Saeb Erakat says Israel assassinated Arafat

PLO secretary general Saeb Erakat gave a long, angry interview with An Najah TV where he accused Israel of being fully responsible for everything wrong in the Middle East and the Palestinians as peace-seeking victims.

Some interesting claims:

 "We signed the Oslo Agreement for our desire to achieve peace, end the occupation, live decent lives and solve final status issues, foremost of which is the refugee issue."

In short, Oslo was meant to create two states - both of which would be Palestinian, after the "right of return" was implemented. Jews would have no homeland in the PLO's vision of "peace."

"The Palestinian side has signed many agreements with the Israeli occupation, but in light of negotiations with it it has been proven that they have a negotiating behavior that signs the agreement and does not implement it."

Such as when Arafat said that he renounced terror in 1993 but was behind the deadly Second Intifada? Israel has consistently offered peace but it was never good enough - to say that the Palestinians wanted peace is absurd; they never accepted a peace plan that would leave a Jewish state in existence and secure.

In an angry response to those who blame the Palestinian leadership for the sorry situation they are in, he said,  "How can this accusation be directed at the Palestinian leadership that clings to its principles, and what they did with the late President Yasser Arafat for his insistence on East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine and the right of return and all Palestinian principles is a perfect example, so they assassinated him."

I have seen examples of Erakat saying in Arabic that Israel assassinated Arafat, but never in English - because he knows that any Western diplomat would laugh him out of the room.

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