ei: The Palestine Papers and the “Gaza coup”

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2011 Palestinians demonstrate in support of national unity in Gaza City, July 2009. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) It has long been known that following Hamas’ victory in Palestinian Authority legislative elections in January 2006, Israel and its allies, particularly the United States, worked to undermine the Hamas-led government. Their aim […]

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Interior Ministry: Elections illegitimate, a cover-up for leaked scandals

[ 15/02/2011 – 11:10 AM ]   GAZA, (PIC)– The Gaza Ministry of Interior said presidential and legislative elections to be held by the PLO by September lack legitimacy and called the move a cover-up for recently leaked scandals in the Palestinian Authority. As protests calling for government reforms take the Arab world by storm, […]

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What the Palestine Papers show

  Leaders of the Palestinian Authority made one historic concession after another, yet locked the Palestinian people into a more subservient position, reports Eric Ruder. February 7, 2011 PA President Mahmoud Abbas (right) with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton A MOUNTAIN of 1,600 leaked documents chronicling years of scandalous […]

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Jonathan Cook: Can the Palestinian Authority survive? — Israeli Occupation Archive

31 January 2011 By Jonathan Cook, http://www.jkcook.net – 31 Jan 2011 ‘Our leaders are negotiating the terms of our imprisonment’ Jonathan Cook With the 18-year-long Middle East peace process finally pronounced dead, is the Palestinian Authority finished too? That is the question being asked by Palestinians in the wake of a week of damaging revelations […]

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Jerusalem Post: Abbas should stop belying Al-Jazeera papers and tell the truth

[ 30/01/2011 – 11:45 AM ]   NAZARETH, (PIC)– The Jerusalem Post newspaper said de facto president Mahmoud Abbas should be honest and tell his people what he and his negotiators were doing instead of denying the leaked documents that were disclosed by Al-Jazeera satellite channel a few days ago. Chief editor of the newspaper David […]

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Dahlan suspected of leaking documents, Abbas thinks of resigning

[ 29/01/2011 – 09:15 AM ]   RAMALLAH, (PIC)– Palestinian de facto president Mahmoud Abbas is considering leaving his position this year after receiving insults by the Arabs, an informed Palestinian source said. Abbas no longer has control in the West Bank, the source close to the Fatah-controlled Ramallah authority told the PIC. Unable to […]

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THE REAL IMPACT OF THE ‘PALILEAKS’ AS SEEN BY TWO PALESTINIANS

Posted by desertpeace on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 12:20 pm. Fear and the Palestine Papers By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD Ignoring the hype about the Palestine papers is hard.  I spent a lot of time reading through page after page of the documents showing minutes of meetings and other exchanges regarding the Palestinian-Israeli “negotiations” (the […]

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Fear and the Palestine Papers

12:54 01/28/2011 Release your own documents instead of shooting the messenger. By Mazin Qumsiyeh Ignoring the hype about the Palestine papers is hard. I spent a lot of time reading through page after page of the documents showing minutes of meetings and other exchanges regarding the Palestinian-Israeli “negotiations” (the quotes are warranted). The Guardian newspaper […]

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ei: The Palestine Papers and the “Gaza coup”

Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2011 Palestinians demonstrate in support of national unity in Gaza City, July 2009. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages) It has long been known that following Hamas’ victory in Palestinian Authority legislative elections in January 2006, Israel and its allies, particularly the United States, worked to undermine the Hamas-led government. Their aim […]

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Gazans incensed by leaked documents

PressTV – Thu Jan 27, 2011 1:59AM Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (file photo) Gazans enraged by reported secret deals between Palestinian Authority (PA) and Israel have burned effigies of acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas and his senior aides. Thousands of Palestinians held a demonstration in the […]

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PA searching for leaked papers source

PressTV -Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:44PM Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu The Palestinian Authority (PA) has launched a search operation to find the source of leaked confidential documents which revealed its cooperation with Israel. The secret “Palestine Papers,” published on Sunday, disclosed the true nature of more […]

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DETAILED REPORT ON WHAT WAS LEAKED ABOUT PALESTINE

Posted by desertpeace on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 6:35 pm. A highlighted a collection of quotes and key excerpts from the documents themselves to provide a bird’s eye view of the Israeli/Palestinian negotiations. Playing to lose Telling Tidbits from The Palestine Papers The recently released “Palestine Papers” reveal the extraordinary lengths to which Palestinian […]

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If true, it is treason

[ 25/01/2011 – 04:46 AM ] By Khalid Amayreh If al-Jazeera’s Sunday night’s revelations about the secrets of several years of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) are true (and I don’t have the slightest doubt that they are) then we can’t escape the conclusion that whoever made these startling concessions to the […]

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ei: Refugee rights of little concern to PA, documents reveal

Report, The Electronic Intifada, 25 January 2011 The Palestine Papers reveals how Palestinian negotiators bartered the rights of refugees. (MaanImages) More has been revealed in the Palestine Papers, Al Jazeera’s expose that uncovers internal documents and secret correspondence from the last decade of negotiations between the Israeli government, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority and the United […]

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Israeli official: The PA waived whole neighborhoods in J’lem for the Jews

[ 25/01/2011 – 03:24 PM ]   OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)– A source close to the Israeli premier mocked the Palestinian authority (PA) for insisting on its settlement freeze demands as a precondition for the resumption of peace talks while it had already waived whole Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied Jerusalem for the Jews. Haaretz newspaper on […]

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