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March 4, 2025

Ehud Olmert, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Palestinians’ Last Great Opportunity

The secret map.

Last week, the former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert displayed a map drawn up in 2008 delineating borders for a Palestinian state. Olmert had famously shown it to the Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, encouraging him to accept the offer, but Abbas never replied, and the map itself has never been shown to the public. Stephen Daisley reflects on the Olmert plan, which would have given the new state more than 94 percent of the West Bank, and compensated it for the remainder with land that belonged to Israel before 1967:

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March 4, 2025

  1. Ehud Olmert, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Palestinians’ Last Great Opportunity

    The secret map.

  2. Remembering Dore Gold: Scholar, Diplomat, and Defender of Israel

    Jerusalem’s past and present.

  3. Since Israel Was Born, Its Enemies Have Wanted to Accuse It of Genocide

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