UPDATE: Erekat has reportedly died.
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The hypocrisy of the Palestinian Arabs knows no bounds. They accuse Israelis of every possible atrocity – raping, mutilating, murdering innocent Arabs, as well as “harvesting the organs” of “Palestinian martyrs” that are to be transplanted into Israelis. The Israelis are even accused of conducing unspecified “medical experiments” on Palestinian prisoners, no doubt inspired by the example of Dr. Josef Mengele. After all, weren’t the Zionists close collaborators with the Nazis?
Yet when it comes to their own well-being, Palestinian leaders show what they really believe, for they seek medical treatment from Israeli doctors, in Israeli hospitals – despite denouncing Israelis for committing all sorts of atrocities. Several years ago, Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, just weeks after he had been denouncing the Israelis, during the Gaza war, as the spawn of Satan, had his daughter brought to the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv for treatment of a serious medical condition. Apparently, while being treated by Palestinian medical personnel, she had suffered complications from a routine procedure. Her father knew what he had to do: bring her to the raping, murdering, organ-harvesting Israelis, whom he could be sure would give her the best medical attention. And so they did. After a week she was discharged, fully recovered. No thanks, public or private, came from Ismail Haniyeh, who resumed denouncing Israel for its many atrocities. Nor from any other Palestinian. But does anyone doubt that if another of Haniyeh’s thirteen children became seriously ill, that he would hesitate for a minute before taking any of them to an Israeli hospital?
Saeb Erekat has just been rushed to Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. He had been treated at his home, near Jericho, for COVID-19, but his condition worsened. He, and his Palestinian doctors, knew that they had to entrust his life to Israeli doctors who – despite being rapists, murderers, harvesters of organs, etc. – would do their utmost to save him. The story is here:
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Israel on Sunday for treatment of a worsening case of COVID-19, the Palestine Liberation Organization said.
Witnesses said Erekat, 65, was on a stretcher when he was placed inside an Israeli ambulance outside his home in Jericho. Erekat, who is also secretary general of the PLO, disclosed on Oct. 8 that he had contracted coronavirus.
There is heightened concern over Erekat’s vulnerability to the illness because he underwent a lung transplant in the United States in 2017.
Following his contraction of COVID-19, and due to the chronic health problems he faces in the respiratory system, Dr. Erekat’s condition now requires medical attention in a hospital,” the PLO’s Negotiations Affairs Department said in a statement….
Note that the PLO statement makes no mention of the hospital he is going to, so some may be fooled into thinking Erekat will be at a Palestinian hospital, of which there are several among which he might have chosen, but he sensibly preferred instead to entrust himself to the Israelis. Assuming his treatment is successful, from now on, whenever he starts slandering the Israelis as “murderers” and “war criminals,” he should be reminded of his telling vote of confidence in Israeli medicine and Israeli doctors.
His is a worrisome case. He is 65. He had a mild heart attack in 2014, and also had a lung transplant in 2017, in an American hospital. He is thus immunocompromised. The Israelis know that if he should die of COVID-19 while in their care, they will be denounced by the PA as having deliberately murdered Erekat. And if they save his life, against the odds, there will be no public recognition or expression of gratitude from any of the Palestinians, including Erekat himself. They could have refused to take him. They chose instead to help.
For decades, Saeb Erekat has been a suave sower of taqiyya who, like his two bosses Yassir Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, has accused Israel of every possible crime. Just recently his nephew, Ahmed Erekat, waiting in line in his car at an Israeli checkpoint in Jerusalem, suddenly stepped on the gas full throttle and swerved his car to aim directly at the Israeli soldiers. He plowed into them, knocking one of them, a girl, into the air. He then stepped out of his car, and – the Israelis fearing he might be armed or have an explosive with him — was shot dead. One can see clearly on the video of the event that he deliberately sped up and swerved his car so as to ram the soldiers. That did not stop Saeb Erekat from denouncing the Israelis for what he described as the deliberate murder of his nephew, an innocent Palestinian who was only in a rush to do errands for his sister, who was getting married the next day – that would explain, apparently, why he suddenly stepped on the gas. Erekat said nothing about his nephew suddenly swerving his car into the soldiers; nor did he mention Ahmad Erekat’s video, which he had made the day before, in which, in an agitated state, he denies being an agent of Israel, as he had apparently been accused of being. What better way to prove one’s true-blue loyalty to the Palestinian cause than to kill some Israelis?
A few months later, Erekat has entrusted his life to these Israelis, the people whom he accused of “murdering in cold blood” his nephew, and of being been guilty of an “execution.” This is par for his hypocritical course. When in January there was an uptick in Palestinian attacks on Israelis, Erekat blamed the Jews for their “apartheid” (there isn’t any) and “annexation” (there hasn’t been any).
Let’s remind the world of what Saeb Erekat has said about Israel. It was Erekat who first accused Israel of “massacring 500 Palestinians” in Jenin in 2002. There was no such massacre. It turned out that in Jenin that Israeli soldiers had to fight terrorists house to house, avoiding booby-trapped doors, and floors, and fighters hiding among civilians, and shooting at Israelis from behind those civilians.
Here are some of the remarks collected by the late Charles Krauthammer about the so-called “Jenin massacre” that Erekat brought to the world:
“Jenin Camp Is a Scene of Devastation But Yields No Evidence of a Massacre.” The Washington Post, April 16.
“There is simply no evidence of a massacre.”– Peter Bouckaert, senior researcher, Human Rights Watch, Jenin. Jerusalem Post, April 28.
“Holley told Agence France-Presse that he did not see ‘any evidence of a massacre. The Israeli army was fighting against some desperate [Palestinian] fighters here.'” — Agence France-Presse, quoting Maj. David Holley, British military adviser to Amnesty International, April 28.
The “Jenin massacre” is more than a fiction. It is a hoax. “Palestinian Authority allegations,” reported the Boston Globe (April 29), “. . . appear to be crumbling under the weight of eyewitness accounts from Palestinian fighters who participated in the battle and camp residents who remained in their homes until the final hours of the fighting. . . . All said they were allowed to surrender or evacuate.”
Erekat, the first Palestinian official to publicly charge the Israelis with that non-existent Jenin massacre, has had 18 years in which to correct the record. He has never done so.
Erekat has also described Israel as having “an apartheid regime worse than that of South Africa.” He had nothing to say when offered such contradictory evidence as those Israeli Arabs who serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, go abroad as diplomats. He has said nothing when others have pointed out that Israeli Arabs study with Jews in universities,work side-by-side with Jews in offices, factories, and farms, play with Jews in orchestras and on sports teams. For Erekat, despite that mountain of evidence, Israel remains an “apartheid regime worse than South Africa.”
Erekat frequently accuses Israel of “war crimes,” Israel’s handling of the Gaza flotilla was, for him, one such “war crime.”
He also described as a “war crime” the death of a Palestinian woman which, he said, was the result of her inhaling tear gas. The IDF said there was no evidence the tear gas had caused her death. It had not been fired at her, or landed close to her, and she had already had a history of severe health problems, to which she apparently succumbed. You can choose to believe a serial liar, Saeb Erekat, and his “war crime” charge, or to believe the IDF, which is a serial truth-teller (and does not hesitate to accept blame when such blame is called for). I’m for trusting the IDF.
The next time Erekat denounces Israel as a monstrous regime of pure evil, I hope the Western reporters who transmit his every absurd claim will have the decency to remind their audiences, that Erekat chose to be treated at an Israeli rather than a Palestinian hospital, and that he owes his very life – as do many thousands of Palestinians – to the skillful ministrations of the staff at Hadassah Hospital.
Buraq says
From what I understand, it’s ‘game over’ for him. Saeb Erekat is one of those ‘underlying problems’ cases. Anyway, it’s the will of Allah if he dies. He’s toast!
Phil Copson says
Hugh misses out one point in the calculation being made by the Palestinian-Arab leaders: if the Israelis cure them, then Erekat, Haniyeh etc benefit personally. And if they die, then the PA can blame their deaths on the Israelis – so far as they are concerned, it’s a Win:Win situation with somebody always there to save them plus somebody always there to blame.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Dear Mr. Copson, here’a.paragraph from the piece:
“His is a worrisome case. He is 65. He had a mild heart attack in 2014, and also had a lung transplant in 2017, in an American hospital. He is thus immunocompromised. The Israelis know that if he should die of COVID-19 while in their care, they will be denounced by the PA as having deliberately murdered Erekat. And if they save his life, against the odds, there will be no public recognition or expression of gratitude from any of the Palestinians, including Erekat himself. They could have refused to take him. They chose instead to help.
gravenimage says
Phil, Hugh Fitzgerald–as he notes here–misses very little.
Notice, too, that Erekat was previously treated at an American hospital–oddly, more “filthy Infidels”
maria says
Thanks God almighty the mass murderer, nazi supporter Erekat is dead.
garry pollack says
one or both parties needs psycho-analysis
Diane Harvey says
“He [Saeb Erekat] had been treated at his home, near Jericho, for COVID-19, but his condition worsened.”
Drinking camel piss will do that.
maria says
Yes excellent”cure” for muslim creatures
jewdog says
I like how Harvard has offered Saeb Erekat a teaching position. That figures. I hope he croaks before he starts the job so we can harvest his organs.
gravenimage says
Yes–yet more calumny against the Israelis.
Walter Sieruk says
That “Palestinian” official who came down with COVID -19 should point his finger of blame to the god of Islam, his god, Allah for him being infected with that awful virus .Likewise, his Muslim brothers who may have also been infected with coronavirus should blame Allah for their sickness.
This is because by the reading from the Quran it’s very obvious Allah is responsible for that starting and continuing the plague of coronavirus
What a cruel and vicious god, Allah is.
For when getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .
This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
Nevertheless, all Christians and Jews shout not lose faith and heart in the God of the Bible as vicious by sending coronavirus on people.
This is because the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “
Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible. The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi
Rarely says
There is (and can only be) ONE God Almighty BY DEFINITION.
What one wishes to call that God and what characteristics one wishes to attribute to that God is irrelevant. One cannot change the attributes of the Almighty by doing so.
What attributes muslims credit allah with having and what attributes Christians believe God has do not change what attributes God Almighty actually has.
One attribute God certainly has is a sense of humour watching people argue about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin (is it a standard sized pin?).
gravenimage says
Rarely, you *do* know that this is a canard, don’t you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_many_angels_can_dance_on_the_head_of_a_pin
Rarely says
gi.
FYI. Just a touch of sarcasm.
Linde Barrera says
To Walter-I love your comments because they are scholarly and correct, but not politically correct!
In the movie “The Wizard of Oz” there is a memorable song entitled “Ding-Dong the Witch Is Dead”, about a wicked witch who is no longer around to plot evil deeds against innocent people.
I think this song should be used to
categorize Saeb Erekat and his ilk for the propaganda they put forth about Israelis and also Palestinians who do not want to join in jihad.
Rarely says
He probably sees being treated by Israeli doctors at an Israeli hospital as an entitlement and not the generous humane act that it is. Consequently, to him it changes nothing.
Bulldog says
You are absolutely correct, he has spent a lifetime of dining at the table of entitlement, just look at the gut on him!
gravenimage says
Saeb Erekat Rushed to Hadassah Hospital
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Yes–if these Muslims *really* believed their calumny against the Jews, they would be terrified to set foot in an Israeli hospital. But they know they will receive both excellent and compassionate care there.
L Mayor says
In this instance, I was rooting for the Covid-19.
RichardL says
there is no covid. There was a flu going around like every year. The same number and the same people as every year died this year. Compared to 2017/8 fewer people died.
Rarely says
Hoping Santa Claus doesn’t catch it are you?
Walter Sieruk says
That this “Palestinian” official, Saeb Erkat is now dead from w COVID -19 Muslim should should point his finger of blame to the god of Islam, his god, Allah for him being infected with that awful virus .Likewise, his Muslim brothers who may have also been infected with coronavirus should blame Allah for their sickness.
This is because by the reading from the Quran it’s very obvious Allah is responsible for that starting and continuing the plague of coronavirus
What a cruel and vicious god, Allah is.
For when getting down to basic Quran theology which is the Quran based worldview the one who is really to blame and is responsible for the coronavirus plague is the god of Islam ,Allah. For according to the Quran Allah had sent cruel disaster of coronavirus on human beings .
This means then the god of Islam, as if he really does is a destructive and malicious god. For the Quran teaches in Surah 57:22. “No misfortune [disaster] can happen on earth or in your souls but is recorded in a decree [Quran ] before [in eternity ] We [Allah] bring it into existence: that is easy for Allah.”
Therefore according the Islam’s “holy book,” the Quran the Islamic god, Allah, is guilty of infecting people with coronavirus What a cruel vicious, malicious god Allah must be. So Allah is than a very unloving malice –filled god.
Nevertheless, all Christians and Jews shout not lose faith and heart in the God of the Bible as vicious by sending coronavirus on people.
This is because the god of Islam is should be made clear that the God of the Bible is not really Allah the god of Islam. To explain, through the passing of time it has become widely accepted that the word “Allah” is just the Arabic word for God. This started when truth compromising Bible “translators” substituted the word Allah where the word God should have had been uses in the Arabic translation of the Bible. Furthermore, in the glossary in the book ASSASSINS! By Dr. Haha Lung it defines Allah as the “Pre-Islamic Lunar god : the god of Islam. “
Likewise, in the book entitled INSIDE ISLAM by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Reza F. Safa on pages 22, 23 it reads “In pre-Islamic times both Allah –worship and Baal-worship involved the worship of the sun, the moon and the stars which h defines them as astral religions. [Which are condemned in the Bible, Second Kings 23:5] The crescent moon, which was the symbol of moon worship, is also the symbol of Islam.”
In conclusion the Islamic god, Allah, is not the God of the Bible. The words in brackets are my own. In addition other some other books that expose this little known truths are WHO IS THIS ALLAH ? by G..J.O.. Moshay also UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet Caner and Emir Fethi Caner and THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey . There is also PHILISTINE by Ramon Bennett and ANSWERING JIHAD by Mabeel Qureshi