The Americans want to talk about Iran's alleged support for terrorism, sabotage of the Arab-Israeli peace process and nuclear plans.
Last week, Mr. Kerry kicked off in Israel and the West Bank a renewed U.S. push to restart Arab-Israeli peace talks.
These are indispensable conditions for Arab-Israeli peace, the conditions without which no peace agreement can reasonably be deemed to have solved the problem.
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In other meetings, ministers condemned the resumption of nuclear testing, commended progress in the Arab-Israeli peace process and examined the question of nuclear-arms proliferation.
The Muslim Brotherhood's rise in Cairo is seen as a risk to Israel's security and a complication to efforts at promoting Arab-Israeli peace talks.
But however much Egypt needs the U.S., the U.S. needs Egypt's assistance too, in areas including cooperation on counter-terrorism and the Arab-Israeli peace agreements.
Arab dismay at America's failure to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process is a gift to Iran, and one the regime has seized with alacrity.
But today Israeli officials I have spoken to say they hope these new talks about the Arab initiative might help reinvigorate the long-stalled Arab-Israeli peace process.
That will continue, it is often said, until Iran stops sponsoring terrorism, undermining the Arab-Israeli peace process and trying to develop weapons of mass destruction, above all nuclear ones.
The United States also wants Syrian support in achieving a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace, and appears willing to nurture indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel, which began last year, over the disputed Golan Heights.
The United States also wants Syrian support in achieving a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement, and it appears willing to nurture indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel that began last year over the disputed Golan Heights.
The comments followed an announcement in Cairo by the Arab League that members of a committee tasked with exploring a Saudi proposal for a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace settlement would participate in the conference to be held in Annapolis, Md.
Republican co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, James Baker, defended Secretary Rice on some points, saying she did just go to the Middle East and is working to revive the Arab-Israeli peace process, another recommendation by the Iraq Study Group.
It also explains his insulting and politically inept habit of suggesting whether the issue is health care, or Arab-Israeli peace, or change we can believe in at some point in God's good time that the fault always lies in the failure of his audiences to listen attentively.
As much as there have been glimmers of hope in the Israeli-Arab peace process -- the 1978 Camp David Accords and the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty come to mind -- they have been too few in number.
But the strengthening of Turkish-Israeli ties, and the collapse of the Israeli-Arab peace process, is encouraging the three governments to form a united front against Israeli, Turkish and American policies.
The twin pillars of that policy -- support for pro-American regimes that share U.S. security interests and the pursuit of Israeli-Arab peace -- are now on shaky ground.
At present, the most up to date point at which the current conflict might be addressed in the curriculum would be likely to be the Arab-Israeli conflict and subsequent peace process in the 1960s and 1970s.
Iran's continued nuclear program may present an opportunity to build upon the Arab Peace Initiative to help forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace, deflate extremism in the Muslim world, and create a cohesive front against Iran.
International diplomats have speculated that Sunni Arab governments which fear Iran feel they need clear steps forward towards an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal in order for their nations to accept Arab backing of US-Israeli moves against a fellow Muslim nation.
But the prospect of an Israeli-Arab peace was then new and startling: the three leaders were explorers in an unknown land.
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He noted the importance of the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, a document that has gotten renewed attention this week as Kerry and Arab officials have discussed modifying its terms to boost Israeli-Palestinian peace hopes.
NABLUS, West Bank (CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat on Thursday criticized Israel's decision to build housing for Jews in Arab east Jerusalem, saying it was a violation of Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.
Syria has long led moves to ostracise the peace-makers, boycotting last year's Arab-Israeli get-together in Qatar.
The increased "radicalizing" of Arab and Israeli youth -- who are beginning to believe "the premise of peace was the wrong one" -- has heightened the sense of urgency, el-Baz said.
And Egypt, the most populous Arab country and the first to make peace with Israel, is now ruled by the fiercely anti-Israeli Muslim Brotherhood.
The Labour party says it sees the so-called Saudi initiative - which calls for an Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 border in exchange for relations with Arab countries - as the basis for a peace deal and would aim for a full agreement "within two years".
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