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Al Quds University University President Sari Nussibeh's' militant moderation'

March 28, 2004

The False face of moderation : Al Quds University President and PA lackey :

Sari Nussibeh was personally appointed by Yasser Arafat to head Al Quds University, a division of the Palestinian Authority.

Oct. 18, 2001 --" Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al Quds University in Jerusalem, has long been considered one of the leading intellectuals among Palestinians, and one of the most impassioned advocates for a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Israel and the occupied territories.

He was recently appointed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to be the top Palestinian politician in Jerusalem. In that post, Nusseibeh hopes that he can inject a spirit of moderation and dialogue into a tattered peace process.

Nusseibeh has critics and fans among both Palestinians and Jews because he has been equally critical of both sides for escalating the violence in the Middle East. His speeches rail against the atmosphere of retribution and hatred that he says perpetuates the war - mostly at the expense of Palestinians. He also called the current Palestinian uprising a "convulsion" and not a revolt".

Dr. Sari Nuseibeh

"Head and founder of the Palestinian Consultancy Group (PCG), Jerusalem, and, since 1995, President of Al-Quds University: Ph.D. in Philosophy, Harvard University (1978); co-founder and member of several Palestinian institution including the Jerusalem Friends of the Sick Society, the Federation of Employees in the Education Sector in the West Bank, the Arab Council for Public Affairs, the Committee Confronting the Iron Fist, and the Jerusalem Arab Council; formerly Professor at Birzeit University (1978-1990), President of the Birzeit Teacher's Association (1979-1980), co-founder and President of the Union of Faculty and staff at Bir Zeit University, member of the Steering Committee of the Delegation to the Peace Talks, and head of both the bilateral and multilateral technical committees".

Publications include numerous articles and, with Mark Heller, No Trumpets, No Drums: A Two-State Solution of the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict, New York:

PA and HAMAS -Zero degrees of Seperation 3/28/04

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12721

Frontpage Magazine article by David Bedein shows that Hamas and the PA are coordinating terror attacks.

"Israel's killing of Hamas "spiritual" leader Ahmed Yassin last week has given rise to a lot of media mythmaking. One of those myths is that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority played no role in Hamas. The common assumption is that the PA and the PLO, both under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, was simply not involved with Yassin or Hamas. In point of fact, Arafat's PA has absorbed Hamas, coordinating terrorist strikes with Hamas leadership"...

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Everyone employed by the Palestinian Authority is connected to Yasser Arafat and terrorism. The fact that Sari Nussibeh heads of Al Quds University a Hamas / Fatah stronghold which boasts a shrine to a "Fatah martyr" and such alumni as documented Hamas activist Mustafa Abu Sway and jailed Hamas leader Hasan Yousef ,(see Hamas communique on Abu Sway blog entry) , is irrefutable evidence that his moderation is just a pretense.

After all, Yasser Arafat himself shook hands with Yitzchak Rabin for expediency and American money. Sari Nussibeh's supporters gush he sat down with Israeli security official Alon and hammered out a' peace' plan. They point out that he made himself enemies who object to his 'moderate' stance . The terrorist fight on two fronts, and know that they need people like Nussibeh to for the PR campaign , PA plays the bespectacled Harvard educated 'Palestinian' moderate in his university office for the media voicing his outrage at having been raided by the IDF in an anti terror operation, while his boss and paymaster, 'Palestinian Authority' chief Yasser Arafat, dispatches snipers and suicide bombers from the rubble of his compound down the road in Ramallah. BR

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More Evidence: PA Officials Direct & Fund Terrorism
12:55 Mar 30, '04
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=60297
"Terrorist multi-tasking in Shechem: A senior Fatah terrorist commander, who was simultaneously serving as an officer in the Palestinian Authority's uniformed militia, admitted this month that his activities were directed and guided by PA officials...

....The PA officials named by the Fatah commander are former PA Minister and current PA Legislative Council member Abdul Fatah Khamil, senior Fatah member Hasin Al-Sheikh, and Hosam Shahin, who - prior to his arrest by Israel - had been appointed by Jibril Rajoub to liaise with various terrorists and supervise the transfer of funds.

The Fatah terrorist, Raad Mansour, was arrested along with his son Dia Mansour by General Security Services (GSS) and the IDF on February 12, 2004. As noted, Raad Mansour was an officer in the PA Police and a senior commander of "Black Arms", a branch of PLO leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization responsible for several shooting, bombing and suicide-bombing attacks. Mansour and his son operated from the village of Kalil, near Shechem. It arises from the investigation of the Mansours that they were also involved with Hizbullah handlers in Lebanon. Raad Mansour has admitted to being involved in the recruitment of terrorists, as well as the financing, arming and direction of terrorist attacks".

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. SUICIDE BOMBINGS COUNTER TO ARAB INTERESTS?

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed (Abu Ala) Qurei told PA officials at a meeting yesterday in Ramallah that suicide bombings are contrary to Arab interests. 66% of PA Arabs disagree. Abu Ala said that such attacks turn the international community against the PA and damage the local economy. They also serve as "excuses to continue the comprehensive aggression and impose collective punishments, including... the road blocks and incursions, which cause daily harm to the dignity of hundreds of thousand of innocent Palestinian citizens, especially children, women and the elderly." Earlier this week, however, the controlling organization in the PA, Fatah headed by Yasser Arafat, reaffirmed its commitment to terrorism against Israelis. In a communique issued by Fatah's Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the terrorists declared, "There is no option but resistance, jihad and martyrdom to force the Israeli occupation to abandon the territories and to allow the return of the refugees [to Israel]." Also in contrast to the public remarks by PA leader Abu Ala, the Arab population of Judea, Samaria and Gaza sees terrorism as an effective means of obtaining their national goals. According to a recent poll carried out by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, two-thirds of the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza believe that Prime Minister Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza is a victory for the "armed struggle" against Israel. A majority of PA Arabs, 53 percent, support terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. The poll was carried out March 14-17 among 1,320 Arab respondents in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. A



The real face of Sari Nussibeh:

On the Arab TV channel Al-Jazeera, Nusseibeh appeared with Khaled Mash'al, a Hamas leader, and Umm Nidal. She is the woman who appeared in a video proudly sending her son to become a "martyr" in a suicide attack

At that time, Nusseibeh made it plain that the statement expressed objections only to military operations against civilians within Israel.

He said, "There is no life under occupation, and most of the Palestinian people is very much prepared to martyr itself to achieve liberty and independence and to restore its honor. I agree to this."

He called "martyrdom operations" a form of resistance and emphasized that the statement didn't condemn them.

Referring to Umm Nidal's pride in and justification of her son's suicide bombing, in which he killed 10 Israelis, Nusseibeh said, "All respect is due to this mother.

"It is due to every Palestinian mother and every female Palestinian who is a jihad fighter on this land."

MODERATION" IN CONTEXT :" Hamas's "internal" leadership led mainly by Yassin and Abdel Aziz al Rantisi in Gaza appears relatively moderate only when compared to the "external" leadership based primarily in Damascus, including Khalid Mishal", who is now the second in command of Hamas together with Rantisi in Gaza ....

http://www.the-idler.com/IDLER-02/7-20a.html

So who is Sari Nusseibeh?

He landed in international attention more than ever when Israel recently closed his office -- where he serves as president of Al-Quds University in eastern Jerusalem.

Nusseibeh, 55, totes an Oxford degree. He wears neatly tailored suits. He speaks in measured tones. With his salt-and-pepper, thick, unruly hair and his out-sized glasses, he is disarmingly attractive. He looks like Harry Potter as a grandfather.

The top representative in Jerusalem of the Palestinian Authority (that means, Yasser Arafat chose him), Nusseibeh made headlines last winter when he said that Israel shouldn't be forced to accept Palestinian "refugees."

Speaking as "the good guy," he said they should be absorbed in Palestinian territory.

The "refugees" are the some 700,000 Arabs (they didn't call themselves "Palestinians" then), who fled the area after seven Arab armies invaded Israel the day after it declared independence.

Confined to poverty-stricken camps by their Arab "brothers" for the past 54 years, their numbers have swelled to the millions.

Nusseibeh's statement wasn't all that generous, when he tied with it that Israel should return to its 1949 borders - "the Auschwitz line," Israel's Abba Eban called them.

Arafat's representative also said that Israel was financially responsible for these now millions of "refugees," even though Arabs caused the fighting.

Then, several weeks ago, Nusseibeh made headlines again. He and other Palestinian notables issued a statement that Palestinians should stop killing Israeli civilians.

Another prominent signatory was Hanan Ashrawi. That's bad news right there. Every manipulative word she says is suspect.

The statement didn't say there was anything immoral about killing Israeli civilians - only that killing them was bad for the Palestinian cause.

And it implied that killing Israeli soldiers and Israelis who live over the Green Line may continue unabated.

The website of Middle East Media Research Institute of Washington, D.C., carried Nusseibeh's interview with the Arab-Israeli daily Al-Ittihad, in which he explained the reasons behind the much-publicized statement.

Now Nusseibeh is speaking in Arabic to Arabs.

"We must turn to means that serve our goal - which is to remove the occupation and get rid of its barbaric acts of repression," he said. "We do not think that murdering Israeli civilians serves our just, human goals.

"It turns the well-known murderer who destroys villages, murders children, usurps lands, and banishes people, into a victim who markets himself to the world, seeks support, and justifies his barbaric acts against us.

"Whatever the cruelty of the enemy, who has not a trace of human characteristics, Palestinians must not sacrifice their moral values in addition to their body. We must cling to human, moral values and standards, because our strength lies in our adherence to values and morality."

Here's more: On the Arab TV channel Al-Jazeera, Nusseibeh appeared with Khaled Mash'al, a Hamas leader, and Umm Nidal. She is the woman who appeared in a video proudly sending her son to become a "martyr" in a suicide attack

At that time, Nusseibeh made it plain that the statement expressed objections only to military operations against civilians within Israel.

He said, "There is no life under occupation, and most of the Palestinian people is very much prepared to martyr itself to achieve liberty and independence and to restore its honor. I agree to this."

He called "martyrdom operations" a form of resistance and emphasized that the statement didn't condemn them.

Referring to Umm Nidal's pride in and justification of her son's suicide bombing, in which he killed 10 Israelis, Nusseibeh said, "All respect is due to this mother.

"It is due to every Palestinian mother and every female Palestinian who is a jihad fighter on this land."

On another Arab news site, Nusseibeh noted that the statement "did not address our brothers in the various resistance factions to chastise them, or to condemn them, or depict the resistance as terror, or to de-legitimize it."

He pointed out that none of these words appeared in the statement. "[Our] aim was to convey a message that there is a need to re-examine the benefit of the [martyrdom] operations within Israel in the context of the goals we seek to accomplish."

Do these read like statements of someone who is conciliatory and reasonable? Or perhaps someone who has an agenda that is hidden from Westerners?

Nusseibeh recently told the Israeli newspaper Ha-Aretz that the outbreak of the current intifada resulted from Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism.

It came out long ago that this intifada was being planned long before that, indeed at the time of the aborted Bill Clinton-sponsored peace talks at Camp David. Sharon's visit was the excuse, not the cause.

Nusseibeh also told Ha-Aretz that Israel "was born in sin."

Never mind that the United Nations Assembly divided the land in 1947 into Jewish and Arab areas for two countries to develop side-by-side.

Never mind that some seven Arab countries invaded the new Israeli state in 1948, but had the bad fortune to be beaten.

Nusseibeh, from the Moslem-Arab family that keeps the keys to the Church of the Holly Sepulchre - believed by many to be Jesus' burial site, was a leader of the 1987-1992 intifada. He is a member of Arafat's "cabinet" and replaced the late-Faisal Husseini as PLO representative in Jerusalem.

Israel closed his Al-Quds office on charges that PLO activities go on there. Reason: PLO activities in Jerusalem are forbidden -- by Israeli and Palestinian agreement.

The Israel Defense Forces, police and all relevant Israel security and legal authorities approved the closure.

Two classified documents found in the office so far have been released.

One is an agreement to open criminal investigation courses to train members of the PA's Preventive Security organization.

The other shows a relationship between Al-Quds University and Iran.

Al-Quds students were invited to Teheran University. The Jerusalem university was asked to defray their expenses. The invitation was received via the PA Office of Higher Education.

The PA funded Al-Quds and appointed its board of directors and president. In other words, the PA, a foreign entity, has been operating inside Israel via the university, in blatant disregard for its signed agreement.

But why should this agreement be different to Arafat and his PLO and PA, than any other signed agreement that has been broken?

And now that Israel has closed Nusseibeh's office, he has become a non-self-explosive Moslem martyr.

True to form, the Yossis, Knesset members Yossi Beilin and Yossi Sarid, rushed to their Palestinian friend's aid. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, of course, is wringing his hands over the closure. So is Israeli Defense Minister Benyamin Ben-Eliezar. But then he is running for the Labor Party's leadership, and he has to contend with the Yossi Beilins in his party.

Meanwhile, right now Nusseibeh is counted among the Great White Palestinian Hopes, as far as the West is concerned.

So was the late-Faisal Husseini, another soft-speaking man thought of as someone reasonable and who was much adored by the Israeli left and the West.

But another common thread ties Nusseibeh and Husseini - what they say in English isn't what they say in Arabic.

Shortly before his sudden death last year, the real Husseini came out.

He told other Arabs in Beirut and Egypt that the Oslo Accords were the Trojan horse with which the Palestinians would destroy Israel, that Palestinians' ultimate goal "is the liberation of all historic Palestine."

Arafat is their role model. He says in English that he decries the Palestinian genocide bombings. While in Arabic he calls for thousands of martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

So what is there to conclude, but that what Nusseibeh says in Arabic on Arabic news channels, despite his soft words and reasonable manner, is the real Sari Nusseibeh?

Fooled again.

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