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Aide to PA’s Erekat arrested for spying for Israel
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinian media says man worked for top official for 20 years, confessed upon his arrest 2 weeks agoOne-time aide to top Paleostinian official Saeb Erekat ...negotiated the Oslo Accords with Israel. He has been chief Paleostinian negotiator since 1995. He is currently negotiating with Israel to establish a de jure Paleostinian state... was tossed in the slammer Please don't kill me! recently over suspicions that he spied for Israel, according to Paleostinian media reports Saturday. The reports said the unnamed man had worked for Erekat for 20 years. He was reportedly arrested earlier this month and confessed to the charges. He is currently being held by Paleostinian security forces. Channel 10 news reported that Erekat had confirmed the man's arrest. Erekat is the Paleostinians' former top peace negotiator. He is seen as Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... 's closest aide and favored successor upon the end of his tenure, having displayed unwavering loyalty to the Paleostinian leader. Late last year, Abbas appointed Erekat, 60, as secretary general of the Paleostine Liberation Organization, the same position Abbas once used as a springboard for becoming the main candidate in presidential elections following the death of Yasser Arafat in November 2004. But Erekat is seen by some in Fatah as an outsider, and polls indicate he would do poorly in elections for president of the Paleostinian Authority Posted by: trailing wife 2016-01-17 |
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