The Palestine Papers: In Which the PA and PLO Start Looking Really, Really Bad

Well balls, Palestinian Authority. You've done it now.

The first few dispatches from the Palestine Papers showed the PA as being strangely flexible with the notoriously inflexible Israeli negotiators, budging on things that have been at the base of the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades. Understandably, this approach on behalf of the entire Palestinian population isn't going over well, and everyone from Hamas to your average folks in Ramallah are none too pleased with the whole mess.

First of all, the overall reaction of the Palestinian cause to the leaks could be summed up in the word "Furious". There's a lot of naysaying from often-divided Palestinian officials, who call much of the papers "distortions of the truth". Even though they've been vouched and this complaint is basically nonsense, it's still making people angry.  

Former Hamas leader, killed by an Israeli missile

Add that to the fact that the PLO was getting in the way of Palestinian refugees' rights to demand full remuneration and the right to return to their homelands,
and the fact that the PLO bowed to US pressure to delay a vote that would look into Israeli war crimes during the 2008/09 Gaza war (that they might have known about before it happened) and suddenly they don't look like much of a Palestinian Liberation Organization. Suddenly, Hamas starts to look more appetizing for a great many folks in the area. Especially since the Papers show that the PA has been happy to conspire with the Israelis to kill them in the past.

this is what happens when it's war in Gaza

As an extension of the general rage, Al Jazeera is taking serious hits from angry Palestinians, with angry people invading their Ramallah office and vandalizing it with zionist slogans. Plus, they're not the most popular characters in the actual leaks themselves, with multiple Israeli sources cursing their name, and multiple Palestinian sources saying that Al Jazeera wrote them off.

Unfortunately, the Big Thing that people are taking from this is that the dream of the two-state solution is essentially over. Which means everybody's almost out of ideas.

Extra Credit:
Israel's big idea was to "swap" Arab villages in Israeli territory into Palestinian territory--as if Israel hasn't moved these people enough. And as if that doesn't sound suspiciously like ghettoization. Whoops.

And just in case you needed more proof that Condoleeza Rice is the devil: her suggestion was to send all those disenfranchised Palestinian refugees that American dollars have been bombing via the IDF for so  many years to South America.

effin' spooky.