Posted on 07/05/2010 10:05:00 AM PDT by TaraP
The London-based Arabic newspaper, Al Hayat, reported this weekend that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had proposed the creation of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with a possible land swap of 2.3 percent of the West Bank to ensure a fair solution for Israeli settlement blocs. Al Hayat reported that the Palestinians agreed to leave settlement blocs including Gush Etzion, Pisgat Ze'ev and Modi'in Ilit, along with a swath of land overlooking Ben-Gurion International Airport, in Israeli hands.
In exchange, the PA would receive land of comparable size and quality in the southern West Bank as well as a corridor between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Abbas also reportedly proposed easing Palestinian demands over East Jerusalem to permit the Jewish Quarter of the Old City as well as the Western Wall to remain under Israeli sovereignty. The remainder of the Old City, he proposed, would become the capital of a Palestinian state but fully open to the adherents of all faiths.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Interesting. This is pretty much the offer Barak made to Arafat in 2000.
The corridor between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip would need to be an underground tunnel to keep Israelis safe.
What about the despicable right-of-return idea?
I can’t see them living up to the claim they will leave anything open to members of all faiths...baloney!
I say take the offer. If the Pallies screw around, then just take it all back again and start from scratch.
I’d say neutron bomb.
After all, the Arabs seem to want nukes...
I say give Gaza to Egypt, and Israel keep all the West Bank land and the Golan Heights. Israel should never give up Jerusalem.
I think the headline is missing this introductory phrase,
“In accordance with Obama’s advice,...”
I say, no. Not just because Abbas cannot be trusted. No separation of Jerusalem. Period.
Only a fool would ignore the Bible and history and have anything to do with dividing Jerusalem, or any other part of Israel. If an American politician is that ignorant, we have no business voting for them. Christians and Jews have better start speaking up concerning the Bible and it’s promises and warnings. Otherwise these judgements America is undergoing will continue and worsen.
Lol! What makes you think Egypt wants Gaza? Not enough money in the world to persuade them to take it. Hamas hates Mubarack at least as much as they hate Israel. Absorbing Gaza would just provide the Muslim brotherhood with a militant wing.
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