PLO: Defeating Terrorism requires an end to occupation

During a meeting in Jericho with visiting lawmakers of the Conservative Party in the British House of Commons, Erekat said “defeating extremism and terrorism necessarily requires the overthrow of the Israeli occupation, settlements, and the collective [Israeli] punishments]," WAFA reported.

He reiterated the call for an international peacemaking conference on the basis of international law and the Arab Peace Initiative, but with mandatory mechanisms for implementation within specific timetables.

“It is not possible to continue the pattern of unilateral US patronage [of the peace process]… given its illegal decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,” the PLO Secretary General concluded.