Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli proposal for a peace agreement in which Israel offered to withdraw from 93 percent of the West Bank.
Calling the offer unacceptable, Abbas' government countered that Palestinians want a geographically continuous state corresponding with the 1967 borders and with Jerusalem as its capital. Israel's Haaretz newspaper had reported earlier that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had offered the Palestinians land in the southern Israeli Negev desert as compensation for the territory that Israel wants to annex.
(Deutsche Welle)
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