<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[THE REAL IMPACT OF THE ‘PALILEAKS’ AS SEEN BY TWO&nbsp;PALESTINIANS]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p class="byline"> Posted  			by desertpeace			on Friday, 			January 28, 			2011 			at 12:20 pm. </p>
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<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:#808000;font-family:Verdana;font-size:large;"><strong>Fear and the Palestine Papers</strong></span></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">By Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD</span></div>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Ignoring the hype about  the Palestine papers is hard.  I spent a lot of time<br />
reading through page  after page of the documents showing minutes of  meetings and other exchanges  regarding the Palestinian-Israeli  “negotiations” (the quotes are warranted).   The Guardian newspaper  summed up the back and forth arguments about these  papers as follows:</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">” PA and PLO  leaders  such as Saeb Erekat can be expected to point out that one of  the core  principles of the negotiations is that ‘nothing is agreed<br />
until everything is  agreed’. As such they are not necessarily committed to<br />
provisional positions  that in the event failed to secure a settlement &#8211;<br />
though Erekat made clear to  US officials in January 2010 that the same<br />
offers remained on the table.  Critics are likely to argue that concessions &#8211;<br />
such as accepting the  annexation of Israeli settlements in occupied East<br />
Jerusalem – are simply  pocketed by the Israeli side, and risk being treated<br />
as a starting point in  any future talks.”</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">See <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/23/story-behind-leaked-palestine-papers">HERE </a></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">For me two things come  out clearly from these painful documents (some of<br />
them have parallel data in  the US embassy cables on Wikileaks).  First it is<br />
not that the Palestinian  officials are traitors but merely (and this is bad<br />
enough) mistakenly and  passionately going through motions hoping  against all odds that by talking  and compromising more they could  achieve a tiny fraction of what we are  entitled to. The second  observation is that Israel will not sign a peace deal  regardless of how  low and ridiculous the<br />
concessions on the Palestinian side:  hunt down resisters (abandoning the<br />
internationally recognized rights of  resistance to occupation even unarmed<br />
one), give up on most settlements built  illegally on Palestinian lands,<br />
allow Israel sovereignty over nearly 1/3rd of  the occupied old city of<br />
Jerusalem, give up on the refugee rights, allow  Israel to keep looting<br />
natural resources in the West Bank, give Israel the  right to control our<br />
airspace, and even assure a statelet devoid of  sovereignty. Not even  tourism income would be allowed in this emasculated  state.  Some  critics asked:  if, as the documents show, the Palestinian  negotiators  were willing to accept all of this then WHY did Israeli  politicians  hold out?</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The answer is obvious  to anyone who ever faced Zionism. They believe<br />
(rightly or wrongly) they can  get 100% so why should they settle for  91% or even 99% especially when the  ceiling of the Palestinian requests  kept<br />
dropping in the past 22 years (since  they accepted in 1988 to let Israel<br />
keep most of the looted parts of  Palestine 1948).  Today, Israel’s three<br />
main sources of income are dependent  on a continued conflict and  occupation: the 6.5 billion military and security  exports, the 6  billion US and other western direct aid, and 3 billion from  the captive  markets in the West Bank and Gaza. All three would be threatened  with  end of conflict even if Israel gets to keep most of its stolen loot.     Israeli officials are keen to keep<br />
negotiations going to avoid an  anti-Apartheid scenario and for PR and<br />
normalization to keep pumping more  money and more settlers into the<br />
remaining small shriveling Palestine because  it is economically profitable.</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The recorded  meetings  show no real interest or even emotion or any sense of urgency  on the part of  the Israelis or their American benefactors.  Saeb<br />
Erekat comes out basically  pleading and begging sometimes and other  times using the presence of Hamas,  Hezbollah and Iran to try and  convince these officials.  Jim Jones, David,  Hale, and (Israeli  lobbyist Dennis Ross),<br />
Tzipi Livni, Mofaz etc. all just  repeat utter few selective words and simply<br />
drag their feet to keep the  “process going”.  What would be the nature of<br />
the conversations if there was  no Hamas to wave as the boogeyman to US<br />
officials and claim success in  containing Hamas and other “extremist<br />
movements” (In Egypt Hosni Mubarak uses  the same notion of containing<br />
Islamic Jihad but for the sinister goal of  justifying his dictatorship)?  US<br />
officials are very confident of their  strength and the Israeli strengths and<br />
the fact that they only need the  Palestinians to prevent any attempts at<br />
international isolation of Israel.   This they get just by innuendo or hints<br />
of threats on the Palestinians  authority.  They studied the situation<br />
carefully and think that Abbas and  company have no other options but to<br />
simply keep negotiating and compromising  even if it takes another 20  years. In some very rare instances the  negotiators seem to connect with  their humanity and actually feel sorry for  the fate of these  Palestinian<br />
negotiators.  But then you could sense how they  curb their own feelings  (as irrelevant) and go back to the scripted positions  of their  governments which are simply antagonistic to anything that is not  100%  in support of Zionism. Erekat’s occasional threats of a one state seem   vacuous and not serious.  My book on Sharing the Land of Canaan showed  with  lots of data that “two state for two people” approach can never  lead to  genuine peace (if apartheid was the problem in South Africa,  why is it  considered a solution here?).</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I have a suggestion for  the Palestinian authority: try to deal with the<br />
issues and do release your  own documents instead of trying to shoot the<br />
messenger.  Take lemons to make  lemonade.  Help introduce an even  stronger resolution at the UN security  council (e.g. in support of the  Goldstone report or to recognize a  Palestinian state along the borders  of 1967) or a resolution at the UN  General Assembly that calls for  expelling Israel from the UN since it has  never honored its commitments  when it was admitted in 1949.  Maybe announce  publicly that the Oslo  Process was a mistake or at least is now dead (now  every idiot knows it  was and most of those who are getting salaries from the  authority know  in their hearts that it was contrary to basic human rights and  to  basic international law). This<br />
suggestion essentially is to show courage  and backbone.  It could also  mean the difference: making mistakes is human,  continuing the path as  in the past only validates those who accuse the  authority figures of  treason.  Abbas says he will surprise us in September  but I believe he  and those around him do not have that kind of  time.</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">I, like Edward Said and millions of  Palestinians, disagreed strongly with<br />
the choices made by this Oslo group to  built the Palestinian autonomous<br />
administration (of the Palestinian people  warehouses or concentration  camps) that relieved Israel from the burdens of  managing us and from  International isolation based on not even promises of  freedom or return  of rights.  But I also can’t help but feel sorry for those  who took  that path. It must be very painful for a human being to go down a   tunnel where there is no possibility of a light at the end and during  this  trip into the depths of darkness feel the leaches crawling up his  back  sucking his blood and voices from behind calling him back (some of  them his  political enemies, others ex-comrades in Fatah). Palestinian  negotiators are  fearful of going back because they think it might give  political opponents a  PR tool. They are just fearful of losing face; I  am always grateful to a wise  advisor who 30 years ago convinced me to  drop this fear of admitting mistakes  (a fear common especially among  men). They may also be fearful of losing a  job. The Palestinian people  are very angry though many feel afraid to speak  out for fear to lose  their sources of income, fear that the alternative to  Fatah maybe just  as bad, fear of Israel, fear of the US or just simply fear  of their own  power.  But ultimately fear is a lack of self-confidence to take   another course. And their fear should be balanced by the fact that  people are  literally dying for justice and wanting leaders to care  about them and not  about themselves. [Here we must remember the  thousands of martyrs who gave  their lives and hundreds of thousands who  were injured or lost homes and  livelihood and still yearn for  freedom]. The status quo is to  many humans a comfort in the  known/predictable.  Taking another path is  feared because humans fear  the unknown.  I believe that fear is the most  destructive and  paralyzing human emotion.  Common people around<br />
the world are  just beginning to break the barrier of fear and speak up  more for themselves.  From Tunisia to Egypt to Lebanon, the walls of  fear are cracking.  We common  people and even some leaders must   realize that many of these walls are far  weaker than we may think.  I  can actually hear  them cracking.</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The Arab world is in  revolt.  The fire is spreading.  Responsible people<br />
need to step forward with  courage and conviction.  There could be  surprises along those lines even from  Central Committee members of  Fatah.  Already Nabil Shaath took a position  different than Mahmoud  Abbas.  This is just the beginning.  Palestine will  survive.  The  Palestinian people are not sheep. They are mature enough to  take the  truth and to rebuild our national liberation movement.  History  marches  on and I am 100% sure that Zionism will fail and Palestine will be   free.</span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Palestinian  Students take over Palestine London offices demanding<br />
representation of all  Palestinians.  I think their call for representation<br />
based on the Prisoner’s  documents and the Cairo Declaration) should be<br />
taken-up by all Palestinians  of conscience. </span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">See <a href="http://ploembassysitin.tumblr.com/">HERE </a></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">A Call to the People and Governments of the  Free World from the Egyptian<br />
National Coalition: We call upon all of you to  support the Egyptian people’s<br />
demands for a good life, liberty and an end of  despotism. We call upon you<br />
to urge this dictatorial regime to stop its  bloodshed of the Egyptian<br />
people, exercised throughout Egyptian cities.. We  believe that the material<br />
and moral support offered to the Egyptian regime,  by the American  government and European governments, has helped to suppress  the  Egyptian people.  We hereby call upon the people of the free world to   support the Egyptian people’s non-violent revolution against corruption  and  tyranny. We also call upon civil society organizations in America,  Europe and  the whole world to express their solidarity with Egypt,  through holding  public demonstrations, particularly on People’s Anger  Day (28/01/2011), and  by denouncing the use of violence against the  people. We hope that you will  all support our demands for freedom,  justice and peaceful change.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The Guardian Newspaper:  Palestinian distrust of Iran revealed in leaked<br />
papers. Mahmoud Abbas asked  businessman to donate $50m to Mahmoud<br />
Ahmadinejad’s opponents, according to  the documents.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">See<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/26/palestinian-distrust-iran-leaked-papers"> HERE</a></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Media Matters M.J.  Rosenberg stated about the Papers: “The bottom line is<br />
that, despite the  assurances the Palestinian Authority gave to the<br />
Palestinian people that it  was driving a hard bargain with the Israelis, the<br />
Palestinian Authority  accepted Israel’s position on every key point:<br />
borders, Jerusalem,  settlements, refugees.  On no major issue did the PA<br />
hold the line. None. The  Palestinians offered Israel everything Israel wants<br />
and Israel still said  “no” with the backing of the United States.”</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">See<a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/fpmatters/201101240004"> HERE </a></span><a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/fpmatters/201101240004"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></a></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">It is interesting to  <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/palestinepapers/2011/01/2011123135633144648.htm">see such analysis</a> as from former top CIA official<br />
Robert Grenier. </span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">But even though career  diplomats are <a href="http://www.redress.cc/americas/ldavidson20110122">voicing interesting opinions</a> and<br />
diversions from official  policy, the Obama administration still shows the<br />
notion of just drawing on  AIPAC associated fossilized brains. (see<br />
Why Obama’s “new thinking”  initiative on Middle East peace is doomed to fail <a href="http://www.redress.cc/americas/ldavidson20110122">by Lawrence Davidson</a> )</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><br />
</span><a href="http://www.redress.cc/americas/ldavidson20110122"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> </span></a></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Palestinian  intellectuals and activists articulated why this is the end of<br />
the charade of  the peace process industry Karma Nabulsi <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/23/middle-east-peace-process-over-palestinians">gives a pointed<br />
analysis.</a></span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Prof. Saree Makdisi  shows more emotion as he writes <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-makdisi-israelis-palestinians-20110127,0,3343339.column">“The Palestinian people betrayed” </a></span></strong></p>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><a href="http://www.bigcampaign.org/john-lewis-stops-stocking-ahava-products-in-britain/">Yet another BDS  victory</a>: John Lewis stops stocking Ahava products in Britain</span></strong></p>
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<h1><span style="color:#808000;font-family:Verdana;font-size:large;">Furious reaction to Al-Jazeera documents</span></h1>
<div id="lead" dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Revelations  contained in Palestinian documents leaked to the  television channel  Al-Jazeera this week left Palestinian negotiators with much  explaining  to do, writes Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah </span></strong></div>
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<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The   Palestinian Authority (PA) reacted with shock and fury to revelations  made by  the Arab satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera this week that it had  received leaked  documents showing that Palestinian negotiators had been  ready to make  far-reaching concessions to Israel on cardinal issues of  the Arab-Israeli  conflict, including Jerusalem and the right of return  for millions of  Palestinian refugees.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The  seemingly  authentic documents, on which PA negotiators’ signatures can be seen,   largely consist of the minutes of meetings held between Israeli and  Palestinian  negotiators. American officials and mediators also took  part in some of these  meetings.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The  documents  show Palestinian negotiators as having been willing to cede large  parts  of East Jerusalem to Israel, including most if not all the colonies  built  in the Jerusalem region east of the former armistice line since  1967.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The PA is  also  shown as having been ready effectively to liquidate the paramount right  of  return of Palestinian refugees by entertaining ideas that proposed  the  repatriation of a negligible number of refugees to their original  homeland in  what is now Israel. </span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Similarly,  the  documents, now dubbed the “Palestinian Papers”, show a clear PA  propensity  to cooperate and occasionally even to collaborate with  Israel against the  Islamist group Hamas, especially during the all-out  Israeli onslaught on the  Gaza Strip nearly two years ago.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">While the   papers contain very few real secrets, as details of the  Israeli-Palestinian  negotiations since the Oslo Accords of 1992 are  widely known among journalists  and academics, this is the first time it  has become known that the PA had been  willing to abandon, or at least  evade, long-held Palestinian national constants  that had come to form  the closest thing to a Palestinian consensus.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">These   constants enjoy general acceptance by all the Palestinian political  factions,  including Hamas and Fatah, the two largest political  movements in occupied  Palestine.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">It is not  yet  certain who leaked the documents to Al-Jazeera. Some Palestine  Liberation  Organisation (PLO) officials allege that an insider from the  PLO negotiations  department leaked them for mercenary reasons, while  others accuse the hawkish  Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman of  deliberately leaking the documents  in order to embarrass and therefore  weaken the PA leadership in the hope of  blackmailing it into further  concessions.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Whatever  the  identity of the leakers turns out to be, the leaks are unlikely to be  very  consequential, given the known positions of both sides.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">PA  officials  reacted angrily to the revelations, accusing Al-Jazeera of attempting   to carry out a character assassination of the PA and tarnish its image.  One PA  official went as far as to charge that the Qatar-based network  had “declared  war” on the PA and was working with Israel to undermine  the Palestinian  cause.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Some Fatah  supporters tried to storm Al-Jazeera’s offices in Ramallah but were dispersed by  police.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Many   Palestinians among the more educated segments of the population have  scoffed at  the near hysterical manner in which PA officials have  received the revelations,  judging that there is no smoke without fire.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">PA chief   negotiator Saeb Ereikat, who appeared on Al-Jazeera as the network was   broadcasting its report on the documents, seemed unprepared and shaken  by the  revelations, even losing his composure when responding to  questions about  documents bearing his signature.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The  following  day, the PA instructed Yasser Abed Rabbo, the secretary-general of the   PLO, to launch a scathing attack on Al-Jazeera and Qatar, including the   country’s emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Abed Rabbo   said that Qatar was in no position to lecture the Palestinian people and  its  leadership on patriotism, adding that the existence of a large  American military  base in Qatar, as well as the emirate’s relations  with Iran and its support for  “sectarian forces” (a possible allusion  to Hizbullah), made Qatar unfit to tell  Palestinians what they should  think or do. </span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">However,  Abed  Rabbo’s remarks appeared to be off the subject at hand, as he refused to   discuss the serious aberrations from the declared Palestinian stance  that appear  in the documents.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">“Some of  these  remarks were jokes and human reflexes that were not meant to be formal   positions,” said an angry-looking Abed Rabbo.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">“I must  also  thank his highness the emir of Qatar for his promoting the issue of   transparency in the hope that he will now expand it to include the  American  military base in Qatar, especially its role in spying on the  Arab nations.” </span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The most  moderate reaction came from PA President Mahmoud Abbas, who described the  negotiation documents as “nothing new.”</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">“I don’t  know  how Al-Jazeera obtained all these ‘secrets’, because there is nothing   secret about the negotiations with Israel. Everything we do with regard  to the  negotiations we inform our Arab brothers and [Arab League  Secretary-General] Amr  Moussa about,” Abbas told reporters in Cairo.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Nonetheless,  Abbas seemed to have decided to take measures against  Al-Jazeera. Fatah  sources said a circular had been sent to all Fatah members  instructing  them to boycott the channel.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">A few  hours  later, Nabil Shaath, a high-ranking Fatah official, appeared on the   network, saying that Al-Jazeera should not attempt to make an issue out  of every  word or observation appearing in the documents.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">“It was  agreed  from the very beginning that nothing is finished until everything is   finished. So what is written in these documents has no practical value,”  Shaath  said.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Shaath was   silent, however, when interrupted by one of Al-Jazeera’s presenters, who  argued  that the observations appearing in the documents showed at  least a propensity on  the part of PA negotiators to compromise on  paramount issues related to  Palestinian rights, such as Jerusalem and  the right of return for the  refugees.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">As  expected,  Hamas also castigated the PA for “hiding the truth from the  Palestinian  people and for showing a willingness to sell out on inalienable   Palestinian rights.”</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">“We  consider  these documents to be further evidence of the security and political   decadence to which the PA has stooped,” said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu  Zuhri.  “The documents show that the PA is not to be trusted in leading  the Palestinian  people towards freedom and liberation.”</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Another   Islamist spokesman, Mahmoud Zahar, called on Arab populations to take to  the  streets to declare their rejection of PA “treachery and   capitulation.”</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">While the   bombshell of the papers may undermine overall Palestinian standing, some  pundits  have argued that Al-Jazeera’s revelations may also have a  long-term positive  effect.</span></strong></p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;">They argue   that Palestinian negotiators will think twice from now on before ceding  to  Israel on sensitive matters such as Jerusalem and the refugees,  knowing the  angry reactions to any capitulations to Israel.</span></strong></p>
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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;"><strong>FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN  PALESTINE?</strong></span></div>
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<h3><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="color:#808000;font-size:large;">The Palestine Preventive Security Forces interrogates Khalid Amayreh and  Awadh Rfajoub</span> </span></h3>
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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">The  Palestinian  journalists  Khalid Amayreh and Awadh Rajoub were briefly  interrogated by the  Preventive Security Force in Dura, south of Hebron,  Thursday, in connection with  their coverage of </span><a href="http://palestinefreevoice.blogspot.com/2011/01/al-jazeera-documents-whats-next.html"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">al-Jazeera documents revelations.</span></a></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">Amayreh  said  he was  interrogated for several  hours and was asked to return to  the PSF  local  headquarters again on Sunday, ostensibly for  further   interrogation.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:medium;">He described  the  interrogation as utterly illegal. He also urged the Palestinian  Press union to  do its utmost to prevent security agencies from   interfering with journalists’   work. </span></div>
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