Posted on 11/10/2020 6:05:47 AM PST by silent majority rising
Saeb Erekat, a Palestinian diplomat who spent decades leading negotiations with Israel, has died at the age of 65 due to complications from coronavirus, the Israeli hospital where he has been hospitalized said Tuesday.
Erekat was taken to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital last month after several days of being treated by his daughter at his West Bank home.
Erekat led successive Palestinian negotiations with Israel for decades, including talks that led to the signing of the 1993 and 1995 Oslo Accords, the first major peace deals between Israel and the Palestinians. A dominant figure in Palestinian politics for decades, he became secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization in 2015, though his influence in shaping Ramallah’s relations with Israel and the world went far beyond the bureaucratic post.
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The Corona got him in an Israeli hospital - SOMEBODY did him in!!! /s
I feel so bad. /s
Saeb was a gifted, eloquent, intelligent, well spoken terrorist with a tie.
He was a diplomat who did all he could to destroy Israel by diplomatic means.
He was part of the old guards PLO junta and was Arafart’s confidant.
He was lucky not to be thrown off a rooftop in Gaza when HAMAS overthrew his junta. They all ran away to Ramallah.
At every turn, he lied and slandered the State of Israel while enjoying his elite status within the PLO junta.
He will not be missed by any thinking person with a memory dating back to circa 1991.
He had a lot of blood, (both Paleostinian and Jewish) on his hands.
He was, the quintessential terrorist with a tie and suit.
Hope he suffered.
it’s pretty much already old news already in the Israeli media. believe me, the Palestinians don’t care either.
the situation has been super quite here for the past 2 years because the Palestinians have had economic prosperity and security—which means construction jobs in Israel.
Israel has a mega-booming construction industry—there isn’t a town or city that isn’t building entire new neighborhoods—and guess who builds them? The Arabs! They benefit the most.
where I live, there are more construction vehicles on the road then cars!
That’s what eternity holds for him.
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