JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s foreign minister says a peace deal with the Palestinians should include handing areas where Israel’s Arabs live over to Palestinian control.
Avigdor Lieberman said a peace accord should be based on “population exchanges, not land for peace.”
The Palestinians claim the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem for a state, but they have indicated readiness to swap some land in the West Bank for territory in Israel.
“It is clear that the ‘triangle’,” an area where many of Israel’s minority Arabs live, “should be outside the borders of Israel, Lieberman told Israel Radio on Sunday.
