Editing Sari Nusseibeh (section)

==Political activism==
Sari Nusseibeh has long been viewed as a Palestinian moderate. In July 1987, Nusseibeh and [[Faisal Husseini]] met with Moshe Amirav, a member of Israel's [[Likud Party]] becoming the first prominent Palestinians to meet with a member of the Israeli right. Amirav was testing the waters for a group close to then prime minister [[Yitzhak Shamir]] on the possibility of making a historic pact with the [[PLO]] and [[Fatah]].<ref>{{harvnb|Nusseibeh|2009|p=253}}</ref>

After years of working toward the establishment of a functioning Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel, Nusseibeh was by 2011 referring to the two-state solution as a "fantasy".<ref name="Spiegel 2012">{{harvnb|Spiegel|2012}}.</ref> In ''What's A Palestinian State Worth?'' (Harvard University Press, 2011) he called for a "thought experiment" of a single state in which Israel annexed all the territories, and Palestinians would be "second-class citizens" with "civil but not political rights" in which "Jews could run the country while the Arabs could live in it."<ref name="El Moussaoui 2012">{{harvnb|El Moussaoui|2012}}.</ref> This specific suggestion has  been dismissed as "disingenuous".<ref>{{harvnb|Shulman|2012}}.</ref> During this time, Nusseibeh has been speaking of steps toward one version or another of a single-state solution, such as a binational state.<ref name="El Moussaoui 2012"/><ref>{{harvnb|Nusseibeh|2014}}.</ref>

===The First Intifada===
Nusseibeh was also an important leader during the [[First Intifada]], authoring the Palestinian Declaration of Principles<ref>see ''Journal of Palestine Studies'', Vol. 17, No. 3, Spring 1988, p.63–65 for the text of the Declaration of Principles, also known as the Fourteen Demands</ref> and working to strengthen the [[Fatah]] movement in the West Bank; Nusseibeh helped to author the "inside" Palestinians' declaration of independence issued in the First Intifada, and to create the 200 political committees and 28 technical committees that were intended to as an embryonic infrastructure for a future Palestinian administration.

===First Gulf War===
Following the firing of [[Scud missile]]s at Tel Aviv, Nusseibeh worked with Israeli [[Peace Now]] on a common approach to condemn the killing of civilians in the war. But he was arrested and placed under administrative detention on 29 January 1991, effectively accused of being an Iraqi agent.<ref name="King 2007 180">{{harvnb|King|2007|p=180}}.</ref> The arrest was then questioned by British and American officials, and the U.S. administration urged that he should either be charged or else the suspicion would be that the arrest was political. He was adopted as a [[prisoner of conscience]] by [[Amnesty International]].<ref>{{harvnb|Amnesty International|1991}}.</ref> and letters of protest were written to ''[[The Times]]'' by academics including [[Peter Strawson]], [[Isaiah Berlin]] and [[H. L. A. Hart]].<ref>{{harvnb|Nusseibeh|2009|p=163}}.</ref> Some Israelis said the move  was designed to discredit Nusseibeh before international opinion.<ref name="King 2007 180" /> Palestinians saw the arrest as a political warning that Israel did not intend to negotiate with any Palestinian leader, no matter how moderate. For example, [[Saeb Erekat]] of [[An-Najah University]] said: "This is a message to us Palestinian moderates. The message is, 'You can forget about negotiations after the war because we are going to make sure there is no one to talk to'". He was released without charge shortly after the end of the war, after 90 days of imprisonment in [[Ramla|Ramle Prison]].<ref>{{harvnb|Nusseibeh|2009|pp=314–321}}.</ref>

===Peace initiatives and activities since 2000===
Nusseibeh was not politically active during much of the [[Oslo Peace Process]] but was appointed as the [[PLO]] Representative in [[Jerusalem]] in 2001.<ref name="Eldar 2002">{{harvnb|Eldar|2002}}.</ref> During this period Nusseibeh began to strongly suggest that Palestinians give up their [[Palestinian right of return|Right of Return]] in exchange for a Palestinian state in the [[West Bank]] and [[Gaza Strip]].<ref>[http://www.shaml.org/ground/Nusseibeh/sari_nuss/What%20Next.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523133643/http://www.shaml.org/ground/Nusseibeh/sari_nuss/What%20Next.htm|date=May 23, 2007}}</ref> A number of Palestinian organizations have strongly condemned his views on this issue.<ref>[http://www.badil.org/Publications/Monographs/Remarks.Nusseibeh.pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927084134/http://www.badil.org/Publications/Monographs/Remarks.Nusseibeh.pdf|date=September 27, 2007}}</ref>

Nusseibeh criticised the militarization of the intifada in January 2002 and called for the renunciation of suicide bombings and the establishment of Palestine as a demilitarized state: "A Palestinian state should be demilitarized—not because that's what Israel demands, but in our own interest." Some senior Israel figures, such as [[Uzi Landau]] rebuffed the proposal as a trick.<ref>{{harvnb|BBC|2002}}.</ref>

In 2002 Sari Nusseibeh and former [[Shin Bet]] director, [[Ami Ayalon]] published [[The People's Voice]], an Israeli-Palestinian civil initiative that aims to advance the process of achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and a draft peace agreement that called for a Palestinian state based on Israel's 1967 borders and for a compromise on the Palestinian Right of Return. The People's Voice Initiative was officially launched on June 25, 2003.

In 2002, Yasser Arafat appointed Nusseibeh as the PLO's representative in East Jerusalem, a position he assumed after the sudden death of Faisal Husseini.<ref name="Eldar 2002"/>

In 2008, Nusseibeh said that the quest for the [[two-state solution]] was floundering. He called on Palestinians to start a debate on the idea of a [[one-state solution]].<ref>Ross, Oakland. [https://www.thestar.com/news/palestinians-revive-idea-of-one-state-solution/article_5810a3b1-1e17-59b8-969e-05dc2e5302d8.html Palestinians revive idea of one-state solution]. ''The Toronto Star''.</ref>