Word: erakat
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...either settlements or peace. Both cannot go together." Saeb Erakat, ex-Palestinian chief negotiator, on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's statement that dismantling Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, as stipulated in the "road map to peace," was not "on the horizon right...
...RESIGNED. SAEB ERAKAT, 48, Palestinian negotiation minister, from the Palestinian Cabinet. Erakat, who has led the Palestinian side in negotiations with Israel for almost a decade, tendered his resignation to Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas after being left off a negotiating team scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to discuss the U.S.-backed road map to peace...
...more violence, raising paint-dipped hands." Instead, our caption should have more precisely explained the situation shown in the photograph: "Israeli right-wing student activists hold up their hands, painted in red as a symbol of bloodshed, at a demonstration supporting the cancellation of chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat's lecture at the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem...
...arrest Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists. In Gaza's Zeitoun neighborhood, police put Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin under house arrest and then had to deal with two days of riots. One young Hamas supporter died from a wound sustained in a clash with Palestinian police. Says Saeb Erakat, Arafat's chief peace negotiator: "Sharon is tying Arafat's hands and legs and blindfolding him. Then he's pushing him into the sea and telling the whole world, 'Look, he can't swim, so he's not a partner...
...administrative rights--over the adjacent Western Wall, the Jewish cemetery on the nearby Mount of Olives and the ancient City of David in the nearby Arab village of Silwan. But the Palestinians refused to discuss Israeli sovereignty over the land beneath the Haram. "This is the main sticking point," Erakat says. "We cannot give them that. Period...