RAMALLAH, February 13, 2018 (WAFA) – The Israeli decision to annex the illegal settlements in the West Bank is part of a plan to impose dictates on the Palestinian people that would lead to the establishment of an apartheid state with two regimes, Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee, said on Tuesday.

He said that Palestinian leadership will never accept such steps and will never negotiate Israel‘s war crimes that are supported by the United States.

Erekat told Voice of Palestine radio that the US administration should go back on its decision declaring Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and then seek solutions to resume the political process.

He said the US administration wants to meet with the Palestinian leadership at any price to send a message to the world that they were angry for weeks and then returned to negotiations, after which a Palestinian-Israeli meeting will be set up to resume negotiations to exclude the main issues, including Jerusalem, which will be outside of the negotiations.

Erekat stressed that liquidating the national project will never happen.

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