What are Israel’s Liberman, Fatah’s Dahlan plotting ?

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  • What are Israel’s Liberman, Fatah’s Dahlan plotting?
    http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/03/israel-palestinians-fatah-mohammed-dahlan-avigdor-liberman.html

    The one Israeli leader who Dahlan is interested to engage with is Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. Dahlan and Liberman know each other for many years and share the same language of crude force. According to the official, Dahlan is ready to test the defense minister’s alleged pragmatism and possibly negotiate with him on the basis of his plan for territorial and population exchange, as well as the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.

    The official noted that some elements in Liberman’s plan could possibly serve as the basis for a two-state solution. The way Dahlan interprets the plan, a framework for a two-state solution should include elements such as advocating two independent states; that the scope and territory of the Palestinian state be equal in size to the West Bank and Gaza; that in most areas the border could be the 1967 lines; that land swaps for the Palestinian state could include some pre-1967 Israeli territory (Dahlan estimates that such land swaps could reinforce Palestinian society cohesion); and that East Jerusalem, with its Palestinian population, would come under Palestinian sovereignty.

    Evidently, Dahlan would consider these elements only as a basis for negotiations, together with all of the elements of the Arab Peace Initiative. With Liberman, Dahlan could actually agree to negotiate with an Israeli right-wing partner. This is a point he would impress upon the United States, the support of which he may need one day. Given the volatility of the PA and Egypt’s shifting approach — which according to Palestinian press reports is adopting nowadays a more lenient approach vis-a-vis Hamas — this scenario is a possibility to be considered.

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