Update: Dennis Ross Says No Arab Peace Initiative

World | Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:03:57 pm PST

Barack Obama’s Middle East adviser Dennis Ross says the Times of London’s report that Obama will support the Arab peace plan concocted by Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is false.

Former American peace envoy Dennis Ross, who is a senior advisor to US President-elect Barack Obama on Middle East policy, denied on Monday a Sunday Times report that Obama is planning to base his peacemaking efforts in the Middle East on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.

“I was in the meeting in Ramallah,” Ross said. “Then-Senator Obama did not say this. The story is false.”

Uzi Mahnaimi strikes again.