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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (16693)1/17/2002 8:38:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Look, that's not the way you make deals.

Yes, but you've completely changed the subject, at least, the subject as I understood it. I thought we we discussing what Israel had agreed to when it signed the Oslo Accords in 1993. You said that it was your understanding that Israel at that time had agreed that the West Bank and Gaza 'belonged' to the Palestinians and that it was prepared to withdraw to the June 4, 1967 borders.

I answered a) that Israel did not agree to the 1967 borders, and b) Israel never agreed that the territories 'belonged' to the Palestinians; rather, their position was that they were prepared to hand over some or all of the territories in order to settle the border dispute between Israel and the Palestinians. Final borders were to be settled by negotiations. They might coincide with the 1967 borders, or they might be less; Israel had not agreed that ALL the territories must be given up.

Now, what bearing does that have on what Barak actually offered Arafat at Camp David? Israel offered a yet unspecified amount of the territories in 1993; in 2000, Barak offered 95%.

It's very easy to be confused because the Palestinians have done everything in their power to confuse the issue -- to say that the Israelis had already agreed to give them 100% in 1993. It just doesn't happen to be true.
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