Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the PLO's Executive Committee, is describing the Palestinian issue as "a clear Arab and Islamic issue," while stressing that "we have not authorized and will never authorize anyone to conduct negotiations on our behalf and in the name of the Palestinian people as our decision is independent and free.”
Erekat accused the US administration of being biased in favor of Israel in its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, remove the issue of “Palestinian refugees” from the negotiating table, legitimize settlements, not recognize the two-state solution, and to define Palestinian self-defense as "terrorism."
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