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Saeb Erekat Can’t Stop Spinning

There’s a perverse pleasure watching Saeb Erekat, Big Media’s favorite liar, spinning his resignation from the Palestinian negotiating team. He now claims he quit because PaliLeaks happened on his watch. Not because of the substance of…

Pesach Benson
February 16, 2011
12:00 am

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There’s a perverse pleasure watching Saeb Erekat, Big Media’s favorite liar, spinning his resignation from the Palestinian negotiating team.

He now claims he quit because PaliLeaks happened on his watch.

Not because of the substance of the documents, or because his life’s in danger.

His resignation — he wants you to believe — has nothing to do with spreading Arab demands for democracy and accountability, demands which have Palestinian officials in Ramallah and Gaza City walking on eggshells.

How noble.

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Tags: israel, palestinians, PaliLeaks, Peace Process, Saeb Erekat

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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