Detroit Jews ask: Are settlement boycotts the same as BDS?

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46. It seems to me that the offer to the Palestinians was just unspecified areas of desert:

Palestinians receive little in Israeli-proposed land-swap deal
Source: AL Monitor, February 25, 2014

While Israel has been publicly boasting about the areas in the West Bank it wishes to annex, partly in order to quiet some of the settler opposition, it is less known what land plots Israel is willing to give the Palestinians. The controversial idea of turning over to the Palestinians some highly populated Israeli town in the Galilee triangle area made by far-right Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman was never taken seriously and disappeared from the discussion once Liberman decided to take on a more moderate tone. The only references to other potential areas include empty plots of Israeli land near the Gaza Strip and some north of the West Bank near Jenin. These plots don’t fit the Palestinian criteria of quality, nor are the suggested areas large enough to meet the size criteria.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/02/land-swap-israel-palestine-walla.html#


Do you have a map of the Israeli lands to be offered up as a swap? Surely a land swap proposal must include a map...


And BTW, states are completely prohibited from transferring civilians from the occupying power's territory into the occupied territory according to the Geneva Convention. The settlements are a clear example of transfer of civilians, and a war crime.