Israeli FM offers financial incentives for palestinians to leave occupied lands

Rasa - Hard-line foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman proposed that Tel Aviv offers Palestinians, who are still living in the lands occupied by Israel after 1948, financial incentives to leave Israel.

News ID: 1716

Date: 30 November 2014 - 17:14

RNA - After the Israeli cabinet unveiled a draft bill that would define Israel as a place only for the Jews, hard-line foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman proposed that Tel Aviv offers Palestinians, who are still living in the lands occupied by Israel after 1948, financial incentives to leave Israel.

Palestinians, however, condemned Lieberman’s proposal saying THEY are the genuine citizens of the occupied lands.

Lieberman, is one of the most strident voices in favor of the separation of Jews and Palestinian, and now he says that anyone who prefers to choose his identity as Palestinian and not Israeli must leave Israel and become citizens of the future Palestinian state.

Palestinians living in the 1948 occupied lands are a minority and are resentful of Israel’s discriminatory policies.

Palestinians, however, say despite Israel’s’ aggressive behavior, they would not leave their homeland.

Over the years, Lieberman has stressed that any peace agreement with the Palestinians would have to entail population exchanges to ensure "maximal separation" between Jews and the Palestinians who managed to remain in their villages and towns since the 1948.

Israel's behavior towards the Palestinians living in the occupied territories has always been accompanied by strong and unjustified discriminations. But now the Israeli officials are making greater bids to negatively affect the steadfastness of the Palestinians who live in their own rightful territories.

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