That is what mutually agreed swaps means.
President Obama announced that peace should be based on the 1967 borders with mutually agreed swaps.
But, he said, "let me reaffirm what '1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps' means".
"I hope you can get Prime Minister Netanyahoo to say (two states on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps).
"At that moment," Mr. Erekat said in a telephone interview, "they can sit and negotiate what the mutually agreed swaps are".
Mr. Netanyahu, in his critique of Mr. Obama's earlier remarks, had ignored the "mutually agreed swaps" part of the president's proposal.
There was much hand-wringing in Israel over the president's call for a two-state solution based on "the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps".
We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states.
Nevertheless, Oren believes that Obama's public restatement of U.S. policy in 2011 — "the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps" — is yet another instance of the President spitefully blindsiding Netanyahu.
All Kerry has to do—not a small thing is embrace them and call them his own, much as President Obama haltingly did in 2011, when he argued for "the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps".
In May, 2011, Obama gave a speech about the Arab Spring, and, hoping to break the stalemate in the peace talks, he said, "The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps".
