The Palestinian leaks show the Palestinian Authority leadership trying to work their way to the answer that "everybody knows." But the secrecy surrounding the documents -- and the reaction to the leak -- confirms the Israelis' worst fear: The Palestinian population does not, in fact, "know" what "everybody knows." And a Palestinian leadership that did "know" what "everybody knows" is now being reviled by its own population as traitors and sell-outs. What, after all, are the big, shameful concessions contained in the documents? Where are the wounds to Palestinian national pride? • The documents as reported demand Palestinian sovereignty over...
