Cairo, Egypt ? Moderate Arab governments plan to tell Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice they will help Washington stabilize Iraq if the U.S. takes more active steps to revive a broad peace initiative between Israel and its neighbors, Arab officials and media said Sunday.

The deal, dubbed “Iraq for Land,” is expected to be proposed during a meeting between Rice and her counterparts from eight Arab countries Tuesday in Kuwait.

It echoes widespread Arab feelings that a lasting Middle East peace cannot be achieved as long as Israel doesn’t reach a settlement to hand over lands it occupied during the 1967 Mideast war to the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.

In the U.S., a bipartisan panel on Iraq headed by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III said in December that progress on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute could help calm Iraq, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair says a resolution to the conflict is key to Mideast stability.