Pro-US Arab states mobilize against Israeli unilateralism
Pro-US Arab leaders are launching a diplomatic offensive to try to revive talks between Israel and moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and head off Israeli threats to impose a unilateral peace. But analysts voiced scepticism about the room for manoeuvre for US allies Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia in the face of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s drive to set the Jewish state’s final borders by 2010, with or without the agreement of the Palestinians. Full Story