{"id":166,"date":"2008-01-29T15:13:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T19:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/01\/land_swaps_for_peace\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T02:32:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T06:32:31","slug":"land_swaps_for_peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/01\/land_swaps_for_peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Land swaps for peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At last week&#8217;s Herzliya Conference, Tel Aviv University geographer Gideon Biger presented a futuristic plan for land swaps and border alterations among Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. Biger, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=jC9MbKNh8GUC\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947<\/em><\/a>, proposes a map based on 1967\u2014that is, each party would end up with the same net territory it possessed prior to the June 1967 Six-Day War. Biger has provided MESH with the map he displayed at the conference, illustrating the proposed swaps.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2008\/01\/bigerplan.png\" align=\"bottom\" height=\"899\" width=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In Biger&#8217;s plan, parts of the West Bank where there are large Jewish settlement blocs, as well as part of the Jordan Valley, would be annexed to Israel. In exchange, the Palestinians would receive Israeli territory along the Green Line, and Egypt would relinquish territory between al-Arish and Rafah to the Palestinians. Israel would compensate Egypt with territory from Israel in the Paran Desert, as well as a corridor across the lower Negev to Jordan (a proposal <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/01\/gaza_into_egypt\/\">revisited<\/a> last week at MESH).<\/p>\n<p>In the north, Biger also envisions a three-way swap. Israel would keep possession of a part of the Golan Heights. It would give Lebanon territory in the northern Galilee associated with the so-called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imra.org.il\/story.php3?id=30478\" target=\"_blank\">seven [Shiite] villages<\/a>&#8221; abandoned in 1948. Lebanon, in turn, would relinquish territory to Syria, to compensate Syria for ceding part of the Golan Heights to Israel.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><font color=\"#808080\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\"><em>Comments by MESH invitation only.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin At last week&#8217;s Herzliya Conference, Tel Aviv University geographer Gideon Biger presented a futuristic plan for land swaps and border alterations among Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. Biger, author of The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947, proposes a map based on 1967\u2014that is, each party would end up with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290,2230,1873,2239,2291,2257,1910,2241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-david-schenker","category-egypt","category-geopolitics","category-israel","category-jordan","category-lebanon","category-maps","category-palestinians"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}