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Saeb Erekat

Saeb Erakat (Sa'ib Muhammad Salih 'Urayqat. Template:Lang-ar, born 1955) was the chief of the PLO "Steering and Monitoring" Committee, from which he negotiated with Israel regarding the Oslo Accords from 1995 until his May 2003 resignation in protest from the quasi-self-governing West Bank and Gaza administraion body popularly known by the term "Palestinian government". He was quickly reconciled with his party, and was reappointed to the post in September 2003.

Erekat has attended numerous peace negotiations with Israel, including Camp David meetings in 2000, and negotiations at Taba in 2001. When Mahmoud Abbas was nominated to serve as Prime Minister of the "Palestinian Legislative Council" in early 2003, Erekat was slated to be part of the new cabinet and was assigned as the "Minister of Negotiations", but he soon resigned after he was snubbed by being excluded from a delegation to meet with the then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Saeb Erekat was born on April 28 1955 in Jerusalem. He is married with twin daughters and two sons. Erekat received an honorary BA and MA in International Relations at San Francisco State University, and he received an honorary doctorate in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in England. He returned to lecture in Political Science at the An-Najah National University in the West Bank town of Nablus, and also served for 12 years on the editorial board of Arab newspaper Al-Quds. Erekat is the author of eight books and numerous research papers on foreign policy, oil and conflict resolution. He also served as secretary general of the Arab Studies Society.

Saeb Erekat is currently part of the Israeli-Fatah negotiations team. He has appeared on television as a representative for "Palestinians", including during Operation Defensive Shield when, as a piece of deliberate anti-Israel propaganda, he claimed vastly overestimated Arab death tolls which were subsequently shown to be without factual merit.

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References

  1. Profile: Saeb Erakat BBC News, 4 September 2003
  2. Q & A with Saeb Erekat Jerusalem Post, 1 February 2005
  3. TNR Online: Bad Information, the Lesson of Jenin by IDF Capt. Jacob Dallal (res), former Deputy Director of the International Press Office of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. Mirrored with permission by Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Committee website.

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