Lieberman's 'solution': Palestinians will be forced to live on 13% of their original land
(with map) According to Lieberman, the Palestinian 'state' he proposes would consist of the areas known as “A” and “B” under the Oslo Agreement. This means 25 separate reservations in the West Bank, none of which are geographically contiguous. When such a proposal was made in the past, then-US President George W. Bush said that it was unacceptable, as it created a “swiss cheese state” with no geographic contiguity. Many Palestinians have compared the proposal with the 'land reservation' system in the United States, in which Native American nations which were virtually wiped out by colonial forces beginning in 1492 were allocated small swaths of land on which to survive, and these reservations are considered “sovereign” by the US, despite being surrounded by the United States.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
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