Abbas: Olmert offered PA land equaling 100% of West Bank

[Chris]

Abbas: Olmert offered PA land equaling 100% of West Bank
By Jack Khoury, Haaretz Correspondent

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday confirmed that former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered him land near Gaza in exchange for settlement blocs that Israel wants to annex, Arab-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday. Abbas said that the proposed swap would have given the Palestinians land that would equal 100 percent of the West Bank. He added that there are no Israeli settlements or Israeli Arab residents in the land surrounding Gaza that was offered to the Palestinians, according to the report.

"I clarified that I refused to annex even one Israeli Arab citizen," Abbas was quoted as saying. Abbas also denied reports that former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni persuaded the Palestinians to reject the deal due to the criminal investigations against Olmert and the fact that his term would soon be ending. "Livni did not interfere," Abbas told the paper. "I know there were sensitivities between her and Olmert, but I negotiated with him and felt we could have reached an agreement."

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[Chris]

Abbas: Olmert offered PA land equaling 100% of West Bank

And he didn't take it??!!!!

This just goes to show that the "Palestinians" will only be happy when the Israelis give away everything. They will not go for anything less, so there is no reason to hold "talks" with them. If they don't hold talks and more crazy ideas come from the Palestinians like a 3rd intifada, then Israel needs to remove the "kid gloves" and take care of the Palestinian problem for good. Push them back into the neighboring countries were they came from.