LIEBERMAN’S PLAN INVITES IRE

Israel’s hard-line foreign minister sparked outrage when he said a peace deal with the Palestinians should include handing areas where Israel’s Arabs live over to Palestinian control. Avigdor Lieberman said a peace accord should be based on “population exchanges and not land for peace.” The Palestinians claim the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem for a state. “It is clear that the triangle,” an area where many of Israel’s minority Arabs live, “should be outside the borders of Israel, Lieberman said. Ahmad Tibi, an Israeli Arab lawmaker, called Lieberman’s proposal “fascist.” Lieberman’s statement came on a day when Israel vowed to prevent a Libyan aid ship from running the Gaza blockade after it appeared to be heading for the besieged enclave despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts to divert it to Egypt.