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Olmert: Deal struck for US to absorb 100,000 Palestinian refugees

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that he reached an agreement with the Americans for them to absorb 100,000 Palestinian refugees as part of a peace deal. He added that he struck a deal with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Israel would absorb an additional 20,000 refugees "for humanitarian reasons."

 

In a Geneva Initiative conference, Olmert said, "If we had reached an agreement, it would have changed the map of the world and the entire Middle East. We are not to blame. If there is no agreement, it's because the Palestinian side was not prepared to take the extra step that we made." (Attila Somfalvi)

 

 


פרסום ראשון: 09.19.10, 19:37