Showing posts with label Palestinian papers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Palestinian papers. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

First impressions of the Palestinian Papers

Like you, I'm relying on other people to tell me what the Palestinian Papers reveal bout Israel and the peace process. First up is Matt Duss, National Security Editor at Think Progress:

A First Take On The Palestine Papers
by MATT DUSS
While the release by Al Jazeera on Sunday of over 1600 documents relating to a decades’ worth of U.S.-managed Palestinian-Israeli negotiations is certain to impact both the negotiations themselves and perceptions of those negotiations, because there’s so many of them, and because their veracity remains in question, it’s probably best for the moment to hold off on grand pronouncements about What They Mean.

But here are a few impressions.