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07KUWAIT195	PARLIAMENT UNLIKELY TO PASS NO CONFIDENCE MOTION [...] (C) Summary: Islamist MP Khudair Al-Enezi told Poloffs that a no confidence motion on the Minister of Health was likely to be submitted after his February 19 grilling, but was unlikely to pass. Al-Enezi said that while he personally opposed the grilling, he would support it in Parliament as [...]	2007-02-13 10:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KPAL KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

07KUWAIT217	KUWAITIS WELCOME MECCA AGREEMENT, CONDEMN AL-AQSA [...] (SBU) Summary: Kuwaitis welcomed news of the agreement between Fatah and Hamas in Mecca and praised Saudi Arabia for hosting the reconciliation meeting. In a February 11 statement, the Council of Ministers hailed the agreement as "a step in the right direction" and praised Saudi King Abdulla [...]	2007-02-14 12:42:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPAL IS KU
07KUWAIT241	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARABSAT AND NILESAT BROADCAST [...] (C) During a February 11 meeting with Shaykh Ali Abdullah, the Acting Director of the Americas Department at the MFA, the Charge d'Affaires and visiting NEA/ARP Office Director Alan Misenheimer reiterated U.S. concerns about the continued broadcast of Al Manar Television and the potential broad [...]	2007-02-19 13:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC ETTC KPAL KPAO PTER KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT256	DEMARCHE TO ARAB LEAGUE ON PREMATURE ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) In a February 19 meeting with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Khaled Al-Jarallah, Charge noted U.S. caution toward the Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) and urged Kuwait to avoid taking any especially high-level steps to engage with the NUG until the NUG had endorsed t [...]	2007-02-20 13:34:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KISL KPAL KWPG IS KU
07KUWAIT278	AL-ZAWRAA DEMARCHE RECEIVES MUTED KUWAIT RESPONSE [...] (C) In light of ongoing concern about Al-Zawraa broadcasting, post wishes to recap our discussions to date with the GOK on this issue. 2. (C) During a February 11 meeting with Shaykh Ali Abdullah, the Acting Director of the Americas Department at the MFA, the Charge d'Affaires and visiting [...]	2007-02-24 13:51:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ASEC ETTC KPAL KPAO PTER KU DEMARCHE
07KUWAIT291	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MFA U/S SAYS GCC FOREIGN [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: ON FEBRUARY 28 CDA DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 3 ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL TO MFA UNDERSECRETARY KHALED AL-JARALLAH. AL-JARALLAH EXPRESSED OPTIMISM THAT THE MECCA AGREEMENT AND RECENT EFFORTS BY THE QUARTET WERE REINVIGORATING THE PEACE PROCESS. THE CHAR [...]	2007-02-28 14:02:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KISL KPAL KWPG IS IZ LE SO SU IR
07KUWAIT318	FIVE MPS SUBMIT LEGISLATION TO BAN ALL CONTACTS [...] (SBU) Five parliamentarians - two Shi'a Islamists, two Sunni Islamists, and one populist - submitted draft legislation March 3 calling for a complete ban on all Kuwaiti interaction, both official and unofficial, with "the Zionist entity" (i.e. Israel). The bill "seeks to prohibit government [...]	2007-03-04 13:43:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAL IS KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
07KUWAIT47	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KUWAIT AGREES TO LOOK INTO [...] (C) On January 8, PolOff called on Hamad Al-Mashan of the MFA's America's Department and delivered reftel demarche on U.S. concern over the use of Arabsat and Nilesat to broadcast Hezballah's Al-Manar satellite channel and the reported plan for Arabsat to broadcast Hamas' Siraj Al-Aqsa satel [...]	2007-01-14 14:40:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ASEC ETTC KPAL PTER KU
07KUWAIT889	SPEAKER DOWNPLAYS PARLIAMENT DISSOLUTION RUMORS; [...] (C/NF) Summary: Speaker of Parliament Jassem Al-Khorafi told the Ambassador June 5 he did not think the Kuwaiti Amir would dissolve Parliament, despite his frustration with opposition MPs' constant attacks against the Government. Al-Khorafi believed if there was a dissolution it would be cons [...]	2007-06-06 13:36:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KDEM KPAL LE IZ IR KU
07KUWAIT953	FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE REGARDING CONTINUED ARABSAT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Information Assistant Under Secretary for Technical Affairs Nasser Al-Safar on 18 June. Al-Safar said the points would be forwarded to the Information Minister prior to his departure for the meeting of Arab League Ministers of Information in Cairo [...]	2007-06-19 14:03:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	SA KU TC KPAL KPAO ETTC PREL PTER
07LAPAZ505	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HAMAS FATAH GOVERNANCE PACT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 13:52:00	Embassy La Paz	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS XX BL
07LILONGWE114	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - HAMAS AND FATAH AGREE IN [...] Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Political Affairs Paul Chiunguzeni on February 9. Chiunguzeni thanked Poloff for the information, and said he would pass it along. Any further response will be delivered septel. EASTHAM [...]	2007-02-14 07:01:00	Embassy Lilongwe	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL
07LISBON1085	PORTUGUESE VIEWS ON APRIL 23-24 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) Pol-Econ officer spoke with Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha about the U.S. policy views on the Balkans, Middle East, Africa, Cuba, and trade as requested reftels a and b. Rocha replied as follows: 2. (C) CUBA: The EU common position on Cuba will be marginal for the foreign m [...]	2007-04-20 16:13:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	IS IR AF KPAL ETRD PREL PO
07LISBON1297	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON THE MAY 14-15 FOREIGN [...] (U) Portuguese Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded to the reftel U.S. policy interests on the Balkans, Middle East, Africa, Iran, and EU-Russia. She also shared Portugal's views on the Italian initiative to introduce a draft UN Resolution against the death penalty. 2. (C) [...]	2007-05-11 16:37:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	IS IR AF KPAL ETRD PREL
07LISBON1622	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS ON JUNE 18-19 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) Portuguese Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded to the reftel points on U.S. policy interests regarding Cuba, Serbia, Kosovo, and Sudan. 2. (C) Cuba: Rocha reported that Portugal supported the proposal to remove EU sanctions. She emphasized Portugal's interest in suppor [...]	2007-06-15 17:08:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL ENRG ETRD ETTC PARM PGOV PREL PO
07LISBON1882	PORTUGUESE VIEWS ON JULY 23 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (U) Portuguese Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha outlined Portugal's views on the reftel points on U.S. policy interests regarding Kosovo, the Ukraine, Iran, Middle East, and Sudan. She also offered a preview of EU discussions on the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya. 2. (C) [...]	2007-07-23 06:37:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL ENRG ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL SOCI
07LISBON2613	PORTUGAL'S VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER 15- 16 [...] (U) In advance of the October 15-16 GAERC, Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha responded with Portugal's views on reftel U.S. policy interests including Kosovo, Russia, Libya, the Middle East, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Chad, and Burma. She noted that the ministers will return to the issue o [...]	2007-10-12 14:53:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	YI RS KPAL PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC EUN PO
07LISBON3129	FM AMADO TO ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche on December 10 to MFA Chief of Staff Francisco Ribeiro de Menezes, who was accompanied by the Foreign Minister's diplomatic advisor, Paulo Lourenco. DCM was joined by pol/econ counselor. Ministerial attendance ---------------------- 2. (C) Ribeiro de [...]	2007-12-11 17:27:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL IS PREL PGOV KWBG AMGT PO
07LISBON533	PORTUGAL'S THOUGHTS ON MARCH 5-6 GAERC [...] (U) Pol-Econ Officer met MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Ana Filomena Rocha to solicit Portugal's views on the March GAERC issues. Energy, the UN Human Rights Council, and climate issues do not fall under Rocha's portfolio, so she did not comment. 2. (SBU) BOSNIA: The EU unanimously supports t [...]	2007-03-05 11:56:00	Embassy Lisbon	CONFIDENTIAL	YI IR KPAL PREL PGOV ENRG PO
07LJUBLJANA118	SLOVENIA ON MARCH GAERC [...] (C) Polecon Chief delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Aljaz Arih March 1, 2007. --Balkans-- Arih expected Bosnia and discussion of the extension of OHR to the be top subject in this category. On Serbia and Kosovo, Slovenia remains in agreement. --Israeli-Palestinian Iss [...]	2007-03-01 14:14:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG KPAL SI
07LJUBLJANA632	SLOVENIA IN ADVANCE OF OCTOBER 15-16 FOREIGN [...] (U) This is an action request cable, please see para. 4. 2. (SBU) On October 9, P/E Chief delivered reftel's points to MFA Director of EU Affairs Matej Marn. He offered the following: WTO/DDA ------- 3. (C) Marn commented that WTO/DDA would be a short point on the GAERC agenda - Com [...]	2007-10-09 11:13:00	Embassy Ljubljana	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL YI RS LY IS IZ
07LJUBLJANA748	SLOVENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER PLANS TO GO TO PARIS [...] (SBU) ADCM met with MFA contacts on December 6 and urged that FM Rupel attend the Paris Donors Conference and that Slovenia make an assistance pledge. MFA EU Correspondent Aljaz Arih said that FM Rupel planned to attend the December 17 conference and would announce a contribution from Slovenia [...]	2007-12-07 09:23:00	Embassy Ljubljana	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AMGT PGOV KWBG KPAL IS SI
07LONDON1196	UK VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 30-31 FOREIGN [...] (U) UK priorities for the upcoming GYMNICH meeting are maintaining EU unity in support of 1) Ahtisaari's Kosovo plan; 2) a "middle ground" approach to the new Palestinian Unity Government, and 3) moving forward on EU-specific Iran sanctions. Martin Shearman, the Foreign Office's European Corr [...]	2007-03-28 15:32:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EUN XG IS IR ZI FI UK
07LONDON3915	UK EXPECTATIONS FOR GAERC MEETING; AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) In response to ref a points, Tom Burn of the Foreign Office's EU Section provided Poloff with the following readout of UK expectations for next week's GAERC: 2. (C) Iran: Burn shared the agreed upon language to be included in the text of the GAERC conclusions: "The Council agreed t [...]	2007-10-12 14:49:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN ETRD ETTC KPAL YI RS LY IZ IR
07LONDON809	UK EXPECTATIONS FOR MARCH EU GAERC MEETING [...] (C) The UK Government expects Iran and Bosnia to be issues of focus at the March General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting. Martin Sherman, FCO's EU External Affairs head, provided Poloff on March 1 with a readout of UK expectations for the GAERC in response to ref non-p [...]	2007-03-02 15:26:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN KPAL PGOV BK YI IS IR AF SU UZ UK
07LUXEMBOURG482	LUXEMBOURG FM TO ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-07 13:25:00	Embassy Luxembourg	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL PGOV IS LU AMGT
07MADRID225	SPAIN ON HAMAS-FATAH AGREEMENT ON NATIONAL UNITY [...] (C) POLOFFS RELAYED REFTEL POINTS TO MFA SUBDIRECTOR GENERAL FOR THE MIDDLE EAST ALBERTO MORENO AND TO MFA SUBDIRECTOR GENERAL FOR FOREIGN POLICY CARLOS FERNANDEZ ARIAS (IN THE OFFICE OF DIRECTOR GENERAL FOR FOREIGN POLICY RAFAEL DEZCALLAR) ON THE USG'S DESIRE TO COORDINATE ON A RESPONSE PRIOR [...]	2007-02-09 17:23:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL SP
07MADRID383	SPAIN HOSTS MINISTERIAL WITH ARAB NATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Director General for Middle East Affairs briefed PolCouns February 26 on events surrounding the February 23 Spain-Arab Nations Ministerial in Madrid to inaugurate Spain's newest cultural/international center, "Casa Arabe." Approximately 14 Arab Foreign Ministers attended t [...]	2007-03-02 11:22:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KISL SP
07MADRID452	SPAIN ON IRAN, MEPP, WESTERN SAHARA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The DCM met with MFA Director General for Foreign Policy Rafael Dezcallar to discuss a variety of issues on March 2. Dezcallar said that he would look into moving along the internal approval process for the draft NCIS agreement. He offered a brief summary of Foreign Minister M [...]	2007-03-09 10:35:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KPAL MO IR WI
07MADRID568	SPANISH FM WILL ONLY ATTEND SECOND HALF OF GYMNICH [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with MFA Deputy Director General for Foreign Policy Carlos Fernandez-Arias on March 28 to discuss Spain's views in advance of the Gymnich. Fernandez-Arias said that Foreign Minister Moratinos would miss the first two sessions on the Balkans and the European Neighborhood Poli [...]	2007-03-28 14:56:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI SP
07MANAMA1010	IRAQ - AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH BAHRAINI LEADERSHIP [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 10:55:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ IR BA
07MANAMA1021	IRAQ - AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH BAHRAINI [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-12 12:15:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ IR BA
07MANAMA1096	BAHRAINI FM WILL ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 11:24:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL BA
07MANAMA134	BAHRAIN HAILS HAMAS-FATAH DEAL [...] (SBU) Bahrainis universally acclaimed the Saudi-sponsored agreement between Hamas and Fatah to form a national unity government. King Hamad phoned Saudi King Abdullah February 9 and congratulated him on the fruitful outcome of the Mecca talks. He said the accord aimed to stop the bloodshed, [...]	2007-02-12 12:26:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA IS REGION
07MANAMA147	BAHRAIN: PREMATURE ENGAGEMENT WITH PALESTINIAN [...] (C) THE DCM DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE FEBRUARY 14 REGARDING PREMATURE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT TO MFA ASSISTANT UNDERSECRETARY FOR COORDINATION AND FOLLOW UP SHAIKH ABDUL AZIZ BIN MUBARAK AL KHALIFA. AFTER LISTENING CAREFULLY TO THE POINTS, SHAIKH ABDUL AZIZ [...]	2007-02-15 13:45:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KISL KWBG BA IS REGION
07MANAMA319	FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES ARAB PEACE INITIATIVE, [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid told the Ambassador April 4 that he had praised the Arab peace initiative in a recent interview because it was an attempt to get outside "the bubble of historical conflict" over Israel. There will be a meeting of the Arab League peace initiative action comm [...]	2007-04-04 15:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA IS IR IZ REGION OFFICIALS
07MANAMA404	FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZES NEED TO REACH OUT TO [...] (C) THE AMBASSADOR, IN AN APRIL 30 MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER SHAIKH KHALID BIN AHMED AL KHALIFA, ASKED ABOUT RECENT ARAB LEAGUE (AL) CONSULTATIONS IN CAIRO ON THE PEACE INITIATIVE. NORMALLY OPTIMISTIC, SHAIKH KHALID SAID HE WAS NOT ENCOURAGED BY THE MEETING. THE RESULT, THAT EGYPT AND J [...]	2007-05-01 14:05:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA IS REGION
07MANAMA584	FORMIN CRITICIZES QATAR'S ROLE AT ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa told the Ambassador June 21 that while the planned multilateral meeting on the Palestinian situation in Egypt on June 24 was a "really good start," the Arab League meeting held in Cairo June 15 did not go well. He particularly cited Qat [...]	2007-06-21 14:43:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA REGION
07MANAMA773	BAHRAIN - FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR PA [...] (SBU) Charge made reftel points to MFA Undersecretary Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa on August 9. 2. (C) Al-Khalifa said the GOB recognized the need to keep the PA afloat financially, and would continue to make contributions within its means, but &on nothing like the scale of our G [...]	2007-08-09 13:37:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL BA
07MOSCOW1392	MIDDLE EAST: MFA ON NUG, IRAQ, LEBANON, WESTERN [...] (C) SUMMARY: THE MFA STRESSED IN A RECENT MEETING THAT THE FORMATION OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY GOVERNMENT REPRESENTED A MILESTONE IN HAMAS' SLOW EVOLUTION AND SUGGESTED THE QUARTET SHOULD REVISIT ITS POLICIES ON CONTACTS AND ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY. MFA DIRECTOR FOR T [...]	2007-03-29 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IZ LE MO WI SU RS
07MOSCOW3521	MIDDLE EAST: RUSSIAN MFA'S INITIAL REACTION TO [...] (C) The MFA's initial, informal reaction to the President's July 16 speech on the Middle East was positive, with particular GOR interest in the President's call for an international meeting on the Middle East. MFA Deputy Director for the Middle East Peace Process Oleg Ozerov told us July 17 [...]	2007-07-18 13:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EAID IS RS
07MOSCOW3803	ABBAS WINS MOSCOW'S SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas concluded a three-day visit to Moscow with a July 31 meeting with President Putin, who assured Abbas that the GOR would support him as the legitimate leader of the Palestinian people. Abbas also met with FM Lavrov and First DFM Deni [...]	2007-08-02 14:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EAID IS RS
07MOSCOW4602	SEEKING HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT AD HOC LIAISON [...] We delivered reftel demarche on September 14 to Timur Zabirov of the MFA Middle East and North Africa Department. Zabirov said that the GOR appreciated that the Secretary's attendance at the AHLC demonstrates U.S. support for the Palestinian Authority and that a suitably high-level official wo [...]	2007-09-19 04:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID KPAL KWBG XF EUN RS
07MOSCOW5457	RUSSIAN PROPOSAL FOR MIDDLE EAST EXPERTS' MEETING [...] (C) On November 19, Counselor in the MFA Middle East Peace Settlement Office Timur Zabirov elaborated on GOR interest in holding a high-level experts' meeting on the Middle East Peace Process in Moscow following the Annapolis Conference. The GOR intended this forum to maintain momentum toward a [...]	2007-11-20 15:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS RS
07MOSCOW5523	MFA ON LEBANON AND THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) Summary: According to the MFA, Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov told Lebanese parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri during their November 20 meeting that the GOR would not support a specific candidate for the Lebanese presidency and hoped the country's political factions could agree [...]	2007-11-26 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS LE RS
07MOSCOW5803	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] We delivered reftel demarche to MFA Middle East and North Africa Counselor Timur Zabirov. Zabirov said that the GOR appreciated the importance of the Paris donors conference and Foreign Minister Lavrov would head the Russian delegation. He could not provide information on the level of Russian [...]	2007-12-14 07:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	AMCT PREL PGOV KWBC KPAL IS RS
07MOSCOW828	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HAMAS VISIT, SYRIA, AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Saltanov told the Ambassador February 27 that the MFA saw Hamas as evolving in its views on Israel following a February 26-27 Moscow visit by Hamas Politburo Chief Mishal. While Mishal was not willing to directly address publicly the question of recogni [...]	2007-02-27 16:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EAID IS LE SY IZ SA RS
07MUSCAT1040	OMANIS SPEAK OUT ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) In attempt to get an unvarnished view of U.S. foreign policy from well-educated Omanis, who are normally reluctant to openly share their opinions on political topics, the Ambassador convened on November 6 the first of a planned series of small-scale discussion groups. Entitled "First Tue [...]	2007-11-13 11:58:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KDEM MU
07MUSCAT1064	OMAN CONFIRMS ATTENDANCE TO ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE [...] (C) On November 20, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi confirmed to the Ambassador that he will lead Oman's delegation to the November 26 Annapolis Conference. The Minister will be accompanied by Mohammed al-Hassan, Director of Political Affairs, Minister's Office, and A [...]	2007-11-20 13:50:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PGOV MU
07MUSCAT1096	CODEL MORAN MEETING WITH OMANI DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) In an October 26 meeting with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation, the Omani Deputy Prime Minister praised U.S.-Oman relations and welcomed U.S. engagement in the region. He characterized Iran as a country determined to win respect from the international community and discounted inf [...]	2007-12-05 06:31:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KPAL ECON ENRG IR MU
07MUSCAT1120	OMANI PLANS FOR PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-12 11:03:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KWBG KPAL IS MU
07MUSCAT1125	OMANI OFFICIALS WARN THAT SETTLEMENT EXPANSION [...] (C) In discussing Oman's plans for the December 17 donors conference in Paris (reftel),Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi told the Ambassador SIPDIS on December 12 that while financial support for the Palestinian Authority was important, it was "not enough [...]	2007-12-12 12:55:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS MU
07MUSCAT154	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO ISRAELI MINISTER LIVNI: [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yousef bin Alawi met privately this week with Israeli Foreign Minister Livni in Madrid. Their brief talks focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the announcement of a Palestinian national unity government, which Oman sees a [...]	2007-02-14 14:12:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS MU
07MUSCAT309	DOD ACTING A/S MARY BETH LONG REVIEWS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 20 meeting with Acting DoD A/S Mary Beth Long, Omani MFA Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi emphasized the need to find a "political solution" to the situation in Iraq, noting that violence there was fueling the spread of extremist ideology. He urged the U.S. to [...]	2007-03-27 13:47:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PREL PTER KPAL IR IZ MU
07MUSCAT488	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER TO [...] (C) Summary: Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi is looking forward to his visit to Washington, and particularly to his meeting with the Secretary. As the long-time de facto Foreign Minister for SIPDIS one of our oldest and most reliable friends in the Gulf, he [...]	2007-05-16 11:36:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KNNP KPAL IR IZ MU
07MUSCAT700	OMANI REACTION TO JULY 16 POTUS SPEECH [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on July 18, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi commended the President's July 16 speech on the Middle East peace process, emphasizing that "this is an opportunity that cannot be missed." He qualified his otherwise optimistic [...]	2007-07-18 12:08:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL MU
07MUSCAT703	OMAN PUBLICLY WELCOMES POTUS CALL FOR MIDDLE EAST [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-19 08:33:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL MU
07MUSCAT705	GCC+2 MEETING: OMANI VIEWS [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 9. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi recommended that the upcoming GCC plus 2 meeting focus primarily on the peace process and Iraq. Bin Alawi hoped that an agreement coul [...]	2007-07-23 10:54:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ MU
07MUSCAT760	OMAN MEDIA REPORTING ON SECRETARY'S EGYPT VISIT [...] Omani print media outlets generally carried positive, direct news reports on the Secretary's July 31 meetings with Arab ministers in Sharm el-Sheikh. English-language dailies the "Times of Oman" and the "Oman Daily Observer" ran upbeat, front-page headlines on August 2 highlighting the Secreta [...]	2007-08-05 12:23:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO KPAL MU
07MUSCAT779	OMAN RESPONSE TO PA ASSISTANCE REQUEST [...] (C) On August 12, the Ambassador raised reftel points with Yusuf bin Alawi, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs. Bin Alawi responded that while the Omani government channels all its foreign assistance to the Palestinian Authority through the Arab League, he would "take a look" at what the [...]	2007-08-13 10:17:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID KPAL PREL MU
07NEWDELHI1345	OLD CITY OF JERUSALEM UNESCO SPECIAL SESSION: [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 14:02:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL UNESCO IS IN
07NEWDELHI3844	DELHI DIARY, AUG 04-22 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for August 4-22, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- MEA Opens a 22-year-old "Rulebook" to Keep Other Government Entities Out of Foreign Affairs -- Indo-Pak Border to Open for Trade October [...]	2007-08-22 12:28:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR KISL KWBG KPAL ELTN AS
07NEWDELHI5099	DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAELI UN RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MEA Director (United Nations Political) Aveg Agarwal on November 26, urging the GOI to vote no or at a minimum abstain in voting to continue the mandate for the three UN Committees named in reftel. Agarwal affirmed that he will consult within the Minist [...]	2007-11-27 07:19:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL UNGA KPAL IS IN
07NEWDELHI5237	GOI APPROACHED ON OPPOSING UNGA PLENARY [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref A talking points to MEA Director (United Nations Political) Aveg Agarwal on December 7, reinforcing the USG desire that the GOI vote no or at a minimum abstain in voting to continue the mandate for the three UN Committees named in ref A. Agarwal affirmed that he will [...]	2007-12-07 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS IN
07NEWDELHI5254	BHUTAN APPROACHED ON OPPOSING UNGA PLENARY [...] (U) Poloff delivered ref A talking points to Royal Government of Bhutan (RGOB) First Secretary Karma Choeda on December 7, reinforcing the USG desire that the RGOB abstain from voting to continue the mandate for the three UN Committees named in ref A. Choeda affirmed that he would raise the i [...]	2007-12-10 11:12:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS IN
07NEWDELHI5319	DELHI DIARY, DECEMBER 10-14 [...] (U) Below is a compilation of political highlights from Embassy New Delhi for December 10-14, 2007 that did not feature in our other reporting, including: -- Bhutan Election Commission Disqualifies Third Political Party. -- India Finally Offers Balanced Assessment of Israeli-Palestini [...]	2007-12-14 12:39:00	Embassy New Delhi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KJUS KPAL IS IN BT
07OSLO264	NORWAY EXPLAINS DECISION TO RECOGNIZE PALESTINIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 19, MFA Political Director Kai Eide briefed the EU/NATO ally countries on the GON decision over the weekend to have direct political contacts with the Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG). He explained that the GON welcomed the NUG because: --the NUG is taking [...]	2007-03-19 15:55:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINS ISPA KPAL IS NO
07OSLO292	NORWAY MAINTAINS THAT DECISION TO RECOGNIZE [...] (C) In a March 23 meeting with the DCM, Kai Eide, Political Director of Norway's MFA, stated that Norway's relations with Israel have not been damaged by Norway's decision to recognize the Palestinian Unity Government. Eide said that Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere spoke at length with Isra [...]	2007-03-23 15:32:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ISPA KPAL IS NO
07OSLO362	NORWAY NORMALIZING ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP WITH [...] (U) Summary: Palestinian Finance Minister Fayyad's April 12 visit to Oslo highlighted the economic aspect of Norway's March 17th decision to normalize relations with the Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG). FM Stoere stated that Norway is ready to resume direct, broad budgetary suppor [...]	2007-04-13 11:08:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN IS KPAL PINS PREL ISPA NO
07OSLO425	STOERE/ABBAS STOCKHOLM MEETING SUMMARY [...] (C) On April 23 we met with Norwegian MFA Middle East Section Head Joern Gjelstad concerning the recent confidential Stockholm meeting between Palestinian President SIPDIS Mahmoud Abbas and Norwegian Foreign Minister Stoere. The meeting was split into two sessions. During the first sessi [...]	2007-04-25 07:20:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN IS KPAL PINS PREL ISPA NO
07OSLO814	HAMAS: MAIN THEME OF FM STOERE'S MID EAST TRIP [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-13 09:32:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PGOV PREL NO
07OSLO815	HAMAS: MAIN THEME OF FM STOERE'S MID EAST TRIP [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-13 09:32:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL PGOV PREL NO
07OTTAWA2225	CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR THE PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) PolMinCouns briefed Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Middle East and North Africa Gordon E. Venner on the upcoming Paris Donors Conference and expected U.S. contributions to the Palestinian Authority (reftel) on December 7. (Both Foreign Minister [...]	2007-12-07 15:54:00	Embassy Ottawa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KWBG KPAL IS CA
07OTTAWA2272	CANADA COMMITS $300 MILLION FOR THE PALESTINIAN [...] (U) As anticipated (ref a),Canada has made a sizable commitment -- $300 million over the next five years -- in support of the Palestine Authority and the Middle East peace process. At the Paris donors' conference on December 17, Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier pledged to "increase our part [...]	2007-12-17 20:08:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID KWBG KPAL IS CA
07PARIS1220	FRANCE/GYMNICH: FUNDAMENTAL AGREEMENT ON ALL ISSUES [...] (U) We shared reftel points with MFA CFSP Deputy Emmanuel Cohet (all points),Bosnian desk officer Michel Clerx (Bonsia points),and Kosovo desk officer Herve Boisguillaume (Serbia and Kosovo points). 2. (C) Bosnia: Clerx said Bosnia is not on the Gymnich agenda. That said, the French agre [...]	2007-03-27 15:09:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI
07PARIS1596	FRENCH RESPONSE TO GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered ref A demarche April 18 and ref B demarche April 20 to Jean-Louis Falconi, head of Common Foreign and Security Policy at the MFA. Falconi said he would review our points carefully and said he understood U.S. views. However, due to staffing shortfalls and pressing tasks [...]	2007-04-20 13:48:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	EUN ETRD KPAL PREL XG IS IR AF FR
07PARIS1597	MUBARAK AND ABBAS BID ADIEU TO CHIRAC [...] (C) Summary: President Jacques Chirac received Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Paris on April 16, and then met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on April 17. While both visits were essentially courtesy calls, Chirac seized the opportunity to press Mubarak for support on [...]	2007-04-20 14:12:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL EG FR IS PGOV PREL SY
07PARIS1887	FRANCE: GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH U.S. ON GAERC ISSUES [...] (U) We shared reftel points on May 11 with MFA CFSP Deputy Emmanuel Cohet. 2. (C) Western Balkans: Cohet indicated that Bosnia is unlikely to be discussed. Regarding Serbia, he indicated that France shares our position on the new government and on cooperation with the ICTY. On Kosovo, [...]	2007-05-11 17:19:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR EUN ETRD KPAL XG IS IR AF
07PARIS2604	FRANCE/GAERC: LARGELY IN SYNCH WITH U.S. POSITIONS [...] (C) On June 15, MFA CFSP Deputy Emmanuel Cohet indicated France's general agreement with U.S. views in advance of the June General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting. Of note, he said that the EU Common Position on Cuba will not be weakened or strengthened and that decisiv [...]	2007-06-15 17:53:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN ETRD KPAL XG IS IR AF FR
07PARIS307	A/S WELCH PRESSES FRENCH TO CAPITALIZE ON LEBANON [...] (S) Summary: NEA A/S David Welch met separately January 24 with Dominique Boche, President Chirac's Middle East Advisor, and Jean Felix-Pagagnon, his French MFA counterpart. Welch strongly urged the French to take advantage of the political moment created by the Lebanon Conference, noting that [...]	2007-01-26 09:31:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	FR IR IS KDEM KPAL LE PGOV PREL
07PARIS3874	FRENCH NEA A/S-EQUIVALENT ON THE [...] (C) Polmincouns called on French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Jean Felix-Paganon September 17 to request a readout from FM Kouchner's visit September 10-14 to the Levant before Kouchner travels to Washington. Felix-Paganon, accompanied by DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille, focused on [...]	2007-09-17 16:24:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL FR IS SY LE
07PARIS4254	FRANCE/GAERC: BROAD AGREEMENT ON MOST ISSUES [...] (C) On October 9, PolOff delivered ref A demarche to MFA CFSP Deputy Emmanuel Cohet, who indicated general agreement between U.S. views and French positions in advance of the October 15-16 GAERC meeting of EU foreign ministers. On October 12, PolOff delivered ref B demarche to MFA DAS-equiva [...]	2007-10-15 05:48:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL YI RS LY IS IZ
07PARIS4685	YOUR DECEMBER 16-18 VISIT TO FRANCE [...] (C) That the first international follow-on to Annapolis is taking place in Paris reflects the new confidence and greater cooperation that characterize our relationship with France seven months into the Presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy. France's support for our efforts to achieve peace in the Mid [...]	2007-12-11 15:12:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	OVIP PREL PGOV PINR KPAL EU FR LG SY IS IR
07PARIS4743	FRENCH BELIEVE MAJOR PUSH ON ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA [...] (C) We passed reftel points November 27 to French MFA desk officer for Israel/Palestinian affairs Adrien Pinelli, who had no immediate response but said he would pass them to the appropriate people in his immediate chain of command as well as to the MFA,s IO directorate. We followed up with [...]	2007-12-19 17:55:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL FR IS
07PARIS516	FRENCH WELCOME FORMATION OF PALESTINIAN UNITY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points on February 9 to Herv Besancenot, MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant. Besancenot said that the MFA was finalizing a statement that would be put out later that same day, possibly by FM Douste-Blazy himself. The statement would welcome the formation of the NUG [...]	2007-02-09 10:33:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR IS KDEM KPAL PGOV PREL
07PARIS571	PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE TO FRANCEREF: [...] (SBU): We shared reftel points February 7 with MFA DAS-equivalent fo CFSP Emmanuel Cohet, who responded with the following comments on February 12. 2. (C) Kosovo: Cohet stressed that while the GoF shares USG support for Ahtisaari, the MFA does not believe short delays in resolving the matte [...]	2007-02-12 15:38:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD KPAL
07PARIS710	CHIRAC ADVISOR PROVIDES READOUT ON PA PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In his February 24 meeting with President Chirac, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas urged the French to support a resumption of international economic assistance to the PA, but also suggested a continued refusal to engage in political contact with the new governme [...]	2007-02-26 13:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	FR IR IS KPAL LE PGOV PREL SY
07PARIS777	SARKOZY PRESS CONFERENCE ON FOREIGN POLICY [...] SUMMARY: Interior Minister and center-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, appearing relaxed and confident in a February 28 press conference and Q-and-A session, laid out a foreign policy vision that focused straight-forwardly on strengthening Europe, preserving the importance of the [...]	2007-02-28 17:14:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL FR EUN UNO NATO IR MNUC IS KPAL
07PRAGUE1289	CZECHS WILL ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 16:09:00	Embassy Prague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS EZ EUN
07PRAGUE133	CZECHS CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT HAMAS/FATAH [...] (SBU) Poloff met with the Czech MFA Director of the Middle East and Africa Department Josef Rychtar on February 9 to discuss the announcement that Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form a new Palestinian government. Rychtar agreed the announcement seems to be a positive step, but noted press repo [...]	2007-02-09 16:26:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KPAL KWBG IS XX EZ
07PRAGUE213	CZECHS ON MARCH 5-6 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The official Czech position on the Balkans remains unchanged (Ref B). The Czechs are taking a "wait and see" position on the new National Unity government in Palestine, and continue to require compliance with the Quartet Principles. On Iran, the Czechs will call for additional san [...]	2007-03-02 15:46:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EUN KPAL BK YI IS IR AF SU UZ EZ
07PRAGUE329	CZECHS ON MARCH 30-31 GYMNICH [...] (U) Czech MFA Deputy Director of CFSP Department Miroslav Kolatek on March 26 said the foreign ministers would discuss the following issues at the Gymnich meeting March 30-31: the Balkans, the Middle East Peace Process, and the EU Neighborhood policy. 2. (SBU) Balkans: the focus will be on [...]	2007-03-27 16:14:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN KPAL XG IS IR ZI EZ
07PRAGUE424	CZECHS ON APRIL 23-24 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. At the April 23-24 GAERC, the Czech government will support tougher sanctions on Iran, a "realistic" approach to the National Unity Government in Palestine, and reform efforts in Central Asia (but urge the EU to focus on improving human rights in the region). The Czechs continue t [...]	2007-04-20 11:56:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETRD KPAL PREL EUN XG IS IR AF EZ
07PRAGUE530	CZECHS ON MARCH 30-31 GYMNICH [...] (U) Czech MFA Deputy Director of CFSP Department Miroslav Kolatek on March 26 said the foreign ministers would discuss the following issues at the Gymnich meeting March 30-31: the Balkans, the Middle East Peace Process, and the EU Neighborhood policy. 2. (SBU) Balkans: the focus will be on [...]	2007-05-11 17:16:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EUN KPAL XG IS IR ZI EZ
07PRAGUE532	CZECHS ON MAY 14-15 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: At the upcoming GAERC, the Czechs continue to (1) support independence for Kosovo (and privately expressed concern to Poloff about the possible impact on EU should the U.S. act unilaterally),(2) call for the Palestinian government to adopt the Quartet Principles, (3) seek solutio [...]	2007-05-14 05:18:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN ETRD KPAL PREL XG IS IR AF EZ
07PRAGUE717	CZECHS ON JUNE 18-19 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: At the upcoming GAERC, the Czechs expect the EU will not reach consensus on Cuba and that the June measures will remain in place. The Czech Republic supports the Ahtisaari plan for Kosovo and will seek solutions to the Iranian nuclear program issue. The GOCR is preparing to offer [...]	2007-06-15 14:51:00	Embassy Prague	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EUN KPAL PREL XG IS AF EZ ETTC PARM PGOV
07PRETORIA1961	SAG INTELLIGENCE MINISTER LED OFFICIAL DELEGATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SAG INTELLIGENCE MINISTER RONNIE KASRILS LED AN OFFICIAL SAG DELEGATION TO PALESTINE IN EARLY MAY AND MET PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS AND PRIME MINISTER ISMAIL HANIYAH, AMONG OTHERS. KASRILS MADE COMPARISONS BETWEEN THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE AND THE APARTHEID ERA, CHARACTERIZING [...]	2007-05-31 10:32:00	Embassy Pretoria	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PTER IS KPAL SF
07RIYADH186	KING ABDULLAH TO HOST URGENT HAMAS AND FATAH TALKS [...] (SBU) On January 29, the media reported that on January 28 King Abdullah invited Hamas and Fatah leaders to an emergency meeting in Mecca in order to end the current conflict in Gaza and the West Bank. The King invited them to settle their differences through dialogue, saying their fighting [...]	2007-01-30 09:17:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	KWBG KPAL KISL PREL IS XF
07RIYADH22	FOLLOW UP ON AL MANAR AND AL AKSA TELEVISION; ARMS [...] (C) Charge' met with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Dr. Nizar Obaid Madani on January 7 to follow up on several demarches delivered during the Hajj and 'Eid holiday. Charge' asked for the SAG's support in discontinuing broadcasts of Al Manar television on Arabsat, as well as [...]	2007-01-08 11:30:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER EAID PARM KPAO ASEC KPAL LE SA

07RIYADH23	SAG STATES NO HIGH-LEVEL ENGAGEMENT OF SYRIAN [...] (S) Charge' met with Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Nizar Obaid Madani on January 7 to relay the request contained in reftel that the SAG refrain from allowing high-ranking Syrian officials to visit the Kingdom. In response, Dr. Madani told Charge' that he is unaware of any planned [...]	2007-01-08 11:31:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PREL PINR KPAL KISL SY SA
07RIYADH2428	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SAG: PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Head of Arab Department Ambassador Dr. Saleh al-Koheimi on December 8. Al-Koheimi did not have any direct comment, but he appeared pleased with the demarche and stated how important this conference will be for this issue. [...]	2007-12-09 08:31:00	Embassy Riyadh	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG KPAL AMGT PREL PGOV SA
07RIYADH367	APHSCT TOWNSEND FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Francis Fragos Townsend covered both counterterrorism cooperation and regional political issues in her meeting with Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal at his home in Jeddah on February 6. Saud described the Feb [...]	2007-02-24 12:20:00	Embassy Riyadh	SECRET	PTER PGOV PREL PINR EFIN KTFN MEPP KPAL SA
07ROME2467	ITALY TO ANNOUNCE 60 MILLION EURO DONATION AT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 08:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL AMGT PREL PGOV
07SANAA1142	DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING ARABSAT BROADCAST OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-20 11:39:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KPAO ETTC PREL PTER YM
07SANAA2296	PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 14:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL YM
07SANAA2297	PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 14:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL YM
07SANSALVADOR276	EL SALVADOR ON PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-16 19:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS XX ES
07SANTODOMINGO2703	OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS: [...] POLOFF delivered Reftel talking points on "Opposing UNGA Resolutions with Anti-Israeli Bias" to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ciro Amaury Dargam, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, took our views on SIPDIS board but had no immediate reply. We will report any [...]	2007-12-10 20:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS DR
07SARAJEVO356	BOSNIA: HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-13 16:10:00	Embassy Sarajevo	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS XX BK
07SEOUL421	ROKG WELCOMES HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-12 07:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KPAL KWBG KS IS
07SKOPJE129	MACEDONIA ON HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-13 13:32:00	Embassy Skopje	UNCLASSIFIED	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL MK
07STATE121298	GUIDANCE FOR AUGUST 29 UNSC OPEN DEBATE ON THE [...] (SBU) USUN is instructed to draw from the following points in its statement at the August 29 UNSC open debate on the Middle East. Begin points. -- Mr. President, on July 16, President Bush called for an international meeting this autumn of nations that support a two-state solution, rejec [...]	2007-08-29 03:44:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KPAL IS LE
07STATE132715	GUIDANCE FOR SEPTEMBER 20 UNSC OPEN DEBATE ON THE [...] (SBU) USUN is instructed to draw from the following points in its statement at the September 20 UNSC open debate on the Middle East. -- Mr. President, a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains a key priority of President Bush. The ongoing bilateral dialogue between P [...]	2007-09-20 16:35:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KPAL IS LE
07STATE141316	APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE OCTOBER 15- [...] (U) Classified by William Lucas, Office Director, EUR/ERA. Reason: 1.4(b) and (d). 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 15. 3. (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers will hold their next General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting in Luxembourg on October 15 [...]	2007-10-06 03:39:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL YI RS LY IS
07STATE147946	GUIDANCE FOR OCTOBER 24 OPEN DEBATE ON THE MIDDLE [...] USUN is instructed to draw upon the following points for the October 24 UNSC open debate on the Middle East: -- Mr. President, the United States remains committed to President Bush's vision of Israel and Palestine living as two states side by side in peace and security. In July President Bu [...]	2007-10-23 22:38:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KPAL IS LE
07STOCKHOLM1454	BILDT ON POST-ANNAPOLIS PROCESS [...] (C) In a December 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Bildt said: -- Annapolis went better than Europeans expected. America had an opportunity but faced suspicion in taking on the role of honest broker. -- The regional context to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict affected th [...]	2007-12-12 16:40:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IS IR KPAL
07STOCKHOLM736	SWEDEN: DEMARCHE FOR JUNE 18-19 GAERC [...] (C) On June 13 Poloff met with Niclas Kvarnstrom, MFA Deputy European Correspondent, and conveyed USG positions on select topics in advance of the June 18-19 GAERC. Kvarnstrom's substantive responses follow. 2. (C) Cuba. Sweden opposes Spain's initiative to eliminate the EU's restrictive [...]	2007-06-13 15:34:00	Embassy Stockholm	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EUN KPAL ETRD SW
07TALLINN259	ESTONIA IN ADVANCE OF APRIL 23-24 GAERC [...] (C) Summary. On April 20, we delivered Reftel points on U.S. positions in advance of the EU's April 23-24 GAERC meeting to Kart Juhasoo-Lawrence, MFA Counselor for U.S. Affairs, and Kristel Kase, EU GAERC Desk Officer. The majority of the meeting was devoted to discussing the upcoming U.S.-E [...]	2007-04-20 14:45:00	Embassy Tallinn	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN ETRD KPAL PREL EN
07TALLINN783	ESTONIA TO ANNOUNCE RECORD DONATION AT PARIS [...] (SBU) Pol/Econoff shared reftel points with Juri Kahn, Division Director for Middle East Affairs at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On December 12, Kahn responded that the Government of Estonia plans to announce a pledge of USD 1 million in assistance to the Palestinians at the Pari [...]	2007-12-12 15:16:00	Embassy Tallinn	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS EN
07TELAVIV1063	ISRAELI MOD CONTACTS SHARE VIEWS ON PALESTINIANS, [...] (C) In a March 29 meeting, Israeli officials from the MOD's POL-MIL Bureau briefed EUCOM Political Advisor (POLAD) Mary Carlin Yates on their assessment of the Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) and its implications for Palestinian-Israel relations, Israeli thinking about the negative [...]	2007-04-11 12:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG NATO IZ IS
07TELAVIV1110	FM LIVNI: ARAB LEAGUE PEACE COMMITTEE CAN PROVIDE [...] (C) Summary and comment: The MFA reports that FM Livni has been actively lobbying both her Jordanian and Egyptian counterparts prior to the meeting of the Arab League's "Follow-Up Committee" scheduled for April 18 in Cairo (reftel). Senior GOI officials, including PM Olmert, have made public [...]	2007-04-17 15:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL ARABL JO IS
07TELAVIV1113	ISRAEL: CODEL ACKERMAN AND FM LIVNI DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting in Tel Aviv on April 12 with Representative Gary Ackerman (D-NY) and the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni explained Israel's belief that it is impossible to distinguish between Hamas and non-Hamas members of the Palestinian government. She urged the inte [...]	2007-04-18 06:22:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IR IS
07TELAVIV1114	CODEL ACKERMAN'S MEETING WITH OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (C) Summary. Representative Gary Ackerman (D, New York),Chairman of the Middle East and South Asia Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee, accompanied by the Ambassador, met with Opposition Leader Binyamin Netanyahu at the Knesset April 11. The discussion covered Netany [...]	2007-04-18 06:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP EFIN IR KPAL IS
07TELAVIV1208	GENERAL MISHLEV SEES NO QUICK SOLUTION TO STALLED [...] (C) SUMMARY: POL/C and ECON/C met with Major General Yossef Mishlev, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT),at the Ministry of Defense April 19. POL/C conveyed the Ambassador's concerns on access and movement issues, specifically approval of five Palestinian Red Cresc [...]	2007-04-23 13:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ECON KPAL KWBG IS
07TELAVIV1258	CODEL PELOSI'S MEETING WITH PM OLMERT [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Olmert told CODEL Pelosi April 1 that he would continue to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas despite Abbas' failure to deliver on his commitments. Olmert was adamant that his talks with Abbas not include the final status issues of refugees, Jerusalem a [...]	2007-04-27 15:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS SY LE IR IZ
07TELAVIV1288	CODEL PELOSI DISCUSSES TWO-STATE SOLUTION, SYRIA, AND IRAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY FM Livni met with CODEL Pelosi and emphasized that Israel and the U.S. share challenges and values. Speaker Pelosi and the Representatives reaffirmed their commitment to an Israel at peace with its neighbors. Livni stressed that the missing soldiers and the trafficking of arms to [...]	2007-05-01 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KPAL IS SY LE IR IZ
07TELAVIV1331	JORDANIAN DELEGATION PITCHES IDEA FOR A FEDERATION [...] (C) Abdul Salam Majali, a former Prime Minister of Jordan and member of the Jordanian Upper House of Parliament, led a small Jordanian delegation to Israel for private meetings with the Israeli political class -- both within and outside the GOI -- during which he advocated reviving a proposal [...]	2007-05-04 14:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PREF KPAL IS JO
07TELAVIV1383	GERMAN FM STEINMEIER FINDS OLMERT FOCUSED ON SAUDI [...] (C) SUMMARY: GERMAN AMB. HARALD KINDERMANN SAID THAT FM FRANK-WALTER STEINMEIER'S MAY 6 MEETING WITH PM EHUD OLMERT FOCUSED LARGELY ON SAUDI ARABIA, WHILE HIS MAY 7 DISCUSSION WITH FM TZIPI LIVNI WAS DOMINATED BY SYRIA. KINDERMANN TOLD AMB. JONES THAT OLMERT IS LOOKING FOR A SYMBOLIC GESTURE F [...]	2007-05-11 11:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG GM IS
07TELAVIV1483	GOI RESPONSE TO ROCKET ATTACKS [...] (C) FOLLOWING A SECURITY CABINET MEETING MAY 16, PM EHUD OLMERT ANNOUNCED THAT THE IDF WOULD CARRY OUT STRIKES AGAINST QASSAM LAUNCHERS, HAMAS MILITARY COMMANDERS AND "TERRORIST INFRASTRUCTURE." THE PM'S SPOKESPERSON ANNOUNCED THAT "ISRAEL CANNOT CONTINUE TO SHOW RESTRAINT WHEN ITS CITIZENS A [...]	2007-05-17 16:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS PTER KPAL KWBG IS
07TELAVIV1558	NEW ISRAELI MOD DG BUCHRIS SHARES HIS PRIORITIES [...] (S) ON MAY 22, AMBASSADOR JONES HELD HIS FIRST MEETING WITH NEW ISRAELI MOD DIRECTOR GENERAL PINCHAS BUCHRIS. BUCHRIS, WHO HAD BEEN IN OFFICE ONLY 14 DAYS, FOCUSED HIS COMMENTS ON THE U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONSHIP, STRESSING HIS PERSONAL COMMITMENT TO SEEING THE RELATIONSHIP PUT "BACK ON TRACK," AN [...]	2007-05-25 15:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR MARR MASS ETTC KNNP KWBG KPAL
07TELAVIV1590	CODEL PRICE AND PM OLMERT DISCUSS LEBANON, SYRIA [...] (C) Summary: CODEL Price met with PM Ehud Olmert on May 30, and asked for updates on Syria, Lebanon and the Palestinians. Rep. Rahall (D-WV) encouraged Olmert to take up Syrian President Asad's offer to talk "without preconditions." Olmert replied that he had never said "no" regarding Syria [...]	2007-06-01 15:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SY LE KPAL IS
07TELAVIV1671	PM OLMERT WELCOMES ACTION ON IRAN, INVESTMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fl) and Florida Governor Charlie Crist met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on May 31 as part of a broad mission to expand trade and political relations between Israel and the State of Florida. At the top of the agenda was the Florida legislature's recent dec [...]	2007-06-08 06:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR SY LE KPAL IS
07TELAVIV1672	JUSTICE MINISTER FRIEDMANN ON REFUGEES, IPR AND [...] (Summary) (SBU) In a meeting with Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann in Jerusalem on June 4, the Ambassador discussed the Magen David Adom (MDA)/Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance dispute, IPR issues, Darfur refugees, and family reunifications requests for Palestinian refugees fro [...]	2007-06-08 07:01:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB IS IZ KCRM KIPR KJUS KPAL KWMN PHUM
07TELAVIV1684	FM LIVNI DISCUSSES GAZA, A TWO-STATE SOLUTION, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with CODEL Leahy May 29, FM Livni described the situation in Gaza and southern Israel as intolerable and emphasized the importance of stopping arms smuggling from Egypt. She told the CODEL that Egypt was cooperating, but needed to do more to prevent smuggling throug [...]	2007-06-11 05:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL KWBG IR LE EG JO
07TELAVIV1691	PM OLMERT DISCUSSES TWO-STATE SOLUTION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH CODEL LEAHY MAY 30, ISRAELI PM EHUD OLMERT REAFFIRMED HIS COMMITMENT TO A TWO-STATE SOLUTION AND DESCRIBED HIS EFFORTS TO REACH THIS GOAL. CALLING THE INTERNAL PALESTINIAN SITUATION "UNBEARABLE," OLMERT EXPRESSED HIS SINCERE DESIRE TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION AND [...]	2007-06-11 14:48:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL SY LE
07TELAVIV1704	A/S SILVERBERG DISCUSSES UN AND IO ISSUES WITH DDG [...] (C) Summary: IO A/S Kristen Silverberg discussed United Nations and other international organization issues with MFA Deputy Director General Roni Leshno-Ya'ar and his staff on June 7 in Jerusalem. The Israelis announced that they have begun quickly campaigning for a UNSC seat in 2019-20. Ya'a [...]	2007-06-12 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KWBG KPAL UNSC UNGA
07TELAVIV1705	ISA CHIEF DISKIN OPPOSED TO BENCHMARKS, PROPOSES [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a June 11 discussion of the security situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (septel),Israeli Security Agency (ISA) Head Yuval Diskin told Ambassador Jones he personally opposes the benchmarks, viewing them as "a very dangerous plan" that could be easily agreed upon by Israe [...]	2007-06-12 15:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWPB EG IS
07TELAVIV1731	CODEL LIEBERMAN DISCUSSES THE ROAD FORWARD WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with FM Tzipi Livni and PM Ehud Olmert on June 3, Senator Lieberman (CT) discussed issues regarding the Palestinian Authority (PA),the war in Iraq, and strategies for confronting the nuclear ambitions of Iran. Lieberman reassured the GOI that the US would maintain an [...]	2007-06-13 15:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS KPAL IR IZ
07TELAVIV1732	ISA CHIEF DISKIN ON SITUATION IN THE GAZA STRIP [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a June 11 meeting that entailed discussion of the benchmarks (reftel),Israeli Security Agency (ISA) Head Yuval Diskin shared his assessment of the current situation in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, painting a picture of a desperate, disorganized, and demoralized Fatah in the G [...]	2007-06-13 16:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER PHUM MARR MASS KPAL KWBG EG IS
07TELAVIV1789	Trilateral Land Exchange Revisited [...] (SBU) Summary: Hebrew University Geography Professor Yehoshua Ben-Arieh shared his trilateral land swap (IS-PAL-EGY) idea with the Ambassador and ECON/C on June 13, the general contours of which remain basically as it was unveiled in 2004 (see main points below). Ben-Arieh has previously bri [...]	2007-06-18 13:45:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KBTS KWBG KPAL EG IS JO
07TELAVIV1844	GOI UPDATE ON CROSSINGS AND FUEL SITUATION IN GAZA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: COGAT confirmed to EconOff on June 19 that most of the Gaza border crossings are effectively closed. However, the GOI is facilitating import of humanitarian goods into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom cargo crossing and working on an alternate mechanism at Erez crossing point to ass [...]	2007-06-19 14:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM IS
07TELAVIV1919	BARAK IS BACK: WHAT MIGHT IT MEAN FOR U.S. POLICY? [...] (C) Summary: Newly elected Labor Party Chairman Ehud Barak swiftly assumed the Minister of Defense portfolio on June 19. PM Olmert facilitated Barak's rather dramatic reentry into public life by securing the cabinet's approval by telephone on the 15th and a Knesset vote of confidence on the [...]	2007-06-22 15:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KPAL KWBG PINR IS IR SY
07TELAVIV1928	GOI CONTINUES TO FACILITATE PASSAGE OF [...] (SBU) COGAT confirmed to EconOff on June 25 that despite the main border crossings with Gaza remaining closed, the GOI continues to facilitate passage of individuals through Erez Crossing Point on a special humanitarian basis. It is also allowing the import of humanitarian goods, food, and fu [...]	2007-06-25 12:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM IS
07TELAVIV2176	ISRAELIS APPROVE LIST OF 1,000 PALESTINIANS TO [...] (C) EU Border Assistance Mission Commander Lieutenant General Pietro Pistolese commented to the Ambassador July 16 that negotiations had broken down between Israel and Egypt over the return to Gaza of several thousand Palestinians stranded on the Egyptian side of the Rafah Crossing. According [...]	2007-07-17 12:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL EG IS
07TELAVIV2177	GENERALLY POSITIVE ISRAELI REACTION TO THE [...] (C) Summary. Public commentary in Israel on the President's July 16 speech has headlined the GOI's satisfaction, including a leak from PM Olmert's office that the idea for a regional meeting originated with Olmert. Meanwhile, mainstream commentators continued to express doubts about President [...]	2007-07-17 15:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL XF IS
07TELAVIV2298	EGYPT/JORDAN FM VISIT POSITIVE, NEXT STEPS KEY [...] (C) Summary: Both GOI and Egyptian diplomatic sources described the July 25 visit of Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Jordanian Foreign Minister Abdulelah Al-Khatib to Israel as "positive," although substance was limited and the emphasis was placed on future action. During the [...]	2007-07-27 10:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EG JO KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2326	IAA DIRECTOR DESCRIBES NEW PLAN FOR MUGHRABI GATE, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) Director General Yehoshua (Shuka) Dorfman told Embassy and ConGen poloffs July 24 that the IAA was proposing a new design for an access ramp at the Mughrabi Gate that would follow the same path as the earlier, collapsed ramp, and that the ruins [...]	2007-07-27 13:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2413	KNESSET SPEAKER READY TO SUPPORT PEACE, EXPAND [...] (C) On August 6, The Ambassador met with Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, who is scheduled to see the Secretary in Washington on August 13. The Ambassador told Itzik that the Secretary was pleased with her recent visit to Jerusalem, SIPDIS which focused on preparing for the international meeti [...]	2007-08-08 06:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR ETRD KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2415	SHOWDOWN BETWEEN SYNAGOGUE AND STATE WITHIN IDF [...] (C) Preparations for the August 7 evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Hebron market by IDF soldiers and police led to insubordination by a number of soldiers serving in involved units, with some soldiers saying their rabbis told them not to carry out specific missions. The IDF responded by [...]	2007-08-08 15:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2448	YEDIOT ARTICLE CLAIMS BARAK TILTS RIGHT, [...] (U) Israel's largest circulation daily, Yediot Aharonot, ran a banner headline on August 10 "Barak: There is no chance for a settlement with the Palestinians." Although not a direct interview, the article by well-connected journalist Shimon Schiffer states that Barak has been telling associa [...]	2007-08-10 15:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2460	ISRAELIS ASSIST THE RETURN OF MORE THAN 6,000 [...] (S) Cooperating with Egyptian counterparts across the border and the Palestinian Authority, since July 29 Israeli security forces have returned to the Gaza Strip over 6,000 Palestinians who were trapped in Egypt and the Sinai as a result of the June Hamas takeover in Gaza. The Palestinians ar [...]	2007-08-13 16:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PHUM PINS PTER KWBG KPAL EG IS
07TELAVIV2486	DEMARCHE REQUEST: GOI DENIAL/DELAY OF ENTRY TO [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to recent spate of incidents in which American citizens of Palestinian or other Arab origin encountered problems attempting to enter Israel, post in two separate meetings with MFA said any such discriminatory treatment could prompt us to revise our Travel Warning. Suc [...]	2007-08-15 11:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL CASC IS
07TELAVIV2551	AMBASSADOR AND EDUCATION MINISTER YULI TAMIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Ambassador called on Minister of Education Yuli Tamir (Labor) August 21 to discuss ways the Education Ministry could support the peace process. Tamir agreed with the Ambassador that it was important to develop a "peace curriculum" to promote tolerance and mutual understandin [...]	2007-08-22 13:51:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL EAID SCUL IS
07TELAVIV2557	U/S BURNS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LIVNI [...] (S) Summary. In their August 16 meeting, U/S Nicholas Burns and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni discussed the just-signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on U.S. Foreign Military Financing (FMF) assistance to Israel and arms sales to the Gulf states, Iran, the situation in Gaza, Lebanon, and A [...]	2007-08-23 09:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS IR LE KPAL IS
07TELAVIV2630	SETTLEMENT SQUATTERS WILL NOT BE EVACUATED [...] (C) Summary: On August 1-2, hundreds of would-be-homeowners broke into unfinished apartments in West Bank settlements and the Har Homa settlement in East Jerusalem following rumors that Heftsiba, one of Israel's largest construction companies, had gone bankrupt. Acting on instructions from [...]	2007-08-29 15:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL
07TELAVIV2640	DAS DANIN'S AUGUST 29 MEETING WITH ISRAELI DEFMIN [...] (S) In an August 29 meeting, Michael Herzog, the Chief of Staff to Israeli Defense Minister Barak, told visiting NEA DAS Robert Danin that Israel is not looking for a fight with either Hizballah or Syria, but needs to prepare for one just in case. Earlier concerns within government circles abo [...]	2007-08-30 13:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS KPAL KWBG UNSC SY EG LE IS
07TELAVIV266	SOLANA URGES PROGRESS ON PEACE; ISRAELIS CAUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his January 19-21 visit to Israel, High Representative Javier Solana urged his hosts to use the current window of opportunity to make progress with the Palestinians on peace. He expressed full support for the Secretary's idea of developing a "political horizon" and SIPDI [...]	2007-01-24 09:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG EUN IS
07TELAVIV2670	HCJ: IDF MUST REROUTE WEST BANK BARRIER SEGMENT [...] (U) On September 4, the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) ruled that the IDF must reroute a section of the West Bank separation barrier near the Israeli settlement of Mattityahu East, located in the Modi'in Illit settlement bloc north-west of Jerusalem. The Court ruled that the current ro [...]	2007-09-04 14:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL
07TELAVIV2707	PRESSURE BUILDING ON ISRAELI GOVERNMENT TO ADDRESS [...] (C) Recent Kassam launches from the Gaza Strip into bordering Western Negev communities and the town of Sderot have ratcheted up the pressure on Israeli political and military leaders to react, especially as at least one Kassam landed near a kindergarten on the second day of school in Israel. [...]	2007-09-07 12:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER MOPS PREL PINS KPAL KWBG IS
07TELAVIV2715	HCJ UPHOLDS RETROACTIVE LEGALIZATION OF ILLEGAL [...] (C) Summary: On September 5, the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) upheld the GOI's retroactive approval of illegal settlement construction in the Mattityahu East settlement, located in the Modi'in Illit settlement bloc north-west of Jerusalem. The Court rejected petitions by Peace Now an [...]	2007-09-07 16:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL
07TELAVIV2742	KASSAM ROCKET STRIKES IDF BASE; IDF LIKELY TO [...] (C) Israel Defense Force (IDF) sources confirmed to Embassy Tel Aviv's Defense Attache early September 11 that a Kassam rocket launched from Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip struck an IDF training center located one kilometer north of the Gaza Strip in Zikim. According to the IDF's repo [...]	2007-09-11 11:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER PINS KPAL KWBG IS
07TELAVIV2819	DEMARCHE ON BARRIER CONSTRUCTION AND SETTLEMENT [...] (C) Ambassador delivered the demarche on the route of the separation barrier and retroactive legalization of unauthorized settlement construction (see reftel) on September 18 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Aharon Abramovitch. Abramovitch said he understood these were serious [...]	2007-09-21 12:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL
07TELAVIV2874	MFA WORRIES ABOUT AFRICAN IN-FLOWS [...] (C) Summary. MFA Director for International Organizations and Human Rights Simona Halperin expressed continued concern to Regional Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) and Embassy PolOff September 25 over the problem of sur place refugees from Sudan and other "enemy states" of Israel entering on foo [...]	2007-09-28 14:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL UNHCR KPAL EG SU IS
07TELAVIV2909	MOD BLAMES EGYPT FOR FACILITATING THE RETURN OF [...] (S) During an October 3 meeting with PolCouns, Arab affairs adviser to MOD Barak David Hacham confirmed that the GOI had formally protested to the GOE the crossing on September 30 of a group of approximately 85 Hamas members from Sinai into Gaza. The Hamas members reportedly included senior [...]	2007-10-05 14:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
07TELAVIV2995	IDF BLOCKS SETTLERS RE-ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH OUTPOST [...] (C) In a conversation with econoff on October 15, Oded Herman, Senior Advisor to MOD Political-Military Director Amos Gilad clarified that the IDF did not evacuate an existing outpost, as Israeli press had reported earlier that day. According to Herman, the IDF stopped settlers from establish [...]	2007-10-17 06:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3027	GOI RESPONDS TO EAST JERUSALEM DEMARCHE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered the demarche on continued and planned Israeli settlement activities in East Jerusalem to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General Aharon Abramovitch on Sunday, October 14. The following text was passed to Ambramovitch's office: 2. (U) (Begin text) Esta [...]	2007-10-19 08:19:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3045	REGULATORY HURDLES CONTINUE TO DELAY PLACEMENT OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Regulatory roadblocks continue to delay implementation of the MOU between Magen David Adom (MDA) and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS),specifically the placement of five PRCS ambulances in East Jerusalem. MFA Director of International Organizations and Human Rights Sim [...]	2007-10-22 07:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3060	AMBASSADOR JONES AND MK SCHNELLER DISCUSS OUTPOSTS [...] (C) Summary: MK Otniel Schneller, accompanied by ECF (Economic Cooperation Foundation) General Director Ya'ir Hirschfeld met with the Ambassador on October 18 to discuss Schneller's ongoing efforts to gain settler consensus to voluntarily evacuate illegal West Bank outposts. Claiming to wo [...]	2007-10-22 13:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3061	AMBASSADOR JONES AND MK SCHNELLER DISCUSS OUTPOSTS [...] (C) Summary: MK Otniel Schneller, accompanied by ECF (Economic Cooperation Foundation) General Director Ya'ir Hirschfeld met with the Ambassador on October 18 to discuss Schneller's ongoing efforts to gain settler consensus to voluntarily evacuate illegal West Bank outposts. Claiming to wo [...]	2007-10-22 13:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3070	MK SCHNELLER'S MEMO ON THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING [...] (C) During Kadima Knesset member Otniel Schneller's October October 19 meeting with the Ambassador and emboffs (reftel),he gave us a memo elaborating on his ideas about how final status issues should and should not be handled at the international meeting if we want to gain broad support from [...]	2007-10-23 16:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3083	COGAT COMMENTS ON GAZA AND WEST BANK [...] (C) Summary. DCM and PolCouns called on the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Major General Mishlev, October 23 as part of the Embassy's efforts to improve the atmosphere in advance of the international meeting. Mishlev agreed that COGAT staff would work with the Emba [...]	2007-10-25 08:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MOPS ECON KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3088	BRITISH EMBASSY'S NOTE VERBALE TO ISRAEL ON EAST [...] (SBU) Below is a the text of the Note Verbale the British Embassy delivered to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Shepherd's Hotel and Mufti's Grove in East Jerusalem. The Note was passed to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday, October 19, and provided to us by [...]	2007-10-25 11:41:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3111	CHIEF JUSTICE BEINISH ON SETTLEMENTS AND THE [...] (C) Summary: On October 23, The Ambassador met with Chief Justice Dorit Beinish to discuss the High Court of Justice's (HCJ) recent decision to uphold the GOI's retroactive approval of settlement construction in the Mattityahu East settlement, GOI implementation of the Court's rulings to re [...]	2007-10-26 18:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3172	IDF RATCHETS UP PRESSURE ON HAMAS IN THE GAZA STRIP [...] (SBU) Late October 30, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) bombed a Hamas police position in the southern Gaza Strip, killing four Hamas policemen and wounding five, according to media reports. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman confirmed the strike, noting that it was in response to the firing [...]	2007-10-31 16:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PTER PINS PREL KPAL KWBG IS
07TELAVIV3184	IDF REMOVAL OF 23 WEST BANK OBSTACLES HAS MINIMAL [...] (C) Summary: On October 30, Brig. Gen. Eitan Dangot, Military Advisor to the Minister of Defense provided the Ambassador with a map indicating the locations of 23 West Bank obstacles dismantled by the IDF earlier this month. Analysis by ECF (the Economic Cooperation Foundation) indicates th [...]	2007-11-02 07:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV319	TURKISH AMBASSADOR ON HAMAS, SYRIA, IRAQI KURDS, [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with his new Turkish counterpart, former MFA spokesman Namik Tan, in Tel Aviv on January 26. Tan maintained that Turkey's policy of engagement with Hamas and Syria is intended to split them from Iran. He reiterated Ankara's opposition to the Iranian nuclear we [...]	2007-01-29 15:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON KWBG KPAL TU SY IR IZ IS
07TELAVIV3258	DAS DANIN AND DASD KIMMITT DISCUSS GAZA SMUGGLING [...] (S) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary Rob Danin and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Mark Kimmitt met November 6 with Israel Security Agency (ISA) Director Yuval Diskin to discuss relations with Egypt regarding the Gaza border. Diskin said the ISA had provided detailed information on smugg [...]	2007-11-09 12:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL PINR IS EG
07TELAVIV3285	IFRC ENVOY PAR STENBACK FAIRLY POSITIVE ON [...] (C) Summary. International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) Special Envoy Par Stenback suggested to the Ambassador on November 2 that his progress report on the implementation of the MOU between Magen David Adom and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society would be fairly positive. He expected the [...]	2007-11-16 09:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF PGOV KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3288	ICRC FINDS EXCESSIVE FORCE USED IN KETZIOT PRISON [...] (C) SUMMARY. ICRC Deputy Head of Delegation Paul Conneally briefed poloff on the ICRC's preliminary findings following a visit to the Ketziot prison to investigate the circumstances of the October 22 riot among Palestinian prisoners (reftels). According to Conneally, the ICRC team found that [...]	2007-11-16 12:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3303	OLMERT, BARAK AND LIVNI HEADING FOR ANNAPOLIS, [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli cabinet met the morning of November 19 to discuss the Annapolis Conference. In a reportedly contentious session, the cabinet agreed to the release of 441 Palestinian prisoners, although several key ministers, including Avigdor Lieberman and Shaul Mofaz, opposed the [...]	2007-11-19 15:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL IS EG SY
07TELAVIV3316	AMBASSADOR HOSTS ROUNDTABLE ON "TOWARDS ANNAPOLIS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 14th Ambassador Jones held a round-table discussion with leading Israeli academics and think tank representatives to discuss the upcoming Annapolis conference. Opinions varied as to the possible outcomes of the conference, but there was general agreement that plannin [...]	2007-11-20 17:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IS SA IR SY
07TELAVIV3342	USSC DAYTON BRIEFS IDF CENTRAL COMMANDER ON STEPS [...] (S) U.S. Security Coordinator Lieutenant General Keith Dayton briefed IDF Central Command Commander Major General Gadi Shamni November 18 on efforts to date and future steps to strengthen the capabilities of Palestinian National Security Forces (NSF) and Presidential Guard (PG) units in the We [...]	2007-11-26 13:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	MOPS MASS KPAL KWBG PTER JO EG IS
07TELAVIV3377	ISRAEL FIRST REACTION: ANNAPOLIS GOOD START, BUT [...] The day after the international conference in Annapolis, most Israelis view the event as a success but still think the difficulties in achieving peace are too great to overcome, especially before the end of 2008. Newspapers have devoted most of their front page and large internal sections to [...]	2007-11-28 12:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3455	ISRAELIS ANGRY ABOUT EGYPTIAN COOPERATION WITH [...] (S) Summary. MOD and IDF contacts tell us that Egypt cooperated with Hamas in allowing hundreds of Gazan Hajj pilgrims selected by Hamas to cross through the Rafah Crossing this week. MOD Arab Affairs adviser Hacham, who conducts the MOD's day to day contacts with Egyptian General Intellige [...]	2007-12-05 12:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER PGOV MOPS EG KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3482	ISRAEL'S RESPONSE TO BRITISH NOTE VERBALE ON [...] (SBU) Below is the text of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs' response to the British Embassy's October 19 Note Verbale regarding Shepherd's Hotel and the Mufti's Grove site in East Jerusalem. The MFA's response was provided to Ambassador Jones by the British Ambassador on November 20. [...]	2007-12-10 13:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3501	READOUT: INTER-MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE ON OUTPOSTS [...] (C) Summary: On December 11, Vice Premier Haim Ramon told the Ambassador that the basic principle of any legislation to standardize the rules of construction in the West Bank would ensure that any politically sensitive settlement construction would have to be approved by the government. Pri [...]	2007-12-12 12:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3502	AMBASSADOR JONES' DECEMBER 11 MEETING WITH VICE [...] (S) Summary: The Ambassador met with Israeli Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon on December 11, 2007 in Ramon,s Jerusalem office. In response to the Ambassador's questions regarding the meeting of Ramon,s inter-ministerial committee on illegal outposts earlier in the day, Ramon declared that a [...]	2007-12-12 12:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3525	KETZIOT PRISON BECOMES HOME TO AFRICAN [...] Summary. Ketziot Prison, in the Negev desert near the Israel-Egypt border, is now home to roughly 1,080 African asylum-seekers. Warden Brigadier General Shlomo Cohen told RefCoord and EmbOffs during a December 5 visit that as many as 250 asylum-seekers enter Israel each week, but that Ketzio [...]	2007-12-14 14:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG SU
07TELAVIV357	LABOR'S POTENTIAL LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of meetings with the Ambassador, Labor MKs Ami Ayalon, Avishai Braverman and Ophir Pines-Paz all aspire to lead the party following the May 28 primaries, which they believe will end the era of Amir Peretz at the helm. Ayalon and Braverman were the first to team up [...]	2007-02-01 12:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL IR SY
07TELAVIV3578	ECF: IMPACT OF RECENTLY REMOVED WEST BANK [...] (C) Brig. Gen. Eitan Dangot, Military Advisor to the Minister of Defense provided the Ambassador in late November with a second list of 25 West Bank obstacles identified by the IDF as recently dismantled. According to Dangot, the IDF completed the removal of these obstacles as of November 22 [...]	2007-12-19 14:52:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3586	GENERAL JAMES L. JONES' FIRST MEETINGS IN ISRAEL [...] (S) Summary. Special Envoy for Middle East Security, retired General James L. Jones, met with Prime Minister Olmert, Defense Minister Barak, IDF Chief of General Staff Ashkenazi and members of the General Staff, Foreign Minister Livni, and Israel Security Agency head Diskin December 18. In all of h [...]	2007-12-20 16:21:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS KPAL IS
07TELAVIV3587	MUGHRABI GATE CHIEF ARCHEOLOGIST ON EXCAVATIONS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Israel Antiquities Authority's (IAA) chief archeologist for the Mughrabi Gate excavation site, John Seligman, told Poloff December 19 that, contrary to December 17 press reports, he has received no instructions to resume excavations at the site. Seligman disputed claims tha [...]	2007-12-20 16:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KPAL IS
07TELAVIV359	ISRAELI MADRID PARTICIPANTS ON SAUDI INITIATIVE, [...] (C) Summary and comment: Israeli participants in the Madrid-plus-fifteen conference held January 10-12 (reftel) have told the Embassy and the press that they seek "the end of gradualism" and a focus on final status negotiations as the best way to reach peace with the Palestinians. To break w [...]	2007-02-01 12:26:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL POV KWBG KPAL SP IS
07TELAVIV3593	GOI SENDING MIXED MESSAGES ON MUGHRABI GATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following press reports this week that on November 29 the GOI ordered the resumption of excavation work at the Mughrabi Gate access point for the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount, Poloff contacted PMO Deputy Foreign Policy Advisor Ari Varon and the chief archeologist at the site, John [...]	2007-12-21 10:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KIRF KISL KPAL JO IS
07TELAVIV3597	BOIM TO AMBASSADOR: NO SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION IN [...] (C) Summary: On December 21, the Ambassador met with Housing Minister Boim to discuss recent press reports saying that the Ministry of Construction and Housing (MOCH) planned to commence construction on new settlement housing in East Jerusalem. Minister Boim disavowed claims that a new Isra [...]	2007-12-21 15:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
07TELAVIV3613	CODEL SPECTER'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER OLMERT [...] (C) Summary. CODEL Specter met with Prime Minister Olmert December 25. Their discussion focused on the possibility of peace negotiations with Syria; the National Intelligence Estimate and Iran's nuclear program; Egypt and the problem of smuggling into Gaza; dealing with Hamas in Gaza; and the [...]	2007-12-27 11:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OREP KPAL SY IR EG IS
07TELAVIV372	RELIGIOUS ZIONIST LEADER'S ALTERNATIVE VISION OF [...] (C) Summary. Renewed Religious National Zionist Party leader, Reserve Brigadier General Effie Eitam, offered both a harsh critique and an alternative vision of Israel in a January 24 meeting with PolCouns and Deputy PolCouns. Eitam stated that the secular Zionist program had run its course, [...]	2007-02-02 14:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI IS KPAL
07TELAVIV455	CHIEF ARCHEOLOGIST DESCRIBES MUGHRABI GATE [...] (U) SUMMARY: CHIEF JERUSALEM ARCHEOLOGIST FOR THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY, BARUCH YUVAL, TOLD POLOFFS FEBRUARY 8 THAT THE NEW EXCAVATIONS OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE MOUNT/HARAM AL-SHARIF COMPLEX IN JERUSALEM,S OLD CITY (REFTELS) HAD BEEN PLANNED OPENLY AND IN CONSULTATION WITH ALL INTERESTED PART [...]	2007-02-09 16:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IS
07TELAVIV466	CHIEF ARCHEOLOGIST CONFIRMS EXCAVATIONS TO [...] (C) The daily Ha'aretz reported February 12 that Jerusalem Mayor Lupoliansky, after consulting with the Islamic Waqf and the rabbi of the Western Wall, decided to suspend construction of the pedestrian ramp to the Mughrabi Gate, but that archeological excavations related to the project would c [...]	2007-02-12 16:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KPAL IS

07TELAVIV542	OLMERT: DESPITE FRUSTRATION, GOI WILL MAINTAIN [...] (C) Summary: During a February 20 meeting, Prime Minister Olmert told CODEL Kyl that despite Israeli frustration with Mahmoud Abbas and the Mekka Agreement, the GOI would keep open a channel to him. Olmert asserted that there could be no distinction between a non-Hamas minister and others i [...]	2007-02-21 05:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS
07TELAVIV559	CODEL KYL MEETS WITH FOREIGN MINISTER LIVNI [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Livni echoed Prime Minister Olmert February 19 by telling CODEL Kyl that despite Israeli "disappointment" with Abu Mazen in the wake of the Mecca Agreement, contacts would continue, although she also cautioned that Abu Mazen needed to understand that he had "los [...]	2007-02-22 08:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IR
07TELAVIV575	TURKISH DELEGATION POSTPONES VISIT TO MUGHRABI [...] (U) DURING PRIME MINISTER OLMERT'S FEBRUARY 14-15 VISIT TO ANKARA, ISRAELI MEDIA REPORTED THAT OLMERT RESPONDED TO CRITICISM BY TURKISH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN OF ISRAELI ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEXT TO THE MUGHRABI GATE TO THE TEMPLE MOUNT/HARAM AL SHARIF BY INVITING A TURKISH DELEGATION TO [...]	2007-02-23 06:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KPAL TU JO IS
07TELAVIV601	MFA: NO CURRENT PLANS FOR DEMOLITIONS IN GREATER [...] (C) Following up on PolCouns' delivery of Ref A demarche regarding reports of a GOI decision to demolish 41 homes in the Beit Sahour area, MFA Director for North America Dan Arbell informed PolCouns February 26 that the GOI has no plans for such demolitions "at this time." Arbell said he had [...]	2007-02-26 13:25:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL IS
07TELAVIV605	IRAN: REPRESENTATIVE HARMAN'S FEBRUARY 20 MEETING [...] (S) During a February 20 meeting with Representative Jane Harman (D-CA),Israeli Deputy DefMin Ephraim Sneh said that he believes that the installation of a pro-American, secular, democratic government in Iran can be far more easily accomplished than many observers think. Saying that regime c [...]	2007-02-27 06:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER KPAL KWBG IR IS
07TELAVIV612	EU SEE GREATER ROLE FOR ISRAELI MFA IN RAFAH [...] (C) SUMMARY: European Union Special Representative Marc Otte described increased Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) involvement in the Rafah crossing in a February 16 meeting with United States Security Coordinator (USSC). The EU-Border Assistance Mission (EU-BAM) is set to expire in Ma [...]	2007-02-27 08:06:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG EUN IS
07TELAVIV733	LEADING NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERTS DEBATE IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DURING A MARCH 1 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH VISITING S/P DEPUTY DIRECTOR MATT WAXMAN, POLCOUNS AND POLOFF, SENIOR RESEARCHERS AT TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY,S INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES (INSS) SURVEYED A VARIETY OF REGIONAL THREATS FACING ISRAEL AND OFFERED VARIOUS POLICY AL [...]	2007-03-08 12:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINS KPAL KWBG LE SY IR IZ IS
07TELAVIV739	IRAN: CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S BREAKFAST WITH [...] (U) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, th [...]	2007-03-08 14:40:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MASS KPAL KWBG IR SY IS
07TELAVIV740	CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S LUNCH WITH KNESSET MEMBERS [...] (S) 1. (C) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Stei [...]	2007-03-08 14:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PINR PTER KPAL KWBG MASS IR SY LE IS
07TELAVIV741	IRAN: CODEL KYL AND HARMAN'S DINNER WITH SHARANSKY [...] (C) During the visit of CODELs Kyl and Harman to Israel, February 18-20, the two CODELs -- led by Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) -- held a series of meetings with GOI officials and Knesset members according to a program drawn up by Knesset Member Yuval Steinitz, th [...]	2007-03-08 15:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MNUC KNNP KPAL KWBG IR IS
07TELAVIV825	GOI DISCUSSES EU-BAM RENEWAL WITH USSC [...] (C//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, and GBR) In a March 7 meeting with USSC Dayton and attended by the MoD Political-Military Director's advisor Oded Herman, MFA Senior Deputy Director General Ambassador Yossi Gal expressed the GoI's strong interest in renewing the EU-BAM mission, contingent upon receiv [...]	2007-03-16 09:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL ETRD EFIN EU IS
07TELAVIV846	EU-BAM REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE FOR RAFAH [...] (C) Summary/comment: In a March 17 meeting with the Ambassador, EU-BAM Commander LTG Pietro Pistolese requested USG assistance for the EU's efforts to return to normalized operation of the Rafah Crossing Point. Pistolese said that Israel's continued failure to sign the Customs Protocol was ke [...]	2007-03-19 13:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG ECON KPAL PBTS EG IS
07TELAVIV867	ISRAELI TRANSPORTATION MINISTER MOFAZ ON IRAN AND [...] (S) During a March 14 meeting devoted to a variety of issues, Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz praised the latest session of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Dialogue, and noted that he would soon begin preparing for the next session scheduled for May 7-8 in Washington. Mofaz, who has the GOI l [...]	2007-03-21 06:14:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR KPAL KWBG SY LE IR IS
07TELAVIV918	ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS: EU ENVOY ON PEACE TALKS, NUG [...] (C) Summary: During a March 22 meeting with NEA A/S Welch, Deputy Legal Adviser Schwartz, and the Ambassador, EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process Marc Otte said he believes Israelis are uneasy with political horizon discussions, nervous about U.S. intentions, and uncer [...]	2007-03-26 07:49:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG PTER EFIN IS
07TELAVIV984	PUBLIC ISRAELI RESPONSE TO ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT (U) [...] (U) Summary: Initial GOI reaction to the Arab League Summit has been cautiously positive. PM Ehud Olmert's office announced that they would "study in detail the initiative and see if there is anything new ... and then respond." In the official response, the MFA released a statement that skir [...]	2007-03-30 12:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IS
07THEHAGUE106	NETHERLANDS/EU: PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE FOLLOW-ON [...] (SBU) Following the transmission of The Hague 00094 (ref A) on the Dutch response to the GAERC demarche (ref B),post received the following information about Dutch intentions with regard to UNSCR 1737 and Iran from Andre van Wiggen, Deputy Director, Terrorism and New Threats Unit, Political [...]	2007-01-19 17:00:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID ENRG EUN KPAL MARR PGOV BK IR IS
07THEHAGUE1153	NETHERLANDS: JUNE GAERC PRE-BRIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Dutch eagerly await details of the German proposal for a European treaty. Barring sufficient changes in size, form, and content, a new treaty is unlikely to win passage in the Netherlands. The Dutch hope for a robust Sudan sanctions package from the UN but are prepared to [...]	2007-06-15 12:15:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PARM PGOV SOCI
07THEHAGUE1376	JULY GAERC PRE-BRIEF [...] Summary: The Dutch are concerned about the lack of progress and will press for a unified European approach on Kosovo. They anticipate the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) will be a formal ceremony without any substantive changes to the mandate text. The Dutch may provide a limited [...]	2007-07-20 05:53:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED	AL ENRG ETRD ETTC EUN IR IS KPAL PGOV PREL
07THEHAGUE1902	NETHERLANDS/EU: DUTCH PREVIEW OCTOBER 15-16 GAERC [...] (SBU) On October 10, Embassy shared reftel points with the Dutch MFA's EU Correspondent, Desiree Kopmells; Deputy Director for European Integration, Marisa Gerards; and Pauline Diepenbroek, Senior Policy Officer, European Cooperation Directorate. 2. (SBU) WTO off the agenda: Diepenbroek to [...]	2007-10-16 14:56:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IS KPAL PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC NL EU
07THEHAGUE2057	NETHERLANDS/PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE: DUTCH TO [...] (C) Summary. The GONL will pledge 10 million euros at the Paris Donors Conference in addition to the 35.3 million euros in assistance they provided in 2007. They also favor the establishment of an international mechanism to distribute the aid. The Dutch delegation will likely be led by For [...]	2007-12-13 07:03:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KWBG KPAL AMGT PREL PGOV NL
07THEHAGUE396	NETHERLANDS/EU: MARCH PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: Following the PIC, the Dutch expect a continued but significantly smaller EU military presence in Bosnia over the next year. On Kosovo, they await Serbia's and Kosovo's responses to SE Ahtisaari's proposals. The GONL is skeptical on the Palestinian GNU but will wait to see how t [...]	2007-03-05 11:24:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG EUN KPAL PGOV PHUM AF BK IR IS SO
07THEHAGUE748	NETHERLANDS/EU: PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: The GONL remains concerned about linkages in UNSCR 1747 between goods and financing but will work with the FATF to reach practical solutions. They are eager to sign Open Skies Plus, are concerned that proposals for the U.S.-EU summit might be insufficiently ambitious or concrete, [...]	2007-04-23 05:48:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN ETRD KPAL PREL XG IS IR AF NL
07THEHAGUE899	NETHERLANDS/EU: MAY 14-15 PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GONL remains concerned about Sudan and will support EU sanctions if no UN sanctions are forthcoming. The Dutch are also concerned about progress on EU-Russia cooperation. They support an EU role in the International Compact with Iraq and Ahtisaari's recommendations for [...]	2007-05-11 15:05:00	Embassy The Hague	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EUN ETRD KPAL PREL EAID NL
07THEHAGUE94	NETHERLANDS/EU: PRE-GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: The GONL supports the European Neighborhood Policy but does not want to see it used as a back door to EU candidacy. The Dutch continue to push for Serbian ICTY cooperation and will view warily offers to compensate Serbia for any change in Kosovo's status. Secretary Rice's efforts [...]	2007-01-19 13:13:00	Embassy The Hague	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID ENRG EUN KPAL MARR PGOV BK IR IS
07TOKYO1005	JAPAN TO HOST ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN OFFICIALS FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Taro Aso will preside March 14 in Tokyo over a meeting to inaugurate Japan's "Corridor of Peace and Prosperity" initiative involving Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians. Expected participants include Shimon Peres for Israel, Saed Erekat for the Palestinians, and [...]	2007-03-08 13:18:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAGR EAID ETRD EAIR KPAL KWBG IS JO JA
07TOKYO1209	"CORRIDOR FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY" INITIATIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY. Israel, Palestinians, Jordan, and Japan agreed to a Terms of Reference document for the Corridor for Peace and Prosperity (CPP) Initiative, announced Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso March 14. The parties formed a "Four Party Consultation Unit" and agreed that (1) the CPP init [...]	2007-03-19 08:02:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAGR EAID ETRD EAIR KWBG KPAL IS JO JA
07TOKYO2161	JAPAN DENIES PRESS REPORTS OF AID TO PALESTINIAN [...] (SBU) MOFA categorically denies a May 10 Yomiuri Shimbun report that Japan is planning to resume Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) to the Palestinian Authority (PA),according to MOFA First Middle East Division Director Hideo Sato. Sato called in Embassy Tokyo political officer on May 14 [...]	2007-05-14 08:55:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPAL JA
07TOKYO2555	TOKYO TO HOST PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu-Amr will visit Tokyo June 11-13, hosted by Foreign Minister Aso. Japan's message to Abu-Amr will be that the Palestinians must solve their internal problems and resume the peace process with the Israelis. Abu-Amr is expected to request a res [...]	2007-06-07 08:40:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL JA
07TOKYO2692	PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER BLAMES U.S., ISRAEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu-Amr, speaking June 13 at a press conference in Tokyo, blamed U.S. and Israeli policy for the violence now taking place in Gaza, asserting that the failure to deal with the Palestinian government has inevitably led to the current situation. [...]	2007-06-14 09:08:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL JA
07TOKYO2741	PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS TOKYO; MOFA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian Foreign Minister Ziad Abu-Amr enjoyed a "positive, fruitful" visit to Tokyo June 11-13, according to MOFA contacts. FM Aso discussed the possibility of resuming direct assistance to the Palestinians through the Office of President Abbas, although a final decision had [...]	2007-06-18 08:37:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL JA
07TOKYO356	ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS TOKYO [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni's January 17-18 Tokyo visit, she signed an agreement to elevate policy talks from DG-level to VFM-level and reached agreements for Japanese business and cultural exchanges, according to MOFA and Israeli Embassy contacts. Japan agreed t [...]	2007-01-25 22:52:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD KPAL XF IR IS JA
07TOKYO3962	FOREIGN MINISTER ASO VISITS JORDAN, ISRAEL, WEST [...] (C) Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso was clearly pleased with his August 13-15 visit to Jordan, Israel, and the West Bank, calling it the most constructive diplomatic mission he has undertaken as Foreign Minister. The centerpiece of the visit was the "Ministerial Level Meeting of the Four Pa [...]	2007-08-27 06:33:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG SENV EAID ETRD IR IS JO JA
07TOKYO4322	JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER UNABLE TO ATTEND AD HOC [...] (U) Due to the unsettled political situation in Tokyo, Foreign Minister Machimura will be unable to attend the September 24 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meeting in New York, according to MOFA First Middle East Division Deputy Director Hideaki Adachi. The meeting will take place on the day after t [...]	2007-09-14 11:10:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID KPAL KWBG XF JA
07TOKYO4688	JAPAN ANTICIPATES INVITATION TO INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Japan's Special Envoy for Peace in the Middle East Tatsuo Arima was very pleased with the September 24 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meeting, as well as with meetings with NEA A/S Welch (reftel) and NSA Senior Director Abrams, according to MOFA First Middle East Division Deputy Director Hideaki [...]	2007-10-05 05:05:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG IS JA
07TOKYO5062	JAPAN RECONGNIZES PALESTINIAN NATIONALITY [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 22:44:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CPAS KPAL JA
07TOKYO5315	JAPAN: ANNAPOLIS CONFERENCE INVITATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-21 05:35:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AMGT CVIS KPAL KWBG IS JA
07TOKYO5482	JAPANESE VIEW OF ANNAPOLIS, PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan considers the Annapolis Conference a great success, terming it an "historic opportunity" to advance the Peace Process. Unfortunately, Japan was not represented at the ministerial level. Separately, given budgetary constraints, the issue of whether Japan can contribute to [...]	2007-12-07 01:33:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID XF WE IS GZ KWBG KPAL JA
07TOKYO5511	JAPAN STILL UNDECIDED ON PARTICIPATION AT PARIS [...] (C) Japan is still uncertain who will lead its delegation to the December 17 Paris Donors Conference and how much it will be in a position to contribute, according to Ambassador Tatsuo Arima, Japan's Special Representative in charge of Peace in the Middle East. Embassy Tokyo Deputy Chief of [...]	2007-12-11 08:15:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT PREL KWBG KPAL IS JA
07TOKYO659	A/S SILVERBERG'S JANUARY 25 MEETING WITH MIDDLE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan views positively recent steps taken by the United States to reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process and is hopeful that progress will be made, MOFA Director General for Middle Eastern and African Affairs Norihiro Okuda told visiting Assistant Secretary for International [...]	2007-02-15 08:42:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN KPAL IS IR LE SU JA
07TOKYO660	JAPAN WELCOMES AGREEMENT BETWEEN PALESTINIANS [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-15 09:05:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL JA
07TUNIS1545	ABBAS STOPS IN TUNIS TO SEEK PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stopped in Tunis on November 29 and 30 to brief the GOT, Palestinian leaders and the diplomatic corps on the Annapolis conference and next steps for the peace process. According to Palestinian Ambassador Salman al-Harthy, Abbas came to Tunisia in order [...]	2007-11-30 16:11:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PGOV IS TS
07TUNIS1576	FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 16:02:00	Embassy Tunis	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL AMGT KWBG KPAL IS
07TUNIS205	MFA STATEMENT ON AL AQSA EXCAVATIONS [...] (SBU) In keeping with Tunisia's moderate position on Israeli-Palestinian issues, on February 8 the MFA issued a statement, announced by the Tunisia Africa Press Agency (TAP),expressing its "concern" about Israeli excavations around the al-Aqsa Mosque. 2. (U) STATEMENT TEXT (OFFICIAL TAP T [...]	2007-02-09 13:50:00	Embassy Tunis	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPAL TS
07TUNIS29	AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL WITH MINISTER OF DEFENSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: During Ambassador's December 15 courtesy call on Minister of National Defense Kamel Morjane, Morjane highlighted the strong bilateral relations between Tunisia and the United States. Morjane noted the impact of the Arab-Israeli conflict on US goals in the region, but stressed tha [...]	2007-01-04 16:55:00	Embassy Tunis	SECRET	MARR PGOV PREL PINR KPAL TS
07TUNIS965	TUNISIA: REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT'S MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Initial GOT reactions to the President's July 16 speech on the Middle East have been largely favorable. Several Embassy contacts also responded positively, in particular to the call for an international conference. Several commentators, have, however offered criticisms about pa [...]	2007-07-18 16:25:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG IS TS
07ULAANBAATAR665	MONGOLIA ON ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarche delivered by Post, the Mongolian Foreign Ministry informed us on November 29 that Mongolia will likely absent itself from votes on two upcoming anti-Israel UNGA resolutions and abstain on a third. G.Batjargal, Counselor of the MFA's Multilateral Cooperation [...]	2007-11-29 08:41:00	Embassy Ulaanbaatar	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA KPAL KBCT KMPI PHUM IS MG
07USUNNEWYORK1022	U/SYG GUEHENNO: STILL NO AGREEMENT ON UNAMID TCC [...] (U) SUMMARY: DPKO U/SYG Guehenno told the Security Council November 14 that the Government of the Sudan (GOS) has not yet made the strategic decision to cooperate fully with UNAMID deployment. Guehenno said the GOS had not finalized agreement on the UN/AU agreed TCC list, which they received [...]	2007-11-15 14:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC KPAL SU MOPS
07USUNNEWYORK1039	BIASED UNGA COMMITTEE DEBATES ISRAELI PRACTICES IN [...] (SBU) Begin Summary and Comment: The UN General Assembly's Fourth Committee met November 12-14 to receive and debate the annual "Report of the (UN) Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territori [...]	2007-11-16 22:09:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KPAL IS
07USUNNEWYORK1062	UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE: PALESTINIAN RESOURCES AND [...] Summary. The UN General Assembly's Second Committee (Economic and Financial) adopted four resolutions on November 16. Per reftel instructions, the U.S. called for a vote and voted against resolutions on the permanent sovereignty of Palestinian natural resources and unilateral economic meas [...]	2007-11-21 21:08:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECIN ETTC KPAL UNGA IS
07USUNNEWYORK1086	UN: DARFUR POLITICAL AND SECURITY TRACKS STALLED [...] (U) SUMMARY: In back-to-back briefings to the Security Council at a November 27 open debate, Special Envoy Jan Eliasson and DPKO U/SYG Jean Marie Guehenno told Council members that both the political and security tracks of the Darfur peace process are stalled. Eliasson told the Council he nee [...]	2007-11-29 13:48:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC KPAL SU MOPS
07USUNNEWYORK1108	UNGA: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2-3. 2. (C) Per reftel, each year USUN works to reduce support from member states for three UN General Assembly (UNGA) resolutions that extend the mandates of three bodies in the UN that are biased against Israel. On November 26, the UNGA's Fo [...]	2007-11-30 22:34:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS
07USUNNEWYORK1202	GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SECOND COMMITTEE [...] Summary. On December 19, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) took final action on all remaining resolutions adopted by the Second Committee. The UNGA voted on six resolutions that were also voted on in the Committee and adopted all others by consensus. End summary. UNGA Votes ---------- [...]	2007-12-21 17:23:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECIN AORC UNGA ETRD SENV KPAL LE IS
07USUNNEWYORK1207	DECEMBER MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING: PRAISE FOR PARIS, [...] (U) Summary: UN Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe delivered the monthly briefing on the Middle East to the Security Council on December 21. Pascoe praised the Paris donors' conference but said the goal now is to generate "real momentum on all aspects of the peace proc [...]	2007-12-21 23:32:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL IS
07USUNNEWYORK1214	UNGA DEBATES THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE AND THE [...] (U) Summary: The participants in the annual UNGA debates on the Question of Palestine and on the Situation in the Middle East that took place November 29-30 broke no new ground, restating well-known arguments in support of well-known positions. Several countries did, however, acknowledge the [...]	2007-12-26 19:20:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS
07USUNNEWYORK1215	UNGA ADOPTS 27 FOURTH COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) The U.N. General Assembly December 17 adopted 27 draft resolutions on the recommendation of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization Committee). Resolutions and Plenary votes are in paragraph three. 2. (U) The only notable aspect of the voting was a spontaneous applaus [...]	2007-12-26 19:21:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS
07USUNNEWYORK165	UN REQUEST FOR USG ACTION ON REGISTER OF DAMAGES [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: The UN is quietly asking select member states to submit recommendations for one of three positions on the Board of the Register of Damages related to the construction of the Israeli separation barrier. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution December [...]	2007-03-02 18:20:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL UNSC IS
07USUNNEWYORK212	UN DPA ON SYG BAN KI-MOON'S MIDDLE EAST VISIT [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: A/S SILVERBERG AND DAS DANIN MET WITH UN DPA MIDDLE EAST ADVISOR MICHAEL WILLIAMS MARCH 13 TO DISCUSS THE SYG'S FORTHCOMING MIDDLE EAST TRIP AND UPCOMING UNSCR 1701 REPORT. SYG BAN KI-MOON PLANS TO MEET WITH SARG PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASAD ON THE MARGINS OF THE ARAB LEAGUE MEETI [...]	2007-03-15 23:31:00	USUN New York	SECRET	PREL UNSC KPKO KPAL LE SY IS
07USUNNEWYORK218	ISRAELI MFA IO HEAD RONNY YA'AR OUTLINES POSSIBLE [...] (C) Summary. During a lunch meeting with IO A/S Silverberg, NEA DAS Danin, and Ambassador Wolff on March 13, senior Israeli MFA official Ronny Ya'ar expressed concerns about SYG Ban Ki-Moon's planned travel to Damascus in April, possible references to new UN conclusions about the sovereignty [...]	2007-03-19 17:45:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO KPAL LE SY IS
07USUNNEWYORK219	MONTHLY UNSC MIDDLE EAST DEBATE FOCUSES ON MECCA [...] (SBU) DELIVERING HIS FIRST BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY PAGE 02 RUCNDTA0219 UNCLAS COUNCIL DURING ITS MONTHLY MIDDLE EAST DEBATE ON MARCH 14, NEWLY-ARRIVED DPA U/SYG LYNN PASCOE (AMCIT) SAID DEVELOPMENTS OVER THE PAST MONTH -- INCLUDING THE MECCA AGREEMENT -- HOLD OUT THE PROMISE TO TURN PAS [...]	2007-03-19 21:19:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LE
07USUNNEWYORK505	SECURITY COUNCIL SPLIT OVER SUPPORT FOR ABBAS [...] (SBU) In the monthly briefing to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Michael Williams, the recently appointed UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said the Middle East was in a time of crisis. Williams focused his briefing on recent events in Gaza and [...]	2007-06-21 00:58:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL LE SY IS
07USUNNEWYORK630	UNSC: QATAR AND INDONESIA DROP GAZA PRST [...] (SBU) Qatar and Indonesia formally abandoned July 30 an effort to push a UNSC Presidential Statement expressing concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including a call to open the border crossings, after USUN advised the Council we would not be able to support the statement. USUN [...]	2007-08-01 00:33:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL ID QA
07USUNNEWYORK717	MONTHLY UNSC MIDEAST DEBATE: CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM FOR [...] (U) Summary. During a seven-hour monthly UNSC debate on the Middle East on August 29 featuring over 30 speakers, UNSCO Michael Williams professed "guarded optimism" about recent developments in the Arab-Israeli peace process but was decidedly downcast about the reality on the ground. Amb Wol [...]	2007-08-30 22:20:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER UNSC KPKO KPAL KWBG SY LE IS
07USUNNEWYORK763	BAN ON DARFUR, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, QUARTET [...] (C) During his monthly lunch with Security Council PermReps September 17, SYG Ban promised an increased UN role in Afghanistan and Iraq and reported the Italians may provide the aviation assets necessary to support UNAMID deployment. He also said the September 23 Quartet meeting should not be [...]	2007-09-18 00:13:00	USUN New York	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPAL SU AF IZ
07USUNNEWYORK944	UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (U) Summary: On October 24, Professor John Dugard, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, briefed the Third Committee of the General Assembly on his latest report, UN document A/62/275 of 17 August 2007. Israel called the report one-s [...]	2007-11-01 13:34:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNGA KPAL IS
07VATICAN12	AFRICA ON FRONT BURNER AS POPE ADDRESSES DIP CORPS [...] (SBU) Pope Benedict placed particular emphasis on challenges facing Africa in his second annual address to the diplomatic corps. He called attention to Darfur and Somalia, and criticized an attempt "to trivialize abortion" in Africa. Benedict decried the uselessness of "armed solutions" to [...]	2007-01-10 15:43:00	Embassy Vatican	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF KISL KPAL KNNP VT
07VIENNA1605	AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: JUNE 18-19 GAERC [...] (U) Acting EconPol Counselor delivered reftel points on June 14 to Andreas Riecken, the MFA's European Correspondent. Riecken offered the following observations: 2. (C) Cuba: Riecken does not expect much discussion, as Council Conclusions have already been drafted at the working level. [...]	2007-06-15 14:48:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PARM PGOV PREL SOCI AU
07VIENNA1926	AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: JULY 23 GAERC [...] (U) PolUnit Chief delivered reftel points on July 19 to Christine Moser, the MFA's Deputy European Correspondent, who offered the following observations: 2. (C) Kosovo: Kosovo will top the agenda. Member states should emphasize that the EU is united in its support for the Ahtisaari plan. [...]	2007-07-20 15:10:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PGOV PREL SOCI AU
07VIENNA2603	AUSTRIAN POSITIONS AT AND EXPECTATIONS OF 10/15 [...] (C) Summary. According to the Austrian MFA European Correspondent (EC),the WTO/DDA negotiations have been dropped from the agenda of the 10/15 GAERC. He expects only perfunctory discussion of Libya and Russia. The MEPP discussion will focus on a German proposal to develop an EU action plan [...]	2007-10-12 08:26:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL EUN AU
07VIENNA2922	PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE: AUSTRIA CONSIDERING [...] (SBU) During a December 7 conversation with Charge, Ralph Scheide, Head (A/S-equivalent) of the MFA's Middle East and Africa Division, said that Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik would lead the Austrian delegation to the December 17 donors conference in Paris to support Palestinian reform and [...]	2007-12-11 08:46:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EAID KWBG KPAL AU
07VIENNA717	AUSTRIA TO FOLLOW EU CONSENSUS ON UNESCO SPECIAL [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on March 21 to Franz Josef Kuglitsch, the acting head of the Austrian MFA's Middle East Bureau. (The international organizations bureau referred us to their regional colleagues as the action office on this issue.) Wolfgang Lapuh, the MFA's DAS-le [...]	2007-03-21 15:34:00	Embassy Vienna	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL UNESCO AU
07VIENNA720	FORMATION OF A PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns presented reftel points on March 21 to Franz Josef Kuglitsch, the Austrian MFA's acting Middle East Director, and Wolfgang Lapuh, the MFA's DAS-level Near East Director. 2. (C) Kuglitsch and Lapuh confirmed press reports that Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik ha [...]	2007-03-21 15:45:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL PGOV KWBG PREL IS AU
07VIENNA832	AUSTRIA ON THE MARCH 30-31 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns delivered reftel points on March 29 to Anreas Riecken, the Austrian MFA's European Correspondent. Riecken responded substantively as follows. 2. (C) Western Balkans: The discussion will focus on Kosovo, Riecken said. It is very clear that the EU supports Martti Ahtisa [...]	2007-03-30 08:08:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI AU
07VIENNA917	PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ABU AMR VISITS VIENNA [...] (SBU) In response to an invitation by Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik, Palestinian National Unity Government (NUG) Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr visited Vienna for meetings on April 4. Abu Amr said publicly that Israel is "not ready for serious peace negotiations." At the same tim [...]	2007-04-05 14:58:00	Embassy Vienna	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS AU
07VILNIUS219	LITHUANIA AGREES WITH GYMNICH TALKING POINTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We delivered reftel points to Gediminas Kasputis of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division on March 28. Kasputis said that the GOL's positions were nearly identical to our positions. Kasputis asked for clarification on several points, and gave details on Lithuania [...]	2007-03-27 14:37:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN KPAL PREL XG IS IR ZI LH BO
07VILNIUS277	LITHUANIA ON GAERC: CONCERNS ABOUT RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Lithuania's priority at the April 23-24 GAERC will be to suggest postponing the cooperation agreement with Russia until the GOR explains the Druzhba pipeline closure. The FM will also intervene to discuss his recent trip to Central Asia and to discuss the US-EU Summit declaratio [...]	2007-04-20 16:13:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL ETRD EPET EUN LH
07VILNIUS322	LITHUANIA MAY INTERVENE ON MOLDOVA AT MAY 14 GAERC [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania may intervene at the May 14 GAERC on Moldova. The GOL sees little chance of making progress towards a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Russia given the current climate. They have suspicions that the secretive negotiations concluded between Russia and Moldova [...]	2007-05-09 13:32:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN ETRD KPAL LH RS MD
07VILNIUS438	(C) LITHUANIA TO INTERVENE ON NEIGHBORHOOD POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Lithuania plans to intervene on neighborhood policy at the June 18-19 GAERC. The GOL is happy with the German Presidency's handling of this issue, but still has some points to add to the conclusions. Lithuania expects a shortened period of discussion for all agenda items to save [...]	2007-06-13 11:06:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PARM PGOV PREL LH
07VILNIUS519	LITHUANIAN FM TO SPEAK ABOUT WTO AND KOSOVO AT [...] (C) We delivered reftel points to Vyta Naujokaityte of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Division. Naujokaityte told us that FM Petras Vaitiekunas's briefing book is still being prepared for the July 23 GAERC. He plans to make a short statement about Kosovo and the WTO. 2. (C) N [...]	2007-07-17 12:24:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN ENRG ETRD ETTC KPAL PGOV PREL SOCI LH
07VILNIUS729	LITHUANIA ON THE OCTOBER 15-16 FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) Begin Summary. Lithuania's priority at the October 15-16 GAERC will be to express concerns about Russia prior to the EU-Russia summit in Portugal later this month. The FM also may intervene to discuss concerns about the EU's new treaty reform, to express support for strong pressure on Bu [...]	2007-10-12 14:23:00	Embassy Vilnius	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL LH RS IR
07WARSAW2091	POLAND: MFA OFFICIAL REVIEWS GAERC AGENDA; [...] (C) Summary: PolCouns met October 11 with Pawel Herczynski, MFA Deputy Director for EU Affairs, to review reftel issues in advance of the October 15-16 EU Foreign Ministers meeting. While most of his comments were predictable, Herczynski added a new twist on Poland's approach to EU-Russia [...]	2007-10-11 14:19:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL WTO PL
07WARSAW2347	POLAND TO ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) PolCouns met December 10 with Wieslaw Kucel, Counselor in the MFA's Middle East and Africa Department to deliver reftel demarche. Kucel, who accompanied Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski to the Annapolis conference, said that Poland would be represented by at least Deputy Foreign Minist [...]	2007-12-10 14:26:00	Embassy Warsaw	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS PL
07WARSAW319	FATAH-HAMAS GOVERNMENT: POLAND STRONGLY SUPPORTS [...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche on the Fatah-Hamas national unity government on February 9 to Pawel Herczynski, MFA EU Department Deputy Director. Herczynski commented that the U.S.views were fully consistent with Quartet principles, and therefore they reflected EU policy as [...]	2007-02-09 15:34:00	Embassy Warsaw	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS PL
07YEREVAN151	PALESTINIAN UNITY GOVERNMENT POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-12 13:07:00	Embassy Yerevan	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KISL KPAL KWBG IS AM
08ABUDHABI1418	CROWN PRINCE'S MEETING WITH SENATOR BAUCUS [...] (C) Summary. During his December 13-15 visit to the UAE (reported septel),Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) discussed the UAE's strategic vision with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MbZ). Baucus noted his amazement with the UAE's progress. MbZ presented an overview of the [...]	2008-12-18 07:59:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV OREP PREL PARM KPAL CVIS IR AE
08ABUDHABI159	ADMIRAL FALLON'S UPCOMING VISIT TO ABU DHABI [...] (S) Admiral Fallon, Embassy Abu Dhabi again welcomes you for a visit to the UAE, where we look forward to your engagement with U.S. personnel on the ground and your discussions with the nation's top strategic defense planner, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Arme [...]	2008-02-05 14:29:00	Embassy Abu Dhabi	SECRET	PREL PTER PARM MOPS MARR KPAL IR IZ AF LE
08AITTAIPEI1776	TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DESIGNATION OF UNION OF GOOD [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on December 22, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on the U.S. Department of the Treasury's designation of the Union of Good, a Saudi Arabia-based organization, as a supporter of t [...]	2008-12-24 05:51:00	American Institute Taiwan, Taipei	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL UNSC ECON
08ALGIERS1350	ALGERIAN MFA: DANGEROUS SPLIT BETWEEN REGIMES AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Secretary General Madjid Bouguerra assured the Ambassador on December 31 that Algeria would continue to play a constructive role in formulating Arab League reactions to the situation in Gaza, avoiding inflammatory rhetoric. Bouguerra said that Algerians were shocked and traum [...]	2008-12-31 18:48:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PTER PHUM MOPS KWBG IS AG
08ALGIERS75	ALGERIANS VIEW POTUS TRIP WITH CAUTION, CYNICISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Bush's recent trip to the Middle East attracted considerable if mostly cynical press coverage in Algeria, though the government issued no official statement. In general, press coverage and our MFA contacts indicate that Algerian expectations for the trip were low, speci [...]	2008-01-22 16:55:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL AG
08ALGIERS778	ALGERIA COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING PALESTINIAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to Messaoud Benziad, Deputy Director of MFA's office of Mashreq Affairs. We thanked Benziad for Algeria's support for the Palestinian Authority thus far, noting reftel points that Algeria is one of three Arab League countries that has pledged support this year [...]	2008-07-09 16:45:00	Embassy Algiers	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PGOV ECON IS AG
08AMMAN1032	UNRWA EMPLOYEES IN JORDAN STAGE ONE DAY STRIKE [...] (C) Summary: Local employees of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) across Jordan stayed home from work on April 8 in a one-day protest over compensation. They are demanding a wage increase that will keep their salaries competitive with employees of the Jordanian government, along with ad [...]	2008-04-08 15:37:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF ECON ELAB KPAL JO
08AMMAN1098	PALESTINIAN PRESIDENTIAL GUARD COMPLETE TRAINING [...] (SBU) The first group of Palestinian Authority Presidential Guard (PG) personnel to train at the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC) completed their two-month training program in Jordan and took part in a graduation ceremony on April 13. United States Security Coordinator Lt. [...]	2008-04-14 14:45:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KWBG KPAL JO IS
08AMMAN1121	JORDAN AND ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SECURITY [...] (S/NF) Jordan's security interests in a Palestinian state are manifold, and felt very deeply both at the senior levels and in the street. The GOJ rejects any suggestion that Jordan assume security responsibilities in the West Bank, or that the fulfillment of Palestinian national aspirations be [...]	2008-04-15 12:40:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KWBG KPAL IS JO
08AMMAN1232	JORDANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND AHLC [...] (C) Pol/C delivered reftel demarche April 21 to Jamal Al-Shamayleh, Director of the Foreign Minister's private office. Shamayleh noted Jordan's support for peacemaking efforts, and said that Foreign Minister Bashir would lead the Jordanian delegation in London. He added that Jordanian Minist [...]	2008-04-23 06:27:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL EU KPAL KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN1374	SIXTH FATAH GENERAL CONGRESS NOT YET READY FOR [...] (C) Salim Zanoun, Speaker of the Palestine National Council and longtime Fatah member, told poloff in mid-April that the Fatah Preparatory Committee met "day and night" in Amman from April 6-10 to discuss plans for a meeting in the coming months of the Sixth Fatah General Conference. Zanoun [...]	2008-05-07 08:54:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KPAL JO IS
08AMMAN1466	CITIZENSHIP OF MANY JORDANIAN-PALESTINIANS STILL [...] (C) Summary: Twenty years after Jordan severed its legal and administrative ties to the West Bank, the repercussions are still being felt, and not merely in the central peace process assumption that the West Bank will become the core of a Palestinian state. Through vague regulations and opaqu [...]	2008-05-14 06:33:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL PREF KDEM KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN1614	TRIBULATIONS OF JORDAN'S "PEACE CAMP": ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary: Sixty years after Israel's establishment and 14 years after the formal establishment of Israeli-Jordanian peace, the Jordanian atmosphere outside government circles remains hostile to advocates of reconciliation with Israel, and to those who interact with Israelis and Israeli ins [...]	2008-05-28 09:33:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL IS JO
08AMMAN1666	STAFFDEL DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, REGIONAL EVENTS, [...] (C) Summary: During a week-long visit to Jordan organized by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a ten-member U.S. congressional staffdel met with a variety of senior figures, including Prime Minister Nader Al-Dahabi, Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah, Advisor to the Chief of Defense [...]	2008-06-03 15:00:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KIRF KPAL IS SY IZ IR LE JO
08AMMAN1724	PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 1: THE REFUGEES AND THEIR WORLD [...] (SBU) Note: This is the first of a four-part series of cables examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one will focus on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two will examine the isolation of the ca [...]	2008-06-09 15:01:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF KPAL JO
08AMMAN1725	PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 2: [...] (SBU) Note: This is the second cable of a four-part series examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two will examine the isolation of the camps [...]	2008-06-10 08:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL PREF JO
08AMMAN1737	HOW ISLAMISTS INFILTRATED JORDAN'S BAR ASSOCIATION [...] (C) Summary: Jordan's Bar Association is controlled by the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood (JMB),even though most of the country's lawyers are not Islamists. The JMB maintains its position in the Bar by exploiting the lack of political engagement on the part of pro-government lawyers and buildi [...]	2008-06-10 14:22:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KPAL JO

08AMMAN1744	PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 3: THE [...] (SBU) Note: This is the third of a four-part series of cables examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two examined the isolation of the camps [...]	2008-06-11 07:02:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KPAL KREF JO
08AMMAN1753	PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN JORDAN, PART 4: [...] (SBU) Note: This is the fourth cable of a four-part series examining the world of Jordan's Palestinian refugee camps. Part one focused on the different categories of refugees, and the basic structure of the camp system as it exists in Jordan. Part two examined the isolation of the camps - h [...]	2008-06-12 06:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KPAL KISL KREF JO
08AMMAN2064	KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT - JORDAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on July 10 to Mohammad Al-Khalidi, Director of the Arab and Middle East Affairs Department at the Foreign Ministry. Khalidi estimated that Jordan has only disbursed roughly $1 million of the cash amount pledged to the Palestinian Authority at the Arab Lea [...]	2008-07-10 13:05:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL PGOV PREL ECON PINR JO
08AMMAN2080	USSC LTG DAYTON'S JULY 1 MEETING WITH KING ABDULLAH [...] (SBU) U.S. Security Coordinator Lieutenant General Keith Dayton met with King Abdullah on July 1 to discuss the ongoing training of Palestinian security forces at the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC). LTG Dayton was accompanied by the Ambassador, the Defense Attache and the [...]	2008-07-13 13:46:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO KPAL KWBG MAS PREL
08AMMAN2093	PALESTINE NATIONAL COUNCIL SPEAKER ZANOUN DEFENDS [...] (C) Summary: Palestine National Council Speaker Salim al-Zanoun provided his version of the intra-Palestinian political dispute described ref A, in which he was pressured to allow the selection of new members to the PLO Executive Committee without convening the PNC. While his account was not [...]	2008-07-14 10:27:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG IS JO
08AMMAN2383	AQABA FACES THE CHALLENGES OF GROWTH [...] (C) Summary: Aqaba has grown rapidly and consistently since 2001 when it was placed under a special administrative model designed to encourage investment, growth and development. This growth has come at something of a price when it comes to local governance; locals complain that they lack a [...]	2008-08-14 05:27:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV KPAL KDEM JO
08AMMAN2424	JORDANIAN OFFICIALS MEET WITH HAMAS AND THE MUSLIM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Jordanian media outlets have reported in recent weeks that Lieutenant General Mohammad Dahabi, the head of the General Intelligence Department (GID),has held a series of separate meetings with members of the Jordanian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood (JMB) and its political party [...]	2008-08-19 14:17:00	Embassy Amman	SECRET	PGOV PREL KISL KPAL JO
08AMMAN265	CODEL PRICE DISCUSSES JORDANIAN POLITICAL REFORM, [...] (C) Summary: During the January 9-11 visit to Jordan of Codel Price (comprising Representatives David Price, Harold Rogers, Dennis Rehberg, James Moran, Michael Simpson, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, all of the House Appropriations Committee),the group and their staffers met with Chief of the [...]	2008-01-24 15:21:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL JO IS SY IZ
08AMMAN266	PALESTINIAN NSF ARRIVE IN JORDAN FOR TRAINING AT [...] (SBU) On January 23, head of the Public Security Directorate Major General Mazen Al-Qadi and Ambassador Hale signed the latest amendments to the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC) Letter of Agreement that provide for the training of Palestinian Authority National Security Forc [...]	2008-01-24 15:36:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR KPAL MASS JO
08AMMAN2754	UNSC MINISTERIAL ON SETTLEMENTS: JORDAN WILL TRY [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche September 25 to Royal Court Chief Bassem Awadallah. Awadallah said that he is in daily contact with FM Salah Al-Bashir, currently in New York for UNGA, and would relay the points. Awadallah said that Jordan will try to be helpful to the extent it can. [...]	2008-09-25 14:17:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KWBG KPAL UNSC JO
08AMMAN2781	MEDIA REPORTS FURTHER GOJ CONTACT WITH THE MUSLIM [...] (U) Media outlets reported recently that the director of the General Intelligence Department (GID),LTG Mohammad Dahabi, held a third round of meetings with the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and spoke on the phone with HAMAS Political Bureau Director Khaled Meshal in mid September. Islamist-leaning [...]	2008-09-29 14:15:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	JO KISL KPAL PGOV
08AMMAN2945	INFLATION PUSHES WOMEN IN JORDAN'S PALESTINIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff recently met with forty women in the Wahdat and Zarqa Palestinian refugee camps to talk about the impact inflation is having on their daily lives. While the conservative culture of the camps is still a barrier to employment, economic necessity is pushing an increasing n [...]	2008-10-27 06:12:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF ECON PGOV KPAL KWMN JO
08AMMAN3002	MAJALI REJECTS ELECTORAL REFORM CHATTER [...] (SBU) Jordan's electoral system has recently emerged as a topic of discussion, first in background chatter and now in comments in the official media. Lower house speaker Abdulhadi Al-Majali offered a surprisingly blunt rejection of changes in Jordan's electoral system in a wide-ranging inter [...]	2008-11-03 07:41:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPAL JO
08AMMAN3189	GOJ LEADERS TALK AID, REFORM, PALESTINIANS, LEVANT [...] (C) Summary: NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Hale, who was in Amman to participate in the U.S.-Jordan Political Dialogue (Ref A),spent November 18 in separate meetings with King Abdullah, Royal Court Chief Nasser Al-Lozi, Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir, Senate President Zeid [...]	2008-11-25 07:31:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL SY IS LE AE MO JO
08AMMAN3353	KING'S DECENTRALIZATION PLAN HAS MANY CRITICS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. The King is pushing the Jordanian government to revive an ambitious decentralization plan. While the plan's stated goal is to respond more effectively to local concerns, the King may also be pushing the plan for some of its political side-effects, including changes in Jordan's e [...]	2008-12-18 15:36:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KDEM KPAL JO
08AMMAN3367	JORDAN CAUTIOUS ABOUT PROCESSING WALID PALESTINIAN [...] (C) In separate November 19 meetings with Jordanian Minister for Planning and International Cooperation Suhair Al-Ali and Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleh Al-Bashir, PRM Acting A/S Witten asked about the possibility of processing in Jordan the Iraqi-Palestinians from the Walid camp on the Ir [...]	2008-12-23 11:24:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL KPAL JO
08AMMAN3387	JORDAN FM SUMMONS P5 AMBASSADORS TO PROTEST [...] (C) Ambassador and the representatives of other P5 countries were summoned the afternoon of December 27 by Jordan's Foreign Minister Salah Al-Bashir, who registered his country's protest of Israel's "disproportionate" and "indiscriminate" bombing in Gaza. Ambassador pointed out that the stri [...]	2008-12-28 15:30:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL JO
08AMMAN3417	JORDAN: FM RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO DEMARCHE ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-31 11:57:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG MOPS PHUM JO
08AMMAN3418	JORDAN ISLAMISTS PROTEST GAZA EVENTS AND ARAB [...] (SBU) An estimated 2,000 protesters attended a December 30 demonstration organized by the Islamic Action Front (IAF),the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, half a mile from the U.S. Embassy on Cairo Street in the upper class commercial area of Abdoun. Speakers, including Muslim Broth [...]	2008-12-31 13:41:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL KISL JO
08AMMAN347	ISLAMISTS RAMP UP ANTI-NORMALIZATION RHETORIC TO [...] (C) Summary: After losing two-thirds of its parliamentary representation in November's elections, the Islamic Action Front (IAF) is pulling out the stops to rebuild its base. In the past six weeks, the IAF has sought to capitalize on popular unhappiness with the situation in Gaza with a serie [...]	2008-02-04 13:55:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KISL IS JO
08AMMAN390	HABASH DEATH DRAWS JORDAN'S GAZE BRIEFLY; SOME SEE [...] (C) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine founder George Habash, whose calls for the overthrow of the Hashemites and brazen, terrorist airline hijackings here in 1970 ran afoul of the Jordanian Government and precipitated the crackdown on Palestinian groups known as Black September, d [...]	2008-02-06 13:25:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF KPAL PTER JO IS
08AMMAN391	THE RIGHT OF RETURN: WHAT IT MEANS IN JORDAN [...] (C) Summary: The right of return for Palestinians is one of the issues at the heart of the debate over what it means to be Jordanian. Though our GOJ interlocutors insist that the theoretical option of return remains, they are now more engaged with the issue of compensation, both for individua [...]	2008-02-06 14:43:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF KPAL JO
08AMMAN485	PALESTINIAN PRESIDENTIAL GUARD ARRIVE IN JORDAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-14 14:44:00	Embassy Amman	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KPAL MASS JO
08AMMAN600	JORDAN-BASED PNC LEADERS SEE PLANS TO CONVENE [...] (C) Summary: Arab media outlets have in recent weeks reported discussions in Ramallah of the possibility of convening the Palestine National Council (PNC) in the coming months, either in Ramallah, Amman, or Cairo. Post's PNC contacts including Speaker Salim al-Zanoun confirm moves are afoot, [...]	2008-02-25 15:54:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF KPAL JO IS
08AMMAN705	JORDANIAN IDENTITY POLITICS TRUMP GENDER CONCERNS [...] (C) Summary: The issue of who can and cannot transmit citizenship is an ongoing concern of many women in Jordan, and was revived in the public consciousness during recent parliamentary elections. Jordanian women married to non-Jordanian men do not transmit citizenship to their children. This create [...]	2008-03-05 09:37:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN KPAL KDEM JO
08AMMAN76	STAFFDEL DIAMOND DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS, SYRIA, [...] (C) Summary: During the visit of Staffdel Diamond to Jordan January 6-7, the group discussed the peace process, Jordanian relations with Syria, Iraqi refugee issues, and nuclear energy with Jordanian officials. Interlocutors stressed the need for concrete steps that would create immediate t [...]	2008-01-09 07:45:00	Embassy Amman	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL ENRG JO IS SY
08ANKARA755	TURKEY: SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS WITH ISRAEL AND THE [...] (U) This cable is in response to ref a request. 2. (C) Summary: The GOT supports the Annapolis process and the Road Map, and increasingly sees itself as an impartial regional facilitator, capable of playing a constructive role in the Middle East peace process. Ankara hosted PA President A [...]	2008-04-22 14:31:00	Embassy Ankara	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS KPAL TU
08ATHENS115	GREEK VIEWS ON ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ISSUES [...] (U) This message contains an action request for Department. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) DepPolCouns and PolOff discussed ref a points on Israeli-Palestinian issues with MFA A6 Middle East Directorate deputy head Giorgos Ayfantis. On the demarche overall, Ayfantis complemented the author for a [...]	2008-01-25 08:23:00	Embassy Athens	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID OPRC KPAL IS GR
08BANGKOK3673	TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF [...] (SBU) On December 4, Econoff passed reftel points regarding the United States' designation of Saudi Arabia-based Union of Good as a supporter of terrorism under Executive Order 13224 to three offices within the RTG: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' (MFA) International Security Unit, the Nation [...]	2008-12-17 05:51:00	Embassy Bangkok	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN KWBG KPAL EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR
08BEIJING4600	DELIVERY OF UNION OF GOOD TERRORISM FINANCE [...] (SBU) On December 18, 2008, Econoffs and Finatt conveyed reftel to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of External Security Affairs, Mr. Wu Shifan, as it relates to bilateral counterterrorism efforts. We expressed his appreciation and indicated he would pass the information on [...]	2008-12-19 01:11:00	Embassy Beijing	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS
08BEIRUT1009	LEBANON: GOL UNLIKELY TO FUND PALESTINIAN [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on supporting the Palestinian Authority to Oussama Khachab and Rana Mokaddem, officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Acknowledging the financial challenges faced by the PA, the MFA officials said it was nevertheless not financially feasible for Leb [...]	2008-07-11 16:41:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG KPAL IS PGOV PREL ECON LE
08BEIRUT1015	Beirut Media Reaction: July 14, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-14 12:41:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1017	Bin Talal Takes Ove LBC/Satellite [...] Saudi multi-billionaire Al Waleed Bin Talal and Lebanese media magnate Pierre El Daher announced on July 8 that Bin Talal raised his stake in El Daher's Lebanese Media Holding (LMH) to around 85 per cent with a value of US 78 million. Bin Talal is now the main shareholder. LMH encompasses th [...]	2008-07-14 14:43:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT120	LEBANON: ISF INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TARGETED IN [...] (S) A huge car bomb explosion rocked the Chevrolet-Furn al-Chubbak area of east Beirut on January 25 killing Internal Security Forces (ISF) intelligence officer Captain Wissam Eid, his bodyguard, and at least two others, and injuring dozens. Eid, an Embassy contact, was in charge of the ISF's [...]	2008-01-25 18:28:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	PGOV PREL IS KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1272	LEBANON: AOUN EXPECTS VIOLENCE AFTER RAMADAN [...] (C) In a August 29 meeting, Free Patriotic Movement leader General Michel Aoun told visiting NEA DAS David Hale and Ambassador that he expected the volatile northern city of Tripoli to erupt in violence after Ramadan. Aoun blamed Saudi funding and ideology for fueling the militant elements c [...]	2008-09-02 09:38:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KPAL UNSC MARR IS LE SA
08BEIRUT1292	LEBANON: PRESIDENT SLEIMAN MEETS ASD LONG, ASD [...] (C) In an August 27 meeting, President Sleiman said that he was looking forward to his upcoming trip to the White House. Sleiman intends to address the complicated issues facing Lebanon with the President, as well as his concern over recent Israeli comments. Sleiman thanked the USG for conti [...]	2008-09-03 14:07:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MCAP MARR KPAL IR LE
08BEIRUT1299	LEBANON: MAKKAWI SAYS GULF STATES NEED TO HELP [...] (C) In a September 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee President Ambassador Khalil Makkawi said Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar had yet to make any pledges for the reconstruction appeal for the destroyed Palestinian Refugee camp Nah [...]	2008-09-04 14:13:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREF PREL PTER KPAL LE AE KU QA SA
08BEIRUT1345	LEBANON: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY AND TRADE DISCUSSES [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Economy and Trade Mohammad Safadi praised majority leader Saad Hariri's role in the reconciliation among opposing groups in Tripoli, but said their weapons will remain. He worried that the Beddawi Palestinian refugee camp outside Tripoli is b [...]	2008-09-15 10:38:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD KPAL QA LE
08BEIRUT1363	LEBANON: USG ANNOUNCES CONTRIBUTION TO SUPPORT [...] (SBU) At a September 11 donors conference, the USG announced a $17.81 million pledge to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to provide relief and reconstruction assistance to displaced Nahr al-Barid camp refugees. The U.S. was the only donor to ma [...]	2008-09-17 11:38:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREF PREL PTER KPAL LE AE KU QA SA
08BEIRUT1454	LEBANON: WITH DAS HALE, MP MICHEL MURR DESCRIBES [...] (C) In an October 7 meeting with visiting NEA DAS David Hale, independent MP Michel Murr remarked he was unconcerned about recent Syrian troop buildup at the northern Lebanese-Syrian border, attributing the maneuver to a Syrian desire to intimidate Salafists in northern Lebanon. Murr revealed [...]	2008-10-08 11:00:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC IS KPAL SY LE
08BEIRUT148	LEBANON: GOL DOWNBEAT ON LATEST ARAB LEAGUE MEETING [...] (C) The results of the January 27 Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Cairo were disappointing both to the Lebanese majority and the opposition. Acting FM Tarek Mitri and the PM's senior aide Mohamed Chatah, who represented Lebanon in Cairo, had weak support from Lebanon's friends and [...]	2008-01-30 17:05:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1562	LEBANON: UNRWA WARNS A/S HOOK ABOUT DETERIORATING [...] (C) During a October 30 meeting with visiting Assistant Secretary for International Organization (IO) Affairs Brian Hook and the Ambassador, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Deputy Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi and UNRWA Lebanon Country Director Salvatore Lombardo warned that the ingre [...]	2008-10-31 15:37:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREF PREL PTER KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1657	Lebanon: Media Reaction - November 20, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-20 14:15:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1755	Lebanon: Media Reaction - December 15, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-15 11:41:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1757	Lebanon: Media Reaction - December 16, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-16 10:43:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1768	Lebanon: Media Reaction - December 17, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 11:28:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1771	Lebanon: Media Reaction - December 19, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 12:54:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT1779	LEBANON: WITH DAS HALE, MARONITE PATRIARCH [...] (C) Maronite Patriarch Sfeir fears a divided bloc of Christian voters will lead to March 8 gains in the spring parliamentary elections, but said his role was only to speak out for the principles of freedom, and to not be "out front" on delivering political messages. He was unsure if Christian [...]	2008-12-22 14:33:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KPAL LE SY
08BEIRUT1801	SALLOUKH SKEPTICAL ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE [...] (C) Visiting NEA Deputy Assistant Secretary David Hale, Ambassador, and visiting NEA Lebanon Desk Officer met Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh on December 19. Salloukh noted general respect for the Doha agreement in advance of the 2009 parliamentary elections, which he expected to occur in late [...]	2008-12-30 13:24:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC MASS KPAL IS LE
08BEIRUT1805	LEBANON: GOL WILL ATTEND ARAB LEAGUE MEETING ON [...] (C) On December 30, Embassy officers delivered reftel demarche to Nazem Khoury, advisor to President Sleiman, and Oussama Khachab, Director of the Americas desk at the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Khoury and Khachab, respectively, called the situation in Gaza "unacceptable" and "very [...]	2008-12-30 16:34:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL KWBG MOPS IS LE
08BEIRUT1806	LEBANON: GAZA REACTIONS: HIZBALLAH MOST VOCAL [...] (C) The most vocal critic in Lebanon against Israeli action in Gaza, Hizballah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, blamed Arab states for "collaborating with Israel" and urged these states to stand up to Israel. He also called for demonstrations, most of which have been held without incident. [...]	2008-12-30 17:00:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR UNSC MARR MOPS KPAL IS
08BEIRUT198	LEBANON: A/FM MITRI ON IRAQI REFUGEES, ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) The Ambassador paid an introductory call on Acting Foreign Minister Tariq Mitri as Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa was once again in Beirut seeking to mediate a resolution to the presidential election deadlock between the majority and the opposition. Mitri was not hopeful that [...]	2008-02-11 08:15:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC EAID IS KPAL LE PGOV PREF PREL SA SY
08BEIRUT216	LEBANON: AMBASSADOR VISITS SENIOR MUSLIM RELIGIOUS [...] (C) The Ambassador's introductory calls on Acting Head of the Higher Islamic Shia Council Sayyed Qabalan and Sunni Grand Mufti Sheikh Qabbani were a contrast illustrating the opposing political visions and the tensions underlying Shia-Sunni relations in Lebanon. Sayyed Qabalan, a close ally [...]	2008-02-12 17:12:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KIRF KPAL LE PGOV PREL
08BEIRUT226	LEBANON: AMBASSADOR RECEIVES OVERVIEW OF GOL'S [...] (C) During an introductory call on February 13, the Ambassador received an overview of the GOL's programs to assist the Palestinian refugee community from Ambassador Khalil Makkawi, President of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC). Ambassador Makkawi outlined short-term goals, [...]	2008-02-13 16:43:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL PREF SY IS LE
08BEIRUT237	LEBANON: THEORIES ABOUT MUGHNIEH'S ASSASSINATION [...] (C) Two days after the February 12 Damascus car bomb attack that killed senior Hizballah commander Imad Mughnieh, theories abound in Beirut on who was behind the assassination and why. The timing of the killing also cannot be ignored, occurring just two days before the third anniversary of th [...]	2008-02-14 16:56:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IS KPAL LE
08BEIRUT266	LEBANON: AOUN INSISTS ON BLOCKING THIRD, ELECTORAL [...] (C) In his first meeting with Charge Sison, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun stressed the opposition's demand for a blocking third in cabinet and the need for a more representative electoral law if the Arab League initiative was going to succeed. Palestinian refugees was one of the [...]	2008-02-19 15:12:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PREF KPAL PINR SY IS LE
08BEIRUT314	Lebanon: Media Reaction, February 29, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 11:52:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO PREF PREL KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT319	Lebanon: Media Reaction, March 3, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-03 12:50:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO PREF PREL KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT329	LEBANON: MARCH 14 MPS ANXIOUS OVER ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Still determined and tough in their rhetoric, ten of the March 14 MPs taking refuge in Beirut hotels since the September 2007 assassination of their colleague MP Antoine Ghanem told the Charge that Lebanon should follow suit if Saudi Arabia and Egypt choose not to send a delegation to the [...]	2008-03-04 14:25:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM IS KPAL LE
08BEIRUT334	Lebanon: Print Media -- Newspapers [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: This cable provides information on Lebanese newspapers including political affiliations and circulation figures where available. Lebanon's print media is diverse, vibrant and often opinionated. There a [...]	2008-03-05 08:56:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KMDR OPRC KPAO PREF PREL KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT348	Lebanon: Media Coverage -- USAID Projects in the South [...] Summary: Under the title "Forbidden Assistance," a Lebanese magazine "Southern Issues" (Shu'un Jannubiah) carried a ten-page report on the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Lebanon's assistance to southern Lebanon, the area where Hizballah, a designated terrorist orga [...]	2008-03-07 12:25:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO PREF PREL KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT358	LEBANON: ANTI-HIZBALLAH SHIA LEADER SEEKS U.S. [...] (C) Independent Shia leader Ahmad Assad assessed positively his official reception during a recent Washington visit and is hopeful he will receive USG political and financial support. Assad briefed the Charge on his background and political stand, and deplored the general lack of media attenti [...]	2008-03-10 12:30:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL LE
08BEIRUT365	Lebanon: Media Reaction, March 11, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-11 09:25:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR OPRC KPAO PREF PREL KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT45	LEBANON: CODEL LYNCH MEETING WITH PM SINIORA [...] (C) On January 10, PM Siniora conveyed to CODEL Lynch his gratitude for U.S. economic, political, and military support. He said the January 5 Arab League Foreign Ministers' communique was important, but that the opposition's interpretation of the communique, if implemented, would put handcuf [...]	2008-01-11 15:36:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PARM PGOV PREL PTER IS LE SY
08BEIRUT451	LEBANON: PM SINIORA GRATEFUL FOR INL ASSISTANCE, [...] (C) PM Fouad Siniora dismissed the March 29-30 Arab League summit in Damascus as a "non-summit," and held out little expectation that the Arab League would find a solution to Lebanon's ongoing political crisis. His government had managed to perform surprisingly well given the unprecedented ch [...]	2008-03-31 15:38:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS SY IS LE
08BEIRUT459	LEBANON: DEFMIN MURR ON TRANSFORMING THE LAF TO SUPPORT CT OPERATIONS, UNSCR 1701, CAMPS [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-03 10:43:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET//NOFORN	IS KPAL MASS MCAP PARM PINR PTER SY
08BEIRUT460	LEBANON: MARCH 14 LEADER WANTS UNIFIL THROUGHOUT [...] (C) Dory Chamoun, president of the National Liberal Party and member of the March 14 oalition, believes that the political impasse inLebanon can best be solved by the UN and advocated for a UNIFIL presence "throughout Lebanon." Dismissing any possibility of a united Maronite community in Leban [...]	2008-04-03 12:28:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MARR MOPS SY KPAL IS LE
08BEIRUT464	LEBANON: JUSTICE MINISTER'S PLEA TO BELLEMARE: [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-03 15:40:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS SY IS LE
08BEIRUT465	LEBANON: JUSTICE MINISTER'S PLEA TO BELLEMARE: [...] (C). Justice Minister Charles Rizk warned of mounting pressures to release the four generals held in connection with the assassination of former PM Rafiq Hariri. He stressed the need for UNIIIC Commissioner Bellemare to reaffirm former Commissioner Mehlis' recommendation that the GOL detain [...]	2008-04-03 15:51:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS SY IS LE
08BEIRUT471	LEBANON: BERRI SENDS UP TRIAL BALLOON ON [...] (C). Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri continues to seek internal and international support for his proposal to relaunch the National Dialogue, framing it as a continuation of the Arab League initiative and the only way to reach a solution to the ongoing political crisis. He criticized LAF comma [...]	2008-04-04 16:31:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS SY IS LE
08BEIRUT479	LEBANON: MARCH 14 SECRETARIAT SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT [...] (C) March 14 Secretary General Fares Suaid outlined current thinking for March 14's next steps in the wake of the Arab League summit. Unified support for a cabinet reshuffle continued to be hampered by individual political aspirations and Christian concerns. However, March 14 needed to be pr [...]	2008-04-07 14:18:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS SY IS LE
08BEIRUT490	LEBANON: JUMBLATT CONCERNED ABOUT UNIIIC DELAYS, [...] (S) Druze leader Walid Jumblatt expressed concerns about information he had received that former UNIIIC Commissioner Serge Brammertz failed to act for the past year-and-a-half to act on a key lead discovered by Internal Security Forces Intelligence Officer Wissam Eid, who was assassinated one [...]	2008-04-08 15:59:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS SY IS LE
08BEIRUT491	LEBANON: ARMENIAN TASHNAQ PARTY NOT WEDDED TO [...] (C) Armenian Tashnaq party MP Hagop Pakradunian believes the solution to the ongoing political impasse lies outside of Lebanon. While supporting the candidacy of Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Michel Sleiman, Pakradunian insisted that his election be accompanied by agreement on cabinet [...]	2008-04-09 11:20:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS IR AR SY
08BEIRUT496	LEBANON: INCREASED HIZBALLAH ACTIVITY IN THE [...] (S) According to the Italian Ambassador to Lebanon, who meets occasionally with Hizballah officials, Hizballah is "off-balance" and has not yet decided how to respond to the February 12 assassination of Imad Mougnieh. Hizballah was moving its training operations to the Bekaa, while still pour [...]	2008-04-10 11:54:00	Embassy Beirut	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS IR AR SY
08BEIRUT515	LEBANON: SHIA LEADER CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE [...] (C) Respected Shia leader Ibrahim Shamseddine rejects Speaker Berri's call for National Dialogue as unconstitutional, and instead calls for cabinet "rehabilitation" to include adding non-Hizballah Shia, followed by an immediate presidential election. Shamseddine, who expressed little interest [...]	2008-04-15 11:25:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS IR AR SY
08BEIRUT516	LEBANON: SINIORA'S NEW VISION FOR HOW THE [...] (C) Summary. PM Siniora's chief aide Mohamed Chatah advocates that the international community shift focus from trying to help Lebanon solve its immediate political crisis to a goal of a secure Lebanon based on UNSCR 1701. Based on this conversation and earlier sessions with PM Siniora, we be [...]	2008-04-15 12:41:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL IS LE SY
08BEIRUT546	LEBANON: WITH A/S WELCH, GEAGEA ADVOCATES EARLY [...] (C) Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea expressed his appreciation to NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch during an April 18 meeting for publicly stating that the U.S. opposes "tawteen" (Palestinian resettlement in Lebanon),but urged him to repeat the position clearly and frequently, saying t [...]	2008-04-22 13:58:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SY IS KPAL LE
08BEIRUT551	LEBANON: ARMY COMMANDER WILL EXTEND IF ORDERED BY [...] (C) In an April 18 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander General Michel Sleiman stressed he was intent on retiring by November 21, 2008. Sleiman said his announcement that he would leave his post on August 21 was designed to put pressure on th [...]	2008-04-22 14:03:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MASS MCAP PTER PARM PINR KPAL SY AE IS LE
08BEIRUT552	LEBANON: SINIORA WITH WELCH URGES USG SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) In an April 17 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora asked for the U.S. and the international community to continue to support the components of the Arab League Initiative (ALI) in sequence, specifically the election of a president, followed by the [...]	2008-04-22 14:09:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL SY IS LE
08BEIRUT553	LEBANON: FORMER PM STRESSES JOB CREATION TO [...] (C) Charge Sison discussed ways to develop the northern region of Akkar with former PM Najib Mikati as a means to counter Sunni extremism in the area. Mikati argued for legitimizing the existence of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon via identification and work permits as a means to rid Lebanon [...]	2008-04-22 15:05:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KPAL PTER IR AR SY IS LE
08BEIRUT661	LEBANON: ARMY COMMANDER SAYS HE WILL PROTECT THE [...] (C/NF) In two meetings on Sunday, May 11, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander Sleiman explained that he had not meant to embarrass the Prime Minister with his comments on GOL cabinet decisions, that reports of massive army resignations were not true, and that the Army would "defend until th [...]	2008-05-12 16:20:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MASS MCAP PTER PARM PINR KPAL SY AE IS LE
08BEIRUT688	LEBANON: ARMY COMMANDER DESCRIBES CHALLENGES AND [...] (C) In a 14 May meeting, Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander LTG Sleiman told visiting Acting CENTCOM Commander LTG Dempsey that Lebanon is in a "civil war" that requires a political solution. Sleiman outlined for General Dempsey the difficulties of the current tactical situation on the grou [...]	2008-05-14 21:46:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MASS MCAP PTER PARM PINR KPAL SY AE IS LE
08BEIRUT695	LEBANON: NEED FOR REALISTIC POST-PILOT PHASE [...] (C) The strategic implications of Lebanese border security came into sharp focus recently. On May 5, the Charge visited the Northern Border Pilot Project (NBPP) Command Center in Tripoli and the Aarida border crossing station. On May 6, she attended a lunch organized by the UN to discuss the [...]	2008-05-15 13:16:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL SY IS LE
08BEIRUT812	LEBANON: BRITISH, DANISH READY TO TERMINATE BORDER [...] (C) At a May 30 donor coordination meeting, British and Danish reps said their missions are fed up with German mismanagement and willful disregard for donor wishes. Both countries are on the verge of terminating their role in the Northern Border Pilot Project (NBPP) when the pilot phase ends [...]	2008-05-30 17:55:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL SY IS LE
08BEIRUT846	LEBANON: SLEIMAN FOCUSES ON CABINET FORMATION AND [...] (C) On May 31, President Michel Sleiman met with Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman in Baabda Palace and expressed his appreciation for the USG's support of Lebanon and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF). On the political front, he told us he wants to select the Minister of Inte [...]	2008-06-05 16:01:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PGOV PTER KPAL SY IS LE
08BEIRUT855	Lebanon: Media Reaction, June 6, 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-06 10:18:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT914	Lebanon: Special Media Reaction: Secretary Rice's [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-20 15:07:00	Embassy Beirut	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL KMDR OPRC KPAO KISL KPAL LE
08BEIRUT959	LEBANON: SAAD HARIRI REFUTES SAUDI ARMING OF [...] (C) Majority leader Saad Hariri reassured the Charge on July 1 that neither his Future Party nor the Saudis are arming the Sunni Salafists, who are fighting the Alawites in northern Lebanon, as has been rumored (Ref A). The fighting in the north could continue for months to obstruct the spring [...]	2008-07-02 12:40:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KPAL SY SA LY AG LE
08BEIRUT970	LEBANON: SLEIMAN OPTIMISTIC ABOUT CABINET [...] (C) On July 3, President Michel Sleiman told the Charge he was optimistic that the cabinet would be named before he travels to Paris on July 12th. "I knew this would take some time. It is important for us to have a dialogue and solve these issues on our own." Sleiman predicts that low-level [...]	2008-07-03 13:24:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREF KPAL SY IS LE
08BEIRUT975	LEBANON: PATIENT SINIORA WANTS ACTION FROM [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-03 15:22:00	Embassy Beirut	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR EAID UNSC KPAL IS LE
08BERLIN1652	TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to the German Ministries of Finance, Economics, and Foreign Affairs regarding the U.S. designation of the Saudi Arabia-based Union of Good organization as a supporter of terror and encouraged the ministries to pursue similar measures. None of our Germa [...]	2008-12-11 15:02:00	Embassy Berlin	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS
08BERLIN188	A/S WELCH DISCUSSES IRAN, ANNAPOLIS, SYRIA, AND [...] (C) Summary: MFA State Secretary Reinhard Silberberg told A/S Welch in a February 11 meeting that the MFA does not agree that it is necessary to push for an immediate UNSC Iran sanctions resolution before the next IAEA report is issued, although Germany is not against such a push. A/S Welch [...]	2008-02-15 12:38:00	Embassy Berlin	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL SY IS GM IR
08BRASILIA1685	BRAZIL: LAYING BLAME AT THE FEET OF ISRAEL, U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: The Brazilian government heavily criticized Israel's actions against HAMAS in Gaza, after originally suggesting it might take a more nuanced approached with its initial statements. President Lula, backed by most Brazilian media outlets, harshly criticized both Israel and the Uni [...]	2008-12-31 19:28:00	Embassy Brasilia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IR BR
08CAIRO103	GOE FRUSTRATED BY GAZA ESCALATION [...] (C) Summary. Egyptian MFA and MOD contacts expressed concern on January 22 over the current Gaza crisis. They tell us that the recent Israeli closures, and subsequent pressure at Rafah crossing, has put the GOE in a very difficult position, facing criticism both at home and from Arab states. [...]	2008-01-22 16:34:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1180	GAZA BORDER: GOE DOWNPLAYS JUNE 6 HAMAS [...] (C) On June 8, MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty downplayed the June 6 Hamas demonstration at the Palestinian Rafah border crossing, describing it as a "normal" and "predictable" way for Hamas to try to pressure Egypt on the current tahdiya ("calming") talks. Abdelatty said that [...]	2008-06-10 06:37:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1206	EGYPTIAN MFA AND ARAB LEAGUE VIEWS ON [...] (S) Summary. MFA Senior Cabinet Advisor Hossam Zaki told DCM June 11 that the GOE is in no hurry to advance intra-Palestinian dialogue, and recognizes the potential damage it could cause Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. PA President Abbas told President Mubarak June 9 that he does not want [...]	2008-06-12 07:18:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO123	GAZA BORDER UPDATE [...] A security contact confirmed to us that the Ministry of Defense would be trying to prevent additional Palestinians from entering Egypt today, January 25. Egyptian Border Guard Forces are now deployed to create a form of barrier along the border at Rafah, but an opening exists to allow Palesti [...]	2008-01-25 11:18:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1241	S/P DIRECTOR GORDON, MG AL-ASSAR DISCUSS BILATERAL [...] (C) Summary: In a June 5 discussion, Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar told S/P Director Gordon that Egypt is a strategic partner for the U.S., and criticized Congress' attempt to condition aid funds as "narrowly focused." Al-Assar claimed that conditionality hamp [...]	2008-06-16 07:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL EAID KPAL IR IS EG
08CAIRO126	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 26 [...] Egyptian riot police and armored vehicles continue to block Gaza cars from entering Egypt. The local press reports dozens of Egyptian riot police are forming a human barrier to block two openings through the breached border wall. Egyptian armored vehicles are also reportedly blocking roads i [...]	2008-01-26 14:32:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1291	SPECIAL ENVOY GENERAL JONES' CAIRO MEETINGS JUNE 12 [...] (S) Summary: Special Envoy for Middle East Regional Security General James Jones (Ret.) met June 12 with Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, EGIS Chief Omar Soliman and Assistant Minister of Defense for Policy MG Mohammed Al-Assar to discuss his mission. General Jones explained that he is re [...]	2008-06-22 14:07:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG

08CAIRO1340	GAZA BORDER CALM, NO CLEAR WAY FORWARD ON OPENING [...] (S) Summary: LAWIO Chief MG Nagy told us June 25 that the Gaza border is calm, and that the GOE has recently found an increased number of tunnels used for smuggling commercial goods. He noted that three main tunnels collapsed in June. He said that EGIS Chief Soliman would discuss a Hamas-Isra [...]	2008-06-26 15:54:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO136	EGYPT-GAZA BORDER UPDATE: JANUARY 27 [...] (C) As of January 27, Palestinians continued to come and go from Egypt without undergoing customs or immigration procedures for the fifth consecutive day while security forces attempted to control only parts of the border and to limit visiting Palestinians' movement to the area between Al Ari [...]	2008-01-27 16:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO137	EGYPT SEES RE-OPENING RAFAH AS SOLUTION TO BORDER [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman and senior advisor Hossam Zaki told the CDA on January 27 that Egypt's political vision for solving the Gaza border crisis is to find a solution where "everyone wins something, but the PA comes out a bigger winner than Hamas." For the Israelis this wo [...]	2008-01-27 17:22:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1400	GOE HALTS TEMPORARY RAFAH OPENING DUE TO [...] (C) MFA Acting Palestinian Affairs Director Barakat El-Leithy told us July 2 that the GOE shut down its temporary reopening of the Rafah border crossing because of Palestinians throwing stones at Egyptian Civilian Security Forces (CSF). El-Leithy said that the GOE had planned to open the cro [...]	2008-07-02 15:49:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1402	GOE RE-OPENS RAFAH FOR PALESTINIANS TO RETURN TO [...] (C) MFA Acting Palestinian Affairs Director Barakat El-Leithy told us that the GOE re-opened the Rafah crossing July 3 on a temporary basis to allow Palestinians to return to Gaza from Egypt. He said that these were mostly wounded and sick Palestinians who received medical treatment in Egypt [...]	2008-07-03 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1416	CODEL ACKERMAN MEETINGS WITH MUBARAK, SULEIMAN, [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 28 meetings with President Hosni Mubarak, EGIS Director Omar Suleiman, and FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit, CODEL Ackerman and the Ambassador discussed Israeli-Palestinian developments (focusing on Egypt's goals for building upon the current "calming period"),Egypt's region [...]	2008-07-07 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KPAL EAID ENRG IS
08CAIRO148	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 29 [...] Econoff and FSN traveled to North Sinai governorate January 28. In El Arish, the capital of North Sinai governorate, they saw a group of about 50 Palestinians camping outside the Ministry of Interior office. One Palestinian said he was waiting for permission to travel outside Sinai for medical [...]	2008-01-29 06:31:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO1480	DEMARCHE REQUEST: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT [...] (C) We raised points in reftel with Barakat Leithy, MFA Acting Director of Palestinian Affairs, on July 13. Leithy told us that the GOE strongly supports the Palestinian Authority and recognizes its financial challenges. Egypt is also facing increasing budgetary pressures. Nevertheless, Lei [...]	2008-07-14 14:06:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL PREL ECON KWBG EG
08CAIRO1516	AMBASSADOR VISITS THE GAZA BORDER; RAFAH CROSSING [...] (C) Summary: On a July 13 visit to the Egypt-Gaza border, the Ambassador attended a briefing by Liaison Agency with International Organizations (LAWIO) Chief MG Nagy and toured the border area. In the briefing, MG Nagy outlined the political and security reasons that he said compel Egypt to [...]	2008-07-17 08:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL MASS IS EG
08CAIRO155	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 29, PT. II [...] On January 29, econoff and FSN traveled from El Arish to the border crossing at Rafah, encountering little traffic all the way to the commercial customs terminal. There were thirty central security trucks on the highway between El Arish and Rafah, and state security officers blocked side road [...]	2008-01-29 15:00:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL CASC PTER EG IS
08CAIRO162	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 30 [...] An Egyptian businessman in El Arish told us January 30 that he was not optimistic that the GOE will successfully round up all the Palestinians in North Sinai. Some of them, he surmised, will go to ground with friends and relatives. An academic contact, by contrast, said that Egyptians in Nor [...]	2008-01-30 16:57:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL CASC PTER EG IS
08CAIRO163	GAZA BORDER UPDATE JANUARY 30 [...] An Egyptian businessman in El Arish told us January 30 that he was not optimistic that the GOE will successfully round up all the Palestinians in North Sinai. Some of them, he surmised, will go to ground with friends and relatives. An academic contact, by contrast, said that Egyptians in Nor [...]	2008-01-31 05:56:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL CASC PTER EG IS
08CAIRO1637	CODEL KERRY MEETING WITH PRESIDENT MUBARAK [...] (C) Summary: On July 2, Senator Kerry and the Ambassador discussed regional developments with President Hosni Mubarak, including Zimbabwe, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and Israel-Palestine. Mubarak said that Egypt was working to find a solution in Sudan, but preferred to do so "quietly." Mubarak warned [...]	2008-07-31 10:08:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PHUM AU EG IR IS SU
08CAIRO168	EGYPTIANS, GAZANS SEEK ALTERNATIVE TO BORDER CHAOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From business leaders to currency traders to hungry guys with empty gas cans, Egyptian residents of North Sinai and their self-invited guests from Gaza stressed during our visit January 28-30 that economic and humanitarian pressure will continue to cause eruptions across the bo [...]	2008-01-31 14:44:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL ETRD PTER KWBG EG
08CAIRO1878	STRATEGY FOR THE GAZA BORDER [...] (S/NF) Summary: Since the Egyptian-brokered "tahdiya" ("calming") between Israel and Palestinian groups in Gaza took effect June 19, rocket attacks from Gaza have decreased, and Israeli public pressure on the GOE to stop smuggling via tunnels into Gaza has relaxed. However, smuggling remains [...]	2008-08-25 15:38:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL KPAL PTER MOPS MARR IS EG
08CAIRO1921	GOE TO OPEN RAFAH AUGUST 30-31 BEFORE RAMADAN [...] (C) LAWIO Chief MG Nagy told us August 28 that the GOE plans to open the Rafah crossing on a temporary basis August 30 and 31 to allow Egyptians stranded in Gaza to return to Egypt, and to allow Palestinians in Egypt to return to Gaza. MG Nagy said the opening will also allow Palestinians worki [...]	2008-08-28 15:09:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL EG
08CAIRO1933	MUBARAK-BARAK DISCUSSIONS FOCUS ON FINAL STATUS [...] (C) Presidential Advisor Soliman Awad briefed the Ambassador August 27 on President Mubarak's August 23 discussions with visiting Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Awad described Barak's visit as "fruitful," focusing on two main issues: Gaza, and Israeli-Palestinian final status discussio [...]	2008-09-01 15:52:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1940	ARAB LEAGUE AND EGYPTIAN MFA ON IRAQ, LEBANON, AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-02 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS IZ SU EG
08CAIRO1965	DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN PREPARATION FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: On September 4, we delivered ref A points to Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef and separately to GOE MFA Cabinet Advisor Mahmoud Affifi. On Israeli-Palestinian issues, Youssef called for more progress on the ground and criticized the lack of an Israeli settlement fr [...]	2008-09-07 15:53:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL LE IS KPAL IAEA IZ SY MR XF
08CAIRO1981	FM ABOUL GHEIT RAISES CONCERNS OVER WEST BANK [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Ahmed Hafez (please protect) briefed us September 5 on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's August 31 meeting in Cairo with Israeli MFA DG Aharon Abramovich. Hafez described the meeting's atmosphere as "positive," and stressed that the Egyptia [...]	2008-09-09 14:42:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO1991	SEPTEMBER 8-9 ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL FOCUSES ON [...] (C) Summary: Arab League (AL) Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef briefed the diplomatic corps September 10 on the September 8-9 Arab League Ministerial, stressing that the discussions focused on pessimistic assessments of progress on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. According to Youssef, Palesti [...]	2008-09-10 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL LE IS IZ SY MR XF SU EG
08CAIRO2099	DEMARCHE REQUEST: UNSC MINISTERIAL-LEVEL MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-25 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWBG KPAL UNSC EG
08CAIRO2175	UPDATE: EGYPT INCREASES COUNTER-SMUGGLING EFFORTS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egyptian security forces continue to improve counter-smuggling efforts along the Gaza border following the June Egyptian-brokered "tahdiya" ("calming") between Israel and Palestinian groups. During an August visit [...]	2008-10-13 14:19:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER MASS MARR KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2197	SYG MOUSSA ON IRAQ, SUDAN AND ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-15 15:29:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL MARR IS SU IZ EG
08CAIRO2256	A/S WELCH MEETING WITH SYG MOUSSA [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-26 15:19:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2275	MFA ADVISOR AND PDAS FELTMAN DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary: NEA PDAS Feltman and MFA Senior Advisor Hossam Zaki discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, the global financial crisis, and Iraqi debt relief during an October 26 meeting in Cairo. Zaki said that recording progress on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations is [...]	2008-10-30 07:17:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN ECON KPAL IZ IS SY IR EG LE
08CAIRO2277	PA ENVOY SHAATH ON INTRA-PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Nabil Shaath, leader of the Fatah delegation to the intra-Palestinian talks in Cairo, briefed the Ambassador on progress in an October 28 courtesy call. He reported that the Egyptians have moved the planned Palestinian reconciliation meeting from November 9 to November 10 in order to acco [...]	2008-10-30 12:36:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS SY IR TC JO EG
08CAIRO2316	ARAB LEAGUE SYG MOUSSA DISCUSSES REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Arab League Secretary General Moussa discussed Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the global financial crisis during an October 26 meeting with visiting NEA PDAS Feltman and the Ambassador. Moussa said that the situation in Lebanon has improved markedly [...]	2008-11-05 12:21:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL LE SY IZ EG
08CAIRO2320	EGIS CHIEF "NOT OPTIMISTIC" ABOUT PROSPECTS FOR [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a November 5 meeting, EGIS Chief Omar Soliman told Ambassador that he was "not optimistic" about prospects for Palestinian reconciliation, due to continuing differences between Hamas and Fatah and the difficulty in maintaining the continuing "calm" between minimalist Hamas a [...]	2008-11-05 14:27:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2429	EGYPT PREPARES FOR GAZAN HAJJ PILGRIMS [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Palestinian Affairs Barakat Leithy told us November 26 that the Egyptians are preparing for approximately 3200 Hajj pilgrims to transit Egypt from Gaza en route Saudi Arabia. This is an increase of approximately 1000 from last year. Leithy said that GOE policy is [...]	2008-11-26 15:01:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2438	ARAB LEAGUE SUPPORTS ABBAS; DOES NOT CONDEMN HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. The Arab League Ministerial meeting of November 26 resulted in explicit support for PA President Abbas to remain in office until the intra-Palestinian conflict is resolved and parliamentary and presidential elections are able to be held. There was no explicit reference to Hamas [...]	2008-11-30 15:16:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS SY EG
08CAIRO2442	ABOUL GHEIT CALLS ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) In a November 29 meeting, Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit gave Ambassador his assessment of the recent Arab League ministerial on Palestinian reconciliation. Aboul Gheit stated that overall it was successful, particularly in getting the AL ministers to endorse the view that Abu Mazen's pres [...]	2008-12-01 12:27:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EWWT KPAL EG
08CAIRO2453	UPDATE ON DEPORTATION REQUEST: CASE OF IYAD AHMAD [...] (SBU) Econ-Political MinCouns has raised the case of Mr. Badawi with Egyptian Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister Amin Meleika on three occasions: November 13, November 23, and November 30. On November 13, MinCouns orally explained the background of the case and asked if Egypt would allow Mr. [...]	2008-12-02 16:38:00	Embassy Cairo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL CVIS PTER EG IS
08CAIRO2476	HAJ PILGRIMS IN GAZA; GOE AWAITING HUMANITARIAN [...] (C) Summary. The GOE has opened Rafah crossing for approximately 3100 inbound Haj pilgrims (reftel a),but the MFA reports that Hamas continues to block movement of the pilgrims inside Gaza, and that so far none have crossed into Egypt. The GOE is increasing public criticism of Hamas over th [...]	2008-12-04 14:10:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS QA EG
08CAIRO2481	AMBASSADOR AND MOD DISCUSS IRAQ, PIRACY, AND [...] (C) Summary: During a December 6 meeting, Ambassador and Minister of Defense Field Marshal Tantawi discussed regional security issues, including the new U.S.-Iraq security agreement, Iran, combating piracy, Palestinian reconciliation, and the upcoming Military Cooperation Committee (MCC) mee [...]	2008-12-08 08:20:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS MARR MOPS IZ IR IS KPAL SO EG
08CAIRO2502	MFA ON GAZA, HAMAS, AND RECENT DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (C) Summary. MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israel-Palestinian Affairs Ahmed Hamshari told us December 15 that Egyptian embassies worldwide had recently faced demonstrations criticizing the GOE over the humanitarian situation in Gaza. The protests appear to be in response to blockage of Hamas-sponso [...]	2008-12-15 13:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL PINR IR IS EG
08CAIRO2503	QUINT POLICY PLANNING TALKS FOCUS ON REGIONAL [...] (C) Summary. The November 18 "Quint" consultations with policy planners from Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt (host) and the U.S. yielded a comprehensive dialogue on a range of regional issues, including Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, piracy off the Horn of Africa, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [...]	2008-12-15 14:25:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PGOV KPAL EFIN SY LE SU IR IS IZ EG XF
08CAIRO255	DEFMIN TANTAWI SAYS EGYPT READY TO MEET ISRAEL AND [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense Tantawi told A/S Welch February 7 that he would welcome a visit by Israeli Defense Minister Barak or Amos Gilad to discuss moving forward with solving the Gaza border crisis. Tantawi said that he personally would not object to four-way talks involving the PA, [...]	2008-02-11 15:25:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO2558	MFA CONFIRMS HAMAS ACCEPTANCE OF 24-HOUR CEASEFIRE [...] (C) MFA Deputy Director for Palestinian Affairs Barakat Leithy confirmed December 23 that Hamas had accepted a 24 hour "ceasefire" that went into effect the evening of December 22. Leithy said that Hamas and most other Palestinian factions had agreed to cease rocket fire into Israel, but that [...]	2008-12-23 14:23:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO2571	EGYPTIANS ON GAZA [...] (S) Summary: During General Petraeus, December 27-28 visit, Egyptian leaders expressed deep concern with the escalating violence in Gaza, particularly as it exposed Egypt to torrents of both domestic and regional criticism for its alleged complicity in Israeli actions. Foreign Minister Abou [...]	2008-12-29 11:02:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PARM IS KPAL EG
08CAIRO2585	EGYPT: GAZA ROUND-UP FOR DECEMBER 30 [...] (SBU) On December 28, an estimated 100 Palestinians entered Egypt through a breach along the Egypt-Gaza border. Egyptian forces repelled the crowds, but at least one Egyptian security officer and several Palestinians were killed. The border is reportedly quiet today and breaches have been r [...]	2008-12-30 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO32	MUBARAK ON PEACE, TUNNELING, AND ISRAELI POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: President Mubarak told the Ambassador and visiting Congressman Steven Israel (D-NY) on January 6 that President Bush should focus on the Palestinian problem during his upcoming visit to the region, and put pressure on both sides to find a solution, including pressuring Israel to [...]	2008-01-08 16:56:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KPAL EG IS XF
08CAIRO423	BG EGYPT ON GAZA MARINE GAS FIELD [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A senior British Gas Egypt (BG) official confirmed that BG-Israeli talks on the development of the Gaza Marine offshore gas field have "completely broken down" and opied that the current political climate precludes a viable, near-term Egyptian alternative to Ashkelo. While no [...]	2008-03-03 15:28:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ENRG EPET ECON PREL KPAL EG IS
08CAIRO452	GAZA BORDER UPDATE: NO CHANGE IN BORDER GUARD [...] (C) Military sources told us March 4 that the February 26 media coverage sourced to Israeli officials that Egypt had doubled its Border Guard Force (BGF) numbers along the Egypt-Gaza border is completely innaccurate. The sources told us that the Egyptians have not increased their BGF numbers, [...]	2008-03-06 16:56:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO466	A/S WELCH MARCH 6 MEETING WITH OMANI FM YUSUF BIN [...] (S) Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi told A/S Welch during their March 6 meeting that the Israelis and Palestinians must "solve their own problems." The U.S. is not to blame ) "you have tried your hardest" ) but Israel has been given chance after chance and squan [...]	2008-03-09 15:42:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KPAL PTER EG IS XF OM
08CAIRO467	A/S WELCH, MINDEF TANTAWI DISCUSS GOE ACTION ON [...] (S) Summary. In a March 6 meeting, A/S Welch encouraged Mindef Tantawi to work with the U.S. and Israel to achieve calm in Gaza, help restart Israeli-PA negotiations, and to improve the quality of life for the Palestinian people on the.[\is no rocket fire into Israel, the GOI would have no rea [...]	2008-03-09 16:05:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL PARM KPAL MASS IS EG
08CAIRO488	GAZA BORDER UPDATE: TUNNELS, HUMANITARIAN ISSUES [...] (S) Summary. Egyptian security sources told us March 10 that on March 9 the Egyptians destroyed the openings of three smuggling tunnels on the Egyptian side of the Gaza border. The sources said that also on March 9, Egypt allowed 49 injured Palestinians to cross Rafah en route to hospitals in [...]	2008-03-11 15:17:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO680	EGYPTIAN MFA ON MUBARAK MEETING WITH ABBAS, [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-03 16:45:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL EG JO XF
08CAIRO738	GOE ANXIETY OVER THE GAZA BORDER [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-10 15:35:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO758	RELATIVE CALM ON THE GAZA BORDER FOLLOWING GOE [...] (S) Summary: LAWIO Deputy Chief BG Osama Abd El-Azziz and MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty both told us April 13 that the Gaza border is calmer than it had been following Hamas' April 8 threat to breach the border. BG Osama said that the GOE has reinforced its Border Guard For [...]	2008-04-14 13:40:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO85	DEFMIN TANTAWI WARNS THAT CONDITIONING FMF WILL [...] (C) On December 31, 2007, Minister of Defense Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi told the Ambassador and visiting CODEL Voinovich that conditioning U.S. military assistance to Egypt would harm bilateral relations, and would not be understood by members of military or the average Egyptian. Egypt has [...]	2008-01-17 15:24:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PTER KPAL IR IZ IS EG
08CAIRO856	EGYPT AND ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS [...] (S) Summary: Per reftel inquiry, Egypt's overriding security equity in a Palestinian state is a secure and stable border with Gaza. Egypt is interested in opening the Gaza border to humanitarian shipments and trade through a mechanism similar to the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access in o [...]	2008-04-24 13:59:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	PREL KWBG KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO861	MFA ON TAHDIYA EFFORTS; AHLC MEETING [...] (S/NF) MFA Director for Palestinian Affairs Badr Abelatty updated us April 24 on Egyptian tahdiya ("calming") efforts. Abdelatty said that talks were presently underway between a visiting Hamas delegation led by deposed FM Zahar and EGIS officials. He said the GOE is seeking an "unconditional" [...]	2008-04-24 15:32:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET	EAID EU KPAL PGOV PREL IS WBG
08CAIRO970	MFA ON TEMPORARY RAFAH OPENING, SOLIMAN VISIT TO [...] (C) MFA Palestinian Affairs Director Badr Abdelatty confirmed May 12 that, in consultation with Israel, the GOE opened the Rafah border crossing temporarily between May 10-12 to allow several hundred injured and sick Palestinians into Egypt for medical treatment, and to permit Palestinian stud [...]	2008-05-12 14:00:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAL IS EG
08CAIRO986	MFA SENIOR ADVISOR ON SOLIMAN TALKS IN ISRAEL [...] (S/NF) MFA Senior Advisor and Spokesman Hossam Zaki told us May 13 that EGIS Chief Omar Soliman's May 12 talks in Israel were "not very good." He said that Prime Minister Olmert and Israeli Defense Minister Barak told Soliman that Israel is willing to agree to a partial tahdiya ("calming") wh [...]	2008-05-14 13:10:00	Embassy Cairo	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL KPAL PTER IS EG
08DAMASCUS267	FORMER PRESIDENT CARTER'S VISIT TO DAMASCUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Though Embassy Damascus provided little more than security and logistical support for former President Carter's April 18-19 trip to Damascus, the SARG seized on the visit to underscore the point that peace in the Middle East cannot be reached without engaging Syria. From our b [...]	2008-04-22 13:39:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PGOV PREL SY IS
08DAMASCUS269	SYRIAN EQUITIES IN ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN SECURITY [...] (S) Summary: Syria's primary security interests in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are to avoid a war with Israel that would threaten the Asad family's hold on power and to win Israel's return of the occupied Golan Heights to the 1967 border lines. As the self-proclaimed center of Arab re [...]	2008-04-23 07:06:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET	PREL KWBG KPAL IS
08DAMASCUS270	HAMAS LEADER KHALED MESHAL'S APRIL 21 PRESS [...] (C) Summary: Khaled Meshal's April 21 press conference showed some moderation in its lack of criticism of Abu Mazen but gave almost nothing publicly on the Carter visit. Sources say Hamas may be discussing steps to follow up on the Carter visit. End Summary. 2. (C) During a 50-minute p [...]	2008-04-23 09:01:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL PGOV SY
08DAMASCUS489	SYRIAN DIPLOMACY FAILS: ABBAS SNUBS HAMAS IN [...] (C) Summary: President Asad received Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) July 6 but failed to convince Abbas to meet Hamas Politburo chief Khaled Meshal. In addition to FM Muallem, Abu Mazen met leaders of several Palestinian groups on July 7. Abu Mazen apparently ag [...]	2008-07-09 15:17:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL SY
08DAMASCUS491	TIME FOR TALKING POINTS TO COUNTER SYRIA'S "CHARM [...] (C) Summary: Eager to exploit growing European interest in engaging Syria, Damascus is taking credit for recent "stabilizing" regional developments, such as the Doha accord on Lebanon, peace talks with Israel, the Hamas-Israeli "calming," and even Israeli-Hizballah prisoner exchanges. Some [...]	2008-07-10 09:50:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL SY IS LE IZ
08DAMASCUS7	CODEL SPECTER MEETS WITH SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem pleaded for the United States not to hold Syria "hostage" to events in Lebanon or to resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while insisting to Senator Arlen Specter and Representative Patrick Kennedy that Syria itself was ready for p [...]	2008-01-02 05:48:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL KDEM PHUM SY IS IZ LEB
08DAMASCUS821	UK FOREIGN SECRETARY MILIBAND'S NOV. 17-18 TRIP TO [...] (S/NF) Summary: UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband urged Syrian President Bashar Asad and FM Walid Muallim to take positive steps now on Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Palestinian-Israeli peace talks, and indirect Syrian-Israeli peace talks. Doing so would help shape coming regional political change [...]	2008-11-19 16:08:00	Embassy Damascus	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KPAL UK IZ LE IR SY
08DAMASCUS913	AMIDST CALLS FOR THIRD INTIFADA, SYRIANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Syrian President Bashar al-Asad has worked the phone in an effort to orchestrate a January 2 Arab League Emergency Summit in Doha. According to media reports citing anonymous Syrian officials, Syria has suspended its participation in indirect peace talks with Israel. Syrian dem [...]	2008-12-29 15:08:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PHUM SY
08DAMASCUS919	GAZA: MUALLIM PUSHING HUMANITARIAN TRUCE, CLAIMS [...] (C) Summary: FM Walid al-Muallim told Senator Specter December 30 that Syria wants to help broker a humanitarian truce in Gaza. After a series of contacts with his European counterparts, Muallim met with Hamas leader Khalid Mesha,al and other Palestinian faction heads to ask if they would ag [...]	2008-12-31 08:51:00	Embassy Damascus	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PGOV IS SY
08DOHA278	QATAR'S MINISTER OF STATE OFFERS VIEWS ON GCC+2 [...] (C) Summary: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Al-Mahmoud encouraged NEA A/S Welch over lunch April 1 to proceed with current U.S. thinking on the GCC 2 summit and urged him to include a discussion of Kosovo on the agenda. He described Qatar's relations with Saudi Arabia as "good" followi [...]	2008-04-06 14:17:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL QA
08DOHA279	A/S WELCH'S MEETING WITH QATAR'S PM [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani (HBJ) told visiting NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch March 31 that he was not optimistic that the situation in Lebanon would improve anytime soon. He said it is necessary to fix matters with Iran and Syria -- and not i [...]	2008-04-06 14:24:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG QA
08DOHA301	QATAR'S ARRANGEMENTS WITH ISRAEL AND THE [...] (C) Qatar's Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Hamad Bin Jassim Al Thani, in a March 31 meeting with NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch, summed up Qatar's views on resolving SIPDIS security-related aspects of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this way: "Qatar will accept any agreement acceptab [...]	2008-04-15 09:09:00	Embassy Doha	SECRET	PREL KPAL KWBG IS
08DOHA45	SARKOZY DISCUSSES NUCLEAR COOPERATION AND [...] (C/NF) French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Qatar January 14-15, accompanied by Defense Minister Herve Morin, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde and 20 French executives as part of his regional tour aimed primarily at bolstering French business ties with Gulf states. According to the Fre [...]	2008-01-21 10:57:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EINV PREL TRGY KNNP KPAL FR QA
08DOHA50	QATAR TO PROVIDE USD 5.5 MILLION IN MATERIAL AID [...] (SBU) The Amir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, directed the Qatar Red Crescent Society January 20 to provide QAR 20 million (USD 5.49 million) of immediate material aid to the Palestinian residents of Gaza. The aid will include medical supplies, food, and emergency electrical generation [...]	2008-01-23 12:56:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPAL EFIN EAID PTER GZ IS QA
08DOHA72	QATARI RESIDENTS PEACEFULLY DEMONSTRATE THEIR [...] (U) Summary: Thousands of Qatari residents marched in a peaceful rally in support of the people of Gaza January 25. The rally was organized by the Qatar Central Municipal Council (CMC) and the office of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the Muslim scholar and preacher. This was the first public appearance [...]	2008-01-28 14:01:00	Embassy Doha	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KPAL EFIN EAID PTER GZ IS QA
08JEDDAH268	SAUDI FM ON NUCLEAR COOPERATION, LEBANON, [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the Ambassador's June 23 meeting with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, they discussed: nuclear cooperation (reftels A and C),the Saudi pledge for the Nahr al Barid conference (reftel B),implementing the Annapolis Agreement, and debt forgiveness for Iraq. The Amb [...]	2008-06-24 11:21:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PARM PREL KNNP KPAL SA
08JEDDAH74	GAZA ACCOUNT DEMARCHE RESPONSE: OIC WILL [...] (S) SUMMARY: Consul General Tatiana C. Gfoeller delivered demarche (reftel B) in person on February 9 to Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Director General for Political Affairs Mahdy Fathallah and OIC Director for Political Affairs Tariq Ali Bakheet. OIC officials assured Consul G [...]	2008-02-09 12:05:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PREL PHUM KISL KPAL WBG SA
08JEDDAH77	OIC FINAL COMMUNIQUE FROM GAZA SUMMIT [...] (U) The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) issued a Final Communique on February 3 after hosting an expanded meeting of its Executive Committee to discuss the situation in Gaza (Refs A and B). The Communique reiterates previous OIC remarks condemning Israel and urging the internatio [...]	2008-02-10 16:12:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KISL KPAL WBG SA
08JEDDAH88	ENGAGING THE OIC: A STRATEGY FOR THE NEW SPECIAL [...] (S) SUMMARY: Building on Post's unprecedented and steadily increasing interaction with the OIC during the past two years, Post has learned much of OIC Secretary General Ihsanoglu's intentions and how he has shaped and will continue to influence the OIC agenda. During his tenure, Ihsanoglu ha [...]	2008-02-19 18:24:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PREL PHUM KISL KPAL SG SA
08JERUSALEM1007	"PALESTINE LIBERATION FRONT": PLO FACTION STILL [...] (S/NF) Per reftel, Post supplies the following information on the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF, "Abu al-Abbas Group"),which retains a leadership structure but no apparent intent or operational capability to carry out terrorist actions in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. 2. (S/NF) The PLF [...]	2008-06-13 08:15:00	Consulate Jerusalem	SECRET//NOFORN	KPAL PTER KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM1008	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/13): AN "APOLOGY" FROM BUSH TO [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial under the headline, "The status of Bush's vision" (6/12): "... Bush has six more months in the White House. Let's assume that the American President and his team have made every possible effort to make progress on the Road map, meanwhile the Israeli [...]	2008-06-13 08:23:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1015	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/16): SETTLEMENTS - "AN [...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries its daily editorial under the title, "Waiting for the analysis of Rice's statement" (6/16): "Comments by Secretary Rice after hermeeting with President Abbas included statementsthat the time has come to establish a Palestinianstate, and that settlements are an obst [...]	2008-06-16 10:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM102	PALESTINIAN REACTION TO EL-AD ACQUISITION OF EAST [...] (C) Summary. According to local press and Jerusalem contacts, the Israeli organization El-Ad purchased 11 apartments in 4 buildings in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan in mid-January. President Abbas's Advisor on Jerusalem Affairs said El-Ad's purchases are part of an effort to red [...]	2008-01-18 14:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1020	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/17): THE WAY FORWARD - [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial under the title, "What surprise are we waiting for?" (17/7): "The current Palestinian situation faces two immediate and important challenges; the first challenge is related to the brave initiative that was launched by President Abu Mazin to resume n [...]	2008-06-17 10:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1026	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/18): WILL THE HAMAS - ISRAEL [...] Independent Al-Quds carries its daily editorial under the title, "East Jerusalem was also occupied in 1967" (6/18): "The logic used JERUSALEM 00001026 002 OF 002 by Israeli officials when talking about settlements in East Jerusalem is a strange logic that makes no sense, especially whe [...]	2008-06-18 09:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1029	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/19): CAN HAMAS ENFORCE THE [...] Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Who can pressure JERUSALEM 00001029 002 OF 002 Israel?" (6/19): "Secretary Rice admitted the dangerous consequences of Jewish settlement activities in the Palestinian Territories, especially in East Jerusalem. During her last visit, she descri [...]	2008-06-19 11:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1047	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/20): THE TRUCE - WHAT'S NEXT? [...] Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "What comes next, after the first day of the truce! (6/20): "Finally, a truce was agreed upon and it has cautiously entered its first day. Everyone is watching, with many differing expectations. Hamas officials, one after the other, confirm their [...]	2008-06-20 11:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1050	UNRWA'S JUNE 2008 ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING [...] (SBU) UNRWA's Advisory Commission held its biannual meeting June 10-11 in Damascus to discuss current developments affecting Palestinian refugees, UNRWA's financial situation, ongoing management reforms, and the development of UNRWA's 6-year, Medium-Term Strategic Plan. End Summary. UNRWA D [...]	2008-06-20 11:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAL
08JERUSALEM1051	ORDER TO REROUTE EXPORTS HITS BETHLEHEM STONE [...] (C) Summary: Bethlehem business leaders claim that a recent Israeli order to reroute trucks carrying containers of stone and marble for export away from a checkpoint near the city to a commercial terminal 40 kilometers to the south will cost them time, money, and customers. Bethlehem Chamber [...]	2008-06-20 13:08:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL IS KWBG KPAL
08JERUSALEM1061	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/23): ISRAEL, SOLE BENEFICIARY [...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries its daily editorial under the title, "The truce and a slightly reduced siege"(6/23): Israel needs the rocket attacks to stop and it has achieved that [goal]. At the same time, it wants to continue its siege (albeit, a bit less restrictive) of the Gaza Strip. Hama [...]	2008-06-23 10:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1073	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/24): "AMERICAN WHISPERING THAT [...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries its daily editorial under the title, "The truce may help to achieve unity or may deepen division"(6/24): The truce may help to make comprehensive national dialogue successful, end division and restore unity. It may also lead to a deepening and perpetuation of div [...]	2008-06-24 11:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1085	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/25): "NO HOPE FOR PALESTINE [...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "In order to regain Arab and world support" (6/25): Palestinian, Arab and international factors have led to a decrease in interest in the Palestinian cause compared to the support witnessed in the sixties and seventies... Internal Palestinian divi [...]	2008-06-25 11:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1094	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/26): ARAB UNITY IMPORTANT TO [...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Jerusalem, the capital of the Palestinian State, not American merchandise" (6/26): We were truly shocked by [Barak Obama's] statement about Jerusalem, and by his assertion that Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and should remain undivide [...]	2008-06-26 10:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1103	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/27): "ARE WE ON OUR WAY TO [...] Independent Ayyam prints its daily editorial entitled, "Palestinian Visit to Damscus" (6/27): "It is clear that President Mahmud Abbas will visit the Syrian capital [in July] upon the official invitation [by] President Bashar Al-Assad... the invitation to Damascus is not only a show of appreci [...]	2008-06-30 04:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1109	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/30): THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF [...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "the prisoners' swap...and the negotiations trip": "...it is obvious that the [Hizbollah] prisoners' swap that Israel approved [includes] prisoners with blood on their hands... so, it is now possible to say that this major obstacle [to the prisoner [...]	2008-06-30 10:43:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM111	GAZA: LIMITED QUANTITIES OF FOOD AND FUEL DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Gaza Power Plant received 750,000 liters of industrial fuel on January 22 and restarted electricity production following two days of shut-down. Gaza gas station owners refused to make deliveries within Gaza of a 250,000-liter diesel fuel shipment at the Nahal Oz fuel trans [...]	2008-01-22 15:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM1135	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/01): HAMAS AT A CROSSROADS - [...] Al- Quds independent prints its daily editorial entitled, "In view of the truce...where does Hamas stand now?" (07/01): "...I think that Hamas today realizes the meaning of practicing authority... Hamas authorities must... know how to run internal Palestinian affairs in the Gaza Strip without [...]	2008-07-01 11:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1144	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/02): THE GAZA STRIP TRUCE _ [...] In one of its main editorials, under the headline, "Will the Truce Last Long?" independent Al-Quds opines, (07/02) "...In evaluating the truce, one can conclude that it will not last long for several reasons. Mainly, because the basis of Israeli policy is not to implement a true peace with th [...]	2008-07-02 11:24:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1148	FIVE DEAD, DOZENS WOUNDED IN JERUSALEM BULLDOZER [...] (C) Local press and police reported four Israelis dead and 36 wounded after a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem on a bulldozer attacked several cars and toppled a public bus in downtown Jerusalem shortly after noon on July 2. As of 3:00 local time, Post had no reports of American citizen [...]	2008-07-02 11:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1149	UNRWA EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT FUNDING SHORTFALLS FOR FOOD [...] (SBU) UNRWA Deputy Commissioner General Filippo Grandi, briefing donors at UNRWA's annual food aid meeting in Jerusalem on June 30, expressed concern about shortfalls in donor funding for its food program. The regular food program, funded outside UNRWA's regular budget, aims to support roughly [...]	2008-07-02 12:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAL
08JERUSALEM1150	FIVE DEAD, DOZENS WOUNDED IN JERUSALEM BULLDOZER [...] (C) Local press and police reported four Israelis dead and 36 wounded after a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem on a bulldozer attacked several cars and toppled a public bus in downtown Jerusalem shortly after noon on July 2. As of 3:00 local time, Post had no reports of American citizen [...]	2008-07-02 12:02:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1166	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/02): RAFAH - "STOP [...] Independent Al- Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Rafa crossing again" (07/03): "hundreds of Palestinians tried to cross the Egyptian borders through the Rafah crossing...the problem with this sole passageway between Gaza and the world, is that it is controlled by an agreement between E [...]	2008-07-03 08:12:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1170	GOI CLOSES PALESTINIAN HOUSING COUNCIL IN EAST [...] (C) Summary. The Chairman of the Board of the East Jerusalem-based Palestinian Housing Council (PHC) told PolOff that the Israeli Minister of Public Security closed the PHC July 2, claiming that it is a Palestinian Authority (PA) agency illegally operating inside Jerusalem. He said the PHC [...]	2008-07-03 13:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1179	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/07): SYRIAN BID TO HOST [...] Independent Al- Ayyam runs its daily editorial entitled, "Abbas- Assad meeting and Internal Palestinian Dialogue!!" (07/07): "... there are official declarations and... indications that the situation is not yet ripe for [meetings between Abbas and Hamas leader Mish'al], especially since Hamas [...]	2008-07-07 12:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1188	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/08): "A COMPREHENSIVE DEAL OR [...] Independent Al-Quds prints its main, daily editorial under the title, "The Special importance of Abu Mazin's Visit to Damascus" (7/08): "...Abu Mazin met with a number of leaders from different JERUSALEM 00001188 002 OF 002 Palestinian factions, but did not meet with any Hamas leaders, [...]	2008-07-08 09:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS

08JERUSALEM1191	BETHLEHEM STONE EXPORTS RESUME THROUGH CHECKPOINT [...] (U) Stone and marble industry representatives in Bethlehem say that Israeli officials have rescinded an order to reroute trucks carrying containers of stone and marble 40 kilometers to the south. The order had threatened to erode the competitiveness of Palestinian stone and marble, the West B [...]	2008-07-08 14:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL IS KWBG KPAL
08JERUSALEM1200	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/09): NATIONAL DIALOGUE - TO [...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "National dialogue should be comprehensive" (7/09): "...Certainly Abu Mazen's visit to Damascus does not mean the end of... Palestinian national dialogue. [The dialogue] will not be successful unless it includes all of the factions and. [...]	2008-07-09 10:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1202	REQUEST FOR REVIEW OF VISA INELIGIBILITY FINDING [...] (C/NF) Post requests department review the finding of ineligibility under INA 212(a)(3)(B) for Jihad al-Wazir (DPOB: 20 July 1963, Gaza),the Governor of the Palestine Monetary Authority. We understand the ineligibility results from claims that al-Wazir currently is a member of Fatah. We hav [...]	2008-07-09 12:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CVIS CLOK PTER EFIN KWBG KPAL
08JERUSALEM1203	NABLUS MALL CLOSURE SPARKS PA ANGER [...] (C) Summary. PA leaders say they are furious about the IDF's closure of Nablus' largest mall (reftel). Prime Minister Salam Fayyad told the Consul General on July 8 that the GOI had not previously mentioned the mall (owned by publicly-traded real estate company al-I'timan) in GOI-PA discuss [...]	2008-07-09 14:30:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON KTFN KWBG PTER KISL KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1208	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/10): VANISHING HOPES FOR [...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Truce talks, dialogue, and agreement" (7/10): "...it is obvious that the possibility of an agreement... or even a meeting [between Fatah and Hamas] has almost disappeared... The truce [with Israel in the Gaza Strip] will not last long fo [...]	2008-07-10 08:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM122	GAZA: LIMITED DELIVERIES CONTINUE; HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Limited truckloads of aid passed through Kerem Shalom crossing on January 23. The Gaza Power Plant received 200,000 liters of fuel oil on January 23, allowing the Plant to generate electricity until January 26. Despite the resumption of electricity, Gaza hospitals report con [...]	2008-01-23 15:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM1224	Daughter of Prominent Palestinian Activist Faces [...] Zeina Hutchison, a U.S. legal permanent resident and daughter of prominent Palestinian legislator and human rights activist Hanan Ashrawi, contacted Post July 9 to report the problems she had encountered when entering Israel with her Israeli Travel Document (carrying a tourist visa) at Ben Guri [...]	2008-07-11 04:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	CASC PREL IS KWBG KPAL
08JERUSALEM1227	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/11): FAYYAD'S PRACTICAL IDEAS [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled: "Dr. Fayyad's ideas to end division are practical and constructive" (7/11): "...out of a feeling of deep responsibility towards his people and the cause of his homeland, [Palestinian Authority Premier] Dr. Fayyad has laid out some construc [...]	2008-07-11 09:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1231	HAMAS PRESSURES PALTEL FOR CASH AND CONTROL [...] (C) Summary: Hamas is attempting to exert direct control and squeeze revenue out of the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PalTel) in Gaza. Following PalTel's refusal to meet Hamas' terms, armed Hamas officials raided PalTel offices and stores on July 6, forcing PalTel to close them tempora [...]	2008-07-14 05:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PTER ECPS KWBG KPAL
08JERUSALEM1237	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/14): WHICH COMES FIRST: UNITY [...] Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Obstacles to Palestinian dialogue"(7/14): "...the overwhelming majority of [the Palestinian] people ...believe that dialogue is the solution [to internal Palestinian division]...[however]... the most dangerous obstacle in the way of dialogue is th [...]	2008-07-14 08:21:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1245	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/15): THE LINK BETWEEN NATIONAL [...] Independent Al-Ayyam prints an editorial by Muhannad Abdul Hamid entitled, "All roads are closed to the [national] unity initiatives" (7/15): "...the initiative by [Palestinian Authority President] Abu Mazin [to begin a dialogue with Hamas] has gained special attention because it was presented [...]	2008-07-15 10:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1256	THREE U.S.-BOUND GAZAN STUDENTS DETAINED AT EREZ CROSSING [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 14, only two of the five Gazans whose transit through Erez crossing Post had sought to facilitate were approved. The other three were unable to travel to Jerusalem for their visa interviews. End Summary. 2. (SBU) On July 2, Post submitted the names of five Gazans [...]	2008-07-15 15:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAL IS PHUM
08JERUSALEM1259	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/16): "HAS THE WORLD BECOME [...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "A call on the international community to halt Israeli actions." Everyday Israel performs acts of tyranny [against Palestinians] such as destroying houses, confiscating land or insisting on building barriers in the middle of farming villages that [...]	2008-07-16 10:41:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM126	GAZA: SOME FUEL SHIPMENTS; RAFAH REMAINS OPEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Shipments of fuel continued on January 24 at the Nahal Oz fuel transfer station. The Gaza Power Plant reduced output to 45 MW on January 23 to save fuel, causing renewed power shortages throughout Gaza City and spurring hospitals to use their power generators. A growing numbe [...]	2008-01-24 15:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM1264	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/17): THE PRISONER RELEASE - "A [...] Al-Quds reprints an editorial without attribution to the original source (UAE paper Al-Khalil) under the title, "The naivety of betting on Obama" (7/17): "Many Arab writers and political analysts are betting on Obama's victory in the U.S. elections, thinking that if he wins, it will also cons [...]	2008-07-17 10:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1277	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/18): PRISONER EXCHANGE - FIRST [...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "And what about the 11,000 Palestinian Prisoners?" (7/18): "...the prisoners' exchange deal which took place a couple of days ago between Hizbollah and Israel was the successful result of difficult negotiations conducted under United Nations sponso [...]	2008-07-18 10:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1280	SAGA OF BETHLEHEM STONE EXPORTS CONTINUES [...] (C) The on-again, off-again ability of Bethlehem stone exporters to use a crossing point near the city (reftels) is apparently off again. According to Ihab Khalil, Executive Manager of "the Union of Stone and Marble in Palestine," Israeli soldiers manning the crossing point near Bethlehem be [...]	2008-07-18 13:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL IS KWBG KPAL
08JERUSALEM1308	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/21): WHICH [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-21 11:21:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1309	CORRECTED COPY - JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/21): [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-21 11:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1322	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/22): WESTERN DECLARATIONS THAT [...] Al- Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Brown's Visit and his Positive Declarations" (7/22): "During his visit to the Palestinian lands and Israel, British Premier Gordon Brown showed positive understanding of the situation and peace demands. He talked frankly and clearly regarding the [...]	2008-07-22 10:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1335	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/23): AMERICA HAS NO PERMANENT [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial by Rasim Ebaydat from Jerusalem, entitled, "America has no permanent enemies, when will Arab moderates learn that???" (7/23): "...America sees that engaging Iran... is better than encountering it militarily. This Iranian-American relationship shoul [...]	2008-07-23 11:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1339	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/24): "BARAK OBAMA WILL SOLVE [...] Independent Al- Ayyam runs an editorial by Abdullah Awwad entitled, "Barak Obama will solve it" (7/24): "...the democratic candidate is here promising that he will work to solve the Israeli- Palestinian conflict, from his first moment in the White House ... Bush promised that the two-state sol [...]	2008-07-24 12:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1349	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/25): DIFFERING VIEWS ON [...] Independent Al- Ayyam runs an editorial by Rajab Abu Sirriyyeh entitled, "Barack Obama: the journey in search of the Jewish voice" (7/25): "...Obama's attitude towards the Israeli side...has become clearer and more practical. [His visit to Sderot]...aims to portray Israel as a victim of Pales [...]	2008-07-25 10:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1355	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/28): "Bush...seeks to achieve [...] Al-Quds runs an editorial by Faysal Abu Khadra entitled, "Obama...and the Miracle of Israel" (7/28): "It is sad to hear and read that the African-American Senator whose father is a Muslim and whose mother is a white American Christian has a tendency towards [miraculously supporting Israel] rath [...]	2008-07-28 10:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1358	JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY DEMOLISHES BEIT HANINA HOME [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality demolished part of an apartment building belonging to Majid Abu Ayshah in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on July 28, stating that the building exceeded its permit and that the Municipality was legally obligated to uphold the court-order [...]	2008-07-28 14:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1364	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/29): "There is worse to come if [...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "Israel destroys peace...and we destroy ourselves?!!" (7/29): "Finally the Israeli Premier, Ehud Olmert, confessed that achieving peace this year is unlikely....Israel has continued its settlement activities everywhere especially in Jerus [...]	2008-07-29 10:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1368	SETTLER VIOLENCE ESCALATES AGAINST BURIN [...] (C) Summary. Following several reports of settler violence directed against the Palestinian village of Burin, south of Nablus, PolOffs visited the village July 28 and met with Mayor Ali Eid, village council members and residents whose homes and fields were damaged by settlers' attacks. In t [...]	2008-07-29 13:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM137	FATAH CENTRAL COUNCIL DISCUSSES SIXTH CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary. On January 15, eleven of the fourteen Fatah Central Committee (FCC) members discussed preparations for the Sixth Fatah Congress. They agreed that 1,500 representatives to the Congress, which will elect Fatah's leadership, will be selected from numerous Fatah organs by February [...]	2008-01-28 11:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
08JERUSALEM1374	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/30): Demolition of Palestinian [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "With what right are Palestinian houses destroyed?" (7/30): "It has become impossible to tolerate the official international, Arab and Palestinian silence regarding the Israeli Authority's actions of planned and intensive demolition operati [...]	2008-07-30 09:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1385	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (7/31): Doubts that future Israeli [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its main editorial entitled, "The end of Olmert's era" (7/31): "Finally, the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced...that he is not going to run in the primary elections of the Kadima party [scheduled for September] ... What is important for the Palestinian peopl [...]	2008-07-31 11:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1389	AL-KURD FAMILY APPEALS FOR HELP TO PREVENT [...] (C) Summary. PolOff and PolSpec met with members of the al-Kurd family and their representatives July 31. Fawzieh al-Kurd presented documents in support of her claim to her East Jerusalem house and invited the Consul General to visit the neighborhood to observe the situation. A neighbor to [...]	2008-07-31 13:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1404	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/01): Strong support for [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial by Rajeh Abu Asab entitled, "Making the national dialogue successful is in the Palestinian and Arab interest" (8/01): "Abbas has announced the launch of the Palestinian-Palestinian national dialogue following his meeting with President Hosni Mubarak [...]	2008-08-01 11:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1410	DISAGREEMENTS STALLING FATAH SIXTH GENERAL [...] (C) Summary. Fatah members told PolSpec in July that PA President Mahmud Abbas and some in the Central Committee are determined to hold Fatah's Sixth General Congress by November, but three principal issues are delaying the Congress. First, Fatah members are divided on whether to hold the C [...]	2008-08-01 14:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1412	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/04): A message to those who [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Enough...!!" (8/04): "The sad events in the Gaza Strip during the last three days and their results have shocked and surprised Palestinians throughout the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, in refugee camps and abroad, not only because they form a [...]	2008-08-04 07:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1413	CONFISCATION ORDERS ISSUED FOR 36 DUNUMS IN JORDAN [...] (C) Summary. Sami Musallam, PA Governor of Tubas, informed PolOff that the IDF confiscated 36.8 dunums of land from Palestinians in the Jordan Valley village of Bardalah. Musallam said the infrastructure for Bardalah crossing (between Israel and the West Bank) is already on the land being co [...]	2008-08-04 12:49:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1422	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/05): Desperate calls for end [...] Independent Al-Quds carries its daily editorial entitled, "How can we regain our waning confidence?" (8/05): "A lot has been said about the low level to which the Palestinian attitude has fallen due to this destructive division between the two major parties [Fatah and Hamas] in the Palestinian [...]	2008-08-05 09:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM143	GAZA: RESTRICTED FUEL SHIPMENTS AT NAHAL OZ; AID [...] (SBU) Summary: Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings have been closed since January 23 and 24, respectively. Restricted fuel shipments were transferred at Nahal Oz fuel station on January 28. Gaza City residents continue to experience eight to 12 hours without electricity each day. The Petroleum [...]	2008-01-28 15:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM1432	RENEWAL OF CLOSURE ORDERS FOR PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli Ministry of Internal Security (MoI) renewed closure orders in early August against eight East Jerusalem Palestinian institutions. The General Manager of the Arab Studies Society (closed in 2001) told PolOff August 6 that the closure leaves a vacuum in Palestinian le [...]	2008-08-06 12:27:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1434	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/06): National dialogue must be [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Dialogue based on attachment to Palestine" (8/06): "Although [Palestinian] parties [Fatah and Hamas] have closed their ears to the calls made by both Palestinians and the wider Arab world for a serious and effective dialogue for the sake o [...]	2008-08-06 13:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1442	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/07): A call for public and [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-07 07:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1444	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/07): A call for public and [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "Where is the role of the public...?" (8/07): "The tragic situation in which we [Palestinians] live is characterized by three signs: - The first sign is the destructive bloody conflict for authority and the preference of narrow group interests ove [...]	2008-08-07 08:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1471	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/08): Frustration at lack of [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Another Palestinian-Israeli summit but...!" (8/08): "Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas met with the Israeli Premier, Ehud Olmert, in a series of organized meetings between the two sides [on August 6]. As usual, the new mee [...]	2008-08-08 09:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1482	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/11): Mourning over the death [...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs its daily editorial by Hamada Fara'neh entitled, "Advice for the Palestinian President" (08/11): "More than ever before, President Mahmoud Abbas needs the solidarity of the Fatah movement. The movement, as a political struggle organization, is the mother that delivere [...]	2008-08-11 08:27:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1487	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/12): Who deserves [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its main editorial entitled, "Egypt... and the Palestinian Situation" (08/12): "Rafah and the other crossings were opened per international arrangements and agreement, and what actually closed them down is the takeover by force of the authority in Gaza and the continuit [...]	2008-08-12 10:12:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1491	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/13): Palestinian insistence on [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-13 09:43:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1499	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/14): "Dangerous Signs in [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-14 09:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1509	EAST JERUSALEM RESIDENT ARRESTED IN ON-GOING [...] (C) Summary. Shaykh Jarrah neighborhood resident Maher Hanoun was arrested in early August for resisting eviction from his home. Hanoun's lawyer told PolOff August 12 that he is workingto free Hanoun pending resolution of the disputeover ownership of the land, but the courts have made no pro [...]	2008-08-15 08:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1511	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/15): The status of Palestinians [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial by Azzam Tawfiq Abu Al-Su'oud entitled, "Will there be a New Middle East?" (8/15): "Since the beginning of [Bush's] presence in the White House, we have heard about American plans for a new Middle East ... We are accustomed to the idea that the Ameri [...]	2008-08-15 10:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1519	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/18): All talk and no action on [...] Independent Al-Quds prints its daily editorial entitled, "National Dialogue...Again" (8/18): "We are getting tired of calling for [Palestinian] national unity and we request that it be achieved as quickly as possible to end the division ... Everybody is talking about the national dialogue, its [...]	2008-08-18 09:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1522	HOME DEMOLITIONS STRIKE ANGRY CHORD IN EAST [...] (C) Summary. The Jerusalem Municipality demolished four homes in East Jerusalem on August 13, two in the Ashkariya neighborhood of Beit Hanina (north Jerusalem). Local residents told PolOff that Ashkariya is zoned as "green land" even though it is privately owned, and said the Municipality [...]	2008-08-18 12:15:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1529	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/19): Palestinian national [...] Independent Al-Quds carries an editorial by Walid Al-Awad, Member of the Political Bureau of the Palestinian People's Party, entitled, "the Palestinian National Dialogue Needs Palestinian Political Will and an Active Arab Role" (8/19): "Despite the increasing talks and press statements claiming [...]	2008-08-19 10:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1534	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/20): LACK OF MOVEMENT ON [...] Independent Al-Quds runs a daily editorial entitled, "A Step in the Road to Releasing Thousands of Prisoners" (8/20): "Each Palestinian prisoner released by Israel reduces the burden and suffering of the Palestinian people in general and of the prisoner's friends and relatives in particular. . [...]	2008-08-20 11:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1547	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/21): WHY DO PALESTINIANS INSIST [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by the Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Abdul Rahim Mallouh, entitled, "Why?!!!" (8/21): "[T]he important lesson Palestinian decision-makers, in particular, and the Palestinian people, in general, should take [from int [...]	2008-08-21 07:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1555	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/22): Doubt concerning Hamas' [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "Our Cause and the Latest International Variables" (8/22): "Palestinians and Arabs need to benefit from the latest international variables and developments in order to advance the just peace process, taking into consideration that the conditions o [...]	2008-08-22 08:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1557	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/25): IF THE SHIPS BREAK THE [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by regular columnist Talal Al-Sharif entitled, "The Two Ships--So Breaking the Siege is not in One Direction!" (8/25): "[T]he sailing of the two ships [to the Gaza Strip] is a good step, but political [aspirations] cannot be achieved without pure national [...]	2008-08-25 07:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1562	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/26): A First Step towards Full [...] Under the headline "Congratulations on the Prisoners' Release, What's next..!" (8/26),Independent Al-Quds opined in its main editorial: "This is a first step, and Israel should consider it as such, towards the comprehensive release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners crowding Israeli jails a [...]	2008-08-26 06:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1596	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/27): Guarded Optimism following [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "The Settlement Activity Should Be Condemned with Clear Cut Sentences" (8/27): "[T]he U.S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, talked, after her meeting with [the Palestinian Authority (PA)] President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, about the expans [...]	2008-08-27 07:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1605	UNEASY STATUS QUO AT HEBRON'S IBRAHIMI MOSQUE/TOMB [...] (C) Summary. PolCouns visited Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque/Tomb of the Patriarchs in late August. Visitors to the building must pass through metal detectors, and armed Israeli border police patrol inside and out at all times. Metal security gates separate Muslims and Jews, who worship on differ [...]	2008-08-27 14:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1610	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/28): WILL CAIRO TALKS ACHIEVE A [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "The National Dialogue as Target and not as Logo" (8/28): "[I]nternal and external factors, such as competition between the Palestinian factions and Arab and international pressure, hinder the achievement of Palestinian national unity. These fac [...]	2008-08-28 07:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1612	25 FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STANDS DEMOLISHED BY IDF IN [...] (C) Summary. On August 12, according to Palestinian contacts, the IDF demolished 25 fruit and vegetable stands along route 90 in the northern Jordan Valley. This is the first significant demolition in the West Bank since late March. End Summary. 2. (C) Local produce vendors in the Jorda [...]	2008-08-28 12:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF ECON EAGR KPAL KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM1616	JERUSALEM CONTACTS DISCUSS MUGHRABI GATE RAMP [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian officials in press and privately criticized alleged Israeli plans for the Mughrabi Gate entrance to the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. A Waqf official said the Jerusalem District Committee's guidance for construction is too ambiguous, and that unilateral Israeli acti [...]	2008-08-28 15:36:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KISL KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL
08JERUSALEM1621	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (8/29): PEACE NEGOTIATIONS - [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "The Return and not the Permanent Resettlement" (8/29): "[T]he declarations of the [Palestinian Authority] President Mahmoud Abbas in Beirut confirm...that the Palestinian refugees object to the idea of permanent resettlement [in Lebanon]...and t [...]	2008-08-29 08:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1627	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/02): WHITHER INTERNAL [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by Gaza political scientist Dr. Naji Sadiq Sharab, entitled, "Whither the [Internal] Division..." (9/02): "[T]his internal division [between Fatah and Hamas]...will mean the disappearance of the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state ... it strips [...]	2008-09-02 10:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1634	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/03): DEBATING THE ROLE OF ARAB [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial entitled, "A Dangerous Legal Precedent" (9/03): "According to news reports, an American court has issued a ruling to impose a heavy fine on the Palestinian Authority for the 1996 killing of an Israeli-American by Hamas. This has established a (new) legal p [...]	2008-09-03 09:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1640	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/04): INTERNATIONAL CHANGES AND [...] Independent Al-Quds editorialized in "Special Damascus Summit," (9/4): "Today in Damascus a special quartet summit (which includes French President Sarkozy, President Assad of Syria, Amir of Qatar Al Thani, and Turkish PM Erdogan) is held... The convening of this summit by itself is considered [...]	2008-09-04 06:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1651	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/05): INTERNAL PALESTINIAN [...] Wadi' Abu Nassar, Executive Director of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops in the Holy Land, opines in independent Al-Quds under the headline "An agreement to show off, not to implement" (09/05): "Recently, American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice concluded her 17th visit to the Middle East [...]	2008-09-05 10:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1658	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/08): INTERNAL DIVISION COLORS [...] Independent Al-Quds editorialized in "We are not in Need of More Division," (9/8): "Once again, division in the Palestinian arena has resurfaced in the expression of political positions related to the teachers' strike in the Gaza Strip. This is, of course, not a political issue because the te [...]	2008-09-08 10:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM168	GAZA: FUEL DELIVERIES MADE; COURT DECISION SPURS [...] (SBU) Summary: Restricted fuel deliveries were made into Gaza on January 31. Municipal water authorities reported that at least 80 percent of the water and sewage pumps should be operational February 1, as an agreement was reached regarding fuel deliveries within Gaza. The Gaza Power Plant [...]	2008-01-31 15:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM1681	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/09): CONTINUED PALESTINIAN [...] Independent Al-Quds editorializes in "The strikes..." (9/8): "We are experiencing extraordinary, catastrophic conditions in all aspects of our political, economic and daily lives. The on-going JERUSALEM 00001681 002 OF 002 strike [by teachers and health care workers] is increasing the [...]	2008-09-09 09:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1685	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/10): ALTERNATIVES TO THE [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by daily columnist Dr. Hasan Abdullah entitled, "The success of Cairo talks Could save our communal ship from sinking" (9/10): "[C]airo talks must lead to an agreement...the agreement should pave the way for presidential and legislative Palestinian electio [...]	2008-09-10 10:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1688	LEAVY VETTING FOR USG-FUNDED TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the National Security Forces (NSF) and Presidential Guard (PG) to USG-funded training in the West Bank and Jordan: Name [...]	2008-09-10 14:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1692	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/11): "ENDLESS NEGOTIATIONS ARE [...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial by daily columnist Abdullah Awwad entitled, "What comes after Negotiations?!" (9/11): "[T]he conflict in Palestine since the beginning [has been a]... conflict rooted in several clashes: between an old and new history...between the geographic contours of [...]	2008-09-11 09:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1698	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/12): Heightened Speculation [...] Under the title, "The Seventh Anniversary of September 11" (9/12),the independent Al-Quds argues in its main editorial: JERUSALEM 00001698 002 OF 002 "Against the background of the September 11 attacks, the Palestinian issue remained on the margins of developments for the first seven [...]	2008-09-12 07:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1712	IDF DEMOLISHES 32 STRUCTURES IN AL-MUARRAJAT [...] (C) Summary. The IDF demolished 32 bedouin structures east of Ramallah on September 9 in the second significant West Bank demolition in a month. End summary. 2. (SBU) On September 9, IDF soldiers demolished 32 structures in the al-Muarrajat bedouin encampment, south of route 449 between [...]	2008-09-12 14:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF PHUM KPAL KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM1716	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/15): A "MULTIPOLAR" WORLD AND [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its main editorial under the title, "Partition on the Basis of International Legitimacy"(09/15): "in a statement seldom made by Israeli leaders, Premier Ehud Olmert said [on September 14] in an address to his government, that the dream of Greater Israel has ended [fore [...]	2008-09-15 08:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1719	IDF TENTATIVELY APPROVES 150 NSF TROOPS FOR [...] (C) Summary. National Security Forces (NSF) West Bank Commander Diab al-Ali Abu al-Fatah told PolSpec that the IDF has tentatively approved the transfer of 150 NSF officers to Hebron. The IDF also approved three new Palestinian police stations in villages near Janin. End Summary. IDF OFF [...]	2008-09-15 13:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1721	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/16): DISCUSSING THE LEGITIMACY [...] Under the title, "Required... Exit From Useless Debate", Al-Quds independent opines in its main editorial (09/16): "The debate over JERUSALEM 00001721 002 OF 002 President Mahmud Abbas' remaining time in office is heating up over the issue of whether it will end on January 9 or at the e [...]	2008-09-16 10:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1729	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/17): "ONE NATIONAL VISION AND [...] Al-Quds independent writes in its main editorial entitled "Cairo Dialogue is an Opportunity Not to Be Wasted" (09/17): "Fatah and Hamas, or more precisely, the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian Government in Gaza, should benefit from this [one-time] opportunity. Dialogue should place [...]	2008-09-17 09:12:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1730	NABLUS, QALQILIYA OPEN TO ISRAELI ARAB CARS FOR [...] (C) Summary. Since early September, the IDF has allowed Israeli-plated vehicles driven by Israeli Arabs to enter the cities of Nablus and Qalqiliya, providing some economic benefits in the cities. Jenin remains closed to Israeli vehicular traffic, but open for pedestrians. End summary. I [...]	2008-09-17 10:02:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS ECON KPAL KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM1735	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/18): THE "PALESTINIAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-18 07:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1738	LEAHY VETTING FOR USG TRAINING [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, post requests clearance to send the following to USG-funded training to be held in Jericho: Hasan Muneer Hasan Issa DOB: 06/25/1970 POB: Kuwait ID: 912353703 Walid Marzouk Mohammad Salhi DOB [...]	2008-09-18 08:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM1745	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/19): PREDICTIONS ABOUT LIVNI [...] The main editorial in Al-Quds independent runs under the title "The Ramifications of Livni's Win of the Leadership of Kadima" (09/19): "Palestinians have always dealt with Israeli political developments on the basis of them being an internal issue that chiefly concern Israelis only. The Pale [...]	2008-09-19 08:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1747	CANDIDATE LISTS SHAPING UP FOR JERUSALEM'S MAYORAL [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem's Haredi (ultra-orthodox) community is still considering three contenders for the November 11 mayoral elections, but expects to settle on a single candidate in advance of the campaign. Many see MK Porush, anointed as the United Torah Judaism Party (UTJ) candidate in a [...]	2008-09-19 13:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1748	FARMERS FRET OVER FALL OLIVE HARVEST PERMITS [...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian farmers living along the separation barrier in the northern West Bank have expressed concern over GOI restrictions on permits to cross agricultural gates in the barrier. These restrictions would hamper their efforts to bring in the olive harvest, a significant sou [...]	2008-09-19 14:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PBTS ECON KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1753	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/22): THE UN, THE INTERNATIONAL [...] Al-Quds independent argues in its main editorial under the title, "International Responsibility" (09/22): [I]nternal political crises in Israel... directly impact the Palestinian issue and efforts to reach a solution [to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict]... How much longer will the internation [...]	2008-09-22 08:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1757	MINISTRY OF AWQAF HOPES SAUDIS WILL DISTRIBUTE [...] (C) Summary. The PA Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs called for USG pressure on Saudi Arabia to distribute Hajj visas to Gazans through the Ministry rather than through HAMAS. Doing so would help the PA, he said. He added that the PA wants Gazans to depart through Jordan, not Egypt. Th [...]	2008-09-22 13:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG KISL IS SA
08JERUSALEM1758	FRANCISCANS SAY ISRAEL BREACHING STATUS QUO [...] (C) Summary. The Franciscan (Catholic) Custos of the Holy Land has formally complained to the GoI about breaches in the status quo regarding holy places, and his representative has requested that the USG press the GoI to protect Jerusalem's Christian holy sites. According to the Custos, an [...]	2008-09-22 14:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1765	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/23): "EAST JERUSALEM [...] The main editorial of Al-Quds independent argues under the title, "Judaization plans are Non-Stop As Are Efforts to Launch Dialogue?!!" (09/23): "A few days ago construction started near the Magreb Gate [Old City, Jerusalem] to build, it seems, settlement neighborhoods. There is also the iss [...]	2008-09-23 07:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1783	ARMED PALESTINIAN BOY SHOT DEAD WHILE APPROACHING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Early September 20, IDF troops shot and killed a 14-year-old boy as he approached Yitzhar settlement with a Molotov cocktail and a knife. IDF video released to the press shows the boy attempting to light a bomb and the IDF firing on him. Asira al-Qabaliyah's village council to [...]	2008-09-23 14:31:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PREL PHUM PTER KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1786	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/24): PALESTINIANS SEE [...] In its main editorial, Al-Quds independent argues under the title, "The Series of 'Accidents' in Jerusalem" (09/24): "The day before yesterday, news reported an accident in West Jerusalem where a Palestinian Jerusalemite ran over a number of pedestrians on one of the city's sidewalks. The acc [...]	2008-09-24 11:08:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1792	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/25): CALL FOR A MEDIA AND [...] Under the title, "A Comprehensive Truce, not an Escalation of Disputes, is a Must Before Launching Dialogue", independent Al-Quds argues in its main editorial (09/25): "The success of [internal Palestinian] dialogue does not depend on Egyptian intentions or... the increased support of the Arab [...]	2008-09-25 08:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1802	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/26): PRESIDENT BUSH'S LEGACY [...] In its main editorial, Al-Quds independent opines under the title "Ideas Alone are not Enough" (09/26): "History will judge the presidency of George W. Bush... It was a period full of overseas wars and emergency laws to monitor terrorist suspects and a JERUSALEM 00001802 002 OF 002 re [...]	2008-09-26 09:15:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1803	BILIN RESIDENTS WILL CONTEST LATEST IDF BARRIER [...] (C) Summary. On September 18, in response to an Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) order, the GOI presented a new plan to re-route the separation barrier between the Palestinian village of Bilin and the Israeli settlement of Modiin Illit. Village residents criticized the latest plan and in [...]	2008-09-26 10:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1809	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (9/29): INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON [...] Under the title "So that we don't drown in shallow water," regular columnist Talal Okal opines in independent Al-Ayyam (9/29): JERUSALEM 00001809 003 OF 003 "Does Bush have the ability to make decisions in the time remaining before January of next year? Or, will he and his administrati [...]	2008-09-29 10:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1823	JERUSALEM-BASED NGO REQUESTS SUPPORT TO REMOVE [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu Majirah say they have been cut off from their center of life by the separation barrier, and that the IDF controls access to their neighborhood via checkpoints. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) may su [...]	2008-09-29 13:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1824	PA JUSTICE SECTOR EFFORTS PROGRESSING IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Since the May 29 signing of its Justice Sector Strategy (JSS),the PA has progressed in implementing several areas of the plan: infrastructure, staffing, and case backlog reduction. PM Fayyad highlighted this progress in recent press statements (ref A). End Summary. Infras [...]	2008-09-29 14:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV EAID KWBG KPAL CA IS
08JERUSALEM1829	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/02): BUSH-ABBAS MEETING - [...] Independent Ma'an online news agency publishes an article about the recent White House meeting between President Bush and Palestinian Authority President Abbas, written by political advisor to Abbas, Ahmad Abdul Rahman(10/02): "[I]t was just a protocol farewell meeting, nothing more, since M [...]	2008-10-02 09:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1830	CORRECTED COPY - JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/02): [...] Independent Ma'an online news agency publishes an article about the recent White House meeting between President Bush and Palestinian Authority President Abbas, written by political advisor to Abbas, Ahmad Abdul Rahman(10/02): "[I]t was just a protocol farewell meeting, nothing more, since M [...]	2008-10-02 09:09:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1831	FATAH AND HAMAS RELEASE PRISONERS FOR EID AL-FITR [...] (C) Summary. On September 30, the Palestinian Authority (PA) released 38 West Bank HAMAS activists, reciprocating HAMAS's release September 29 of roughly 30 Fatah members in the Gaza Strip. PASF officials report that the released activists have no proven ties to the HAMAS military wing. End [...]	2008-10-02 14:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1833	CORRECTED COPY - JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/03): THE [...] Regular columnist Mohamad Yaghy opined in Al Ayyam under the title, "The peace process in the American elections" (10/03): "[T]he differences between the positions of the American presidential candidates regarding the [Palestinian-Israeli] peace process is somewhat unclear ....both of them hav [...]	2008-10-03 11:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS

08JERUSALEM1841	ADDITIONAL ORDERS FOR DEMOLITION OF BEDOUIN [...] (SBU) Summary. According to UNRWA, COGAT officers delivered demolition orders for 38 structures at the Milehat-Ka'abneh bedouin encampment in area C on September 22. Bedouin resident in the area told Poloff they have been living seasonally in this location since 1985 and expressed concern [...]	2008-10-03 14:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1845	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/06): "WHAT IS LEFT OF PEACE [...] Al Ayyam publishes an opinion piece by columnist Samih Shbib under the title, "A dialogue waiting to be clarified" (10/06): "Hamas has its own agenda [that does not include] the PA and PLO... such an agenda bets on the success of Iranian expansion and consequently, the resurgence of regional I [...]	2008-10-06 11:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1847	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/07): PALESTINIANS NOT [...] Al Quds prints an editorial titled, "No positive signs preceding dialogue" (10/07): "If Hamas rejects the idea of a national consensus government and calls for a national government to be headed by them; and if Hamas insists that President Abbas' term ends on January 9, it is difficult to see [...]	2008-10-07 10:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM185	BIL'IN VILLAGE: BARRIER NOT YET REROUTED [...] (C) Summary. On January 24, Abdallah Abu Rahman, Coordinator of the Bil'in Land Defense and Popular Committee, told Poloffs that the GoI has taken no steps to reroute the separation barrier between Bil'in and the settlement of Modi'in Illit following a September 7 Israeli High Court ruling. [...]	2008-02-04 10:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1850	ATERET COHANIM TAKES OVER TWO NEW PROPERTIES IN [...] (C) Summary. Ateret Cohanim (AC) acquired a Palestinian apartment in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and plans to open a synagogue this month near the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount. The PA's Jerusalem Governor said the PA is looking into the possibility of legal irregularities in [...]	2008-10-07 14:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1861	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/08): "THE END OF [...] Al Ayyam independent daily prints an opinion piece written by Jawad Al Bashiti under the title, "The End to History" (10/08): "During feudal times, the church was the largest real estate owner, but during the... [end to] the history of neo-capitalism, the "Bush-Paulson" state has suddenly beco [...]	2008-10-08 10:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1871	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/10): INTERNAL PALESTINIAN [...] Regular columnist Mohammad Yaghi opines in Al Ayyam independent daily under the title, "A dialogue to buy time" (10/10): "Many Arab countries see the controversy surrounding the Palestinian Authority Presidency as a continuation of the demise of the PLO. They are trying to avert the collapse [...]	2008-10-10 11:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1880	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/15): AN ASSESSMENT OF [...] Al Quds editorial opines under the title, "Freezing negotiations is an Israeli strategy" (10/15): "Almost a year has elapsed since the Annapolis peace conference... an entire year that has totally failed to produce any real progress in the peace process. Reaching a peace agreement, as recomm [...]	2008-10-15 12:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1883	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/16): 20 YEARS AFTER THE COLD [...] Hani Hurani opines in Al Ayyam under the title "An increasingly chaotic world" (10/16): "In a nutshell, the image of the Arab world, 20 years after the end of the Cold War, suggests that it has been failed to face up to the challenges of economic and political reform and realize stable societ [...]	2008-10-16 10:30:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM190	HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING REQUEST OF PA SECURITY [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, post requests clearance for the following Presidential Guard (PG) members to attend a USG-funded security training course in Jordan: First name, last name Tareq Nathmi Ihmoud Sadaqa DOB: 25 J [...]	2008-02-04 15:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM1901	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/17): "STALEMATE" IN [...] Former Palestinian Authority Minister Hasan Asfour opines in Al Ayyam under the title, "National dialogue: Interim or final solution?" (10/17): "The current situation requires that there be a comprehensive document that provides answers... [to] the issues of electoral law and mechanisms... [ [...]	2008-10-17 12:24:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1907	WAQF CONCERNED, FRUSTRATED BY INCREASING ISRAELI [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian media reported hundreds of Israelis visited the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City in numerous visits during mid-October, accompanied by police. Waqf officials confirmed the visits, adding that the Israelis did not attempt to enter or damage buildi [...]	2008-10-17 15:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1911	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/20): THE GAZA CALM: "IN [...] Bilal Al Hasan opines in Al Quds under the title "Acre events: Omen for a third Palestinian intifada"(10/20): "If the impetus for the two Palestinian intifadas came from the Israeli-Arab conflict... then a [third] Palestinian intifada launched from within the state of Israel will be based on d [...]	2008-10-20 11:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1919	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/22): THE ROAD MAP "HAS LOST [...] Al Quds editorial is titled "Palestinians embrace their olives despite settler aggression" (10/22): "No one, regardless of his barbarism and cruelty, can separate the Palestinian from his olive tree, which he considers to be one of his sons... the world and so-called international community s [...]	2008-10-22 12:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1938	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/23): PALESTINIAN NATIONAL [...] Abdullah Awwad opines in Al Ayyam under the title, "A calm JERUSALEM 00001938 002 OF 002 discourse in a noisy moment (10/23): "All that can be said about the rift between Hamas and Fatah or between the Islamic movement and the nationalist one... is that it is a conflict between the Wes [...]	2008-10-23 09:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1947	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/24): PALESTINIAN PESSIMISM [...] Azmi Khawaja, Palestinian National Legislative Council Member, opines in Al Ayyam under the title, "Cairo dialogues approach a decisive moment"(10/24): "We must succeed in these talks, because their failure would threaten the Palestinian cause... Successful talks would mean an end to the Gaza [...]	2008-10-24 10:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1949	STABBING ATTACK IN JERUSALEM; ARRESTS IN THE WEST [...] (C) Summary. Israeli police on October 23 arrested a Palestinian who had stabbed two Israelis that day in Jerusalem. Later that day, roughly 150 Palestinians clashed with IDF troops who raided the attacker's village. Seven Palestinians were arrested during the campaign, most of whom were r [...]	2008-10-24 15:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IS KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PREL PTER
08JERUSALEM1950	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/27): POLITICAL AND SECURITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-27 08:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1956	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/28): PALESTINIAN CONDEMNATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-28 07:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM196	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (02/05): SUICIDE BOMBINGS - "A [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-05 11:32:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1967	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/29): ARAB PEACE INITIATIVE - [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-29 07:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1974	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/30): IN-FIGHTING VS. FIGHTING [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-30 11:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1980	IDF DEMOLISHES HOMES IN TWO WEST BANK BEDOUIN [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 29 and 30, IDF soldiers demolished 25 structures in two Bedouin communities: one south of Hebron in Umm al-Khair, and one east of Ramallah in Mughayir al Dir. The demolitions leave 142 people, including 71 children, homeless. These are the first demolitions of inh [...]	2008-10-30 15:43:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM1983	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/31): BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS: [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-31 11:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1986	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/03): UN Obligations; US [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-03 12:24:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1991	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/04): "TIME FOR AMERICA TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-04 10:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM1998	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/05): PALESTINIANS ARE LEADERS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-05 11:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2000	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/06): SPECULATION ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-06 12:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2004	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/07): NO PEACE AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-07 06:30:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2008	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/10): PALESTINIAN FAMILY [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-10 09:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2011	AL-KURD FAMILY EVICTED IN EAST JERUSALEM; [...] (C) Summary. Israeli police evicted the al-Kurd family from their home in East Jerusalem's Shaykh Jarrah neighborhood on November 9. Local residents fear this will be the first of many such evictions in the neighborhood. Palestinian homeowners in Shaykh Jarrah said at least 27 other familie [...]	2008-11-10 14:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2013	SECULAR AND ULTRA-ORTHODOX CANDIDATES FACE OFF IN [...] (C) Summary. Nationalist candidate Nir Barkat hopes to win the November 11 municipal election based on his platform of balancing religious and secular needs in the city. Ultra-Orthodox candidate Meir Porush, who would continue policies enacted under current Mayor Lupolianski, hopes to win ba [...]	2008-11-10 14:31:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2019	GAZA: POWER SUPPLY THREATENED AS CROSSINGS REMAIN [...] (C) Summary: The Gaza crossings with Israel have been closed since November 4, following a resumption of violence between the IDF and Hamas, resulting in a sharp drop in fuel supplies. The Gaza power plant will likely shut down at 1830 hours on November 10 due to a lack of fuel, according to [...]	2008-11-10 14:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EAID ENRG KWBG KPAL PHUM
08JERUSALEM2021	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/12): PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-12 11:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2029	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/13): UNITY - "BEFORE IT IS [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 11:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2035	NIR BARKAT WINS JERUSALEM MAYORAL ELECTION [...] (U) Summary. "Secular/nationalist" candidate Nir Barkat won the election for Jerusalem's mayor and takes office in early December. He promised in his victory speech to address the needs of secular, religious, and Arab residents of the city. Nearly all Palestinians and some ultra-Orthodox J [...]	2008-11-13 15:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2036	IDF DEMOLISHES TWO WEST BANK HOUSES FOR LACK OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian contacts confirmed that the IDF demolished two Palestinian houses in Shuqba village, west of Ramallah, November 12, on the grounds that they lacked building permits. These are the first demolitions of permanent residential structures in the West Bank since the GoI [...]	2008-11-13 15:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2042	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/14): ARAB RELUCTANCE TO PLAY [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-14 11:12:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2048	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/17): URGENT CALLS FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-17 11:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2052	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/18): AMERICA'S HONEYMOON [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-18 10:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2058	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/19): PALESTINIANS SEE NEW [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 10:27:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2066	PA REQUEST TO TRANSFER PALESTINIAN FROM GUANTANAMO [...] (SBU) The Consulate General received a diplomatic note November 18 from the PA Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating PA willingness to accept the transfer by the United States of Walid Ibrahim Justafa Abu Hijazi from Guantanamo Bay to PA custody at any time. According to the note, the U.S. [...]	2008-11-19 13:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
08JERUSALEM2082	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/20): IRAQI SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-20 09:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2089	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/21): ISRAEL AND GAZA: "THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 11:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2096	LEAHY VETTING FOR PALESTINIAN SECURITY SENIOR [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, post requests clearance to send the following to a USG-funded senior leader course to be held in the West Bank: Name POB DOB ID 1 Ali Atta al-Sayed Mughrab [...]	2008-11-21 15:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM2097	LEAHY VETTING FOR ADDITIONAL NSF TRAINEES [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the PA National Security Forces (NSF) to USG-funded training courses in Jordan and the West Bank: Name POB [...]	2008-11-21 16:02:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM2103	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/24): RESISTING "SOFT" U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 12:08:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2113	ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 15:24:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG PGOV PREL PTER IS
08JERUSALEM2114	CONSTRUCTION RESUMES AT MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Israeli High Court of Justice decided on October 29 to allow the Simon Wiesenthal Center to resume construction of the Museum of Tolerance on the site of the Mamilla Muslim cemetery. The ruling, plus the rapid appearance of construction equipment at the site, has already sp [...]	2008-11-24 15:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2117	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/25): "A NATIONAL UNITY [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-25 15:11:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2128	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/26): "GLOATING OVER AMERICAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-26 08:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM213	GAZA: SOME SHIPMENTS OF FOOD AND FUEL; [...] (SBU) Summary: Forty-five truckloads of commercial and humanitarian shipments entered Gaza through Sufa crossing on February 6, while Kerem Shalom remained closed. Fuel transfers were made via Nahal Oz transfer station, supplying the Gaza Power Plant with sufficient fuel to continue to prod [...]	2008-02-06 14:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM2164	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (11/28): POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-28 09:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2169	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/01): PALESTINIANS SEE NO [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-01 11:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2173	UN Launches 2009 Consolidated Appeal for the West Bank and [...] (U) Summary: The UN launched the 2009 Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for the West Bank and Gaza on November 26. The USD 462 million appeal focuses on humanitarian response and assistance to an increasing number of vulnerable Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Most of the appeal is for food, [...]	2008-12-01 15:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAL
08JERUSALEM2175	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/02): ADMIRING THE U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-02 09:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2178	PRM ACTING A/S WITTEN ATTENDS UNRWA'S ANNUAL HOSTS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) held its semiannual Advisory Commission (AdCom) meeting November 17 and its annual Hosts and Donors Meeting November 18-19 in Amman to discuss current developments affecting Palestinian refugees, UNRW [...]	2008-12-02 14:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PGOV PHUM EAID KPAL
08JERUSALEM2183	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/03): "EUROPE TO ACTIVATE ITS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-03 10:39:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2188	PA SECURITY OFFICIALS BELIEVE AL-AQSA MARTYRS [...] (S) Summary. Palestinian political and security contacts believe the IDF operation that led to the death of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (AAMB) member Mohammad Kamal Abu Thra'a on December 1 was conceived as an assassination operation from the outset, not as an arrest operation. End summary. [...]	2008-12-03 17:31:00	Consulate Jerusalem	SECRET	PTER PREL PINR PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2189	JENIN: LOCAL JUDGES, PROSECUTORS DESCRIBE [...] (C) Summary. Judges and prosecutors in Jenin told Poloff and SEMERS staff that inadequate resources and interagency cooperation are the major obstacles to improving local administration of justice. They said the security campaign in Jenin has significantly improved public perception of the [...]	2008-12-03 17:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI KJUS KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2194	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/04): PALESTINIANS: ISRAEL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-04 10:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2196	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/05): HAMAS "WALKING INTO THE [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-05 10:49:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2210	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/09): THE OTHER ENEMY: [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-09 11:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2215	CENTRAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION FACING BUDGET [...] (C) Summary. The Central Elections Commission (CEC) faces serious financial difficulties, according to Chief Electoral Officer Hisham Kuhail, and will be unable to pay December salaries without an additional infusion of funding. The PA Ministry of Finance (MoF) told post it will transfer NIS [...]	2008-12-09 14:50:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
08JERUSALEM2231	LEAHY VETTING FOR ADDITIONS TO THE PALESTINIAN [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, post requests clearance to send the following to a USG-funded senior leader course to be held in the West Bank: Name POB DOB ID 1 Hikmat Sami Ali Ghn [...]	2008-12-12 08:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM2232	LEAHY VETTING FOR ADDED PA NSF TRAINEES [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Vetting requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the PA National Security Forces (NSF) to USG-funded training courses in Jordan and the West Bank: Name POB [...]	2008-12-12 08:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM2233	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/12): "GAZA SIEGE - PRELUDE TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-12 08:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2238	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/15): EXPECTATIONS AND FEARS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-15 11:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2244	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/16): "EXTENDING ANNAPOLIS TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-16 10:06:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2252	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/17): RUMORS OF A "MILITARY [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 11:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2258	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/18): "ACTION - NOT JUST LIP [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-18 10:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2263	HIGH COURT AGAIN REJECTS IDF PLAN FOR REROUTE OF [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) on December 15 again rejected an IDF plan to reroute the separation barrier near the Palestinian village of Bilin. The village's attorney called the decision precedent-setting, noting that it is the first such HCJ decision prohibiting the [...]	2008-12-18 15:46:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2265	PA OFFICIALS CONCERNED EVICTION ORDERS FOR BEDOUIN [...] (C) Summary. Members of the Jahalin bedouin tribe living in area C, along the main road connecting Jerusalem and Jericho, received demolition orders from the IDF on December 8, and verbal instructions to demolish their homes no later than December 15. Palestinian residents and senior PLO and [...]	2008-12-18 16:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PREF KWBG KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM2266	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/19): THE TRUCE ENDS, WHAT [...] Al Quds, in its main editorial entitled: "Iran ... a reconsideration of several stands is required" remarks that "It is time for the Arabs and Palestinians, with all their factions and movements, to realize that Iran has its own interests, including a special interest in avoiding an attack on i [...]	2008-12-19 07:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2278	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/22): OBSTACLES TO PEACE [...] The main editorial in Al Quds, "Prisoners once again," opines: "It is time for the Palestinian side to reject the Israeli position that deals with prisoners of freedom as criminal prisoners...it is time for European mediators, who always demand the release of [abducted Israeli soldier Gilad] Sh [...]	2008-12-22 09:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2284	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/23): BRIEF TRUCE IN GAZA [...] Mohamad Al Mubarak opines in Al Quds under the title "Will Rumsfeld escape or disappear?": "It is regrettable that the courts have so far not considered the war crimes committed by Rumsfeld, which led to the killing and displacement of millions of innocents and violated international laws and n [...]	2008-12-23 09:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2289	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/24): REPORTS ON ABBAS' [...] Al Quds editorial "The complicated crisis in Gaza" opines: "The worst scenario that could happen [in Gaza], is the use of military force, especially the Israeli one, in an attempt to topple the Hamas movement, because such an attempt is a definite prescription for bloodshed, extreme loss of li [...]	2008-12-24 11:36:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2293	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/29): "Massacre" in Gaza [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-29 09:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2294	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/29): "Massacre" in Gaza [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-29 10:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2301	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/30): Calls for national unity [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-30 09:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM2313	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Consul General delivered reftel demarche points to Head of PLO Negotiations Affairs Department Sa'eb Erekat in Jericho on December 30. 2. (C) Erekat said PA Minister of Foreign Affairs Riad al-Malki will represent the Palestinians at the December 31 Arab League meeting on the Gaza sit [...]	2008-12-30 14:50:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM2318	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (12/31): "Gaza is dying...what are [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-31 08:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM286	WIREC 2008: INVITATION DELIVERED TO PA [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 09:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAL KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV
08JERUSALEM299	WEST BANK/GAZA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008 [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 14:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KPAL KTDB PGOV USTR OPIC
08JERUSALEM316	CLOSURE OF EAST JERUSALEM INSTITUTIONS RENEWED [...] (C) Summary. The Israeli MoI in early February renewed closure orders against eight Palestinian institutions in East Jerusalem. PA Advisor on Jerusalem Affairs Hatem Abd al-Qader has told the press that the Orient House reopened, but privately admitted that his comments were designed to bri [...]	2008-02-20 16:02:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM337	ADDITIONAL LAND EXPROPRIATION IN THE WEST BANK [...] (C) On February 23, the IDF issued military orders to expropriate 766 dunams (191.5 acres) of land from Palestinians in al-Ramadin and al-Dhahiriya villages in the southern West Bank. According to the IDF orders, the expropriation is for the purpose of "border adjustment." Abd al-Hadi Hanta [...]	2008-02-25 15:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM348	FIVE PARTIAL DEMOLITIONS IN EAST JERUSALEM ON [...] (C) According to Jerusalem Municipality advisor Elad Halevy, the Jerusalem Municipality executed five demolitions of parts of homes in Palestinian East Jerusalem on February 25. Halevy said that in all five cases the construction was done without permits. He added that the builders did not [...]	2008-02-26 15:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM349	GAZA HARVEST YIELDS LITTLE EXPORT REVENUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Gaza strawberry and carnation export revenues were low this season in comparison to recent years, due to restricted access through crossing points and shipping procedures that reportedly resulted in damaged products and reduced values in European markets. Export earnings for [...]	2008-02-26 16:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PHUM
08JERUSALEM364	GAZA: LOW FUEL SUPPLIES LIMIT WATER AND POWER [...] (C) Summary: Nahal Oz fuel transfer station was open for limited shipments on February 28. Gaza fuel importers claim that gasoline and diesel fuel imports currently meet just 20 percent of Gaza's needs. Most Gazan homes receive water from the mains for just six to ten hours each week. Local [...]	2008-02-28 13:21:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM367	E-1 UPDATE FOR LATE FEBRUARY 2008 [...] (C) Summary. PolOffs observed February 27 that the police station in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Maale Adumim is nearing completion, and a policeman at the site said the police headquarters will move in the next two weeks. Infrastructure appears ready to support the police station. P [...]	2008-02-28 15:31:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM403	WEST BANK GETS POWER BOOST, BUT EXPANSION LIMITED [...] (SBU) Summary: The interconnection power line between Jordan and Jericho became operational on February 25. The Jerusalem District Electricity Company (JDECO) said that its initial plan was much larger in scope, aiming to connect the Jordan grid to high-voltage lines running to Jericho, Ram [...]	2008-03-05 13:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM
08JERUSALEM424	CEC CHAIRMAN ON VOTER REGISTRATION, ELECTIONS, AND [...] (C) Summary. Central Elections Commission (CEC) Chairman Hanna Nasir told USAID and Poloff February 27 that the CEC plans to launch a West Bank/Gaza voter registration drive in one month. Nasir said he fears Hamas will block the Ministry of Education from making Gaza schools available for vo [...]	2008-03-07 16:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM425	TERRORIST ATTACK IN JERUSALEM KILLS EIGHT [...] (C) Summary. A terrorist attack at Jerusalem's Mercaz HaRav yeshiva on March 6 left eight students dead and seven wounded. One of the dead was an Amcit, as was one of the wounded. Israeli security has confirmed that the attack was carried out by Ala'a Abu Dhaim from the East Jerusalem neig [...]	2008-03-07 16:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM454	FATAH ELECTIONS SUSPENDED IN JERUSALEM [...] (C) Summary. The Fatah Central Committee's (FCC) Mobilization and Discipline (MAD) Committee organized a meeting of 935 Fatah members from East Jerusalem and 26 surrounding villages in Ramallah on March 8 to elect the Jerusalem regional committee and Secretary. After a heated discussion bet [...]	2008-03-13 15:41:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM471	EAST BARTA'A VILLAGE: "TRAPPED IN THE SEAM ZONE" [...] (C) Summary. East Barta'a mayor Ghassan Kabaha told Poloffs February 26 that his village of 4,000 is "trapped in the seam zone," between the separation barrier and the Green Line. Kabaha said most of the village's residents do not have permission to enter Israel and must cross through the s [...]	2008-03-18 07:45:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM497	CHIEF JUSTICE AND MINISTRY OF JUSTICE DISCUSS WEST [...] (C) Summary. In November 2007, at PM Salam Fayyad's request, Chief Justice (CJ) Abu Sharar, Minister of Justice (MOJ) Ali Khashan, and Attorney General (AG) Ahmad al-Mughani agreed to establish a court in Jericho to hear major felony and high level security cases. Abu Sharar told Poloff and [...]	2008-03-21 16:02:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM504	FATAH-HAMAS AGREE TO RESUME DIALOGUE? OR NOT? [...] (C) Summary. On March 19 and 20, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh received PLO and Hamas delegations in Sana'a to discuss an initiative calling for dialogue between Hamas and PLO factions, including Fatah. On March 23, Fatah Revolutionary Council (FRC) member and PLC Fatah-bloc leader Az [...]	2008-03-24 17:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM511	PA HOLDING THE BUDGET LINE, BUT DECLINE IN DOLLAR [...] (SBU) Summary. The IMF reports that the PA's total financing needs for 2008 are now forecast at more than USD 2.1 billion (up from 1.8 billion in December). The IMF notes that donor contributions to date (including USG assistance) have been sufficient to sustain PA operations, but at current [...]	2008-03-25 13:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM529	PALESTINIANS PROVIDE FURTHER CLARIFICATION ON [...] (C) Summary. Presidential Spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh confirmed on March 26 that President Mahmoud Abbas' (Abu Mazen) conditions to resume dialogue with Hamas remained unchanged. PLC-Fatah bloc leader Azzam al-Ahmed, who signed the Sana'a Declaration with Hamas on March 23, made this same [...]	2008-03-26 15:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM542	E-1 UPDATE: POLICE STATION NEARLY COMPLETE, [...] (C) Summary. Press reported on March 27 that the Israeli police station in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim will open Monday, March 31. During a March 24 visit to E-1, PolOffs observed minimal work on the building and on the road, both of which appear nearly complete. PolOff [...]	2008-03-27 14:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS

08JERUSALEM554	RESPONSE ON FISCAL TRANSPARENCY IN THE PALESTINIAN [...] (U) The Palestinian Authority (PA) under Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Salam Fayyad is committed to fiscal transparency and has instituted a number of reforms since taking office in July 2007. 2. (U) On March 26, Fayyad relaunched the Ministry of Finance website (www.pmof.ps) to se [...]	2008-03-28 10:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON KWBG PREL KPAL EFIN
08JERUSALEM568	FATAH ELECTS JERUSALEM COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary. On March 30, the Fatah Central Committee's (FCC) Mobilization and Discipline (MAD) Committee succeeded in its second attempt to organize a meeting of 921 Fatah members from East Jerusalem and 26 surrounding villages to elect 23 Jerusalem regional committee members. Nearly all of [...]	2008-04-02 09:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM578	FAYYAD ON TARQUMIYA INDUSTRIAL PARK [...] (C) PM Fayyad's views on the Tarqumiya Industrial Park, as expressed in several conversations with the Consul General and LTG Fraser, differ from those reported reftel. Fayyad told the Consul General and LTG Fraser on March 29 that he "does not care" whether the proposed Turkish industrial par [...]	2008-04-03 13:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV KPAL KWBG IS
08JERUSALEM587	WEST BANK ATTORNEYS ON JUDICIAL REFORM [...] (C) Summary. West Bank attorneys and International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate Bjorn Rahm told Poloff that reform of the Palestinian judicial sector must tackle case backlog, train judges, and improve court administration and services to the public. Attorney Loubna Katbeh tol [...]	2008-04-04 13:41:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM588	FATAH-LED UNIONS INCREASE EFFORTS TO BRING DOWN [...] (C) Fatah-led unions intensified their efforts to bring down the Fayyad government (or at least force the PM to bring Fatah members into his cabinet of independents) by beginning a more aggressive set of strikes beginning April 3. Fayyad has not backed down, and instead announced a series of [...]	2008-04-04 14:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB KWBG KPAL
08JERUSALEM593	MAZMURIYA CHECKPOINT CLOSED TO ALL BUT SETTLERS [...] (C) Summary. According to B'Tselem and Palestinians from the Jerusalem villages of Sur Baher and Um Tuba, use of Mazmuriya checkpoint near Bethlehem has been restricted to settlers since March 20. All Arabs, including Jerusalem ID holders, West Bankers with permits, and Arab Israelis, have [...]	2008-04-07 08:30:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM615	PA EMPLOYS REGULATIONS AND THE COURTS AGAINST [...] (C) Summary: Fatah-led public employee unions staged a strike on April 7 and called for partial strikes for the remainder of the week. President Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued a decree allowing any party affected by public sector strikes to take those responsible to court. The PA cabinet has file [...]	2008-04-08 15:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB KPAL KWBG
08JERUSALEM628	PA STRIKES CONTINUE DESPITE COURT ORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The PA Employees Union and the Palestinian Teachers Union continued their strike on April 10 in defiance of a Palestinian High Court order. The High Court issued an injunction against the strike on April 9 and ordered the union to present its case at a follow-up hearing on Apri [...]	2008-04-10 14:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON ELAB KPAL KWBG
08JERUSALEM631	TRILATERAL FOLLOW-UP: WEST BANK ELECTRICITY AND [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian contacts have confirmed that twenty-six villages in the West Bank have been connected to the Israeli electrical grid. According to World Bank representatives and members of OQR Blair's office, twenty-five "master plans" have been approved for Area C villages, mostly [...]	2008-04-11 08:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL KWBG KPAL ENRG IS
08JERUSALEM632	TRILATERAL FOLLOW-UP: WEST BANK ELECTRICITY AND [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian contacts have confirmed that twenty-six villages in the West Bank have been connected to the Israeli electrical grid. According to World Bank representatives and members of OQR Blair's office, twenty-five "master plans" have been approved for Area C villages, mostly [...]	2008-04-11 08:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL KWBG KPAL ENRG IS
08JERUSALEM636	JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY DEMOLISHES AMCIT'S EAST [...] (C) The Jerusalem Municipality demolished the home of AmCit Khalid Shoman in East Jerusalem's Beit Hanina neighborhood on April 9 after the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) rejected Shoman's appeal in late February. Shoman's home was built in 2002 without a permit. Shoman inhabited the ho [...]	2008-04-11 12:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS CASC
08JERUSALEM637	SOUTHERN WEST BANK VILLAGES FACE LAND [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem attorney Gheith Nassar told Poloff that the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) announced on April 10 cancellation of a temporary injunction against barrier construction near Eshkolot settlement in the southern West Bank. Nassar said this decision allows the IDF to co [...]	2008-04-11 12:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM638	HEBRON AREA MAYORS BLAME UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY [...] (C) Summary. Al-Dhahariyeh Mayor Sami Ishneiwer and Ithna Mayor Jamal Itmeizi told Poloffs April 9 that residents face high unemployment and poverty due to the separation barrier and IDF road closures that cut off their towns from Israel and Hebron. The mayors said their towns suffer from a [...]	2008-04-11 14:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM641	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/14): OLMERT: CHECKPOINTS ARE [...] Independent Al-Quds opens its editorial page with, "Boycotting Carter and opening doors for Livni!" (04/14): "On her way to Qatar to address the Democracy Forum held in Doha, Israeli Foreign Minister Livni called upon Arab countries to normalize relations with Israel in order to encourage Pale [...]	2008-04-14 10:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM647	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/15): PALESTINIAN GRATITUDE TO [...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed entitled, "Egypt's security, its control and authority over its territory is a red line [non-negotiable] for Palestinians" by Palestinian National Council Member Hatem Abu Shaban (4/15): Lately, we have been hearing strange noises from Palestinian groups c [...]	2008-04-15 10:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM650	35 STRUCTURES IN THE VILLAGE OF KHIRBET AL-AQABAH [...] (C) Summary: PolOffs visited the northern Jordan Valley, Area C village of Khirbet al-Aqabah for which there are impending demolition orders. Mayor Haj Sami Sadeq said the village of 300 has repeatedly sought construction permits, all of which have been denied. He said there are standing d [...]	2008-04-15 13:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM654	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/16): NO IMPACT EXPECTED FROM [...] Independent Al-Quds opens its editorial page with, "Abbas's tour and international efforts" (04/16): "the tour which President Abbas started [April 15] after meeting with Israeli Premier Olmert to discuss vital issues, will include Jordan, Moscow and Washington. The most important issues to di [...]	2008-04-16 08:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM657	PA STRIKE ENDS; FAYYAD PLEASED WITH OUTCOME [...] (C) Summary: The Palestinian Authority (PA) came to an agreement with its employees' unions on April 14 to end months of labor disputes that had resulted in intermittent public sector strikes. The two sides agreed that the strikes would end in exchange for a promise to pay salary arrears wit [...]	2008-04-16 14:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ELAB KPAL KWBG
08JERUSALEM674	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/17): THE IMPORTANCE OF [...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Talal Okal entitled, "There is only one exit... (04/17): "It is clear to everyone that the situation in Gaza is miserable. It has spiraled down into the heart of catastrophe where life has become unbearable... two years have passed si [...]	2008-04-17 09:49:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM678	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/18): NO MILITARY SOLUTION TO [...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by Dr. Naji Sharab, a political science teacher in Gaza, entitled, "What does the world expect from Palestinians? (04/18):"... the Palestinian question is the only one that enjoys the support of international declarations about its rights, including the righ [...]	2008-04-18 10:13:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM679	PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY NOT PLANNING TO ATTEND ARAB [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-18 10:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KBCT PREL KPAL IS SY AL
08JERUSALEM682	GAZA: DESPITE HAMAS ATTACKS, SOME CROSSINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Hamas terrorist attacks on the Kerem Shalom and Nahal Oz facilities, both remained open on April 17 for limited shipments of fuel and humanitarian goods. WHO sources report that, despite Hamas claims to the contrary, Gaza hospitals have a sufficient supply of anestheti [...]	2008-04-18 11:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KWBG PHUM PTER KPAL ETRD IS
08JERUSALEM685	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/21): ISRAELI INITIATIVES IN [...] Independent Al-Quds, in its daily editorial entitled, "The truce... the ball is in the Israeli court," opined : "It is very clear from the statement of Hamas leader Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar that Hamas is more likely going to positively interact with the Egyptian suggestions for reaching a truce wi [...]	2008-04-21 11:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM690	PA MINISTER OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS COUNTERING [...] (C) PA Minister of Religious Affairs Jamal Bawatna and Assistant Secretary Salah Zuhayka told PolOff April 17 that on-going reform efforts at the Ministry are reducing extremist rhetoric in the West Bank. Bawatna said he is focused on mosques, religious schools, and other religious instituti [...]	2008-04-21 14:09:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM694	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/22): DOUBTS ABOUT [...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by PLO executive committee member Tayseer Khaled entitled: "Annapolis conference launched problematic negotiations and ongoing settlements" that read in part: "... While it is true that Annapolis brought the two sides, Palestinians and Israelis, back to nego [...]	2008-04-22 08:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM699	CEC CHAIRMAN: CEC PREPARED FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Hanna Nasir told international donors from the Election Reform Support Group (ERSG) that the CEC is prepared to hold presidential and legislative elections with 60 days notice, but will need a rapid, major cash infusion when elections ar [...]	2008-04-22 12:40:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM700	PA ATTORNEY GENERAL EFFORTS TO IMPROVE PROSECUTION [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority Attorney General (AG) Ahmad al-Mughani told PolCouns April 21 that the number of PA prosecutors is increasing, but infrastructure and GOI interference continue to impede the work of his office. He said he is focused on anti-corruption cases, but cannot pur [...]	2008-04-22 13:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM702	GAZA: FOOD AND FUEL UPDATE, APRIL 22 [...] (C) Summary: Gaza-based contacts report that Sufa crossing was open on April 22, while Kerem Shalom crossing and Nahal Oz fuel station remain closed due to the recent terror attacks. Gaza power plant managers reported that they may be forced to stop operations on April 23 if no additional f [...]	2008-04-22 13:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KWBG PHUM PTER KPAL ETRD IS
08JERUSALEM713	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/24): ABBAS DEMANDS THAT USG [...] Independent Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by regular columnist Talal Okal entitled "There is only one way out" (4/24): "The outcome of the visit of former US president [Carter] does not deserve the media uproar that it created regarding its possible effects and consequences ... Carter asked Hamas t [...]	2008-04-24 09:23:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM716	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/25): POTENTIAL FOR PALESTINIAN [...] Al-Quds carried an op-ed by Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zahri entitled "The American role in the Palestinian-Palestinian talks" (4/25) that stated: "Ending the Palestinian internal conflict is a dream for each and every honest Palestinian and Arab. Therefore it is not strange to see ongoing cal [...]	2008-04-25 07:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM721	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/28): "WHAT IF BUSH LEAVES [...] Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Jawad Al-Bashiti entitled, "What if Bush leaves and takes with him the promise and vision and the map?" (4/28): "...President Bush did not show President Abbas anything during their latest meeting at the White House that gives Abbas optimism about [...]	2008-04-28 10:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM722	E-1 MOVE APPEARS IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary. Ha'aretz reported April 28 that Israeli police will soon complete the move from Ras al-Amud to the newly built police station in the E-1 area between Jerusalem and Ma'ale Adumim. The move will allow the right-wing Israeli group Ateret Cohanim to take over the former police prop [...]	2008-04-28 14:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM724	FAYYAD TO DONORS: ISRAEL "GROSSLY UNDERMINING" PA [...] (SBU) Summary. PM Fayyad used the final Ramallah gathering of donors before the May 2 AHLC meeting to argue that the GOI has not met its commitments to improve access and movement in the West Bank. At the same time, he said, the IDF's continued security operations undermine his efforts to d [...]	2008-04-29 08:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL EAID IS
08JERUSALEM725	PA FISCAL UPDATE: WESTERN DONORS CARRYING THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Though donors have provided more budget support than expected to date in 2008, absent new pledges the PA faces a significant financing shortfall later this year. The IMF expects the PA will fall USD 400 million short of its 2008 budget requirements, a gap that will increase to c [...]	2008-04-29 08:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN EAID ECON KWBG IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM726	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/29): VIOLENCE IN GAZA AND [...] In its main editorial entitled, "Why are women and children being killed?", independent Al-Quds opined (4/29): "The Palestinian public may have its own criticisms of Hamas, but the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and West Bank alike make one wonder about the Israeli logic. Israel not [...]	2008-04-29 09:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM728	LEAHY VETTING FOR MARSHALL CENTER CANDIDATES [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, post requests clearance to send the following members of the PA Security Forces to USG-funded training at the George C. Marshall Training Center in Germany: Fathi Salim Hussan Tayh POB: Nablus DO [...]	2008-04-29 14:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM734	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (04/30): "DISAPPOINTMENT AND [...] Official daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida carries an op-ed entitled, "Resistance and the Evolution of Peace ideas" (4/30): "... lately, [there has been] disappointment and pessimism expressed over the outcomes of the meeting between [Palestinian] President Abbas and the President of the U.S. George Bus [...]	2008-04-30 10:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM736	E-1 POLICE STATION SET TO OPEN THIS WEEKEND [...] (C) Israeli National Police contacts informed ConGen RSO April 29 that they have the final permit necessary to occupy the newly built E-1 police station. A security guard at the Ras al-Amud police station told PolOff April 30 that the traffic division is scheduled to open May 1 at E-1 and all [...]	2008-04-30 14:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM739	MEDIA ANALYSIS: Palestinian Media Downplays Role of [...] SUMMARY: Reporting on Palestinian-Israeli violence in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian media typically relegates any provocative action by Palestinian militant factions to the background, focusing instead on Israeli actions and Palestinian deaths and injuries. The resulting coverage downplays I [...]	2008-04-30 15:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO KINR
08JERUSALEM740	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/01): PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF [...] Independent Al-Quds ran its daily editorial entitled "Which map?!" (5/01): "Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni... presented the Palestinian negotiation team... an Israeli vision of a final JERUSALEM 00000740 002 OF 002 agreement [as] a serious, official position presented through the [...]	2008-05-01 08:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM741	MOVE UNDERWAY FROM RAS AL-AMUD TO E-1 [...] (C) PolOff visited the Ras al-Amud police station May 1. PolOff saw that the Ras al-Amud police parking lot was nearly full of vehicles and observed officers and security guards moving around inside the compound. Police Spokesman Danny Poleg, who was on the ground, confirmed that the traffic [...]	2008-05-01 12:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM747	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/02): IN PRAISE OF FAYYAD'S [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Palestinian workers on their day" (5/02): "It is important during the celebration of international workers' day to recommit to the importance of development projects for industry, agriculture, tourism and infrastructure that allow our peo [...]	2008-05-02 09:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM751	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/05): [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "What is wanted is core Israeli changes on the ground" (5/05): "Once again, Secretary Rice returned to the region and we heard her say... [the] SIPDIS exact same comments that we heard her say during her many previous visits. She talke [...]	2008-05-05 10:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM754	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/06): GUESSING AT WHAT PROGRESS [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Negotiations... lost time" (5/06): "After meeting with Abu Mazen [Abbas] and heads of the Palestinian and Israeli negotiation teams, Secretary Rice extended her visit to the region in order to continue talks with the Israeli side. We hav [...]	2008-05-06 09:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM759	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/07): PREDICTING THE NEXT 60 [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "They are ignoring our catastrophe" (5/07): "... upon the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Israel, we should remember that negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis have reached a dead end. This is because of extensive settle [...]	2008-05-07 07:29:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM765	HIGH COURT REJECTS AL-AQABAH'S PETITION [...] (C) Summary. On April 26, the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ) rejected Khirbet al-Aqabah's petitions to rescind demolition orders issued against 11 structures, but said "for the time-being" the Civil Administration will not demolish the mosque, kindergarten, women's center, clinic, and t [...]	2008-05-07 12:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM768	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/09): CALLS FOR PUBLIC SUPPORT [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled "Total support for the security forces"(5/08): "We all know that Palestinian security forces have started a gradual deployment to several West Bank cities that faces great difficulty. We also know that Israeli forces act... as though the [...]	2008-05-09 09:52:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM775	E-1 AND RAS AL-AMUD UPDATE FROM 9 MAY [...] (C) Summary. During a May 9 visit, PolOffs observed that the move to the E-1 police station is nearly complete and the new station appears fully functional. A security guard at the Ras al-Amud property told PolOffs that university students plan to use the former police station as a dormitory [...]	2008-05-09 13:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM789	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/12): LEBANON - IRANIAN EFFORTS [...] Al-Quds independent carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Faisal Abu-Khadra entitled, "Sixty years after the catastrophe... Israeli-Palestinian negotiations are at a stand-still" (5/12): "Almost fifteen years have passed since the Palestinian-Israeli agreement [Oslo] and Israel is still the on [...]	2008-05-12 09:43:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM792	JERUSALEM LOCAL PLANNING COMMITTEE ENDORSES [...] (C) Summary. A Jerusalem Municipality official told PolOff the Local Planning Committee endorsed a plan for a new access ramp to the Mughrabi Gate that is shorter than the controversial ramp plan submitted in 2007. She said the Regional Planning Committee, which has decision-making authorit [...]	2008-05-12 13:08:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM810	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/13): BUSH WILL FIND THE REGION [...] Independent Al-Quds carries an op-ed by Tayseer Khaled, member of the PLO Executive Committee and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine entitled, "The commemoration of the catastrophe is the wrong time to visit" (5/13): "President Bush is on his way to the region, which is exper [...]	2008-05-13 09:08:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM815	BARRIER CUTS OFF BIDDU AND JABA' FROM JERUSALEM [...] (C) Summary. Mayor of Biddu Ismail Qadan told Poloffs April 30 that the separation barrier cuts off Biddu residents from 4,000 dunums (1,000 acres) of land and 5,000 olive trees. He said the GoI recently completed a tunnel that shortens the drive from Biddu to Ramallah but required the expr [...]	2008-05-13 13:23:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM816	GAZA: FOOD AND FUEL UPDATE, 5/13 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Gaza Power Plant resumed operations on May 12 after being forced to shut down May 10-12 due to a lack of fuel. During the shutdown, water and hospital services were greatly limited in the Gaza City area and homes had only 8-10 hours/day of electricity. The plant restarted [...]	2008-05-13 13:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EAGR KWBG PHUM IS KPAL ENRG
08JERUSALEM820	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/14): CONTRASTING ISRAELI [...] Independent Al-Quds ran its daily editorial entitled "We suggest that Bush visit a refugee camp" (5/14): "Bush will arrive in Israel today to participate in the celebration of its founding... Other leaders and European presidents will follow him to the same JERUSALEM 00000820 002 OF 002 [...]	2008-05-14 08:31:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM835	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/15): "SETTLEMENTS: THE NEW [...] Independent Al-Quds runs an editorial by columnist Sulaiman Al-Wari entitled, "Settlements are the new Palestinian catastrophe" (5/15): "On the sixtieth anniversary of the catastrophe, Israel remains the only occupying country [power] in this modern time. It has not assumed its responsibilit [...]	2008-05-15 11:07:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM840	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/16): IGNORING THE NAKBA [...] Independent Al-Quds runs its daily editorial entitled, "Bias even towards the significance of the catastrophe" (5/16): "... while Israeli and international media are full of news about the JERUSALEM 00000840 002 OF 002 Israeli celebration of its 60th independence anniversary, the Pale [...]	2008-05-16 10:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM845	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/19): PALESTINIANS: BUSH [...] Independent Al-Quds carried its daily editorial entitled "Important dots above many words!" (5/19): "...The American President repeated in his speech [May 18], in Sharm Al-Sheikh that a solution is possible before the end of the year. He called upon Israel to ease the suffering of Palestinians [...]	2008-05-19 08:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM853	SETTLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN VILLAGE SOUTH OF NABLUS [...] Palestinian Authority (PA) sources told POL Specialist May 18 that settlers from Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus attacked residents and destroyed property in the Palestinian village of Asira al-Qabaliya May 17. Ammar Saleh, the Secretary for the Asira al-Qabaliya village council, told Pol [...]	2008-05-19 14:49:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM857	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/20): CRITICISM OF BUSH KNESSET [...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial entitled, "Bush made the life of moderate Arabs difficult... even impossible" (5/20): "May God help the moderate Arabs who were frustrated by Bush's speech before the Israeli Knesset that ignored the suffering of Palestinians and the peace process, as wel [...]	2008-05-20 09:50:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM868	REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF PA SECURITY [...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) In accordance with Leahy Amendment requirements, Post requests clearance to send the following members of the Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF) to a USG-funded training course in the U.S.: Name, Date/Place of Birth, Service (Presidential [...]	2008-05-21 08:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM869	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/21): "THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION: [...] Independent Al-Ayyam runs an editorial entitled, "The Torah speech of Bush at the Knesset and the secularism of the American State," by Muhammad Shaker Abdullah (5/21): "The United States was established... by groups who were escaping religious persecution in Europe in the seventeenth century. [...]	2008-05-21 10:32:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM889	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/22): "PALESTINE INVESTMENT [...] In its main editorial, independent daily Al-Quds opined under the title, "Investment Conference... between reality and expectation" (05/22): "There is no doubt that having the Palestinian Investment Conference happen is a success in itself, and that is not a stretch of the truth or exaggerati [...]	2008-05-22 09:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM89	MUGHRABI GATE RAMP APPROVAL PROCESS MOVING FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem contacts confirmed to PolOff January 15 and 16 that plans to reconstruct a ramp leading to the Mughrabi Gate of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount are moving through the approval process. Director of the Waqf Azzam al-Khatib said he wants a new ramp plan approved by Jor [...]	2008-01-17 10:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG PGOV PREL PTER PHUM KPAL IS
08JERUSALEM907	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/23): "UNLIKELY BUT NECESSARY [...] Regular columnist of independent Al-Ayyam, Mohammed Yaghi, argues under the headline, "Quick Notes on an Unsuccessful Policy" (05/23/08); "This [Bush] Administration is completely different from all of its predecessors. It has considerably damaged the international standing of the United Stat [...]	2008-05-23 10:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM909	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/27): The Peace Process - a [...] Under the headline, "Carter's Statements" (05/27),the daily editorial in the independent Al-Quds opined, "Former U.S. President JERUSALEM 00000909 002 OF 002 Jimmy Carter will be remembered in history as the Godfather of the first Arab-Israeli peace process, for which he won a Nobel Pea [...]	2008-05-27 10:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM910	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/28): THE FAILURE OF FATAH's [...] Veteran columnist Hani Habib opines in independent Al-Ayyam under the title, "Revolutionary Council... and Fayyad's Government" (05/28): "The 25th Fatah [party] convention that just concluded could have been the most important and critical convention of all, since it was held in troubled times [...]	2008-05-28 08:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM911	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/29): WAITING ON AMERICAN AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-29 11:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM915	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (5/30): WHO WILL BE THE NEXT US [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-30 11:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM916	DEPUTY SECRETARY KIMMITT'S MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt led a Presidential Delegation to the Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem on May 21-23. The delegation met with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on May 21 and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on May 22. Deputy Secretary K [...]	2008-05-30 14:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV EAID ECON KWBG KPAL IS OVIP KIMMITT
08JERUSALEM923	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/05): ISRAELI AND US ELECTIONS [...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Talal Okal entitled, "After Barak... Olmert loses his chance" (6/02): "...Olmert cannot go to Washington and ask for its support in the middle of his current crisis unless he achieves some progress in his meeting with Palestinian A [...]	2008-06-02 10:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM932	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/03): PALESTINIAN PESSIMISM IN [...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Muhannid Abd-Alhamid entitled, "Do we have other options?" (6/03): "After the American and Israeli performance, who dares be optimistic about reaching a political solution that will end the Israeli occupation and bring international [...]	2008-06-03 11:16:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM938	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/04): A CALL FOR A ONE-STATE [...] Independent daily Al-Ayyam runs an op-ed by veteran columnist Hani Habib, entitled "Routine or rescue?" (6/04): "As always, when [Palestinian] President Abbas meets with [Israeli Premier] Olmert, we hear, read and see comments, criticism and repeated statements that contain nothing new... End [...]	2008-06-04 10:59:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM945	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/05): 41ST ANNIVERSARY OF 1967 [...] Veteran columnist Talal 'Ukal comments in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Not Much Time Is Left," (6/5): "It is safe to say that [Israeli Prime Minister] Olmert has achieved the goals of his [Washington] visit. I I think those goals can be summarized in the following two points: The [...]	2008-06-05 11:05:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM977	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/06): UNITY TALKS CANNOT [...] Veteran columnist Mohammad Yaghi comments in independent Al-Ayyam under the headline, "Dialogue is primarily about the political agenda" (6/6): "President Abbas' invitation to start a national dialogue and end the state of division is very timely. There is a belief in Ramallah that Israel is [...]	2008-06-06 11:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM983	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/10): DIALOGUE - ONLY WAY OUT [...] Ali Abu Hilal, member of the Palestinian National Council, commented in independent Al-Quds under the headline, "In Order to End Internal Division and Achieve National Unity," (6/10): "It is important to point out that real national unity... is one that is based on a shared Qatform of policy an [...]	2008-06-10 09:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM986	PA RECEIVES REVENUE TRANSFER; PAYS CIVIL SERVANTS [...] (SBU) Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of Finance officials confirm receipt on June 10 of 180 million NIS (USD 55 million) in tax clearance revenue from the GOI, the transfer of which had been delayed for nearly a week (reftel). Following receipt of the revenue transfer, the PA paid civil [...]	2008-06-10 14:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON KWBG IS KPAL
08JERUSALEM993	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/11): POSITIVE REACTION TO [...] Al-Ayyam carries an op-ed by veteran columnist Hamada Faranah entitled, "Abu Mazen [Abbas] will stay his course" (6/11): "...The power of Abu Mazen lies in the clarity of his positions regarding what he considers to be in the true interest of his people. Therefore, he did not hesitate to state [...]	2008-06-11 09:47:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08JERUSALEM998	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (6/12): THE DIFFICULTY OF [...] Al-Ayyam independent daily carries an op-ed by columnist Talal Okal entitled, "We need a change in thinking" (6/12): "In the midst of current events related to the Palestinian situation and its relation to the external world and the Israeli policy of aggression, and the severe consequences of c [...]	2008-06-12 06:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08KUWAIT110	KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: JANUARY 27 ARAB LEAGUE [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-29 15:35:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL AL LE IS SY KV KU
08KUWAIT1180	TERROR FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED US DOMESTIC [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche and background paper to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 3. Post will report any substantive response septel. ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait [...]	2008-12-04 06:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS SA WE
08KUWAIT1255	KUWAIT LIKELY TO ADOPT "MODERATE" STANCE AT ARAB [...] (C) Summary: MFA Arab Affairs Bureau replied favorably to ref A demarch, affirming GOK support for a "moderate" approach to the Gaza crisis, continuing prohibition on direct contacts with Hamas, hope for a balanced statement from the December 31 Cairo AL ministerial, and current inclination to [...]	2008-12-31 04:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PHUM KU
08KUWAIT126	KUWAIT DECRIES GAZA SITUATION, SENDS RED CRESCENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to the January 23 breaching of the border at Rafah, Kuwaiti MPs, governmental bodies, and human rights organizations have united in criticism of the humanitarian situation in Gaza. This follows a January 22 Parliamentary declaration condemning Israeli actions in Gaza [...]	2008-01-31 14:25:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PGOV PHUM KU
08KUWAIT14	KUWAIT MFA U/S: SYRIA AND IRAN [...] (C) In a December 31 CDA call on MFA U/S Khaled Suliman Al-Jarallah, the U/S discussed preparation for the January 11-12 POTUS visit and relevant Kuwait-Iraq border issues (reported septels). Jarallah also expressed deep concern over the political situation in Lebanon and said that "all of t [...]	2008-01-04 09:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KDRG KPAL ETRD ECON KU IR SY
08KUWAIT166	KUWAITI PRIME MINISTER TO MEET WITH SYRIA'S [...] (C) Summary: On February 11, Kuwaiti PM Nasser Al Sabah, accompanied by Commerce Minister Falah Al-Hajeri and MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah, departed for a regional tour of Syria, Egypt and Jordan. In Syria, the PM will express Kuwait's support for the Arab League position on Lebanon, but is not [...]	2008-02-11 15:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KU
08KUWAIT305	AMIR OF KUWAIT TO ATTEND DAMASCUS AL SUMMIT [...] (C) In a March 17 meeting at Seif Palace, Amiri Diwan Minister Sh. Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed Al Sabah told CDA that the Amir of Kuwait will/will attend the Damascus Arab League summit. The Minister acknowledged CDA,s arguments against attendance, but concluded that the Amir had considered careful [...]	2008-03-17 14:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KPAL KU
08KUWAIT337	U.S.-KUWAIT GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE TALKS (MARCH [...] (S/NF) Summary: Kuwait hosted the third round of the U.S.-Kuwait Gulf Security Dialogue on March 10. During these discussions, Kuwait condemned Iran's support for terrorism, reiterated its commitment to engaging Iran diplomatically, and expressed its support in implementing UNSC resolutions 1 [...]	2008-03-26 06:55:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MARR MASS PTER KPAL KTFN KCIP ASEC
08KUWAIT36	CODEL WOLF: INTERFAITH DIALOGUE IN JERUSALEM; NEED [...] (C) On January 4, Kuwaiti Islamist Mubarak Al-Mutawa told CODEL Wolf that Hamas would put an end to violence and recognize Israel, if it was convinced that Palestinian sovereignty was truly an option. He also praised the CODEL for promoting interfaith dialogue as a key to peace and stability [...]	2008-01-08 15:11:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KU PTER KPAL IZ PHUM PINR
08KUWAIT385	GOK TO A/S WELCH: "OUR AID IS ADEQUATE, BUT WE'LL [...] (C) Summary: On April 2, NEA A/S Welch met separately with the Kuwaiti Crown Prince, Prime Minister and Economic Advisor to the Amir to discuss Israel/Palestinians, Iraq, Syria/Lebanon, and Iran. A/S Welch pressed all three contacts to enhance Kuwait's political and financial support for Pres [...]	2008-04-08 08:34:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPAL PTER KU IZ IR
08KUWAIT497	SCANT ENTHUSIASM FOR PALESTINIAN INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Econcouns spoke on May 1 with Shaykh Ali Al Sabah, MFA Director of Economic Affairs, and on May 4 with Rabah Al-Rabah, Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, to discuss the May 21-23 Palestinian Investment Conference in Bethlehem. [...]	2008-05-06 15:06:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EAID ECON KPAL KU
08KUWAIT729	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DISBURSING PLEDGED FUNDS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-26 11:46:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KWBG KPAL IS PGOV PREL KU
08KUWAIT793	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT [...] (U) Econoff conveyed points reftel to Mr. Ahmad Al-Baker, Deputy Director, Arab World Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on July 10. Al-Baker told Econoff that the USD 80 million PA pledged funds had been approved last month as part of Kuwait's annual budget, but could not be di [...]	2008-07-13 14:05:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL IS PGOV PREL KU
08KUWAIT808	U/S JARALLAH: IRANIAN WHEEDLING, IRAQI DAWDLING, [...] (C) During their July 15 meeting, Ambassador chided MFA U/S Khaled Al-Jarallah over Kuwaiti National Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi's public criticism that USG policy toward Iran was "provocative," noting that now is not the time for irresponsible rhetoric. Al-Jarallah characterized as "ve [...]	2008-07-17 07:19:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS KPAL PBTS KU
08KUWAIT841	KFAED DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL: BUREAUCRATIC [...] (U) Senior Advisor for Southern Iraq Affairs Gordon Gray met with Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Deputy Director General Ghanim Al-Ghunaiman on July 22. Al-Ghunaiman discussed current and future assistance programs in Iraq and asked for assistance in identifying an appropri [...]	2008-07-24 14:33:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID ECON IZ KPAL KU PREL EINV LE
08KUWAIT86	GOK/PARLIAMENT DISCUSS ISRAELI ACTION IN GAZA [...] (C) Recent Israeli measures in Gaza illicited sharp reactions from the Kuwaiti Government, Parliament and press. The MFA U/S demarched P-5 member representatives on the matter and called for UN Security Council action, calling the Israeli response to HAMAS attacks unbalanced and unjustified. [...]	2008-01-22 14:57:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KU
08KUWAIT865	DR. MOHAMMED ON VARIOUS AND SUNDRY: PA FUNDS, [...] (C) Ambassador requested a meeting with Deputy PM and FM Dr. Mohammed Al Sabah to review a number of issues prior to both taking summer holidays. During an hour long exchange August 3, the following topics were addressed: -- PA Funding: Ambassador stressed the urgency of the situation a [...]	2008-08-04 16:00:00	Embassy Kuwait	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PHUM PGOV PTER KPAL KU BG
08KUWAIT947	(S) FOREIGN MINISTER ON PM VISIT: IRAQ, IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: During a September 2 meeting with Ambassador, Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammed Sabah al-Salem Al Sabah said Kuwait's Prime Minister during his September 18-19 visit expects to raise Kuwaiti's 4 remaining GTMO detainees, regional security issu [...]	2008-09-05 12:38:00	Embassy Kuwait	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER CVIS MASS KPAL EAID IR IZ KU
08KUWAIT966	PROGRAM EVALUATION: FY-08 FOREIGN PRESS CENTER WORKING [...] (U) SUMMARY: In late June and early July, a Kuwaiti journalist participated in the Foreign Press Center (FPC) supported tour, "U.S. 2008 Elections: U.S. Political System and Practices." The intent of this tour was to introduce a Kuwaiti journalist to the American electoral process, as well a [...]	2008-09-10 12:46:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED	KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO OPRC OEXC SCUL
08KUWAIT990	AD-Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting: GoK views [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) On September 17, Ecouns talked to Ambassador Jassim Al-Mubaraki, the Director of the MFA's Arab World Department. Mubaraki confirmed that the GOK had received an invitation from Norway to attend the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) [...]	2008-09-17 15:10:00	Embassy Kuwait	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KPAL PGOV PREL IS KU
08LONDON1824	UK ON ARAB GROUP DRAFT UNSCR ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS [...] (C) HMG agrees that the Arab Group draft text on a UNSCR on Israeli settlement activity is not acceptable, FCO Near East Group Head Rob Timline told us July 9 in response to reftel demarche. The UK embassy in Tripoli raised the issue with Libyan Secretary for Arab Affairs Mohammed Siala on July 7 [...]	2008-07-09 16:50:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC KPAL IS UK
08LONDON949	EU/GERMANY/BLAIR MISSION/U.S. INFORMAL MEETING ON [...] (C) Summary. The international community's efforts to support the Palestinian Authority through security sector reform, justice sector capacity building, and targeted project assistance need to be better integrated to achieve demonstrable results, representatives of the EU, Germany, the U.S. [...]	2008-04-02 13:14:00	Embassy London	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MEPP KPAL UK

08MADRID278	SPANISH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN PEACE [...] (U) March 4, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay reviewed Spain's support for the Israel-Palestinian peace process, particularly in advance of the March 10-11 EU Foreign Minister's Meeting (GAERC). He said that Spain believed it was critically important to [...]	2008-03-07 15:58:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KMPI KPAL PREL IS SP
08MADRID282	SPANISH SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN PEACE [...] (U) March 4, Spanish MFA Deputy Director General for the Middle East Alberto Ucelay reviewed Spain's support for the Israel-Palestinian peace process, particularly in advance of the March 10-11 EU Foreign Minister's Meeting (GAERC). He said that Spain believed it was critically important to [...]	2008-03-07 17:49:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KMPI KPAL PREL IS SP
08MADRID458	SPANISH FM MORATINOS TO PARTICIPATE IN MAY 2 AHLC [...] In response to reftel demarche, Deputy Director General Alberto Ucelay told us that Foreign Minister Moratinos will attend the May 2 AHCL in London. Ucelay said that the Spanish MFA had already given the Norwegians input that the AHLC's primary focus should be energizing the international co [...]	2008-04-23 17:21:00	Embassy Madrid	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KPAL PREL SP
08MADRID52	FIRST FORUM OF THE UN ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Aguirre represented Secretary Rice at the opening ceremonies of the First Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) in Madrid January 15-16. UNSYG Ban Ki-Moon, President Zapatero, President Erdogan of Turkey, and AoC High Representative Jorge Sampaio inaugurated th [...]	2008-01-18 17:09:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ODIP UN SOCI SCUL KISL KIRF KPAL
08MADRID63	SPAIN ISSUES COMMUNIQUE CRITICAL OF GAZA LOCKDOWN [...] (C) Spanish Director General for the Middle East Alvaro Iranzo called DCM January 21, at the request of FM Moratinos, to provide early warning that Spain would be issuing a communique that would be critical of Israeli military operations in Gaza as well as the border closings. Iranzo, callin [...]	2008-01-23 06:51:00	Embassy Madrid	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PHUM PREL SP IS
08MANAMA652	BAHRAIN?S KING RECEIVES KHALID MISHA?AL [...] (C) Summary: Bahrain?s King met with Khalid Misha?al despite the USG?s concerns. Sunni Islamists who constitute a majority in the elected lower house of parliament had lobbied for an official welcome for Misha?al. End summary. 2. (SBU) An MFA contact told CDA that following ref B dema [...]	2008-09-22 06:13:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL BA
08MANAMA663	BAHRAIN: PROPOSED UNSC MINISTERIAL [...] (C) CDA made reftel demarche to Under Secretary Abdulaziz bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa, the substantive number two at the Foreign Ministry. Shaikh Abdulaziz commented that while he understood the U.S. opposition to a ministerial UNSC meeting with Israeli settlements as the sole topic, it was such a [...]	2008-09-25 12:20:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL UNSC IS SA BA
08MANAMA827	RALLY IN SUPPORT OF GAZA PALESTINIANS [...] (U) On December 19, approximately 5,000 people gathered after prayers in Manama's Sanabis district for a licensed rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza. The legal Shi'a opposition party Wifaq turned out most of the crowd; other, smaller legal groups also contributed, and a number of follow [...]	2008-12-22 10:34:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC KPAL BA
08MANAMA839	BAHRAINIS CONDEMN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES [...] (U) Summary: Local media and Embassy contacts were angry at Israel, the U.S., and moderate Arab governments. There were several orderly demonstrations, the largest drawing 3,000 protesters. End summary. 2. (U) Bahrainis reacted angrily but without violence to news from Gaza. Contacts an [...]	2008-12-30 11:38:00	Embassy Manama	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL BA
08MANAMA843	DEMARCHE ON ARAB LEAGUE GAZA MINISTERIAL [...] (C) With the Foreign Minister in Muscat, CDA made reftel demarche December 30 to MFA Under Secretary Abdulaziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifah, and separately to ministerial aide Ambassador Saeed Al Faihani. 2. (C) Both officials agreed to brief the FM on U.S. concerns. Both expressed doubt tha [...]	2008-12-30 13:27:00	Embassy Manama	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM MOPS KPAL KWBG BA
08MUSCAT195	OMAN MEDIA CALLS FOR ARAB (AND PALESTINIAN) UNITY [...] In response to the recent escalation of conflict in Gaza, Omani media outlets have called for renewed Arab unity in support of the Palestinians. Under the March 2 headline, "So that Silence Is Not Consent," private Arabic-language daily "al-Watan" urged uniform condemnation not only of Israeli [...]	2008-03-05 13:22:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER KPAL PBTS KPAO MU
08MUSCAT317	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER "IMPRESSED" BY BRIEFING [...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on April 24 covering a number of subjects (septels),Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi briefly shared his impressions of his discussions with Israeli Foreign Minister Livni in Qatar earlier in the month during the Doha Forum on [...]	2008-04-27 07:23:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL MU
08MUSCAT343	OMAN DELIVERY OF PALESTINIAN INVESTMENT CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-05-07 13:06:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KPAL PGOV PREL
08MUSCAT36	OMANI FOREIGN MINISTER REVIEWS PEACE PROCESS, IRAN [...] (SBU) In a January 8 meeting with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation, Oman's Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs praised close U.S.-Oman ties and the two countries' "strategic" relationship. He applauded President Bush's renewed push to help create a Palestinian state, but feared [...]	2008-01-14 13:55:00	Embassy Muscat	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL IR MU
08MUSCAT424	YOUNG OMANIS SOUND OFF ON REGIONAL ISSUES, [...] (C) During a recent meeting with the Ambassador, a group of young professionals shared their views on Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, democracy, and the public image of the U.S. Participants were downbeat on Iraq and thought it was inevitable that the U.S. would withdraw its troops f [...]	2008-06-09 14:21:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KMPI KPAL IZ MU
08MUSCAT509	OMAN RESPONSE TO PA FUNDING REQUEST [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-06 12:02:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KPAL PGOV PREL KWBG MU
08MUSCAT636	DEMARCHE IN PREPARATION FOR ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Summary: During a September 6 meeting with the Ambassador, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi said Oman was "confused" by conflicting reports on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. He was disappointed by events following Annapolis and doubtful that an agreement could [...]	2008-09-07 13:00:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ MU
08MUSCAT729	SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Mr. Deputy Secretary: Embassy Muscat and I warmly welcome you to Oman. As one of our oldest friends in the region (the Omanis refer to their relationship with us as "strategic" ),the Sultanate remains a trusted U.S. partner. This year marks the 175th anniversary of the U.S.-Oman "Treaty [...]	2008-10-16 14:24:00	Embassy Muscat	SECRET	PREL PTER ECON ENRG ETRD KNNP KPAL KTIP SMIG
08MUSCAT744	DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETINGS WITH OMANI SULTAN [...] (C) The Deputy Secretary of State and the Ambassador met on October 19 with Omani Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi to discuss bilateral relations and regional issues. Bin Alawi welcomed Oman's upgrade from Tier 3 to Tier 2 Watch List in the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) [...]	2008-10-28 06:37:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KTIP MNUC ECON ETRD SMIG IR IZ MU
08MUSCAT789	OMAN'S BIN ALAWI DISCUSSES U.S.-GCC SECURITY, [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador November 17, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusef bin Alawi reviewed Oman's idea for developing U.S.-GCC security cooperation, which will be presented for discussion at the December GCC summit, his thoughts on Mideast peace, Iraq and t [...]	2008-11-18 11:49:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL GCC PK IN IZ MU
08MUSCAT803	NOVEMBER 26 ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL: OMAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 07:06:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG MU
08MUSCAT879	OMANIS STRONGLY CONDEMN ATTACKS AGAINST GAZA [...] (C) Summary: As it prepared to host the GCC Summit, the Omani government strongly condemned recent Israeli military strikes in Gaza. Reflecting widespread public anger over the attacks, peaceful demonstrations against Israel took place in Muscat and the southern city of Salalah. Events in G [...]	2008-12-29 14:06:00	Embassy Muscat	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PREL KPAL KWBG MU
08NEWDELHI2725	ABBAS VISIT TO INDIA REAFFIRMS INDIAN SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary. President Mahmoud Abbas' October 6-9 visit to India was highlighted by: -- an explicit Indian reaffirmation of support to the Palestinian cause for a sovereign, independent, viable and united state; -- $20 million in aid, including $10 million for budgetary support and $10 mil [...]	2008-10-16 13:11:00	Embassy New Delhi	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL KWBG PREL IN
08NOUAKCHOTT776	SITUATION IN GAZA - A/DCM DELIVERS ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) A/DCM Cornelius Walsh, met with Americas and Asia Director Ambassador Ahmed Deya Ould Mohammed Vall to review contents of reftel and outline American position regarding December 31 Arab League Ministerial. This is one of the very few demarches the Mission has delivered since the coup as w [...]	2008-12-31 12:33:00	Embassy Nouakchott	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL MOPS PHUM MR
08OSLO40	MUSLIM AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN IN NORWAY ON FAITH, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The visit of Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) to Oslo 7-11 January focused on peace and reconciliation in the Middle East and establishing ties to Norway. It was a boon to post's interfaith outreach and helped combat stereotypes of the United States and administration policy. END [...]	2008-01-18 06:33:00	Embassy Oslo	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KISL KPAL KIRF OREP NO
08OSLO506	NORWAY AND US ON THE SAME PAGE FOR AHLC [...] (C) Poloff met with Signe Gilen, Senior Advisor in the MFA Near East section, to deliver reftel points. Gilen will attend the AHLC meeting in NYC along with FM Stoere. Gilen responded very positively to the USG objectives in reftel, as they also reflect GON priorities, especially improving the [...]	2008-09-12 15:17:00	Embassy Oslo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EU KPAL PGOV PREL IS WBG NO
08OTTAWA1232	CANADA: NO NEW PLEDGES AT AD HOC LIAISON COMMITTEE [...] (sbu) Canada plans no new pledges at the September 22 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) meeting in New York, according to Louise Corbin, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Israel, West Bank, and Gaza. Corbin told Econcouns that Canada had pledged C [...]	2008-09-17 20:21:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CA EAID IS KPAL PGOV PREL WBG
08OTTAWA581	CANADA AND AD HOC LIAISON COMMITTEE MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-24 20:44:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CA EAID EU IS KPAL PGOV PREL WBG
08OTTAWA897	CANADA FACILITATES ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN ARCHIVAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Canadian, Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. archivists have agreed to five joint archival projects, subject to formal approval of a new Memorandum of Understanding. The focus will be on surveying and digitizing records currently in Israel that document the "shared legacy" of the J [...]	2008-07-02 19:45:00	Embassy Ottawa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SCUL KPAL IS CA
08PARIS1029	UNESCO SPRING EXECUTIVE BOARD: POLITICAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: UNESCO's April 1-17 Executive Board was a success for the United States. On the whole, we enjoyed good working relations with countries in other geographic groups. Regional voting blocs and economic and other groupings, such as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the G-77 initi [...]	2008-05-30 09:09:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CU IR KPAL KV PHUM PREL SCUL UNESCO VE XF
08PARIS1054	UNESCO - ISRAEL AMBASSADOR'S VISIT 28 MAY [...] (U) Israeli Ambassador to UNESCO Kornbluth met with Ambassador Oliver on May 28 to review possible issues of concern that might be raised during the upcoming World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec next month. Negative Sites on the World Heritage List 2. (SBU) Ambassador Kornbluth b [...]	2008-06-03 13:08:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNESCO SCUL KPAL XF FR IS JO
08PARIS1132	FRENCH GAERC RESPONSE: CUBA, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA [...] (C) Summary. On June 13, MFA Deputy Office Director for CFSP Mathieu Carmona said Cuba will be the primary focus of the June GAERC. Carmona said that the COREPER meeting ran late into the evening of June 12 and that some of the resulting agenda items were a surprise; he commented that the S [...]	2008-06-13 16:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPAL EUN FR ZI IR IZ IS CU
08PARIS1144	FRANCE WILL ATTEND VIENNA CONFERENCE ON NAHR [...] (U) Embassy passed reftel message on the Vienna conference on Nahr al-Barid to the French MFA's equivalent to the NEA bureau as well as to the staff of French Cooperation Ministeron Alain Joyandet June 9. The French MFA had already publicly saluted the Austrian initiative in a June 5 statem [...]	2008-06-17 07:38:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL PHUM KPAL UNRWA FR LE
08PARIS1160	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON BERLIN CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-19 15:30:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PINS PBTS PHUM KPAL EUN FR IS
08PARIS1221	FRENCH MFA DAS-EQUIVALENT FOR THE LEVANT ON [...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent Ludovic Pouille on June 26 provided a rundown of key issues in his area of responsibility, most notably Sarkozy's visit to Israel, French views of where Israel is with Syria and Lebanon, Syria and the July 13 Paris summit, rumors of a Sarkozy visit to [...]	2008-06-27 16:03:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL FR IS SY LE SA
08PARIS1284	SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH URGE USG AGREE TO [...] (C) During a conversation mostly focused on Syria/Lebanon (reported septel),French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille on July 8 asked that the USG consider negotiations on the wording of a UNSCR based on the Libyan draft currently in play. He understood the draft had not bee [...]	2008-07-08 17:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR PA IS
08PARIS1287	SETTLEMENTS UNSCR: FRENCH URGE USG AGREE TO [...] (C) During a conversation mostly focused on Syria/Lebanon (reported septel),French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille on July 8 asked that the USG consider negotiations on the wording of a UNSCR based on the Libyan draft currently in play. He understood the draft had not bee [...]	2008-07-08 17:14:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR PA IS
08PARIS1292	FRENCH MFA ON KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT, PARIS DONORS [...] (SBU) We informed French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille July 8 of the substance of reftel demarche on assistance to the Palestinian Authority. Pouille agreed with our assessment that Arab contributors tend to be the laggards in terms of meeting pledges they made at last D [...]	2008-07-09 13:04:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG EAID ECON FR IS
08PARIS1318	LIBYAN DRAFT UNSCR ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS: [...] (C) Unaware of fast-moving events in New York (per ref A),we met late July 9 with French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli to discuss the Libyan draft UNSCR and other topics (reported separately). Paoli noted his earlier conversation the same day with NEA A/S Welch. We presented Paoli [...]	2008-07-10 18:15:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC FR IS LY
08PARIS1329	FRENCH MFA ON MIDEAST PEACE ISSUES AT THE JULY 13 [...] (C) During a July 9 discussion of the pending Libyan draft UNSCR on Israeli settlements, French MFA NEA A/S-equivalent Patrice Paoli observed that the impasse over the UNSCR underscored how such short-term annoyances took away from the relatively good prospects for peace over the longer term [...]	2008-07-11 16:05:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EUN FR IS SY
08PARIS1377	A NEW BURST OF FRENCH ACTIVISM ON [...] (C) Summary: Immediately following the July 13 Paris summit on the Mediterranean, French FM Kouchner has called on the EU to reflect at an early September meeting in Avignon (informal EU FM meeting or "gymnich")on how it can play a more active role in Middle East peace negotiations. He cla [...]	2008-07-21 11:21:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KPAL PBTS KWBG FR IS
08PARIS400	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SEEKING BALANCED [...] (C) We conveyed points in reftel to the NEA and IO directorates at the French MFA on March 5. DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille responded that France was "in accord" with us on the substance (Hamas' fundamental responsibility for the current situation and the importance of not d [...]	2008-03-05 15:43:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL FR IS
08PARIS401	FRENCH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SEEKING BALANCED [...] (C) We conveyed points in reftel to the NEA and IO directorates at the French MFA on March 5. DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille responded that France was "in accord" with us on the substance (Hamas' fundamental responsibility for the current situation and the importance of not d [...]	2008-03-05 15:44:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL FR IS
08PARIS877	UNESCO - ISRAEL AMBASSADOR'S VISIT 5 MAY [...] (SBU) Summary: UNESCO DG Matsuura is planning a trip to Israel and Ramallah in mid-June. It will be the DG's first visit to Palestine. The Israelis have asked the DG to send Deputy DG Barbosa to Quebec in July to assist with the World Heritage Committee negotiations on World Heritage sites i [...]	2008-05-06 14:55:00	Embassy Paris	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNESCO SCUL KPAL XF FR
08PARIS957	YOUR JUNE 14-16 VISIT TO PARIS [...] (C) Mr. President, you will arrive in France as Nicolas Sarkozy begins the second year of a five-year term as President. You will meet a Sarkozy chastened by the experience of a first year marked by a sharp drop in his political stock at home, but during which he nevertheless reclaimed French leade [...]	2008-05-19 14:41:00	Embassy Paris	SECRET	ECON FINR KPAL NATO OVIP PGOF PREL PTER SENV
08PARIS969	NO CHANGE IN FRENCH POLICY TOWARD HAMAS, DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: French MFA DAS-equivalent for the Levant Ludovic Pouille denied on 20 May any change in French policy toward Hamas following erroneous reports that the GOF had resumed contacts with Hamas. No dialogue or official contacts, beyond "technical" ones related to security carried ou [...]	2008-05-21 10:39:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL FR IS
08PARIS988	FRANCE/LEBANON: FRENCH PRESIDENCY POSITIVE BUT [...] (C) French Presidency NEA adviser Boris Boillon told us May 22 that the GOF regarded the recently Doha accord on Lebanon as mostly favorable to the March 8 opposition but not entirely so. Most important, he stressed, the agreement stopped the fighting and got the political process for addressi [...]	2008-05-23 13:37:00	Embassy Paris	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KDEM KPAL FR LE SY IS
08PARISFR1944	JERUSALEM - MUGHRABI GATE AT UNESCO'S 180TH EXECUTIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: At its autumn (180th) session, UNESCO's Executive Board had great difficulty achieving consensus on a decision regarding the proposed Mughrabi ascent to Jerusalem's Temple Mount. For the first time Jordan and the Palestinians insisted on involving the Chairman of the Executive B [...]	2008-10-23 12:33:00	Mission UNESCO	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNESCO PREL KPAL JO IS
08RABAT1202	GAZA/ARAB LEAGUE DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOM [...] (SBU) With Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taieb Fassi Fihri and Secretary General Youssef Amrani both out of Morocco, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to MFA Chief of Staff Nassir Bourita on December 30. The Ambassador particularly emphasized the need to modulate rhetor [...]	2008-12-30 16:31:00	Embassy Rabat	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM MOPS ASEC KPAL KWBG MO
08RABAT1204	MOROCCO: GAZA ANGER GROWS; SCHOOLS SHUT [...] (C/NF) Summary: Moroccan public and official response to the recent Israeli air strikes in Gaza continues to be universally critical of Israel and, increasingly, the United States. Almost every article, statement, and interlocutor has used the word "disproportionate" to describe the action. [...]	2008-12-31 16:41:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM MOPS ASEC KPAL KWBG MO
08RABAT20	AMBASSADOR,S JANUARY 3 MEETING WITH FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 3, on the eve of his departure for the next round on UN-sponsored talks on Western Sahara, Foreign Minister Fassi Fihri expressed his frustration with Algeria's unwillingness to move beyond the status quo to resolve the issue and truly cooperate on economic and securi [...]	2008-01-09 06:19:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS EAID KMCA KPAL MO
08RABAT648	MOROCCAN SUPPORT FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY [...] (C) Summary: Morocco continues to provide assistance to the Palestinian Administration (PA) and people, and has offered for the first time to provide security training. MFA Director General for Multilateral (Arab and Islamic) Affairs Azaroual told PolCouns July 7 that this is not yet funded, [...]	2008-07-14 14:37:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL KPAL KWBG KCRM IS MO
08RABAT918	USG CONCERNS ABOUT UNSC MEETING PASSED TO GOM [...] No summary [...]	2008-09-25 16:41:00	Embassy Rabat	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL IS UNSC MO
08REYKJAVIK71	ABBAS STOPOVER IN ICELAND: SPECIAL ENVOY APPOINTED, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a short-notice visit, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas overnighted in Iceland April 21-22, meeting with Icelandic President Grimsson and Foreign Minister Gisladottir. At the ceremonial lunch with Grimsson, Abbas lauded the contributions of small states like Icel [...]	2008-04-23 19:17:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PINR KPAL KWBG IS XF IC
08REYKJAVIK93	ICELAND: PALESTINIAN REFUGEE ADMISSIONS REVEAL DISCORD, [...] (U) Summary: Iceland's recently-announced plan to accept 30 Palestinian refugees has sparked new debate on societal tolerance of immigrants and again revealed deep divisions in the Liberal Party. Meanwhile, the town of Akranes, just outside Reykjavik, is poised to accept the refugees despite [...]	2008-05-22 16:56:00	Embassy Reykjavik	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PGOV PHUM UNHCR KPAL SY IZ IC
08RIYADH1119	SAUDI MESSAGE TO EMBASSY RIYADH RE: SETTLEMENTS [...] (C) Post has received a diplomatic note from the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs soliciting support for the Arab Group's draft resolution on Israeli settlements. The dip note contains the following text: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia presents its com [...]	2008-07-19 13:57:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	IS KPAL KWBG PA PGOV PREL PTER UNSC
08RIYADH1668	SAUD AL FAISAL ON PAKISTAN, IRAQ, LEBANON, [...] (C) Summary: On October 26, Treasury Deputy Secretary Robert Kimmitt and Ambassador Fraker met Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al Faisal. Kimmitt and Saud Discussed Pakistan's approaching balance of payment crisis, Saudi relations with Iraq, the need for continued support for the Palestinian Aut [...]	2008-11-08 05:43:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EINV PREL EPET KPAL SA
08RIYADH1879	DEMARCHE: ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL MEETING ON GAZA [...] (C) In the absence of FM Saud Al-Faisal, currently in Muscat with King Abdallah attending the GCC Summit, Charge delivered reftel A points to the Saudi MFA's Ra'ed Krimly, Director of Western Affairs. Krimly responded that Saudi Arabia has strongly condemned what he termed "the Israeli aggres [...]	2008-12-30 12:49:00	Embassy Riyadh	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG MOPS PHUM
08SANAA107	SALEH CALLS FOR ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT ON GAZA [...] (U) On January 21, President Saleh called for an emergency Arab League summit to discuss the blockade of Gaza. While his Party endorses his idea, at least one opposition figure dismisses it as an empty gesture. End Summary 2. (U) On January 21, According to Yemen's official news agency, P [...]	2008-01-22 13:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KSUM PGOV IS YM
08SANAA108	YEMENIS DEMONSTRATE IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS, [...] (U) Post RSO sources indicate that, on January 22, a crowd of between 5000 and 6000 marched from Sana'a University toward the headquarters of the U.N. Development Program (UNDP),in protest of the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Police prevented the group from reaching UNDP headquarters. The crowd [...]	2008-01-22 14:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL PGOV IS YM
08SANAA151	BIGGEST GAZA DEMONSTRATION TO DATE IN SANAA, BUT [...] (C) For the fourth day out of five, crowds of Yemenis took to the streets on January 26 to demonstrate in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza strip. This demonstration, the largest to date, was estimated by the Regional Security Office to have included more than 100,000 people. When disc [...]	2008-01-28 08:19:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPAL PREL YM
08SANAA2062	YEMENI PROTESTORS OUT IN FORCE IN REACTION TO GAZA [...] Massive protests have been organized throughout Yemen since December 27, continuing into the 30, in reaction to the Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip. Yemeni government officials, political parties, labor unions, and human rights organizations have issued statements condemning the [...]	2008-12-30 12:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KPAO KPAL YM
08SANJOSE129	COSTA RICA RECOGNIZES PALESTINIAN "STATE" [...] (C) SUMMARY: Costa Rica recognized the "state" of Palestine in an exchange of notes in New York on February 5. The MFA quietly announced the move in San Jose hours later, taking local diplomatic missions (including Post) by surprise. The MFA,s public explanation stressed Costa Rica,s and the [...]	2008-02-19 15:51:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	CS KPAL PGOV PINR PREL IL
08SANJOSE710	(C/NF) C-NE8-00834: ISRAELI RELATIONS WITH COSTA [...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite some concerns and irritants voiced both publicly and privately to us by the Israeli Ambassador to Costa Rica, the overall relationship between Costa Rica and Israel is relatively calm and businesslike. While not as dynamic as Costa Rica's commercial relationship with the [...]	2008-09-03 17:44:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PARM PREL PGOV KPAL IS XF CS
08SECTIO01OF02JERUSALEM1847	JERUSALEM MEDIA REACTION (10/07): PALESTINIANS NOT [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 10:35:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KMDR KPAL KWBG KPAO IS
08SECTION01OF03CAIRO1416	CODEL ACKERMAN MEETIGS WITH MUBARAK, SULEIMAN, AND ABOUL GHEIT [...] (C) Summary: In separate June 28 eetings with President Hosni Mubarak, EGIS Direcor Omar Suleiman, and FM Ahmed Aboul Gheit, CODELAckerman and the Ambassador discussed Israeli-Paestinian developments (focusing on Egypt's goalsfor building upon the current "calming period"),Eypt's regional rela [...]	2008-07-07 13:55:00	Embassy Cairo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KIRF KISL KPAL EAID ENRG IS
08SEOUL1966	ROK TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TEST OF HAESONG II UAV [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-07 08:11:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	MARR MCAP KPAL
08SEOUL2130	ROK TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TEST OF NHK-II PIP [...] No summary [...]	2008-10-30 08:39:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	KPAL MARR MCAP
08SEOUL2250	ROK TO CONDUCT FLIGHT TEST OF HAESONG II UAV [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 07:31:00	Embassy Seoul	SECRET	MARR MCAP KPAL
08STATE100643	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of September 19, 2008 it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below: HASAN MUNEER HASAN ISSA ID: 912353703 DPOB: 25 Jun 1970 Kuwait WALID MARZOUK [...]	2008-09-19 19:49:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE104315	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of September 29, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Fares Attif Yusif Khalil Yabad 6/2/1989 850072760 2 Ayad Hammed Ahmad Rushd [...]	2008-09-30 17:53:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE108896	FUTURE U.S. SUPPORT FOR GERMAN-LED BORDER EFFORTS [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) The United States remains committed to helping Lebanon control its porous border with Syria, but will not contribute directly to the eastward expansion of Germany's mismanaged Northern Border Pilot Proj [...]	2008-10-10 14:33:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV KPAL SY LE GM
08STATE116392	(S) REPORTING AND COLLECTION NEEDS: PALESTINIAN [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: This cable provides the full text of the new National HUMINT Collection Directive (NHCD) on Palestinian Issues (paragraph 3-end) and encourages Department personnel at post to assist in compiling Palestinian biographic information (paragraph 2). A. (S/NF) The NHCD results f [...]	2008-10-31 15:25:00	Secretary of State	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR KSPR ECON KPAL PREL PTER XF
08STATE12185	OIC ACCOUNT FOR GAZA [...] (C) Department read reftel with great interest and requests that post approach the OIC Secretary General to ensure that the account opened to streamline OIC member states' donations for humanitarian relief to Gaza be coordinated with the Fayyad government. The account should not undermine the [...]	2008-02-06 14:22:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PREL KISL PHUM SA WBG KPAL
08STATE122043	DEMARCHE REQUEST: SEEKING HALT TO TERMINATION OF [...] (U) This is an action request: see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Summary: Banks Hapoalim and Israel Discount Bank (IDB) have indicated that they plan to terminate all correspondent banking services for Gaza branches of Palestinian banks. Washington is concerned that the planned action by the only two [...]	2008-11-17 21:15:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PREL IS
08STATE132208	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 8, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Ali Atta al-Sayed Mughrabi Gaza 07/14/1965 914988076 2 Mamun Shafi,a K [...]	2008-12-17 20:18:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE132210	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 9, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Name POB DOB ID 1 Yasir Ali Muhammad Hamayal [...]	2008-12-17 20:20:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KPAL PHUM IS
08STATE132212	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR ADDED [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 15, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Name POB DOB ID 1 Saddam Mahmud Mustafa Hammad [...]	2008-12-17 20:22:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE132216	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of December 15, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Name POB DOB ID 1 Hikmat Sami Ali Ghnaymat [...]	2008-12-17 20:24:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KPAL PHUM IS
08STATE14866	SUBJECT: FORMAL INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE [...] Action Requests: Consul General or appropriate senior consulate official is requested to deliver the text in paragraph 5 as a letter over Post Official's signature to either the Palestinian Authority Foreign minister or, if known, the PA's designated Minister-level head of official delegatio [...]	2008-02-13 17:34:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ENRG EPET KGHG KPAO KSCA OPDC SENV SOCI TRGY KPAL
08STATE18360	UNSC INSTRUCTIONS FOR FEBRUARY 26 CONSULTATIONS [...] (SBU) Mission is instructed to draw from the points in para. 2 below in discussing events in the Middle East during the consultations to be held Tuesday morning, February 26 in the UN Security Council. 2. (U) Begin points: The United States is committed to the process begun at Annapolis, [...]	2008-02-24 21:13:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KPAL IS LE
08STATE30350	MIDDLE EAST - UNSC INSTRUCTIONS FOR MARCH 25 [...] (SBU) Mission is instructed to draw from the points in paragraph 2 below in discussing events in the Middle East during the consultations to be held Tuesday morning, March 25 in the UN Security Council. 2. (U) Begin points: The United States continues to work to support progress towards [...]	2008-03-24 18:38:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KPAL IS LE
08STATE3611	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 4, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Palestinian National Security Forces listed below. Ashraf Musa Mahmoud Jamal POB: Hebron (al-Khalil) DOB: [...]	2008-01-11 20:24:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE36471	LEBANON: JUMBLATT CONCERNED ABOUT UNIIIC DELAYS, [...] (S) Druze leader Walid Jumblatt expressed concerns about information he had received that former UNIIIC Commissioner Serge Brammertz failed to act for the past year-and-a-half to act on a key lead discovered by Internal Security Forces Intelligence Officer Wissam Eid, who was assassinated one [...]	2008-04-08 18:05:00	Secretary of State	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER PARM PINR KPAL MASS SY IS LE
08STATE42643	GUIDANCE FOR APRIL 23 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (SBU) Mission is instructed to draw from the points in para 2 below in discussing events in the Middle East during the briefing and consultations to be held Wednesday morning, April 23, in the UN Security Council. 2. (U) Begin points: Mr. President, given the importance of a peaceful r [...]	2008-04-23 03:07:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL LE IS UNSC
08STATE5157	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 16, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed below. LAST NAME: Elgad FIRST NAME: Rotem Rafael GENDER: Male DOB: 30 October 1975 RANK/SERVICE: Major [...]	2008-01-16 21:19:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE5452	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 15, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Presidential Guard listed in the referenced cables. 2. Post is permitted to provide the following statement [...]	2008-01-17 17:27:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE5991	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 18, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the members of the Presidential Guard listed in the referenced cables. 2. Post is permitted to provide the following statement [...]	2008-01-18 20:34:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS WE KPAL MASS MARR
08STATE63983	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING OF [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of June 3, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. Mujahid M H Rabaia 02 Jul 1970 Maythalun Police Wasim M M al-Jayusi 04 J [...]	2008-06-13 15:32:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC KPAL PHUM IS
08STATE674	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of January 3, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the Palestinian National Security Forces (NSF) officers listed below. First name, last name Mahmoud Jalal Mahmoud Khaleel POB: [...]	2008-01-03 20:42:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC IS KPAL MARR MASS PGOV PHUM WE
08STATE69092	ARAB GROUP DRAFT UNSCR ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS [...] (C) This is an Action Request. Department endorses USUN reftel request for authorization to engage the Arab Group, and also to engage UNSC members, in response to a Saudi initiative to seek a UNSCR focused on Israeli settlements. 2. (C) Mission should pursue the following strategy: -- Fi [...]	2008-06-26 23:21:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL UNSC IS
08STATE71463	DEMARCHE REQUEST: KEEPING THE PA AFLOAT [...] (SBU) Department requests action addresseespost urge host country at appropriately senior level to urgently identify funds in support of the Palestinian Authority (PA) budget. If host country has outstanding pledges to the PA, including commitments made through the Arab League, post should pres [...]	2008-07-02 22:21:00	Secretary of State	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL IS PGOV PREL ECON
08STATE80632	RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING OF NATIONAL [...] The Department of State has reviewed its files and finds that as of July 23, 2008, it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights by the security officers listed below. 1 Ahmad Mustafa Ahmad Tazaz'a Jenin 14/12/1989 850739590 2 Ala'a Nabil Fathi a [...]	2008-07-25 21:08:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM ASEC IS KPAL
08STATE9284	GUIDANCE FOR JANUARY 30 UNSC CONSULTATIONS ON THE [...] (SBU) USUN is instructed to draw from the points in paras. 2-9 below in making its statement at the January 30 UNSC debate on the Middle East. Please select the point in para. 2 that describes the outcome of the discussion on the PRST on Gaza, and follow with the rest of the points in para. 3 [...]	2008-01-30 00:15:00	Secretary of State	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KPAL IS LE
08TASHKENT1477	UZBEKISTAN: TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON UNION OF GOOD DELIVERED [...] (C) On December 15, Poloff delivered reftel demarche onthe U.S. domestic designation of Union of Good as a supporter of terrorism to Uzbekistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Chief Ismat Fayzullaev, who promised to inform parts of the Government of Uzbekistan who work on the issue. [...]	2008-12-18 11:20:00	Embassy Tashkent	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS SA WE GZ UZ
08TBILISI2316	GEORGIA: TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on December 5, to Otar Berdzenishvili, MFA's Counselor of the Americas Division. Mr. Berdzenishvili told Poloff that they would study the issue and take it under advisement. LOGSDON [...]	2008-12-10 14:28:00	Embassy Tbilisi	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL PINR KWBG KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1042	FORMER CIVIL ADMINISTRATION HEAD RECOUNTS PRESSURE [...] (S) Summary: With the ongoing transfer of the West Bank police headquarters from Ras al-Amud (East Jerusalem) to E-1 (West Bank),there has been much speculation on whether the headquarters at E-1 was legally established (reftel). On May 13, Brigadier General (ret.) Ilan Paz, head of the Wes [...]	2008-05-16 13:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1080	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SHIN BET CHIEF FOCUSES [...] (S) In a May 13 meeting covering a range of subjects, Israeli Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet) Chief Yuval Diskin told Ambassador Jones the following: -- Israel's Arabs are materially better off than many Arabs in neighboring countries, but increasingly feel disconnected from the State, an [...]	2008-05-22 07:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER PINR KPAL KWBG EG IS
08TELAVIV1095	NO TENDERS ISSUED FOR BEITAR ILLIT...YET [...] (C) On May 26, Ynet reported that the Ministry of Construction and Housing (MOCH) had issued a tender to build 286 housing units in the West Bank settlement of Beitar Illit. MOCH Director General Chaim Fialkoff clarified to econoff on May 27 that the MOCH has not actually issued tenders for [...]	2008-05-23 11:59:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1177	GAZAN FULBRIGHTERS: MG MISHLEV PLEDGES TO HELP [...] (C) DCM Moreno, accompanied by Poloff and Econoff, met June 3 with Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) MG Mishlev to discuss the issue of Palestinian Fulbright students needing permits to exit Gaza for visa interviews at the Consulate General in Jerusalem. The DCM [...]	2008-06-03 12:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS

08TELAVIV1192	MOD DG BUCHRIS ON WEST BANK AND GAZA [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with MOD Director General (DG) Pinchas Buchris to reaffirm MOD support for ongoing efforts to promote Israeli-Palestinian security cooperation in the northern West Bank. The Ambassador offered to assist the MOD should they require U.S. forensic expertise to i [...]	2008-06-04 13:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL
08TELAVIV1247	SETTLEMENTS AND OUTPOSTS: SIX MONTHS INTO ANNAPOLIS [...] (C) Summary: Within the first six months of the Annapolis process, the GOI has published tenders for or approved 2,800 new housing units in settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem -- marking the largest number of approvals within a six month period since 1999. Additionally, despite [...]	2008-06-12 14:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1284	FM LIVNI TO LEAD ISRAELI DELEGATION TO BERLIN [...] (C) Responding to reftel points, MFA Director for Palestinian Economic Affairs Irit Ben-Abba told PolOff June 16 that FM Livni had decided to lead the Israeli delegation to the June 24 Berlin Conference in support of Palestinian Civil Police and Rule of Law. Ben-Abba said Livni would be join [...]	2008-06-16 15:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG GM IS
08TELAVIV1312	GOI AGREES TO ALLOW ENTRY OF UNRWA NON-FOOD ITEMS [...] (SBU) Following the Ambassador's interventions with Defense Minister Barak and MOD Political-Military Bureau Chief Amos Gilad on June 16, Post received word from UNRWA June 18 that the GOI had agreed to allow the passage into Gaza of all 20 trucks of non-food items needed for the UNRWA Summer [...]	2008-06-18 16:05:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF KWBG KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1332	JEC -- "ATMOSPHERE EXCELLENT" [...] (C) In a telcom with A/EconCouns, Michal Finkelstein, the Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Finance (MOF) DG, said that the third Joint Economic Committee (JEC) meeting held on June 16 between the Israelis and Palestinians went extremely well, with both sides arriving well prepared. She said [...]	2008-06-20 13:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL OECD EU KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1344	IDF ACTS AGAINST ILLEGAL STRUCTURES IN OUTPOSTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-23 13:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1536	PEACE NOW REPORT: MOCH PLANS TO BUILD 73,300 NEW [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On July 7, Peace Now's Settlement Watch Coordinator Hagit Ofran provided econoff with an advanced copy of a soon-to-be published report (please protect until published) detailing the Ministry of Construction and Housing's (MOCH) plans to build 73,300 housing units i [...]	2008-07-17 07:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1546	EVICTION DELAYED [...] No summary [...]	2008-07-17 12:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1595	MOD AND MFA RESPONSE TO WEST BANK DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: Charge raised reftel demarche points with MOD Political Military Director res. MG Amos Gilad and newly appointed MFA Deputy Director General for North American Affairs, Barukh Binah, on July 23. Gilad provided details of GOI efforts to improve coordination with the PA in the West [...]	2008-07-24 11:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1599	MOD CONFIRMS BARAK APPROVED NEW MASKIYYOT [...] (C) On July 24, Oded Herman, Senior Advisor to Ministry of Defense (MOD) Pol-Mil Director Amos Gilad, confirmed to econoff press reports indicating that Defense Minister Barak approved the construction of 20 new homes in the Maskiyyot settlement, located in the Jordan Valley. In response to [...]	2008-07-24 13:44:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1631	ISRAEL TO START SOME BARRIER CHANGES; STALLING IN [...] (C) Summary: On July 21, Shaul Arieli, advisor on the West Bank separation barrier to the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ),told econoff that the Ministry of Defense (MOD) would resume construction of some segments of the barrier next month returning some Palestinian land through Court o [...]	2008-07-29 14:04:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV170	NEW UNSCO FOCUSED ON UN/ISRAELI RELATIONS AND GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 14, Ambassador Jones and EconCouns met with Robert Serry, the new UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO). Mr. Serry is also the UN's representative to the Palestinians and the UN Quartet envoy. During the meeting, the Ambassador updated Mr. [...]	2008-01-18 16:46:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KPAL KWBG UN US
08TELAVIV1702	MOURNING BECOMES MOFAZ [...] (SBU) Summary: The morning after the festive Jerusalem launch of his campaign for the leadership of the Kadima party, Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz received lead-story status in two major Hebrew language dailies. The August 6 headlines, however, captured a negative storyline regarding possi [...]	2008-08-06 15:36:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINR KPAL KDEM IS
08TELAVIV171	MUGHRABI GATE: NEW PLANS CALL FOR EXPANSION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Revised plans for construction of a new access ramp for the Mughrabi Gate of the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif were deposited with the Interior Ministry for public review on December 27. A review of the plans indicates that in addition to constructing a new ramp, planners also in [...]	2008-01-18 17:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF KPAL JO IS
08TELAVIV1713	GOI PUBLISHES TENDERS FOR 416 HOUSING UNITS IN HAR [...] (C) Summary: On August 7, Ministry of Construction and Housing (MOCH) Director General Chaim Fialkoff called econoff to inform Embassy Tel Aviv that the MOCH had published tenders to build 416 new housing units in the settlements of Har Homa and Betar Illit. The MOCH's publication of tender [...]	2008-08-07 14:37:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1805	MOD: NO FINAL AGREEMENT REACHED TO EVACUATE [...] (C) On August 14, Oded Herman, Senior Advisor to MOD Pol-Mil Director Amos Gilad, debunked press reports saying that the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and settlers have reached an agreement on evacuating the Migron outpost. According to Herman, the MOD and settler leaders have a general underst [...]	2008-08-15 11:07:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV1834	CABINET APPROVES RELEASE OF 199 PALESTINIAN [...] (C) Summary: The ministerial committee charged with prisoner issues voted August 18 to approve a list of 199 Palestinian prisoners to be released August 25, just before Ramadan, as a concession to PA President Abbas. The list is comprised exclusively of Fatah and affiliated prisoners, and inc [...]	2008-08-19 15:16:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1869	ISRAELI VIEWS ON JORDANIAN DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Israel has not reacted publicly to Jordan's decision to resume its official dialogue with Hamas. MFA DDG for the Middle East Hadas played down the significance of the Jordanian move in an August 20 conversation with Pol Couns. Hadas said the GOI was much more upset by Jordan's d [...]	2008-08-22 08:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV IS JO KPAL
08TELAVIV1875	MA'ALE ADUMIM BARRIER REVISION ANNOUNCED [...] No summary [...]	2008-08-22 14:13:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
08TELAVIV1984	DEFENSE MINISTER BARAK'S DISCUSSIONS IN EGYPT [...] (S) Summary. Defense Minister Ehud Barak's August 23 visit to Egypt was a success, according to MOD Arab Affairs Adviser David Hacham. Barak's meetings with President Mubarak, Intelligence Minister Soliman, and Defense Minister Tantawi focused on reviving negotiations for the release of Corporal [...]	2008-08-29 14:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER EG KPAL IR IS
08TELAVIV2031	FM ABOUL GHEIT RAISES CONCERNS OVER WEST BANK [...] (C) MFA Cabinet Advisor for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs Ahmed Hafez (please protect) briefed us September 5 on Foreign Minister Aboul Gheit's August 31 meeting in Cairo with Israeli MFA DG Aharon Abramovich. Hafez described the meeting's atmosphere as ""positive,"" and stressed that the Egypt [...]	2008-09-06 13:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PGOV EG KPAL LE IS
08TELAVIV2043	ISRAELI AND JORDANIAN VIEWS ON DETERIORATING [...] (C) Summary: PolOff met with Jordanian PolOff Asem Ababneh (please protect) September 2 to discuss the rising tensions between Jordan and Israel. Ababneh complained that Israel is taking Jordan for granted and is no longer acting in good faith on a range of issues, including the peace proces [...]	2008-09-08 12:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL KISL JO IS
08TELAVIV2148	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN: [...] (C) Summary. During a September 15 meeting at the Knesset, Yisrael Beiteinu (YB) Party leader Avigdor Lieberman described to the Ambassador his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other regional issues, his concern over deteriorating U.S.-Russian relations, and his robust political [...]	2008-09-19 15:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IR SY RU IS
08TELAVIV219	MOD COMMENTS ON RAFAH SITUATION [...] (C) Summary. MOD Arab Affairs Adviser David Hacham briefed PolCouns January 24 on the Israeli reaction to the January 23 breaching of the border fence between Egypt and Gaza. Hacham, who is a regular MOD interlocutor with the Egyptian General Intelligence Service (EGIS),said he had deliver [...]	2008-01-25 15:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM EG KPAL IS
08TELAVIV220	RESETTLEMENT OF MIGRON'S RESIDENTS MAY COUNTER [...] (C) Summary: On January 23, the State Prosecutor's Office announced that Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Barak will strive within six months to achieve a consensual evacuation of the Migron outpost, whereby these settlers would be relocated to an alternative site. The announceme [...]	2008-01-25 16:31:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV2236	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOD DG BUCHRIS: [...] (S) Summary. During a September 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Defense Director General Pinchas Buchris stressed the strategic importance of Israel's relations with the U.S. He said he hoped Iran's nuclear program could be stopped without the use of force, but made clear that Israel wi [...]	2008-09-26 15:30:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS MASS KPAL LE SY IR RU IS
08TELAVIV2238	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOD DG BUCHRIS: [...] (S) Summary. During a September 24 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Defense Director General Pinchas Buchris stressed the strategic importance of Israel's relations with the U.S. He said he hoped Iran's nuclear program could be stopped without the use of force, but made clear that I [...]	2008-09-29 05:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL PTER MOPS MASS KPAL LE SY IR RU IS
08TELAVIV2252	OLMERT'S "SWAN SONG" INTERVIEW SPARKS DEBATE AND [...] (C) Summary: Olmert's widely read Jewish New Year interview on the Palestinian and Syrian negotiation tracks (see paras 2 and 3 below) struck Israeli pundits as both bold and problematic. Commentators on the left, such as Meretz MK Yossi Beilin, criticized Olmert for talking the talk on the [...]	2008-10-02 15:53:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IS KPAL IR SY LE KWBG
08TELAVIV2306	PALESTINIANS SUE GOI OVER INACTION TO EVACUATE [...] (C) Summary: On October 5, five Palestinian landowners, through the Yesh Din human rights organization, filed a civil suit for NIS 1.5 million against the GOI for damages caused by its failure to evacuate the Migron outpost. According to Yesh Din legal advisor Michael Sfard, not only had the [...]	2008-10-08 10:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV2308	MFA CONFERENCE PROVIDES PLATFORM FOR LIVNI [...] (SBU) Summary. Foreign Minister Livni used the MFA's first annual policy and strategy conference as a platform to elucidate her cautious approach to peace negotiations, stressing her views that negotiations must be grounded in political reality, should not be accelerated to accommodate polit [...]	2008-10-08 11:10:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KNNP IR KPAL IS
08TELAVIV24	SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION MORATORIUM APPLIES TO WEST [...] (C) Summary: Since Annapolis, Israeli settlement plans have been featured prominently and consistently in the Israeli press. In December alone, there were five published reports of GOI plans to build new residential and commercial projects, primarily in East Jerusalem. Recent press reports [...]	2008-01-03 14:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV2432	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH INTERNAL SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador called on Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter October 30. They discussed the GOI's plans for dealing with extremist settler violence, Israeli security cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas' ongoing efforts to develop its military capabilities in [...]	2008-10-31 16:57:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL EG IS
08TELAVIV2433	SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO ISRAEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Your upcoming visit to the region comes during a time of transition in Israeli politics. FM Livni is casting her failure to refashion a coalition as a refusal to accept the restrictive economic and diplomatic terms demanded by the Shas Party. The Kadima Party, under her leade [...]	2008-10-31 17:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EG SY IS
08TELAVIV2447	CASHLESS IN GAZA? [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-03 12:02:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PREL KPAL KTFN EFIN IS
08TELAVIV2469	ISRAEL: IDF OPERATION IN GAZA SPURS ROCKET ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: IDF forces entered into the Gaza Strip during the evening of November 4 to collapse a tunnel purportedly to be used to kidnap IDF soldiers near the Gaza security fence. Several Hamas militants were killed and IDF soldiers wounded in the ensuing firefight. Hamas responded Novemb [...]	2008-11-05 13:28:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV MOPS KPAL IS
08TELAVIV2499	WATER PROJECT FINANCING WORKSHOP PRESSES FOR ALTERNATIVES [...] (SBU) On November 5-6, the Milken Institute hosted a Financial Innovation Lab in Jerusalem to promote the idea of using public sector bond-issuing mechanisms for financing water, wastewater, and environmental remediation projects in the region. 60 Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian officials, [...]	2008-11-05 09:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID PREL KPAL KWBG JO IS
08TELAVIV2547	TENSION ESCALATES ALONG GAZA BORDER [...] (S) Summary: Hostilities continue to escalate along the Gaza border despite the current ceasefire -- "tahdiyeh" -- not scheduled to expire until December 19. Following a November 4 IDF raid into the Gaza Strip to destroy a tunnel (reftel),Palestinian terror organizations have steadily barra [...]	2008-11-14 14:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PTER PGOV MOPS KPAL IS
08TELAVIV2554	THE AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MERETZ PARTY [...] (C) The Ambassador called on Meretz Party Chairman Chaim Oron November 10. Oron, who was well-informed on the status of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, said he it is likely that Likud Party leader Bibi Netanyahu will focus his election campaign on the economy, which is seen by many Israeli [...]	2008-11-17 12:35:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL IS
08TELAVIV2555	BARAK APPROVES NEW SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Defense (MOD) Barak since April 2008, has approved dozens of construction permits for residential and municipal projects in the major settlement blocs and in a number of smaller settlements. This construction, if completed, will pave the way for continued population [...]	2008-11-17 13:33:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV2589	ISRAEL AND JORDAN DISCUSS MUGHRABI GATE, REMAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Poloff met November 20 with MFA Jordan Desk Director Tuvia Israeli and MFA IO Desk Director Tibor Shalev-Schlosser to discuss the ongoing dispute between Jordan and Israel over the Mughrabi Gate. The pair provided a readout of MFA DG Abramovich's November 12 meeting wi [...]	2008-11-21 15:08:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL EG IS
08TELAVIV2592	BARAK DEFERS EVACUATION OF HEBRON HOUSE FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Defense (MOD) Barak on November 20 balked at forcibly removing nine settler families from a house in Hebron after the High Court of Justice ordered their evacuation, and clashes erupted between the settlers and Israeli forces. Ministry of Defense officials in recent [...]	2008-11-21 16:38:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV2603	GAZA CASH CRISIS: CBG FISCHER CALLS FOR USG [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 12:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PREL IS
08TELAVIV2610	UPDATE: GOI MASTER PLANS FOR AREA C WEST BANK [...] (C/NF) Oded Hermann, MOD POL-MIL advisor to Amos Gilad, called EconCouns November 18 with an update on the 14 outstanding master plans being developed/approved for Palestinian communities in Area C. Hermann reported that draft plans had been developed for half of these communities, and are [...]	2008-11-24 13:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KPAL KWBG PA IS
08TELAVIV2618	NETANYAHU OUTLINES FOR AMBASSADOR LIKUD'S WAY [...] (S) SUMMARY: In a private meeting with the Ambassador on November 20, Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu confidently described his prospects to become the next Israeli prime minister and outlined his intent to form a broad, center-right coalition if his party prevails in February. Netanyah [...]	2008-11-24 15:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	PGOV PREL KPAL ECON IS IR
08TELAVIV2619	USSC GEN. DAYTON'S NOVEMBER 18 MEETING WITH IDF [...] (SBU) Summary: The United States Security Coordinator (USSC) LTG Keith W. Dayton and members of his staff met with IDF OC Central Command MG Gadi Shamni and members of his Command at Shamni's Neve Yaakov Headquarters on November 18. The USSC discussed the establishment of a base for the Pales [...]	2008-11-24 17:17:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER KPAL IS
08TELAVIV2620	ISRAELI POLLSTER PROVIDES INTERESTING DATA [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-25 05:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	OPRC KPAL KPLS KPAO IS
08TELAVIV2632	JORDANIAN AMBASSADOR PROMOTES ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Jordanian Ambassador Ali Al-Ayed told the Ambassador November 19 that in response to the growing expression of interest by some Israeli leaders -- including President Peres and Defense Minister Barak -- in the 2002 Beirut Arab Summit peace initiative, he has undertaken to publicize the in [...]	2008-11-25 16:18:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG JO IS
08TELAVIV2635	DOV WEISSGLAS WARNS ISRAEL'S SETTLEMENT POLICY [...] (U) Summary: Former Chief of Staff to Ariel Sharon Dov Weissglas, in an op-ed published in the mass circulation Yediot Aharonot November 24, cautioned that Israel risks a diplomatic confrontation with the new US Administration if it continues to permit settlement expansion and outpost constru [...]	2008-11-26 14:50:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV2640	MFA OFFICIALS DISCUSS REGIONAL PEACE, DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Director of Policy Planning Dr. David Gordon on November 16 met separately with Eran Etzion, MFA Director of Policy Planning, Tal Becker, MFA Foreign Policy Advisor, and Yaakov Hadas, Deputy Director General of the Middle East and Peace Process Division to discuss Israeli views [...]	2008-11-28 11:42:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KWBG KPAL SY XF IS
08TELAVIV265	UAE EQUIPMENT FOR THE PA [...] (C) In response to Ref A instructions, USSC confirmed to DATT that USSC has discussed this UAE-offered equipment with the PA's Hazem Atallah. The next step is for Atallah to write a letter to USSC officially requesting the equipment. USSC will then coordinate with the GOI about allowing the [...]	2008-02-01 12:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS KPAL IS AE
08TELAVIV2713	GOI CALLS GAZA CASH CRISIS A HAMAS PLOY [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-04 13:27:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	EFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS
08TELAVIV2786	PRESIDENT PERES TALKS POLITICS, REGIONAL ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Deputy Secretary and the Ambassador met with Israeli President Shimon Peres on December 9 to discuss upcoming Israeli elections, the peace process with the Palestinians, and other regional developments. Peres predicted that there would not be dramatic policy shifts followin [...]	2008-12-12 13:32:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAL TU IS
08TELAVIV2794	LIVNI PUSHES EU RELATIONS UPGRADE AS SIGNIFICANT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 8th, the European Union Council of Ministers announced an upgrade in its diplomatic relationship with Israel. The announcement received prominent coverage in both the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz, with Foreign Minister Livni calling it a "significant achievement." Dir [...]	2008-12-12 18:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AORC UN EU IS KPAL PHUM
08TELAVIV2809	A PROLIFERATION OF MESSAGES AS ISRAEL AND HAMAS APPROACH [...] In the absence of any published policy directive on Gaza from the December 10 trilateral meeting of Olmert, Barak and Livni, the Israeli media is focused on perceived policy differences within the GOI. The media reports that Minister of Defense Barak favors renewal of the truce between Israel [...]	2008-12-15 17:15:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS PTER KWBG KPAL MOPS IS EG
08TELAVIV2858	ISRAEL'S NSC SUPPORTS MINIMUM MONTHLY CASH FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 16:43:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	EFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS
08TELAVIV2859	ISRAEL'S NSC SUPPORTS MINIMUM MONTHLY CASH FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 16:54:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	SECRET	EFIN KNNP KTFN KPAL PTER PREL IS
08TELAVIV293	CODEL VOINOVICH DISCUSSES GAZA SMUGGLING ISSUES [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-07 04:47:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS KPAL IR IZ
08TELAVIV318	AMBASSADOR AND INTERIOR MINISTER SHEETRIT DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador called on Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit (Kadima) February 7 to discuss political and bilateral issues. Sheetrit thought DefMin Barak had made a mistake and destroyed his credibility by not resigning, as promised, following the release of the Winograd report. He [...]	2008-02-08 17:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL KIRF CASC BEXP IS
08TELAVIV441	AFRICAN ASYLUM-SEEKERS LIVING IN DEPLORABLE [...] (SBU) Summary. UNHCR reported February 7 that African asylum-seekers in Israel now number nearly 7,000 and continue arriving at a rate of roughly 200 per week. Without asylum laws or regulations, the GOI's capacity to respond to the growing number is severely limited. Meanwhile, African mi [...]	2008-02-25 11:55:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PGOV KPAL IS EG SU ER IV NI GH
08TELAVIV446	ISRAEL PREPARED TO USE FORCE TO BLOCK HAMAS [...] (C) Summary. According to Israeli media reports, Hamas organizers in Gaza called for a mass demonstration February 25 against the closure of the border crossings, but IDF sources estimated that only about 4,000 demonstrators showed up. There was no attempt by the demonstrators to approach t [...]	2008-02-25 13:58:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KPAL IS EG
08TELAVIV479	Antiquities Authority Archeologist Criticizes [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with emboffs February 20, Israeli archeologist Gideon Suleimani, a staff archeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and former head of the Authority's Jerusalem district, explained what he described as the ongoing "co-optation" of archeological digs by [...]	2008-02-29 14:29:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAL KIRF IS
08TELAVIV501	ISRAELI FM LIVNI MEETS CODEL, SAYS FATAH CANNOT OVERTAKE [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-04 13:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KPAL KWBG IS IR
08TELAVIV537	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GOI [...] (C) Ambassador Jones delivered demarche points per reftel to MFA Director General Aaron Abramovitch on February 29 and MOD Pol-Mil Director Amos Gilad on March 3. In delivering demarche points, the Ambassador emphasized that Israel should not be taking measures on the ground that threaten t [...]	2008-03-07 16:00:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV538	MOD MOVING AGAINST WEST BANK OUTPOSTS [...] (C) The Israeli press reported on March 5-6 that West Bank settler council leaders and MOD officials reached an agreement to move unauthorized outposts included on the list of 26 outposts recognized by the GOI as established after March 2001, to alternative West Bank sites. MOD Chief of Sta [...]	2008-03-07 16:03:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV559	ISRAEL EXPEDITING CUSTOMS REVENUE TRANSFERS TO PA [...] (C) Michal Finkelstein, Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Finance (MOF) Director General, told EconCouns and DeputyCouns on March 3 that the GOI is doing everything possible to expedite the transfer of the customs revenue it collects on the Palestinian Authority's behalf. She said that Israe [...]	2008-03-11 15:11:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL IS KWBG KPAL
08TELAVIV622	SCENESETTER FOR D/HHS VISIT TO ISRAEL [...] (U) Post welcomes the visit to Israel of HHS Deputy Secretary Tevi Troy on April 2. Post offers the following update on its social and public health situation. Your visit presents an opportunity to underscore our shared interests in matters of primary health care and global public health, incl [...]	2008-03-17 14:56:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KIPR KWBG KPAL IS
08TELAVIV669	ISRAELIS SEE PROGRESS AT JEC [...] (C) On March 18, Michal Finkelstein, Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Finance (MOF),gave EconCouns a readout of the March 11 Joint Economic Committee (JEC) meeting between the GOI and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Finkelstein said that the talks were constructive and would lead to signif [...]	2008-03-21 14:23:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KPAL IS
08TELAVIV701	MARCH SETTLEMENT ACTIVITIES [...] (C) The following paragraphs seek to capture Israeli settlement activity in March, and where possible, provide GOI clarification or confirmation to reports of approved or planned GOI settlement construction. -------------------------- MOD Moves Against Outposts -------------------------- [...]	2008-03-26 06:09:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV837	COORDINATOR FOR GOVERNMENT ACTIVITY IN THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Coordinator for Government Activity in the Territories (COGAT) Major General Yossef Mishlev heard the Ambassador's concerns about stalled U.S. commercial imports into the West Bank, continued demolitions of Palestinian homes, and ground clearing in Area E-1. Mishlev was not able [...]	2008-04-11 12:24:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PHUM KPAL IS
08TELAVIV871	SETTLERS VOLUNTARILY EVACUATE MEVO HORON [...] (C) On April 14, Oded Herman, Advisor to MOD Pol-Mil Director Amos Gilad, confirmed to EconCouns that settlers had voluntarily evacuated the Mevo Horon Agricultural Farm outpost, located near No Man's Land in the West Bank. According to Herman, the six families had relocated from the outpost [...]	2008-04-15 14:39:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IS KPAL KWBG
08TELAVIV900	GENERAL JONES' MEETING WITH SHIMON PERES [...] (C) Summary. Special Envoy for Middle East Regional Security (SEMERS) General James Jones met with President Shimon Peres April 13. General Jones briefed Peres on his mission, including the Jenin project that is being coordinated with Tony Blair. Peres said he was skeptical that a politica [...]	2008-04-18 07:20:00	Embassy Tel Aviv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KPAL IS JO TU GE JA
08TOKYO1604	JAPAN CONSIDERING PARTICIPATION IN BERLIN [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-12 06:26:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PBTS IS JA
08TOKYO1612	JAPANESE PARTICIPATION AT JUNE 23 VIENNA [...] (C) Japan will be represented at the June 23 Vienna Conference on Reconstruction of Lebanon's Nahr Al-Barid refugee camp by its Ambassasdor to Austria, according to MOFA First Middle East Divison Lebanon Desk Officer Hitoshi Ishizuka. However, it is unlikely Japan will announce further contri [...]	2008-06-12 10:14:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL KPAL UNRWA LE JA
08TOKYO1693	JAPANESE REPRESENTATION AT BERLIN CONFERENCE IN [...] No summary [...]	2008-06-19 08:15:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG KPAL PBTS IS JA
08TOKYO1987	ISRAELIS, PALESTINIANS, JORDANIANS MOVING FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Japan, Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinians made further progress on Tokyo's "Corridor for Peace and Prosperity" (CPP) initiative at a ministerial meeting in Tokyo July 2. For the first time the parties were able to agree on the text of a joint press statement which indicated the [...]	2008-07-17 07:45:00	Embassy Tokyo	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KWBG KPAL IS JO JA
08TOKYO2537	JAPANESE PARTICIPATION AT AD-HOC LIAISON COMMITTEE [...] (C) Japan will be represented at the September 22 New York meeting of the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee by Ambassador Tatsuo Arima, Japan's Special Envoy for the Middle East Peace Process, according to MOFA First Middle East Division Principal Deputy Director Akihiro Tsuji. Ministerial representat [...]	2008-09-16 09:21:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID KPAL KWBG EU IS JA
08TOKYO611	ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT TO JAPAN: FIRST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli Prime Minister Olmert's February 25-28 visit to Tokyo focused on expanding the bilateral relationship, particularly trade, but also addressed regional issues including the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP),Iran, North Korea, and China. On the peace process, Olmert thanked [...]	2008-03-07 08:10:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD PINR KPAL KWBG IR NK IS JA
08TOKYO779	JICA PRESIDENT OGATA MEETS SYRIA'S ASAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) President Sadako Ogata met March 12 in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad. According to MOFA, their discussion focused on economic assistance and did not address political issues. Japan believes it necessary to maintain c [...]	2008-03-21 07:52:00	Embassy Tokyo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF EAID KPAL KWBG IS IZ SY JA
08TRIPOLI984	LIBYA PROTEST'S ISRAEL'S STRIKES ON GAZA, CALLS FOR [...] (C) MFA Secretary for European Affairs and senior regime figure Abdulati Obeidi convoked P-5 chiefs of mission on December 28 to denounce Israel's airstrikes against the Gaza Strip. The meeting was filmed and televised by the state-owned Jamahiriya News Agency (JANA). Describing strikes by th [...]	2008-12-29 14:31:00	Embassy Tripoli	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPAL UN IS LY
08TRIPOLI988	LIBYA'S VIEWS ON ARAB LEAGUE MINISTERIAL MEETING ON GAZA [...] (SBU) A/DCM conveyed reftel points to MFA Americas Desk Director Ahmed Aoun on December 30. Aoun took our points on board, but stressed that while HAMAS' decision to break the ceasefire had precipitated Israel's military strikes in Gaza, the decision to execute rocket attacks had come against [...]	2008-12-30 15:36:00	Embassy Tripoli	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KPAL KWBG MOPS PHUM UN IS LY
08TUNIS1058	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CANCELING SAUDI PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, the Ambassador spoke by telephone to MFA Chief-of-Staff Mahmoud Khemiri to request GOT support in canceling or delaying the Saudi proposed Ministerial-level UNSC meeting on Israeli settlement activity. K [...]	2008-09-25 15:12:00	Embassy Tunis	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWBG KPAL PREL UNSC IS TS
08TUNIS1256	SITUATION IN GAZA: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel Arab League demarche in a December 30 meeting with MFA Chief of Staff Mahmoud Khemiri. In doing so, he acknowledged the MFA statement of December 27, underscoring, however, that Hamas is responsible for the current situation. Meanwhile, Gaza has dominated local [...]	2008-12-30 17:49:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL TS
08TUNIS193	PRESIDENT BEN ALI MEETS WITH A/S WELCH: PROGRESS [...] (S/NF) President Ben Ali and NEA Assistant Secretary David Welch discussed regional and bilateral issues in a wide-ranging, warm and open meeting on Thursday, February 28. In response to A/S Welch's remarks and requests, President Ben Ali: -- promised counter-terrorism cooperation "without r [...]	2008-03-03 16:51:00	Embassy Tunis	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PHUM PGOV KPAL KDRG KDEM TS
08TUNIS312	PRESIDENT BEN ALI TO ATTEND ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT [...] (S) On March 27, Tunis Africa Press (TAP) agency carried an official announcement that President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali will attend the Arab League Summit in Syria on March 29 - 30. The announcement represents a turnaround from earlier statements by President Ben Ali and Foreign Minister Ab [...]	2008-03-27 17:33:00	Embassy Tunis	SECRET	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KPAL LE TS
08TUNIS356	FM ON ARAB LEAGUE SUMMIT, AUSTRIAN KIDNAPPING, [...] (C) During an April 8 meeting, Foreign Minister Abdelwaheb Abdallah told the Ambassador that little of note had occurred at the March Arab League Summit in Damascus. While President Ben Ali had ultimately decided to attend, nothing could be accomplished in the absence of Saudi King Abdallah an [...]	2008-04-09 12:25:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PREL KPAL PHUM TS
08TUNIS58	PRESIDENT'S MIDDLE EAST TOUR: TUNISIAN [...] (C) At a January 15 a gathering with intellectuals at the Ambassador's residence, most participants expressed the view that President Bush's visit to the region was evidence of concrete follow-up to a positive process set in motion at Annapolis. Participants criticized various aspects of the [...]	2008-01-18 13:32:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IR TS
08TUNIS67	TUNISIAN MFA STATEMENT ON CONCERN OVER SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 21, the Tunisian Foreign Ministry (MFA) released a statement regarding its concern about the situation in the Palestinian Territories. The statement received broad coverage in the Tunisian press, and government and ruling party newspapers carried the story on the f [...]	2008-01-22 15:46:00	Embassy Tunis	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPAL TS
08TUNIS910	MAHMOUD ABBAS ATTENDANCE AT RULING PARTY CONGRESS [...] (C) Summary. At a lunch on August 11, Palestinian Ambassador Salman el-Herfi said PA President Mahmoud Abbas had visited Tunis recently primarily to participate in the opening of the RCD party congress. Abbas' participation, el-Herfi said, underscored the strong and growing relations betwee [...]	2008-08-12 15:56:00	Embassy Tunis	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI KPAL IS TS
08USUNNEWYORK1000	UNSC: UNSCR 1559 CONSULTATIONS - UN ENVOY CITES [...] (SBU) Summary: Terje Roed-Larsen briefed the Security Council October 30 that significant progress had been achieved in the implementation of UNSCR 1559 with the election of Lebanese President Sleiman, the adoption of a Lebanese electoral law, and the Lebanese-Syrian agreement to establish di [...]	2008-10-31 23:24:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER PBTS KPAL UNSC LE SY IS
08USUNNEWYORK1024	UNRWA REPORT AND GENERAL DEBATE: SITUATION IN [...] Summary: The UN General Assembly's Special Political and Decolonization Committee (the Fourth Committee) held its general debate on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) on October 29-30. Two UNRWA officials opened the session with reports [...]	2008-11-05 14:16:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREF KPAL KWBG
08USUNNEWYORK1047	FOURTH COMMITTEE APPROVES NINE RESOLUTIONS ON [...] SUMMARY: The UNGA Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) approved nine resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian situation on November 7: four under agenda item 29 "The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East" (UNRWA) and five under agenda i [...]	2008-11-10 13:37:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PREF KPAL KWBG UNGA IS
08USUNNEWYORK1053	UNGA: SYG HOLDS DIALOGUE WITH AMBASSADORS ON G-20 [...] SUMMARY: United Nations Secretary General (SYG) Ban Ki-moon briefed UN General Assembly (UNGA) Members on the latest developments in the Middle East peace process, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),his recent visit to Asia and other pressing issues in a November 10 meeting. On the finan [...]	2008-11-12 15:58:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EFIN KPKO KUNR KPAL PWBG UNGA IS CG SU
08USUNNEWYORK1074	UN FOURTH COMMITTEE DEBATE ON ISRAELI PRACTICES IN [...] Summary: The UN General Assembly's Fourth Committee met November 4 - 6 to debate the annual "Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories" (the Special Committee). The debate inclu [...]	2008-11-17 15:43:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM KPAL IS
08USUNNEWYORK1100	UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DISCUSSES RACISM, [...] SUMMARY: From November 3-5, the UN General Assembly Third Committee formally discussed the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, the right of peoples to self-determination, and the report of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Speakers from several Islamic nations noted a trend [...]	2008-11-20 23:27:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL PREF SMIG PNAT PBTS KPAL KWBG
08USUNNEWYORK1108	UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS PALESTINIAN RESOURCES [...] SUMMARY: The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Second Committee (Economic and Financial) adopted four resolutions on November 20. Per reftel instructions, the United States called for a vote and voted against the resolution entitled, "Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the [...]	2008-11-25 11:51:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KPAL UNGA IS
08USUNNEWYORK1120	UNGA: 63RD UNGA ADOPTS RESOLUTIONS ON ISRAEL AND [...] The 63rd UNGA held its debate on agenda item 16, "The Question of Palestine," and agenda item 15, "The Situation in the Middle East," from November 24-25. Over 50 countries spoke; paragraph 8 gives a complete list. The President of the General Assembly (PGA),Miguel D'Escoto opened the debat [...]	2008-12-01 13:51:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM PREF KPAL KWBG UNGA IS
08USUNNEWYORK1127	UNSC: MIDDLE EAST CONSULTATIONS: SOUTH AFRICA AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN Security Council held its monthly briefing and consultations on the Middle East on November 25. Under Secretary-General Pascoe briefed on the "landmark" Quartet meeting November 9 with the two parties. He stressed that the biggest challenges to a lasting peace agreement [...]	2008-12-02 21:59:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER KPAL KWBG UNSC IS PA SY
08USUNNEWYORK1133	UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION ON PALESTINIAN [...] In the afternoon meeting on November 20, the UN General Assembly Third Committee took action on 12 draft resolutions. The following draft resolutions were adopted by consensus: A/C.3/63/L.23, entitled "National institutions for the promotion and protection of human rights;" A/C.3/63/L.25, ent [...]	2008-12-04 15:48:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PGOV PREL KPAL AORC UNGA
08USUNNEWYORK1142	UNSC: COUNCIL MEETS AT LIBYAN REQUEST TO DISCUSS [...] (SBU) The Security Council met December 3 at Libya's request to discuss the Israeli Navy's action to deny entry of a Libyan vessel carrying humanitarian assistance to the port of Gaza. The Council invited both Israeli and Palestinian representatives to participate in the meeting. The Libyan [...]	2008-12-05 21:27:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS LY EG
08USUNNEWYORK1150	UNSC: COUNCIL AGREES ON ELEMENTS FOR PRESIDENCY TO [...] (SBU) In consultations late on December 5, the Security Council agreed not to meet formally in response to requests by the Palestinians through the Non-Aligned Movement and the Arab Group for a Council meeting on recent settler violence in the Hebron area of the West Bank. In lieu of a meetin [...]	2008-12-08 22:24:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC KWBG KPAL IS

08USUNNEWYORK1152	UNGA ADOPTS ALL FOURTH COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS; FOUR [...] SUMMARY: The UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted 22 resolutions and four draft decisions included in the reports of the UNGA Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization Committee) on December 6. Resolutions and plenary votes are in paragraph two (most passed with significant margins [...]	2008-12-09 15:53:00	USUN New York	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF SENV UNGA IS

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