Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 4 October 2010
"Controversy has arisen after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments to the United Nations' General Assembly on 28 September. During his address the leader of the ultra-right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party outlined his proposal for a "population and territory swap" in the context of establishing an ostensible Palestinian state during this current round of US-brokered direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
"Controversy has arisen after Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman's comments to the United Nations' General Assembly on 28 September. During his address the leader of the ultra-right wing Yisrael Beiteinu party outlined his proposal for a "population and territory swap" in the context of establishing an ostensible Palestinian state during this current round of US-brokered direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
His plan, which he first announced in 2004, includes a re-drawing of the borders -- moving Palestinian towns and villages currently inside the state to within the confines of a separate Palestinian entity ("Avigdor Lieberman: Olmert's newest colleague," Institute for Middle East Understanding, 12 November 2006). This move would be in return for evacuations of some, but not all, settlements in the occupied West Bank. Settlements in occupied East Jerusalem would not be but would be annexed to the State of Israel under Lieberman's plan. Lieberman, a settler himself, lives in the illegal West Bank settlement of Nokdim......."
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