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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 363

land swaps

Land designated by the Trump plan to become a Palestinian enclave, just inside the Israel-Egypt border, on February 3, 2020. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)
February 5, 2020, 11:35 am
Trump peace plan offers land without people to people who don’t want the land
With no warning, Israeli farmers on Egypt border find themselves set to be surrounded by Palestinian enclaves. Asks one: Does this look like a map put together by serious people?
By Jacob Magid
View of the border area between Israel and Egypt as it seen from Route 10, southern Israel, on December 5, 2018. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
February 3, 2020, 6:29 am
3 chunks of Israeli land for Palestine, and 5 more overlooked parts of US plan
Among less touted elements of Trump deal are proposals to free Palestinian prisoners, give ‘Palestine’ a strip of land along Egypt border, and, maybe, let Jews pray on Temple Mount
By ToI Staff
Then-Israeli PM Ehud Olmert meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Jerusalem, on November 17, 2008. (Moshe Milner GPO/Flash90)
March 26, 2018, 6:54 am
Ehud Olmert: When peace was within arm’s reach, I was politically ‘assassinated’
In new memoirs, jailbird ex-PM alleges a conspiracy of Israeli forces thwarted him: ‘They killed Rabin with bullets. I live in Maasiyahu jail. This, too, is an assassination’
By Marissa Newman
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (second left) and US President Donald Trump's special envoys Jason Greenblatt (left) and Jared Kushner (center) meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the PMO in Jerusalem, June 21, 2017. (Matty Stern/US Embassy Tel Aviv)
July 27, 2017, 9:32 pm
Report: PM seeks US okay to annex settlements, cede Arab cities to Palestinians
White House official says idea may have been raised, but only in context of final status agreement with Palestinians
By ToI Staff and Raphael Ahren
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman delivers a speech at the third day of the 53rd Munich Security Conference (MSC) at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, Germany, on February 19, 2017. (Christof Stache/AFP)
February 20, 2017, 3:56 pm
Liberman: Israel would be crazy to defy Trump on settlements
Defense minister rejects one-state solution to conflict, touts his border-drawing plan
By Jacob Magid
Seated from left to right: Israeli negotiator Yitzhak Molcho, Israeli Justice Minister and chief negotiator Tzipi Livni, Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat, and Palestinian negotiator Mohammed Shtayyeh, at a dinner marking the resumption of peace talks in Washington, DC on Monday, July 29, 2013. (photo credit: Charles Dharapak/AP)
March 7, 2015, 7:27 pm
When Netanyahu joined the Geneva Initiative
A leaked document hugely discomfits the PM. Was this a case of Obama’s revenge?
By Avi Issacharoff
Yisrael Beytenu party chief Avigdor Liberman at his campaign launch press conference in Tel Aviv, January 15, 2014. (photo credit: Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
February 5, 2015, 10:24 pm
Liberman given 5 days to respond to racism claims
Meretz MK appeals for ban on Yisrael Beytenu’s election campaign, claiming it contradicts Declaration of Independence
By ToI Staff
Former Israeli national security adviser Yaakov Amidror (Flash90)
March 28, 2014, 12:43 pm
Outgoing security adviser: ‘Palestinians haven’t budged’
‘An agreement without Palestinian recognition of Israel as Jewish is not worth the paper it’s written on,’ says Yaakov Amidror
By Elhanan Miller
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (L), Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (C) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen in the plenum hall during a vote on the Draft law. March 12, 2014. (Photo credit: Flash 90)
March 12, 2014, 8:13 pm
Knesset passes referendum law for land concessions
Any relinquishing of territory in sovereign Israel, East Jerusalem, Golan Heights must be put to a public vote
By Marissa Newman
PLO official Ahmed Qurei speaks to journalists at his office in Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, February 19, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy/Steffen Jensen)
February 19, 2014, 11:56 pm
US framework draft is too vague, says top PLO official
Former PM Ahmed Qurei warns that Palestinian negotiators won’t accept ambiguous wording on borders, Jerusalem and settlements
By Elhanan Miller
A man waves a Palestinian flag waves near the West Bank settlement of Ofra, near Ramallah (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
February 6, 2014, 10:55 am
Israel said willing to give up 90% of West Bank
Palestinians reportedly insisting on land swaps for no more than 3% of territory; either way, most Jewish settlements would remain in place
By Gavriel Fiske
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to Israeli diplomats at a conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
January 10, 2014, 6:44 am
Liberman’s skilled, cynical ‘Triangle’ maneuver
Proposal to trade Arab-inhabited area with the Palestinians may be expedient for Yisrael Beytenu, but it comes at a huge social cost
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Arab men march in Jaffa on Land Day, an annual day of protest against government appropriation of Arab-owned land, April 2011 (photo credit: Dima Vazinovich/Flash90)
January 9, 2014, 5:13 am
Israeli Arabs: Palestinian citizenship is for us to decide, not Liberman
Population swap idea has nothing to do with peace, everything to do with foreign minister’s racism, say residents of threatened ‘Triangle’
By Elhanan Miller
David Wilder (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
January 6, 2014, 11:59 pm
Netanyahu may suffer if he signs peace deal, settler spokeman says
David Wilder draws parallel between the tragic ends of PMs who surrendered land; comments come with Sharon at death’s door
By JTA
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman speaks to Israeli diplomats at a conference at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2014. (photo credit: Flash90)
January 5, 2014, 2:41 pm
Liberman: Kerry proposals are the best Israel could hope for
Still, FM insists peace means exchanging ‘territory and populations,’ rules out ‘return’ of a single Palestinian refugee
By Raphael Ahren
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