Fatah: Netanyahu plans ethnic cleansing through land swap proposal

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to ethnically cleanse Arab towns as part of his proposal for a land swap for peace, member of Fatah’s Executive Committee Mohamed Ishtea said yesterday.

Quds Net reported that a research paper prepared and issued by Ishtea stated that the concept of a land swap is “not strange” as there have been similar plans since 2004.

Netanyahu’s plan called for land and people swap, he explained, noting that the proposal was annexing major settlement blocs in the occupied West Bank in return for conceding land in Israel, heavily populated by Arabs.

He said that Netanyahu’s remarks were widely condemned by Palestinians and the Israeli left-wing at that time.

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The aim of the plan, Ishtea explained, is to maintain a Jewish majority in Israel as the plan would see 300,000 Arabs expelled from Israel.

Explaining the land swap accepted by Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, Ishtea said it is a slight modification on the border areas.