it's talking. 29 years after declaring israel and the illegal state the palestine liberation organization has decided to recognize israel's right to exist peacefully after decades of calling the p.l.o. a terrorist organization israel finally recognizes the p.l.o. as the legitimate representative of the palestinian people given the history of the palestinians and the israelis which is a goal so much of the rest of the world. you know we're staggering. the last minute negotiations went on for a day and a half. but when the norwegian mediator arrived in jonah's he said he had the historic documents of recognition in his back. sassed wasn't his doing he said modestly but belong to israeli prime minister rabin of p.l.o. chairman arafat in the one page letter from arafat to rabin the p.l.o. recognize the right of the state of israel to exist in peace and security in his return letter to arafat rabin says that in view of those commitments the government of israel has decided to recognize the p.l.o. as the representative of the palestinian people. i want. this is the day i never expect to see the

in news from the middle east, saeb erekat, the secretary general of the palestine liberation organization, has died at 65 after he became infected with covid-19. erekat was a key palestinian negotiator involved in peace talks for over three decades. he famously showed up at the 1991 madrid conference proudly aring a keffiyeh, a symbol of palestinian nationalism. he stood in staunch opposition to trump's middle east plan, which he called the fraud of the century and condemned recent agreements normalizing relations between israel and gulf nations. this is saeb erekat speaking in 2018. have palestinians, we defined their interest as no one benefits from achieving more than as an nobody stands to lose more. amy: erekat is survived by his wife, four children, and eight grandchildren. back in washington, d.c., president trump has fired defense secretary mark esper. this comes months after esper clashed with trump by opposing the deployment of active duty troops to respond to the nationwide protests sparked by the police killing of george floyd. on monday, trump announced christopher miller, th

ladies and gentlemen mr arafat chairman of the expected council of palestine liberation organization is excellent see you sir for being prime minister of israel the president of the united states. it's hard you didn't want to come to washington who says that i. don't want to say out of time but i'm not convinced him to stand up to thought of how it was screened and as you saw the truth of the truth of the well was by force. finally you type show the hands for 5 it don't turn me into service now i see you you. could say you went through the hell now i have to go through so as we heard it before and why do you think. because there was a guy who's the beer law because it is how it wasn't there because you saw him out of it or is but you know i cannot change the past or family about it finally it's hard said it's going to make beers with your enemies not at their friends to everybody. easy season and the dying to mean there's. been a time to be bold and it's time to die die. and it time to again die a week. dying to laugh it ain't to love and it trying to arrange a die and fall of war an

liberation organization known to all as the p.l.o. . join us fighting shoulder to shoulder with the palestinian revolution against the zionist enemy palestine all of palestine is various arab arab arab. the p.l.o. was a terrorist organization led by. a man many israelis considered hitler successor. arafat's believed in armed struggle fighting for palestinian freedom he took pride in the slaughter of the athletes at the munich olympics opening fire on school children in. and planting deadly bombs all over israel. the problem was arafat's was the only one palestinians looked up to he had the final say in only goshi actions but israel refused to talk to him. on the american i'm against a palestinian state run by the p.l.o. shelby's out of the question no negotiations with the reality of vision by the locals will be most. 9 months before rabin had been elected to lead israel on a platform of peace and security. but as the months went by he delivered neither. with terror attacks on the rise in the peace process deadlocked the right wing opposition threatened to overrun him before he even completed his 1st year. in a desperate attempt to renew th

increasingly active role in the palestinian uprising carried the outlawed flag of the palestine liberation organization i told you these radio soldiers. most. of the cool. to me. and none of them at home who were huddling in tent as i was a. same can on the horizon know enough about what i'm up to how to read or know you can tell the walked on and what the f. you want a lot of them and that to know when i can not stop but in the cabin to the stuff in the stomach. so you just firing tear gas into the crowd to break up the march. there were no no i'm gonna eat that now what we want to believe that the. new young leadership of palestinians have begun a series of nonviolent strike to bring the economy to a mean. of the large keep the go on strike when the shots are supposed to blow up was closed. before the end of the entry from the state that you have to close a piece of paper they send it to the wall not the people here so. you are not 5 paid by reporters or. any visit to ramallah bethleham or east jerusalem these days reveals a uniform general strike by palestinian shopkeepers. camera ok i didn't know w

chief negotiator of the palestine liberation organization has reportedly died after being hospitalizedith covid-19 last month. saeb erekat was in critical condition and had received general anesthesia as well as ventilation. he tested positive for covid-19 just a month ago and was considered at high risk because of a lung transplant he received back in 2017. so let's go back to jerusalem and on the line, we have elliot godkin, elliot, we were talking about the legacy of saeb erekat, so many of us have spoken to him over the years as he has tried to forge peace in the middle east. it unfortunately remained elusive for us. but talk about his legacy, what he achieved throughout his life, and his thoughts maybe toward the end if we're even aware of them. >> there was obviously during the course of his being, you know, for the palestinians, close to the founder of mahmoud abad, you know there was obviously huge changes that took place, the recognition of the state of israel and its right to exist. negotiations obviously gave a lot of hope which were ultimately left unfulfilled. obviously th

was for in secretary general of the palestinian national initiative and member of the palestine liberation organization. central council joins me now via skype from ramallah. good to speak to you again, sir. some palestinian leaders like one another. sure. we have said words to the effect that sort of pompei is insignificant and should just go home. i presume you have a similar sentiment 19 countries doing it is very significant because max himself, mr. brown, after lot of crime, a lot of crime of atonement and work. and i'm often accented to do that. is it by force reality. and this is the meaning of this visit to a good in the heart of the west bank and the golan heights. but more than that, his declaration that the products of so products is there and means he is receiving good and yeah. and the implementation of the silk want to deal with the sin city, which is that an extension of the west bank. this is the letting their next edition of the occupied get into this. and as such, i think this is a very dangerous matter. and in addition to the fact that he's praying to what obstacles in front of biden