Will leaks end Mideast peace process?

CNN ^ | David Frum

[ventanax5]

The Palestinian leaks show the Palestinian Authority leadership trying to work their way to the answer that "everybody knows."

But the secrecy surrounding the documents -- and the reaction to the leak -- confirms the Israelis' worst fear: The Palestinian population does not, in fact, "know" what "everybody knows." And a Palestinian leadership that did "know" what "everybody knows" is now being reviled by its own population as traitors and sell-outs.

What, after all, are the big, shameful concessions contained in the documents? Where are the wounds to Palestinian national pride?

• The documents as reported demand Palestinian sovereignty over almost all of historic Jerusalem, including the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism.

• The documents demand Palestinian control of lands equal in territory to the 1967 lands. Any border adjustment to reflect Israeli settlement activity would have to be balanced by an equivalent surrender of Israeli land to the new Palestinian state.

[SnakeDoctor]

The real question is whether people will ever get past the illusion that there is a “Mideast Peace Process”. At what point does a “process” without progress become a standstill?

SnakeDoc

[MichaelCorleone]

The Pali’s have no legitimate claim on what is Israel. The rightful owners of that land are the Jews.

Any serious ‘peace process’ would acknowledgment of this basic fact.

[pnh102]

Can’t end what never existed in the first place.

[circlecity]

"The rightful owners of that land are the Jews."

The rightful owners of the land are whoever has the power to take and hold it. Since the Cannanites nobody has ever had any claim to the land apart from force of arms.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ventanax5.

Wouldn’t these leaks have to start the Mideast Peace process first?

[SJackson]

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