Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi can relax. In the final-status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel will not be transferring its control over the Arab-Israeli towns of Umm al-Fahm and Taibe to the Palestinian state in exchange for settlements in Judea and Samaria.
Even if a final-status agreement is signed (and it will not be signed,) the moment a decision will be made to annex Umm al-Fahm and Taibe to the Palestinian state, tens of thousands of Arab-Israelis will move into the new borders of Israel – because it's better to continue being a discriminated against Arab citizen in the Jewish state than to have equal rights in the Palestinian state.
So, at the end of the day we will end up with more Arabs in Israel and less territory.
and this one:-
It is certainly nice to hear Arab Knesset members enraged every time the idea of territorial tradeoff is raised again. They tremble with rage. After all, this is the only way to see how strongly they cling to the democratic State of Israel.
They may be nationalistic Arabs, but the vision of a Palestinian state interests them only on condition they are not part of it. They are reminiscent, notwithstanding all the differences of course, of the Zionistic Jews residing in wealthy countries in the Diaspora: They support Israel, love it, and want to see it prospering, but they do not really bother to move here.
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