The Palestine Papers expose an Israeli-dominated process ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Daily Star by Rami Khouri - (Opinion) January 26, 2011 - 1:00am The Palestine Papers being published this week by Al-Jazeera TV and The Guardian newspaper provide many important and, often problematic, insights into several key aspects of the long-running Israeli-Palestinian negotiations to achieve a comprehensive, permanent peace agreement. Reading through the entire archive of over 1,600 documents, however, as I had a chance to do at the Al-Jazeera offices in Doha, Qatar, this week, provides a useful overview of, and insights into, the three principal actors in the process: the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli government, and American officials. » Read more

What should we take away from the ‘Palestine Papers’? ATFP World Press Roundup Article from PBS by Sal Gentile - (Opinion) January 25, 2011 - 1:00am In recent months, peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians have been fitful, to say the least. There was reason for hope when President Obama took office two years ago promising a recalculation of American foreign policy. By the time his administration restarted the negotiations in September, however, veterans of the peace process were skeptical that progress could be made. Now, just four months later, even the most optimistic observers have reason to be despondent. » Read more

Death by a thousand leaks ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The Los Angeles Times by Aaron David Miller - (Opinion) January 26, 2011 - 1:00am Somebody up there must really hate the Arab-Israeli peace process. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, that the odds against serious negotiations couldn't get any longer and the hope for a two-state solution couldn't be more forlorn, we now have the Palestinian version of WikiLeaks. » Read more

A Palestinian View: International legality is not up for a vote ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Ghassan Khatib - (Blog) January 17, 2011 - 1:00am The prospect of posing a referendum in the respective societies on any agreement reached between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators is not a new idea. Periodically it has surfaced in the political landscape, arising for different and sometimes contradictory reasons. » Read more

Good News From the Middle East (Really) ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Jeffrey Goldberg, Hussein Ibish - (Opinion) January 25, 2011 - 1:00am IT has lately become the accepted wisdom that the Middle East peace process is dead, finished, kaput. This belief has been reinforced by Al Jazeera’s release this week of some 1,600 documents that are said to describe the inside workings of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2008. » Read more