Monday, January 24, 2011

Leaked documents show Palestinians pleading with dismissive US officials in face of Israel's unyielding negotiators

Palestinian leaders weak – and increasingly desperate
Palestinian negotiators Ahmed Qureia (right) and Saeb Erekat (2nd right) with Israel's Tzipi Livni

Leaked papers expose the weakness of Palestinian negotiators Ahmed Qureia (right) and Saeb Erekat (2nd right) against the strength of the Israelis, such as Tzipi Livni (left), in the peace process.

The overwhelming impression that emerges from the confidential records of a decade of Middle East peace talks is of the weakness and desperation of Palestinian leaders, the unyielding correctness of Israeli negotiators and the often contemptuous attitude towards the Palestinian side shown by US politicians and officials.

It is a picture that graphically illustrates the gradual breakdown of a process now widely believed to have reached a dead end. The documents reveal Palestinian Authority leaders often tipping over into making ingratiating appeals to their Israeli counterparts, as well as US leaders. "I would vote for you," the then senior Palestinian negotiator, Ahmed Qureia (also known as Abu Ala), told Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, during talks at the King David hotel in Jerusalem in June 2008, as she was preparing for elections in her Kadima party. Given the choice, Livni shot back, "you don't have much of a dilemma."
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4 comments:

  1. vzaJanuary 24, 2011 at 10:50 PM

    For me, the leaked documents clearly show that Israel has no intention of negotiating a settlement.

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  2. Jemmy HopeJanuary 25, 2011 at 12:07 PM

    "Ireland upgrades status of Palestinian mission to embassy"
    http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/ireland-upgrades-status-of-palestinian-mission-to-embassy-1.339170

    I love this sentence -
    "Israel has warned that declarations by Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador and Guyana could undermine the Middle East peace process."
    Never underestimate the zionist capacity for self-delusion.

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  3. thankgodimatheistJanuary 25, 2011 at 1:43 PM

    In addition to cruelty, viciousness and total disregard to International law or any other law for that matter!

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  4. thankgodimatheistJanuary 25, 2011 at 1:48 PM

    Thanks Jemmy. I also learned that Peru has recognised the Palestinian stae.
    As for the Israelis one has to give up completely on their credibility for wanting peace, any peace. My dad longtime ago used to endlessly repeat: "Forget it, they want the land. All of the land!"

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