It has not entirely escaped the notice of the Western press, but Israel and the Palestinian territories are this week experiencing their version of Wikileaks — and unlike ours, theirs may have real-world consequences. Again, it has not escaped Western notice; but it has escaped the passion and fury that Wikileaks was met with. Briefly put, the democratically elected Palestinian Authority has been exposed, via leaked internal documents, as having been two-faced in its diplomacy with Israel. And unusually, perhaps unprecedentedly, the two-facedness has given the Palestinian people the more extreme version of bargaining positions, while the diplomacy itself has been vastly more conciliatory than the public at large — Palestinian and Israeli — was led to believe. Led by Saeb Erakat, the PA indicated that it was willing to give up many more demands that it publicly admitted in order to gain an independent state, including the traditionally non-negotiable "right of return" of Palestinians displaced by the various wars to the lands in Israel that they earlier fled.
I freely admit that I don't know enough about Middle Eastern politics to make a judgment call on the ethics on display. Nor do I want to: more than just a can of worms, Middle Eastern politics is a can marked "Venomous Worms — Open At Own Risk." Thank you, but no.
So, just a couple of brief points...
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/palestine-papers-middle-east-wikileaks?src=rss
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