LONDON - The Palestinian National Authority has secretly offered to Israel "huge concessions" on Jerusalem in 2008 and 2009, that the Jewish state has also declined. Al Jazeera writes publishing some of the 1,600 secret files called "Palestinian Papers" that the TV claims to have obtained, which publishes the Guardian.In a trilateral meeting of June 15, 2008, writes Al Jazeera, the former Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei PNA proposed - in the presence of Condoleezza Rice, the then U.S. secretary of state, and Tzipi Livni, Israeli Foreign Minister of the time - the annexation by Israel of "all the settlements in Jabal Abu Ghneim except Jerusalem (Har Homa).
The pan-Arab broadcaster points out that it was the first time in history that the NPC to go that far. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, says Al Jazeera, attended the meeting, listed the settlements that would have been granted, with a population of 120,000 Israelis. The NPC was ready to grant "French Hill, Ramat Alon, Ramat Shlomo, Gilo, Talpiot, Jerusalem and the Jewish Quarter in the Old." According to Al Jazeera, Erekat "did not mention the fate of other major settlements in East Jerusalem, but the" language Qurei stated that they would remain part of Israel.
" Again according to Al Jazeera, further meetings in 2008 and 2009 show that "the PNA has made concessions without asking anything in return" in a document dated January 2010 Erekat told the adviser of Barack Obama, David Hale: "We gave the most Yerushalaim largest in the history of the Jews, the symbolic return of refugees, a demilitarized state ...
what else can we do? ".
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