Revelado o "mapa do guardanapo" - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

The "napkin map" revealed - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

The Palestine Papers include a rendering of the Israeli land swap map presented in mid-2008 to Mahmoud Abbas.

The Palestinian Authority proposed an unprecedented land swap to the Israeli government, offering to annex virtually all of the illegal Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.
Not only did the Israeli government offer no concessions in return, but – as The Palestine Papers now reveal – it responded with an even more aggressive land swap: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert wanted to annex more than 10% of the West Bank (including the major settlements in Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel and elsewhere), in exchange for sparsely-populated farmland along the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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A solução do negociador-chefe palestino Erekat para o Haram al-Sharif - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

Erekat's solution for the Haram - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

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In a meeting on October 21, 2009 with George Mitchell, the US Middle East envoy, David Hale, Mitchell’s deputy, and Jonathan Schwartz, the then-US State Department legal adviser, Erekat told the Americans that they would need a “creative” solution for the division of the Old City.

Erekat: “It’s solved. You have the Clinton Parameters formula. For the Old City sovereignty for Palestine, except the Jewish quarter and part of the Armenian quarter … the Haram can be left to be discussed - there are creative ways, having a body or a committee, having undertakings for example not to dig [excavations under the Al Aqsa mosque]. The only thing I cannot do is convert to Zionism.”
Schwartz: To confirm to Sen. Mitchell, [this is] your private idea …
Erekat: This conversation is in my private capacity.
Schwartz: We’ve heard the idea from others. So you’re not the first to raise it.
Erekat: Others are not the chief negotiator of the PLO.

This was a surprising statement from Erekat: The status of the Haram al-Sharif has rarely been discussed during negotiations.
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"A Grande Yerushalayim" - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

"The biggest Yerushalayim" - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

PA offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, an historic concession for which Israel offered nothing in return.

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There is, in other words, seemingly no mutually acceptable policy for Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel, and other major West Bank settlements within a two-state solution – a fact the Bush administration was willing to acknowledge in July 2008.

Rice: I don’t think that any Israeli leader is going to cede Ma’ale Adumim.
Qurei: Or any Palestinian leader.
Rice: Then you won’t have a state!

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Al Jazeeera: Glossário - Os documentos palestinos

FAQ: The Palestine Papers - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

FAQ: The Palestine Papers

What are these papers? Why are they in English? We answer the most common questions.

There are 1,684 total documents, including

• 275 sets of meeting minutes;
• 690 internal e-mails;
• 153 reports and studies;
• 134 sets of talking points and prep notes for meetings;
• 64 draft agreements;
• 54 maps, charts and graphs;
• and 51 “non-papers.”

Why are most of these documents in English?

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The PDF versions of these documents say they were created in 2011. How do you explain that?

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Why are certain documents redacted?

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Why are certain documents available only in PDF?

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Al Jazeera: Apresentando os documentos palestinos

Introducing The Palestine Papers - The Palestine Papers - Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera has obtained more than 1,600 internal documents from a decade of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

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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.

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