With Secretary of State John Kerry pushing a framework to get peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians rolling again, Israel has reportedly presented an offer to the United States in which it would “trade” part of East-Central Israel to the Palestinians for the right to annex large settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank.
The notion of a land swap has been around for a long time, and Palestinians have suggested in the past some revisions of the 1967 border in one-for-one land swaps was possible. The Israeli proposal is said to be much broader than expected, however.
And more populous. Instead of simply trading uninhabited parts of Israel, the Israeli government’s proposal involves trading a relatively populous chunk of land, including the cities of Tira and Taibe, and the 300,000-or-so Israeli Arabs that live there, in the swap.
Unclear from the early reports of the plan are what exactly happens to the 300,000 Israeli citizens that get “traded” to Palestine, and if their Israeli citizenship gets revoked.
The plan resembles one that has been pushed by Avigdor Lieberman for the past decade however, and in his version expelling “undesirable” citizens was the whole point of the swap, kicking out ethnic minorities as a way of solving the “demographics problem.”
Rich, ultimate Israeli Chutzpah, trading land it doesn't own and has no rights to. The Palestinians want their land cleared of Europe's horde of malicious pagans. Hope the trade comes with some serious chunks of Israeli Moolah $$$. Loss of income to the Palestinians plus penalty interest at least, because it's the only way these land thieves will learn.
It won't be Israeli moolah,if there is any it will be Yank moolah;the American taxpayer will foot the bill as usual.
if you want a very clear map
http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/uploads/Docume…
the offer i believe is the one called "the triangle plan".
which is basically about purging arabs israelis of their citizenship and further isolating the gaza strip
So Israel wants to move Israeli Arabs into the bantustans representing their idea of a Palestinian state. So very generous of them. So very cleansing.
not quite, the arabs get moved then liberboy and yahoo have a lapse of memory
If lie-berman is partly ok with this , then it must be unworkable.
Of course the Israeli's could do what it demands other countries do and obey UN security council resolutions and return to the pre 1967 borders!
Somebody more right wing might call it setting up a "Government General' – a place where undesirables can be guarded while they administer themselves into extinction..