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The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Longtime chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat recently explained on a TV show why there's never been a land-for-peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians because the Palestinians don't want such a deal. From the interview transcribed at MEMRI: Let me recount two historical events, even if I am revealing a secret. On July 23, [2000], in his meeting with President Arafat in Camp David, President Clinton said: You will be the first president of a Palestinian state, within the 1967 borders give or take, considering the land swap and East Jerusalem will be the ...

Why there will never be a 'land for peace' deal in Israel
Israel Matzav — Why there will never be a 'land for peace' deal in Israel Why will there never be a 'land for peace' deal in Israel? Because the 'Palestinians' don't want one! Here's an interview with 'Palestinian' chief negotiator Saeb Erekat. Let's go to the videotape: And here's the transcript , parts of which I am reproducing below (Hat Tip: ...

Important throwaway lines
Yourish.com — ... refused to take, the officials said. Notice how the Palestinian refusal to accept a Jewish state is qualified as a statement attributed to “officials,” when, as Kershner reported that Palestinian officials have refused to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state. And it’s not a problem with just Hamas, but with the purported “moderates” too. (This is a point made by Martin Peretz, no fan of Lieberman’s in contrast to Saeb Erakat: Let me recount two historical events, even if I ...

Preoccupied with occupation
Yourish.com — ... of Israel’s itself becoming an “occupied territory”–and at the hands of a far less benign power. As Krauss and Pham conclude, the term “occupation” has the effect of forcing Israel to satisfy ever last demand of the Palestinians. As long as Israel is an occupier it is in the wrong and effectively responsible for the violence in the Middle East. Let’s go back to Saeb Erakat’s interview with Al Jazeera last week. Erakat concludes with: They will never have this. Like President Abu Mazen ...

Between Erakat and a hard place
Yourish.com — ... in 1979, he got a teaching job at An-Najah National University at Nablus on the West Bank but soon won a scholarship to a doctoral program at England’s University of Bradford. He settled in at the university’s respected Department of Peace Studies, picking conflict resolution as the subject of his Ph.D. He said it was here that he became convinced that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would end only through peaceful means. (emphasis mine) Erakat’s vision of peace. It is true that the negotiations continued for ...