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January 26, 2011

Palestine Papers: PA, Israel Discussed Targeting Palestinian Militants 
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The news network Al Jazeera continues to release more revelations
contained in the "Palestine Papers" - more than 1,700 files from
Israeli-Palestinian negotiations between 1999 and 2010. The latest
disclosures show Palestinian officials discussed cooperating with Israel
in killing Palestinian militants in the Occupied Territories. In one
exchange, Palestinian and Israeli officials talked about targeting
militant leader Hassan al-Madhoun four months before he was killed in an
Israeli missile attack. Abdel Bari Atwan of the London-based Al-Quds
Al-Arabi newspaper called the revelation "humiliating" for Palestinian
leaders.

Abdel Bari Atwan: "I am absolutely shocked. A Palestinian official
admitting that he is killing his own people to keep the authority, to
keep the one gun, and this gun actually is collaborating with the
Israeli security and in order to keep law and order. What kind of law
and order he is keeping by killing his own people? I think this is
really very, very shocking and very humiliating to the Palestinian
people."



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