Leaked documents: who was serious about a deal to end the conflict? | guardian.co.uk
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From the papers I’ve read, there is little evidence of the Israelis matching this approach by making serious and painful concessions of their own. Indeed Tzipi Livni is fairly dismissive of the offer on East Jerusalem settlements, focussing on what the Palestinians would not agree to, rather than acknowledging the magnitude of what they were prepared to concede.
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But it seems to me that after the disclosure of these papers, it will be very hard indeed for the Israelis to deploy their standard argument that the Palestinians are not serious about negotiating a deal and that they have no “partner for peace”.