Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Palestina secret papers

 The Palestinian leadership of President Abbas is weak and increasingly desperate. It offers the Israelis concessions that many Arabs regarded as treason. However, they can claim in the Middle East peace talks were unsuccessful, because they are against politicians who have no interest in compromise. The U.S.
also act impatiently in their intermediary role and unhelpful. This is the frightening picture painted by the so-called "Palestine Papers" of the Middle East peace negotiations in 2008. Over 1600 meeting minutes and documents are the pan-Arab channel al-Jazeera was passed on Wednesday he wants to make them jointly with the British newspaper "Guardian" public.


It is already apparent that the revelations will affect the future course of negotiations for peace in the Middle East largely because the papers offer enormous explosive force. They show that the Palestinian leadership seemed secretly prepared to break many taboos. This could cost them their popular support.

The secret protocols published on Sunday cried out already angry reactions across the Arab world. Concessions to Israel are actually far-reaching concessions that Ramallah is said to have offered in recent years: The Palestinian leadership in the West Bank will have in June 2008 for the first time it was ready, Israel let in the event of a peace agreement to virtually all Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem.

Even the neighborhood hotspots like Sheikh Scharra would then Israel can be awarded as long as the Palestinians elsewhere would have been compensated with land. This is in stark contrast to the official line. Then there is the leadership of President Mahmoud Abbas that East Jerusalem capital of the future State of Palestine be soft and that all Jewish settlers must.

In January 2010, chief negotiator Erekat Sajib repeated this offer and have offered the Israelis, "Jerusalem is the largest of the Jewish history." At the same time he had the right to return the concessions suggested by the Israeli state was founded displaced Palestinians. As long as a symbolic number of refugees - and their descendants are a total of about six million refugees - could return to his old home, which was good enough.

According to the papers Erekat has also agreed to accept a demilitarization of the future Palestinian State. The right to return and the right to self-defense of the future State of Palestine will be represented officially considered as non-negotiable. In October 2009, Erekat said, according to the records to U.S.

agents who had for the Temple Mount, "a creative solution" be found. Possibly could be managed jointly for Jews and Muslims alike holy place. Again, this is a break with Palestinian politics: In 2000, the Camp David talks failed, among other things, that Yasser Arafat's claim to give up on the third holiest site of Islam could.

Other Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia, had accordingly exercised pressure on Arafat. For the next few days al-Jazeera and the "Guardian" further revelations have announced: documents intended to show how closely Palestinian and Israeli security forces cooperate in operations in the West Bank and has as supported by the British Secret Service, the National Authority process of eliminating the rival Hamas.

Could also be proved that the Palestinian Authority Executive in late 2008 had been informed of the impending outbreak of war in Gaza. was "selling out Palestine" was the slogan under which al-Jazeera on Monday its special coverage of the "Palestine-papers" to run. A long series fed off of Arab analysts predicted that Abbas and his men would not recover from the injury by exposing disgrace.

Others said the fact that now there would be no chance for peace. "This seemingly endless and dirty game of the peace process is finally over," the former PLO representative Karma Nabulsi in The Guardian. Leader of the Fatah movement in exile in Beirut made their anger at her colleagues in Ramallah air.

"We are not surprised we have been saying for a long time that Abbas and his followers only to the outside of our principles are, but behind closed doors before Israel and USA knuckle, "said a senior representative of the party who wishes to remain anonymous, compared to World Daily Buzz.

"In any case, it is embarrassing and drives a wedge between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people." Triumph for Hamas, Hamas, Fatah's arch rival triumphed. "The Fatah government should be discontinued before they flogged off our land. We have long been," said Ali Baraki, Representative of the Islamic party in Lebanon.

"The Palestinian street has now only one wish. That Palestinian negotiator resigns and the people can choose a new leadership" Actually seems negotiator Erekat in the wake of the publication of the papers to have drawn the special ire of many Arabs that he Ariel Sharon a "friend", and Tzipi Livni is said to have declared that he would choose it, Arab news programs on Monday was separate contributions worth.

Even the gooey tone that will have to put up with Erekat by the then U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has commented extensively. International expected to be the reaction to the "Palestine Papers" friendly. After all, they show that Abbas and his negotiators have made enormous efforts to meet the conditions of Israel and the United States.

Now revealed their willingness to make far-reaching concessions, could redound to the benefit of the Palestinians in the West. The documents appear to show that compromises have been in the past eleven years, mostly blocked by the Israeli side. "Palestinians were serious about a solution" Even the Israeli argument that there is on the Palestinian side, no negotiating partner, seems exhausted.

"The documents show that the Palestinians were serious about a solution," said Aaron David Miller in The Guardian. Miller had done for the Clinton and Bush in Middle East negotiations. It is unclear why the secret papers show up now and who has passed on to journalists. Miller could be a result of the Palestinian leadership responsible for the leak itself.

As part of its campaign for recognition of a Palestinian State could Ramallah decided to put pressure not only to Israel but also to the United States. Did the Palestinians implement their negotiating partner in a tight spot by showing the world how they were willing to compromise? Others suspected the disgraced Fatah man Mohammed Dahlan behind the scandal.

Dahlan, who until the takeover by Hamas of the Gaza Strip in 2007 was Chief of the Fatah security forces, the intra-party rival and arch enemy of the Palestinian president. Late last year, he allegedly planned a coup against Abbas. After his followers Abbas came here on the ropes, he had to leave the West Bank.

Currently he travels through the Middle East and is campaigning for exiled Palestinians to support. With the handover of secret documents could have tried Dahlan, Abbas to bring the case to itself then bring into play as a presidential candidate, according to exiled Palestinians in Beirut.

The Palestinian leadership in Ramallah, meanwhile, tried to rebut the allegations based on the papers. Chief negotiator Erekat called the publication a "pack of lies". Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, according to BBC doubted the authenticity of the documents forming the basis of the reports.

This strenuous attempts to operate, mitigation, shows how serious the situation for Abbas and his leadership team: The head of the feared Palestinian Authority needs to be carried away by a wave of indignation. Other hand, would you take this lying down, "said Fatah Minister Ziad Abu Zajad the Israeli army radio.

"This is not here Tunisia. All the talk about overthrowing Abbas, is nonsense."

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