Saeb Erekat Looks for Excuses Not to Negotiate with Israel
A tantrum in the Times.
February 14, 2018
Saeb Erekat Looks for Excuses Not to Negotiate with Israel
A tantrum in the Times.
In an op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times, the longtime PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat declared the U.S. ineligible to broker talks between Israel and the Palestinians given, among other sins, its recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Noting Erekat’s two-decade history of prevarication—including his absurd and libelous claims of a “massacre” in Jenin in 2002—Elliott Abrams explains why Erekat cannot be taken seriously. The column, writes Abrams, is in fact about something else entirely:
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