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Doug
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posted 12 August 2008 01:49 PM      Profile for Doug   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
No real breakthrough here. It's sort of like someone offering to give you 92.7% of your own house, not including the bathroom or the kitchen sink, and in "return" they'll let you use a bottom shelf in their garage.

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Israel has offered a peace deal to the Palestinians which would annex 7.3% of the West Bank and keep the largest settlements, Israeli reports say.

In return the Palestinians would be given land equivalent to 5.4% of the West Bank in the Negev desert, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.

Palestinian officials confirmed that such a plan had been put forward, but called it totally unacceptable.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7555990.stm


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