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Abbas offered Israel Western Wall, newspaper reports

Mahmoud Abbas offered the Western Wall and Jerusalem\'s Jewish Quarter to remain under Israel\'s control as part of a peace settlement, an Arabic newspaper reported.
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July 5, 2010

Mahmoud Abbas offered the Western Wall and Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter to remain under Israel’s control as part of a peace settlement, an Arabic newspaper reported.

The Palestinian Authority president made the offer as part of a written proposal to U.S. Mideast negotiator George Mitchell, the London-based Al-Hayat reported over the weekend.

The proposal also reportedly included forming an independent Palestinian state on land along the 1967 borders with lands swaps of about 2.3 percent in order to encompass some West Bank settlement blocks; the rest of the Old City would be the capital of the Palestinian state but open to all faiths, according to the report.

Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat said Sunday during an interview with Israel Radio that Abbas did not make such an offer.

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