Wikileaks
A glimpse into the negotiation room
When it comes to negotiations, the public is rarely privy to what happens during the countless meetings that precede political agreements and the much-publicized handshakes that seal them. But The Palestine Papers give us an inside look into the negotiating room, documenting playful banter, inappropriate jokes and bizarre rants in dozens of meetings between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators during the Annapolis process. The papers also reveal the complicated relationships between officials from both sides, while illuminating how they deal with roadblocks.
British MI6 Palestinian Security Plan with Annex
Demanding a demilitarized state
Erekat: I can’t stand Hamas
The Annapolis process was meant to be a round of peace talks aimed at reaching an agreement to solve the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. But instead of focusing on resolving the core issues at hand, why did Palestinian negotiators spend so much time during the meetings denigrating their political rivals, Hamas?
Meeting Minutes – Bilateral Meeting on Security
Meeting Minutes – Saeb Erekat and David Hale
Meeting Summary – Shaul Mofaz and Nasr Yousef
MI6 offered to detain Hamas figures
PA relinquished right of return
It s highly unlikely that Livni, Israel s then-foreign minister and former Mossad agent, was joking when she said the above. Judging from what Livni is quoted as saying to Palestinian negotiators in The Palestine Papers, her humour is probably a half Freudian slip. Jordan was, after all, proposed as one "host" country for Palestinian refugees with the blessing of Palestinian negotiators. And that s no joke.
PA stonewalled the Goldstone vote
PA’s foreknowledge of the Gaza war
Qurei – Occupy the crossing
The region is slipping away
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