Nadene Goldfoot
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.
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
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.
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
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