Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians’ chief peace negotiator, urged visiting American Jewish leaders to help revive the stalled peace talks by passing a message on to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Send him this message on my behalf,” Erekat said in an impassioned speech to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. “The Palestinian people are not your enemies, and they should not be portrayed as the enemy.”
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