"The biggest Yerushalaim:" The Palestinian Authority offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, an historic concession for which Israel offered nothing in return. Photo credit: EPA/ABED AL HASHLAMOUN
January 24, 2011
This is a developing story. Al Jazeera is publishing stories related to its trove of more than 1,600 memos, diplomatic cables, and notes from the past decade of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The so called “Palestine papers” show Palestinians humiliating themselves by offering enormous concessions in private with the Israelis willing to concede little or nothing. For example, the Palestinian Authority offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, an historic concession for which Israel offered nothing in return. The papers show Israel was intransigent in public and intransigent in private. This raises the question as to why Israel would concede anything when the Palestinians were willing to concede much. When the Palestinians people and the world see what the Palestinian negotiators were willing to concede, there should be an outcry forcing Palestine to give up the peace process and seek international recognition of a Palestinian state with 1967 borders.
Of course, so far, only some of the documents have been released. We will have to wait and see what the remaining documents reveal.
The Hunger Site
January 24, 2011 at 1:39 pm
The UK’s Guardian claims to have independently authenticated the leaked documents and the documents were corroborated by former participants in the talks and intelligence and diplomatic sources. In addition, the Guardian’s coverage is supplemented by WikiLeaks cables, emanating from the US consulate in Jerusalem and embassy in Tel Aviv