Saeb Erekat, Promotor of Hatred For Israel, In Israeli Hospital With COVID 19

 Nadene Goldfoot

                                                                 

               Saeb Erekat b: April 28, 1955 in Jordanian-ruled West Bank in Abu Dis

Erekat is one of seven children, with his brothers and sisters living outside of Israel or the Palestinian territories.

Abu Dis or Abu Deis is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate of the Palestinian National Authority bordering Jerusalem. Since the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Abu Dis land has been mostly part of "Area C", under full Israeli control.                                                                 

Saeb Erekat of FATAH, one of the head Palestinians in the PA, as the secretary general,  is in a hospital in Israel with COVID 19.  He's reported to be in serious condition, now on a ventilator.  This may surprise some people as it is a Jewish hospital.  Asked about how the hospital can give medical assistance to someone considered to be an enemy, they answered that that's what they do.  Yes, it is an oath all doctors take of helping whoever needs help, but it also is something a Jew would do as well. On 12 October 2017 he had a lung transplant at Inova Fairfax Hospital in northern Virginia, United States. On 8 May 2012, he was hospitalized in Ramallah after suffering a heart attack at age 57.

On 9 October 2020, Erekat tested positive for COVID-19. On 18 October 2020, he was sent to the Israeli Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem in critical condition. On 21 October 2020, his daughter said on Twitter that he underwent a bronchostomy to examine the condition of his respiratory system.

On Sunday, the 65-year-old was rushed to the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem from his home in Jericho, in the occupied West Bank.  Being Israel is a good 12 hours ahead of the USA, it would have happened today for us here in the USA.  They put him in a medically induced coma.                                                            

Erekat when in London December 2014

The hospital said treating Mr Erekat was a "huge challenge" because he had undergone a lung transplant three years ago and had a "weakened immune system and bacterial infection, in addition to coronavirus".  

Saeb Erekat is a particularly disgusting man.  He is the one in charge of the "Pay for Slay" of the Palestinians; the man that pays a terrorist for killing a Jew.  "Two leading US senators spoke this week with Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat over the crisis between Israel and the Palestinian Authority regarding pay-for-slay."US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham authored the US Taylor Force Act that prevents the US from providing economic assistance to the PA until it halts its policy of providing terrorists and their families with monthly stipends. Graham is in Israel alongside US Democratic Senator Chris Van Hollen, who was particularly vocal about his disagreement with the decision to halt US financial aid to USAID programs for Palestinians."

                     

   Rock throwers in Jerusalem

                                   

                             latest terror of flying kites of fire to burn wheat fields 

The Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund is a fund operated by the Palestinian Authority (PA) for the purpose of paying a monthly cash stipend to the families of Palestinians killed, injured or imprisoned for involvement in attacking, assisting in attacking, or planning to attack Israelis, or for other types of politically-inspired violence, including riots, violent demonstrations, and throwing rocks, and also for paying cash stipends to the families of innocent bystanders killed during violent events. In addition, it provides pocket money to all Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails for ordinary crimes. The Fund traces its origins to a fund created by Fatah in 1964 to support the widows and orphans of Palestinian fedayeen. The scheme has been described as "pay for slay", and has been criticised by some as encouraging terrorism. In 2016, the PA paid out about NIS 1.1 billion (US$303 million) in stipends and other benefits to the families of so-called “martyrs”.

In 2010 (or 2014), the mounting criticism of the payments led to the PA transferring management of the Martyrs Fund to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which now disburses the government-funding to recipients and their families.

Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat is a Palestinian politician and diplomat who is the Secretary General of the Executive Committee of the PLO. He served as chief of the PLO Steering and Monitoring Committee until 12 February 2011.

Of particularly disappointing news concerning Erekat was that he has been invited to teach at Harvard.  There are limits to our freedom of speech.  He'll only say damning, false information to newbies about Israel's history. He's not an American citizen, either.   On September 3, 2020, Arutz Sheva reported that Harvard is under fire for appointing Saeb Erekat, long the Palestinians’ chief negotiator, to serve as a mentor.and to give virtual seminars as a fellow in The Future of Diplomacy Project at the Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs..The Jerusalem Post went so far as to write that he is "bringing his expertise to Harvard," adding "The Kennedy School — among the most prestigious graduate schools for public and social policy in the world — announced Erekat’s appointment last week..."

Since Erekat promotes the Palestinian pay to slay policy. calling it "a social obligation," Erekat should be in jail. not in Harvard.

Erekat also is part of an oppressive government that was accused by the Human Rights Watch of using torture to crush dissent. . Human Rights Watch reported that the PA used threats, arbitrary arrests and violent abuse, including beatings, electric shocks and stress positions to crush dissent.  " the PA and Hamas use detention to punish critics and deter them and others from further activism. In detention, security forces routinely taunt, threaten, beat, and force detainees into painful stress positions for hours at a time.

Human Rights Watch’s investigation based on 147 interviews further indicates that the mistreatment and torture of those in Palestinian custody is routine, in particular in Hamas’ Internal Security custody in Gaza and in the PA’s Intelligence, Preventive Security, and Joint Security Committee detention facilities in Jericho. The habitual, deliberate, widely known use of torture, using similar tactics over years with no action taken by senior officials in either authority to stop these abuses, make these practices systematic. They also indicate that torture is governmental policy for both the PA and Hamas.

Update 11/10/20 

Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian leader and negotiator who passionately advocated for an independent state for decades, died at 65.

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 5:03 AM EST

His death was confirmed on Tuesday in a tweet by his Fatah party. The statement did not give a cause of death, but in his last years, he battled lung disease and then contracted Covid-19 last month. For three decades, as a close confidant of the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and his successor, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Erekat was one of the most prominent voices of the Palestinian cause.

Resource: Neal Sher interview on Jerusalem News TV

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54587544

https://www.timesofisrael.com/treating-saeb-erekat/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/treating-saeb-erekat/

https://apnews.com/hub/saeb-erekat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeb_Erekat

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/graham-van-hollen-met-with-erekat-over-pay-for-slay-crisis-594406

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287115

https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/10/23/two-authorities-one-way-zero-dissent/arbitrary-arrest-and-torture-under

Obama's Plot to Unseat Netanyahu in Israeli Election in March with V15

Nadene Goldfoot                                          

A real anti-Semite mid-western American is now in Israel trying to manipulate the Israelis to unseat Obama.  It's Jeremy Bird, (the Vulture to me), who is working for V15, the Team Obama community organizing campaign wizard.  He's working out of an office in Tel Aviv and is planning to defeat Netanyahu in the March elections.  V15 is a campaign vehicle of the Peaceworks Network Foundation.  Is this how Obama gets even with the Senate for inviting Netanyahu to speak to them about the dangers of Iran and nuclear capabilities without his knowledge?
                                                                         

Cairo-born Arafat at UN

Bird's thinking is that of blaming Israel and was pro Arafat.  He was an important cog in the US President Barack Obama's 2 campaigns for becoming president.  He continued in Obama's Organizing for America as deputy director.  

How does one get on the devious bandwagon in the USA?  He went to Harvard and attended their Divinity School from 2000 to 2002, getting a Master's.  Bird grew up in High Ridge, Missouri, the son of two financially struggling Baptists. Bird attended Wabash College, graduating with a major in religion in 2000, before before getting his Master's at Harvard.   
                                                                            

Marshall Ganz-Obama's political campaign specialist prof

Bird also took classes at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, including a class with political organizer Marshall Ganz.  "Marshall Ganz (born March 14, 1943) is a senior lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He worked on the staff of the United Farm Workers for sixteen years before becoming a trainer and organizer for political campaigns, unions and nonprofit groups. He is credited with devising the successful grassroots organizing model and training for Barack Obama’s winning 2008 presidential campaign."
                                                                       

Edmund Hanauer

 Bird went to Cambridge and there worked with Edmund Hanauer, another defamer of Israel.  In 1972 Hanauer founded Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel.  Hanauer thought of Israel as a place to disregard law, human rights and democratic values like Syria has done.  He thought they were corrupt because they received a measurable amount of US aid.  With all that interest in subjects at Divinity School, did he ever study the 5 books of Moses?  I doubt it.  That's in the "Old Testament" of many bibles, of which evidently only the Jews and evangelicals read and respect.  If he had, he'd know that Israel, being a Jewish state, is a religion of laws for mankind to enable us to do the right things.

Hanauer wrote an op-ed in the Milwaukee Sentinel, "The Double Standard Must End," on February 25, 2002.  In it he showed how he loathed Israel.  His name on the article was "Edmund Hanauer, American Jewish political scientist."    So often the worst haters of Israel turn out to be our own people.  Most of them are not Jews born and bred in Israel, however, like Noam Chomsky, American bred Linguist.  Many times it comes from their parents' self loathing for the orthodox community of Judaism, those that expect the most out of themselves in relation to religion.

This op-ed came out in the paper and then a few days later Hanauer and Bird attended a Bash Israel event at Harvard. where Bird had a tizzy because the then President Bush called Arafat a terrorist.  In Bird's mind, it was General Sharon who was a terrorist.  Hanauer thought the USA was practicing a double standard, calling it selectively defining terrorism.  All he had to do was to look terrorism up in a Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, or don't Harvard people need dictionaries anymore?  It is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion.  Too bad smart Hanauer hadn't read about the Palestinian terrorism they practiced of attacking schools and killing students in Israel, or attacking women and children so often, easy prey for terrorists.

Hanauer was completely off base when he said in his op-ed that Bush made it harder for Arafat to stop Palestinian "extremists" and curb violence and called this the cycle of violence.  As if Arafat wasn't the instigator for terrorism and violence.  Good grief!  Here are statements from Arafat.

1.  "We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."
2. Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
3. Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

"Palestinians should offer non-violent resistance to stop the expansion of Jewish settlements into Palestinian land, said Hanauer, the leader of a national human rights organization at a Harvard Divinity School (HDS) forum yesterday."  For a group no able to do anything non-violently, as history shows, this was instigating terrorism against Israelis.  It shows how little he knew about his subject, the Palestinians.  Evidently he hadn't read about Haj Amin, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and how he instigated in 1929 causing the death of many Jews.  

 Edmund Hanauer was the director of SEARCH for Justice and Equality in Palestine/Israel (SEARCH). He had a BA from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Political Science from American University. His dissertation focused on the relationship of American Jews to the state of Israel.Edmund R. (Ned) Hanauer, an American Jewish human rights activist, was director of Search....a Boston-based human rights group. Hanauer, a life-long peace and human rights activist, died after a short illness on August 10, 2006. He was 68.

"The point is simple: Hanauer will do whatever he can to weaken support for the very existence of Israel. He has been doing this for years, and it's hardly news that he continues this effort. The public should not be misled into thinking that this petition indicates some new and growing opposition toward Israel or that we have here a well meaning organization looking to improve human rights and to progress toward peace. Nothing could be further from the truth. ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN, Associate National Director, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, New York, Jan. 15, 1981."

So, ladies and gentlemen, here we have a true blue anti-Semite, Edmund Hanauer,  who has trained another one, Bird, who is now in Israel working to unseat Netanyahu.  Please show Bird how well informed you are and what you think of his plot.  

Turnspeak, the inverting of facts, has had the propaganda effect of perpetuating the false claim of displaced and terrorized Arabs in the Jewish settled area of Palestine did not start in 1948 as Arafat has tried to say.  In the Holy Land, Jews and Christians suffered from discrimination, persecution and pogroms by the Ottoman Empire who was in charge and the wandering Bedouins.  In 1839, the Jew's life was not much above that of a dog according to the British Consulate report.  So one thing the Palestinians have done successfully is to use turnspeak and turn around the Jewish history to become Palestinian history which it is not the same at all.  Their success has been to keep their own people uneducated so they don't know how wrong their leaders have been.

Postscript: Whatever our universities are teaching as to work around dissention such as the Palestinian/Israel situation is not facing reality.  That a problem may be solved between people in Kentucky or Missouri between rich and poor, black and white, or whatever the differences are-bankers and workers, is not working in the Middle East.  The so called do-gooders are turning out to be meddlers and are causing more harm than good simply because they cannot accept that their blueprint is ill advising and needs to be changed to fit the situation.  It's happened in Afghanistan and Pakistan and it's happened with Israel and the Palestinians.  This is a unique situation and much study has to go into the history and the people carefully by people not already swayed by anti-Semitism, such as the men above are.  Even the Jews in this article are anti-Israel; same thing.  We do have self-hating Jews, unable to trust the leadership of Israel because it isn't Harvard educated.  However, Netanyahu has attended Harvard along with a few other American universities.

1/30/15 update:  " Netanyahu returned to the United States in late 1972 to study architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned to Israel in October 1973 to serve in the Yom Kippur War for a 40-day period.  While there, he fought in special forces raids along the Suez Canal, as well as leading a commando team deep into Syrian territory. He then returned to the United States and eventually completed an S.B. degree  in architecture in 1975 and earned an S.M. degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1977. Concurrently, he studied political science at Harvard University.  

Resource: http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/v15-us-political-operative-marinated-in-hate-israel-activism/2015/01/30/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/y/yasser_arafat.html#B5LqORyXD2EKxDTA.99
http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism/2002-February/066400.html (The Double Standard Must End) by Hanauer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bird
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Ganz
http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=4948
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/2/27/rights-leader-advocates-peaceful-protest-in/
http://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/20/opinion/l-a-foe-of-israel-issues-his-annual-declaration-231203.html
update: 1/30/15 http://commonamericanjournal.com/tag/edmund-hanauer/

Ted Cruz Requests Investigation: Has Obama Launched a Political Campaign Against Netanyahu

http://twitchy.com/2015/01/29/sen-ted-cruz-asks-john-kerry-are-us-tax-dollars-being-used-to-influence-israels-election/

http://yahoo.usatoday.com/community/tags/topic.aspx?req=ssts&pg=196&tag=editorials%5Eopinion%5Enews