How Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have responded to this week's revelations
Laila El-Haddad
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 January 2011
"....In Gaza, which has been blockaded with western backing and regional complicity since democratic elections five years ago, friends and family tell me the response is a mixture of anger, suspicion and uncertainty about the future. Fellow blogger Mohammed Suliman told me via Facebook that he found the revelations, chief among them that Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, "shocking but not unpredictable", referring to them as a "tragicomedy". "I just can't understand who on earth nominated this man to speak for the Palestinians? When he says, 'WE' who the hell are we? Working 20 years in the field never gives him the right to give up on one metre of the land, to divide, bargain and sell."...."
Laila El-Haddad
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 26 January 2011
"....In Gaza, which has been blockaded with western backing and regional complicity since democratic elections five years ago, friends and family tell me the response is a mixture of anger, suspicion and uncertainty about the future. Fellow blogger Mohammed Suliman told me via Facebook that he found the revelations, chief among them that Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority offered to concede almost all of East Jerusalem, "shocking but not unpredictable", referring to them as a "tragicomedy". "I just can't understand who on earth nominated this man to speak for the Palestinians? When he says, 'WE' who the hell are we? Working 20 years in the field never gives him the right to give up on one metre of the land, to divide, bargain and sell."...."
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