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Dr. Saeb Erekat: Netanyahu's Statement Confirms Israel's Commitment to Apartheid

etanyahu's latest statement is a continuation of Israel's policy of dictations, as well as it confirms US complicity with Israeli colonial plans. This...

Chief Palestinian negotiator: 'Trump is burying two-state solution'

Speaking to FRANCE 24’s Middle East correspondent Antoine Mariotti in the West Bank town of Jericho, Saeb Erekat reacted angrily to the Trump administration’s...

Dr. Saeb Erekat, after meeting of the PLO Political Committee today in Ramallah.

For years, the Palestinian leadership has engaged in good faith in numerous meetings and encounters with the US administration and have constantly provided...

Dr. Saeb Erekat : Regarding Possible US Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel: This move will promote international anarchy and disrespect for global institutions and law

Jerusalem is the social, political, cultural, religious and economic heart of Palestine. It is also the heart of billions of believers from the three monotheistic...

Erekat: Palestinians will suspend talks if the United States Administration closes PLO mission

“The United States State Department notified us with an official letter that they cannot certify the continued opening of the PLO Office in Washington...

Erekat accuses Israel of forcible transfer of Palestinian population

Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), accused Israel on Saturday of forcible transfer...

A century on from Balfour, I challenge Britain to finally do the right thing

Today we mark the centenary of the calamitous Balfour declaration. In 1917, with a few paragraphs and a stroke of his pen, the British foreign minister,...

Saeb Erekat: Nothing is more shameful than celebrating colonialism

WASHINGTON, November 2, 2017 (WAFA) – Secretary General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat said on Thursday that by celebrating...

Dr. Saeb Erekat: Palestinian Reconciliation Advances Making Peace. It's Time for Israel to Abide by International Law and to Recognize the Right of the State of Palestine to Exist

Twenty-niindependent, sovereign and contiguous State on thne years ago, the Palestine National Council recognized Israel's existence on 78% percent of...

Dr. Saeb Erekat on Israel’s Illegal Policies and Measures in the Occupied Palestinian Capital throughout 2017: “It is time for yet another dark Apartheid chapter to end.”

Over the past nine months, the Occupying Power has intensified its fierce colonial campaign against the land and people of Palestine as the occupation...

Dr. Saeb Erekat on the Latest Attempt by Mr. David Friedman, US Ambassador to Israel, to Normalize Israel’s Colonial Policies

It is not the first time that Mr. David Friedman has exploited his position as US ambassador to advocate and validate the Israeli government's policies...

Dr. Saeb Erekat on Latest Israeli Colonial Settlement Plans in the Absence of International Accountability and the Rule of International Law

The year 2017 marks 50 years of Israel's colonization of Palestine and 70 years of the catastrophic historical event, al-Nakba, and 100 years of the Balfour...