In some versions of the following report, Mitchell proposes a swap of the Galilee triangle (a region where Israeli Palestinians predominate) for the major Israeli settlement blocks. Maybe Abbas is willing utterly to abase himself to the USA, but leaving Israel with the Ariel settlement would put Israel in control of the main aquifer in the Occupied Territories while transferring the Galilee triangle to the PA would mean that Israel would feel much more free to ruin that region's economy or to send the IDF to rampage through it in an orgy of Zionist spree killing and genocide as the IDF recent perpetrated in Gaza. Not only would the proposal if genuine mean the bantustanization of the Occupied Territories, but it would add a large part of Israeli Palestinians to the bantustans.
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Also, you know Obama is sucking up to Israel -- protests to the contrary notwithstanding -- because Joe Lieberman says Obama is off to a "very good start."
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Joseph Lieberman said President Barack Obama’s administration is off to a “very good start” and praised his address to the Muslim world while criticizing the administration’s call to freeze all Israeli settlements as “risky.”
Lieberman, a Connecticut independent who caucuses with the Democrats yet backed Republican John McCain in last year’s presidential election, said he has been “encouraged” by Obama’s first months in office.
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