Israel offered Mahmoud Abbas 94% of West Bank in 2008, former PM Ehud Olmert reveals

[Beastly Boy]

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert revealed in a yet-to-be-broadcast interview with the BBC the map he presented to PA President Mahmoud Abbas as part of the 2008 negotiations between the two parties.

According to the map, 94% of the West Bank was offered for the creation of a Palestinian state. In addition, Israel was supposed to annex 4.9% of the West Bank, in return for which it would have ceded territory on the outskirts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip area.

Alongside conceding territory to both the West Bank and Gaza, the proposal would have resulted in a tunnel or highway connecting the two.

Olmert also drew up plans for Jerusalem, which would be divided between Israel and a Palestinian state, with both claiming parts of the city as their capital. The Old City and nearby religious sites would hand over the administration to a committee of trustees consisting of Israel, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and the US.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-843501

A similar offer was made by Israel in 2000, and Arafat rejected it.

In 1967, as the Israeli Knesset was debating the return of the occupied West Bank to the Palestinian Arabs. the Arab League responded with a proclamation pledging no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it.

And in 1947, The Palestinans under the leadership of the Jerusalem Mufti Amin al-Husseini outright rejected an offer of a Palestinian state from the United Nations.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.

[LymphocyteLover]

1. as roughly as Palestinians have treated by Israel, they've been unendingly screwed over by their leaders

[Beastly Boy]

2. And used as pawns by the neighboring Arab states who never had the best interests of Palestinian Arabs in mind

[LymphocyteLover]

3. Yes, that too

tragic