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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/document-leak-damaging-says-blair.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The leaking of documents on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations was designed to be 'extremely damaging' to the peace process, ex-PM Tony Blair said" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-document-leak-damaging-says-blair.jpg" alt="The leaking of documents on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations was designed to be 'extremely damaging' to the peace process, ex-PM Tony Blair said"/></a></p>
<p>The leaking of hundreds of documents covering decades of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations was designed to be &#8220;extremely damaging&#8221; to the peace process in the region, former prime minister Tony Blair said.</p>
<p>The documents, which include allegations that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas secretly made major concessions to Israel, were leaked this week to Qatar-based news agency Al-Jazeera.</p>
<p>Abbas and his aides have said they are victims of a smear campaign but the disclosure has increased tensions between Abbas and the Islamic militant Hamas, which wrested the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian president in a violent takeover in 2007.</p>
<p>In his role as an international peace envoy to the Middle East, Mr Blair told BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Today programme he thought the leaks would be &#8220;destabilising&#8221; for the Palestinians.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;I think it is hard to tell right now but its intention was to be extremely damaging. I think amongst Palestinians it is actually slightly less hyper, if you like, than it is elsewhere in the region.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think most people when they sit back and they think about it, you would expect people negotiating, to be putting forward positions, taking them back.</p>
<p>&#8220;We couldn&#8217;t have done the Northern Ireland peace process if the entire time everything was being put out there with frankly a pretty severe spin on it.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think it is destabilising for the Palestinians, however I think we have got to be big enough and strong enough to say &#8216;OK, look, whatever Al Jazeera are putting out we are just going to get on with making peace&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p>On Wednesday, thousands marched in Gaza in Hamas-led protests, accusing Abbas of being a traitor and burning an effigy of him. During a second rally on Thursday Salah Bardawil, a Hamas legislator, told the crowd that &#8220;those traitors and anyone who is thinking of compromising any of our rights&#8221; should be put on trial.</p>
<p>Many of the leaked documents include details of negotiations in 2008 between Abbas and Israel&#8217;s leader at the time, Ehud Olmert. The talks were cut short by Israel&#8217;s three-week war on Gaza and allegations of corruption against Olmert that eventually forced him from office.</p>
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