from Juan Cole:
>>Aljazeera’s Leaks Reveal Sham ‘Peace Process,’ Israeli Stonewalling
Posted: 24 Jan 2011 01:11 AM PST
The Qatar satellite channel Aljazeera has gotten hold of some 1600
documents from the Palestine Authority regarding negotiations with
Israel, which cast the Israelis, the Americans and the Fatah faction
of Palestinians in the worst possible light. The leaked documents were
shared exclusively with The Guardian newspaper.
The documents could well destroy the Palestine Liberation
Organization, a coalition of parties that includes Fatah, which is led
by Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Among the politicians
who comes off the worst in these documents is Saeb Erekat. The
Palestinian Authority is revealed as feeble as a kitten. Like a a
spurned suitor, Erekat kept offering the Israelis more and more, and
they kept rejecting his overtures.
The documents have frank admissions. Tzipi Livni said:
“Israel takes more land [so] that the Palestinian state will be
impossible . . . the Israel policy is to take more and more land day
after day and that at the end of the day we’ll say that is impossible,
we already have the land and we cannot create the state”. She conceded
that it had been “the policy of the government for a really long
time”.
Although she said that in 2007 the Olmert government was not following
this policy, she admitted some parties were. And, of course, in
February 2009, parties came to power that would not so much as give
Palestinians a glass of water.
Saeb Erekat, an old-time Fatah operative, is in trouble because he is
revealed to have offered the Israelis much of East Jerusalem. He is
also said to have been convinced by the Israelis that the future
Palestinian state would not have an army, air force or navy (i.e. it
would lack sovereignty over its own territory and would only be an
ersatz state). Even then, the Israelis kept demanding more and
more....<
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Jim Devine / "Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw
through the leather straps." -- Emo Phillips
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