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"What we have never seen ... is an Israeli peace plan."

Amir Taheri continues at arab news:

.... Now that everyone seems to agree on the so-called “two states” formula, we have to ask a simple question: Which of the two states it is easier to create? The obvious answer is Israel that has been a member of the UN for 50 years, has functioning state institutions, and generally behaves as a classic nation-state. And, yet, the Israelis have not yet succeeded in agreeing on the exact physical contours of their state, its final place on the map.

Without knowing where exactly the Israelis want Israel to be, it would be impossible to imagine the space in which the second state, the Palestinian one, could be shaped.

The final settlement of Israel according to Yechezkiel / Ezekiel

47:13. So said the Lord God: This is the border whereby you shall divide the land for inheritance to the twelve tribes of Israel, Joseph [taking two] portions. 14. And you shall inherit it, one as another, being that I lifted up My hand to give it to your forefathers, and this land shall be to you an inheritance. 15. And this is the border of the land: to the northern side, from the Great Sea the way to Hethlon to the road [leading] to Zedad. 16. Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. 17. And the border shall be from the sea to Hazer-enon, the border of Damascus, and in the north northward is the border of Hamath; this is the northern side. 18. And the eastern side is between Hauran and Damascus, between Gilead and the Land of Israel is the Jordan; from the border by the eastern sea shall you measure; this is the eastern side. 19. And the southern side is from Tamar until the water of Meriboth Kadesh to the stream [that falls] into the Great Sea; this is the southern side. 20. And the western side is the Great Sea from the border until opposite the road [leading] to Hamath; this is the western side. 21. And you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. 22. And that will be what you allot as a heritage, for yourselves and for the strangers who dwell in your midst, who will beget sons in your midst, and they will be to you as citizens among the children of Israel; with you they will inherit of the inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel. 23. And it shall be in the tribe with which the stranger sojourns, there you shall give his inheritance, says the Lord God.