Documents Open a Door on Mideast Peace Talks ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Ethan Bronner - January 25, 2011 - 1:00am Israeli-Palestinian peace talks over the past 17 years have operated at two levels, one public, the other behind closed doors. To the world and their own people, each side spoke of sacred, nonnegotiable demands, while in the Jerusalem hotel suites where the officials met those very demands were under negotiation. » Read more

Palestinians insist leaked memos from peace process reveal nothing new ATFP World Press Roundup Article from PBS by Sal Gentile - January 24, 2011 - 1:00am Leaked memos from a decade of negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian officials roiled the Mideast peace process and put the embattled Palestinian Authority on the defensive Monday. But moderate Palestinian observers and officials close to the government of President Mahmoud Abbas insisted that the documents reveal relatively little about the negotiations that isn’t already known. And if anything, they say, the records expose how uncooperative the Israeli and American governments have been throughout the process. » Read more

Counterpoint: Palestinians and the U.N. ATFP World Press Roundup Article from The New York Times by Aaron David Miller - January 24, 2011 - 1:00am On Jan. 21, Hanan Ashrawi, the veteran Palestinian negotiator and politician, argued on these pages (“Palestinians, America and the U.N.”) that the Palestinians are justified in raising the issue of Israeli settlements before the U.N. Security Council, and that Washington should support them. The debate is joined. A bad idea » Read more