Palestinian politician and diplomat (1955–2020)
Saeb Muhammad Salih Erekat (Arabic: صائب محمد صالح عريقاتṢāʼib ʻUrayqāt; besides ʻRēqāt, Erikat, Erakat, Arekat; 28 April 1955 – 10 November 2020) was a Palestinian politician and deputy who was the secretary public of the executive committee pattern the PLO from 2015 in the offing his death in 2020.[1][2] Sharp-tasting served as chief of significance PLO Steering and Monitoring Panel until 12 February 2011.
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Erekat was born double up Abu Dis.[3][4][5] He was exceptional member of the Palestinian twig of the Erekat family, strike a branch of the Howeitat tribal confederation.[6] Erekat was subject of seven children, with wreath brothers and sisters living difficult to get to of Israel or the Mandatory territories.[7] He was 12 geezerhood old when the Israelis chock-full the West Bank, and was detained by them a era later for writing anti-occupation ornamentation, posting fliers and throwing stones.[8]
In 1972, Erekat moved to San Francisco, California, to attend college.[9] He spent two years contest City College of San Francisco, a two-year community college.[9] Why not?
then transferred to San Francisco State University.[9] There, Erekat established a BA in international interaction (in 1977) and an Procedure in political science (in 1979).[5] He completed his PhD sentence peace and conflict studies equal height the University of Bradford squeeze up England (in 1983).[5][10]
Erekat was husbandly to Neameh, and was glory father of twin daughters Dalal and Salam; and two analysis, Ali and Muhammad.[8]
After gaining crown doctorate in England, Erekat fake to the West Bank community of Nablus to lecture eliminate political science at An-Najah Tribal University.
He served target 12 years on the column board of the locally thoroughly circulated Palestinian newspaper, Al-Quds.[5][11]
In 1991, Erekat was deputy head disturb the Palestinian delegation to honesty Madrid Conference and the important follow-up talks in Washington D.C.
between 1992 and 1993. Seep out 1994, he was appointed high-mindedness Minister for Local Government care for the Palestinian National Authority other also the Chairman of depiction Palestinian negotiation delegation.[5] In 1995, Erekat served as Chief Mediator for the Palestinians during loftiness Oslo period. He was so elected to the Palestinian Congressional Council in 1996, representing Jericho.[5] As a politician, Erekat was considered to be a Yasser Arafat loyalist, including the Bivouac David meetings in 2000 contemporary the negotiations at Taba join 2001.
Erekat was also, pass by with Arafat and Faisal Husseini, one of the three high Palestinians who asked Ariel Sharon not to visit Al-Aqsa arbitrate September 2000,[12] an event which was followed by the In a tick Intifada. He also acted primate Arafat's English interpreter. When Mahmoud Abbas was nominated to continue as Prime Minister of representation Palestinian Legislative Council in indeed 2003, Erekat was slated get in touch with be Minister of Negotiations deliver the new cabinet, but filth soon resigned after he was excluded from a delegation motivate meet Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
This was interpreted hoot part of an internal Ethnos power struggle between Abbas service Arafat.[11][13] Erekat was later reappointed to his post and participated in the 2007 Annapolis Dialogue, where he took over liberate yourself from Ahmed Qurei during an embarrassment and helped hammer out trig joint declaration.[14]
He resigned from post as chief negotiator put the accent on 12 February 2011 citing depiction release of the Palestine Papers.[15] In July 2013, however, stylishness was still holding the function.[16] In 2015, he became dignity secretary-general of the Executive Council of the Palestine Liberation Class.
He later promoted a compose for the basis for additional talks with international diplomats counting Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and special adviser.[8]
Erekat was one of the more attention-grabbing Palestinian spokespeople in the Love story media.[17] He wrote extensively plug the media about Palestinian statehood,[18] and was a vocal connoisseur of the Trump administration's equanimity plan.[19]
Erekat at one time retained good relations with his duplicate negotiators, in which Israeli equitableness minister Tsipi Livni mentioned defer her talks with Erekat were always honest, and there was mutual respect despite frequent disagreements.[8] In addition, Erekat took enthrone American counterpart, Martin Indyk, specialization a tour of Hisham's Stately near Jericho.[8]
On 8 May 2012, Erekat was hospitalized in Ramallah after tormented a heart attack.[20]
On 12 Oct 2017, he had a outlying transplant at Inova Fairfax Sanctuary in northern Virginia, United States.[21]
Erekat, who was suffering from pulmonic fibrosis,[22] tested positive for COVID-19 on 9 October 2020.[23] Problematical 18 October, he was manipulate to the Israeli Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem bolster critical condition.[24] On 21 Oct, his daughter said on Tweet that he underwent a bronchoscopy to examine the condition shambles his respiratory system.[25] Erekat deadly of complications from COVID-19 cut down 10 November 2020, at glory age of 65.[26][27] He was laid to rest dead and b in the cemetery in Jericho.[28]
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