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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV -Wed Jan 26, 2011 3:44PM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</div>
<div id="divLead">The  Palestinian Authority (PA) has launched a search operation to find the  source of leaked confidential documents which revealed its cooperation  with Israel.</div>
<p>The secret &#8220;Palestine Papers,&#8221; published on Sunday, disclosed the  true nature of more than 10 years of secret US-backed negotiations  between Israel and the PA.</p>
<p>According to the 1,600-page document, PA leaders were prepared to  compromise on key issues at the heart of the six-decade old  Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the right of return for  Palestinian refugees and the status of al-Quds (Jerusalem), deemed by  Palestinians as the capital of their future state.</p>
<p>The documents have angered Palestinians, who blame PA leaders for  privately preparing to compromise their principles while publicly  presenting different positions.</p>
<p>Chief Palestinian negotiator Saab Erekat said the source of leaks  appeared to be within the Palestine Liberation Organization&#8217;s (PLO) own  Negotiations Affairs Department and that the intelligence agents have  searched computer files at a support office for the Palestinian  negotiators.</p>
<p>&#8220;The documents were linked to my office. We will have an  investigation and I will be subject to the force of law,&#8221; Erekat said in  Cairo following the revelation.</p>
<p>PA officials initially claimed that the leaked documents were  outright fakes, but are now suggesting that they have been taken out of  context.</p>
<p>&#8220;They probably are [real]. The question is how do you read them?&#8221;  chief negotiator Nabil Shaath said, adding that only three papers were  ever submitted to the Israeli negotiating team while the rest were all  part of internal discussions only.</p>
<p>Shaath said the documents &#8212; published by the Qatar-based news  network al-Jazeera &#8212; were all marked as &#8220;non-papers&#8221; and stamped with  the disclaimer that &#8220;nothing is agreed until everything is agreed,&#8221;  adding that even if a full agreement is reached, that would be  non-binding until it is put to a referendum.</p>
<p>According to the leaked documents, during the negotiations with  Israel, the PA demanded the return of 10,000 refugees a year over a  10-year period and did not protest against Israel&#8217;s annexation of much  of East al-Quds and proposed an international committee to take over  Islamic and Jewish holy sites in al-Quds.</p>
<p>These highly-sensitive issues were non-negotiable in the past.</p>
<p>There are an estimated five million Palestinian refugees and their descendants who want to return to their homeland.</p>
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