LONDON — The release by the Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera of 16,000 leaked Palestinian documents covering the past 10 years of peace negotiations has driven a stake through the heart of the already moribund "peace process."
And we hear constant warnings that when the hope of a peace settlement is finally extinguished, the next step is a return to war. So what would the next Arab-Israeli war be like?
The leaked documents show that the Palestinian negotiators were willing to make huge concessions on territory and other issues in return for Israeli recognition of an independent Palestinian state. They were well-meaning people playing a very bad hand as best they could, but the publication of these documents will destroy them politically.