Scoop Link: Introducing The Palestine Papers
Over the last several months, Al Jazeera has been given unhindered access to the largest-ever leak of confidential documents related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
There are nearly 1,700 files, thousands of pages of diplomatic correspondence detailing the inner workings of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. These documents – memos, e-mails, maps, minutes from private meetings, accounts of high level exchanges, strategy papers and even power point presentations – date from 1999 to 2010.
The material is voluminous and detailed; it provides an unprecedented look inside the continuing negotiations involving high-level American, Israeli, and Palestinian Authority officials.
Al
Jazeera will release the documents between January 23-26th,
2011. They will reveal new details about:
• the
Palestinian Authority’s willingness to concede illegal
Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, and to be
“creative” about the status of the Haram
al-Sharif/Temple Mount;
• the compromises the
Palestinian Authority was prepared to make on refugees and
the right of return;
• details of the PA’s security
cooperation with Israel;
• and private exchanges
between Palestinian and American negotiators in late 2009,
when the Goldstone Report was being discussed at the United
Nations.
Scoop Link: Introducing The Palestine Papers
Scoop Link: The Palestine Papers Main Page
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