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Last update - 18:37 29/11/2007
Hamas said calling on UN to rescind 1947 partition plan
By Haaretz Service
Tags: Avigdor Lieberman, UN, Hamas

To mark sixty years since the United Nations plan for the partition of Palestine, Palestinian militant Islamic movement Hamas called Thursday for the UN to rescind the decision which led to the establishment of the State Israel, Army Radio reported.

"It is not shameful to correct a mistake. Palestine is Arab-Islamic land from the river to the sea, including Jerusalem, and Jews have no place there," the radio quoted a Hamas statement as saying.

Meanwhile, Minister of Strategic Affairs MK Avigdor Lieberman on Thursday called an exchange of territories the only viable solution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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"Only a territory exchange can prevent a situation where we have a half a state for one people and a half a state for another. It will allow us to attain a two state solution," the minister and head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party said.

Lieberman has repeatedly championed land swaps as a solution to the conflict and brought up the issue during a meeting with former British prime minister Tony Blair in Jerusalem in October.

Lieberman told Blair, now serving as the Middle East envoy for the Quartet of Mideast peace brokers, that any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "must include Israel's Arab citizens as well, when the basis for an agreement should be a land swap and a population transfer."

Lieberman also said that "the international community has to make a concerted effort to resolve the issues of Israel's security and the Palestinian economy.
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  1.   first destroy Hamas then we talk peace 16:34  |  steve 29/11/07
  2.   UN Partition Plan was only recommendation that Arabs rejected 16:57  |  Jake 29/11/07
  3.   as usual history is ignored,scrap 1947 and back to san remo 17:13  |  victor hardman 29/11/07
  4.   AND THE WORLD...... 17:14  |  MATILDA 29/11/07
  5.   Olmert is dreaming, dreaming..... 17:30  |  Nora 29/11/07
  6.   Not too late to rescind Islam and Arabian invasion 17:41  |  McQueen 29/11/07
  7.   "The groupies from Gaza"? 17:42  |  Stephen 29/11/07
  8.   Partition plan 17:45  |  Chris 29/11/07
  9.   Hamas 17:48  |  Arab 29/11/07
  10.   UN 1947 18:11  |  Michael 29/11/07
  11.   Ok Avigdor, 18:21  |  Jim 29/11/07
  12.   Hamas is desperate if they ask for UN help 18:26  |  Voice of Reason 29/11/07
  13.   #1 steve from tel aviv 18:31  |  Jim 29/11/07
  14.   # 2 Jake 18:36  |  Jim 29/11/07
  15.   Hamas 18:40  |  BRL 29/11/07
  16.   A very nice idea, but 18:41  |  Clickfool 29/11/07
  17.   The eyes of Lieberman.... 18:44  |  Clickfool 29/11/07
  18.   # 4 Matilda 18:47  |  Jim 29/11/07
  19.   Agree with Clickfool 18:50  |  utagawa 29/11/07
  20.   Putting things into perspective 18:51  |  Walter 29/11/07
  21.   partition plan 18:54  |  Shmuelshachor 29/11/07
  22.   Jim #13 18:54  |  Steve 29/11/07
  23.   click #16 18:56  |  Mick 29/11/07
  24.   # 5 Nora 18:56  |  Jim 29/11/07
  25.   re# 16 - a monstrous demon? 18:56  |  Michael 29/11/07
  26.   Correct 18:57  |  Ron 29/11/07
  27.   To JIM 19:04  |  E 29/11/07
  28.   Clickfool: coaxing demons back into bottles 19:06  |  Richard S 29/11/07
  29.   to CLickfool 19:10  |  Voice of the Mohel)) 29/11/07
  30.   Iranian Lab Dogs 19:10  |  Lily 29/11/07
  31.   #16 - Clickfool 19:11  |  MichaelF 29/11/07
  32.   ISRAEL SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PARTITIONED BY THE UN 19:11  |  B.Owloks 29/11/07
  33.   #19 - sc 19:12  |  MichaelF 29/11/07
  34.   #13 - Jim 19:14  |  MichaelF 29/11/07
  35.   Unless israel has a secret suicidal death wish,it will heed the 19:14  |  lakshmi 29/11/07
  36.   a sober proposition by the elected government in Palestine 19:14  |  Leon Rosgarten 29/11/07
  37.   Hamas in Wonderland 19:19  |  Zvi Swerdlove 29/11/07
  38.   Thanks for the chuckle, Mick # 23 19:24  |  Clickfool 29/11/07
  39.   Transfer: No! 19:35  |  Guy 29/11/07
  40.   Clickfool: clown prince of the menthol trailer 19:36  |  Richard S 29/11/07
  41.   Clickfool: The eyes of a psychopath 19:43  |  Nora 29/11/07
  42.   # 22 Steve: Lies, lies and more lies 19:45  |  Mike the American 29/11/07
  43.   # 22 steve 19:46  |  Jim 29/11/07
  44.   #39 interesting labels 19:53  |  Bob 29/11/07
  45.   Jim #43 19:59  |  Steve 29/11/07
  46.   Mike claiming to be American 20:08  |  David Israel 29/11/07
  47.   # 27 E in Jerusalem 20:11  |  Jim 29/11/07
  48.   Re: Scrapping UN Partition 20:12  |  Jabotinsky 29/11/07
  49.   israeli war criminals vs. Hamas blowhards 20:20  |  Shan 29/11/07
  50.   #17 to Clickeyes 20:21  |  Boris 29/11/07
  51.   Jim #47 - There are Rights, and then there are "rights" 20:33  |  Polybios 29/11/07
  52.   man of hamas 20:35  |  hussein 29/11/07
  53.   # 34 MichaelF 20:36  |  Jim 29/11/07
  54.   #42 Mike the American 20:47  |  Jim 29/11/07
  55.   # 45 Steve 20:55  |  Jim 29/11/07
  56.   THe UN should apologize 21:01  |  Jens 29/11/07
  57.   # 1 steve of Tel Aviv 21:04  |  Lynn 29/11/07
  58.   Jim, by that rationale... 21:05  |  Jake 29/11/07
  59.   # 51 Polybius 21:05  |  Jim 29/11/07
  60.   # 43. Racism !!! 21:12  |  Mike the American 29/11/07
  61.   # 52 Hussein 21:15  |  Jim 29/11/07
  62.   # 49 Amen to that 21:17  |  Mike the American 29/11/07
  63.   Jim (#51 at last count) 21:38  |  Polybios 29/11/07
  64.   # 58 Jake 21:42  |  Jim 29/11/07
  65.   This article will excite a few 21:51  |  Adrian de KLerk 29/11/07
  66.   #36 22:00  |  B 29/11/07
  67.   The partition of the fake ME countries should also be rescinded 22:01  |  Judith, Haifa 29/11/07
  68.   Hamas says all we need to know about them 22:05  |  Paul Freedman 29/11/07
  69.   Why is this land more Arab than Jewish? 22:07  |  Jon 29/11/07
  70.   no jews in palestine 22:11  |  john 29/11/07
  71.   Population transfer? Deportation you mean Lieberman 22:19  |  Algerian 29/11/07
  72.   #56 22:29  |  B 29/11/07
  73.   Lakshmi, so you were misleading us all the time 22:35  |  Rob 29/11/07