JC Contributing Editor Robin Shepherd has a superb post on the so-called Palestine Papers affair.

As he puts it:

To the horror of a European political intelligentsia which has been
steadfast to the point of fanatical in its opposition to Israeli
“settlements” in east Jerusalem, the Palestinian leadership itself, we
now know, has long accepted that the vast majority of Israeli
settlements can be considered legitimate and would become part of
Israel under any reasonable peace agreement.

This is utterly devastating since it simultaneously shows that
everyone from the British Foreign Office and the BBC to the European
Commission and the continent’s passionately anti-Israeli NGO community
have been adopting a position which was significantly more
uncompromising on “settlements” than the Palestinian leadership itself,
and also that that same Palestinian leadership had accepted that the so
called 1967 “borders” — the gold standard for practically every
anti-Israeli polemic around — are irrelevant to the prospects of a
lasting peace.