Editing Sari Nusseibeh (section)

===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>