Nabil Shaath
نبيل شعث
Acting Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority
In office
15 December 2005 – 24 December 2005
PresidentMahmoud Abbas
Preceded byAhmed Qurei
Succeeded byAhmed Qurei
Personal details
Born (1938-08-09) 9 August 1938
Safad, British Mandate for Palestine
Political partyFatah

Nabil Ali Muhammad (Abu Rashid) Shaath (Arabic: نبيل شعث, Nabīl Shaʿath, also spelled Sha'ath; born 9 August 1938[1][2] in Safad) is a senior Palestinian official.[3]

Career

In politics

Nabil Shaath (R), 2004
Nabil Shaath (L) with Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu at the World Economic Forum in Davos, 1997
With the President of Brazil, Lula da Silva

He has held the following titles:[4][5]

  • Palestinian chief negotiator
  • Palestinian International Co-operation Minister
  • Planning Minister for the Palestinian National Authority
  • Acting Prime Minister of the PNA

Shaath served as the Palestinian Authority's first ever foreign minister from April 2003 to February 2005.

Shaath was a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Information in the Palestinian Authority Government of February 2005. On 15 December 2005, he became Acting Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority after Ahmad Qurei resigned. He lost that position nine days later when Qurei returned to office.

Bush anecdote

Shaath made news on 7 October 2005 by commenting for a BBC documentary that in a 2003 meeting with United States President George W. Bush, Bush told him and other Palestinian officials that Bush was "driven with a mission from God."

According to Shaath, the quotation was this:

"God would tell me, George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. And I did, and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq... And I did.

"And now, again, I feel God's words coming to me, Go get the Palestinians their state and get the Israelis their security, and get peace in the Middle East. And by God I'm gonna do it."

Shaath later qualified his comments, saying that he and other world leaders at a Jordan summit two years ago "understood that he was illustrating [in his comments] his strong faith and his belief that this is what God wanted." Both the White House and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who was also present at the meeting, denies that Bush ever made such a statement.[6][7]

University of Pennsylvania

Shaath received his master's degree in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his P.h.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences. Shaath taught at the University from 1961 to 1965.

Film appearances

Shaath appeared in the 2009 documentary Back Door Channels: The Price of Peace which deals with the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt.[8] The film is being released by Channel Productions in New York City.[9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ مذكرات نبيل شعث «حياتى.. من النكبة إلى الثورة».. فى ظلال يافا «بلد الغريب» (in Arabic)
  2. ↑ نبيل شعث (in Arabic)
  3. ↑ 'Shaʿth, Nabil Ali Muhammad (Abu Rashid; 1938–)', in Claude Faure, Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 2004.
  4. ↑ "Nabil Shaath". www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "SADAKA Ireland hosted Dr. Nabil Shaath in Ireland as part of its Visiting Speaker Programme". www.sadaka.ie. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Press Briefing by Scott McClellan". 6 October 2005. Retrieved 7 June 2008.
  7. ↑ "Abbas denies Bush's 'mission from God' remark - World - smh.com.au". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 October 2005. Retrieved 7 June 2008.
  8. ↑ "TV Festival 2009 : Opening Film". Archived from the original on 5 October 2009. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 February 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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