Strict Separation Is Not the Answer for Palestine and Israel | by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate
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Strict Separation Is Not the Answer for Palestine and Israel | by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate
Yasser Arafat rejected the Barak proposal, making it clear that he would never surrender the right of more than 4 million Palestinians to return to Israel rather than live in the Palestinian state with compensation.
key part of the Arab plan was the complete “marginalization” of the Palestinians.10 The Jordanians wanted the West Bank and the Egyptians wanted the Gaza Strip. Neither wanted an independent Palestinian state. Nobody can blame Israel for the Egyptian and Jordanian decision to occupy the lands allocated to the Palestinians for a state and for denyin
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