Baqa al-Gharbiyya

By Gregg Carlstrom in Middle East on January 24th, 2011

We've just posted the second batch of stories and documents from The Palestine Papers, Al Jazeera's months-long investigation into thousands of confidential documents from Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Our coverage today hits on a few main themes:

Population "swaps." Israeli negotiators, including foreign minister Tzipi Livni, proposed a plan to transfer several Arab Israeli villages - including Baqa al-Gharbiyya and Barta'a - a future Palestinian state. The proposal is reminiscent of the "Lieberman plan," the proposal named after Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman that's been denounced as racist by many left-wing Israeli commentators.