Explanation of abbreviations and terms used in the leaked Palestinian records of Middle East peace negotiations

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1967: Shorthand for the borders until the Middle East war of June that year

Abu Ala: Ahmed Qureia's familiar Arabic name

AG: Amos Gilad, senior Israeli defence ministry official

AM: Abu Mazen, familiar Arabic name for the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas

Annapolis: A peace conference held in November 2007 in Annapolis, Maryland, which relaunched the Israeli-Palestinian talks with the goal of reaching agreement within a year. Hence many of the talks take place over the succeeding year

API: Arab Peace Initiative. Plan adopted by Arab League (2000, 2007) offering recognition of Israel in exchange for a return to the 1967 borders and just solution of the Palestinian issue, including refugees

Bibi: Nickname for Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister since March 2009

Clinton parameters: Outlines of agreement reached under US president Bill Clinton in summer 2000, but never implemented

CR: Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, 2005-09

Goldstone: A report by the South African judge Richard Goldstone on the Gaza war of December 2008 - January 2009, which found evidence that Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes

GM: George Mitchell, US special envoy for the Middle East

Har Homa (Jebel Abu Ghneim in Arabic): An Israeli settlement between Jerusalem and Bethlehem in occupied territory

HC: Hilary Clinton, US secretary of state since January 2009

Molcho: Yitzhak Molcho, Israeli lawyer and negotiator

NML: No man's land

PS: Permanent status; definitive issues to be settled in the negotiations

Quartet: Grouping of the UN, US, EU and Russia involved in mediating the peace process

Gilad Shalit: Israeli soldier captured and held by Hamas since a cross-border raid in June 2006

ToR: Terms of reference

YD: Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet internal security service