The international community's insistence on such a framework for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations does not preclude exchanges of territory, on both sides of the pre-1967 border, to enable Israel to establish territorial contiguity with a majority of the settlers on the Palestinian side, as was already proposed at Camp David.
The Israelis and the newly formed Palestinian Authority (PA) arranged further exchanges of territory as part of the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, signed in September 1995, and the Wye River Memorandum of October 1998.
These exchanges of territory were part of a series of agreements (generally referred to as the Oslo Accords) that were initiated by the September 1993 Declaration of Principles on Palestinian Self-Rule.
But such arrangements must be the outcome of mutual agreement, not of unilateral Israeli or Palestinian actions, and be based on fair and equal exchanges of territory and other concessions.
--Negotiating Palestinianor Palestalksn talks with Israel on bilateral issues, particularly the extent of Palestinian Authority control in Jerusalem, right of return of Palestinian refugees to Israel, Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, exchanges of territory, borders and security, and "end of claims".
--Negotiating posIsraelifor Israeli talks with Palestinians on bilateral issues, particularly the extent of Israeli control of Jerusalem, right of return of Palestinian refugees to Israel, Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, exchanges of territory, and "end of claims".
Eventually, an exchange of territory provided the exclave with a "land link" to Berlin's "mainland".
He said that President Bush had spoken about ending the occupation that began in 1967, but that Mr. Obama's formulation suggested an equal exchange of territory in a final deal.
This plan specified limits on the deployment of missiles and revived a year-old diplomatic initiative (the Rogers Plan) that insisted on an exchange of territory for peace on all fronts.
There are those in Brussels and Washington who might say that if the leaders in the region agree on an exchange of territory between Serbia and Kosovo, why should we have any objections?
The settlement movement, which has so enmeshed Israel in the lives of Arabs who wish to govern themselves, had another partner, one to which Gorenberg, like many on the left, pays scant attention: the Arab states that provoked the Six-Day War and then, after their defeat, remained defiant and mainly uninterested in a quick exchange of territory for recognition of Israel.
