Kushner’s aims to “create a generation of Arab Zionists” says Erekat, claiming that “the American administration has worked to intimidate [the Arab states]"
Headline: “Erekat: They will not find one Palestinian who will relinquish his national rights; the leadership is in the crosshairs”
During a press conference that was held yesterday [Sept. 13, 2020] via the [video conferencing application] Zoom, Erekat said that they will not find one Palestinian who will relinquish his national rights, and that the State of Palestine has worked more than anyone else for peace.
We are witness today to the birth of military alliances that Israel is leading. The normalization decisions are not sovereign decisions, because these states are obligated to [abide by] the decisions of the Arab League, the Council (sic., Organization) of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). This [normalization] step does not serve the Arab or Islamic interests in any way.’
The PLO Executive Committee secretary noted that the American administration has worked to intimidate [the Arab states], and that the agreement is an official announcement by the UAE and Bahrain of their agreement to ‘the deal of the century’ (i.e., refers to US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan). He added that they both agreed that the Al-Aqsa Mosque will be under the sovereignty of the Israeli occupation state, and explained that states that agree to Israeli sovereignty over the Al-Aqsa Mosque deny the Al-Isra Sura (i.e., Sura 17 of the Quran, which discusses the Night Journey of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad to “al aqsa mosque”; see note below)…
He condemned the voices that are ignoring the Palestinian right, and said that this constitutes a success of [Senior US Presidential Advisor Jared] Kushner’s policy: creating a generation of Arab Zionists.”
Israeli peace agreements with the UAE and Bahrain
Al-Aqsa Mosque – Islam's Prophet Muhammad is said to have ridden during a Night Journey from Mecca to "al aqsa mosque", i.e., "the farthest mosque" (Quran, Sura 17). Five years after Muhammad's death in 632, Jerusalem was conquered by Islamic forces, and in the year 705, Muslim Umayyad leader Abd Al-Malik built a mosque in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount. The mosque was subsequently named the Al-Aqsa Mosque, to identify it as the mosque mentioned in the Quran, thus giving significance to Jerusalem in Islam as a place visited once by Muhammad.