied territories again. Israel was
built on aggression and the rejection of peace, and nothing changes."
Walid al-Moualem, Syrian Foreign Minister, in a June 21, 2007 interview with the London based Arabic language newspaper Al Hayat, stated the following:
"Syria is more than ready to renew peace talks with Israel, without preconditions by either side."
The Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted the following statements to its website on Sep. 16, 2005:
"Following the positive developments achieved in the Middle East Peace Process, the normalization of the bilateral relations with Israel lead to the rapid development of the political, economic technologic, scientific and military ties between the two countries. At this point, the accordance between the political systems and the economic structures of the two countries had also a big impact as much as the positive opening obtained in the Peace Process.
During the recent years, Turkish-Israeli relations witnessed a multidimensional development, on the basis of mutual benefits, in almost every field; the legal framework of the Turkish-Israeli cooperation was concluded by a number of agreements and many high level visits were organized.
Our relations with Israel contribute positively to the efforts aiming to settle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well. This has been pronounced by the Palestinian high level officials, desiring to have Turkey to continue her efforts for the settlement of the conflict. Turkey has always maintained her objective approach to the Middle East problem and not hesitated to pronounce her criticism when necessary. Turkey has been one of the rare countries, enjoying the confidence of both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
