The Palestinian Legislative Council - The Washington Institute for ...
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Sayed Salem Abu Musameh<br />
Sayyid Sallim Abu Msamih, Sayid Salim Abou Mussamih, Sayyed<br />
Sallem Abu Msamih<br />
Member of Parliament – National List<br />
#23 on Change and Re<strong>for</strong>m list<br />
Biographical In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
• Born 1948<br />
• From Rafah, Gaza<br />
Personal History<br />
• Bachelor Degree in Sharia from Faculty of Da wa<br />
• Bachelor Degree in Fundamentals of Religion from Islamic University in Medina<br />
• Former editor of <strong>Palestinian</strong> newspaper al-Watan<br />
• Worked at the Islamic University<br />
• One of the founders of Hamas.<br />
• Considered a moderate and close to Ismaeel Haniyeh and Sheikh Hassan Youssef<br />
• 1991 Arrested by Israel<br />
• 1995 Arrested by PA, sentence to 5 years imprisonment <strong>for</strong> political activities that<br />
"undermine the <strong>Palestinian</strong> Authority"<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Preventive Security Forces shot on his car on May 9, 2006 and detained him <strong>for</strong> few<br />
hours.<br />
• Consultant to Ismail Haniyeh<br />
Notable Quotations<br />
“Hamas will not deal with the resistance fighters in the same way that the <strong>Palestinian</strong> Authority<br />
dealt with them in the past. Attacking the occupying <strong>for</strong>ces will no longer be an issue that causes<br />
internal <strong>Palestinian</strong> conflict.”<br />
-- http://www.albayan.ae/, January 30, 2006<br />
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