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The Saudi peace plan will fail because only one party to this conflict truly desires peace. The other wants what it has always aimed for–victory. In the past, Israel has made extraordinary concessions–diplomatic, military, financial and territorial–in its quest for peace with the Arab world. But the most Israelis can offer is less than what the Arab world will accept. What the Arab world has aimed for since 1948 is not peaceful coexistence with Israel but peaceful existence without Israel.