T. Belman. I think Erekat is on to something.
As American peace team holds talks in Israel and is boycotted by Abbas, his aide Saeb Erekat claims US wants to separate West Bank from Gaza, ‘terminate’ UNRWA
By TOI STAFF
Top Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat on Saturday accused the US peace team of working to topple the Palestinian Authority, as the American envoys wrapped up a visit to the region aimed to push the Trump administration’s peace plan and enlist humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip.
US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, along with Jason Greenblatt, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday following meetings earlier in the week with the leaders of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt. They are expected to meet again with Netanyahu Saturday evening before returning to the US.
Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority is refusing to meet with the team, having boycotted the Trump administration since December.
Erekat claimed that, during the meeting with Kushner and Greenblatt, Netanyahu said he was prepared to help address the humanitarian situation in Gaza with the tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the PA.
“The goal behind this is to sustain the coup [by which Hamas seized Gaza from Abbas in 2007] and keep Gaza separated from the West Bank on the way to creating a mini-state in Gaza while bringing down the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank,” Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio, according to the PA’s official Wafa news agency.
Erekat alleged the US is working to remove Abbas and overthrow the PA, pointing to an article by Greenblatt earlier this month calling for Erekat’s ouster. Greenblatt accused Erekat of exacerbating the conflict and impeding progress toward peace after the latter attacked Washington over its peacemaking role.
“In order to target the leadership, the US administration starts by creating a state of destabilization and confusion in the West Bank and at the same time works on undercutting international consensus on rejecting the so-called deal of the century and American conspiracies and support for the Palestinian cause,” Erekat said.
He also said Kushner and Greenblatt are seeking the “termination” of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, in the wake of their alleged belief Jerusalem is no longer an issue after Trump recognized the city as Israel’s capital.
“They want to terminate the role of UNRWA by proposing direct aid to the countries hosting the Palestinian refugees and sideline the UN agency,” Erekat said. “On top of this, they are planning financial aid to the Gaza Strip worth one billion dollars for projects, also separate from UNRWA and under the title of solving a humanitarian crisis.”
He added: “All this is actually aimed at liquidating the issue of the Palestinian refugees.”
The US earlier this year cut some $250 billion to the budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA.
why does the heading say ‘top terrorist negotiator ‘ when in fact it’s a bottom fish. Not only does it feed off of the bottom (read that as you choose) as a sodomite his is up for grabs, see it in the front row in any Pink parade.
I didn’t think that Erekat had become such a brilliant “thinker”. After all, the accusations he’s throwing at the US Emissaries, have only been repeatedly blazoned all over the Israel News Media, as well as outside venues……
SO he doesn’t “hit the bell” for brilliant deductions, he just shows that he’s able to read, and listen to news reports. It seems that one of the things he’s complaining about is that they are trying to separate Gaza from the P.A. and another is that Israel suggests helping \\Gaza with the witheld taxes they collect for th P.A. Is this a circular argument….Israel would only be using money that the PA should be using to help Gaza.
Recently he was “enjoying very bad health, but lately he’s been complaining that he feels a lot better”… (paraphrased from 1917 parody monologue, “Levinsky at the Vedding” by Julian Rose}}
The matter is, as far as I am concerned “stupid is as stupid does” …and I mean “stoooopid”. How much do you think those few hundreds of millions will help, when the massive aid flowing to Gaza for years has all “vanished, leaving the population worse off than before. It will only follow the rest down that deep pit,, perhsps funneled into Swiss Bank Accounts, or to lesser acolytes of murder and terrorism, the smaller terror groups who spring up in Gaza like weeds. I suggest that they may be being financed by Hamas, as a distraction, to confuse the enemy. He also accuses (perish the thought) that the US is trying to do away with UNWRA……. IN 3 words , Sam Goldwyn said.. “Im-Poss-ible”…
The goal Erekat, accuses Israel of, making Gaza a mini-state, and destroying the PA, seems to have already been partially accomplished…by Hamas itself. He moand about damaging the “Peace Process” not aware that it floated away long ago on the mists of (expired) time……
Since the Grand Old Vaudeville team of Arafat & Erekat broke up, “things ain’t never bin the same ” he mourns, with his fingers tapping the table in a dance rhythm, whilst his toes were shuffling along with the beat….He conveniently forgets that “They done it to themselves” by refusing to accept the results of the first and only PA election, in which Hamas won the first prize, which was the privilege of throwing Fatah/PA supporters off Gaza’s high roofs.
By now all those high buildings should have been reduced to rubble by the IAF.