By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent, and the Associated Press: Abbas denies West Bank-Gaza route included in land swap plan
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Title:# 8 Mr/Miss Reid`s classification system
Name:Ben Alofs
City: BangorState: North Wales, UK
Oops, I seem to have been included in the radical anti-Zionist camp.
The options are few: either Palestine becomes an independent and economically viable state in all of the territories Israel occupied in 1967 (with mutually agreed border corrections) or it will become part of a bi-national state. Palestinians will never accept to become hapless proto-citizens in nominally independent bantustans, which would in reality - as in apartheid South Africa - become poverty stricken reservoirs of cheap labour for Big Brother Israel`s economy. In that case they will struggle for their civil rights.
There will be some swapping of territory of equal value between Israel and Palestine, but at the end of the day many of the Jewish colonies will end up within the borders of the Palestinian state. These Jews should be given the option of becoming Palestinian citizens in a democratic state with separation between mosque and state.
Mr/Miss Reid, would you qualify this as an extremist position?