“We won’t be moving people, we will be moving the borders. It’s not a transfer.”

— Avigdor Lieberman

Comment on Israeli-Palestine land territory conflict, 2006, quoted in Greg Myre, "Israeli Official Discusses Iran and His Controversial Agenda", http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/07/world/middleeast/07mideast.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin The New York Times (2006-12-07)

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