Dear Bertrand,
burt wrote:
> Hello, what do you think of the point of view of STRATFOR:
> The Relative Insignificance of the Leaked Palestinian Documents
> January 24, 2011 2158 GMT Leaked information regarding a
> compromise the Fatah-led Palestinian government was willing to
> make with Israel is not likely to create major problems for the
> Palestinians.
> I haven't read the full article, but usually they get good remarks
> on the problems.
Friedman is usually pretty good, but here he's just guessing. He
has no idea what the Palestine Papers will trigger. They might
trigger increased anti-Israeli riots by Palestinians, or they
might even trigger a new war between Fatah and Hamas.
And the results wouldn't necessarily be immediate. There might be
something in the papers that causes a chain reaction that leads
to something in a month or two.
An interesting related note is that a number of people are blaming
the Tunisian riots on WikiLeaks releases from a while ago that
expose the corruption of the Ben Ali regime.
John