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By Al Jazeera Staff in Middle East on January 30th, 2011
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By Laila Al-Arian in Middle East on January 24th, 2011
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Al Jazeera’s release on Sunday of the Palestine Papers, a trove of documents related to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, has led to reaction throughout the world.

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has gone on the offensive, with President Mahmoud Abbas calling the release “shameful,” and his adviser Yasser Abed Rabbo accusing Al Jazeera of launching a "smear campaign".

Former Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qurei said "many parts of the documents were fabricated, as part of the incitement against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian leadership".

Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said the documents reveal the PA's "close collaboration with [Israel], and reflects its role in trying to kill off the Palestinian cause".

On the Israeli side,

By Marwan Bishara in Imperium on June 2nd, 2010

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The Israeli military operation against the humanitarian Gaza convoy has provoked an outcry around the world and within Israel itself.
 
Five leading headlines from this morning's edition of the daily newspaper Haaretz illustrate the frustration.

Ari Shavit's 'Fiasco on the high seas', Reuven Pedatzur's 'A failure any way you slice it', Yossi Sarid's 'Seven idiots in the cabinet', and Gideon Levy's 'Operation Mini Cast Lead' - Israel's code name for its bloody war on Gaz

By Teymoor Nabili in Middle East on December 18th, 2009
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From Haaretz:

US President Barack Obama has warned his Chinese counterpart that the United States would not be able to keep Israel from attacking Iranian nuclear installations for much longer.

As the article admits, this was all part of the political game designed to coerce Beijing into signing on to Washington's latest sanctions package, and it failed; China has continued to distance itself from the anti-Iran position.

The Chinese have even refused a Saudi-American initiative designed to end Chinese dependence on Iranian oil, which would allow China to agree to the sanctions,

So why have "senior officials in Jerusalem" chosen to leak this to Haaretz at this time?

By Teymoor Nabili in Middle East on October 22nd, 2009

Haaretz confirms the rumour broken by the Australian media last week:

Meirav Zafary-Odiz, director of policy and arms control for the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, and Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), met several times over September 29 and 30.

This contact was, apparently, in the broader context of multi-nation discussions on combatting nuclear proliferation. But interestingly, the only specific exchange between the two representatives on their nuclear standoff referenced not Israel's supposed fear of Iran's nuclear threat, but Iran's actual fear of Israel's nuclear threat.

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