Syria angrily and promptly rejected the deal, since it would effectively eliminate one of the major incentives for Israel to seek a land-for-peace deal with Syria.

Everybody writes that the U.S.-backed land-for-peace deal has been basically accepted.

Almost immediately after renegotiating the last stalled land-for-peace deal, he began withdrawing Israeli troops and administrators from more disputed corners of the West Bank.

Government officials insist that their election victory last year gave them a mandate to discuss land-for-peace deals with the Arabs.

Barak did not begin by melting the freeze on the Wye agreement, the most recent land-for-peace deal.

Israel demanded the step on the clauses at American-brokered negotiations last month that led to the latest land-for-peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

In any land-for-peace deal, the Palestinians will end up with less.

Although he was a strong supporter of the peace process he doubted that Israel was committed to land-for-peace deals.

Nevertheless, a Hamas victory will make a land-for-peace deal much more difficult to realise.

Ukraine, on the other hand, did not exist in its current borders until Stalin cut an ill-fated land-for-peace deal with Hitler in 1939.