Abbas admits he rejected 2008 peace offer from Olmert
(The Times of Israel)
"...Olmert said he had offered a near-total
withdrawal from the West Bank — proposing that Israel retain 6.3 percent
of the territory in order to keep control of major Jewish settlements.
He said he offered to compensate the Palestinians with Israeli land
equivalent to 5.8 percent of the West Bank, along with a link to the
Gaza Strip — another territory meant to be part of Palestine.
He also said he offered to withdraw from Arab
neighborhoods of east Jerusalem and place the Old City — home to
Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy sites — under international control. He
described the offer to give up Israeli control of the Old City as the
hardest day of his life..."
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