Just How Close Did Israelis and Palestinians Come to a Peace Deal in 2008?
The Negotiators
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What Is the Point of a Deal Between Olmert and Abes?
There really wasn't any real progress, until it escalated to the top leadership level between president abas and prime minister olmert. Olmert was prepared to hand back almost all o the west bank, with the exception of around six point two % that would be swapped with territory inside israel as part of a land swap arrangement. I think everyone understood that the clock was running out on olmert's tenure as prime minister. And so people naturally were looking at early two thousand nine as the drop dead point. Any deal have to be clinched before the end of the year. There was an expectation that things would pick up pretty quickly in december. But there was some dis
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