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Israeli doctors battle to save Saeeb Erekat's life

If only hateful hypocrisy were a curable disease

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Melanie Phillips
Oct 18, 2020
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Saeeb Erekat, Ha’aretz conference, 2015

The 65 year-old Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeeb Erekat, is deteriorating so badly from Covid-19 that he has been rushed from his home in the “West Bank” to a hospital in Israel. It is Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem.

That fact is presumably deeply unpalatable to Erekat’s comrades in the Palestine Liberation Organ…

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