Al Jazeera's Bombshell

Al Jazeera is disclosing how the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been negotiating with Israel. It says, “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.”
One of the first disclosures is titled “The biggest Yerushalayim” and its subhead is “PA offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, an (sic) historic concession for which Israel offered nothing in return.”

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Today, I went on to the last volume of the Kissinger memoirs, Years of Renewal.