Word: nusseibeh
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...This is no longer an intifadeh," Nusseibeh says. "It?s a convulsion of violence, not a popular movement. There needs to be a rekindling of rational debate, even more so after the attacks in America...
...brought the rage of the West Bank and Gaza to a city whose Palestinian neighborhoods have escaped the worst ravages of the year-long Aqsa intifadeh. The tough Israeli response to the murder pushed Palestinian leaders into further bloodthirsty statements that can only perpetuate the cycle of violence. Sari Nusseibeh is one of the few leading Palestinians still prepared to buck the growing extremism and to urge a rejection of the hatred and vengeance that have engulfed the region this past year...
Since the death in July of Faisal Husseini, the revered Palestinian figurehead of East Jerusalem, Nusseibeh has gradually assumed that leadership role. The scion of a family that came to Jerusalem with the Caliph Omar 1,300 years ago, Nusseibeh, 52, stands out among the city?s remaining political leaders. He carries intellectual heft as the head of Al-Quds University and wields political clout as the organizer of Jerusalem?s 1987-93 intifadeh, which helped spur Israeli leaders to negotiate with the Palestinians. Nusseibeh is using his position to push a dovish line at a time when extremists have...
...Though Nusseibeh says he is not trying to take over directly from Husseini, two weeks ago Yasser Arafat appointed him head of a new council for East Jerusalem?s 260,000 Palestinian residents. Nusseibeh hopes it will link them more strongly to Arafat?s Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank while also smoothing relations with Israel. He intends that council members join with bureaucrats from Arafat?s ministries to allocate P.A. money to the city?s hospitals, schools and services, which are currently funded piecemeal by Israel and private charities. But he also argues that the council would have...
...that gives weight to the rejectionists' argument that the peace Arafat made with Israel is a bad deal that should be overturned. If this becomes the majority opinion, suggests Sari Nusseibeh, a prominent P.L.O. figure in Jerusalem, "the members of the Authority might just get so depressed that they'll decide it's not worth it, that it makes more sense to say to the people, 'All right, go back to the Israeli occupation.' " An aide to Arafat relates that in a recent conversation, the P.L.O. leader himself talked of the possibility of dismantling his self-rule administration and quitting...