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Syrian President Bashar Assad reacted very differently than Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat to Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's proposal that the Arab world collectively normalize relations with Israel in exchange for its complete withdrawal from territories it occupied in June 1967. Arafat, believing that the prospect of 22 Arab states normalizing relations with Israel might enable the Palestinians to extract concessions that they would not be able to secure on their own, as well as elicit greater American involvement in the peace process, enthusiastically endorsed the proposal and publicly lobbied for it. One might have expected a similar reaction from ...