Also referred to as the Saudi Peace Plan and Abdullah Plan. On March 27, 2002, participants of the Arab League summit in Beirut adopted the Saudi-proposed Arab Peace Initiative, calling for “full Israeli withdrawal from all the Arab territories occupied since June 1967, in implementation of [United Nations (UN)] Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338… and Israel’s acceptance of an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, in return for the establishment of normal relations in the context of a comprehensive peace with Israel.” The plan also called for the right to return of Palestinian refugees to their homeland inside the State of Israel, referencing UN General Assembly Resolution 194 but not specifying numbers. In return, the initiating Arab states offered an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, security and stability between nations in the region as well as normalized relations with Israel. In Israel, the Initiative was overshadowed by a suicide bombing by Hamas’ military wing in the Israeli city of Netanya on the same day of the Initiative’s adoption, which left 19 dead and 172 injured. Internationally, the Road Map to peace, which was drawn up by the UN, the United States, the European Union and Russia, endorsed the Initiative in 2003. Left to the wayside for several years, Arab League voted to renew its commitment to the plan in 2007, though Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas abstained. Still extremely controversial in Israel, Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Olmert responded favorably to much of the plan, expressing readiness to negotiate on many of its points, but stressed Israel’s refusal to negotiate on the refugee issue. In late 2008, the Palestinian Authority took out ads in major Israeli newspapers to promote the Initiative, and supported major issues being decided by Palestinians, as opposed to the Arab League, in direct negotiations with Israel. See Kumaraswamy, P.R. “Abdullah Plan.” Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, 2006; Teitelbaum, Joshua. ‘Arab Peace Initiative: A Primer and Future Prospects’, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (2009). http://www.jcpa.org/text/Arab-Peace- Initiative.pdf">http://www.jcpa.org/text/Arab-Peace-http://www.jcpa.org/text/Arab-Peace- Initiative.pdf"> Initiative.pdf; Al-Kadi, Alia. “The Arab Peace Initiative for Peace.” The Atkins Paper Series. June 2010. http://icsr.info/publications/papers/1283531151ICSRAtkinPaperSeries_AliaAlKadi.pdf; and Prusher, Ilene R. “Israel shows new openness to Saudi Peace Plan.” Christian Science Monitor. 16 May 2007. http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0516/p07s02-wome.html;  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/arab-peace-initiative