Question. What’s so funny about Saeb Erekat’s call for peace, rights and international law? by Adam Levick

For Saeb Erekat, words and lofty, progressive rhetoric don’t have objective meanings. They mean ‘just what he chooses them mean, neither more nor less’.

Adam Levick..
UK Media Watch..
19 January '20..

In a Jan 19th op-ed at the Guardian, Saeb Erekat calls on the EU to recognise a Palestinian state. Perhaps the only elements noteworthy in Erekat’s otherwise predictable, reductive and mono-causal explanation for Palestine’s woes are his word choices: he used the word “peace” eight times, Palestinian “rights” seven times and Israel’s putative violations of “international law” five times.

So, what exactly does Erekat mean by peace, rights and international law?

Well, based on his recent comments on another matter, they don’t appear to mean much at all.

Media Line reported on Jan. 6th about new terms added by the European Union in 2019 which merely “obligate Palestinian institutions to ensure that no beneficiaries of their projects or programs are affiliated with groups listed on the European Union’s terrorist organisations list”.

However, it wasn’t merely representatives of Palestinian NGOs who rejected the requirement.

Saeb Erekat also weighed in.

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